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Keeping the Aularian community connected Throughout the pandemic the Hall has worked hard to keep Aularians connected with the College and with each other. We have offered networking opportunities and careers advice to alumni and students through the launch of Aularian Connect. With over 1,200 members signing up since its launch in August 2020, the networking site has facilitated interactions between 130 Aularians. We have engaged with alumni through The Aularian, The Magazine, and the E-Aularian, as well as many other emails! Teddy Hall’s alumni e-newsletter not only provided updates about how the Hall has coped through the pandemic but also shared our successes. Our top read stories included student musicians performing in isolation, refurbishment of the Old Dining Hall and a report on the Hall’s first successful virtual Open Day. As well as moving Teddy Talks online, we have launched a series of virtual events, including our Aularian Author series and Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures. Highlights have included talks from Al Murray (1987, Modern History) and the inaugural Pontigny Lecture with Lord Mark Sedwill (1987, Economics). The St Edmund Hall Association AGM was held online via Zoom for the first time in its history and over 150 alumni joined to hear from the Principal and the Association. These online events have proved very popular and have given us the chance to connect with Aularians who would not normally have the opportunity
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Over 2,000 members of the Aularian Community have joined one of the Hall’s live talks since lockdown began.
In the past year there have been 6,149 click-throughs from the alumni e-newsletter to the Hall’s website (www.seh.ox.ac.uk).
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to frequent in-person events. We hope to be able to welcome you all back to the Hall soon, but what we have learnt during the pandemic is just how important digital communications and events are. We look forward to a larger mix of online and in-person events and initiatives in the future.
Al Murray during his Zoom conversation with Richard Kilgarriff
Over 150 alumni joined the St Edmund Hall Association’s first online AGM to hear updates from the Principal, the Association and the JCR and MCR Presidents.
12 Fellows have given lectures on their research between Michaelmas term 2020 and Trinity term 2021.
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1,813 Aularians have listened to the St Edmund Hall’s Association recently launched podcast Spirit of the Hall. Read more about this on page 14.
