We are looking forward to welcoming guests today for this important panel event with RefugeeStudiesCentre and Save the Children UK, where we will hear about their humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza and discuss what we can do to help. Register via our website.

Colin Phillips' Colin Phillips Inaugural Lecture to take place on 4 June: all are very welcome! Somerville College

Thank you to everyone who joined us for today's memorial to our friend and colleague Liz Cooke. Your eloquent tributes proved that neither Liz's memory nor her voice are gone from Somerville, but will live on among all of us who remember her.
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Chag Pesach sameach to all our students, staff and alumni celebrating Passover. #Happy Passover!

We are very proud to hear that Dr Anne Makena (DPhil Chemical Biology 2012) Co-Director of the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), has been named one of the Global Top 100 Futurists and Innovators by the 2024 Most Influential People of African Descent. Congratulations, Anne!

Termtime is a marathon not a sprint, and three Somervillians have taken this more literally than others. On Sunday, our JRF Rocco Zizzamia, undergraduate Rosie Thorogood, and postgraduate Jessica Schiff all completed the London Marathon - we are very proud of them!

We’re nearing the end of the first week of Trinity, and the library has never been fuller! We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all our finalists good luck in their exams. You’ve all worked so hard, and we know you’ve got this.

A joy to have our first proper choir formal last night and enjoy an amazing meal, created by the cracking chefs at Somerville College without any singing in the midst of it!

We've raised an incredible £25,000 from our Crowdfund appeal to endow the Liz Cooke Fellowship in History, halfway towards our goal! 🌟 Help us reach our target of £50,000 and make your gift here: supportsomerville.com/campaigns/hono…

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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