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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Current student Player of the Match at Varsity Rugby
Queen’s welcomes Artist-in-residence
Prof Jane Langdale named ‘Oxford Changemaker’ in Ashmolean Exhibition
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APR
Creative residencies: open call
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MAY
Creative residencies: open call
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MAY
Poetry reading and discussion
Miles that matter
What’s for lunch?
- Soup, salads, sandwiches, pasta and sauces,
jacket potatoes and fillings
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Butterbean & Pumpkin tagine with
chilli & lemon cous cous
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Treacle Tart and spiced cream
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Moroccan Lamb tagine with chilli
and lemon cous cous
![“I definitely want to go here” 🎓
Courtney has big dreams of studying history at @oxford_uni - and last month, she got a taste of what her future could hold...
Our year 12 pupils from Cumbria and Lancashire attended a two-day residential at @queenscollegeoxford @queensoxaccess exploring the campus and trying their hand at some new subjects. Courtney said the trip has solidified her ambitions of attending Oxford.
💬 “The student ambassadors and lecturers we spoke to, you can see the passion in them for their subjects, and I think I have that same passion for history. I really enjoyed the lecture because I got to have a taste of what I actually want to do.”
Read Courtney’s story 👉 https://loom.ly/U9R0RAI
[Alt text: Courtney, year 12 student at The Access Project. Text reads: “The trip has been really amazing because I’ve never been before but I’ve always said that I really want to go to Oxford and do history because of how passionate I was about it. Being able to see it in person has made me realise I definitely want to go here.”]
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🚨 The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford is looking for Alto and Tenor Lay Clerks for the 2026-27 academic year!🚨
Application deadline is this Friday, 24 April 2026!📢Job Vacancies: Lay Clerkships (Alto & Tenor)
The Queen’s College, Oxford, seeks to appoint up to four Lay Clerks to join its renowned choir for the academic year 2026-27.
Salary: £4,600, with additional fees (amounting to approximately £1000 per annum) for concerts, recordings, and broadcasts, plus free singing lessons
To apply and for more details, please follow this link: www.queenschoir.com/vacancies ... See MoreSee Less
Congratulations to DPhil student Ella (Genomic Medicine & Statistics) who ran her first marathon this Easter alongside her mum, raising money for Alzheimer's Society.
Inspired by her grandmother’s diagnosis, and now researching neurodegenerative disease herself, Ella balanced marathon training with long days in the lab.
From the Thames Path to a pocketful of jelly beans, her story is a thoughtful reflection on motivation, family, and research.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/9wMJ50YNOS2.
#OxfordLife #StudentStories #AlzheimersAwareness #DPhilLife #GenomicMedicine #NeurodegenerativeResearch #MarathonRunner #AlzheimersResearch #StudentAthlete #OxfordResearch ... See MoreSee Less
After more than 40 years of service, Assistant Steward Sean Meade is hanging up his keys. Having started at the College in 1981 as a sixteen-year-old, Sean has seen the institution evolve from a world of paper tickets and 26p pints to the digital age, all while working as a literal “heavy lifter” of the community.
🔗 Read Sean’s reflections here: ow.ly/YVkR50YIW7y
Wishing you a happy retirement.
📷 David Olds
#CollegeLife #Community #Retirement #InstitutionHistory ... See MoreSee Less
📱Can a smartphone game help predict the next pandemic? 😷
Professor Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Lecturer in Probability and Statistics at Queen’s, has co-led a major international study published in ‘Nature Health’ that introduces a novel “gamified” approach to infectious disease modelling.
Using a mobile app, participants simulate the spread of an outbreak, generating data on human behaviour and decision-making, from isolation choices to vaccine uptake. The result: more realistic models that reflect how people actually behave, and not how we assume they will.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/zJyU50YIOy6
#InfectiousDisease #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #DiseaseModeling #PandemicPreparedness #DataScience #BehaviouralScience
📷 SeventyFour ... See MoreSee Less