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9 May 2013

Royal Geographical Society honour

Professor of Geography David Thomas has been appointed Vice-President for Research and Higher Education at the Royal Geographical Society. It’s an important role at an important time for the subject – and Dav...

6 May 2013

Professor Chris Schofield, FRS

Congratulations to Professor Chris Schofield, Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The citation recognises his work as an international leader in functional, structural and m...

30 April 2013

New term, new Pathways

We’re delighted to welcome two groups of Y10s visiting Hertford today as part of the Oxford Pathways Programme. One is from Rainham School for Girls, one of our link schools in Kent, and the other from Severn Vale ...

24 April 2013

Fighting leukaemia

Hertford alumna Lauren Murrell has raised almost £45,000 which has been used to enable research into re-programming T cells (a type of white blood cell) conducted by Eva, a PhD student at UCL. Lauren was diagnosed with ...

24 April 2013

Bridge Celebration Access Event

Hertford’s ‘Bridge of Sighs’ (c.f. our FAQs) might seem always to have been part of Oxford’s visual and architectural identity, but it is in fact not quite 100 years old. Celebrations for the centenary will begin...

23 April 2013

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 ...

21 April 2013

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...

11 April 2013

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 ...

8 April 2013

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...

5 April 2013

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...