Pembroke College, Oxford

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Pembroke is a lively and vibrant academic community, situated in the heart of Oxford. Today, the student body is made up of 365 undergraduates, 27 visiting students on their Junior Year Abroad from US universities, and 255 post-graduate students. Students at Pembroke are active in College life, with wide participation in activities and events and an unusually active MCR (graduate student) communit

y. Another special feature of Pembroke is the JCR (undergraduate) owned collection of modern British artworks, founded shortly after the Second World War and now housed in a purpose-built gallery. Pembroke Fellows are supported in their teaching by a team of College lecturers and the College is also home to 15 Research Fellows and 11 Associates. At Pembroke, we believe that all those with the necessary academic talent should have the opportunity to experience an Oxford education regardless of their background. For that reason, the College has pioneered a new approach to access and outreach work, which have been hailed as a gold standard for such initiatives by the sector’s independent regulator the Office for Fair Access. Updates from Pembroke College are available on social media as well as the official website News & Events pages:

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Yeahhhh Pembroke 💪We are so so proud of all of our rowers for putting a huge shift in this Summer VIIIs!! A big thank yo...
02/06/2026

Yeahhhh Pembroke 💪

We are so so proud of all of our rowers for putting a huge shift in this Summer VIIIs!!

A big thank you to student Grace Greaves for the lovely photos 📸

Communication between humans and AI chatbots brings to the fore complex philosophical issues. Earlier this Spring, Pembr...
01/06/2026

Communication between humans and AI chatbots brings to the fore complex philosophical issues.

Earlier this Spring, Pembroke JRF Dr Oliver Wright explored these issues at a conference hosted by Boston College with the theme, 'Machine Logos: Persons, Language and AI.'

Wright’s principal interlocutor is Oxford philosopher J.L. Austin, and his concept of a speech act, an utterance which performs an action in a social context. In one important and basic sense, there are no such speech acts in Large Language Models, which lack any social context and importantly are built from a system which assumes the existence of no such acts either. In these mass-prediction machines, words are allocated mathematical tokens according to their value in language, and not according to the unique value of a particular linguistic act in a particular social situation.

One of the outcomes of this argument is that there can be none of the ‘reaching-in-language’ which is inherent to human speech, that is the failure to find the right words and right effects of words.

However, in one other more pernicious sense, there is a form of speech acts in LLMs, that is their perlocutionary effect. Although an LLM does not itself have a social context, and cannot act due to its construction, its words are nevertheless read and received in a social context – in a human context. The concern is that unlike humans, LLMs can have ‘real-world impacts with no real-world responsibility’.

You can read Wright's full talk at the link in the comments.

👏 Congratulations to Pembroke Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine, Dr Ed Mitchell, who has recently taken up a new post as ...
28/05/2026

👏 Congratulations to Pembroke Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine, Dr Ed Mitchell, who has recently taken up a new post as Research Lead at Broadmoor Hospital.

Broadmoor is one of three high secure mental health hospitals in England and Wales, caring for male patients with serious mental illness. There are challenging clinical, legal, and ethical issues raised by working with a vulnerable group of patients in a restrictive setting such as a high secure hospital.

However, largely due to their relatively small number, clinical complexity of their illness, and long stay, our knowledge is limited about how best to improve clinical outcomes, quality of life, and to reduce risk of violence.

'Many patients, particularly as they recover, are very keen to participate in research,' shared Ed. 'This “co-production” of research between patients, clinicians and researchers can be highly constructive and helps to challenge preconceived ideas.’

Read more at the link in the comments.

It’s that time of year again - Summer VIIIs is officially underway!Our archive is chock-a-block with rowing pictures, so...
27/05/2026

It’s that time of year again - Summer VIIIs is officially underway!

Our archive is chock-a-block with rowing pictures, so it’s only right that we take a trip down memory lane…

Please enjoy photos of our first Women’s Eight in 1980 and of our Headship-winning boat last year, 45 years apart!

The oldest photo we could find of a Pembroke Men’s Eight is from 1889. We have to say, their hat game was a bit stronger than that of the 2025 Men’s First Eight.

In summary, Pembroke’s been rowing for a long time! Good luck to everyone out on the river today 💪

Two Pembroke theologians have recently launched an important policy report on child marriage in Pakistan, in partnership...
27/05/2026

Two Pembroke theologians have recently launched an important policy report on child marriage in Pakistan, in partnership with UNICEF and the National Commission for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), a government body with responsibility for child protection.

For the past two years, Professor Justin Jones, Pembroke’s Tutorial Fellow in Theology and Religion, and Dr Muhammad Faisal Khalil, Research Fellow at Pembroke, have led the partnership through ‘Religion and the Frontier Challenges’, a postdoctoral research programme which is based at Pembroke and led by Professor Jones. The research project asks how religion relates to child marriage in Pakistan, and how it can play a part in ending it.

“Religion is a variable that most research on this issue has avoided,” adds Dr Khalil. “We found that the protections Islam built around marriage have quietly fallen out of public and scholarly thinking. Our work aims to put those protections back, and to build them into how marriages are actually enacted and registered in Pakistan.”

The recent report was launched by NCRC and UNICEF in Islamabad on 30 March 2026, and will inform campaigns against child marriage across the country.

Read more at the link in the comments.

26/05/2026

Don’t ask us what the final score was…

Staff v Students Football Match. May 2026.

We’re excited to announce the relaunch of our London Reception! Join us on 16 July at 41 Lothbury for a sociable evening...
26/05/2026

We’re excited to announce the relaunch of our London Reception!

Join us on 16 July at 41 Lothbury for a sociable evening bringing together Pembrokians in the heart of the capital. Designed to foster connection and conversation, the reception provides an opportunity to renew friendships, expand professional and social networks, and engage with the wider College community in an informal and welcoming setting.

We look forward to seeing many of you there! Please enjoy this gem of a photo from a London Reception in 2014.

More details at the link in the comments.

Gender-inclusive language is increasingly recognised as essential in healthcare to ensure respectful and equitable care ...
25/05/2026

Gender-inclusive language is increasingly recognised as essential in healthcare to ensure respectful and equitable care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals. But how is it used in practice by students and staff, especially in Obstetrics and Gynaeocology (O&G)?

A recently published study co-authored by Pembroke Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine Dr Jack Amiry seeks to answer that very question.

"This research mattered to me because discussions around gender-inclusive language in healthcare are often reduced to opposing camps, which can obscure the experiences of the patients most affected by these conversations,” shared Jack.

“In areas such as obstetrics and gynaecology, language can carry significant emotional and personal weight, particularly when patients are at their most vulnerable. We wanted to explore how students and clinical staff working in these environments think about gender-inclusive language in practice — not simply whether they support or oppose it, but how they navigate its meaning, purpose and challenges within patient care and clinical education."

You can read more at the link in the comments.

For the first time in 20 years, the Pembroke Chapel Choir is releasing a new album!Titled 'Yn Devotione' and recorded in...
22/05/2026

For the first time in 20 years, the Pembroke Chapel Choir is releasing a new album!

Titled 'Yn Devotione' and recorded in 2025, the album is themed around Pentecost and will thus be released this Sunday. It will feature two renaissance polychoral motets that have never been recorded or performed before, making this the first time they will be heard in over 400 years!

Many congratulations to all involved in the album's production! It will be available to stream from this Sunday.

We think we may have spotted a time traveller in Pembroke Square…🕰️😮
20/05/2026

We think we may have spotted a time traveller in Pembroke Square…🕰️😮

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