Many congratulations to our alumnus Nicholas Pullen (2008, History) on his forthcoming debut novel, The Black Hunger. It's due in October 2024, but you can catch a sneak preview of the spine-tingling cover below...

Our latest Crowdfund appeal launches today! Follow the link below to make your gift to endow the Liz Cooke Fellowship in History ❤️ supportsomerville.com/campaigns/hono…

We want to thank the extraordinary individuals who have supported our appeal to endow the Liz Cooke Fellowship in History so far ❤️We will launch our latest Crowdfund project this Thursday and with your help, we can ensure that Liz's legacy lives on at Somerville College.

This Easter, we hope that you and your loved ones are able to be together in peace and plenty, with perhaps a few chocolate treats on the side...a very Happy Easter from all at Somerville!

Can you tell a fake from the real thing, and why does it matter? Join our very own Senior Research Fellow Prof Patricia Kingori as she curates an epistemological odyssey across Oxford’s museums & gardens from Apr 1-6, celebrating hoaxes, forgeries & fakes.
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Bletchley Park codebreaker✅
Holder of the Légion d’Honneur✅
The only 100 year old in Chiswick who can use a Sten gun✅
...And now an Honorary Fellow of Somerville✅
We’re proud to welcome Pat Owtram (1951, BLitt English) to this richly deserved honour.
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Huge congratulations, Liliia Bespala on this important achievement!

Join our Tutorial Fellow in History, Prof Natalia Nowakowska, on BBC R4 at 11am discussing the reinvention of Poland. Prof Nowakowska will consider whether Donald Tusks’s new centrist alliance can move past the autocratic conservatism of the old regime.
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Two more Somervillians have been shortlisted for a Vice-Chancellor's Award! Huge congrats to our former JRF Shobhana Nagraj as well as our own Janet Royall on being shortlisted for their project tackling child food poverty in Oxfordshire.
📸Keith Barnes
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Three of our Year 11 students are spending the weekend at University of Oxford as part of the Universify Education scheme.

We hope the students have a fantastic weekend finding more about the University.

A big thanks to our hosts Somerville College

We're so proud of Dr Claire Cockcroft and the Somerville Skills Hub on being shortlisted for a Vice-Chancellor's Award! 👏📚
The Skills Hub is a unique resource offering not only academic support and careers advice, but life skills and new perspectives.
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Could you eat a lifesize, dog-shaped cake? Our Prof Charles Spence discusses this and other aspects of the aesthetics of food on our experience of eating in his capacity as Head of the Crossmodal Research Lab. #gastrophysics Oxford ExpPsychology
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A village waits at the bottom of a reservoir and fields stretch out where an inland sea once lay. These and other bewitching encounters with the buried stories of British landscape form the basis of Professor Stafford’s new book, Time and Tide.
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Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh! Happy St Patrick's Day everyone! ☘️

Read all about our Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2024, featuring Prof Irene Tracey's keynote address and plentiful memories of an evening that celebrated the past and future impact of women in STEM at Oxford.
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We're so proud of our 3rd year historian and Sanctuary Scholar, Asif, on being awarded his British citizenship this week. Asif arrived in Somerville as an unaccompanied minor having left Afghanistan in 2016 and travelled alone across Europe. He is our first UG Sanctuary Scholar.

Congratulations to Somervillian Fred Roper on being selected to row in the Men’s Blue Boat at this year’s Boat Race on 30th March! Fred's an MSc student at Somerville researching sustainable energy transition who previously rowed for UC Berkeley
📸Oxford University Boat Club

We’ve got a few spaces left for our annual Spring Meeting, which this year features as keynote speaker Prof Dame Angela McLean (1979, Maths), the UK's first female Government Chief Scientific Adviser and lynchpin of our Covid-19 response.
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