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6 October 2025

Proposed sports ground redevelopment offers enhanced facilities for students and local community alike

Exeter College and Hertford College have released new computer-generated images showing the proposed redevelopment of their adjoining sports grounds at Edgeway Road, Marston. The plans are designed to modernise the facil...

2 October 2025

Michael Wooldridge elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Hertford Fellow Michael Wooldridge has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). He is one of 74 new Fellows recognised this year for exceptional contributions to engineering and technology. Prof...

24 September 2025

Dr Maria Vincenzi receives UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

We’re delighted to share that Hertford fellow and University of Oxford Associate Professor of Astrophysics Maria Vincenzi has been named as one of the recipients of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship – a highly compe...

11 September 2025

From Medieval Books to a New Library: Oxford’s past uncovered

‘What a treat! Well done, all.’ Other comments on our Archaeology Open Day included, ‘Just wonderful!’ ‘Fascinating, thank you,’ and (from a younger visitor), ‘Fun and cool.̵...

4 September 2025

Professor Elizabeth Baldwin receives 2025 Recognition of Distinction

We are delighted to announce that Professor Elizabeth Baldwin has been awarded the title of Professor of Economics as part of the University of Oxford’s 2025 Recognition of Distinction process. This follows hard on the...

27 August 2025

Michael Wooldridge receives Faraday Prize from Royal Society

Hertford fellow Professor Michael Wooldridge has been awarded the Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture from the Royal Society. The award has been made for his award-winning work as a leading researcher, educator and comme...

5 August 2025

Following in the footsteps of Neil Tanner

Hertford Physics tutor Dr Sam Henry and DPhil student Nathan Baudis joined the Oxplore festival in Bradford and Warrington in July to showcase Oxford to students from communities currently under-represented within the Un...

30 July 2025

Celebrating ten years of Google DeepMind scholarships

To mark the tenth anniversary of Google DeepMind’s generous support of DPhil scholarships at the University of Oxford, Hertford College organised a dinner at the Divinity School on 22 July 2025, a decade on from the di...

15 July 2025

Professor David Thomas receives British Society for Geomorphology award

Warmest congratulations to Hertford Professor of Geography David Thomas, who has been awarded the BSG David Linton Award for 2025. This award is given to a geomorphologist who has made a leading contribution to the disci...

10 July 2025

Successful completion of the Swiftstream outreach programme

We were delighted to welcome a group of 21 sixth-formers to Hertford for the Swiftstream residential last week. Students from Medway, one of our link areas, were welcomed to Hertford for a busy three days of exploring Ox...