Selwyn College Cambridge

We're sending our best wishes to everyone getting their A Level results today.

If you're holding a conditional offer from Selwyn and have met all your conditions, congratulations! There's no need to contact us. Your place will be confirmed on UCAS Hub, and we'll email you shortly with information about joining Selwyn.

If you've narrowly missed your offer, please be patient. Send us the breakdown of your results and the relevant grade boundaries, which your school can give you, to admissions(at)sel.cam.ac.uk as soon as possible. We'll be in touch as quickly as we can.

If you applied in October 2025 and the University has already contacted you about reconsideration, please refer to the information they've sent you and the University's website.

If you did not receive an offer from Selwyn this year, we're unable to consider applications at this time, so there is no need to contact us. Like all Cambridge colleges, Selwyn doesn't take part in clearing.

If you have strong results and aren't eligible for reconsideration, you're welcome to apply for entry in October 2027. The deadline is 15 October 2026.

More information about applying to Cambridge: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply

Whatever today brings, well done for getting this far.

Congratulations to Selwyn's own golfers.

Sam Lanevi (SE 2022) and Lara Czernecki (SE 2025) helped Cambridge University Ladies Golf Club beat Oxford 7-2 in this year's Varsity Match at The Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, their first victory since 2018.

Played over two days across 36 holes of foursomes and 36 of singles, this was the 29th University Women's Match and the 137th University Golf Match overall. The Cambridge Ladies' six-strong squad were all Full Blues with handicaps below 7.

Sam, a PhD student in history, who is pictured far left, was playing her fourth Varsity match after captaining last year's team at Royal North Devon. Lara, studying an MSt in creative writing and pictured third from left, was playing her first.

Next year's match heads to Royal Lytham & St Anne's in Lancashire.

Well played everyone.

Pictures: James M. Sparkes
Kit by Varsity 1827

Sport at Selwyn takes many forms.

This photo feature from this year's Selwyn Magazine follows students competing across a wide range of sports, from the river and the track to the dance floor and the fencing piste.

Take a look through the photos and meet some of the students representing the University over 2025/26. https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications/magazine/2026/sport-at-selwyn

Photos by Elodie Giuge.

Earlier this year, Selwyn Fellow Professor Lynn Dicks visited Shandong Province in China on a research exchange, observing new approaches to ecological farming and the wildlife clinging on between some of the country's most intensive agricultural landscapes.

In this year's Selwyn Magazine, she reflects on the innovations she encountered and the challenge of balancing food production with biodiversity conservation.

Read more: https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications/magazine/2026/lynn-dicks

Pictures: The critically endangered Chinese crested tern by Zhang Lei: Mason bee rearing techniques; and Professor Men Xingyuan and team in an apple orchard.

James Higham joins Selwyn as Fellow and Director of Studies for Natural Sciences from 1 October, moving from Homerton College, where he was a College Assistant Professor, Director of Studies and Undergraduate Tutor.

"I'm really looking forward to starting at Selwyn," said James, who was matched with the college through the Intercollegiate Service. "Selwyn was one of the colleges I'd hoped would contact me as it has a reputation for being a friendly and relaxed college, which still has a traditional feel."

James began a medical degree at Bristol, including a year of clinical work, before realising research suited him better than clinical medicine. After six years in Bristol, he came to Cambridge and joined Peterhouse in 2018 for a PhD in pharmacology, researching the mechanisms driving pain in inflammatory diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease. Supervised by Dr David Bulmer, the work identified potential targets for painkillers.

James also has an ongoing interest in receptor theory, collaborating with David Colquhoun FRS, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at UCL. Alongside his college role, he's a Teaching Associate in the Departments of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, teaching on the Natural Sciences Tripos and the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos.

Read more: https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/news/welcoming-our-new-fellows

Four members of Selwyn's MCR community are heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an original musical, One Night at Ford's Theatre.

The show explores the extraordinary relationship between John Wilkes Booth and his brother, celebrated actor Edwin Booth. The team behind it, Sydney Nguyen, Sabrina Steur, Mimi Thompson and Will Rowse, met through Selwyn's choir, MCR and college community.

Find out how they got there: https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/news/selwyn-mcr-members-take-edinburgh-fringe

Rotunda Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe | 7-23 August

Some gifts change lives and this one carries hope.

Selwyn alumnus Andrew Barnes ONZM and his partner Charlotte Lockhart MNZM have given £10 million to Cambridge to establish the Charlotte Lockhart Precision Breast Cancer Institute.

Charlotte was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2021. She has spoken movingly about what research has given her: "Without research, I wouldn't be here today. I want others to have the same chance. To be able to watch their families grow up."

Andrew came to Selwyn from a state school in Lancashire, and has always spoken of Cambridge as the place that opened doors for him. This gift carries that belief forward, and could mean more time, more hope, and more families watched grow up.

The institute will form part of the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, opening in 2030.

Our warmest wishes go to Charlotte and Andrew.

Read more: https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/news/gift-hope

Selwyn Bursar Jennifer Phillips and Freya Jenkinson (SE 2022) belong to different generations of Cambridge rowing, but they both know what it means to steer a crew under pressure.

In Views From the River, they reflect on the challenges and friendships that come with life as a cox on the Cam.

Since this conversation took place, Freya has added a Henley Royal Regatta victory to her achievements, coxing the Cambridge University A crew to win the Temple Challenge Cup earlier this month.

Read the article in the latest issue of Selwyn Magazine. Link in the bio.

James He (SE 2019) followed his curiosity across disciplines at Selwyn, pursuing psychology, computer science and philosophy alongside his degree.

Those connections shaped his path to co-founding and now leading AI start-up Artificial Societies, and have just earned him a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

"It was that summer at Selwyn that gave me the freedom to build bridges across disciplines."

Read his full story: https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications/magazine/2026/james-he

Picture: James He

Dr Chris Jones is joining Selwyn's fellowship as Cambridge's first-ever Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies.

"We're drowning in Buddhist materials," he says. "Shelves of things, hundreds, if not thousands, of years old, which have not been systematically studied." Working across Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan sources, Chris traces the intellectual and social history of Buddhism with a focus on India.

From autumn 2027, the university will offer its first tripos paper devoted solely to Buddhist studies.

"It is the opportunity to discover something radically different and bring a different lens to human existence."

Read more: https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/news/welcoming-our-new-fellows