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A Book at Bedtime
We all love a good story. But did you know, where children’s development is concerned, bedtime stories are more…
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What do we tell the children?
When the worst happens, and a loved one becomes seriously ill or dies, it can be very difficult to…
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The Future of Automation in the Home
There’s quite a lot of discussion surrounding the future of paid work, and how certain livelihoods may be impacted…
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When Stress Turns Bad
Did you know that stress evolved as a key tool for our survival? I mean, you wouldn’t want to…
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Demography: Understanding Our World
What is demography, and how can it provide us with a better understanding of our world and the people…
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Movies and the Wildlife Trade
Movies have a great deal of influence in our lives. Whether you like to follow the works of a…
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Antimicrobial Resistance: A Dance with Nature
“The process of creating new antibiotics and understanding bacteria with particular mechanisms of resistance is like a dance…” Antibiotics…
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Feeding the Future Study (FEED)
The British diet has undergone a substantial transformation over the last few decades, with the traditional ‘meat and two…
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The Symphony of the Brain
“We can think of singers in a choir as neurons in the brain. Like these singers, neurons have to…
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Parasites: From Foe to Friend
By definition, parasites are bad news. The word ‘parasite’ is used to describe any organism that lives on –…
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Can e-cigarettes help you stop smoking?
Can e-cigarettes help you stop smoking? Keeping on top of the evidence. The messages surrounding e-cigarettes, or vapes, are…
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Understanding Mosquito Behaviour
What’s the most dangerous animal in the world? A grizzly bear? A lion? A poisonous tree frog? … How…
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Behind the Scenes in the ‘Cell Lab’
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a research laboratory at Oxford University? 🔬🧬 Join PhD student Lizzie…
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On the Edge of Existence: Rediscovering a Lost Coral
“I had been waiting so long to have access to these reefs again, to see whether this species had…
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s superalloys!
Did you know that aeroplanes are able to fly because of tiny, TINY structures, less than the width of…
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Lessons from Lockdown Energy Use
The months of lockdown were difficult. From an energy perspective, however, we were able to learn a lot. In…
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The Winchcombe Meteorite – One Year On
On 28th February 2021, at around 10pm, a meteor streaked across the skies of the UK ☄️. Thanks to…
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Origami Inspiration – 3D Printing and Robots
What does origami have to do with engineering…and 3D printing…and robots?! Quite a lot, it turns out! In this…
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Doing a PhD on Your Hobby – Scooters
Combining your work with your favourite hobby – surely that’s the dream? Meet Sebastian Pearson, an Engineering PhD student…
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Assessing Healthcare Outcomes with GENDER-Q
The primary aim of healthcare is to improve the lives and wellbeing of patients. But how can we be…
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The Shape of Water?
What’s the shape of water? 💧🤔 Have you ever seen an insect walking on water? Or noticed that water…
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Why do I feel sleepy in winter?
It’s dark and cold outside. Your bed is warm and cosy. Even after you’ve got up, you struggle to…
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Why do I always spill my coffee?
Here we go, just a short walk from the office kitchen to the desk and…. “urgh”. Not again! Precious…
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A New View on Cancer
“It looked like a child’s colouring book where you can’t go over the lines – but the consequences of…
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Lockdown Walks – Is this a fossil I see before me?
You find fossils on the beach, right? If you’re really lucky and spend ages looking? WRONG! Fossils – by…
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Lockdown Walks – Walk Your Worries Away!
It’s no surprise that walking is good for us physically, but did you know that walking can actually make…
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Lockdown Walks – Disappearing Bugs
During Barley Rose’s lifetime, about 75% of the world’s flying insects have disappeared. Join us for this episode of…
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Lockdown Walks – Meet Your Bird Neighbours
How well do you know your bird neighbours? Become better acquainted in this episode of ‘Lockdown Walks’, with Oxford…
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Lockdown Walks – Spring Plants
“Spring has sprung, the flowers are here, but how do they know it’s the right time of year?” If…
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Lockdown Walks – Urban Stargazing
Think you need to be somewhere really remote, with a high-tech telescope, to observe the night sky? Think again!…
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Lockdown Walks – The Mysteries of Ice
“On Earth when it snows, it snows crystallised water lava.” Um, what? Intrigued? Join us on this chilly lockdown…
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The RainDrop Experiment
How can we predict the future of grassland ecosystems? What’s it like to be an ecologist working in the…
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Electricity Access for All
How can we sustainably electrify parts of the world that don’t currently have access to clean and reliable energy?…
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Electric Vehicles and the Future
What does the future hold for electric vehicles? We know that they represent a cleaner, greener way of getting…
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Coping with voices: Being with people
Hearing voices can come in many forms – some voices are friendly, helpful, insightful and inspiring whilst others are…
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Lockdown Walks – What’s that solar panel doing?
Have you ever walked down the street and seen a rooftop covered in black shiny panels? Ever wondered exactly…
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Lockdown Walks – What’s the secret behind Autumn colours?
Woolly jumpers, pumpkin-picking, steaming mugs of cocoa – there are lots of things to love about Autumn (or Fall…
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Lockdown Walks – Who’s that American in the woods?
Plant scientist Dr Hayley Tumas is out for a walk in the English countryside…but she’s not the only American…
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Seabird Monitoring – Witnesses in the wild
Seabirds – including penguins – are amongst the most threatened animals on the planet. They are also very useful…
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Lockdown Walks – How can I spot a badger?
Have you ever wondered how to spot a badger? Well you’re in luck! In this episode of ‘Lockdown Walks’,…
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Lockdown Walks – What’s up with those clouds?
If you don’t think there’s much left to discover on a local walk, think again! In our ‘Lockdown Walks’…
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Understanding Covid-19 transmission, informing control
Tackling a previously unseen pathogen – like the one that causes COVID-19 – is like piecing together a puzzle.…
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Changing plant chloroplasts to improve crop performance
Chloroplasts are tiny protein-filled units within plant cells. As well as being responsible for photosynthesis, they are critical to…
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Mechanobiology – the stress of life
We often think of our bodies in terms of cells and genes, but we shouldn’t forget that they’re also…
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Using your science to understand volcanic eruptions
Volcanoes are present across the Earth, from the barren wastes of Antarctica to densely populated regions in Europe, Asia…
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Using your science to explore the climate history of Mars
Mars today is colder than Antarctica and drier than the Sahara — but scratch just beneath its dusty red coating…
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Using your science to reveal how much rain fell on the dinosaurs
During the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago), the world was very different! It was hotter, with…
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Our mysterious ocean floor
Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, yet only 15% of the ocean floor has been mapped…
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How do unborn babies and mothers communicate via the placenta?
The placenta is a fascinating organ, which allows communication between mother and foetus through the release of bubble-like vesicles.…
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Can we make a sensor that can match a sniffer dog?
When it comes to sensing potentially-dangerous vapours, sniffer dogs are still considered the gold standard. In this animation we…
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Positioning in challenging environments
From driving, to crop harvesting and timing in the financial markets, many aspects of our modern lives are reliant…
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When did cats arrive in Britain?
Sunning themselves outside or curled up on our sofas …many of us have a pet cat in our homes.…
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A smart patch that promotes shoulder repair
A smart patch that promotes shoulder repair. Tearing of the rotator cuff tendons results in a debilitating and painful…
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Hardy Crops to Tackle Food Insecurity
Our world is getting more and more densely populated. By 2050 there’ll be nearly 10 billion people on our…
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Viewing extreme events through social media
We are creating digital data all the time. Via social media, we’re generating evidence of everything we see and…
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Our immune system – the battle within
If we could travel inside our body, shrinking down to a cellular level, we could see how amazing our immune…
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Soluble Semiconductors- A revolution in Printing for the 21st Century?
The digital age is built upon semiconductors. The crystalline semiconductors, such as silicon or germanium, lie behind modern electronics…
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Bacteria Safari: The Forest on your Fingernail
What on Earth can tiny microorganisms tell us about the animal and plant life around us? Bacteria are tiny…
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Protecting elephants, protecting humans
How do we find ways for people and wildlife to co-exist? Elephants pose a particular problem as their large…
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Discovering life-changing dementia treatments
Your beautiful, complex brain is a network of microscopic cells that connect together to form your thoughts and personality,…
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Ancient Mysteries in Marvellous Mud
It took over a billion years for life to transition from simple eukaryotic cells, like primitive algae, to simple…
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Materials for nuclear fusion: how do you confine a sun to a box?
We face an energy crisis, so the idea of a clean, potentially limitless supply of energy is deeply appealing. Nuclear…
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How does electricity flow through small objects?
Single molecules are small – really small! But what if we could harness some of their abilities to conduct…
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DNA: A Rich Tapestry
Whether it’s the way we speak, or the sports team we support, the little differences between us can carry…
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How to read DNA
Reading DNA, the instruction book inside of all our cells, is an important way to learn about what makes…
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Keeping Social Media Social
Social media has become a huge part of many of our lives. But do we really know where all…
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What are Quantum Rainbows
‘What are Quantum Rainbows?’ you ask? Watch our animation and follow a tale of an intrepid explorer below, as…
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Conserving nature – it’s not just about the animals…
When people think of conservation, they often think that it is about saving species. Whilst this is partly true,…
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What can chemists learn from nature?
Nature is full of chemicals – flavours, fragrances, medicines. Living systems have been making these useful chemicals for billions…
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Brain development in teenagers
As you journey from childhood into your teen years and then into adulthood, your brain is changing in ways…
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What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning is all around us; on our phones, powering social networks, helping the police and doctors, scientists and…
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Hip Hip Hooray
What’s the link between sports, bone development in the young, and arthritis? In this animation we explore research that…
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Power People
Did you know that you are in charge of a power station? It’s true. Every time you flick a…
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Run for Your Light
You may have heard the word “quantum” bandied around a lot. But what does it mean? In this animation…
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What makes you tick?
How do you know when it’s time to wake up or go to sleep? More powerful than any alarm…
Podcasts (78)
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Could ‘Jurassic Park’ actually happen?
“Life finds a way”…This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Stephen Spielberg and Universal Studio’s dinosaur…
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How can we use sound waves to eliminate infections?
Many of us will have had to deal with a bacterial infection at some point or another. The solution?…
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How do you convert CO2 into jet fuel?
Increasing levels of CO2 in our atmosphere are a big cause for concern. So what if we could find…
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How do you use social media to deliver humanitarian aid?
Forced displacement of human populations owing to conflict or natural disasters is very difficult to measure. During these crises,…
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How has life expectancy changed after the pandemic?
Demographers (researchers who study the statistics of human populations) look at factors such as birth rates, death rates, migration…
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Can you make a dengue fever forecast?
More than half the world’s population is at risk from dengue fever, a viral infection that is spread via…
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Can my gut health improve my mental health?
Our gut microbiome (that’s all the microorganisms – such as bacteria, viruses and fungi – living in our gut)…
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Why do research on research?
We’ve talked about a lot of different types of research on this podcast…from investigations into drought, to space exploration,…
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How could spider sex unlock secrets to engineering?
Not everyone is the biggest fan of spiders…we know that. They might not be the first thing that springs…
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Is the metaverse doomed?
Ask an internet aficionado what the ‘next big thing’ is, and they might respond with ‘the metaverse’. This is…
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Can you cure jet lag?
If our internal body clock is telling us it’s 3am, but the external environment is telling us it’s 12…
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Should I feel guilty eating turkey at my Christmas dinner?
While the tradition of eating turkey at Christmas can be traced back to Henry VIII, it’s really only been…
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How can a simulation help treat kidney stones?
Around 10% of us will experience kidney stones at some point in our life. They occur when waste products…
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How were new craters on Mars discovered?
When a space rock smashes into the surface of a planet, a hole – or crater – is formed.…
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What makes the human brain so special?
We often hear that we’re remarkably similar to our primate relatives, both in terms of our genetics and our…
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Why is the UK still in a drought?
Here in the UK, we have a reputation for grey, drizzly weather. But there’s no denying that this summer…
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Why is the James Webb Space Telescope a big deal?
Are we alone in the Universe? What exactly lies at the centre of our galaxy? Just like our podcast,…
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What is green steel?
Steel has become an essential commodity in modern society – used in everything from our cars and our buildings…
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How do you create autonomous robots that can investigate under the sea?
How do you retrieve data from sensors embedded in underwater settings – such as those monitoring ecosystem change, for…
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How do you grow the perfect tomato?
Is there anything nicer than a fresh, juicy, home-grown tomato on a summer’s day? Whether you like them sliced…
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How is misinformation about the war in Ukraine spreading?
Misinformation about the war in Ukraine – and countless other topics, such as the pandemic and climate change –…
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How does a pandemic end?
Masks, social distancing, lockdowns. We’ve become intimately familiar with numerous COVID-19 control measures over the past two years. Now,…
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Why do we develop bad habits?
From biting our nails to idly scrolling on our phones, we all have those habits we wish we didn’t.…
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Is the energy crisis going to get worse?
Over the past year, we’ve seen our energy bills reach unimaginable heights. The war in Ukraine is having devastating…
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Is ordering a pizza bad for the climate?
In this episode of the Big Questions podcast, we’re talking about one of our favourite guilty pleasures – ordering…
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How do you monitor mosquitoes using their sound?
What do you think of when someone says “the most dangerous animal in the world”? A lion perhaps? Or…
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How can we improve endometriosis treatment?
Did you know there are different types of pain? In this episode of the Big Questions Podcast, we chat…
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Why build a magnetically shielded room?
One way to delve deep into the ancient history of the Earth – or other planetary bodies for that…
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Why is Rudolph’s nose red?
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose…” Many of us will be very familiar with Santa’s famous…
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How do you tackle hate speech one emoji at a time?
Online communication channels are popular, to say the least. For instance, there are 187 million active Twitter users per…
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Umm…Should I be wearing a mask?
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic there was a lot of confusion, as we all tried to…
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How can satellites prevent mining disasters?
Satellites have been orbiting our planet for the past few decades. We might be familiar with how they can…
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How do you stop megafires?
From California to Greece to Australia, it seems like every time we switch on the news there’s another wildfire…
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Could chocolate go extinct?
Chocolate. It’s rare to find anyone who isn’t partial to a square or two of this delicious treat. But…
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Should all robots have an ethical black box?
