Ashwell House strives to create an atmosphere of intellectual enquiry and encourage stimulating discussion through the organisation of seminars and workshops that open up new horizons.

Development lectures
Medical Ethics workshops
Philosophy seminars
Law seminars
Cultural talks
Study techniques workshops

Guest speakers in the past have included Rosa Lastra, Professor in International Finance and Monetary Law of the Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Professor Anne Dugan of Kings College London’s History Department and Professor Robert Chambers of the Institute of Development Studies.

Fostering a desire to learn

Ashwell is more than just a hall of residence. We are a university community concerned not only with the acquisition of knowledge or professional expertise, but with the attitudes that foster the desire to enquire, to learn and to serve, long after one’s university days are over.

Sam Pleasants
Director, 1998 - 2006