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Is the social media ban protection or exclusion?

Magdalen alumna Dr Victoria Nash (1991) warns that a social media ban risks leaving teenagers ‘protected’ but disempowered.

Professor Véronique Gouverneur

Véronique Gouverneur receives major international award

Professor Véronique Gouverneur has been awarded the 2026 Grand Prix Scientifique of the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation.

Solar panels

The future’s bright for clean energy at Magdalen

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Alumni appointed to the Court of Appeal

A portrait of Julian Kekulé. He has medium-length, dark brown hair parted down the middle and dark eyes. He is wearing a dark, pinstriped suit jacket over a grey and blue striped collared shirt. He poses against a plain, light-coloured textured wall.

Magdalen Student Wins Chancellor’s English Essay Prize

A medium close-up shot of Julian Barnes. He is wearing a light-coloured, finely striped button-down shirt and has a dark suit jacket slung over his left shoulder, holding it with his hand. He is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. The background shows a grassy slope and olive trees, with a brick wall visible on the right.

Magdalen alumnus and Honorary Fellow wins 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature

The Revd Dr Andrew Bowyer, Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford

Andrew Bowyer appointed Master of the Temple, Temple Church, London

An aerial, bird’s-eye view captures the active construction site of the new Waynflete Quad development at Magdalen College, Oxford. A large blue tower crane stands at the center of the excavated foundations, surrounded by scaffolding, concrete footings, and construction materials. The site is bounded by St Clement's Street and the River Cherwell, which flows past Magdalen Bridge on the right. Lush green trees and the historic cityscape of Oxford encircle the development area.

Waynflete Update

Picture of an otter

Otters back at Magdalen

Nine female rowers from Magdalen W1 rowing team stand in front of a brick boathouse entry under a large red flag featuring three white lilies. They wear black rowing kit with red accents and sunglasses. A coach sits cross-legged on the ground in front of them holding a flower.

Magdalen W1 win blades at Summer Eights

Image of drowsy bee in a crocus

Magdalen is buzzing with life

Shot of College

Riverside project update

Two smiling young men stand side-by-side outdoors. The man on the left, Alex, has dark hair and wears a black jacket over a white collared shirt. The man on the right, Ollie, has fair reddish-blonde hair and glasses, wearing a cream sweater. An arm is draped over Ollie's shoulder, set against a dense backdrop of green leaves and white wisteria.

Magdalen DPhil students selected for prestigious Europaeum scholars programme

A slefie of angus against a green ivied wall wearing a blue jumper

Magdalen Student wins 2026 Sir Roger Newdigate poetry prize

Waynflete Quad 2026

Waynflete update

A photograph of the Founders Tower in Cloisters in high summer. In the foreground are white hydrangeas

Magdalen Alumnus Hyun Song Shin to lead Bank of Korea

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Justice Niamh Hyland appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland

A green Weaver Plant loader operates in a courtyard at Magdalen College, Oxford. Large white industrial bags numbered 30 through 35 sit stacked on a dirt patch near stone buildings and mature trees. A worker in a high-visibility yellow jacket operates the vehicle. Text on the loader reads: "WEAVER PLANT HIRE & SPECIALIST GROUNDWORKS."

Riverside Project Update