Did you know that aeroplanes are able to fly because of tiny, TINY structures, less than the width of…
The months of lockdown were difficult. From an energy perspective, however, we were able to learn a lot. In…
On 28th February 2021, at around 10pm, a meteor streaked across the skies of the UK ☄️. Thanks to…
What does origami have to do with engineering…and 3D printing…and robots?! Quite a lot, it turns out! In this…
Combining your work with your favourite hobby – surely that’s the dream? Meet Sebastian Pearson, an Engineering PhD student…
The primary aim of healthcare is to improve the lives and wellbeing of patients. But how can we be…
What’s the shape of water? 💧🤔 Have you ever seen an insect walking on water? Or noticed that water…
It’s dark and cold outside. Your bed is warm and cosy. Even after you’ve got up, you struggle to…
Here we go, just a short walk from the office kitchen to the desk and…. “urgh”. Not again! Precious…
“It looked like a child’s colouring book where you can’t go over the lines – but the consequences of…
You find fossils on the beach, right? If you’re really lucky and spend ages looking? WRONG! Fossils – by…
It’s no surprise that walking is good for us physically, but did you know that walking can actually make…
During Barley Rose’s lifetime, about 75% of the world’s flying insects have disappeared. Join us for this episode of…
How well do you know your bird neighbours? Become better acquainted in this episode of ‘Lockdown Walks’, with Oxford…
“Spring has sprung, the flowers are here, but how do they know it’s the right time of year?” If…
Think you need to be somewhere really remote, with a high-tech telescope, to observe the night sky? Think again!…
“On Earth when it snows, it snows crystallised water lava.” Um, what? Intrigued? Join us on this chilly lockdown…
How can we predict the future of grassland ecosystems? What’s it like to be an ecologist working in the…
How can we sustainably electrify parts of the world that don’t currently have access to clean and reliable energy?…
What does the future hold for electric vehicles? We know that they represent a cleaner, greener way of getting…
Hearing voices can come in many forms – some voices are friendly, helpful, insightful and inspiring whilst others are…
Have you ever walked down the street and seen a rooftop covered in black shiny panels? Ever wondered exactly…
Woolly jumpers, pumpkin-picking, steaming mugs of cocoa – there are lots of things to love about Autumn (or Fall…
Plant scientist Dr Hayley Tumas is out for a walk in the English countryside…but she’s not the only American…
Seabirds – including penguins – are amongst the most threatened animals on the planet. They are also very useful…
Have you ever wondered how to spot a badger? Well you’re in luck! In this episode of ‘Lockdown Walks’,…
If you don’t think there’s much left to discover on a local walk, think again! In our ‘Lockdown Walks’…
Tackling a previously unseen pathogen – like the one that causes COVID-19 – is like piecing together a puzzle.…
Chloroplasts are tiny protein-filled units within plant cells. As well as being responsible for photosynthesis, they are critical to…
We often think of our bodies in terms of cells and genes, but we shouldn’t forget that they’re also…
Volcanoes are present across the Earth, from the barren wastes of Antarctica to densely populated regions in Europe, Asia…
Mars today is colder than Antarctica and drier than the Sahara — but scratch just beneath its dusty red coating…
During the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago), the world was very different! It was hotter, with…
Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, yet only 15% of the ocean floor has been mapped…
The placenta is a fascinating organ, which allows communication between mother and foetus through the release of bubble-like vesicles.…
Our world is getting more and more densely populated. By 2050 there’ll be nearly 10 billion people on our…
Machine learning is all around us; on our phones, powering social networks, helping the police and doctors, scientists and…
How do you retrieve data from sensors embedded in underwater settings – such as those monitoring ecosystem change, for…
Is there anything nicer than a fresh, juicy, home-grown tomato on a summer’s day? Whether you like them sliced…
Misinformation about the war in Ukraine – and countless other topics, such as the pandemic and climate change –…
Masks, social distancing, lockdowns. We’ve become intimately familiar with numerous COVID-19 control measures over the past two years. Now,…
From biting our nails to idly scrolling on our phones, we all have those habits we wish we didn’t.…
Over the past year, we’ve seen our energy bills reach unimaginable heights. The war in Ukraine is having devastating…
In this episode of the Big Questions podcast, we’re talking about one of our favourite guilty pleasures – ordering…
What do you think of when someone says “the most dangerous animal in the world”? A lion perhaps? Or…
Did you know there are different types of pain? In this episode of the Big Questions Podcast, we chat…
One way to delve deep into the ancient history of the Earth – or other planetary bodies for that…
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose…” Many of us will be very familiar with Santa’s famous…
Online communication channels are popular, to say the least. For instance, there are 187 million active Twitter users per…
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic there was a lot of confusion, as we all tried to…
Satellites have been orbiting our planet for the past few decades. We might be familiar with how they can…
