Exeter College, Oxford

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College student Naeema Mehmood (2020, Integrated Immunology; 2022, DPhil Medical Sciences), who has been awarded first place for Scientific Excellence at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) Day 2026 poster competition.

Naeema presented a poster on her DPhil research and received the Institute’s top poster prize for Scientific Excellence, marking the second time she has received the award during her doctorate.

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📢 Congratulations to Dr Natasha Holcroft-Emmess, Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Exeter College, who has been awarded the Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, Law & Politics 2026.

The prize recognises outstanding doctoral research. Dr Holcroft-Emmess received the award for her dissertation examining the suspension of obligations under international human rights treaties during times of war or public emergency.

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📢'The Rose Field', the spellbinding conclusion to Exeter College alumnus Philip Pullman’s (1965, English) ‘Book of Dust’ series, has been picked by Her Majesty Queen Camilla for the summer season of The Queen’s Reading Room Book Club.

To watch Philip’s exclusive interview, which was filmed at Exeter College, follow The Queen's Reading Room on Instagram or head over to their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/.

Happy from Pawfessor Walter de Stapelcat! 🐱

He'd like everyone to know that he's very busy, but will still accept Dreamies.

📸 Throwback to celebrating with our wonderful graduands.

Welcome to the Exeter alumni community.

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumna Ana Lauren H***e (2002, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture), who has published a new book, 'Radiant AF'.

The book explores confidence, reinvention, and self-expression after 40, combining personal experience with practical advice on navigating identity, relationships, career change, and ageing.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/A8wY50ZuU5c

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumnus Dr John MacCormick (1996, DPhil Engineering Science), who has published a new book, 'Thinking AI: How Artificial Intelligence Emulates Human Understanding'.

Published by Princeton University Press, the book explores how modern artificial intelligence works and examines whether computers can think like humans.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/eKwp50ZuU2K

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumna Dr Ursula Hackett (2006, PPE; 2009, MPhil Politics), who has been appointed the inaugural Churchill Associate Professor in US Politics at the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute.

The newly endowed post will support the launch of the University’s first specialist MSc in American Politics and marks Dr Hackett’s return to Oxford.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/KK5c50ZuTZH

🎓 Huge congratulations to our amazing graduands today. Here's to a well-earned break. 🌞

The essays come and go. The group chats somehow never do.

Happy to the friends who make Exeter what it is. 💚

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