Trinity President Sir Robert Chote gave evidence yesterday at the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the UK’s fiscal framework. Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... #FiscalPolicy #UKEconomy #PublicFinance #HouseOfLords #FiscalFramework

Trinity College & @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social are seeking to appoint an outstanding historian with teaching and research interests in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa (c.1830 to c.1970) as a Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor of History. ➡️ www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

We are proud to have received a prestigious award from the Oxford Preservation Trust for the recent refurbishment of our Grade I listed buildings. Read more: buff.ly/B8oHNlw

Yesterday, our President, Sir Robert Chote hosted a discussion with Gus Casely-Hayford & Laura Van Broekhoven, exploring conservation and access, moving from a western-centric to a decolonised preservation approach, community collaboration, & engaging broader audiences. @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social

Professor Valerie Worth, Fellow Emerita of Trinity College, was featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ last week, discussing practices and beliefs around pregnancy, childbirth, and infertility from the early modern period through to today. Listen here: buff.ly/urgYbsR [clip starts at 46:33]

Join us on Tuesday, 18 Nov, to hear Gus Casely-Hayford, Dir of V&A East, and Laura Van Broekhoven, Dir of Pitt Rivers Museum, discuss the challenges of traditional collecting versus engaging new, often marginalised audiences. 🎟️ buff.ly/clRlidQ @prmlaurita.bsky.social @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social

A full house tonight as Sir David Spiegelhalter opened our public events series, with a brilliant, entertaining, and insightful exploration of essential skills for navigating an uncertain age.

This morning, our community gathered in the Chapel for a 2-minute silence at 11 am, remembering all who lost their lives in conflict. Memorial boards listing Trinity members who fell in the First and Second World Wars are on display. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay

Professor Meera Mehta, Trinity Fellow and Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, is among four Oxford University researchers who have been selected from over 350 nominations to receive a 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/meera-m...

There are so many clubs and societies to dive into at Trinity...here are our wild swimmers taking the plunge at Port Meadow earlier this term.

Join us at Trinity on Tuesday, 11 November, at 5.30pm, to hear eminent statistician David Spiegelhalter explore some essential qualities for navigating our uncertain age. 🎟️ Book tickets: www.ticketsoxford.com/events/david...

Our beautiful, ivy-clad Porter's Lodge 💙 💛 #Autumn2025

Sunrise hitting the chapel this morning 🌅 Thanks to our Head Gardener, Kate Burtonwood, for the beautiful photo #sunrise #oxfordcollege

Our 2025/26 Events at Trinity season is here! 🎉 Join us for thought-provoking topical talks, inspiring musical performances, & guided tours of Trinity's famous gardens. Explore the full programme and book now: buff.ly/bTGPhgf

How's this for an early morning view after the downpour? Thanks to our gardens team member Aaron for capturing college looking so atmospheric!

Big congratulations to our two newest full professors Melanie Rupflin and Sam Vinko, who have been awarded the titles of Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Physics in the University’s Recognition of Distinction awards for 2025! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

New! research from our Tutorial Fellow Dong Liu and @oxengsci.bsky.social #ENLIGHT programme will boost UK energy security and cut waste by designing sustainable, high-performance graphite for next-gen reactors. #NetZero #CleanEnergy Read more 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/9b3bcahb

We love it when our recent graduates come back for their official graduation ceremonies... Especially when it's one of our former Junior Deans and MCR legends coming back to formally become a Doctor! Congratulations to Ngoni on officially receiving his DPhil in Engineering Science!!!

We are opening our doors for an Open Garden Day with @ngsopengardens.bsky.social and can't wait to show off our grounds! Join us 3 August: ngs.org.uk/gardens/trin...

It's that time of year again... our campsis trumpet vine is in full bloom and loving the dry, sunny weather!

Our dining hall transformation this year continues! Thanks to the wonderful photographer Fran Monks we have a new portrait greeting everyone who comes into our dining hall - it's an all-female take on the traditional Victorian portrait style, and we think the colours and composition are brilliant!

We are looking for a Career Development Fellow in ancient History - could it be you? If you'd like a mixture of research and teaching supported by a fantastic community of colleagues with access to great facilities and the best hall food in Oxford, consider applying: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

HUGE congratulations to our former student and colleague Laura Cox for her wedding on Saturday, which looks like a fantastic (if toasty) occasion full of love and celebration! we wish her and her husband Conor (also a Trinity MCR graduate) so much happiness in their marriage! 🍾🥂💍❤️

Good morning! The dry and sunny weather hasn't dented the growth in our wildflower meadow, but a bit of rain overnight will have done it some good...