From California to Greece to Australia, it seems like every time we switch on the news there’s another wildfire…
Chocolate. It’s rare to find anyone who isn’t partial to a square or two of this delicious treat. But…
WHODUNNIT?! Nowadays, the idea of encountering robots in our daily lives isn’t pure science fiction. Many of us interact…
Do you remember when the price of fizzy drinks in the UK went up slightly a few years ago?…
An arboretum could be described as a “living library”. A beautifully curated collection of woody plants (trees and shrubs)…
Lockdowns, social distancing, restrictions on ‘normal’ activities – we’ve all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. But how has…
Their distinctive ‘teacher teacher’ call is synonymous with British gardens, but great tits are facing a big problem –…
Remember those days when it was possible to climb aboard a plane and jet off around the world? Well,…
The moon may be the closest planetary body to us, but we still have a lot to learn about…
We’re over a year into the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s affected our lives in many ways – including, for…
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to hear a lion roar (whether that’s at the zoo or in the…
In this year’s Valentine’s episode, we’re exploring that most special of relationships. That’s right – the one between us…
It’s a question that’s on the lips of politicians, scientists and policy-makers right across the globe – who should get…
Is it possible to edit someone’s genes before they are born to make them a nicer, kinder, more moral…
Most of us have probably heard of video games being described as “addictive”, but is there evidence of this?…
It’s that time of year – the festive jumpers are going on, the lights are going up, and we’re…
Did you know that the winner of the 2019/2020 Fantasy Premier League, beating over 7 million other players, was…
We’ve probably all heard the phrase ‘Big Brother is watching you’ (a reference to the fictional character in George…
‘Influencers’ are here like never before…log on to social media, and there will be someone there to tell you…
We’re all pretty used to hearing lots of pandemic-related terminology by now. I mean, last year, who knew what ‘social…
We all feel pain differently. What to one person may be the worst pain in the world, might be…
Things have changed a lot over the past few months – including, for many of us, our daily routine.…
Established in 1621, the Oxford Botanic Garden was the first botanic garden in the UK. It has been –…
As we search for a way out of the global coronavirus crisis, there’s been plenty of discussion surrounding a…
Just one mosquito bite is enough to infect someone with malaria. Tackling this serious – sometimes fatal – subtropical…
Much less is known about the Indian Ocean than either the Atlantic or Pacific. It’s also less protected. What…
We’re living in extraordinary times, where graphs and statistics are splashed across newspaper front pages, and misinformation is rife.…
When it comes to mass-producing food, it’s important to make sure the taste is consistent, and good! But how…
Coronavirus has been hitting the headlines since late 2019, and is now at the forefront of many people’s minds.…
With one person admitted to hospital every 5 minutes in the UK because of a heart attack, the ability…
Looking for ‘The One’, or maybe just a date for Valentine’s Day? The dating scene has changed significantly over…
Much of post 1920s astronomy rests on her shoulders. Without her, we wouldn’t have a three-dimensional sky. Leavitt’s Law…
We’re pretty obsessed with the concept of ageing. Ancient civilizations supposedly sought an ‘elixir of life’, and today many…
It’s a new year (and a new decade!) and many of us will be looking to turn over a…
We know it as the home of Father Christmas, but why is Lapland of interest to geologists? In this…
Who doesn’t love a cuddle? Whether it is from a pet or a person they just make us feel…
Love is in the air – or is it? Companies are advertising that they can find you love through…
I am an Associate Professor of Engineering Science in the Oxford Robotics Institute which is part of the Department…
“With a background in metamorphic petrology, I look to apply my expertise to ore deposit systems related to battery…
Hi my name is Becky! I did my Biological Sciences undergraduate degree at Oxford, and then I popped over…
I’m from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. Before my DPhil at Oxford, I did a BSc in biology at…
I am a postdoctoral researcher and director of research at the Programme on Democracy and Technology at the Oxford…
Having completed my undergraduate degree at Oxford University in the Department of Materials Science, I joined the atom probe…
I’m a historian of medicine and, more specifically, I research the relationship between disease and society. I’m particularly interested…
I’m a computational neuroscientist in the first year of my DPhil (PhD) at Oxford. I first started studying the…
I am a researcher focusing on the links between food, environment, health, and economics. I am particularly interested in…
I am a researcher focussing on the links between food and the environment, and how changes to our food…
It took me a while to decide what I wanted to do and I left school without any A…
I’ve been so fascinated by origami, i.e., its origin as art, its magic in maths, and its potential for…
I started doing tricks on scooters when I was 13 and I was hooked. A few years later, when…
I studied Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, which is where I first came across pain research. I thought…
