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Record year for Anthea Bell Prize as 2026 winners announced
Honorary Fellow recognised in Birthday Honours List
QTE wins a Vice-Chancellor’s Award
Human translation as a literary lens
New student-led video tour of College life
Celebrating creativity
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🎉 The College warmly congratulates Old Member Dr Emma Rawson OBE (DPhil in Pathology, 2003), who has been recognised in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours.
Emma, Director of Public Policy at the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT), has been awarded an OBE for her service and vision in supporting HMRC, tax agents and taxpayers during the introduction of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.
Reflecting on her time at Queen's, Emma said: "The knowledge and experience I gained as a DPhil student were invaluable and gave me a strong foundation on which to build my wider career."
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/VIgQ50ZkHCk
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🏆 National champions. Varsity winners. Sports Team of the Year.
These are impressive achievements, but they're not what Aidan will remember most. As he prepares to graduate from Queen's, the Biology student reflects on captaining Oxford's ice hockey team through an unbeaten season and why the friendships and shared challenges mattered most.
"I think what will stay with me the most is all the people I have met and the relationships made here."
🔗 Read Aidan's story about leadership and finding a community beyond the lecture theatre: ow.ly/lV4S50Zl2wl
📷 Fisher Studios
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📜🖋 What if rhyme doesn't just make poetry sound beautiful but shapes what poets are able to say?
In her latest research, Lecturer in English Dr Amanda Holton uses a database of nearly 1,000 English love lyrics to explore how the constraints of rhyme influenced centuries of poetry. From why pain became the most common rhyme-word to surprising parallels with today's AI language models, discover how form and meaning are more closely entwined than we might think.
🔗 Read the interview: ow.ly/58yJ50Zjw7J
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🏆 Congratulations to all the winners and highly commended entrants in this year's Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators by the Queen's Translation Exchange.
This year marked a record-breaking sixth edition of the prize, with more than 25,000 students from over 500 schools across the UK taking part. More than 5,400 outstanding translations were judged by professional literary translators and Oxford Modern Languages students.
The remarkable response shows the enthusiasm of young people for languages, creativity and translation, and reflects the dedication of the teachers who inspire them.
🎉 Congratulations to everyone who took part, and thank you to all the judges, teachers, and schools who made this year's competition such a success.
🔗 Read more and see the list of winners here: ow.ly/3FlQ50ZjEOO
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