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Interior view of the Pets & their People exhibition at the Weston Library, showing Walter’s display panel alongside other exhibits in a dimly lit gallery space.

Exhibition panel titled “College Companions” featuring Walter de Staplecat, with his photo and descriptive text about Exeter College’s cat.

Walter de Staplecat sitting outdoors among fallen leaves and greenery, looking slightly to one side.

Walter de Staplecat features in the Bodleian Libraries latest exhibition, Pets & their People. 🐾

Curated by Exeter College Supernumerary Fellow Charles Foster, the exhibition explores the relationship between humans and their pets.

🗓️ 11 March – 27 September 2026
📍 Weston Library | Free admission

Five university students in a small seminar room sit around a wooden table with laptops, smiling toward the camera, while another student stands at a whiteboard explaining a diagram of the brain. Bookshelves with plants and books line the wall, and a hanging light illuminates the room.

📢 Interested in studying a STEM subject at Oxford?

Apply now for our Subject Day at Exeter College — Friday 10 April 2026.

✔️ Explore Maths, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science or Chemistry
✔️ Lunch included | Free to attend
🗓️ Apply by Friday 20 March.

🔗 Link in bio for more info

Exeter College alumnus and Honorary Fellow, Sir Ronald Cohen (PPE, 1964)

📢 Exeter College alumnus and Honorary Fellow, Sir Ronald Cohen (PPE, 1964), returned to Oxford to speak at Saïd Business School on the future of the impact economy.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/5oMm50YpfIW

📸 Fisher Studios
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A magnolia branch in bloom in the foreground, with pale pink and white petals opening against a bright blue sky. Behind it, the stone wall and crenelations of Exeter College are visible, with the Radcliffe Camera rising in the background. A gravel path runs alongside the wall, bordered by greenery and a large leafless tree.

We've made it to 8th week 🎉

Well done to everyone — here's to a strong final week of term.

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Formal matriculation group photograph taken in 1979 showing a large group of Exeter College students in academic dress seated and standing in rows in front of a College building covered in red autumn ivy; this is the first matriculation cohort to include women.

🌸🎉 Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Today we look back on the 1977 decision by Governing Body to admit female undergraduates, graduates, and to appoint female Fellows.

🔗 https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/inc/uploads/2019/10/exon-19.pdf

📸Gilbert & Soame

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New fully funded graduate scholarship to support refugee students at Oxford and Exeter College - Exeter College Exeter College is delighted to announce the establishment of the Oxford–Exeter–Sandys Graduate Scholarship.  

📢 Following a generous gift from the Sandys Charitable Trust and match funding through the University of Oxford GEMS scheme, Exeter College is delighted to announce the establishment of the Oxford–Exeter–Sandys Graduate Scholarship.

🔗 Read more via the link in our bio

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📖 Happy World Book Day. We obviously had to ask: what’s your favourite book?

Modern dystopia. Brontë. Margaret Atwood. No notes.

What would you have said?

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📢 Calling all current Exeter undergraduates and postgraduates

Applications are now open for 2026 Travel Grants.

🗓 Apply by 14 March
✈️ Travel: 20 June – 11 October

For more information, email Jennie Beebee at development@exeter.ox.ac.uk

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Oxford in the spring looking absolutely stunning! A privilege to take our students up to @exeter.ox.ac.uk to be inspired!

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumnus Alan Lau (1993, Engineering Science) on supporting the new Lau Fellowship in Creativity and AI.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/1ZTM50YnVEi

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Dr Tim Glover (2011, English Language & Literature; 2015, MSt English; 2017, DPhil English)

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumnus Dr Tim Glover (2011, English Language & Literature; 2015, MSt English; 2017, DPhil English) on his discovery of the only known complete version of a major medieval text.

🔗 Read more:https://ow.ly/nNoy50YmSfy

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Poster for the Exeter College seminar series Conversations on Consciousness titled “What should we do with our consciousness?” The design features a glowing illustrated brain in blue and orange against a dark background. The event is listed for 26 February, 5.30–7.00pm at the Fitzhugh Auditorium, Walton Street. Speakers include Iain McGilchrist (Psychiatry, All Souls College, Oxford), Chris Fletcher (English, University of Oxford), and Catherine Harmer (Psychiatry, University of Oxford).

🧠 What should we do with our consciousness?

The final Conversations on Consciousness seminar takes place tonight at 5.30pm in the Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad.

Open to all — no registration needed.

🔗 https://ow.ly/3ncF50Ymlo9

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Exeter College Fellow by Special Election Professor Philippa Webb

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College Fellow by Special Election, Professor Philippa Webb on her appointment as King’s Counsel — the highest professional distinction for a lawyer in the UK.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/kzEq50YlL98

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A full view of an open 15th-century printed book page showing an illustration of Noah’s Ark and a rainbow, surrounded by Latin text and diagrams.

A close-up of a 15th-century printed page featuring an illustration of a rainbow in red and green above Latin text.