WHODUNNIT?! Nowadays, the idea of encountering robots in our daily lives isn’t pure science fiction. Many of us interact…
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Is a snack tax on the horizon?
Do you remember when the price of fizzy drinks in the UK went up slightly a few years ago?…
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What’s an arboretum anyway?
An arboretum could be described as a “living library”. A beautifully curated collection of woody plants (trees and shrubs)…
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Did the pandemic make us moodier?
Lockdowns, social distancing, restrictions on ‘normal’ activities – we’ve all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. But how has…
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Will climate change kill off the great tits?
Their distinctive ‘teacher teacher’ call is synonymous with British gardens, but great tits are facing a big problem –…
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Can we build an eco-friendly aeroplane?
Remember those days when it was possible to climb aboard a plane and jet off around the world? Well,…
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Why are we searching for water on the moon?
The moon may be the closest planetary body to us, but we still have a lot to learn about…
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Has lockdown made me bad at sleeping?
We’re over a year into the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s affected our lives in many ways – including, for…
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Do all lions sound the same?
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to hear a lion roar (whether that’s at the zoo or in the…
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When did dogs become our best friends?
In this year’s Valentine’s episode, we’re exploring that most special of relationships. That’s right – the one between us…
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Who should get the vaccine first?
It’s a question that’s on the lips of politicians, scientists and policy-makers right across the globe – who should get…
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Should we edit genes to make nicer people?
Is it possible to edit someone’s genes before they are born to make them a nicer, kinder, more moral…
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Are video games good for my mental health?
Most of us have probably heard of video games being described as “addictive”, but is there evidence of this?…
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Should I buy a real or a fake Christmas tree?
It’s that time of year – the festive jumpers are going on, the lights are going up, and we’re…
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How do I win Fantasy Football?
Did you know that the winner of the 2019/2020 Fantasy Premier League, beating over 7 million other players, was…
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How is technology being used to track Black Lives Matter protestors?
We’ve probably all heard the phrase ‘Big Brother is watching you’ (a reference to the fictional character in George…
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Can celebrities save the pangolin?
‘Influencers’ are here like never before…log on to social media, and there will be someone there to tell you…
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What does the ‘R Rate’ really mean?
We’re all pretty used to hearing lots of pandemic-related terminology by now. I mean, last year, who knew what ‘social…
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How do you measure pain?
We all feel pain differently. What to one person may be the worst pain in the world, might be…
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How are we using energy in lockdown?
Things have changed a lot over the past few months – including, for many of us, our daily routine.…
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Why is Oxford’s Botanic Garden making gin?
Established in 1621, the Oxford Botanic Garden was the first botanic garden in the UK. It has been –…
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How tricky is it to make a COVID-19 tracing app?
As we search for a way out of the global coronavirus crisis, there’s been plenty of discussion surrounding a…
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How do you fight malaria in the back of a van?
Just one mosquito bite is enough to infect someone with malaria. Tackling this serious – sometimes fatal – subtropical…
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What’s in the Indian Ocean?
Much less is known about the Indian Ocean than either the Atlantic or Pacific. It’s also less protected. What…
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Should we trust scientists?
We’re living in extraordinary times, where graphs and statistics are splashed across newspaper front pages, and misinformation is rife.…
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How garlicky is your garlic?
When it comes to mass-producing food, it’s important to make sure the taste is consistent, and good! But how…
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What does my family want to know about coronavirus?
Coronavirus has been hitting the headlines since late 2019, and is now at the forefront of many people’s minds.…
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Can we diagnose heart attacks faster?
With one person admitted to hospital every 5 minutes in the UK because of a heart attack, the ability…
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Can data find me a date?
Looking for ‘The One’, or maybe just a date for Valentine’s Day? The dating scene has changed significantly over…
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Who was Henrietta Leavitt?
Much of post 1920s astronomy rests on her shoulders. Without her, we wouldn’t have a three-dimensional sky. Leavitt’s Law…
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Can we stop ageing?
We’re pretty obsessed with the concept of ageing. Ancient civilizations supposedly sought an ‘elixir of life’, and today many…
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Why do diets fail?
It’s a new year (and a new decade!) and many of us will be looking to turn over a…
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What’s under Lapland?
We know it as the home of Father Christmas, but why is Lapland of interest to geologists? In this…
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Where is my hoverboard?
According to the much-loved ‘Back to the Future’ franchise, we should all be zipping around on hoverboards by now.…
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How do you build a super sewer?
What do you do when a city outgrows its 150 year old sewer system? Build a super sewer of…
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Are bats superheroes or villains?
The Big Questions Podcast is back with a new series, and we start with a special Halloween edition! Join…
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Why are athletes using ketones?
It’s considered one of the hardest athletic challenges: 21 day-long stages covering around 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles) – it’s…
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Why aren’t we dead?
There is a whole world of things out there that want us dead – we are talking microscopic invaders…
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How big a deal is that picture of a black hole?
By now you have probably seen that picture of the BLACK HOLE! But we have some questions….in this episode…
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Did volcanoes help kill off the dinosaurs?
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. We should take a moment to realise how much history that is!…
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What do nerves sound like?
Our nerves don’t stop talking. They’re 24-7 communication systems for our bodies. But does all this cellular chitter-chatter actually…
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How do you turn a plastic bag into fuel?
There are a lot of plastic bags out there. Every year we get through one trillion plastic bags worldwide!…
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Why should we cuddle?
Who doesn’t love a cuddle? Whether it is from a pet or a person they just make us feel…
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Does love have a scent?
Love is in the air – or is it? Companies are advertising that they can find you love through…
Scientists (312)
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Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente
I spent a non-negligible part of my first decade of life buried in books about dinosaurs and planets (respectively)…
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Emma James
Language is something that most of us use every day with very little conscious effort, yet no one is…
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Nicky Dawson
There is still so much to learn about how children acquire language, and how we can best support children…
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Demi Brizee
Ever since my days in medical school at the University of Rotterdam (The Netherlands), my fascination with the brain…
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Sara Keller
I always knew I wanted to be an engineer but it wasn’t until an undergraduate research experience at Vanderbilt…
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Atreyi Chakrabarty
My name is Atreyi and I’m a final year DPhil student studying the cellular and network mechanisms of sleep…
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Tiancun Xiao
Dr Tiancun Xiao obtained a BsC from Northwest University, China in 1987 and and Ph.D of Chemical Physics (heterogenous…
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Elizabeth Rapa
I have always been interested in understanding how to help children and families. This began with my undergraduate Biomedical…
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Louise Dalton
I studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge before training as a Clinical Psychologist in Oxford. I spent many years working…
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Doug Leasure
I am a computer nerd, a nature loving hippie, and I often find myself embarrassingly excited about statistics. I…
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Ollie Shorthose
I am a DPhil student in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. I work within the Soft…
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Vili Lehdonvirta
I am extremely interested in new technologies like automation, cloud computing, and digital platforms, and how they reshape our…
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Ekaterina Hertog
The automation of paid work has received significant attention in recent years, but the use of technology to aid…
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Lulu Shi
Lulu is a sociologist focusing on the intersection of education, work, and technology. She did her BA at the…
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Sarah Sparrow
From a young age I was interested in weather and climate, studying clouds and recording weather data with homemade…
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Philip Burnet
My passion for neuroscience started when I was studying biochemistry at the University of Hull. By the time I…
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Patricia Logullo
How can we understand the way scientists discover new treatments and disease prevention? Could people take better care of…
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Sushma Shankar
Hi guys, I’m Sushma! I work as both a Transplant Surgeon and Scientist in Oxford. Read on to find…
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Zhiyao Luo
I am Zhiyao Luo, a DPhil student at Reuben College and the Department of Engineering Science at the University…
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Misha Patel
Hello, I’m Misha. I am a PhD student at the University of Oxford, working in the Engineering Science Department…
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Chinenye Akpulu
My name in full is Chinenyenwa, an Igbo name that means “God gives a child”. I work on microorganisms…
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Morgan Mitchell
Hi, I’m Morgan! I’m currently studying for my PhD at Oxford on a project which looks to improve a…
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Lauren Rudd
Hi everyone, I’m Lauren. I work in animal behaviour and conservation, studying lions! I am currently completing a PhD…
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José Manuel Aburto
In many parts of the world life expectancy has been increasing over the last decades, but not everywhere. In…
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Ridhi Kashyap
Ridhi is a professor of demography and computational social science at Oxford University. She studies human populations using quantitative…
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Jennifer Dowd
I fell in love with data and statistics when I realized what powerful tools they were for understanding (and…
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Beth Mortimer
I’m interested in some of the unusual senses that animals have – specifically the ability to sense ‘silent’ vibrations.…
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Bernie Hogan
Bernie Hogan’s first computer was a Commodore 64 back in 1989. Since then, he’s done university degrees specialising in…
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Chioma Achi
I am interested in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of infectious and zoonotic pathogens because of the direct impact of AMR…
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Matt Beech
I am a researcher with a keen interest in combatting the growing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) crisis – a global…
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Kirsty Sands
I always liked microbiology during my university course in Biomedical Sciences – it was always the most “hands on”…
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Yuqing Zhou
I am a DPhil (PhD) student in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. I am part of the…
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Alistair Farley
From a young age, I have been curious about the physical and natural world that surrounds us. This broad…
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Keren Papier
How can we know which foods are good for us, and which ones aren’t? Growing up in different countries…
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Aarti Jagannath
I read for a DPhil (PhD) on the mechanisms of RNA interference at Brasenose College, Oxford. I subsequently joined…
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Elif Naz Çoker
I studied psychology and sociology for my BA at Columbia University, followed by a masters in social and developmental…
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Shenghong He
I am a postdoctoral research scientist at the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit (BNDU), Nuffield Department of…
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Natalie Doig
I am a neuroscientist interested in how the brain controls movement. I became interested in studying the brain during…
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Jia-Ling Ruan
Jia-Ling Ruan is a senior postdoctoral researcher from the Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford. Before coming…
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Georgia Drew
I’m a biologist interested in the evolution of symbioses between animals and microbes. The majority of animals form associations…
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Rogier Mars
I am originally a psychologist—a scientist interested in human behaviour. During my PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen (the…
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Anna Murgatroyd
I am a post-doctoral research associate at the Environmental Change Institute in the School of Geography and the Environment…
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Nicola Lindson
In 2008 I saw an advertisement for PhD studentships at a new research centre that would be investigating issues…
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Ailsa Butler
I studied biological sciences as my undergraduate degree. The job I got after university with the All-Party Parliamentary group…
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Maisie Vollans
My main research interest is how we can use our knowledge of vector (e.g. mosquito) behavioural ecology to prevent…
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Lizzie Horton
I am doing my PhD at the University of Oxford, researching the human immune response to virus infections. The…
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Yu Mo
Yu’s broad area of research is in nature-based solutions for coastal resilience under climate change. Her current focus of…
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Barbara Rossi
Barbara Rossi joined the University of Oxford in March 2019 as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science…
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Bry Wilson
In its simplest form, I’m a marine biologist, and I have long been fascinated by this microbial soup (that…
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Nick Hawes
I am an Associate Professor of Engineering Science in the Oxford Robotics Institute which is part of the Department…
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Anna Bidgood
“With a background in metamorphic petrology, I look to apply my expertise to ore deposit systems related to battery…
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Rebecca Garnett
Hi my name is Becky! I did my Biological Sciences undergraduate degree at Oxford, and then I popped over…
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Christian Norton
I’m from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. Before my DPhil at Oxford, I did a BSc in biology at…
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Aliaksandr Herasimenka
I am a postdoctoral researcher and director of research at the Programme on Democracy and Technology at the Oxford…
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Victoria Strutt
Having completed my undergraduate degree at Oxford University in the Department of Materials Science, I joined the atom probe…
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Erica Charters
I’m a historian of medicine and, more specifically, I research the relationship between disease and society. I’m particularly interested…
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Charlotte Collingwood
I’m a computational neuroscientist in the first year of my DPhil (PhD) at Oxford. I first started studying the…
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Mike Clark
I am a researcher focusing on the links between food, environment, health, and economics. I am particularly interested in…
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Eleanor Hammond
I am a researcher focussing on the links between food and the environment, and how changes to our food…
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Marianne Sinka
It took me a while to decide what I wanted to do and I left school without any A…
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Chenying Liu
I’ve been so fascinated by origami, i.e., its origin as art, its magic in maths, and its potential for…
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Sebastian Pearson
I started doing tricks on scooters when I was 13 and I was hooked. A few years later, when…
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Lydia Coxon
I studied Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, which is where I first came across pain research. I thought…
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Rakhshan Kamran
I am a final year medical student at McMaster University in Canada, taking a sabbatical from MD studies to…
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James Bryson
During just 5 – 10 million years following the ignition of a star, the giant cloud of material that…
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Hannah Rose Kirk
After graduating from the University of Cambridge as an Economist, I moved to Beijing for two years where I…
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Julia Lindsay
My research focuses on the effects of sleep on mental health. I did my undergraduate degree in Human Cognition…
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Melinda Mills
Melinda Mills (MBE, FBA) is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) and Professor of Demography and…
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Sophie Abrahams
I enjoyed both maths and physics at school as they explain how the world works, and some amazing teachers…
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Imma Oliveras Menor