I am a final year medical student at McMaster University in Canada, taking a sabbatical from MD studies to…
During just 5 – 10 million years following the ignition of a star, the giant cloud of material that…
After graduating from the University of Cambridge as an Economist, I moved to Beijing for two years where I…
My research focuses on the effects of sleep on mental health. I did my undergraduate degree in Human Cognition…
Melinda Mills (MBE, FBA) is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) and Professor of Demography and…
I enjoyed both maths and physics at school as they explain how the world works, and some amazing teachers…
I was born in a rural town in the mountains of Catalonia, and I have had a passion for…
I’m originally from Lisbon, Portugal where I finished my degree in 2006. My first real contact with science was…
My Story My ancestors were slaves, my grandparents attended segregated schools during the Jim Crow era in the American…
I am a final year DPhil student studying clinical neuroscience at Oxford. My first encounter with neuroscience was when…
Since childhood Ingmar has been fascinated by the notion of machine intelligence. Like many in his field of research…
I can’t remember a time I’ve not been excited by science and maths! The universe is just so amazing…
I studied Psychology as an undergraduate, and then joined Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust to gain experience in mental…
At school, Mike Dodd enjoyed biology and chemistry, and had an inspirational teacher who had worked in research. It…
My Story One of my earliest memories is being totally awestruck and overwhelmed looking at the star filled sky…
Imad Ahmed is an environmental geochemist and an RSC Chartered Chemist (CChem). Before joining the Department of Earth Sciences…
Pete is a mathematician contributing to a range of digital analytics concepts and topics including social media, retail, consumer…
As a child, Elspeth Garman was inspired to get into science by her father and her physics teacher. After…
Nicola has a peculiar fascination with blood vessels! Through her research, she hopes to understand how they form in…
I did my undergraduate degree in Nutrition at King’s College London, and worked as a nutrition analyst for a…
I am a social scientist by background and I am interested in interaction and organisation in different kinds of…
I’m interested in how the planets (and other bodies) in the Solar System formed, evolved and what it is…
I grew up in Trowbridge, in rural Wiltshire. I did my undergraduate degree and then D.Phil. in physics at…
My Story I was born and raised in Hong Kong. I attended Chinese-speaking schools when I was growing up…
I am a Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and am…
I am a DPhil student in Condensed Matter Physics, part of the Physics and Application of Soluble Semiconductors group…
Lynda completed her PhD at Bart’s Cancer Institute working on viral gene therapy for cancer and is now a…
I earned my undergraduate (B.S.) degree in applied mathematics from California Institute of Technology and my doctoral degree from…
I study evolution and behaviour in insects. I’m interested in figuring out answers to questions like: why do males…
My Story I was born and raised in a family of nine in a tiny village of Amalo in…
I’m an evolutionary biologist and work mostly with big reptiles, like crocs, birds and dinosaurs. I’m one of those…
Medicine is a great place for subjects to meet: sciences like anatomy, physiology and pharmacology meet statistics and economics,…
I read for my PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London and received postdoctoral training at University College London,…
Colin is the Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Oxford, where he is Director of the Experimental…
In primary school I really liked the parts of science class that dealt with the planets, objects melting and…
I’m Australian and completed both my undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Sydney. I came to Oxford…
My background includes a BSc. in Environmental Science at the University of Sheffield and a PhD from Imperial College…
I’ve always been interested in how things work, and as a kid had fun building little robot arms and…
I am the Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. I am also…
Birds have fascinated me for as long as I can remember. When I began writing a personal diary at…
Seth went to Harvard for his BA in computer science and maths. After graduating, he spent a few years…
Sean completed his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford and recently finished his DPhil in…
fter growing up in the garden chasing after wildlife and watching David Attenborough documentaries, I studied Biological Sciences at…
I got interested in the effects of alcohol on the brain for two reasons. First, in my work as…
Bryony is a clinical researcher who investigates the experience of hearing voices. One of the most fascinating aspects of…
My research has focussed on the development and evaluation of surgical implants and technologies, including joint replacements, minimally invasive…
I was born and raised in Zimbabwe and spent most of my childhood exploring nature. After leaving school, I…
I’m an astronomer who works on understanding how galaxies form and evolve, while also spending time finding exoplanets, supernovae…
I always thought I was a physicist – with the first name ‘Barley Rose’ I thought studying plants would be…
Amanda Cooper-Sarkar first came to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1968, and stayed to complete her DPhil in physics…
