Notre Dame London

20/08/2024

Notre Dame alumni Brian Joseph (’24) and Jacob Sherer ('24) will spend the next year pursuing an MPhil in Politics and International Studies at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. The valedictorian candidate (Joseph) and former Kennedy Scholar (Sherer) are two of the first students on a postgraduate program available to Notre Dame alumni. This initiative, allowing Notre Dame students to learn from some of the world’s leading experts in their fields, stems from the strengthening partnership between St. Edmund’s College and Notre Dame.

Read the story at https://loom.ly/C5ii__4

St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge combines the rich scholarly tradition of the University of Cambridge with a dynamic, modern academic environment. ...

15/08/2024

summer Channel surfing ☀️🌊🏖️

Our summer students took a day trip to Seven Sisters in the South Downs and got to see some famous white cliffs on the English Channel!

30/07/2024

This month our lucky summer Pre-College students explored the city of London with sessions from our fabulous Notre Dame faculty members. "Knowledge & Power" introduces students to the historic, cultural, and political power of this global academic city.

📸 1: "Empire and England," taught by Fay Stevens, brings the group to Stonehenge.
📸 2: Students visit the London Eye for a panoramic view of the city.
📸 3: Matthew Knell delivers a lecture on "Religious London" on the lawn of the Houses of Parliament.

18/04/2024

At Notre Dame London, our commitment to faculty engagement and research is as strong as our pledge to global education. Explore some of our recent and ongoing projects below!

📸 1: 📍 Notre Dame London is based in Fischer Hall, just off of Trafalgar Square, in the bustling heart of metropolitan London. Our location is ideally suited to offer students, visitors, and academics easy proximity to all the opportunities our city has to offer.

📸 2: 📜 The Notre Dame London Shakespeare Lecture is an annual celebration of world renowned Shakespearean scholars and practitioners. Now in its 13th year, we have hosted prestigious guests including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Simon Russel Beale, Sir Gregory Doran, and Sir Nicholas Hytner.

📸 3: 🖋️ The G.K. Chesterton Collection was dedicated to Notre Dame London in October of 2022 by its founder, Mr. Aidan Mackey. One of the premier English Catholic intellectuals of the 20th Century, Chesterton is well known for his many contributions to literature, journalism, theology, and the arts. The Collection consists of writings by and about Chesterton, as well as an array of personal items, and now exists to encourage interest in and scholarship related to G.K. Chesterton.

📸 4: 🎭 Notre Dame faculty member Scott Jackson is collaborating with the Von Hügel Institute on a research project entitled Shakespeare and the Common Good, examining Shakespeare in the context of social change and community building. Last week a group of Notre Dame London students presented a workshop of Hamlet’s famous “to be or not to be” speech under the direction of Jackson at the National Theatre.

📸 5: 🔎 Our location in central London offers unique access to research facilities such as the London Metropolitan Archives (pictured), the British Library, Chatham House, the London Library, the National Theatre Archives, and more!

15/04/2024

More than a new name, our rebrand emphasizes the interconnectedness of the University of Notre Dame’s 12 locations around the world and reflects Notre Dame Global’s vital role in advancing Notre Dame as a leading global Catholic research university, on par with but distinct from the world’s best private universities 🎓 Read the press release:

Beginning today (April 15), Notre Dame International will adopt a new name, Notre Dame Global, and will introduce itself on its new portal at global.nd....

15/04/2024

We are Notre Dame GLOBAL 🌎 Where Notre Dame meets the world and the world meets Notre Dame.

More than a new name, our rebrand emphasizes the interconnectedness of the University of Notre Dame’s 12 locations around the world and reflects Notre Dame Global’s vital role in advancing Notre Dame as a leading global Catholic research university, on par with but distinct from the world’s best private universities 🎓

Join us as we put living at the center of learning, and learning at the center of life. The time to engage the world is now. The place… 📍that’s up to you.

12/04/2024

Notre Dame has been an international university since its founding in 1842, established by a French priest with the help of Irish religious brothers.

Today, with thirteen locations on five continents, plays a key role in the University’s mission to cultivate a sense of GLOBAL citizenship through 🌍 international programs promoting cultural fluency, 🧑‍🏫 faculty research collaborations, and 🎓 strategic, academic partnerships.

In our final post, we are sharing stories of global citizenship in action, when learning becomes service to justice. Visit the links in ’s bio to read the full stories.

