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Professor Richard Barker, who is currently taking leave from his position as Tutor in Management at Christ Church, has launched the first two international standards for corporate reporting at the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

World class experimental physicist, Professor Stephen Smartt, and renowned children’s author and illustrator, Oliver Jeffers, worked together on a fun and interactive experience for primary and early secondary school children. 

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

Christ Church’s Head Gardener John James has been recognised at the Vice-Chancellor’s 2023 awards ceremony for environmental sustainability. 

Jonathan Cross, Official Student and Tutor in Music at Christ Church, has been appointed Director of the Ertegun Humanities Graduate Programme and Senior Scholar in Residence.

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. 

We are delighted that Christ Church Boat Club Women's First Eight (W1) have won their first ever Head of the River! 

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.

Dominic Grieve KC has completed his independent review of the governance of Christ Church and a report setting out his recommendations to the Governing Body. 

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.

Hundreds of people filled Christ Church Cathedral on Friday 5 May 2023 to attend a special Service of Thanksgiving on the eve of the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire and the Chapter of Christ Church are delighted to welcome members of the public, along with Civic and religious leaders from across the city and county, to a special Service of Celebration.

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.

The King has approved the appointment of Rev Canon Professor Sarah Foot PhD, FRHistS, FSA as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.

Residents, visitors, staff and students will have noticed a significant amount of tree work around Christ Church Meadow recently.