Tutorial Fellow in Biology @sjportugal.bsky.social has published paper which examines conditions that drive variation in bird eggshell structures. Understanding how eggs have adapted to environmental changes could help in preserving habitats where eggs can hatch successfully bit.ly/48JsDuw #earthday

Driving discovery, enabling change 🌍 Today is Earth Day, and we’re launching a bold new research vision designed to accelerate discovery, deepen understanding of life, and deliver solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXjUtoQ-7eQ @ox.ac.uk

Congratulations to Sophie Harrison (Modern Languages, 2021), who's been shortlisted for Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award - founded in 2019 by Nobel Laureate Prof Mo Yan and highlights exceptional emerging literary talent from across @ox.ac.uk. More info and to attend awards ceremony: bit.ly/4vuQcB3

Thanks to alumnae Veronica Lowe and Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall for their insightful talks at our Alumni Association lecture entitled respectively: "The Secret World of Women in Intelligence: Station X and MI6"; and "Through the Looking Glass: MI6 Women at Station X". View at: bit.ly/3QnCIa4 #alumni

Great to see many people at our alumni drinks reception at Oxford and Cambridge Club where alumni enjoyed catching up with each other and our Principal, Michele Acton gave an update on College. Didn't receive an invite? Update your contact details at bit.ly/4kuAhwG #alumni #event #London

Congratulations to master's student Sylvia Nica, winner of Avril Bruten Award for creative writing. Her short story ’Submerged’ is about a woman and cockroach, living in an abandoned town in a climate-damaged world picked for its poignancy, humour and telling detail bit.ly/41fj6XO #creativewriting

Congratulations to Herbert Vallat selected to play in Real Tennis Varsity match for Oxford at Lord’s 27-28 February. First Real Tennis Varsity was held in 1859, and held annually ever since (apart from 1864 and WWI and WWII), making it oldest annual tennis event. bit.ly/46pKoy0 #varsity #realtennis

Congratulations to St Hugh's students representing Oxford at Varsity Matches Sat 28 Feb at StoneX Stadium in N London including Milly Gladstone (Human Sciences, 2025). Please come along and show your support for our Hughsies on Saturday. Tickets at: lnkd.in/ePwmpkgu lnkd.in/eFTcc87C #varsity #rugby

Honorary Fellow and former Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini received honorary degree from new @ox.ac.uk Chancellor. 4 generations of College Principals attended celebration: Sir Andrew Dilnot CBE, Michele Acton, Lady Elish Angiolini, LT, DBE, PC, KC and Derek Wood CBE KC lnkd.in/eqY8CDp8 #oxford

Congratulations to St Hugh's Sports Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Commercial Law, Horst Eidenmueller, who recently won the silver medal in the Masters Category at the Open German National Ski Mountaineering Championships in Berchtesgaden bit.ly/4rhVgX2 #skiing #medal

Tutorial Fellow in English @davidftaylor.bsky.social was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today in Parliament about playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s career as MP and celebrated political speaker. Listen to interview at bit.ly/4tyQ9D8 #theatre #politics

St Hugh’s is proud to be an accredited Oxford Living Wage employer. This reflects our ongoing commitment to fair pay and supporting our employees to live and work in one of the UK’s most expensive cities. Find out more at: www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/people-life/... #oxfordlivingwageweek #fairpay

Applications for Avril Bruten Award now open to all St Hugh’s students! £300 prize for best piece of creative writing of max 3000 words - categories include poetry short, prose fiction, drama, memoir and life writing, travel writing. Entry details at: bit.ly/4pZiTSE #creativewriting #competition

Congratulations to Stipendiary Lecturer in German Dr Isabel Parkinson, who has won @wigsblog.bsky.social Book prize with her proposal for "In Two Minds: Consciousness, Gender, and Voice in German-to-English Translation" #bookprize #german #women

Congratulations to Tutorial Fellow @asifamajid.bsky.social who's been appointed President of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) - a learned society supporting and promoting experimental psychology, through meetings, grants and prizes bit.ly/3NCrIo3 #appointment #psychology

New study @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social co-authored by Senior Research Fellow in Palaeobiology, @eesaupe.bsky.social has shown the shape and orientation of coastlines significantly influenced extinction patterns for animals living in shallow oceans during last 540m years bit.ly/4pLbztF #earthscience