I was born in a rural town in the mountains of Catalonia, and I have had a passion for…
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Mafalda Santos
I’m originally from Lisbon, Portugal where I finished my degree in 2006. My first real contact with science was…
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Tanesha Allen
My Story My ancestors were slaves, my grandparents attended segregated schools during the Jim Crow era in the American…
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Ainslie Johnstone
I am a final year DPhil student studying clinical neuroscience at Oxford. My first encounter with neuroscience was when…
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Ingmar Posner
Since childhood Ingmar has been fascinated by the notion of machine intelligence. Like many in his field of research…
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Stephen Roberts
I can’t remember a time I’ve not been excited by science and maths! The universe is just so amazing…
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Jen Lawson
I studied Psychology as an undergraduate, and then joined Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust to gain experience in mental…
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Mike Dodd
At school, Mike Dodd enjoyed biology and chemistry, and had an inspirational teacher who had worked in research. It…
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Aprajita Verma
My Story One of my earliest memories is being totally awestruck and overwhelmed looking at the star filled sky…
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Imad AM Ahmed
Imad Ahmed is an environmental geochemist and an RSC Chartered Chemist (CChem). Before joining the Department of Earth Sciences…
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Peter Grindrod
Pete is a mathematician contributing to a range of digital analytics concepts and topics including social media, retail, consumer…
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Elspeth Garman
As a child, Elspeth Garman was inspired to get into science by her father and her physics teacher. After…
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Nicola Smart
Nicola has a peculiar fascination with blood vessels! Through her research, she hopes to understand how they form in…
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Lauren Bandy
I did my undergraduate degree in Nutrition at King’s College London, and worked as a nutrition analyst for a…
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Helena Webb
I am a social scientist by background and I am interested in interaction and organisation in different kinds of…
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Tristram Warren
I’m interested in how the planets (and other bodies) in the Solar System formed, evolved and what it is…
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Pat Irwin
I grew up in Trowbridge, in rural Wiltshire. I did my undergraduate degree and then D.Phil. in physics at…
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Gabriel Gallardo
My Story I was born and raised in Hong Kong. I attended Chinese-speaking schools when I was growing up…
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Brian D. Earp
I am a Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and am…
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Nikol Lambeva
I am a DPhil student in Condensed Matter Physics, part of the Physics and Application of Soluble Semiconductors group…
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Lynda Coughlan
Lynda completed her PhD at Bart’s Cancer Institute working on viral gene therapy for cancer and is now a…
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Mason A. Porter
I earned my undergraduate (B.S.) degree in applied mathematics from California Institute of Technology and my doctoral degree from…
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Jen Perry
I study evolution and behaviour in insects. I’m interested in figuring out answers to questions like: why do males…
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Gladys C Ngetich
My Story I was born and raised in a family of nine in a tiny village of Amalo in…
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Marie-Claire Koschowitz
I’m an evolutionary biologist and work mostly with big reptiles, like crocs, birds and dinosaurs. I’m one of those…
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Patrick Garfjeld Roberts
Medicine is a great place for subjects to meet: sciences like anatomy, physiology and pharmacology meet statistics and economics,…
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Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
I read for my PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London and received postdoctoral training at University College London,…
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Colin Espie
Colin is the Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Oxford, where he is Director of the Experimental…
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Donal Hill
In primary school I really liked the parts of science class that dealt with the planets, objects melting and…
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Brianna Heazlewood
I’m Australian and completed both my undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Sydney. I came to Oxford…
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Andy Hector
My background includes a BSc. in Environmental Science at the University of Sheffield and a PhD from Imperial College…
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David Howey
I’ve always been interested in how things work, and as a kid had fun building little robot arms and…
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Christl Donnelly
I am the Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. I am also…
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Annette Fayet
Birds have fascinated me for as long as I can remember. When I began writing a personal diary at…
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Seth Flaxman
Seth went to Harvard for his BA in computer science and maths. After graduating, he spent a few years…
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Sean Elias
Sean completed his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford and recently finished his DPhil in…
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Sally Le Page
fter growing up in the garden chasing after wildlife and watching David Attenborough documentaries, I studied Biological Sciences at…
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Anya Topiwala
I got interested in the effects of alcohol on the brain for two reasons. First, in my work as…
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Bryony Sheaves
Bryony is a clinical researcher who investigates the experience of hearing voices. One of the most fascinating aspects of…
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Andrew Carr
My research has focussed on the development and evaluation of surgical implants and technologies, including joint replacements, minimally invasive…
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Matthew Wijers
I was born and raised in Zimbabwe and spent most of my childhood exploring nature. After leaving school, I…
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Chris Lintott
I’m an astronomer who works on understanding how galaxies form and evolve, while also spending time finding exoplanets, supernovae…
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Barley Rose Collier Harris
I always thought I was a physicist – with the first name ‘Barley Rose’ I thought studying plants would be…
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Amanda Cooper-Sarkar
Amanda Cooper-Sarkar first came to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1968, and stayed to complete her DPhil in physics…
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Anjuli R. K. Shere
My doctoral research centres on emerging threats to journalists from new internet-connected technologies, which seems natural given that I’ve…
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Scott Fernquest
After growing up in South Wales spending the majority of my youth on a rugby pitch I attended Oxford…
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Ben Jones
Starting his career in arboriculture as a climbing arborist, followed by almost ten years as a climber on the…
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Charles Spence
Prof Charles Spence runs Oxford University’s Crossmodal Research Laboratory (http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/crossmodal-research-laboratory). His interests lie in trying to apply the latest insights…
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Shahnaz Hoque
My Story My parents emigrated from a village in Bangladesh to London, where I was born. I grew up…
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Greger Larson
I received my bachelor’s degree in 1996 from Claremont McKenna College, a small liberal arts college in California. I…
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John Frater
I studied as a medical student in Cambridge and did my PhD in London at Imperial. I am now …
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Lucy Woodall
I am a marine biologist with a passion for the aquatic world. My PhD on the conservation genetics of…
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Gaia Scerif
I am a Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in Experimental Psychology at Oxford. I am Italian in origin but…
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Phil Grünewald
I am an engineer at heart. This started when I was a little boy and would take everything to…
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Yee Whye Teh
I am a Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford, a…
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Matt Sutton
I’ve always been fascinated by the natural world and love being outdoors in general. My childhood dream was to…
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Tingting Zhu
Dr. Tingting Zhu is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Member of Faculty within the Department of…
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Brigitte Stenhouse
I graduated from Somerville College in 2016 with an Mmath in Mathematics. Whilst writing my fourth year dissertation, entitled…
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Robin Dunbar
I graduated with a BA from Oxford in 1969, and followed this up with a PhD at Bristol University.…
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Holly Bridge
As a neuroscientist, I am interested in how the brain works, and particularly how the human visual system can…
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George Busby
George followed his lifelong passion for the natural world to read Zoology at Edinburgh University. In Edinburgh, he got hooked…
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Jessica Lam
Jessica Lam always wanted to be an astronaut, but was let down by her eyesight. Staying close to her…
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Dr Alan Barr
As an undergraduate, Alan Barr studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He chose to specialise in physics as he found…
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Nhu Nguyen
My Story I was born and raised in Vietnam for the first 15 years of my life. When I…
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Qihua Ling
I have been interested in plants since I was little. And later I heard that there is a place…
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Thomas Woolley
Thomas Woolley became interested in maths as he found it fun and it was a common language across the…
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Claudine Tinsman
I currently study cyber harm propagation in organisational threat intelligence sharing, drawing on law, computer science, and the social…
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Brooke Johnson
I’ve loved natural history since I was a wee lad, collecting fossils on the beach or looking for bugs…
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Clarence Yapp
After completing his degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Clarence went on to pursue a Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering…
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Jane Hurley
I grew up in rural Newfoundland in Canada, and always had a keen interest in the natural world around…
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Christina Potter
I am originally from Florida, in the United States. In 2010 I received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in…
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Siôn Glyn-Jones
Siôn Glyn-Jones read medicine at Cambridge and later conducted his clinical attachment in London. Thereafter, he went on to…
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Katerina Johnson
When I was younger I was constantly asking questions about the natural world and that never really stopped! I…
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Alberto Giubilini
I am a philosopher at the University of Oxford, based at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. I…
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Neva Kandzija
I am a full time DPhil student at Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health. My current research examines…
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Nigel Shadbolt
I completed my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Newcastle graduating with 1st Class Honours…
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Thomas Smith
I’ve been interested in aviation and space for as long as I can remember. I’m Australian and trained in…
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Alegria Olmedo
I’ve always been captivated by animals and the natural world. I decided to become a conservationist after studying Environmental…
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Susann Stritzke
Imagine a never-ending power-cut, or getting a sore throat because your light at home is coming from a kerosene…
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Charlotte Deane
I completed my undergraduate education at University College, Oxford, studying Chemistry, completing my final year project in Graham Richards’…
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Hayley Tumas
Growing up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland…
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Jonny Brooks-Bartlett
As a 6 year old, Jonny had a toy laptop that could only play games like Hangman, Remember the…
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Luke Jew
I have always been a bit of a geek, growing up watching Star Trek! My dream job as a…
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Dr. Alize Pennec
Alize’s experience in the P450 field started in a previous postdoctoral fellowship in South Africa at the University of…
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Ross Gales
Ross combines his experience fighting bushfires in Australia with an expertise in computer science to create systems which help…
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Susan Canney
I’ve always loved the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and fascinated by the history of our planet,…
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Cedric Tan
I joined WildCRU in 2014 after completing my first postdoctoral research position and DPhil in Zoology at the Edward…
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Rick Hamilton
Rick Hamilton completed his PhD on Molecular Electronics in 2003 and immediately joined Merck Chemicals Ltd, where he produced…
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Tamsin Mather
I studied Natural Sciences specialising in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate. I then had a…
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Mark S Thompson
I studied Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where my inspirational tutor at Magdalen College, Brian Bellhouse, encouraged…
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Allison Daley
Unlike many palaeontologists, Allie’s love of fossils did not stem from a childhood interest in dinosaurs. While studying Biology…
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Neil Bowles
I’ve been interested in exploring the planets ever since seeing TV programmes about NASA’s Viking landers to Mars and…
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Shamit Shrivastava
I always wanted to be a physicist but growing up in a middle income family in India means that…
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Clara Barker
I am a thin-film material scientist who manages the Centre for Applied Superconductivity, in the Materials Science department at…
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Tom Hart
My research centres around how to monitor penguins and other marine predators in difficult environments such as Antarctica. Many of…
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Sneha Malde
Sneha Malde undertook her first degree at Oxford, studying physics. After graduating she started training to be an accountant,…
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Alistair Miles
I studied Zoology at Cambridge but always had an affinity for computing since learning to program the ZX Spectrum…
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Jennifer Rogers
Jennifer is the Director of Statistical Consultancy in Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. She has a…
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Emily Warner
I have been interested in the natural world for as long as I can remember. So, studying Biological Sciences…
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Orfeas Kypris
What initially got me started was my interest in technology, and my passion for knowing how things work. After…
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Michael Browning
When you are a medical student you get to spend time working in each specialty – for example as…
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William Hawthorne
I always enjoyed the hands-on aspects of science experiments, mechanical gadgets and photography so by the time I went to…
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Aura Raulo
I am from a family of artists and grew up to think that passion means knowing what you want…
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Seena Fazel
I studied medicine in Edinburgh, and moved to Oxford to train clinically in psychiatry. I became interested in forensic…
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Sara Lil Middleton
I was always a curious child growing up, trying to understand the natural world around me through climbing trees,…
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Jane Langdale
Jane Langdale graduated from the University of Bath in 1982 with a BSc in Applied Biology specializing in microbiology.…
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Simon Hiscock
Prof Simon Hiscock is Director of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, and a Professor of Botany…
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Philip Maini
My Story My family is from North West India – the Punjab. My father moved to Northern Ireland in…
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Grant Blank
I am a sociologist who studies the social and cultural impact of the Internet. The Internet is one of…
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Kit Yates
Inspirational teachers were behind Kit Yates choosing to study maths. He also liked the fact that maths was based…
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Tim Softley
In 2015, Tim left Oxford to take the post of Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Transfer, at the University of Birmingham.…
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Becky Smethurst
From a young age I’ve always been interested in space. I wanted a telescope for my birthday when my…
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Joe Woodman
I’ve always been really interested in the natural world. When I was younger, this took the form of spending…
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Merel Lefferts
I’ve always been interested in combining physics and chemistry, and in the area of small scale phenomena where physics…
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Simon Myers
I work on understanding how humans and other species differ at the genetic level, and how this reflects events…
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Shimon Whiteson
I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and a tutorial…
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Gil McVean
Gil McVean is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford and Acting Director of Oxford’s Big Data…
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Ben Williams
As a Chemical Engineering graduate of Bath University I have spent my career within the petrochemical and refining sectors,…
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Philip Fowler
