Oriel College Oxford Alumni

17/12/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, we are excited to welcome 2026 and hope you will join us in celebrating the 700th anniversary of the founding of Oriel College.

10/07/2025

Dr Phil Grünewald, our Supernumerary Research Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science, has taken a sabbatical to cycle from Oxford to Istanbul. You can follow his travels on his blog: https://philandali.de/

01/07/2025

Thank you to all those that got involved with Giving Day this year, we are so grateful for your generous support. We are happy that Giving Day really was a global affair with 35 countries participating. It was also fun to see which decades really stepped up for Oriel, and this year, the “Most Committed” title was taken by the 70s. We hope you will join us as we celebrate 700 years very soon.

If you missed this years Giving Day, there’s still time to get your name on our donor wall. Simply head over to https://givingday.oriel.ox.ac.uk/

27/06/2025

Thank you to everyone that has made Giving Day a tremendous success this year. We hope to see you at an event soon and celebrate the 700th anniversay with you. There's still time to show your support, visit our Giving Day page now.

https://givingday.oriel.ox.ac.uk/

On 26-27 June 2025, Oriel’s Giving Day brings together the global community of Orielenses in support of current students and the Senior Library rejuvenation project.

26/06/2025

Giving Day is now live. Join a global community to show your support for Oriel today.

Follow the campaign on our giving page and help unlock additional funds for students this Giving Day.

https://givingday.oriel.ox.ac.uk/

On 26-27 June 2025, Oriel’s Giving Day brings together the global community of Orielenses in support of current students and the Senior Library rejuvenation project.

12/06/2025

Oriel College Chapel Choir has completed recording sessions with Convivium Records at Keble Chapel for a commemorative CD marking its 700th anniversary in 2026.

The CD will reflect Oriel’s ongoing contribution to choral music with music from the period of the college’s foundation to the present day. Scheduled for release in January 2026, the launch of the CD will begin a series of events celebrating Oriel’s history since its founding in 1326.

Oriel College has completed recording sessions in collaboration with Convivium Records in preparation for a commemorative CD marking its 700th anniversary in 2026.

10/06/2025

This year’s Garden Play, produced, staged and performed by students, will be an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s classic Discworld novel Going Postal. The performance dates of Going Postal at Oriel College are 12, 13 and 14 June, and performances start at 7.15pm.

Elizabeth Farrand, the director, says she chose the Going Postal adaptation because she has seen “a lot of fun plays” in Oxford, “but no Discworld”. “It makes a relentlessly fast-paced and witty play for a summer evening,” she adds.

Moist von Lipwig must take on the role of Postmaster General of the city’s failing post office

06/03/2025

Guillermo Lasso, who served as the 47th president of Ecuador, visited Oriel College in February.

Read more about his visit: https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/news/former-president-of-ecuador-visits-oriel-college/

03/02/2025

Patra (Urairat), a second-year English student at Oriel College, has recently released a Spotify single “Aftercare”. The single has already attracted 18,000 monthly listeners.

Patra’s ability to balance her academic and musical passions continues to drive her forward. “My two passions are my music and my love for English, and my passion does not run out,” she says.

Growing up in Malaysia before moving to the UK for sixth-form, Patra was unfamiliar with the Oxbridge system but decided to apply. She says: “Oxford and Oriel have really worked for me. The things I have learned from being at Oriel and the people that I have found here have quite literally changed...

20/01/2025

Lord Mendoza CBE, Provost of Oriel College, will be a member of the government’s newly launched UK Soft Power Council.

Neil says, “I am keen on the effective use of soft power. This new initiative brings together leaders in culture, sport, higher education, creative industries and the judiciary. The Soft Power Council has immense potential. I am thrilled to be a member so that we can work jointly, with the Foreign Secretary and Culture Secretary to develop and implement strategies to meet the UK’s foreign policy aims.”

As the Provost of one of the oldest colleges at the University of Oxford and the Chairman of Historic England, Neil will bring expertise in education, culture and heritage to the council.

Lord Neil Mendoza CBE, Provost of Oriel College, will be a member of the government’s newly launched UK Soft Power Council.

11/12/2024

Justas Petrauskas (2021) has become the first Orielensis PPEist elected to an All Souls Fellowship since the current All Souls Warden Sir John Vickers (1976) was elected in 1979.

One of the most exclusive and prestigious Fellowships in academia, the college normally elects two fellows from 150 or more candidates. An All Souls Examination Fellowship is for seven years and cannot be renewed.

29/11/2024

All Orielenses have been invited by email to share their views through the Oriel Alumni Survey 2024. Thanks to the hundreds who have already responded. If you have not received a link to the survey, please email [email protected]