Student #HallLife campaign returns for a second year

20 Mar 2025

Following on from last year’s success, Hilary term has seen a re-run of the popular student #HallLife campaign, with three photography interns tasked with capturing all aspects of student life at St Edmund Hall.

Chenyu Zhu (2024, MSc Theoretical and Computational Chemistry), Lily Thompson-Mouton (2022, MSci Experimental Psychology) and Lottie Newell (2022, History) were selected as this term’s interns. Their weekly updates have been shared on the Hall’s social media channels (Instagram and Facebook) to give prospective students an insight into what it is really like to live and study in Oxford, with the images covering a broad range from daily Hall and Oxford life – including studying and social events – to sports and cultural events, around Oxford and further afield. We hope the updates have also brought back some fond memories for our alumni!

Many thanks to Chenyu, Lily and Lottie for sharing these fantastic photographs with us – here are some highlights from their term:

Chenyu's Photos

Guests at the Lunar New Year Formal Hall
A day in the lab, where equations meet experiments
A streetlamp casts a golden glow over a row of bicycles outside the Hall
Leaving St Edmund Hall after a late-night study session
Snowdrops in the Front Quad
Port Meadow in the evening

Lily's Photos

The Pink Week quiz in the college bar
The Taekwondo varsity against Cambridge
The sun pouring into Teddy Hall Library
Week 5 Blues Breakfast
Friends enjoying some sweet treats outside the Library
An evening stroll around Oxford

Lottie's Photos

The termly Women* of the Hall event (this term's theme was the Lorax)
Thesis-writing set-up
Sunday Formal in the Wolfson Hall
A fellow student's photography exhibition in the Pontigny Room
The SEHWFC team
The sun setting during an evening stroll around Christ Church Meadow

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