It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of The Rt Hon The Lord Carswell, alumnus and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke. Lord Carswell’s distinguished legal career culminated in him serving as the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and then a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

Congratulations to current Pembroke MCR member Sebastian Răduleţu (DPhil Law) on his election by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) as Romanian judge to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

We’re delighted to share that Pembroke Chaplain, the Revd Dr Andrew Teal, was last week awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, Utah. The award is the highest honour that BYU confers on individuals, given in recognition of an outstanding life and contributions to the world.

We were deeply saddened to learn in February of the death of Professor Tom McLeish, Senior Associate at Pembroke. A service of thanksgiving was held in York Minster on 27th April 2023, with a recording available on YouTube.

"If there was one thing I learned at Pembroke, it was that we were supposed to do something nobody else was doing." Alumnus Tim Brookes (1971, PGCE English) is the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, the only organisation in the world studying Indigenous and minority scripts and addressing the issue of cultural erosion through script loss.

On Thursday 20th April we invited faith leaders from the College and wider Oxford community to a formal blessing of our new multi-faith prayer room, which will be open 7 days a week for all College members.

Congratulations to Professor Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke Fellow & Tutor in English Language and Literature and Professor of the History of English at Oxford, for receiving a prestigious ‘TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellowship.’

We are delighted to announce that the College has been awarded £1.36m government funding to decarbonise our historic Dining Hall, supporting the implementation of a site-wide decarbonisation plan.

Orson Hart (2020) is a third-year Pembroke undergraduate studying Mathematics. Two years into his course, Orson had the opportunity to put some of the theory he had learnt so far into practice with a summer Rokos Internship. He and his supervisor are now planning to publish some of their work in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.