📸 1:
Eva Dziadula’s Economics of Immigration class paints a Red Cross shelter for migrants outside Puebla, Mexico 🇲🇽 Visiting the shelter, students met with migrants to hear the stories of their ongoing journeys and witness the challenges of migration 🗺️ Read “A Perilous Journey” to learn more.

📸 2: Researchers from Notre Dame work with architectural engineering faculty from the University of Trento in developing a seismic risk assessment methodology for historic Italian churches, with the goal of protecting these historically and culturally significant structures against earthquakes 🇮🇹 Read more in “A Future for the Past”.

📸 3: Partnership with Ukrainian Catholic University recognized with Heiskell Award 🇺🇦 Continuing our 20 year relationship with UCU, Notre Dame leadership came together to build a plan to support the Ukrainian Catholic University as it rebuilds itself and to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine🕊️

📸 4: Anthropology major Godiya Simon spent her time at Notre Dame working to preserve her native language of Ki***ku, a language known by only 200,000 people in a region of Nigeria 🇳🇬 Now, she’s headed to UC Berkeley to continue to her study of linguistics as an international student 📜

📸 5: Earth Boy by Yinka Shonibare, of Art 🌍 Notre Dame International kicked off 2024 by resolving to encourage us all to be better global citizens—cultivating curiosity to learn around the world 🇺🇸 What else will this year bring for NDI?

11/04/2024

Fostering partnerships with peer academic institutions is an essential part of our global locations’ work. Often beginning with the seedlings of study abroad and student exchange, these academic partnerships grow into international research and scholarship communities.

Today we’re sharing some of these partnerships with St Edmund’s College at Cambridge University 🇬🇧, the University of Galway 🇮🇪, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 🇨🇱. Visit the link in ’s bio to read more about our strategic partnerships around the world.

📸 1: 🤝 St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
St Edmund’s College is home to the Von Hugel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI), which has engaged in advanced interdisciplinary research inspired by Catholic thought and culture since 1987 📖⛪ Notre Dame London’s partnership with St Edmund’s includes unique opportunities for academic collaboration between researchers, interns, and faculty from Notre Dame and Cambridge, and a commitment to research and higher education as a force for good in the world 🌎

📸 2: 🤝 University of Galway: Biseach Cancer Research Initiative
Biseach is the Irish language word for “healing. The Biseach Initiative is a collaborative cancer research community between University of Galway’s Lambe Institute and Notre Dame’s Harper Cancer Research Institute 🧑‍🔬 The Notre Dame Kylemore Abbey Global Centre coordinates principal investigators, faculty, and students from both institutions to identify research opportunities, endeavoring to create joint publications and patents 🔬

📸 3: 🤝 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)
Since the 1950s, continued investments, infrastructure and technology have made Chile a hub for astronomers 💫 like Notre Dame physics professor J. Christopher Howk. In Chile’s Atacama Desert, PUC’s state of the art telescopes and vibrant community of astronomers has catapulted Notre Dame faculty and student research in collaboration with the Notre Dame Santiago Global Centre 🔭 Read “A Stellar Partnership” to learn more.

10/04/2024

In 1850, the first international student arrived on Notre Dame’s campus. Today, Notre Dame has opened its doors to more than 40,000 international students. Head to the link in bio at to read our feature stories about the immeasurable value international students bring to Notre Dame’s campus.

📸 1: A significant majority of international students came from Mexico 🇲🇽 in the 1850s, largely due to the efforts of Rev. John Zahm, C.S.C., and the “Zahm Special” rail car. The train car would travel as far south as Chihuahua to pick up students and provide them transportation to campus.

📸 2: Today, ’s International Student and Scholar Affairs (ISSA) 🌍 team is dedicated to helping students from around the globe make Notre Dame feel like home. The International Student Ambassadors are an important peer-to-peer group, mentoring first-year international students who are not only facing a transition from high school to college, but also a transition from their home culture to that of the US.

📸 3: The Greater China Scholars (GCS) Program is the University of Notre Dame's premiere merit Scholars Program for international undergraduate students, attracting the region’s brightest students 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇲🇴🇹🇼 Greater China Scholar Nicole Lee (ND ‘22) shares her experience as she prepared to travel 7,817 miles from home to Notre Dame. Lee is now a fellow at McKinsey & Company.

📸 4: Brazil 🇧🇷 is one of the most well represented countries among the international student population at Notre Dame, and that presence is only growing. Beatriz de Campos Silva will graduate this year with an undergraduate degree in Physics in Medicine 🩺 Next year, she will begin a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, a dual PhD program between Georgia Tech and Emory University. Check out Beatriz’s story as she shares her experience at ND, balancing playing piccolo in the marching band, scholars programs, peer-to-peer mentoring, leadership roles in student societies, and more.

