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Pembroke MCR launches second volume of the Pembroke Academic Journal

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.

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Pembroke graduate student Professor Lisa Webley appointed Law Commissioner

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. 

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Professor Andy Orchard Awarded €2.44M ERC Advanced Grant for Digital Project on Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Professor Andy Orchard, Pembroke Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of €2.44M for a research project entitled 'A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry' (CLASP).

The project, which began on 1st September 2016 and is set to take place over 60 months, will result in the first ever electronic corpus of all poetry produced during the Anglo-Saxon period. The collection will encompass some 60,000 lines, written in Latin, Old English, or Norse.

This online interactive library is intended to aid the identification of distinctive features of sound, metre, spellings, diction, syntax, formulas, themes, and genres across the corpus.

Alongside several other objectives, the project will aim to identify the idiosyncratic nature of Anglo-Saxon verse, how common techniques of poetic composition changed over time, and patterns of influence and borrowing both within and between languages.

In July 2015, Professor Orchard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a mark of academic distinction, and in May 2015 he was recognised by Oxford University students as ‘Most Acclaimed Lecturer in Humanities’ at the OUSU Teaching Awards.