Thank you to everyone who joined us for our final Open Day of 2025 on Friday. It was wonderful to meet so many of you, and we hope to see lots of you back here as students next October! 🎓

🚨 Tomorrow is the final day to register for Oxford admissions tests - don’t miss out! ox.ac.uk/tests

Late summer sunshine in the College gardens. ☀️🦋

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for Oxford Open Doors this weekend - we loved welcoming you in! #oxfordevents #oxfordopendoors #heritageoxford

Congratulations to Dr Dan Congrave, Research Fellow in Chemistry at St John's, on being awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new... @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social

Why is there 'an anatomical abomination' at every St John's College dinner? Is St John's the only Oxford college with a portrait of a man in high vis? Find out the answers to these questions and more with Dr Georgy Kantor, Keeper of the Pictures at St John's, this weekend.

Step through the gates of St John’s this weekend! From 10am to 5pm, explore our stunning quads, gardens, and historic buildings, attend expert lectures, and see a whole new side of college life. Free entry, no booking required. #OxfordOpenDoors

I saw Laud this morning (the @stjohnsox.bsky.social cat)! He was soon joined by his brother, Case. They sat and stared at one another for a while, then went for a walk 💕

Applying this year? Don't forget to register if you need to sit an admissions test as part of the application process! The deadline for registering is Friday 19th September - more info at www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u...

Meet our newest Professors! 🎉 Two St John’s academics have been awarded the title in this year’s Recognition of Distinction awards. Laurence Hunt becomes Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Mark Cannon becomes Professor of Engineering Science. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

#DYK that in August 1636, our newly-finished Laudian Library hosted a lavish feast for King Charles I, which cost an astonishing £2,666 - almost £500,000 now! Come along to #OxfordOpenDoors to see the library yourself (tea and cake available in Hall for a lot less than that!)

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Goodwin, Supernumerary Fellow at St John’s, on being awarded one of the @royalsociety.org inaugural Faraday Discovery Fellowships! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

St John's #OxfordOpenDoors 2025 programme is now live on our website! We'll be open 10am–5pm, 13 and 14 September, with an exciting mix of talks, tours, music and activities, as well as wonderful student helpers to answer your questions. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...

Congratulations to Professor Sir Rory Collins, Emeritus Research Fellow at St John’s, on being awarded the @royalsociety.org Buchanan Medal for leading practice altering cardiovascular clinical trials and the UK Biobank. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

❗Call for proposals! ❗ Two of our brilliant DPhil students are editing a special AES collection exploring the ways in which promised futures moralize and motivate present-day actions. Please do contribute: americanethnologist.org/news/america...

Congratulations to Professor Graham Cormode who joins @compscioxford.bsky.social and St John's College next year. We look forward to his contributions to our academic community in the new year. ➡️ www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

Last month, we were honoured to receive an historic photograph of the college taken c.1857 by the pioneering British photographer, Roger Fenton. Alumni Stephen Barber and Mark Bedingham donated the image in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of their matriculation.

🚨📝 Delighted my latest article has been published online in Social & Cultural Geography today! ‘The power of representations to affect and effect: podcasting, popular culture, and audience stories behind Call the Midwife’. It’s free to access and read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Earlier this month, our President, Professor Lady Sue Black, received an honorary doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the scientific field of forensic anthropology and to academic leadership! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

Thanks to everyone who came along to this week's Open Days - we loved welcoming you to St John's! If you weren't able to visit us this time, our next Open Day will be on Friday 19th September 🗓️

Annual DAC meeting and dinner @stjohnsox.bsky.social @oxforddiocese.bsky.social Inimitable tour from William Whyte. Laud, Juxon, Opus Anglicanum and Rawlinson's heart, not to mention theatrical shrubberies! Great to gather & thank everyone working for hundreds of unique and irreplaceable sites. 2/2

I'm really honoured that Royal Justice was awarded the First Book Prize by the RHS. I look back on this project with great fondness. Personally it feels like the perfect way to round out my time at Oxford and @stjohnsox.bsky.social, where all the writing took place. Thank you @royalhistsoc.org!

Hearty congratulations to Tegan and Oli, the winners of the 2025 Kendrew Songwriting Prize! 🎉🎙️ Listen to their excellent songs, 'Worst Best Thing' and 'Golder's Hill', below. 🔗 bit.ly/4l9raly

Congratulations to St John's postgraduate Max Han on being named one of the National Geographic Society's Young Explorers for 2025! 🌏 Max is recognised as one of 15 young innovators shaping our world through bold cultural conservation. ➡️ www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

It's the first day of Wimbledon today, but did you know that the college gardens once contained a tennis court? Courts appear to have been established c.1620, with £19. 8s. 4d (~£38,400) spent on the ‘Spheristia’ in 1639. The college still maintains its own courts today, at 215 Woodstock Road!

