Working in international development, Pembroke graduate Isabela (2024, MPhil Development Studies) focuses on how large-scale initiatives impact the lived experiences of local communities. While conducting fieldwork in Guatemala, she interviewed small-scale producers participating in an agricultural and financial development project, seeking to understand how they perceive and experience "development" in their everyday lives.

A group of Pembroke graduate students have recently published a second volume of the Pembroke Academic Journal, a forum for showcasing the diverse intellectual interests of our talented MCR community.

Professor Lisa Webley, who is studying part-time at Pembroke for a Masters in Practical Ethics and is also a Professor at the University of Birmingham, has recently been appointed Law Commissioner for Property, Family and Trusts Law. 

Pembroke's first-year historians had a special visit to the Weston Library last term for a fascinating session at the Centre for the Study of the Book. 

Two Pembrokians, alumnus Dr Endrit Shabani and Fellow Professor Stephen Whitefield, came together to design the Women's Participation in Elections Index to measure the barriers preventing women in Albania from participating in politics. Dr Shabani shares more about the findings of the Index.

Recent Pembroke Alumna Imee Marriott (2021, History) gives an insight into her undergraduate thesis exploring the relationship between yoga and maternity in 1990s Britain.

The Year 12 pupils who form the OxNet Heritage-360 cohort recently travelled to Durham University for the programme's spring conference, where they reflected on heritage in the North East and beyond from artistic, philosophical, historical, archaeological, technological and bioscientific perspectives.

Pembroke DPhil Biology student shares insights on his DPhil project 'HotMess' - a global experiment intended to help make policies towards coastal ecosystems more effective based on the combined impacts of human stressors. 

On 4 March 2025, this year’s OxNet Heritage-360 cohort travelled to Southmoor Academy in Sunderland for a day of workshops to develop their study skills.