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Christ Church Junior Research Fellow Leah Broad is to publish a new book next month. Quartet is a group biography of four women composers – Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen.

In December, Professor Geraldine Johnson gave an invited lecture on women patrons in Renaissance and Baroque Europe to an online audience of nearly 5,000.

The garden team and Catriona Bass, together with volunteers from the Long Mead Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Restoration Project planted nearly 1,000 rare and slow-growing floodplain meadow wildflowers in the Meadow.

Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Senior Research Fellow in Classics Education at Christ Church, and research assistant Katrina Kelly have published a report for the Department for Education.

Over 36 hours from 9am on Tuesday 29 November to 9pm on Wednesday 30 November, Christ Church will be holding its first-ever Giving Day, raising money for a Refugee Academic Futures Scholarship. 

Judith Valerie Engel to play Chopin and Liszt in Christ Church Cathedral as part of a Giving Day piano recital. Judith Valerie Engel is an Austrian concert pianist and musicologist.

Colleagues, old Members and friends will be deeply saddened to learn of the death of Peter Parsons, aged 86. 

Christ Church made up much of a winning team at the Varsity Roman Law Moot Court Competition, held in person for the first time since Covid.

Geophysicist Dr Ben Fernando has appeared in print and broadcast media outlets providing analysis of Mars meteorite impacts.

Dr Kaibo Hu, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Christ Church, has been awarded the SIAM Early Career Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.

The young poet who writes the best single poem on the theme of ‘The Planets’ will receive a first prize of £5,000.

Christ Church, Oxford, is exhibiting 13 new portraits of women as part of the Oxford University college’s commitment to better represent its diverse community. 

Oxford University’s Policy Engagement team followed Dr Holmes-Henderson to Parliament, interviewing the policy colleagues she works with and the impact her research and engagement is making in real world educational decision-making circles.

Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS follows Professor Roger Davies, who has held the Chair since 2002.

Dr Marc-André Cormier, Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at Christ Church, will lead a session on the role of marine mixotrophy in the global carbon cycle at the 2022 Challenger Society Conference.

Christ Church Fellow Professor Matthias Holweg has co-authored a topical report exploring the impact of unethical applications of artificial intelligence (AI), and how organisations can avoid them.

Geoffrey Rhoades Commemorative Bursary winner Peng Yao's work explores the world of children's imagination and childhood memories.

The American Friends (the association of Christ Church Old Members resident in the US) have generously established a scholarship fund to provide financial assistance for postgraduate students who are currently enrolled at Christ Church.

Professor Laurence Brassart will investigate the mechanical and degradation behaviour of biodegradable polymers in load-bearing applications. Dr Neil Hart is working to develop the predictions of rainfall season characteristics necessary to managing a growing climate risk.

Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson is leading a team which will evaluate the impact that use of the Vocabulous website has on students’ understanding and retention of English vocabulary.

Christ Church is pleased to announce that it will be hosting one of two workshops on lyric poetry this summer in its Research Centre, both of which are now open for registrations.

Dr Ashley Moyse, the McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Centre, New York.

Gina Neff, Professor of Technology and Society at the Oxford Internet Institute and fellow at Christ Church, has published Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction, with MIT Press.

Christ Church Junior Research Fellow Dr Timothy Barendt has had an article on molecular machines published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Christ Church music historian Dr Leah Broad is to publish a biography of four trailblazing female composers, Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen.

Christ Church Library has reacquired a copy of the first English translation of Euclid’s The Elements of Geometrie, 300 years after the Library sold it as a duplicate and 434 years after it was first donated.

Christ Church has confirmed that a disciplinary tribunal is proceeding, in order to consider an allegation made in October 2020.

The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected eleven University of Oxford biomedical and health scientists to its fellowship, among them are two Christ Church Senior Associate Research Fellows, Professor Sarah Gilbert and Professor Graham Ogg.

Christ Church has published an independent report by President of Welsh Tribunals, Sir Wyn Williams.

Christ Church’s Governing Body has voted to carry out an independent review regarding the handling of a serious complaint.