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Eleanor and Diogo: Student Ambassadors of the Year!
Second-year undergraduate students Eleanor Harris and Diogo Figueiredo Trovoada were voted two of Oxford’s Notable Ambassadors of the Year at this summer’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony. Eleanor says: ‘I feel...
Changing Arctic: a fireside chat hosted by Hertford College MCR
Kim Salmi, the Managing Director of Helsinki Shipyard, spoke on the Changing Arctic and Shipbuilding at Hertford College on 11 June 2026. He was joined by Erik-Jan Bos, Senior Advisor of NORDUnet and Co-chair of Polar Co...
‘In defence of visibly used books’: Hannah Wei wins Bodleian book-collecting prize
We’re delighted to congratulate Hannah Wei (BA English, 2023) on being awarded this year’s Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting by the Bodleian Library’s Centre for the Study of the Book. The purpose of the pri...
Sparking public conversations: Frances Hand selected as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker
Hertford alumna Frances Hand is one of five promising early-career academics selected by BBC Radio 4 and the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as New Generation Thinkers for 2026. The New Generation Thinke...
Hertford undergraduate joins Oxford team for world’s largest synthetic biology competition
We’re delighted to congratulate second-year Biology undergraduate Diogo Figueiredo Trovoada on being selected for this year’s University of Oxford iGEM team. iGEM is the world’s biggest synthetic biology and bi...
Professor Michael Wooldridge elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Our warmest congratulations to Professor Michael Wooldridge, Hertford fellow and Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, who is one of twelve Oxford researchers to have been elected Fellow of the ...
Carissa Véliz: challenging narratives on prediction and decision-making
In her new book Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI, Hertford Associate Professor of Philosophy Carissa Véliz explores how AI’s reliance on statistics and prediction h...
‘Chasing Utopia’: A film that might change the way you see everything…
Hertford Visiting Fellow Anthony Geffen’s new feature documentary Chasing Utopia is now live in Everyman Cinemas. Hertford College was delighted to host a private screening at the Weston Library in February, followed b...
Hertford historian becomes President of the Historical Association
We’re delighted to congratulate Hertford alumnus James Daybell, Professor of History and Associate Dean of the University of Plymouth, as he becomes the new President of the Historical Association. James has a long car...
Hertford DPhil student shortlisted for Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award
Congratulations to Hertford DPhil student Aya ambiguous.wang, whose story An Uncomfortable Dictionary has been shortlisted for this year’s Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award. The award, organised by the Oxford Prospect...