Essi Harbord (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic PhD 2022) and Cristina Piñel Neparidze (Surgery PhD 2022) have been named MCR Committee Co-Vice Presidents for 2025-26.

Essi and Cristina are also Acting Co-Presidents, as being third year PhD students means they cannot be President, per the MCR Constitution. They were elected following a vote of the postgraduate community.

The College would like to thank the outgoing MCR Committee, in particular Tejas Rao (Land Economy PhD 2022), who served as President for two years, and Co-Vice-Presidents Nikita Kozhushko (Mitochondrial Biology PhD 2023) and Jessica Moore (Data Intensive Science MPhil 2023). The outgoing and incoming committees completed a successful handover transition in early February.

The Committee has new members and others who have served on student committees previously.

MCR Committee 2025-26: 

Co-Vice Presidents (Acting Co-Presidents and Dining Officers): Essi Harbord (she/her; Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic PhD 2022) and Cristina Piñel Neparidze (she/her; Surgery PhD 2022); Dining Officers: Kirsten Thomas (she/her; Psychology PhD 2023), Cole Hunt (he/him; Theoretical Chemistry PhD), Yury Makarov (he/him; Theoretical & Applied Linguistics PhD 2024); Social Secretary: Javier Sánchez-Bonilla (he/him; Manufacturing Engineering 2021), Nicole Awad (she/her; Medicine 2021), Lachlan Peake (he/him; LLM 2024), Matt Francis (he/him; Manufacturing Engineering 2021); Social Secretary and BME Officer: Giaan Kler-Young (she/her; Computational Chemistry PhD 2024), BME Officer: Vaneshree Vidyarthi (she/her; Archaeology PhD 2023); Women’s & NB Welfare Officer: Christina Lee (she/her; Biological Sciences (Pathology) MPhil 2024); Women’s & NB Welfare Officer and International Officer: Kaila Borgards (she/her; Cognitive Neuroscience MPhil 2024); International Officer: Rachel Chalmers (she/her; LLM (Master of Laws) 2024); Men’s Welfare Officers: Dillon Whitehead (he/him; English PhD 2017), Stephen Ryan (he/him; Children’s Literature MPhil 2024); Research Officers (formerly MCR-SCR Representative): Colin Wilson (he/him; Politics and International Studies MPhil 2024), Amelia Loughland (she/her; LLM (Master of Laws) 2024); Partners, Carers, and Families’ Officer: Richard Brown (he/him; Education PhD 2024); Rachel Robinson (she/her; English PhD 2023); Sports Officer: Luke Maxwell (he/him; Medicine 2019), Haidar Mathieson (he/him; Medicine 2019); Computing Officer: Leon Brindley (he/him; Physics PhD 2023).