All postgraduate students at Queen’s become members of the Middle Common Room (MCR).
The MCR is a diverse and welcoming community of scholars. The MCR committee organises a variety of social and cultural events, as well as providing general support to our graduates.
The MCR is also a physical space in College located in the Front Quad. It has sofas, kitchen facilities, and provides a convivial setting to socialise with other graduate students.
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Thousands explore Queen’s during Oxford Open Doors
Fellow in English helps uncover Guernsey’s medieval literary past
DPhil student presents solo exhibition at Mostyn
Treasures of the Library: the passage of the shadow of the moon
Queen’s launches new Provox podcast
New student-led video tour of College life
What’s for lunch?
- two course meal at midday prompt, by sign on
👥👥👥 3,354 visitors in one weekend!
It was a pleasure to open our doors for #OxfordOpenDoors and welcome more than 3,000 people to Queen’s last Saturday.
Visitors wandered through the quads, Chapel, and Hall, and also had the rare chance to step inside the Upper Library. It was great to hear that this was a highlight of the day for many visitors. There was plenty to discover there, including Diderot and D’Alembert’s extraordinary 18th-century 'Encyclopédie', which sparked conversations about everything from the making of type to the organisation and censorship of knowledge.
🙏 Thank you to everyone who came to see us and to everyone who helped make the event possible.
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🎨 Queen’s DPhil student Rafael Pérez Evans presents major solo exhibition at Mostyn.
His exhibition, 'Brown Notes', develops work from his DPhil project, 'Against Care, Towards a Crip Breakdown Materialism', and explores togetherness and defiance under the pressures of a collapsing care system. Rafael asks instead what it might mean not to clean up: to stay with the mess, and to sing together from the ruins.
'Brown Notes' runs until 3 October 2026.
🔗 Read more about Rafael’s work: ow.ly/5Os050ZN8xI
🖼️ 'Glacier: Every Window of Every GP Surgery', 2026
Shattered window glass, 10 tonnes. 7.7 x 6 m by Rafael Pérez Evans
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🏛️🎉 Oxford Open Doors is an annual celebration of Oxford’s history, heritage and culture, organised by Oxford Preservation Trust. During the coming weekend (12th & 13th September), buildings and spaces across the city open their doors to the public free of charge, offering opportunities to explore places that visitors might not normally see.
This year The Queen’s College is participating as a drop-in venue on Saturday 12th September. No advance booking is required and visitors will be able to see inside our Hall, Chapel, and Library.
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📜 Hidden in plain sight for centuries
17 fragments of medieval manuscripts, recycled as covers for Guernsey’s administrative notebooks, are transforming our understanding of the island’s literary past.
Working with Guernsey’s Island Archives, Queen’s Fellow in English Professor Tamara Atkin has helped uncover what the fragments reveal about the books read and circulated in medieval Guernsey.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/1h6c50ZKllh
📷 Prof Atkin and Callum Tostevin-Hall, the Archives Assistant who found the fragments, taken by colleague Dr David Rundle
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