Emeritus Fellow Tom Kuhn launches vinyl recording of new musical settings of Brecht poems entitled "Excile" at St Hugh's College on Tuesday 3 February at 5.30pm. Info and to register: bit.ly/49r4Wbe #brecht #vinyl #poem

Deputy Head Gardener Steve's been busy planting new trees including this Kalopanax septemlobus maximowiczii, also known as Prickly Castor Oil native to east Asia with lobed leaves, pollinator friendly small white flowers and spiny stems. Right photo is how it looks in leaf bit.ly/4qqvtLW #trees

Prof Alexander Mietke awarded Early Career Scientist Prize by IUPAP for groundbreaking insights that harness active matter theory to reveal how physical forces shape living form - from cellular dynamics to emergence of body asymmetry in developing embryos bit.ly/4qLlYGU @oxfordphysics.bsky.social

Fellow in Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk Prof Steve Portugal's presentation @asab.org conference challenged prevailing assumption that recovery from avian influenza in wild birds is essentially nonexistent - fieldwork evidence shows that some northern gannets survived H5N1 infection bit.ly/4qx2iGo #birds

Applying for a DPhil course with the Department of Physics? Be sure to submit your application and all documents before Thursday 8th January 12:00 midday UK time.  https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgraduates

⏰ The first application deadline for our postgraduate courses is this Friday, 9 January 2026. If you’ve already started an application, make sure to complete and submit it. Apply now for Autumn 2026 entry ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/study/courses/

Today marks 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth and we were delighted to hear St Hugh’s Stipendiary Lecturer in English, Dr Lucy Powell discussing Jane Austen’s 1830 novel Pride & Prejudice with broadcaster and script editor John York on BBC Radio 4’s “Opening Lines“ bit.ly/3MEs7WI #janeausten

Congratulations to @eesaupe.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in Palaeobiology on being awarded grant supported by European Research Council Consolidator Grants to lead new research project: EXTINCT to develop new ways of determining what causes extinction of marine invertebrates bit.ly/4oWlM6j

Congratulations to St Hugh's Boat Club (SHBC) Novice Women's team who won the Tamesis Regatta (formerly known as Christ Church Regatta) - the first time this has been achieved in 41 years bit.ly/49TNsEZ #rowing #women #oxford

We were delighted to welcome back alumni who matriculated 1992-1995 for a reunion full of reminiscence and nostalgia. The range of careers represented and many successes celebrated were true reminder of the vibrant, inspiring community that makes St Hugh’s so special bit.ly/3MbwpEM #alumni #reunion

As Nell Gwyn's naughty pop-up book goes to auction at Christies @davidftaylor.bsky.social comments in @theobserveruk.bsky.social on how rare it is for book to be specifically linked to Nell Gwyn who was known to be illiterate bit.ly/4p6erC9 #literature #auction

Fascinating paper by Tutorial Fellow in Biology, @sjportugal.bsky.social published in 'Biology Letters': ‘The visual impediment of cranial ornamentation in male Chrysolophus pheasants’, reports on unusually obstructive plumage which compromises vision of two types of pheasants bit.ly/48keZ01 #birds

In 5th episode of 'A Philosopher and a Child' entitled 'Can a child outsmart an Oxford philosopher?', Prof Adrian Moore, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy debates whether the universe is infinite with Cara Margiotta - could the universe be infinitely big and old bit.ly/482wnYb #philosophy #infinity

College Principal, Michele Acton joined Honorary Fellow and alumna, Amal Clooney at launch of Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice by @blavatnikschool.bsky.social in partnership with The Clooney Foundation for Justice dedicated to harnessing power of AI for justice bit.ly/4ivBT9q #ai #justice

We were delighted to welcome psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer Marchelle Farrell to our annual Lady Ademola Lecture to discuss her thoughts about relationships between internal and external landscapes with staff and students. Recording available: bit.ly/43VAhj0 #oxford #blackhistorymonth

Congratulations to Fellow by Resolution in Physics and alumnus Dr Jack Miller who has been awarded @ipem.ac.uk Gold Medal in Academia given to members with substantial and sustained track record at outstanding level of contribution to advancement of academic practice bit.ly/4p1o7Nx #award #phyiscs

St Hugh’s College has become an accredited #oxfordlivingwage employer for 2025-26 reflecting the College's ongoing commitment to fair pay and supporting our employees to live and work in one of the UK’s most expensive cities bit.ly/43RFUyG #oxford #employer