Sooo, I studied Physics at Cambridge University and then went to work in a bank, as you do. After…
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Serena Dai
My Story I moved frequently with my family – I was born in a rural town in China and…
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Barbara Maher
Barbara is the Director of Lancaster University’s internationally-renowned Centre for Environmental Magnetism & Palaeomagnetism, in the Lancaster Environment Centre.…
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Heidi de Wet
I received my first degree in botany and biochemistry at the University of the North-West in South Africa and…
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Rachel Tanner
Rachel completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford followed by a DPhil in Clinical…
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Harriet Ibbett
I’ve always loved being outdoors and surrounded by nature. From an early age I was fortunate enough to have…
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Anna Brookfield
Describe yourself in three words Enthusiastic, forgetful, determined. What’s the best thing you’ve ever done in your career? Field…
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Ritwika (Ricky) Sengupta
Describe yourself in three words Excitable, organized, slight-worrier. What’s the best thing you’ve ever done in your career? As…
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Thomas Moorhouse
Tom has studied many aspects of ecology and conservation, driven by a love of wildlife and fieldwork, and his…
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Emmanuelle Dankwa
My Story I was born and raised in Accra, the capital of Ghana, to a land valuation officer and…
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Benjamin Brecht
Quantum physics opens a window to a miraculous world, where extraordinary things happen that cannot be explained by our…
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Shazeaa Ishmael
My Story I was born in South London, both of my parents are first generation immigrants from Guyana and…
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Dorothy Bishop
Dorothy Bishop was always interested in psychology, although she admits she didn’t know much about it until becoming an…
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Nando de Freitas
The brain is the most precious thing we have. It is what defines our social interactions, our dreams, our…
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Anna Machin
I’m an evolutionary anthropologist which means I study the influence that evolution has had upon human behaviour, physiology and…
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Brian Sheil
My interest in underground construction stems from my long-standing fascination with civil engineering ‘mega projects’ such as Crossrail and…
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Robert Taylor
I work on the optical properties of materials at the Clarendon Laboratory, and I am also a Fellow of The…
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Kate Watkins
Kate Watkins loved the sciences as a student, but wasn’t sure which area to focus on. By choosing to…
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Andrew Mellor
Network science is the study of how objects interact with each other. Quite often, even simple behaviour at an…
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Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
I didn’t start off as a scientist – rather I majored in English literature at Tufts University in the…
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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung
I am a Radcliffe Scholar in Plant Sciences reading for a doctorate at the University of Oxford. Restoring our…
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William Seymour
I’m a DPhil researcher in computer science, and a part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.…
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Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson did his PhD at Imperial College, before conducting post-docs at the Institute of Zoology, London, and the…
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Christopher Hollings
I studied mathematics (both as an undergraduate and a postgraduate) at the University of York, and then worked in…
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Mark Walton
I’ve been interested in how people behave for as long as I can remember. Apparently, even as a toddler,…
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Katherine Shirley
I have always been interested in space and geology, so I am excited to be in a field where…
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Michele Veldsman
rom the very early days of investigating the brain we have looked at how damage to different areas of…
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Hugh Watkins
Hugh Watkins initially trained in medicine, mostly in London but with a spell in Oxford, with the expectation of…
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Andrew Markham
I grew up in Zimbabwe before completing my Bsc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of…
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Chris Thorogood
I have been fascinated by plants for a long as I can remember. I spent much of my childhood…
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Min Chen
My Story I was born in Shanghai, China. The majority of my school education took place during the infamous…
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Stuart Peirson
Stuart Peirson is an Associate Professor in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and a Group Leader in the Sleep…
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Anouk van Maris
I received my BSc and MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence in The Netherlands, at Radboud University Nijmegen. Even though…
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Josh Nunn
I’m a University Research Fellow at the Clarendon Lab in Oxford. I am developing devices — like quantum memories…
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Anna Michell
With interests in subjects as diverse as volcanology and marine biology, Anna decided to study Natural Sciences at Cambridge.…
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Kieran Clarke
Kieran Clarke is Professor of Physiological Biochemistry and heads the Cardiac Metabolism Research Group in the Department of Physiology,…
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Victoria Griffiths
Victoria grew up in Lesotho and South Africa and has always had a passion for wildlife and protecting the…
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Brian Zimmerman
I’ve always been a fish geek, being given an aquarium for my 5th birthday and fascinated by the aquatic…
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Stuart Clare
My research is about how to take the best quality pictures inside the human brain, using Magnetic Resonance Imaging…
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Colin Wilson
I took a roundabout route to get to planetary exploration. I was looking for work with my Physics degree…
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Andy Segerdahl
I first became interested in neuroscience as an undergraduate student. I discovered a lecture called “Introduction to Neurophysiology” and…
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Rob Salguero-Gómez
I am a population ecologist. I was born and raised in Spain, where I attended the University of Cadiz…
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Paul Jarvis
My research is focused on the development and functions of chloroplasts in plants. Chloroplasts are the subcellular organelles responsible…
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Paris Stefanoudis
I am a marine biologist fascinated by the largest environment on planet Earth: the oceans. As a student, I…
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Jack Haley
I started out studying Physics at the University of Southampton, and followed that up by working offshore as a…
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E.J. Milner-Gulland
I have always been interested in nature, growing up in rural Sussex. I did an undergraduate degree at Oxford…
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Hindolo George-Williams
Hindolo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy and Power Group, within Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science. He comes…
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Diogo Veríssimo
Diogo Veríssimo is an Oxford Martin Fellow focusing on the design and evaluation of behaviour change interventions to tackle…
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Andrew Przybylski
“Professor Przybylski is an experimental psychologist and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute. His work is mainly…
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Pete Walton
As a geography teacher I always wanted to equip students with the skills and knowledge to look at the…
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David A. Clifton
The fascination of artificial intelligence and the ability of computers to “predict” the future, based on data, has been…
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Hazel Hall-Roberts
My research focusses on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, which are diseases where brain cells get sick and die.…
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Jason Nurse
My Story After my A-Levels, I faced the challenging question of what to study at university. One of the…
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Jena Meinecke
I am a laboratory astrophysicist who uses high-powered lasers to create scaled astrophysical objects such as supernovas to unravel…
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Eleanor Bath
I study why females fight, which I first got interested in because it seemed like most science only focused…
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Brian Mackenwells
I studied theoretical physics in Maynooth University, Ireland, and while I loved learning about science, I realised that a…
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Catherine Green
I think that I have always liked finding out how things work, and while I was at university (I…
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Michele Paulatto
As a teenager, Michele Paulatto became curious about how the Earth and the Universe work, so chose to study…
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Kylie Vincent
Kylie has always been fascinated by how cells function, and to get a deeper understanding she studied Chemistry at…
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Sebastian Bonilla
I am an electronics engineer and scientist working on the improvement of solar energy generation. Climate change is one…
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Christopher Jeffs
My research aims to understand how climate change may affect animal communities in tropical forests, our richest and highly…
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Hannah Christensen
I actually first became interested in the science behind the weather during geography lessons at school. I thought it…
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Menisha Patel
My early research was as a member of the Work Interaction and Technology (WIT) Centre at King’s College London. …
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Hyunjik Kim
While studying maths for my undergraduate and masters degrees at Cambridge, I was always interested in practical applications of…
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Alison Woollard
Alison is an Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Oxford where she leads a research team…
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Lucy Kissick
Describe yourself in three words Ginger cat enthusiast. What’s the best thing you’ve ever done in your career? Four…
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Kia Nobre
Professor Kia Nobre left her hometown of Rio de Janeiro with great ambivalence to study at a liberal arts…
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Priyanka Dhopade
My Story I was born in India 31 years ago and since then I’ve lived and worked all over…
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Clare Bycroft
I have a background in mathematics (Canterbury University, New Zealand), and now I am a computational scientist at Oxford…
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Vinoy Ramachandran
My Story I grew up in Madurai, a small town in the state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. From…
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Pascal Gehring
I work in the department of Quantum Nanoscience at the TU Delft and am fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.…
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Ian Hewitt
I did a maths degree at Oxford but I got increasingly interested in applying maths to other areas of…
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Dr Neil Ashton
I like to call myself a research engineer because I pride myself that I work on real-life engineering projects…
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Malcolm John
Malcolm John grew up in Penzance, west Cornwall. He had an early interest in maths and physics, which he…
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Mohit Dalwadi
My Story My parents are of Indian heritage. My dad was born in Uganda and arrived in the UK…
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Ignacio (Nacho) Juarez Martínez
My name is Nacho and I come from Avila, a little town up the mountains in central Spain. For…
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Alex Jamieson
Ever since I was little, I have wanted to be an archaeologist. As soon as I was old enough,…
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Aislin Sheldon
I became interested in visual neuroscience after a conference I attended whilst studying my A Levels. Before coming to…
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Alex Rogers
I originally studied Physics at Durham University before working in the oil industry as a field engineer. I got…
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Matthew Charles
Mat Charles studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, sidestepping biology by choosing Maths with Physics. He focused on particle physics…
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Hayley Morris
My main area of interest lies in the development of medical devices, and their translation from research concept to…
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Holly Reeve
I have always been fascinated by how and why things work. In particular, when I was at school, I…
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Aché Atta-Boateng
My Story I grew up in a family of eight in Kumasi, Ghana, and they currently live in Accra.…
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Martin Strohmeier
Before coming to Oxford in 2012, I studied Engineering and Economics at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and joined both Lancaster…
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Mukta Deobagkar
immune system fights back. This process seemed to me almost like a finely orchestrated game of wits! I went…
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Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy
My main research interests are in the development of medical devices that support the repair of damaged or diseased…
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Christine Blancher
Christine completed a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Paris V University (CNRS) on isolation and characterization of…
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Eleanor Stride
Eleanor Stride obtained her BEng and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University College London, where she subsequently appointed to…
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Roi Cohen Kadosh
I received my PhD in Neuropsychology (summa cum laude, direct track) from the Ben-Gurion University in 2007, and I…
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Jessica Bruce (Leitch)
I studied Engineering at Oxford University. Whilst this is a general engineering course, the part that interested me the…
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Garret Cotter
I grew up in the little fishing town of Kilkeel in County Down, at the foot of the Mourne…
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Tom Crawford
Tom is a Mathematician at the University of Oxford where he holds the position of Early Career Teaching and…
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Sam Henry
My work involves developing particle detectors and other kit for experiments such as the ATLAS project at the Large…
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Tony Watts
My passion for Geology began at school in the Mendip Hills where I collected fossils and minerals. After school,…
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Alan Winfield
Alan Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. After spending his childhood…
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Charlotte Regan
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Fertility in England and Wales at lowest recorded level for women in all education groups: Oxford research
The total fertility rate fell from 1.94 in 2010 to 1.55 in 2021, according to data from the Office…
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New study could help unlock ‘game-changing’ batteries for electric vehicles and aviation
Significantly improved electric vehicle (EV) batteries could be a step closer thanks to a new study led by University…
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Oxford Professor of Chemistry elected to oldest learned US society
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Oxford University launches the Artful Intelligence Season – Creative Conversations about AI
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Multi-cancer blood test shows real promise in NHS trial
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UK’s first Professor of LGBTQ+ History at University of Oxford
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New study shows quitting smoking can improve mental health
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Oxford University’s undergraduate admissions report published
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Oxford retains top spot for spinouts
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The safety of GP prescribing in England was not adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
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Baseball and basketball players who peak early, die early
Dr Newman probed data on athlete’s height, weight and performance and studied the data on all-time great baseball players,…
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Eight Oxford researchers become Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
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Reading among England’s primary children not affected by pandemic: new report
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Extremely hot days are warming twice as fast as average summer days in North-West Europe
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We saw the crowns placed on the King and Queen: heads of Oxford houses in key role at the Coronation
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University’s new Local and Global Engagement Officer appointed
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The University of Oxford’s relationship with the Sackler family – statement
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Ethnic minority patients yearn for warmth from health care professionals, research finds
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Oxford University awarded University of Sanctuary status
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New Centre for Energy Materials Research officially launched
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Royal Society elects eight Oxford scientists as new Fellows
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Gregory Doran appointed next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre
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Autoimmune disorders found to affect around one in ten people
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Artificial neurons mimic complex brain abilities for next-generation AI computing
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Oxford’s first Sanctuary Fair to be held in May
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Here comes the sun: New study shows how UK weather conditions influence music success in the markets
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Online consumers at risk from ‘intelligent’ price manipulation: Oxford and Imperial experts
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Are we ethically prepared for Disease X?
