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On Friday 1 September, staff from our sibling college ventured to Christ Church ready for an afternoon of socialising and sporting rivalry. 

Professor Yarin Gal, Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science at Christ Church, has been appointed as the first Research Director of the UK government's Frontier AI Taskforce. 

We’re delighted to announce that the inaugural David Shwayder, Christ Church Philosophy Prize has been awarded to Sally Atkins. Sally completed her graduate studies at Exeter College and will soon join us at Christ Church for her DPhil. 

The BBC Proms are in full swing, and one guest speaker this year was Christ Church Junior Research Fellow Dr Leah Broad. Dr Broad provided expert commentary ahead of a performance of Dora Pejačević's Symphony in F Sharp Minor, part of Prom 40: Martin Helmchen plays Brahms. 

Christ Church Philosophy students Lucas Janz and Cyrus Lecciso have each been awarded prizes for their impressive work. 

Christ Church Junior Research Fellow Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman has received the 2023 Katharine Burr Blodgett Award for the best PhD thesis in colloid and interface science. 

Monday’s episode of University Challenge (BBC Two) saw a talented team from Christ Church go head to head with the University of Southampton’s top quizzers in a nail-biting first-round match. 

The inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) kicked off last month in Beijing, launched with the mission of promoting and celebrating groundbreaking research in fundamental science and applied mathematics. Among the research celebrated this year was that of Yuji Nakatsukasa, member of Christ Church and Associate Professor in the Oxford University Mathematical Institute.

Professor Brian Parkinson has been named one of a team of three new co-editors of the academic journal Emotion Review. He will be joined in his new role by Giovanna Colombetti (Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter) and Bradley J. Irish (Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University).

Professor Jonathan Cross, Official Student in Music, and Professor Mark Edwards, Official Student in Theology and Religion, have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their distinguished contribution to research.

Remembering the life of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Christ Church 1989–2003.

The recent addition to Christ Church Library’s Dodgson material consists of a selection of letters written to the family of the Reverend James and Sarah Anne Thresher. 

In a paper titled The Curse Of Recursion: Training On Generated Data Makes Models Forget, two Christ Church computer scientists raise concerns about the future of advanced text-based systems like ChatGPT.

Chiu Jung (Hebe) Yu, second-year English student at Christ Church has been awarded this year's Chancellor's English Essay Prize.

Christ Church men’s rugby team beat Queen’s to secure the Rugby Cuppers Bowl in a strong final performance that saw them take a 31 points to 7 victory.

The Christ Church team overcame a strong Pembroke side in extra time to win cuppas – the culmination of a hard-fought campaign.

The Library has recently acquired a rare copy of Benjamin Britten’s opera, Gloriana, originally commissioned for the Coronation of Elizabeth II.

The symposium sets out to explore the ways in which lyric poetry enabled or imagined community formation from the 11th to 17th centuries in both European and Middle Eastern worlds.

A ‘traditional Chinese’ edition of Belinda Jack’s Reading (in the Very Short Introduction series) has been published by Oxford University Press in Hong Kong.

Dr Felicity Brown, Lecturer in English at Christ Church, has won the prestigious Derek Brewer Essay Prize for a work on Arthurian literature.

The memorial service for Peter Pulzer, lecturer in Politics from 1957 to 1962 and Official Student in Politics from 1962 until 1984 at Christ Church and Gladstone Professor of Government 1985–1996.

Christ Church, University of Oxford is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition, the most lucrative prize for young British poets. This year’s theme, ‘The Planets’ inspired more than 1700 poems.

Over the Easter break, Christ Church DPhil student and Stone-Mallabar scholar Judith Valerie Engel was invited to give a series of lecture recitals and a guest lecture in India. 

Professor Chris Breward, Lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, has been appointed as the inaugural Scientific Director of the UK’s new Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences (KE Hub).

Christ Church's statue of Mercury, located in Tom Quad, has recently undergone a careful restoration.

Research ahead of a major exhibition suggests two Christ Church drawings could be studies for Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's early panel paintings.

Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman, a Christ Church Junior Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering, has won the 2023 IMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications) Lighthill-Thwaites Prize.

Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Senior Research Fellow at Christ Church and the Faculty of Classics hosted a workshop in Oxford for policy officials and analysts from the Department for Education and the cross-Whitehall languages group to explore academic-policy collaboration.

Dr Alexander Vasudevan, Associate Professor of Human Geography at Christ Church, is to speak at the Madrid Literary Festival, Capitulo Uno, this weekend.