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The speakers at the event: Dr David Dibosa, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Becky Hall, Catherine Hall, Claudette Johnson, Gilane Tawadros, Julia Walworth

Portrait of Stuart Hall by Claudette Johnson celebrated at Merton

On Thursday 25 May, the portrait of influential Mertonian Stuart Hall (1951), commissioned by the College from eminent artist Claudette Johnson, was celebrated at Merton.
Merton College, Oxford

New sustainability plans on College Estate

 
Warden Professor Irene Tracey FMedSci CBE

Professor Irene Tracey elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

Former Warden and Honorary Fellow Professor Irene Tracey CBE, FMedSci., FRS, is among the eight Oxford academics who have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society.
Portrait of Sophia Buck

Sophia Buck wins Sylvia Naish Lecture Prize

Merton Prize Scholar Sophia Buck wins the 2023 Sylvia Naish Lecture award. 
Merton Front Quad

Winners of the 2023 Louis MacNeice Creative Writing Prize Announced

Named after Merton alumnus Louis MacNeice, a poet and playwright who attended the college during the 1920s, the competition invites all current students of the College to enter a maximum of one poem and/or one short story on any topic.
Dr David Hosking

Mertonian wins European Physical Society Award for Plasma Physics Thesis

Dr David Hosking (2014) has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award
The 2023 History Reading Party showing students and professors on the hills in Herefordshire

Largest ever History Reading Party

This year's history reading party in Herefordshire was the largest yet.
Head shot of Anne Keast-Butler: UK Gov official photo

Mertonian Anne Keast-Butler becomes first female Director of GCHQ

Anne Keast-Butler (1988) has been announced as the new Director GCHQ.
Eleanor Clark's winning collection of books

Merton undergraduate Eleanor Clark wins the Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting

Merton English Language and Literature undergraduate Eleanor Clark has been awarded the 2023 Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting.
Screenshot from the BBC programme with Ella Caulfield being interviewed by the BBC

Mathematics undergraduate and guide dog user Ella Caulfield featured on the BBC

Mathematics undergraduate Ella Caulfield has been featured in BBC programmes about Britain’s guide dog shortage