🏳️‍🌈 Pride flags have been flying across Oxford for LGBTQ+ History Month.

They are based on the rainbow, a sign of hope and promise of love, taken from Genesis in the Bible. At Exeter, Rolevinck’s Fasciculus temporum (1479) includes one of the earliest printed images of a rainbow.

Yellow daffodils in bloom in the foreground at Exeter College, with College buildings and bare tree branches in the background on a grey February day.

February may be grey, but Exeter House is showing signs of spring. 🌼

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Exeter College alumna Professor Sue Rigby FRSE (1983, Geology)

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumna Professor Sue Rigby FRSE (1983, Geology) on being awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year Honours for services to Higher Education.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/lqm350YiH1I

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WEPO alumna Maya Prakash

📢 Congratulations to WEPO (Williams–Exeter Programme) alumna Maya Prakash, who has been awarded a prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/Pl3J50YhYnc

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Join Exeter College in welcoming Dr Akshat Rathi (2008, DPhil Organic Chemistry), Senior Climate Reporter at Bloomberg News, as the speaker at this year’s Sustainability Event.

🗓 Wednesday 25 February | 🕠 5.30pm
📍Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad

🎟️Booking required: https://ow.ly/aAXG50YgVeh

Long wooden banquet table set with red napkins and glassware in a grand hall decorated with red Chinese lanterns and traditional portraits.

Long wooden banquet table set with red napkins, glassware, and Chinese lantern decorations in a grand hall with high arched ceilings and historic portraits.

Long wooden dining table set with red napkins folded into crowns, clear glassware, and a white vase holding red floral decorations in a classic room adorned with framed portraits.

Wishing all who are celebrating a very happy and prosperous #LunarNewYear 🏮

Hall is decorated and ready for tonight’s Formal.

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Compass pointing to core values like integrity, transparency, equity, and collaboration on a book cover titled 'Values in Action' by Mike Ion.

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumnus Mike Ion (2018, MSc in Learning & Teaching) on the publication of his book, Values in Action: A Compass for School Leaders.

🔗 Read more via the link in our bio.

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Close-up of bright red roses in the foreground with the Radcliffe Camera softly blurred in the background on a grey winter day in Oxford.

❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day from Exeter College.

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Book cover of The Edges of the World: At the Margins of Life, Lands and History by Charles Foster. The cover shows a lighthouse standing on a rocky coastline overlooking a bright blue, sunlit sea, with a clear sky above. The title and author’s name appear at the top of the image.

📢 Congratulations to Supernumerary Fellow Professor Charles Foster on the publication of his latest book, 'The Edges of the World: At the Margins of Life, Lands and History' (Penguin, January 2026).

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/Ohq550Yf8az

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Exeter alumna Professor Teresa Shawcross awarded prestigious Lykourgeio Prize - Exeter College Professor Teresa Shawcross has been awarded the Lykourgeio Prize by the Academy of Athens.

📢 Congratulations to Professor Teresa Shawcross (1999, MPhil Byzantine Studies; 2001, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages) who was awarded the Lykourgeio Prize by the Academy of Athens.

🔗 Read more via the link in our bio.

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Exeter College Fellow Professor Paula Koelemeijer

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College Fellow Professor Paula Koelemeijer, who was awarded the 2026 Royal Astronomical Society Fowler Award for Geophysics, recognising outstanding early-career achievement in the field.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/3BW050Yca9H

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Walter de Stapelcat sitting quietly among dry twigs and green plants outdoors.

We’ve made it to the fourth week — and just four more weeks until the end of Hilary Term!

Walter is looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet 😴

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A path through the Fellows’ Garden at Exeter College, lined with green shrubs and small white flowers, with College buildings partially visible behind bare tree branches.

The Radcliffe Camera peeking over the wall of the Fellows’ Garden

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Volcanic mountain landscape with lava flowing around a dark tower, featuring the title New Rock New Rules by Richard Sparks.

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumnus Richard Sparks (1970, English) on the publication of New Rock, New Rules, the third novel in his New Rock fantasy series.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/Vmxe50Y9gZb

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Professor Surya P. Subedi OBE KC

📢 Congratulations to Honorary Fellow Professor Surya P. Subedi OBE KC, who was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/Oj2R50Y8F1Y

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Students relax and work outdoors in a college garden, with people sitting at picnic tables and on benches in a grassy quad surrounded by historic stone buildings and leafy trees.

Promotional poster for an Exeter College Oxford Modern Languages Subject Day on 21 February 2026, featuring event details, a timetable, a QR code for booking, and circular photos of the college buildings, student ambassadors talking, and a college cat, in a green and cream colour scheme.

📢 Thinking about Modern Languages at Oxford?

Apply now for our Subject Day at Exeter College — Sat 21 Feb 2026.

✔️ Taster sessions in French, Spanish, Italian or German
✔️ Lunch included | Free to attend
🗓️ Apply by 13 Feb

🔗 Link in bio for more info

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