It was wonderful to welcome 90 local primary school pupils to St John's for our recent Primary Science Festivals, and see so many young people engaging in university-style learning! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

It's St John's Day! Today we celebrate our namesake, St John the Baptist, who is often depicted holding a lamb in reference to his description of Jesus as "the Lamb of God" Keep an eye out for lambs all over the college (and sometimes even further afield...) 🐑

Georgian gardens were carefully curated and lavishly landscaped places. But what did the Georgians actually do in their gardens? How were they enjoyed and explored? Join Dr Kate Feluś tomorrow evening as she explores these questions in the 2025 Penson Garden History Lecture.

Earlier this year, we ran our first Carbon Literacy training session, with 10 members of staff from across the college receiving certificates! The training aims to raise awareness of the carbon impact of everyday activities and create a positive shift in our work to reduce our environmental impact.

The third annual Donald Russell Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Ewen Bowie, Emeritus Fellow in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on the theme of 'Mesomedes and his fans'. 🗓️ Thursday 23rd October 🕔 5pm 📍 St John's College, Oxford www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...

You've met our friendly students, but what about the people who'll be teaching you? Join us for ‘Tea and Tutors’ at the Kendrew Café to get your questions answered by our tutors (and some cake!) 🍰 July 2nd & 3rd, 2-4pm www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/study/underg...

📣 Save the dates for the first of our 2025 Open Days! 📆 Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd July 🕙 10am–5pm Explore the college, meet students & tutors, and discover what life at Oxford is really like. No booking needed – just turn up! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/study/underg...

Visit Kendrew Barn gallery to see our latest art exhibition! 'Bridging Minds' is a collaborative project between individuals with lived experience of psychosis, researchers, and the public. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...

This year, we are delighted to be joined by six senior academics working on a range of interdisciplinary projects encompassing Art, Classics, Philosophy, Sociology and Theology as Visiting Scholars. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

The Westminster Commission on Forensic Science, co-chaired by Professor Lady Sue Black, President of St John's College, and Professor Angela Gallop, has published its report highlighting the crisis in forensics which is at the heart of so many miscarriages of justice.

Congratulations to all of the St John’s crews who took part in Summer Eights last week 🎉🚣 W3 and M2 put in particularly strong performances – only narrowly missing out on winning blades!

"Absolutely fantastic news" St John's Honorary Fellow, Henry Dimbleby, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning to discuss the government's plans to extend free school meals in England. He tells Amol Rajan that "healthy children go on to become healthy adults".

1/3 🧵 As a third grader in Serbia, Gvozden joined math contests for the 🥪sandwiches. Now? He’s a 🥈IMO medalist (2022, 2024) and a BIG Scholar studying Mathematics at @stjohnsox.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to our newest graduates, it was a joy to celebrate with you this weekend 🎉🎓 We look forward to welcoming you all back to St John's soon - stay in touch!

The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden The St John's College gardens have remained remarkably consistent since the groves were reconfigured by Robert Penson in the late 18th century. But what did Georgian ladies and gentlemen do in their gardens?

Congratulations to St John's undergraduates Laurence Cooke (2023, Philosophy and French) and Sanaya Narula (2023, English and French) on being highly commended at the Student Publication Association National Awards! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

We were honoured to welcome Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP back to St John's after his participation in the recent papal conclave. An alumnus and Honorary Fellow of St John's, Radcliffe is the College's first cardinal. 🔗 ow.ly/L72750VZ4lo

With exams around the corner, we kicked off our series of Trinity Treats this afternoon with a visit from The Oxford Cow ice cream for students and staff!

Laurence Cooke, JCR President and Editor-in-Chief of Cherwell recently sat down with College President Professor Lady Sue Black for a 'whistle-stop tour of her life and career ... from an Inverness butcher’s shop to the red benches of the Lords'. www.cherwell.org/2025/05/22/s...

Why care about care? For the 2025 Founder's Lecture, Professor Sarah Knott, Hilary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History, uncovered the history of care in the 1950s. Learn more about the story of care, women, and psychoanalysis here: www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

Alessandra Enrico-Headrington, a DPhil Researcher in Migration Studies, recently benefitted from the Burke Knapp Travel Scholarship to conduct focus groups with Venezuelan asylum seekers in Lima, supported by the NGO Encuentros. Read her full report ➡️ www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

We're delighted to announce Sir Chris Wormald KCB and Henry Dimbleby MBE as our newest Honorary Fellows! We welcomed them back to St John's on Friday night for dinner with the President and Senior Members of College. 🔗 www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

Huge congratulations to Professor Gillian Rose, Professorial Fellow in Geography, who has been awarded the @rgsibg.bsky.social Victoria Medal, recognising conspicuous merit in research in geography! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

On this day in 1931, Albert Einstein gave the first of his Oxford lectures. Here's the great man enjoying the St John's gardens while he was here!

'What Comes After Disappearance? Ann Hui at the End of Hong Kong Cinema' Join Professor Jean Ma (University of Hong Kong) for a discussion of Hong Kong cinema and culture on Thursday, May 8th at 5pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jean-ma-wh...