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9 December 2025

Chemistry fellow Fernanda Duarte awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

Associate Professor Fernanda Duarte is one of five Oxford academics awarded European Research Council Consolidator Grants, which support cutting-edge research at universities and research centres in 25 EU member states ...

8 December 2025

Rhodes Scholarship award for former Hertford visiting student

In the same week as Hertford’s special college event to celebrate the first African American Rhodes Scholar Alain Locke and the centenary of his publication of The New Negro, we congratulate Hadi Kamara on his Rhodes S...

26 November 2025

The Right Reverend Thomas McMahon (1936–2025)

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Hertford Honorary Fellow Thomas McMahon, Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood, who died peacefully at his home in Stock on 24 November...

25 November 2025

New Honorary Fellows announced

We are delighted to announce the election of five new Honorary Fellows: Professor Hagan Bayley Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society. A founder of Oxf...

20 November 2025

Hertford alumnus joins the UK Supreme Court

His Majesty the King has approved the appointment of The Right Honourable Lord Doherty as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Raymond Doherty studied law at the University of Edinburgh, Hertford College...

12 November 2025

Alexandra Freeman elected Principal of Hertford College

Hertford’s Governing Body is delighted to announce the appointment of Alexandra Freeman, Baroness Freeman of Steventon, as the College’s next Principal, succeeding Interim Principal Pat Roche at the end of Hilary ter...

10 November 2025

Announcing our Visiting Fellows for 2025–26

We extend a very warm welcome to our 2025–26 Visiting Fellows: Anthony Geffen CEO and Creative Director of Atlantic Studios, Anthony Geffen is one of the world’s leading documentary film makers and a pioneer in VR im...

6 November 2025

Professor Robin Devenish (1942–2025)

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Hertford Emeritus Fellow Robin Devenish, who died peacefully at home surrounded by his family on 27 October. Robin was appointed to a University lectureship...

22 October 2025

Book Launch: The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford

On Monday 20 October we celebrated the recent publication of The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford: Survival and Renewals by Christopher Tyerman, Professor of the History of the Crusades at the Universi...

21 October 2025

150 years of Hertford College Boat Club!

We were delighted to welcome back rowers from the 1950s to the present day to our Hertford College Boat Club Anniversary Lunch on Saturday 11 October. October 2025 marks 150 years since the establishment of Hertford Coll...