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Access Week 2025: From Local to Global

Designed to emulate 'a week in the life of an Oxford undergraduate', Access Week is an annual summer residential at Pembroke College. Select pupils from our target regions who have participated in our Access and Outreach programmes were invited to attend the residential, which took place this summer. We welcomed 120 pupils who participated in tutorials, seminars, mock interviews, academic trips, and much more.

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Reflections of a Recent Pembroke Graduate

Michaelmas term is fast approaching, which can only mean one thing – an onslaught of Freshers will be imminently arriving to Oxford and Pembroke. Starting university can be a big transition for anyone. We thought we’d ask one of our fresh graduates, Rohit Ghosh, to reflect on his time at Pembroke, looking all the way back to his own Freshers’ week.

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Dr Imaobong Umoren Wins 2016 British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award

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Pembroke Career Development Fellow in Women in the Humanities, Dr Imaobong Umoren, has been awarded the 2016 British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA), intended to support Early Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The award, held for one year, enables established Early Career Scholars to play an active role in the work of the British Academy and will give Dr Umoren the opportunity to host an interdisciplinary workshop and conference for fellow Early Career Scholars.

Her new research project - on which the workshop and conference will be based - is entitled ‘The Global Pursuit of Equality: Women, Networks and Networking 1800-2000’.

Dr Umoren hopes that winning the award will have a lasting impact in the academic community as well benefiting her own work: 'I am very excited about receiving the award and hope to bring scholars working in the humanities and social sciences together to deepen understandings about the complex relationship between equality, women and networks.'

An Early Career Researcher for TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), Dr Umoren works on the Race and Resistance and Women in the Humanities programmes. 

Her teaching work at Pembroke covers the Special Subject 'Race, Religion and Resistance in the United States from Jim Crow to Civil Rights'. Dr Umoren also advises undergraduate and graduate students in modern US and Caribbean history.

Featured image by John Cairns / courtesy of TORCH