09/04/2024

Through strategic partnerships with world class institutions, Notre Dame’s extensive international network is a launch pad for University faculty to expand their research connections and collaborations globally.

Today, we’re sharing stories of research collaborations between University of Notre Dame faculty and those partners in our network, like 🇰🇪maternal health research in Nairobi, 🇮🇪novel cystic fibrosis treatments with Trinity College Dublin, and 🇮🇳child development innovation in Mumbai. You can find more information on these projects at the link in ’s bio.

📸 1: Patients in the waiting room at the Brother Andre Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

In collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Department of Anthropology and the Holy Cross Congregation, this maternity wing was constructed in 2011 to promote the provision of high-quality maternal health services for women in Dandora, a peri-urban settlement in the east side of Nairobi.

📸 2: Professor Marta Martins observes a petri dish in her microbiology lab at Trinity College Dublin.

Martins’s research collaboration with University of Notre Dame Civil and Environmental Engineering Professors Rob Nerenberg and Al Cerrone explores a novel method to treat cystic fibrosis, a condition that affects one in 19 people in Ireland.

📸 3: A residential school in Telangana, India, working with Project Sampoorna.

The Telangana Social / Tribal Welfare Residential Education Institution Societies (known as the Society) provide high-quality, holistic, and value-based education to marginalized children through residential schools that will enable social mobility and empowerment.

The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) and the Mumbai Global Center have worked to bolster the Society’s capabilities by serving as the anchor organization for Project Sampoorna, aiming to build, operate, and replicate a whole child development (WCD) model for education in India.

08/04/2024

With 77% of students studying abroad, the University of Notre Dame ranks second in the United States for participation in Study Abroad programs, but this doesn’t tell the whole story.

While abroad, students are encouraged to fully engage in their host community—beyond required university classes—through immersive experiences like internships, service, research, and project based learning.

In recent years, Notre Dame’s global network has been increasingly working together to further open the world to our students through collaborative, immersive educational programming.

Scholars programs like the London Kennedy Scholars, Rome International Scholars, Jerusalem Scholars, and Nanovic EU Scholars use co-sponsored educational trips to the UK, Italy, Israel, and Belgium to emphasize the interconnectedness of cultures, academic disciplines, and historical periods.

Beyond the scholars’ independent research, and outside of their semester-long host countries, this type of cross-Notre Dame programming makes space for students to create a scholarly community of their peers, across Europe and the Middle East.

Head to the link below to read more about Notre Dame International’s collaborative programming.

📸 1: Rome International Scholars and London Kennedy Scholars at Cambridge University, UK.
📸 2: London Kennedy Scholars on a site visit in Rome.
📸 3: The Rome International Scholars unite with Jerusalem Scholars in Tantur.
📸 4 & 5: Students studying abroad in Dublin and Rome travel to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, with the Nanovic EU Scholars program.

https://london.nd.edu/news-stories/news/kennedy-scholars-meet-rome-international-scholars-to-discover-the-layered-history-of-the-city/

https://rome.nd.edu/news-stories/news/between-rome-and-jerusalem-the-pilot-program/

https://rome.nd.edu/news-stories/news/a-cohort-of-nd-students-in-rome-participate-in-the-eu-scholars-pilot-program/

04/04/2024

We’re counting down the days to a big announcement for the University of Notre Dame and our presence internationally… (Guesses welcome in the comments 🥸)

In the meantime, let’s catch up with our students around the world 🌍 on their study abroad adventures!

China 🇨🇳 Chile 🇨🇱 Mexico 🇲🇽 Australia 🇦🇺 the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Brazil 🇧🇷 Italy 🇮🇹 Ireland 🇮🇪 and India 🇮🇳 are just nine of the 26 countries you can study abroad in as a Notre Dame student. Where would you choose?

04/04/2024

Check out two of our runners up from last month's "Colors of London" student photo contest! 📸

1. Keeley McGlone's "Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre". Keeley says of her photo, "As part of the London Theatre course offered at the London Global Gateway, my class and I attended an immersive production of Guys and Dolls. With standing tickets, we had an extremely close view of the show as the stages raised up and down around us, changing the layout of the theater scene by scene."

2. Grace Akin's “Rainy Rendezvous in Neal’s Yard”. Neal's Yard is a hidden gem of Covent Garden, home to tiny but popular cafés, shops, cheese suppliers and wellbeing brands.

