Malik Peiris Honoured at Encaenia
Congratulations to Professor Malik Peiris (1977 DPhil Virology) for being awarded an Honorary Degree at this year's Encaenia. He is pictured here with Keble Warden Dr Sir Michael Jacobs (left) and Emeritus Fellow Dr Simon Hunt (right).
A clinical and public health virologist with a particular interest in emerging viral diseases, Professor Peiris is one of four newly-elected Honorary Fellows at Keble this term.
Stephen Fletcher Awarded RSC Prize
Keble Tutorial Fellow Stephen Fletcher was one of six Oxford scientists awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry annual Research and Innovation Prize.
Stephen received the ‘Merck, Sharp and Dohme Prize’ for his research on cross-coupling reactions. Read more here.
Keble Maths Lecturers Receive MPLS Teaching Awards
Keble Mathematics Lecturers Dr Brian Tyrrell and Dr Neil Laws have both been recognised in the 2023 Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division Teaching Awards.
Dr Brian Tyrrell, Stipendiary Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, has been recognised for his work on making maths ‘a more approachable and friendlier subject for all’ through his teaching and outreach work.
Dr Neil Laws, Senior College Lecturer at Keble, and Director of Studies in Statistics, was nominated by the Department of Statistics for playing a pivotal role in numerous teaching innovations in recent years.
Read more on the MPLS website.
Imogen Choi Awarded Leverhulme International Fellowship
Dr Imogen Choi, Keble Stipendiary Lecturer in Spanish and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, has been honoured with the highly esteemed Leverhulme International Fellowship.
This opportunity will take Dr Choi to Madrid, where she will serve as a Visiting Fellow at the Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Dr Choi will be researching 'Sacred epic and diasporic communities in the early modern Hispanic world’, specifically exploring Sephardic literary networks, with a focus on the influential poet Miguel de Silveira.
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Amy Bogaard as the new Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow at Keble College. Professor Bogaard will take on the prestigious role in the upcoming academic year, succeeding Professor Chris Gosden, who has held the Chair since 2006.
Keble has elected four new distinguished individuals to its Honorary Fellowship: Malik Peiris, Angela Saini, Kate Varah, and Yasumasa Nagamine.
The College is delighted to announce the appointment of accomplished organist, conductor and academic Christian Wilson as Director of Music at Keble from September. The appointment follows the departure of Chris Bucknall, who will be pursuing his career as a harpsichordist and conductor full-time.
Congratulations to Paul Newman, Keble Professorial Fellow and BP Professor of Information Engineering, who has been appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to engineering and technology.
The Keble Debates are a programme of termly conversations, bringing together leading figures from the worlds of theatre, fiction and poetry.
Eric Symes Abbott (1906-1983) was, successively, Dean of King’s College, London, Warden of Keble, and Dean of Westminster. Following his death, his friends established an annual lecture in his memory. This year’s lecturer, Professor Anthony Reddie, is a leading figure in the area of Black Theology in the UK and beyond.
Keble is one of ten colleges making offers to students in the University’s inaugural Astrophoria Foundation Year programme. Four of the 35 offers made are at Keble, in PPE, Law, English, and History.
After a fruitful year of regular Chapel services, topped up by exciting events including the Keble Early Music Festival this February, Keble Chapel Choir celebrated the end of the academic year with a whistlestop visit to the charming city of Turku, Finland.
Malik Peiris honoured at Encaenia; Stephen Fletcher awarded RSC Prize; Keble Maths Lecturers receive MPLS Teaching Awards; Imogen Choi awarded Leverhulme International Fellowship.
Alumni of all ages will be sad to see that Veronika Kovacs will be leaving the College team this summer. Veronika has been our wonderful Alumni Relations Manager for the past six years and has approached the role with dedication and enthusiasm.
Listening to valuable feedback from our alumni about how much they missed Keble’s family-friendly events of old, we decided to trial a special event for families on the day of our annual Summer Dinner.
Alumni Relations Manager Veronika talked to Alumna and award-winning journalist Ione Wells (English 2014) about her remarkable journey and becoming the youngest Political Correspondent for the BBC.
Recent publications from the Keble alumni community. Authors include Alice Robb, Jared Margulies, Nicholas Brownlees, Patrick Lambe, Craig Robinson, and Simon Jakes.
Lyndsay Lomax (2001 Theology) was inspired to take up Netball again in 2019 as a way of increasing her social circle after moving to Switzerland. This tapped into and revived a competitive streak developed while playing at Keble as an undergraduate.
Keble held its own stand-alone golf day last October at Huntercombe Golf Club, with 18 holes of golf in this lovely venue being followed by a meal.
After graduating with a BA in History and Modern Languages (2018), Sanjna Banerjee (Sanju) took up a position as a teaching fellow at the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Bangladesh, providing English tuition for students undertaking the pre-undergraduate programme.
‘Most Innovative Business’ Award for Andy Clayton; Stephen Conway Bishop of Lincoln; Keble Festival of Sport; President of the KA Elected.