And that's a wrap on our first two in-person Open Days! And if you couldn't join us in person, or just want a bit more time to discover for yourself what life and study in college is like, we have good news: our *new* Virtual Open Day is live! visit www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/virtual-open-day

We are so proud that TWO of our college members won prizes in the @oxfordenvsust Sustainability Photographer of the Year awards! Congratulations to staff member Sara Reevell and MCR student Lars Bathe-Peters for capturing this year's theme 'It made me think'! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/sustain...

Last Friday we held a leaving banquet for our President Dame Hilary Boulding, who has led the College with vision and energy and deserved a proper celebration and thank you from staff & fellows. While the weather was toasty, it's safe to say everyone who came enjoyed this very special evening!

We are so proud to have earned 'Beyond Gold' for the second year in a row at the University's Green Impact awards!! Thank you to all the teams in College who have helped us continue to make Trinity a sustainable place to live and work! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinity...

Last week we took part in a fantastic event with our partners in @mplsoxford.bsky.social‬ to welcome a group of Year 5 students from local state primary schools for two days packed with exciting, hands-on scientific workshops as part of the Oxford Twinning Project! 👩‍🔬🌿🧪🔬🧮

Congratulations to two of our fantastic students who make Trinity such a welcoming and vibrant community: our MCR member and Junior Dean Jack Warburton has won the Stirling Boyd Prize and JCR student Isabelle Moore was voted the David Evers Prize winner by her peers!

Monday morning sunlight this morning in College - it's quieter now term is over but still lots going on as we prepare to welcome our summer school students and other summer visitors!

It's the last day of 8th week and the end of all the official events of term, so we are going back in time to share a photo of James Bridie’s ‘Susannah and the Elders’ performed in College in June 1948. This is the earliest photograph that we have of a Trinity Players production!

Our lovely MCR held their summer garden party at the weekend, and thanks to lots of great food, live music and perfect weather a great time was had by all!

Spot the difference! Then vs Now in college.... our President's Lodgings from the 1890s and again this week as we had some photos taken for our archives before our outgoing President departs!

The bees are absolutely loving our gardens and especially our flower meadow at the moment! Can you spot the purple poppy pollinator?...

Our Professorial Fellow @janinadill.bsky.social has given insight to #BBCInDepth in its reporting on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza - read below!

Working in translation studies? One of our fantastic DPhil students has organised the Oxford Translation Day 2025 - a programme of workshops, readings, and discussions hosted at @stannescollege.bsky.social! occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

We've been noticing a visitor to college all this week, and rumour has it s/he may be a resident of @stjohnsox.bsky.social‬ - can anyone identify this adventurous fellow who has been exploring (and tasting) our border plants and chasing squirrels up our trees? 🤨

We recently held our college BBQ to coincide with a football tournament to honour the memory of Wayne Shorter, one of our staff members we recently lost to cancer and who was a keen football player and coach. All teams had a fantastic time - thanks to everyone who came!

Our Trinity Players staged a fantastic production to celebrate the 100-Year Anniversary of The Great Gatsby - the costumes, production and setting of our President's Garden made for a wonderful series of performances. We can't wait for what they put on next year!

Summer VIIIs brought some very exciting racing this year! our boat club women have nearly a completely new squad with only 4 returners, and did a fantastic job getting two boats to qualify! It was a tough year results wise, but things are looking up as they will hit the ground running next year!

Congratulations to the joint winners of our Richard Hillary Prize for creative writing! You can read the winning entries by Camilla Berarducci and LeeLou Lapteva in the news story on our website:

Huge congratulations to our recent graduate Bryan Ng on his graduation this weekend! Bryan finished his DPhil last year and since then has produced a spinout and a baby - who came to graduation in a matching mini DPhil gown made by grandma! Well done Bryan!

* Alpaca alert * Thanks to our JCR welfare team who arranged some four-legged woolly visitors to combat the fifth-week blues...! 🦙💚🦙💚

We had a fascinating exhibition of treasures from our library collections last week! among the items were a first edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813), and a commentary on the Gospels by Broickwy from 1539, which once belonged to King Henry VIII's library at Greenwich Palace.

We are * so proud * of recent DPhil graduate and former MCR President Kam Poon, who has been named the recipient of the 2025 Jon Weaver PhD Prize for the best PhD in polymer chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry and Macro Group!!! Read more:

Happy Friday! We love the sight of a red balloon against a blue sky over college...

It's a rainbow of poppies in our wildflower garden at the moment, and we are loving it!

The official event photos have landed so we can say it again: our Access team are Vice-Chancellor's Award winners!!! we are so proud to see them recognised for all their work engaging local schools and teachers! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/college...

✨ What a night! ✨Thank you to everyone who joined our postgraduates recently for the MCR Gala—an evening full of fun, glam, and generosity raising funds for the British Heart Foundation supporting life-saving research and care. 💃🕺