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James Naismith appointed as Head of MPLS
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Oxford University marks the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III
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Honorary degree recipients for 2023 announced
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Oxford University joins largest ever ocean survey in a global effort to save marine life
Scientists believe little more than 10% of the species that live in our seas have been found and that around…
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‘Spectacular’ new find: Roman military camps in desert found by Oxford archaeologists using Google Earth
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Universities boost investor confidence with new spinout framework to spur economic growth
The University of Oxford has partnered with other institutions and investors to agree terms which will greatly increase the…
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Oxford University Chancellor appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, The Lord Patten of Barnes KG CH, has been appointed a Knight…
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Antimicrobial use in agriculture can breed bacteria resistant to first-line human defences
Intensive pig and chicken farms could be acting as reservoirs of bacteria resistant to both last defence antimicrobial drugs…
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Gift from fintech entrepreneur provides fully funded scholarships for Black British postgraduates
Two fully funded scholarships for Black British postgraduate students have been made available through the University of Oxford’s Black Academic…
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First offers made to prospective students for Oxford’s Astrophoria Foundation Year
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Using social media activity to monitor and respond to population displacement in Ukraine
Whilst data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees showed that 5.8 million people in Ukraine crossed the…
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Elephant seals drift off to sleep while diving far below the ocean surface
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Fossils reveal a 100-million-year-old relationship between feathered dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles
Our findings demonstrate that beetles and feathered theropods have interacted since the Mesozoic, and shed light on the evolutionary…
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Trial investigating potential treatment for fatigue relief in people with long COVID reports results
This is one of the first randomized double-blind placebo controlled trials of a potential long COVID treatment – AXA1125.…
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R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccine developed by University of Oxford receives regulatory clearance for use in Ghana
This marks the first regulatory clearance for the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine for use in any country. The successful registration…
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£12 million investment for Future Vaccines Manufacturing Hub
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has announced a £12…
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New tool uses existing health records to predict people’s risk of developing lung cancer within the next 10 years
Writing in the journal Lancet Respiratory Medicine, the researchers developed and tested the tool using the anonymised health records…
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Four Oxford researchers awarded €2.5 million European Research Council Advanced Grants
The ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research, and the ERC Advanced Grants are amongst…
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‘ONE’ program that provides early years numeracy skills for children to be trialled in 150 schools
The ‘Orchestrating Numeracy and the Executive’ (The ‘ONE’) programme bridges educators’ needs and recent evidence, to train early years…
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Study reveals new insights on what caused the 1920 baby boom
Hampton Gaddy. Image credit: Nuffield College and David Fisher. Historical demographers have thought that the 1918 influenza pandemic caused…
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Online arts and culture for young people’s mental health research programme announced
The project, known as ORIGIN (Optimising cultural expeRIences for mental health in underrepresented younG people onlINe), will run from…
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£29 million investment to support critical battery research
Growing the battery industry is vital to positioning the UK as the best location in the world to manufacture…
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COVID-19 vaccine compensation schemes increased during pandemic
Over three years and three phases, the team from the Faculty of Law will create an online database that…
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School closures may reduce COVID-19 transmission, but may also harm children's education and wellbeing
Findings showed that while school closures may reduce COVID-19 transmission, they were also associated with negative impacts on children’s…
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World Rugby Hall of Fame inducts Varsity Match
The Varsity Match – the annual rugby union match between Oxford and Cambridge universities and one of sport’s longest-running…
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300 companies created by the University of Oxford
The companies have raised over £6 billion in investment and created over 9,000 jobs. The milestone cements the University’s…
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Cambridge claim clean sweep in Boat Race 2023
Cambridge’s men wrestled back their Boat Race title from Oxford in a closely fought event, with their women counterparts…
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Oxford biologists comment on new Genetic Technology Act
The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act passed into law today, a major step in unlocking growth and innovation in…
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Any type of hormonal contraceptive may increase risk of breast cancer
Previous studies have shown that use of the combined contraceptive pill, which combines oestrogen and progestogen, is associated with…
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What’s your sound barrier? New study finds nearly one in five people in the UK find everyday sounds intolerable
Misophonia is a strong negative reaction to common sounds, which are usually made by other people, and include breathing,…
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Beyond Boundaries 2023 art competition opens for entries from local school students
A science-inspired competition inviting entrants to create an artistic response to Oxford research is back for a third year,…
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‘DJ Cuppy’ – Oxford graduate, philanthropist and global music producer – announces £100,000 gift in support of African Graduate students
Florence I. ‘Cuppy’ Otedola, an internationally successful DJ and music producer, who has recently completed her graduate studies at…
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New research shows how cultural transmission shapes the evolution of music
The research team made up of scientists from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the Max…
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Turtle and crocodile species with unique characteristics are more likely to go extinct
When it comes to the conservation of turtles and crocodiles, we are dealing with a critical scenario. Furthermore, our…
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Study shows viewing self-harm images online and in social media usually causes harm
In all 15 research studies reviewed for the paper, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, there…
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Kate Mavor is appointed new Master of St Cross College
Kate Mavor CBE will become Master of St Cross College from September 2023. Kate Mavor has been the Chief…
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Having the genetics of a night owl protects night shift workers against sleep loss
Up to 25% of public sector employees in the UK do some form of night work. Similar numbers in…
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Hope into Action: Social Sciences Impact Conference online
Next week in Oxford [20-21 March], the first Social Sciences Impact Conference in five years takes place, bringing together…
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Exciting discovery of Dürer sketch made during study of drawings at the Ashmolean Museum
A drawing in the Ashmolean’s collections that has now been attributed to Albrecht Dürer is just one of the…
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New study shows artificial intelligence could help locate life on Mars
Our process combined statistical microbial ecology surveys, remote sensing from unmanned aerial vehicles, and machine learning to map, model,…
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Sarah Foot becomes first female Dean of Christ Church
The appointment of Rev Canon Professor Sarah Foot PhD, FRHistS, FSA as Dean of Christ Church, has been approved…
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Global study shows the experience of Endometriosis is rooted in genetics
Their study included DNA from 60,600 women with endometriosis and 701,900 without. It revealed compelling evidence of a shared…
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New report promoting safer sleeping for babies in England
Today’s report on promoting safer sleep for babies, particularly focuses on families facing significant adversity, who may be receiving…
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Study shows delaying treatment for localised prostate cancer does not increase mortality risk
The latest findings from the ProtecT trial are presented at the European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress in Milan…
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Prostate cancer AI diagnosis tool begins evaluation in Oxford
Researchers and clinicians in Oxford have begun an evaluation of artificial intelligence software that could help pathologists diagnose prostate…
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New method shows promise for locating deposits of critical metals
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Oxford early-career researchers celebrated at STEM for BRITAIN 2023
It was an honour to present my research in Parliament at STEM for Britain 2023. Personally, this event provided…
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The women founders contributing to Oxford’s spinout success
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Oxford awarded £1.25 million official funding to accelerate vital research, and go from local to global
Professor Chas Bountra, Oxford’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, welcomed the announcement, saying, ‘We have incredibly talented social scientists here…
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New breakthrough enables perfectly secure digital communications
This breakthrough in secure communications promises unprecedented levels of security and efficiency to its users, who may enjoy a…
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Oxford spinout opens R&D lab to apply AI to global issues
Spun out of the University of Oxford in 2016 by Professors Stephen Roberts and Michael Osborne, Mind Foundry has…
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Silk from spiders and silkworms found to be a promising material to repair injured nerves
These findings are a great step forward towards producing next-generation nerve guides that emulate the nervous architecture and possess…
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New hub receives £2 million to develop the communications technologies of tomorrow
Communications systems research is a critical area that underpins the whole future digital society and forms part of a…
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‘Rivers in the sky’ shape African climate – research
East Africa is much drier than other tropical land regions, including the Amazon and Congo rainforests. The geography of…
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Genetic variants influencing human fertility identified – new research
The findings demonstrate that fertility is affected by diverse biological mechanisms, which contribute to variations in fertility, and directly…
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International recognition is important but female scientific researchers are less internationally-mobile – report
Scientists tend to move from one country to another to advance their careers. But researchers from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for…
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Oxford researcher deployed with UK medical team to support Turkey following major earthquake
The UK is currently providing a team of roughly 100 emergency medical personnel with a field hospital and clinic…
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Oxford Professor of Poetry elections now open
The University of Oxford has opened applications to the Professor of Poetry, founded in 1708 and regarded as one of…
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Oxford Professor of Poetry applications now open
The University of Oxford has opened applications to the Professor of Poetry, founded in 1708 and regarded as one of…
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Construction of the Schwarzman Centre gets underway
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Major collaboration reveals new insights on binary star systems
Researchers from the University of Oxford have contributed to a major international study which has captured a rare and…
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Expert Comment: No UN member, whichever continent they are in, can claim Russia's invasion does not concern them
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New study could help pinpoint hidden helium gas fields – and avert a global supply crisis
Helium gas is essential for many essential functions, including the operation of MRI scanners. Image credit: Shutterstock. Dr Anran…
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How Oxford has supported Ukrainian students
In May 2022, just over two months after the war in Ukraine started, Oxford announced the launch of a…
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Small temperature rise can cause large scale forced migration – study
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Coronavirus Vaccines Research and Development Roadmap launched
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Expert Comment: Three decades on, Ukraine, a sovereign country, is fighting a war for independence
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NHS COVID-19 app saved estimated 10,000 lives in its first year, research finds
The new research, published today [22 February 2023] in Nature Communications, is the most comprehensive evaluation of the NHS…
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40% of time spent on mundane chores could be automated within 10 years – AI experts
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Expert Comment: This is no proxy war – Russia really invaded Ukraine
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Expert comment: Professor Walker on the Türkiye/Syria earthquake disaster
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Nine in ten major metropolitan areas in Europe lost population because of COVID-19 pandemic
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Oxford Biology don named new Chief Scientific Adviser
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Expert Comment: The Russian War against Ukraine: Retrospect and Prospect
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Major trials to test effectiveness of cannabidiol on psychosis
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Operation Pangolin launches to save world’s most trafficked wild mammal
Dr Dan Challender with a Sunda pangolin Manis javanica. Image credit: Dr Dan Challender. Pangolins, or scaly anteaters, are…
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Protecting our children in a crisis
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Oxford University’s SDG Impact Lab announces partnership with newly launched Rosberg Philanthropies
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Life and Mind Building construction tops out
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Expert Comment: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and European public opinion
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Oxford philosopher launches project to explore the ethics of AI
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World’s oldest European hedgehog found in citizen science project
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Professor Abigail Williams hosts docuseries on BBC Radio 4: I Feel Therefore I Am
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New study identifies key success factors for large carnivore rewilding efforts
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Two million Euro grant awarded for fundamental research in machine learning
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Oxford scientists develop test that can identify respiratory viruses within five minutes
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Oxford joins Target Oxbridge programme supporting Year-10 school students
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New multidisciplinary project will help forecast where and when deadly disease outbreaks are likely to occur
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Life in a violent country can be years shorter and much less predictable – even for those not involved in conflict.
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Oxford spinout trials revolutionary bioelectronic implant to treat incontinence
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New blood test could save lives of heart attack victims
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Expert Comment: Let's bring the city centres back to the people
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Three or more concussions linked with worse brain function in later life
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Children have not recovered learning lost during the COVID-19 pandemic – study
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More than one third of year's learning lost in pandemic – study
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Large-scale fossil study reveals origins of modern-day biodiversity gradient 15 million years ago
A scanning electron microscope image of the shell of the planktonic foraminifera species Globigerinella adamsi. This specimen was collected…
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Holocaust remembered in Oxford: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories
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COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US
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COVID-19 increased public trust in science, new survey shows
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Gero Miesenböck awarded 2023 Japan Prize
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Major funding for Oxford will help find new cancer treatments
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Leaping beetles inspire new, miniature jumping robots
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Role of lymphatic system in bone healing revealed
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CO2 removal is essential, along with emissions' cuts, to limit global warming – report
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Vaccination shown to protect against pregnancy complications from COVID-19 Omicron variant
To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 Omicron variant on maternal and neonatal outcomes the researchers studied 1,545 pregnant…
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New study shows that most plastic debris on Seychelles beaches comes from far-off sources
The model simulated the movement of both land-based and marine types of plastic pollution across the world’s oceans. This…
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Oxford to lead international consortium to unlock potential of programmable nucleic acid drugs
Programmable nucleic acid-based therapeutics have come of age at pace during the pandemic, with billions of doses of mRNA…
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University of Oxford Chemist honoured in annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Professor Perkin’s research focuses on the diverse properties that fluids can exhibit, depending on their chemical composition. Seawater, biological…
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International trade and world economies exposed to multi-billion-dollar climate risk to ports – Oxford study
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Professor Tim Palmer wins Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal
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Climate goals can be achieved at affordable cost, if fossil fuel producers pay for carbon clear up – Oxford-led study
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Raising the minimum age of trophy hunted lions could make hunting more sustainable, new study finds
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Oxford students join forces with business to tackle the most pressing challenges of our time
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Oxford University to co-lead £8m Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory to help UK reach net-zero
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Significant scale-up investment for three Oxford spinouts
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New Vice-Chancellor ready to 'fire and wire' University with Oxford and world
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Chancellor welcomes new VC of Oxford Irene Tracey
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‘Made in Oxford’ Vice-Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey sets out vision
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Compound extreme heat and drought will hit 90% of world population – Oxford study
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Molnupiravir doesn't reduce COVID-19 hospitalisations in high-risk vaccinated people
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New Year Honours 2023
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Oxford vaccinologist Teresa Lambe honoured with Irish Abroad award
A vaccine scientist from the University of Oxford recently received the prestigious Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish…
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Oxford students successfully send an experiment into space
Last month, the students travelled to the United States with representatives from the education outreach charity to complete final…
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New study finds logged tropical forests are surprisingly vibrant and need protection
A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford, finds that logged rainforests are treasure-troves of healthy ecological…
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Satellite imagery reveals for first time that wild African elephants choose paths leading directly to their favourite food
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Satellite imagery reveals that wild African elephants choose paths leading directly to their favourite food
A study involving University of Oxford researchers used high-resolution satellite imagery to investigate how plant diversity affects elephant movements.…
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Oxford climate research excellence recognised by renewed Met Office partnership
The University of Oxford has been selected to help deliver the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further…
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Oxford Ebola vaccine manufactured and shipped in record time by SII
More than 40,000 doses of Oxford’s Ebola vaccine have been manufactured by SII (Serum Institute of India) in just…
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Oxford offers new scholarships to care-experienced graduates
The Academic Futures programme, which aims to address under-representation and help improve equality, diversity and inclusion in Oxford’s graduate…
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Nearly 1 in 10 young people experience physical pain and suicidality
Researchers say more awareness is needed across a range of health, social care, and school-based services in how to…
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Global coalition of experts urge COP15 negotiators to uphold 2030 targets
Researchers and conservation experts reinforce the need for ambitious targets by 2030 to focus, motivate and finance actions to…
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Mapping the old with the new: handheld 3D scanning of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre
Accurate, 3D maps of buildings are valuable assets for many different purposes, from preserving historic sites to mapping disaster…
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‘Hand to hand’ app helps poorest with COVID impact
The app, Haate Haat (which means hand-to-hand in Bengali), was developed as part of a project to explore how…
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New exhibit highlights differences between algorithmic and human curation
In the past months, the rapid deployment of generative AI technology such as DALL-E2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have…
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Oxford leads Nature Positive Universities Alliance to reverse biodiversity decline
The Nature Positive Universities Alliance brings higher education institutions together to use their unique power and influence as drivers…
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New study highlights urgent need to safeguard deep reefs – one of the largest and least protected ecosystems
As world leaders, government negotiators, scientists and conservationists gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, to agree to halt…
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Oxford academics launch project to research the impact of technology in UK schools
Funded via the ESRC Education Research Programme, the project, which is being led by the Department of Education in…
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Oxford University delegation to champion nature at UN biodiversity conference
Time is running out to halt and reverse biodiversity loss – international cooperation and governance on biodiversity and nature…
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Big egos, lack of staff training and policy enforcement are major barriers to island conservation
A new study led by the University of Oxford is the first to quantify the day-to-day barriers that conservation…
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New Oxford scholarship paves the way for the next generation of female Fields Medallists
The new scholarship, enabled by founding and principal donor XTX, launches in memory of Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani.…
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Expert Comment: Unemployment could undermine social trust in Europe
The most recent Economic Activity and Social Change in the UK Reports suggest a slowdown in several labour market…
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New Oxford mathematics scholarship enabled by founding and principal donor XTX Markets
The new scholarship launches in memory of Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani. A £2.48 million gift from founding and principal…
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EAVI2020: The Quest for an HIV Vaccine
Since COVID-19 reared its head in December 2019, the global scientific community has developed several effective vaccines against the…
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Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases in Chinese adults
Tobacco smoking is projected to cause one billion deaths worldwide this century, mainly in low and middle income countries…
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Artwork reflects on artefacts from the Bodleian Libraries’ colonial collections in new exhibition
Contemporary artists have shared their thought-provoking responses to six artefacts from the Bodleian Libraries’ colonial collections for a new…
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Artworks reflect on artefacts from the Bodleian Libraries’ colonial collections in a new exhibition
Contemporary artists have shared their thought-provoking responses to six artefacts from the Bodleian Libraries’ colonial collections for a new…
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Synthetic fibres discovered in Antarctic samples show the ‘pristine’ continent is now a sink for plastic pollution
Polarised Light Microscopy image of polyester textile fibre found in one of the Antarctic samples. Image credit: Nekton 2022.…
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New research facility launches to develop the next generation of advanced functional materials
The NTCF addresses a key research need by being one of the first facilities in the UK to provide…
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Scholarship scheme for graduates displaced by the war in Ukraine receives funding to continue
A new scholarship scheme providing financial support to graduate students displaced by the war in Ukraine has been made…
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Young lives under pressure as global crises hits mental health and well-being – report
Before the pandemic, there had been a steady but notable upward trend in young people’s sense of well-being across…
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New data from James Webb Space Telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
The telescope’s array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a “hot Saturn” – a planet…
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Four Oxford academics ‘showing great promise’ awarded European Research Council Starting Grants
This year’s funding totals €636 million, with grants awarded through a highly-competitive process. Overall, just 14% of applications were…
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First evidence drug resistant bacteria can travel from gut to lung, increasing infection risks
According to the research team, led by Oxford University’s Department of Biology, applying these findings could save lives, as…
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Expert Comment – Climate justice and credible targets..or will COP27 be remembered as a 'lame duck'?
