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My first encounter with Brasenose began with a Year 9 school trip.

It is with immense sadness that we report that Professor Peter Sinclair has passed away on Tuesday 31^st March 2020, having contracted coronavirus several weeks ago.

My first year at Oxford has gone by far too quickly. There has been a lot of work but even more fun and I’ve made many unforgettable memories.

The response to the pandemic has forced examination boards to put in place alternative assessments for A-level and other qualifications in the UK and overseas.

Elspeth Garman, Brasenose College tutor and Professor of Molecular Biophysics, has been chosen to receive a prestigious award celebrating the achievements of women in STEM.

Congratulations Brasenose finalists, from the entire College community

Brasenose College is delighted to announce record breaking undergraduate final degree results.

If you happened to find my laptop abandoned in the Brasenose library at three in the morning on a Tuesday...

Over two years ago, I wrote a piece for this blog describing my first term in Oxford.

The next undergraduate Open Days at Brasenose College will be Wednesday and Thursday 1st and 2nd July and will be Virtual.

We urge our whole Brasenose College community to join together to stamp out racism.

On Tuesday 2 June 2020, Brasenose Honorary Fellow and alumnus, Professor Andrew Burrows QC was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Coming from a rehousing council estate in the east-end of Glasgow, from a working-class family in which no one has gone to university, the image of an Oxford application was one of unattainability and pointlessness.

If you have somehow found your way here and just wanted a quick and snappy little summary of my first term as a medic at Oxford then here you go:

I was lucky enough to spend 4 years of my life as a student at Brasenose. In 2015, I arrived from a small village school in Durham to begin my English degree.

In October I began my studies in Sanskrit, the language of ancient Indian literature and Hindu scripture.

Two terms done and boy what a journey I have been on, up, down, backwards and lots of forwards!!

Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote an article for this blog about my first two terms at Brasenose and at Oxford.

Upon arriving in East Ham on Wednesday, Rev’d Sue gave me a ‘low down’ of the condition of East Ham which was helpful in not only getting straight to the point but giving me a lens with which to think about the rest of my visit

I grew up in an ex-mining town near Nottingham and went to a very standard state school. I always wanted to go to university, but coming from an area with little to no Oxbridge progression, I assumed it would be a local uni and I’d end up staying at home.