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Hertford outreach in action
Dr Jamie Castell, Hertford’s Outreach Fellow, will be out on the road this week in our linked regions. As well as representing Oxford at the UCAS Kent and Medway Higher Education Convention from 24–25 April, he’ll ...
What makes the British?
In the current issue of Oxford Today, Sir Walter Bodmer, Honorary Fellow of Hertford, and Professor Mark Robinson, our lecturer in Archaeology, discuss a ground-breaking interdisciplinary project by Oxford researchers to...
Mobile health project award for Hertford student
Marco Haenssgen, DPhil student at Hertford College, is co-investigator on an interdisciplinary pilot project on mobile technologies and health in China and India which has just been awarded £28k by the John Fell Oxford ...
Domina illuminatio mea?
It looks from this picture almost as if our visitors from Smith’s Wood Sports College experienced divine illumination. Indeed, it might almost be an illustration of the motto of the university: ‘Dominus illuminatio m...
Hertford to Herculaneum
Professor Mark Robinson, lecturer in Archaeology at Hertford is interviewed in a BBC television programme about the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Many students studing Archaeolog...
Hope for the Tin Man
Approaches to printing organs and tissues are evolving fast as research by Professor Hagan Bayley, Professor of Chemical Biology at Hertford, reported in this week’s Science shows. Hagan’s paper describes not l...
Oxford Guild of Chefs at Hertford
We’ve made some key appointments recently: Principal, Bursar, Registrar, Head Porter, but perhaps most importantly of all, our Executive Chef Eamonn Bennett. This year Eamonn had the great honour of cooking for his...
Leverhulme award for Alison Young
Dr Alison Young, Fellow and Tutor in Law, has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme grant for two years from October 2013. The money will be spent on a partial teaching buyout to enable Dr Young to focus on her current p...
Physics student in community project
Hertford Physics student Oktoviano Gandhi is the man behind a new project – StreetView Oxford – to see the city from the point of view of its rough sleepers. The social enterprise charity Enactus has gained t...
Not Islands: John Donne Lecture 2013
The 2013 Hertford John Donne lecture was delivered on Friday 15 March by Lord (Gus) O’Donnell, who took Donne’s famous ‘No man is an island’ quotation as his inspiration for a discussion of public...