Professor Lavanya Rajamani, professor of international environmental law and a country adviser during COP27, said, ‘The establishment of the…
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Oxford University’s Schwarzman Centre reaches construction milestone with commencement ceremony
The ceremony represents an important milestone in the single biggest capital project ever carried out at Oxford University. It…
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Many adolescents game a lot without negative effects on their wellbeing
A new study published by University of Oxford researchers in an open-access journal, JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, shows that…
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Expert Comment: Air pollution cools climate more than expected – making cutting carbon emissions more urgent
Small particles in the atmosphere also birth clouds, whether they are crystals of sea salt from the Southern Ocean…
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Oxford’s Ebola vaccine recommended for deployment against Uganda outbreak
A vaccine developed by the Oxford Vaccine Group’s Prof Teresa Lambe and supported in clinical trials and manufacture scale-up…
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New analysis of Winchcombe meteorite reveals a window into the early solar system
Meteorites can offer an invaluable window into the early solar system, since most originate from asteroids that formed…
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E-cigarettes are more effective than nicotine-replacement therapy in helping smokers quit
Research led by the University of Oxford, and funded by Cancer Research UK, has found the strongest evidence yet…
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Renowned writers read for Salman Rushdie at Bodleian Libraries
Prominent figures from the literary world came together, alongside students from the University of Oxford, for an event in…
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Expert comments: COP27 Gender Day
‘They should be co-owners and agenda-setters of the climate process, but that is not the case now, gender is…
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US top of tech-enabled countries, but China and India among the fast movers – report
Next, among the NRI’s top 10, network ready nations, are Singapore, Sweden and the Netherlands. Europe is the leading…
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Researchers make miniature ‘bone marrows in a dish’ to improve anti-cancer treatments
The study, published in the journal Cancer Discovery, describes a new method using human stem cells grown in a…
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Key cause of type 2 diabetes uncovered
Glucose metabolites (chemicals produced when glucose is broken down by cells), rather than glucose itself, have been discovered to…
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Oxford awards its highest honour to Simon and David Reuben
Simon Reuben and David Reuben have been presented with the Sheldon Medal in recognition of their support for students…
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External factors, including homicide, drive death rate disparity in US black-white young adults
Homicide deaths accounted for the largest disparity among young adults, and were 20 times as high for black males…
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COP27: Net Zero guidelines aim to drive higher standards and counter 'greenwashing' accusations
Kaya Axelsson, who is a technical author for the guidelines, says, ‘People are tired of having the wool pulled…
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Friendly monkeys have friendly microbes
The study involved analysing social network data from a population of non-captive macaques on the island of Cayo Santiago,…
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We must stop fossil fuels causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels – Prof Myles Allen
In a powerful new video message, the Oxford professor of Geosystem Science, who established the need for ‘net zero’…
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We must stop fossil fuels causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels – Prof Myles Allen
In a powerful new video message, the Oxford professor of Geosystem Science, who established the need for ‘net zero’…
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Expert Comment: Is the future of transport electric? We have to do everything, and fast
Only by curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possibly can we tackle the climate and…
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UN report calls for non-state emissions action: as new data shows 60% of top businesses have no net zero target
Setting out a new roadmap to net zero, the HLEG report states, ‘There have been 29 disasters, which cost…
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New tool could help GPs predict and prevent serious falls
The research, published in The BMJ and funded by the Wellcome Trust, Royal Society and National Institute for Health…
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University of Oxford study provides important insights into TB correlates of protection
Researchers from the University of Oxford have today reported findings from a study that investigated whether previously identified correlates…
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Profiling the entire cancer genome identifies new subgroups of blood cancer
A collaborative study led by the University of Oxford as part of the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project, published in…
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Expert Comment. American midterms: Is compromise possible amid the 'cold civil war'?
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-last-best-hope/id1511930470So entrenched have been previous battles between the two parties that, in 1861, it ended in Civil War trenches.…
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Therapeutic HIV vaccine with Oxford technology achieves encouraging results
A phase I/IIa clinical trial that the University of Oxford collaborated on has demonstrated that a T-cell therapeutic HIV…
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Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded, new study confirms
At 57km high (35 miles), the ash cloud generated by the eruption is also the first to have been…
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Bacterial armour plating has implications for antibiotics
A new study published in the journal Science Advances sheds light on how Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli construct…
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Expert Comment: European public opinion on climate change has become politicised
The European Union will present a united front in favour of ambitious climate action at the forthcoming United Nations climate change conference in…
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John Fulljames appointed as inaugural Director of Oxford University’s Humanities Cultural Programme
John has been a director for more than 20 years, collaborating with leading performers, dance companies and visual artists…
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COP27 must deliver fast action, swift justice and protect nature – Oxford experts
In a series of powerful ‘hopes’ for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the University have recorded wishes and…
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500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle
Fossil specimen (left) and diagram (right) of Gangtoucunia aspera preserving soft tissues, including the gut and tentacle. Image credit:…
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Pancreatic cancer could be diagnosed up to three years earlier
In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the University of Oxford, in partnership with Pancreatic Cancer Action…
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Oxford University joins €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project
Professor Natalia Ares. Image credit: John Cairns. Quantum technologies are based on a bizarre feature of the subatomic world…
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COP27 must deliver fast action, swift justice and protect nature – Oxford experts
In a series of powerful ‘hopes’ for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the university, have recorded wishes and…
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Oxford University hosts the Irish the Taoiseach to give its annual Romanes Lecture
The University of Oxford is hosting Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D., Prime Minister of Ireland to deliver its annual Romanes…
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Oxford University hosts Irish Prime Minister to give its annual Romanes Lecture
The University of Oxford is hosting Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D., Prime Minister of Ireland to deliver its annual Romanes…
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The Oxford Research Centre in Humanities launches Egypt Season
Running from October to December 2022, Oxford’s Egypt Season will explore the rich cultural, archaeological, artistic, and political history of…
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$3m Rockefeller Foundation funding to strengthen pandemic surveillance and response innovation co-developed by Oxford biologists
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced $3 million in new funding for Global.health (G.h) – a first-of-its-kind, open-source platform for…
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Two major meteorite impacts reveal new insights about the surface of Mars
Illustration showing NASA’s InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. On 24 December…
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Oxford contributes to new UK research consortium to tackle monkeypox
The consortium will be led by the Pirbright Institute and the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, but researchers from across…
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Oxford joins Schmidt Futures’ $148 million global initiative to accelerate use of AI in scientific research
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a programme of Schmidt Futures, aims to accelerate the…
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Africa needs country-specific narratives for a clean energy future – study
Published in world-leading journal Nature Energy, the research was carried out by a team of 40 African researchers and…
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Horse Power: €10 million for project in which Terracotta warriors meet the ancient Mongolian state
It is one of just 29 Synergy grants being awarded by the European Research Council today, from 360 applications.…
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New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origins of lizards
The tiny skeleton discovered on the Isle of Skye, called Bellairsia gracilis, is only 6 cm long and dates…
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Discovery of new ecosystem – ‘The Trapping Zone’ – creating oasis of life in the Maldives
Video evidence from Nekton science cameras aboard the Omega Seamaster II submersible, combined with collected biological samples and extensive…
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Remote digital platform working is great, if you live in a city – Oxford study
COVID-19 saw the rapid acceleration of workplace information and communication technologies, and the promise of remote work leading to work…
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Food industry shows ‘stalled progress’ to reduce salt intakes, new Oxford-led analysis finds
Excess salt consumption* increases the risk of high blood pressure and is thought to be responsible for at least…
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Four Oxford researchers win £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes
Awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the achievement of outstanding research scholars whose future career is…
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Oxford-led study finds disease outbreaks influence the colour of wolves across North America
If you were to travel from Arctic Canada and head south down the Rocky Mountains into the US towards…
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Oxford University holds public event to promote road safety
The road safety event demonstrates Oxford University’s support for the Oxfordshire County Council’s Vision Zero programme and its aim…
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Poverty rate in India was slashed, says report, but globally 1.2bn still poor
Millions of people around the world must be enabled to leave ‘multidimensional poverty’, shows research published today by the…
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COVID-19 continued to hit life expectancy in 2021 in unvaccinated populations and Eastern Europe
COVID-19 has caused a protracted shock to life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last…
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Gene associated with better immune response, protection after COVID-19 vaccination
In their findings published in Nature Medicine, the researchers found people carrying an allele (version) of an HLA gene…
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Oxford gets £122m funding for healthcare research
The NIHR Oxford BRC, a partnership between the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust,…
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Opportunity Oxford ambassadors share their thoughts on the programme as a new academic year gets underway
Now in its third year, to-date Opportunity Oxford has supported 445 offer-holders in their transition from school or college…
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Saïd Business School marks Black History Month 2022 by unveiling new scholarships
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford has unveiled plans to launch its new ‘Oxford Black Leaders Scholarships’. They are…
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Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit on Growth, Investment and Decarbonisation
The EV Summit returns with the full institutional support of Oxford University, and Oxford City Council to power the…
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Oxplore – the home of Big Questions online – celebrates five years engaging curious young minds
Since its launch in 2017, more than 1.5 million people, including students and teachers from around the world, have…
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New study finds that monkeypox virus can spread widely within specialist hospital isolation rooms
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recommends that patients with monkeypox who have severe disease requiring hospital admission are…
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The University of Oxford launches fully online Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Research to tackle inequities in health research leadership
A new online Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Research, the first of its kind at Oxford, will offer researchers…
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Oxford Professor Ketan Patel appointed as Chief Scientist at Cancer Research UK
Professor Patel (KJ) will provide scientific leadership for the charity’s activities and ambitions, and he joins at an important…
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Chancellor opens new 'Back Quad' buildings at the heart of Wadham's commitment to broadening access
Lord Patten joined Alastair Locke on October 7 as well as more donors and friends of Wadham College to…
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Oxford Professor, Luciano Floridi, wins Italy's highest award
Other illustrious winners of the Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana or the Knight of…
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Oxford University named world’s top university for the 7th consecutive year
The University of Oxford has been named the best university in the world for a record seventh consecutive year…
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals new surprises on galaxy organic molecules near black holes
Research led by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the nuclear…
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MenACWY teenage meningitis vaccine programme drives herd immunity across all ages
In the study, which is published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection, the researchers took throat swabs and assessed the…
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University of Oxford partners with Novo Nordisk Foundation to offer new research opportunities for talented international postdoctoral scientists
The University of Oxford is to join the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, as part of the…
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New analysis of shipping emissions reveals that air pollution has a larger effect on climate than previously thought
Human aerosol emissions have a cooling effect on the planet, because they can make clouds brighter by providing extra…
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New computational technique reveals changes to lung function post COVID-19 infection
As a respiratory disease, COVID-19 infection mainly affects the lungs. While most people recover completely, a significant number of…
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Driving change: Oxford academic awarded £700k-plus for project to improve working lives in logistics.