Students and staff marked All Souls by gathering in Chapel for a short service to remember those who died in the last year and in years past. Amongst those remembered were members of St Hugh's College community who sadly died earlier this year #allsouls

Honorary Fellow and alumna Prof Jane Roberts (Eng Lang & Lit, 1959) will give this year’s Dorothy Whitelock Lecture on: ‘Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us’ on Wed 3 Dec 5.15pm at St Peter’s College Chapel followed by drinks reception.Tickets only: bit.ly/4qDnMT6 #medieval #english

Join us for this year's Lady Ademola Lecture in conversation with psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer Marchelle Farrell. In 1935 Kofoworola Ademola became the first Black African woman to achieve a degree @ox.ac.uk Register for the lecture at: bit.ly/48IO0wW #blackhistorymonth #lecture

Principal Michele Acton was delighted to formally welcome our new Fellows to St Hugh's: Prof Thomas Aubrey, Prof Luca Furieri, Michele Acton, Prof Noam Vogt-Vincent and Dr Mary Tzaawa-Krenzler. Profiles available in latest Chronicle: bit.ly/4nfJ2Lx #academic #oxford

#OnThisDay in 1920, the first women received their Oxford degrees 🎓 📷 | St Anne's College Oxford

Join us on 1 November for annual Lady Ademola Lecture in conversation with psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer Marchelle Farrell who is curious about the relationships between internal and external landscapes. Registration: bit.ly/43j0Q1d #blackhistorymonth

Our annual college magazine Chronicle is out - full of college and alumni news, interviews and features. Read the digital version here: online.fliphtml5.com/uwbnc/dqef/#... #news #alumni #oxford #mustread

We were delighted to welcome alumni who matriculated in 1975, 1965, 1955, and earlier for our Jubilee Lunch. We were joined by Principal, Michele Acton and Senior Tutor, Prof Robert Vilain who expressed College's gratitude for continued support of our alumni bit.ly/4mEt39E #alumni #reunion #oxford

We were delighted to welcome back Dame Jane Glover (Music, 1968) Honorary Fellow and musicologist/conductor. She shared how College was pivotal in shaping her future. She was joined by Ertegun Director, Professor Jonathan Cross, who co-hosted the event. bit.ly/46UG4Hn #alumni #music #memories

Congratulations to St Hugh's Fellow and Senior Tutor, Professor Robert Vilain who has received the Recognition of Distinction award. @ox.ac.uk Divisional Distinctions Committee has conferred on Robert the title of Professor of German and Comparative Literature bit.ly/4mHGxBK #award #academia #oxford

Looking forward to welcoming Amelie who will be studying Law at here at St Hugh's.

Congratulations to Eloise and Amelia on their graduation. We hope that they and all our new graduates will stay in touch with St Hugh's. To update your details please go to: www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/update-your-... #alumni #graduates

Congratulations to undergraduate, Ruokai Zhao on being awarded @ox.ac.uk 'Undergraduate Prize' for Best Overall Performance in Part A Mathematics & Statistics 2024-25, awarded annually by the Examiners to recognise outstanding performances in examinations bit.ly/4lRDirt #award #maths #statistics

In July we're celebrating life-saving achievements of alumna Prof Freda Stevenson (Biochemistry, 1961) who showed antibodies can be used to treat cancer cells, creating vaccine that uses DNA to increase immunity to cancers and found way to use genes to better understand subsets of leukaemia #science

What happens when St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy discusses 'Morality and Meaning'? In the third episode of philosophy interviews with children Prof Moore discusses the meaning of life, morality and the difficult moral dilemma of the trolley problem bit.ly/40eQM8e #philosophy #morality

Congratulations to Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology and Prof of Cognitive Science @ox.ac.uk ‪@asifamajid‬ on her induction as Fellow @aaas.org‬ in Washington DC. This honour began in 1874 for meritorious contribution to advancement of science and engineering bit.ly/4egt6WF #science #award

Congratulations to winners of Art & Photography Prizes: Student Photography Prize: shared by Raghu Krishnan and Vinzent Wesselmann; Student Art Prize: Fern Kruger-Paget; Staff Art Prize: Mary Helen Last, Accommodation Officer; Staff Photography Prize:  Anna Xiong, Librarian Assistant bit.ly/4kK7cxt