Appointments and Awards

Oxford statistician co-awarded $1 million Rousseeuw Prize for the R Project

Professor Brian Ripley, Emeritus Fellow of St Peter's College, has been named as one of five laureates of the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics.

17 June 2026

Prof Tom Adcock recognised with award for outstanding research supervision

St Peter’s College Tutorial Fellow and Senior Tutor Prof Tom Adcock has been recognised with an award for outstanding research supervision.

17 June 2026

Professor Christl Donnelly awarded RSS Guy Medal in Silver

30 April 2026

Dr Jani R. Bolla appointed Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry at St Peter’s College

8 April 2026

Saïd Business School Research Excellence Award for Dr Violetta Splitter

16 February 2026

Prof Christl Donnelly CBE among the first Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

29 January 2026

Dr Pierrick Bousseau appointed Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at St Peter’s College

6 October 2025

Elizabeth Hallam granted full professor title in 2025 Recognition of Distinction Awards

1 October 2025

Prestigious Royal Institution Freer Fellowship for DPhil candidate Julia Gustavsson

27 August 2025

St Peter's student Georgia Clarke wins BUCS rifle shooting title

18 August 2025

Research prize for St Peter’s student

16 July 2025

Prof Vlad Mykhnenko to give inaugural lecture

29 May 2025

Alumnus Mark Carney (MPhil Economics, 1991) named Canadian Prime Minister

9 May 2025

Berkeley Visiting Miller Professorship for Prof Christl Donnelly

14 March 2025

Dr Violetta Splitter receives 2024 Dean’s Research Excellence Award from Oxford Saïd Business School

10 January 2025

MBE for alumnus Michael Harris (Music, 1977)

8 January 2025

Dr Emma Edwards receives Gold Award for Teaching from Department of Engineering Science

31 October 2024

George Brooke (1970) awarded British Academy Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies

2 October 2024

Dr Bridget Penman appointed Fellow and Tutor in Biology at St Peter’s College

26 September 2024

Dr Hashem Abushama appointed Fellow and Tutor in Geography at St Peter’s College

24 September 2024

Prof Matthew Fuchter appointed Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at St Peter’s College

24 September 2024

St Peter’s Research Associate named co-investigator on major Oxford quantum computing hub

23 September 2024

St Peter’s student awarded two Chemistry prizes

18 September 2024

St Peter’s Fellow to lead project from new UKRI interdisciplinary scheme

11 September 2024

Three St Peter’s academics promoted to professorial titles at the University of Oxford in 2024

10 September 2024

Human Rights Law Prize for St Peter’s student

2 August 2024

Prof Adcock's Teaching Award recognises Access and Outreach initiative

17 July 2024

REACH research project wins Vice-Chancellor’s Award

15 June 2024

Davison Young Musician Foundation Recital Award for Music Finalist Alfred Fardell

4 June 2024

Dr Albert Sanghoon Park receives Excellence in Teaching Award

4 June 2024

Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware receives prestigious Wallace Fellowship

8 April 2024

Dr Violetta Splitter appointed Fellow and Tutor in Management at St Peter’s College

5 April 2024

Serene Singh named John Robert Lewis Fellow

4 April 2024

Romilly Awards Student Prize winners announced

22 March 2024

St Peter’s graduate wins Royal Geographic Society Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize

14 March 2024

Prof Thomas Adcock (Engineering Science, 2001) admitted as Senior Proctor

14 March 2024

Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira recipient of funding for large-scale anti-corruption research project

12 March 2024

Quintin Beer conferred with Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music

19 February 2024

Prof Lionel Mason participates in $8m grant for international collaboration on celestial holography

6 November 2023

Dr Maria Yakerson appointed Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at St Peter’s College

1 November 2023

Honorary degree for Prof Mark Moloney

30 October 2023

Fellow’s research on global kleptocracy shortlisted for impact award

12 October 2023

St Peter’s Fellow recognised in 2023 Recognition of Distinction awards

26 September 2023

St Peter’s student wins John Potter Essay Prize

12 June 2023

Michael Leadbetter receives Teaching Excellence Award

12 June 2023

Prof Sarah Hill elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

26 April 2023

Prestigious British Academy research fellowship for St Peter’s Fellow

24 April 2023

Prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Residency for Prof Wójcik

11 April 2023

Dr Timothy Clack’s parliamentary engagement on climate and security

9 March 2023

Dr Dean Sheppard receives MPLS teaching award

23 January 2023

Pieter Garicano (PPE, 2020) wins Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize

15 December 2022

St Peter’s student entrepreneur team wins All-Innovate Competition

7 December 2022

Dr Adam Kirrander appointed Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at St Peter’s College

11 October 2022

DPhil Student Abdulazeez Imam Awarded Graduate Prize

5 October 2022

St Peter's student wins John Potter Essay Prize

30 August 2022

Three St Peter’s Fellows Promoted to Professorial Titles at the University of Oxford

22 August 2022

Luca Williams (Philosophy and Theology, 2019) Awarded Gibbs Prize

15 August 2022

Junior Research Fellow Publishes Award-Winning Monograph

1 August 2022

Louis Odgers (PPE, 2020) Wins 2022 Brandon Wilson Essay Competition

26 July 2022

Prof Randy Bruno Receives Wellcome Discovery Award

19 July 2022

Prof Lavanya Rajamani Delivers the 2022 Heilbron Lecture at the Old Bailey

23 June 2022

Prof Randy Bruno Awarded Academy of Medical Sciences Professorship

1 June 2022

Professor Randy Bruno appointed Fellow and Tutor in Neuroscience at St Peter’s College

30 May 2022

Two St Peter’s Doctoral Students at STEM for Britain

11 March 2022

St Peter’s Finalist Awarded Henry Wilde Prize

23 February 2022

Unveiling of Eileen Hogan’s Portrait of Mark Damazer

16 February 2022

The Anjool Maldé Scholarship Celebrates Its Ten-Year Anniversary

2 December 2021

Abimbola Johnson (2006) to lead independent police oversight board

25 October 2021