Part of the Government’s research and knowledge exchange body, the Economic & Social Research Council, has today announced the hotly-contested…
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Outsourced children’s care homes provide poorer quality care – Oxford study
Dr Anders Bach-Mortensen, Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow from Oxford’s Department for Social Policy and Intervention, says, ‘It is well…
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Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2022
Oxford is less set in stone than it looks Colleagues, thank you for being here. I would like to…
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New Saïd Dean Soumitra Dutta highlights international innovation
The GII report states, ‘Historic data, plus the global economic recession, would have led one to expect a prompt…
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Feelings 'ratings' are highly predictive of future behaviour – research
Every day, we are asked to rate our feelings on a scale of one to 10: how happy are…
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Cultural Heritage on the Frontline: the destruction of peoples and identities in war
The Russian invasion has precipitated humanitarian challenges not seen in Europe since the Second World War. It has also…
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Oxford spinout Optellum secures $14m funding to advance pioneering AI-powered lung cancer diagnosis technology
The investment will enable Optellum to scale its base, operations, and commercial launches in the UK and USA; accelerate…
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New study shows higher rate of fractures in people with intellectual disability
The researchers, led by Senior Clinical Researcher Valeria Frighi at the Department of Psychiatry, looked at rates of fracture…
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Professor Kia Nobre awarded prestigious Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2022
Main image: Professor Kia Nobre (left) receiving the Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science with Charlene L de Carvalho-Heineken (right),…
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Discovery of new nanowire assembly process could enable more powerful computer chips
In a newly-published study, a team of researchers in Oxford University’s Department of Materials led by Harish Bhaskaran, Professor…
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How Global South cities can work better: free course based on Oxford-led urban research
The result of the five-year PEAK Urban project, involving more than 100 international researchers, the course was launched at the…
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President of St John’s College to deliver Royal Institution’s 2022 Christmas Lectures
In a series of three Lectures to be broadcast on BBC Four in late December, Dame Sue will share…
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Language learning difficulties in children linked to brain differences
A new study using MRI has revealed structural brain changes in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), a common…
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‘Activist investor’ makes funding commitment to Black Academic Futures
Bluebell Capital Partners has made an initial donation to the Black Academic Futures programme at Oxford University, which will…
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Oxford University research on show at the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival 2022
What does it take to make a vaccine? How do birds fly? Why would you take a plant to…
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New research reveals relationship between particular brain circuits and different aspects of mental wellbeing
Researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered previously unknown details about how changes in the brain contribute to…
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Professor David Deutsch awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Now in their 11th year, the Breakthrough Prizes are renowned as the ‘Oscars of Science,’ and were founded by…
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Graduate access programme for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds draws to a close
This summer, more than 130 students from across the UK experienced what it’s like to undertake postgraduate study at…
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Night-time blood pressure assessment is found to be important in diagnosing hypertension
When blood pressure is monitored over 24 hours, individuals can be divided into three groups according to their blood…
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Online arts and culture engagement can have a positive impact on young people’s mental health: Oxford study
Published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, the paper is a collaboration between academics from Oxford’s…
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Oxford celebrates the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement Awards
Highly Commended These awards recognise work from across the University including the gardens, libraries and museums and represent partnerships…
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Oxford University tops The Times Good University Guide 2023 rankings
The University of Oxford has secured a top spot in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023…
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Decarbonising the energy system by 2050 could save trillions – Oxford study
Transitioning to a decarbonised energy system by around 2050 is expected to save the world at least $12 trillion,…
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Oxford researchers develop new AI to enable autonomous vehicles to adapt to challenging weather conditions
Yasin Almalioglu, who completed the research as part of his DPhil in the Department of Computer Science, said: ‘The…
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Malaria booster vaccine continues to meet WHO-specified 75% efficacy goal
The authors report from a Phase IIb randomised, controlled, double-blind trial conducted at the Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro…
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More than 10 million children were affected by COVID-19-associated parental and caregiver deaths
The new study, involving the University of Oxford, Imperial College, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the Centers for…
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Oxford University project aims to preserve Second World War memories
A project led by the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford is looking for contributions to a…
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Oxford archaeologists discover monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across Arabian desert
Led by Dr Michael Fradley, a team of researchers in the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North…
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Oxford archaeologists discover monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across Arabian desert
Led by Dr Michael Fradley, a team of researchers in the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North…
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University tours, family activities and a chance to explore behind the scenes at Oxford Open Doors 2022
Oxford Open Doors returns this month and once again Oxford University and its Colleges are joining in with numerous…
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Oxford to host net zero technology summit
The inaugural OX to ZERO summit on Thursday 1st September will feature experts from a variety of fields dedicated…
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New study shows muscle pain is not due to statins in over 90% of those taking the treatment
The study demonstrated that muscle pain or weakness is common in adults, regardless of whether they take a statin…
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Oxford partners with the Optiver Foundation to launch new international postgraduate scholarship programme for women in STEM
The first Optiver Foundation Scholars will begin their studies at Oxford in October 2023. Scholars will join the Departments…
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First definitive detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere
The planet in question, called WASP-39 b, is a hot gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 700 light-years away…
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Life expectancy of minorities hit hardest in the US during COVID-19
The Oxford team found that in 2020 life expectancy for Hispanic and Black males saw major set-backs of 4.5…
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Oxford University to support deep-sea expedition to the Maldives
Taking place between 4 September and 7 October, the Nekton Maldives Mission will deploy two of the most advanced…
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Maternal fat metabolism in pregnancy and fetal abdominal growth influence child weight
• The study, in six countries, followed 3,500 babies and their mothers from early pregnancy to childhood• The growth…
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Early childhood weight affected by mother's diet during pregnancy
• The study, in six countries, followed 3,500 babies and their mothers from early pregnancy to childhood• The growth…
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Oxford University launch new clinical trial to test a treatment for monkeypox
Monkeypox, a member of the smallpox family of viruses, has historically been rare outside west and central Africa. However,…
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Oxford scientists honoured with eight Royal Society Awards
The Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Team receive the Copley Medal, thought to be the world’s oldest scientific prize, for their extraordinary…
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Study reveals how hunting hawks home in on prey inside a chaotic swarm
The research was undertaken by Dr Caroline Brighton, a post-doc with the Oxford Flight Group in the Department of…
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2022 A-Level results: University of Oxford response
The University of Oxford is delighted to congratulate the many students who have successfully met their Oxford offer, and…
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Increased risk of some neurological and psychiatric disorders remains two years after COVID-19 infection
Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, the new study from the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Health…
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Student entrepreneurs win award
A team of Oxford students have won the StEP Ignite 2022 award, the University of Oxford’s Student Entrepreneurship Programme. …
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Sensory Supermarket event to help businesses make public spaces more inclusive for autistic people
Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Reading – in collaboration with awareness-raising organisation Sensory Spectacle – are hosting…
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Genetic mapping of tumours reveals how cancers grow
Understanding which cells give rise to which areas of cancer can improve our understanding of how a tumour has…
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Tackling suicide risk in people with mental disorders
The alternative approach to clinical practice, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, was developed by health practitioners and suicide prevention…
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Environmental impact of 57,000 multi-ingredient processed foods revealed
A study estimating the environmental impact of 57,000 food products in the UK and Ireland has been published by…
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Antimicrobial resistant bacteria found in newborn children from low- and middle-income countries
Every year, almost 7 million potentially serious bacterial infections are estimated to occur in newborns, resulting in more than…
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Oxford spinout MiroBio acquired by Gilead Sciences for $405m
MiroBio, an Oxford biotech spinout focused on therapeutics for inflammatory diseases, is set to be acquired by global biopharmaceutical…
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The most prominent UK business values do not include humility or gratitude – Oxford study
Data from 221 companies, the majority from the FTSE 350, forms the foundation of the report UK Business Values…
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Viral role in Alzheimer's Disease discovered
The causes of most cases of Alzheimer’s are currently unknown, but there is growing evidence to suggest microbial organisms…
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Researchers develop new breath-driven concept set to transform access to hand prosthetics
A revolutionary new hand prosthesis powered and controlled by the user’s breathing has been developed by researchers at the…
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Professor Hugh Watkins wins £30 million research award to cure killer heart diseases
An injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions that can kill young people in the prime of their lives…
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New rabies vaccine candidate demonstrates promising immune response and safety
The RAB001 trial was conducted at the University and is the first time the novel rabies vaccine has been…
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Secure cryptography with real-world devices is now a realistic possibility
In an experiment built upon three decades of fundamental research, experimental work at the Department of Physics, University of…
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Seeing the light: researchers develop new AI system using light to learn associatively
Researchers at Oxford University’s Department of Materials, working in collaboration with colleagues from Exeter and Munster have developed an…
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Oxford launches new department to further bioscience teaching and research
This merger presents new opportunities which will further enhance Oxford’s educational and research strengths in bioscience, bringing together world-leading…
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Year-12 students from across the UK get a taste of life at Oxford
Over the past four weeks (26 June to 27 July), approximately 1,200 state school students from across the UK…
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Genetic study provides evidence that alcohol accelerates biological aging
Traditionally, investigating this has been challenging due to the lack of reliable methods to measure biological aging. In addition,…
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Gaming does not appear harmful to mental health, unless the gamer can't stop – Oxford study
The research, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, found no ‘causal link’ between gaming and poor mental…
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Lonely old deers: ageing red deer become less social as they grow older
A multidisciplinary team led by researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh has found that wild red deer…
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Seven Oxford academics elected British Academy Fellows
Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is…
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When hippos roamed, past temperatures were much higher – expert comment
Although Oxford’s meteorological records go back 250 years, to before the French Revolution and even the American war of…
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Expert Comment: Hot? The UK has been much hotter
Although Oxford’s meteorological records go back 250 years, to before the French Revolution and even the American war of…
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More children aged 8-17 trying to lose weight than a decade ago, including children of a healthy weight
The largest increases in weight loss attempts were seen in boys, older children, Asian children, and children from lower…
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Oxford Science Enterprises raises £250 million to support University innovations
Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE), the independent investment company created to found, fund and build transformational businesses based on University research, has…
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Oxford vaccine saved most lives in its first year of rollout
The University believes that this has been – and continues to be – achieved through our partnership with AstraZeneca,…
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New study evaluates pharmacological treatment for insomnia
The new study, published in The Lancet, and funded by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, is the…
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Elephant genes could hold the key to avoiding cancers
Scientists from seven research institutions including the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh have used pioneering bioinformatic…
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Electric race car designed by students takes part in Formula Student at the home of British Motor Racing
The Oxford University Racing team joined teams from around the world this month to take part in the IMechE…
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NGOs must rapidly evolve to stay relevant, say NGO leaders – Oxford survey
Coming as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brings major challenges to the sector, the survey report gives an extraordinary ‘peek behind the…
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Early life infection increases sensitivity to pain in newborn babies
Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Paediatrics have discovered that infection can increase a baby’s sensitivity to pain, which may…
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UN report: Oxford analysis reveals up to half of Holocaust-related content on Telegram denies or distorts facts
In partnership with the World Jewish Congress, UNESCO and the UN sought to measure the extent of this phenomena…
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New cross-disciplinary medical research building opens in Oxford
The Institute spans three research disciplines, cardiovascular science, neuroscience and immunology, and will foster multidisciplinary collaborations. The IDRM is…
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How effective is school-based mindfulness training?
Researchers from Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Exeter, Kings College London, University College London and Pennsylvania State University…
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Oxford researchers become EMBO members
Three University of Oxford academics have become the latest to join the 1,900 eminent life scientists in Europe and…
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Novel all-in-one vaccine developed to tackle future coronavirus threats
As of July 2022, uncertainty persists as waves of SARS-CoV-2 continue to emerge. Over time, new virus variants arise…
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Pandemic Sciences Institute formally launched in Oxford
The Institute will harness the University’s research excellence as well as its global research collaborations and partnerships developed over…
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Oxford Mathematician James Maynard awarded Fields Medal 2022
The Fields Medal recognises outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement. Often described…
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Ten years since the discovery of the Higgs boson
Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, an international collaboration of particle physicists announced to the world that they…
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Rare wild ancestors of feral pigeons found living on British and Irish islands
Researchers led by members of Oxford University’s Department of Biology have found rare colonies of the wild ancestors of…
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How to spend $100 trillion wisely: Oxford course on sustainable finance
This is a huge challenge. There is a significant learning curve facing the groups that will have to design…
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How to mobilise $100 trillion wisely: Oxford course on climate change finance
This is a huge challenge. There is a significant learning curve facing the groups that will have to design…
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How to mobilise $100 trillion wisely: Oxford course on sustainable finance
This is a huge challenge. There is a significant learning curve facing the groups that will have to design…
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COVID-19 vaccine protects people of all body weights from hospitalisation and death
Obesity was flagged as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 early in the global pandemic. The UK’s vaccine programme…
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Tonga volcano eruption triggered atmospheric gravity waves that reached the edge of space
The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano in January 2022 was one of the most explosive volcanic…
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The hawk has landed: braking mid-air to prioritise safety over energy or speed
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that hawks control their flight to ensure the safest landing conditions…
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Health outsourcing linked to higher mortality rate – Oxford study
Led by Benjamin Goodair and Dr Aaron Reeves, the study found, since 2014, out-sourcing has been associated with an additional 557 deaths…
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Prestigious Muslim community award for Oxford vaccine researcher
An Oxford researcher has been honoured by the Muslim community for her outstanding work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sagida…
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Oxford student wins PhD Student of the Year award
Josephine Agyeman-Duah, a DPhil student at the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, has been named as the…
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University of Oxford throws open its doors to prospective students
Thousands of young people from around the UK have visited Oxford over the past two days (29 and 30…
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New study finds that politicians typically enjoy longer lives than general populations
In recent years, improvements in life expectancy have stalled in many high-income countries, and even declined for those in…
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Expose ‘greenwashing’ but do not ignore nature-based solutions to climate change – insists Oxford expert
Professor Seddon’s intervention comes after the words ‘nature-based solutions’ were left out of the COP26 commitment last November. Nature-based…
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Nadja Yang recognised in the Women’s Engineering Society’s Top 50 Women in Engineering awards
DPhil Systems Engineering student Nadja Yang is recognised for the award on International Women in Engineering Day. The 2022…
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Honorary degrees awarded at Encaenia 2022
Encaenia is held annually and is the ceremony at which the University of Oxford awards honorary degrees to distinguished…
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20 minutes of daily exercise can keep teens' doctors away
Jones and colleagues said their recommendation of 20 minutes per day may be more attainable for teens, as well as…
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Expert Comment: We must break free of fossil fuel Stockholm Syndrome
There is an alternative, of course, but one that vested interests and short-term oriented policymakers, wish to obfuscate: doubling…
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Prestigious Tang prize for Oxford China expert Prof. Dame Jessica Rawson
In recognition of a lifetime of research into China, the Oxford Emeritus Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology and…
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Regent’s Park College announces the appointment of a new Principal
The Governing Body of Regent’s Park College has announced news that Professor Sir Malcolm Evans KCMG OBE is to…
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Researchers develop the world's first ultra-fast photonic computing processor using polarisation
In a paper published in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method using the…
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Why we need philosophy and ethics of cyber warfare
There is no shortage of examples, ranging from the 2007 attacks against Estonia digital services and 2008 cyber-attack against…
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Five Oxford researchers awarded Future Leaders Fellowships
Five Oxford researchers are among 84 of the most promising research leaders across the UK to benefit from £98…
