We are pleased to share that we are now offering our alumni based in England and Wales access to a free Will-writing service provided by the The Taylor Lucas Partnership. 

Every year, the Collingwood Prize is presented at the Collingwood Banquet to an MCR student who has shown incredible academic achievement. The 2026 Collingwood Prize was jointly awarded to Effimia Panagiotaki (2021, DPhil Engineering Science) and Seda Öztürk (2021, DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). They shared with us more about their time at Pembroke and what being part of our MCR community means to them.

What makes a good doctor? This is one of two questions our medical students were invited to answer for a chance to win the 2026 Ayers-Evans Prize. Established to commemorate Miss K.A. Ayres, the prize is open to Pembroke undergraduates reading Medicine or Physiological Sciences.

Pembroke alumna, Lily Elsner (2019, MBA), and her co-founder, Nick Shipley, recently celebrated the launch of their startup’s flagship product, the Jackit™, at the Oxfordshire Life Sciences Innovation Showcase at the House of Lords.

Graduate-entry medic Elena Andree was recognised with a prestigious award at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) conference in Cape Town, South Africa for her research on imaging in neurodegenerative diseases.

A new singing school, The Embodima School, has been opened by Pembroke lecturer and alumna Nicola Harrison, established off the back of a decade of research on vocal techniques. 

Pembroke Fellow Professor Ingmar Posner and his team at the Oxford Robotics Institute introduced cutting-edge robotics and AI systems to the public at this year’s Royal Society Summer Exhibition.

Last Saturday, Scott Beardsley joined our worldwide alumni community as he graduated with a Masters in Practical Ethics from Pembroke and the Uehiro Oxford Institute.

Pembroke alumnus John Boumphrey (1994, Modern Languages) has been recognised for his services to technology, consumer and the digital commerce industry.