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3 April 2013

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...

3 April 2013

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...

16 March 2013

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...

15 March 2013

French prize for Hertford student

Amy Cowan, formerly an undergraduate at Hertford in History and French and now studying for her MSt, is this year’s winner of the Folklore Society’s President’s Prize for student work related to folklore for he...

7 March 2013

Cuppers Rugby win

Richard Foord, Men’s Rugby Captain, reports from the touchline: Hertford didn’t have the best starts conceding an early Jesus try, however a penalty and a superb kick and chase try put them on the front foot....

6 March 2013

Bethnal Green Physics link

Hertford alumna, Aisling MacSweeney, came back to college last week with a group studying Physics at A level at her school – Oaklands – in Bethnal Green. Her former Tutor, Professor Pat Roche, joined them for lunch a...

6 March 2013

Smiles not Sighs

As our FAQs insist, the bridge that links Hertford’s main quadrangle with its New Buildings is not modelled on the Bridge of Sighs at Venice. So it is appropriate that, as the favourite spot for group photographs w...

1 March 2013

Rainbow flag flying

A grey day, but you can just about see the rainbow flag flying at Hertford to mark the end of LGBTQ History month.

28 February 2013

A Taste of Hertford

Year 10 pupils from Barr Beacon School in Walsall, and from St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derbyshire, visited Hertford today as part of their Oxford Pathways Taster Day. Our undergraduates enoyed meeting...

26 February 2013

Hertford alumnus winner of Leibniz Prize

Roderich Moessner (Physics, 1991) has been named as one of the recipients of the 2013 Leibniz Prizes. The Leibniz Prize is an annual research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to scientists working in ...