• In this Graduate OMT Travel report, Alison Tam (2021, Inorganic Chemistry for Future Manufacturing (EPSRC CDT)) reports on the 10th International Congress on Biocatalysis.

• Dr Robin Darwall-Smith, Univ’s Archivist, is now Joint General Editor of the Oxford Historical Society and has also just accepted an invitation to become Editor of History of Universities.

• On 1 December Main Quad was once again filled with both flickering candlelight and the sound of singing for Carols in the Quad 2022.

• Read the Graduate Conference and Academic Travel Grant Report by Ashley Wright (2020, DPhil Politics) on the APSA 2022 conference.

• We look back here to celebrate a small selection of our undergraduate travel reports.

• Professor Tao Dong’s group will participate in a new research consortium to tackle the monkeypox outbreak.

• We are delighted to bring you – thanks to our Chapel Choir, Community Choir, and Martlet Voices – this selection of songs for the festive season.

• In our final Treasure of the year we look at a collection of files about Christmas and New Year parties held by Univ’s servants between 1932 and 1937 and ask Shall we Dance?

• Our latest OMT Travel Fund Report is by Philip Pearcy (2020, DPhil Theoretical and Physical Chemistry) on Frontiers in Size-Selected Cluster Research.

• We celebrate all-things boat club with this term’s UCBC newsletter.