04/04/2024

Please give a round of applause to our February Student Photo Contest winner: Zoe Griffith with her photo "Sunset Majesty"! February's theme was COLORS OF LONDON🎨

There's only ONE DAY LEFT to submit to the special SPRING BREAK themed March photo contest—be sure to tag us! Show us how you .

01/04/2024

31/03/2024

Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! 🌸🐰 Happy Easter from Notre Dame London

Photo by Sarah Sterba ‘24

28/03/2024

"thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease."

Conway Hall rector Kevin Barnes' class UNREAL CITY explores social geography in London, examining the relationship between the city's society and space throughout history. One of Barnes' outings brings students on a walk through Hampstead while reading poetry from Keats and Coleridge—from the Village to the depths of the Heath, they follow the route that inspired the famous North London poets 🥾

25/03/2024

Notre Dame London is a different kind of football school.

05/02/2024

Congratulations to our January Student Photo Contest WINNER....
Elsa Cox with her photo "Who's Who," taken at the National Gallery! March's theme was LONDON IN THE DETAILS 📸

Elsa says about her photo, "Our position right next to the National Gallery might make us take the collection for granted. But even after you’ve admired the Da Vincis and Van Goghs, the building itself reminds you how much more there is to admire as long as you take the time to look."

01/02/2024

Researchers from the Keough School of Global Affairs joined us at Notre Dame London to host local academics & practitioners and discuss new ways to address poverty, inequality and environmental injustice.

Andrés Mejía Acosta, associate dean for policy and practice at the Keough School and organizer of the workshop, says “Poverty and inequality reinforce one another and directly undermine the quality of democracy, educational mobility, food security, environmental adaptation and more."

Read the story covering the conference and watch the Keynote Address at https://loom.ly/UlFvqjI

Almost 700 million people around the world live in extreme poverty (on less than $2.15 per day), according to the World Bank. And although children […]

31/10/2023

Congratulations to our September Student Photo Contest WINNER....
Alex Yusman with his photo "Deliveries"! March's theme was CULTURE SHOCK 📸

Alex says of his photo, "Coming from a suburb in the US and studying at Notre Dame, the busy streets of a city like London feel alien and new to me. I wanted to capture a still moment of the life of an individual in the blur of the city around them."

There's only one day left to submit to the October photo contest—be sure to tag us and !

05/10/2023

BRITAIN AND THE GLOBAL GAME explores British history, class & culture through the lens of the nation's favorite sport: football ⚽

Professor Tom McCabe and his students reflect on the English Premier League and experiential learning in this feature on a very special London Global Gateway course.

Watch now on our YouTube channel! University of Notre Dame Notre Dame International

28/09/2023

"This seminar exemplifies Notre Dame's commitment to making a meaningful difference in the world through knowledge, engagement, and innovation."

This summer the London Global Gateway hosted SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE CITY: a Notre Dame Research Seminar. Developed by Notre Dame International and led by University of Notre Dame political scientist Jaimie Bleck, this interdisciplinary seminar explored the complex interplay of social capital in urban environments. Read more about Social Capital and the City in our newest story: https://loom.ly/T9ejwn0

Social Capital and the City participants at Notre Dame London During the summer of 2023, Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway played host to the S...

27/09/2023

Study Abroad Week Day 2: THE ISLE OF SKYE

Read on to find more about Caroline’s dreamy recommendation for a trip to the Scottish Highlands (2/9).

25/09/2023

Happy Study Abroad Week from London! 🇬🇧🌎

Think going abroad will keep you from touchdown pushups? Maeve Dolan ('24) proves that wrong! Study in London to explore early human history (and celebrate Irish wins) at iconic places like England's Stonehenge.

Stay tuned for more study abroad content ALL WEEK! Be sure to check out the Study Abroad website for more information:
https://studyabroad.nd.edu/about/events/study-abroad-week/

16/08/2023

02/08/2023

Last week the London Global Gateway welcomed former President of the Republic of China Ma Ying-jeou, who spoke on Cross-Strait relations and explored our Chesterton Collection. Summer term engineering students and research seminar scholars engaged in a Q&A with Ma and mingled with Taiwanese students and members of the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation.

20/07/2023

Next Wednesday 26th July at 6:00 pm London Global Gateway faculty member Hadas Elber-Aviram will deliver a virtual lecture on her monograph "Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present".

Register at the link below to attend Hadas' wonderful talk! Organized by Archives for London.

https://loom.ly/2zIopTo

Some findings from the H. G. Wells Papers and the Mervyn Peake Archive