The college is delighted to announce that the distinguished writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips OBE will give this year’s Ramsay Murray lecture. Mr Phillips is a former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and an award-winning television producer and presenter. You can read more about him here: https://www.green-park.co.uk/people/trevor-phillips-obe/

Our alumnus Hugh Laurie, who studied here from 1978 to 1981, was installed as an honorary fellow of Selwyn in a ceremony on December 13th in chapel. The honour recognises his extraordinary achievements as an actor, writer and musician.

We’re proud to present our Christmas video for 2019, which features the choir singing ‘O come, all ye faithful’ in the college chapel. This year also included are sequences filmed around Selwyn as we celebrated the season. So you will see some of the college’s festive decorations, and then students going to formal hall for what was the first of three special Christmas dinners.

Yorkshire has been the focus of much of our recent outreach work – with primary school pupils travelling to the college to see what Cambridge is like, and college staff visiting Leeds for activities in the HE+ programme.

A number of new pictures have been put on display in the college Hall. They’re part of a series taken by the photographer Jeff Overs, which began with portraits to mark 40 years of co-education in the college. Now the portfolio has been expanded to include students, staff and Fellows from 2019, with the aim of showing the breadth and diversity of the Selwyn community.

The college will be marking Remembrance – and honouring the dead of recent conflicts – on November 10^th and 11^th.

The main event on Sunday will be a service in chapel at 6pm. The introduction in the printed programme says:

Selwyn continues to attract new Fellows to the college to ensure that its teaching and its ambitions remain as strong as possible.



Eight men and women were welcomed to the Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year. They are, from left to right:

Undergraduate matriculation took place on Monday October 7^th. Students formally became members of the college and of Cambridge University at a short ceremony in Hall; and then the traditional photograph was taken in Old Court, accompanied this year by a little light rain. We welcome all our new students, and wish them the very best for their new life here.

Our new graduate students officially became members of the college and of Cambridge University on Friday October 4^th.

We’re looking forward to welcoming our new undergraduates, who’ll be joining the college – and moving into Cripps Court (below) – in October.