Merton News

A new study led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward has challenged previously held views that brain preservation in the archaeological record is extremely rare. The team carried out the largest study to date of the global archaeological literature about preserved human brains to compile an archive that exceeds 20-fold the number of brains previously compiled. The findings have been published today in the…

Merton College Boat Club ran a charity 'ergathon' from 4-5 March to raise money for Homeless Oxfordshire.

March edition of the Remote Water series from our Visiting Research Fellow, Bevis Bowden

Merton College has been certified as conforming to the MSC Chain of Custody Standard: Consumer Facing Organisation (CFO) Version and MSC Chain of Custody Certification Requirements.

A coalition of sixty leading institutions and trusts in UK Higher Education, including Merton College, has been created with the purpose of launching a market for cash products that do not contribute to the financing of fossil fuel expansion.

The College is pleased to share that Professor Irene S Lemos, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America. 

Chris Stark of the Climate Change Committee speaks at the meeting of the Merton College Net Zero Group

January's edition of the Remoter Water series from our Visiting Research Fellow, Bevis Bowden

Dr Jason Allen-Paisant (2011) has won the T. S. Eliot Prize for his collection of poems Self-Portrait As Othello.

Mertonians Michael Jary, Professor Andrew Pettegree FBA, Oliver Ford Davies and Carl Anglim were recognised in the King’s New Year Honours.