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Oxford to receive £7 million to turn bright ideas into global opportunities
The award follows Oxford’s recent top ranking in the UK for generating spin-out companies and its success in the…
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Discovery of gene involved in chronic pain creates new treatment target
Oxford researchers have discovered a gene that regulates pain sensitisation by amplifying pain signals within the spinal cord, helping…
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Bernadette Stolz receives L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Rising Talent fellowship
Dr Stolz receives a Rising Talent fellowship in Mathematics and Computer Science. L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Rising Talent fellowships…
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Winners of the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Awards 2022 announced
Alexandra Ramadan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics Alex works towards an inclusive academic environment and mentors younger students within her research group. She…
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Higher rate of COVID-19 death before vaccination linked to certain common inflammatory immune conditions
The findings are based on an analysis of 17 million patient GP records in England during the first phase…
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Multiple heart-related conditions linked to triple dementia risk regardless of genetics
Conducted in collaboration with the University of Exeter, the study is among the largest ever to examine the link…
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Com-COV study supports flexible priming intervals in standard/mixed schedules
It is the first reporting randomised data looking at the effect of time interval and prophylactic paracetamol use for…
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Gravity-defying spike waves rewrite the rule book
In a new study on ocean wave breaking, researchers have demonstrated that the breaking behaviour of axisymmetric ‘spike waves’…
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Common drug-resistant superbug develops fast resistance to 'last resort' antibiotic
A study published today in Cell Reports reveals how populations of a bacterium called Pseudomonas respond to being treated…
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Oxford scientists win seven Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes
The Research and Innovation Prizes celebrate brilliant individuals across industry and academia. The Horizon Prizes celebrate the most exciting,…
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Researchers show dynamic soaring isn’t just for albatrosses
The new study published today in Science Advances proves it isn’t just albatrosses that perform the aerial acrobatics needed…
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Museum of Natural History to showcase Science Together community-researcher collaborations
What happens when eight Oxfordshire community groups are given access to the world-class skills, knowledge and resources of the…
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Queen’s Birthday Honours recognise service from Vice-Chancellor and Oxford colleagues
The citation for Professor Richardson’s Damehood highlights her key roles in attracting more undergraduates from non-traditional or deprived backgrounds…
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Doctoral research funding initiative launched to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Funding to train the next generation of cutting-edge antimicrobial resistance researchers has been announced by Ineos Oxford Institute (IOI),…
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Professor of American Government elected to oldest learned US society
Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, was honoured for his…
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Scientists explain why Uranus and Neptune are different colours
Neptune and Uranus have much in common – they have similar masses, sizes, and atmospheric compositions – yet Neptune…
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Long-distance collaboration makes scientific breakthroughs more likely
Since 2010 scientific papers written by remote collaborators are more likely to contain breakthroughs than single-location papers. This follows vast…
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New cross-sector sustainable energy transition hub opens with energy crisis forum
On Thursday 26 May Oxford University’s brand new £3.25m Zero-carbon Energy Research Oxford (ZERO) Institute and Energy Systems Accelerator…
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AI standards essential to protect doctor-patient relationships and human rights
Dr Mittelstadt is Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute and a leading data ethicist. He says, ‘I…
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Com-COV vaccine study to research third dose booster options for 12-to-15-year-olds
The Com-COV 3 study has been commissioned through the NIHR and backed by £2.8 million government funding, with support…
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New international partnership puts communities and smart grids at the heart of net zero
Today marks the official launch of an international knowledge-sharing partnership of distribution network operators and community energy enterprises and…
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Ehud Hrushovski joint winner of this year's Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
Oxford mathematician Ehud Hrushovski and Noga Alon receive the award for their contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction…
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Population-scale study highlights ongoing risk of COVID-19 in some cancer patients despite vaccination
A study co-led by the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and Southampton and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), published…
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Major boost for Oxford’s mission to counter future pandemic threats
The generous donation will drive forward several core research strands, provide support for doctoral students and secure the future…
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50-year project reveals new insights about the evolution and influence of Voltaire's thought
Among the many insights from the process of collecting and annotating Voltaire’s writings was the discovery in 2012 of…
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New reporting guidelines developed to improve AI in healthcare settings
New reporting guidelines, jointly published in Nature Medicine and the BMJ by Oxford researchers, will ensure that early studies…
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Rainforest trees may have been dying faster since the 1980s because of climate change – study
Deterioration of such forests reduces biomass and carbon storage, making it increasingly difficult to keep global peak temperatures well…
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Honorary degree recipients for 2022 announced
At the Encaenia ceremony, degrees will be awarded to Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Sir Lenny Henry, Dr…
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Prince Charles opens new Levine Building at Trinity College
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited Trinity College on Thursday 12 May to officially open the new…
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Oxford’s REF 2021 results show largest volume of world-leading research
The UK Funding Bodies have published the outcomes of the recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework…
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Eight Oxford researchers elected to Royal Society
All were selected for their outstanding contributions in various scientific fields and are as follows: Professor Fernando Alday of…
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Bank of America in key partnership with Oxford’s Smith School to support climate and sustainable finance research
Bank of America has pledged £1.2 million to the University of Oxford to support greenhouse gas and sustainable finance…
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Professor Irene Tracey CBE FMedSci nominated as next Oxford Vice-Chancellor
A renowned neuroscientist, Professor Tracey has led Merton College since 2019 and is also currently Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience…
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Sale of donkey skins linked to trade in illegal wildlife products
Newly published research raises important concerns about whether the trade in donkey skins is being used as a cover…
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Dairy products linked to increased risk of cancer
Overall evidence to date on whether eating dairy products affects the risk of cancer has been inconsistent. Studies on…
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Dairy products linked to increased risk of cancer
Overall evidence to date on whether eating dairy products affects the risk of cancer has been inconsistent. Studies on…
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Fully funded scholarship scheme launches for graduate students from Ukraine
Building on Oxford’s long-standing commitment to refugee scholars and other forced migrants globally, a graduate scholarship scheme offering targeted…
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DeepMind CEO to give lecture on AI's potential for scientific discovery
The lecture, which will be hosted by Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI, is part of The Obert…
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Oxford University launches the Astrophoria Foundation Year for underrepresented students
The programme, part of Oxford’s continuing drive to diversify the undergraduate body and wholly funded by an anonymous donor,…
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Neither detection nor control of high blood pressure improved by self-monitoring during pregnancy
The findings, published in two papers in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), come from the largest…
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Breakthrough in treatment for Dupuytren’s disease
Injection of the anti-TNF drug adalimumab into Dupuytren’s disease nodules is effective in reducing nodule hardness and nodule size.…
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LEGO Foundation gives £11 million in support of international parenting initiative
Leading the Oxford contribution are Dr Jamie Lachman and Professor Lucie Cluver, part of the team behind the highly successful research-based COVID-19…
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CAMS Oxford Institute unveiled at virtual ceremony
Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) signed a cooperation agreement at a virtual unveiling ceremony…
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Oxford scientist named Australian of the Year in the UK
The Oxford Vaccine Group’s Lead Statistician, Professor Merryn Voysey, received the prestigious Australian of the Year in the UK…
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Call the Academic: Oxford researcher wins BBC centenary grant for project exploring long-running ‘Midwife’ drama
To mark 100 years of BBC broadcasting, the AHRC has given seven researchers funds for public engagement activities. Alice’s…
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Call the Academic: Oxford researcher wins BBC centenary grant for project exploring long-running ‘Midwife’ drama
Call the Midwife fan and Oxford postgraduate student, Alice Watson, has today been awarded Arts and Research Council funding…
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75 years of the influential Great Tit study at Wytham Woods
Wytham Woods’ Great Tit study celebrates 75 years and reveals how spring has advanced a calendar month in that…
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Expert Comment: Five new(s) and five olds in the sixth IPCC report on mitigating climate change
The headline insights from the final instalment of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report were clear: Evidence on what works…
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Multi-million pound European grants for four ‘excellent research leaders’ at Oxford
The prestigious grants have been made after a highly-competitive process. Just 14% of applications were successful this year: only…
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Sapphire fibre could enable cleaner energy and air-travel
The work, published in the journal Optics Express, uses a sapphire optical fibre – a thread of industrially grown…
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Expert Comment: Putin’s Russia: people increasingly identify with the Soviet Union – here’s what that means
People’s identification with the Soviet Union appears to have a clear and growing basis in Russian public opinion. Surveys…
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Researchers assess Oxford University's impacts on biodiversity and how to mitigate them
In 2021, Oxford University adopted a world-leading Environmental Sustainability Strategy, which committed it to both Net Zero carbon emissions…
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No rest for new elephant mothers
GPS data shows new mothers and calves can keep up with the herd right after birth. Research published today…
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Protease inhibitors safer than thought for pregnant women with HIV
Globally, more than 37 million people were living with HIV in 2020, including 19 million women of childbearing age…
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Government gives £15 million to build software and computer systems at the heart of a new international telescope system
More than £15million has today been awarded to six UK universities and laboratories, for work on what will be…
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New W boson measurement deviates from the Standard Model
International scientists have taken the most precise measurement of the W boson to date – determining the mass of…
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Abused children who were adopted did ‘significantly better’ than those brought up in care – research
Adoption has long been seen as better for children than remaining in care, but the results – based on…
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Breakthrough success in provision of automated psychological therapy using virtual reality
In the largest ever clinical trial of VR for mental health, published today in The Lancet Psychiatry, and funded…
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Oxford men's crew claim victory in 2022 Boat Race after Cambridge women’s win
Oxford’s men’s crew won the 2022 Gemini Boat Race as it returned to the Tideway this year, where Cambridge…
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Oxford University retains top spot for spinout generation in the UK
The report, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering, has identified 193 spinouts emerging from Oxford University since 2011,…
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Nature prefers symmetry and simplicity
From snowflakes to sunflowers, starfish to sharks, symmetry is everywhere in nature. Not just in the body plans which…
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New award will empower students from underrepresented groups to excel in future careers
Launching in Trinity term, the Dr Miranda Brawn Award will enable recipients to undertake career development projects during the…
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No increased risk of brain tumours for mobile phone users, new study finds
Since mobile phones are held close to the head, the radiofrequency waves they emit penetrate several centimetres into the…
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Little understood brain region linked to how we perceive pain
The little understood area of the brain called the claustrum may be the next frontier in improving outcomes for…
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Negative impact of social media affects girls and boys at different ages – study
Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during…
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Delaying clean energy transition would be ‘lose-lose’ for UK energy security, households and the climate
Since the 2014 invasion of Crimea, the UK has spent in excess of £22 bn importing oil and gas…
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New study finds giant predatory dinosaurs could hunt underwater
New research by a multi-institution team including the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the University of Oxford and…
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Expert Comment. Ukraine war: Putin’s masterclass in delusion, denial and defeat
Russia has become the reviled aggressor in a war it seemingly cannot win, rather than the clever player of…
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Oxford launches new Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Named in recognition of a generous donation from the Peter Bennett Foundation, the new Bennett Institute is based within…
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The RECOVERY Trial is two years old today
On the second anniversary of its official launch, the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) remains an exceptional study…
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The RECOVERY Trial – two years on
On the second anniversary of its official launch, the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) remains an exceptional study…
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Oxford launches new multi-disciplinary ZERO Institute
Bringing together leading academics from a range of disciplines, the Institute will address the questions surrounding zero-carbon energy systems…
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British Academy creates new ‘oracy’ fellowship – to investigate levelling up through talk
Dr Holmes-Henderson will be working with Voice 21, the national oracy education charity, carrying out research into the problem…
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Oxford researchers' index shows international healthcare systems becoming more universal
Data derived using the new index also identified that countries with more universal healthcare systems had better health outcomes,…
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Researchers develop the world's first power-free frequency tuner using nanomaterials
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania…
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Largest genetic study of pleural infection reveals complex nature of common disease
A new genetic study of the bacteria that cause pleurisy has shown most cases involve more than one type…
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Expert Comment: Economic sanctions are not likely immediately to shift Russian opinion against Putin
To address these issues, we analysed the effects of sanctions on Russian public opinion using surveys we conducted in…
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Expert Comment: How ordinary Ukrainian families are suffering under Russian shells
As someone who has spent extensive time in Ukraine over several years studying, volunteering with orphaned children and families…
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Expert Comment: Putin’s war – How did we get here? ….Ukraine 2014
With the central government in disarray, President Yanukovych fled to Russia, with the help of Russian military intelligence and…
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Oxford further commits to best research practice by joining UKRN
The University of Oxford has become an institutional member of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), a national peer-led initiative…
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First UK pilot study of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy launched in Oxford
Oxford University is initiating a population-based newborn screening study in the Thames Valley. This study aims to make it…
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Oxford historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts
Ithaca is the first deep neural network that can aid historians in not only restoring the missing text of…
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Historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts
Ithaca is the first deep neural network that can aid historians in not only restoring the missing text of…
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Oxford University receives planning permission for the new Humanities building
Oxford University’s application to build the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site…
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Oxford University receives planning permission for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Oxford University’s application to build the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site…
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Expert Comment: The UK is failing to meet its obligations to refugees from Ukraine
Lives are saved when countries offer people at risk of serious harm safe and legal routes to protection. It…
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Expert Comment: How history will look back on Russian invasion
‘At the bottom of the Kremlin’s view of world affairs is a traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity,’…
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Oral paratyphoid vaccine to begin human trials
In the first study of its kind, after vaccination volunteers will be ‘challenged’ with paratyphoid to see whether the…
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Professor Lynne Cox helps lead UK project to transform older age health
The BLAST (Building Links in Ageing Science and Translation) network brings together researchers from across the country to increase…
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Brain regions related to smell show decline following mild COVID-19
The findings, published in Nature, reveal tissue damage and greater shrinkage in brain areas related to smell. This new…
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Expert Comment: Ukraine has earned a future in the European Union
For 77 years since 1945, people have compared this or that European figure to Adolf Hitler. For 77 years,…
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Rabies vaccine candidate begins human trials in Tanzania
The University of Oxford and the Ifakara Health Institute today announced the vaccination of the first participants in a…
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Large mammals can help climate change mitigation and adaptation
When it comes to helping mitigate the effects of climate change by absorbing carbon, flora rather than fauna usually…
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Large mammals can help climate change mitigation and adaptation
When it comes to helping mitigate the effects of climate change by absorbing carbon, flora rather than fauna usually…
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RECOVERY trial shows Baricitinib reduces deaths in patients hospitalised with COVID-19
The benefit was in addition to those of dexamethasone and tocilizumab, two other anti-inflammatory treatments which have previously been…
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Moral questions – and answers – around helping Ukraine, assassinating murderous leaders and nuclear threats
Presenter Michael Buerk and panellists, Melanie Phillips and Matthew Taylor, asked the questions: Q. What principle helps us to…
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Moral questions – and answers – around helping Ukraine, nuclear deterrents and self-defence
Presenter Michael Buerk and panellists, Melanie Phillips and Matthew Taylor, asked the questions: Q. What principle helps us to…
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COVID-19 Multi-omic Blood Atlas (COMBAT) published
The COVID-19 Multi-omic Blood Atlas (COMBAT) defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity. A multi-disciplinary, cross-Divisional collaborative team led…
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Ukraine crisis: new research-led support for 'hero' parents and caregivers
Parents & Caregivers are heroes: Protecting your children in the crisis Responding to the crisis in Ukraine, Oxford University…
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The hidden footprint of low-carbon indoor farming
Faced with population growth, environmental change, and increasing concerns over food security and sustainability – the interest in Controlled…
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Two years on: Covid-19 threatens to derail the prospects for a generation in the global south – report
Two years into the pandemic, marginalised young people in developing countries are struggling to cope and going hungry –…
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Art for our sake: Artists cannot be replaced by machines – study
The report, ‘AI and the Arts: How Machine Learning is Changing Artistic Work’, was co-authored with OII researchers Professor…
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