Notre Dame London

13/01/2025

London is calling! Our spring semester starts today.
📸 Margot Calmar (JD '25)

08/01/2025

📜 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players...'

We're lucky to have some players of our own at Notre Dame London—students in "Playing Shakespeare" finish off their work each semester with a performance at Shakespeare's Globe. One of the most unique and exclusive opportunities available to London students, acting at this legendary theatre is a chance to bring our entire Notre Dame London community together to celebreate the end of term.

Check out these photos from our Fall cohort's performance on the Bard's historic stage! 📸 Jack Hughes, Ian MacKenzie, Megan Klein

28/11/2024

A visit from the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good brought sophomores on the Ethics Research Fellowship to London for conversations with local academics and business leaders on the real-world application of ethical study in today's Britain 🇬🇧 Students explored notable research centers including the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, the Rhodes Trust at Oxford, and Cambridge University Library.

Find out more about the Ethics Initiative: https://ethics.nd.edu/ 💭📜

26/11/2024

Please give a round of applause to our October Student Photo Contest winner: Rocío Colón Cotto with her photo "New Sprouts, Old Foundations"! October's theme was LONDON OLD AND NEW🏛️

There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to submit to our November photo contest—this month's theme is COLORS OF LONDON 🎨 Be sure to tag us in your posts or email to submit.

24/10/2024

On a recent trip to Belfast, students visited the Parliament Buildings to meet with Members of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland. For a truly immersive exploration of the sectarian nature of Belfast they followed a walking tour of the barrier-segregated parts of the city, led by both Catholic republican and Protestant loyalist tour guides.

Through political science class "Comparitive Conflict Regulation", students explore the often strife relationship between nationalism and ethnicity—and the complicated history of the United Kindom beyond London. 🇬🇧 🇨🇮

03/10/2024

"As I begin this journey as President, I invite you to join me and build more bridges: to future generations of Notre Dame students, to one another, as we learn and live side by side, to our neighbors and people in communities around the world."

In September the Notre Dame London community gathered to celebrate the inauguration of Fr. Bob Dowd, C.S.C., as the University’s new president. Staff, students and faculty were joined by a group of alumni pursuing graduate studies in the United Kingdom at the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and the Royal College of Art.

Read Fr. Dowd's full inauguration remarks here: https://loom.ly/a64WhH8

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.