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30 September 2013

Bridging Programme Begins

Today Hertford welcomed 20 students participating in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Bridging Programme. As they arrived, the marquee in the Old Buildings quadrangle used for our centenary celebrations...

29 September 2013

Kay Davies on women in science

Professor Dame Kay Davies, Lee’s Professor of Anatomy at Hertford, writes in the New Statesman on her own career in science. She encourage young scientists, both women and men, to resist science’s ‘mach...

28 September 2013

Bridge swells numbers of centenarians

Radio 4 has just reported a five-fold increase in the number of people living to 100 and those who reach that landmark this autumn can claim to be contemporaries both of the Hertford Bridge and of the first car productio...

28 September 2013

‘Sospiri’ sound installation

If you are in Oxford today why not come to the Hertford Bridge to experience Sospiri, composed by Hertford Music Tutor, Dr Ben Skipp, to celebrate the bridge’s centenary? Created from samples of sighs from member...

27 September 2013

Bridge Centenary Underway!

100 students from state schoools have just left Hertford after an Access Day which launched the celebrations for the Centenary of the Hertford Bridge. They attended a series of talks by Hertford Tutors – on everything ...

19 September 2013

Homage to Catalonia: choir tour to Barcelona

Hertford College Chapel Choir has just returned from its ‘summer’ tour to Barcelona. We were participants in the 34è Festival Internacional de Cant Coral Catalunya Centre held in Puig-reig. Our choir performed alon...

17 September 2013

The future for Labour Law

Read Alan Bogg, Professor of Labour Law, on why labour law reform will be a battleground at the next general election:   Without labour law reform, the refrain “We are all in this together” is a hollow mocke...

16 September 2013

New Outreach Appointment

Hertford is delighted to announce the appointment of Henry Merivale, who will combine the duties of a college lecturerer with providing dedicated outreach as the Janeway Outreach Officer in Computer Science and Philosoph...

5 September 2013

Hertford outreach resumes

Dr Jamie Castell, our Outreach Fellow, is back on the road after the summer break. He spent yesterday at Camden School for Girls, running sessions in conjunction with Dr Joe Organ from Brasenose. Jamie reports that it wa...

4 September 2013

Hertford forensics expert

Generations of Hertford undergraduates who have enjoyed Dr Peter Bull’s ‘Forensic Geography’ special option may have noticed him in the news today. Scientic evidence from the Fellow and Tutor in Geog...