My doctoral research centres on emerging threats to journalists from new internet-connected technologies, which seems natural given that I’ve…
After growing up in South Wales spending the majority of my youth on a rugby pitch I attended Oxford…
Starting his career in arboriculture as a climbing arborist, followed by almost ten years as a climber on the…
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…
My Story My parents emigrated from a village in Bangladesh to London, where I was born. I grew up…
I received my bachelor’s degree in 1996 from Claremont McKenna College, a small liberal arts college in California. I…
I studied as a medical student in Cambridge and did my PhD in London at Imperial. I am now …
I am a marine biologist with a passion for the aquatic world. My PhD on the conservation genetics of…
I am a Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in Experimental Psychology at Oxford. I am Italian in origin but…
I am an engineer at heart. This started when I was a little boy and would take everything to…
I am a Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford, a…
I’ve always been fascinated by the natural world and love being outdoors in general. My childhood dream was to…
Dr. Tingting Zhu is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Member of Faculty within the Department of…
I graduated from Somerville College in 2016 with an Mmath in Mathematics. Whilst writing my fourth year dissertation, entitled…
I graduated with a BA from Oxford in 1969, and followed this up with a PhD at Bristol University.…
As a neuroscientist, I am interested in how the brain works, and particularly how the human visual system can…
George followed his lifelong passion for the natural world to read Zoology at Edinburgh University. In Edinburgh, he got hooked…
Jessica Lam always wanted to be an astronaut, but was let down by her eyesight. Staying close to her…
As an undergraduate, Alan Barr studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He chose to specialise in physics as he found…
My Story I was born and raised in Vietnam for the first 15 years of my life. When I…
I have been interested in plants since I was little. And later I heard that there is a place…
Thomas Woolley became interested in maths as he found it fun and it was a common language across the…
I currently study cyber harm propagation in organisational threat intelligence sharing, drawing on law, computer science, and the social…
I’ve loved natural history since I was a wee lad, collecting fossils on the beach or looking for bugs…
After completing his degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Clarence went on to pursue a Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering…
I grew up in rural Newfoundland in Canada, and always had a keen interest in the natural world around…
I am originally from Florida, in the United States. In 2010 I received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in…
Siôn Glyn-Jones read medicine at Cambridge and later conducted his clinical attachment in London. Thereafter, he went on to…
When I was younger I was constantly asking questions about the natural world and that never really stopped! I…
I am a philosopher at the University of Oxford, based at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. I…
I am a full time DPhil student at Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health. My current research examines…
I completed my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Newcastle graduating with 1st Class Honours…
I’ve been interested in aviation and space for as long as I can remember. I’m Australian and trained in…
I’ve always been captivated by animals and the natural world. I decided to become a conservationist after studying Environmental…
Imagine a never-ending power-cut, or getting a sore throat because your light at home is coming from a kerosene…
I completed my undergraduate education at University College, Oxford studying chemistry, completing my final year project in Graham Richards’…
Growing up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland…
As a 6 year old, Jonny had a toy laptop that could only play games like Hangman, Remember the…
I have always been a bit of a geek, growing up watching Star Trek! My dream job as a…
Alize’s experience in the P450 field started in a previous postdoctoral fellowship in South Africa at the University of…
Ross combines his experience fighting bushfires in Australia with an expertise in computer science to create systems which help…
I’ve always loved the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and fascinated by the history of our planet,…
I joined WildCRU in 2014 after completing my first postdoctoral research position and DPhil in Zoology at the Edward…
Rick Hamilton completed his PhD on Molecular Electronics in 2003 and immediately joined Merck Chemicals Ltd, where he produced…
I studied natural sciences specialising in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate. I then had a…
I studied Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where my inspirational tutor at Magdalen College, Brian Bellhouse, encouraged…
Unlike many palaeontologists, Allie’s love of fossils did not stem from a childhood interest in dinosaurs. While studying Biology…
I’ve been interested in exploring the planets ever since seeing TV programmes about NASA’s Viking landers to Mars and…
I always wanted to be a physicist but growing up in a middle income family in India means that…
I am a thin-film material scientist who manages the Centre for Applied Superconductivity, in the Materials Science department at…
My research centres around how to monitor penguins and other marine predators in difficult environments such as Antarctica. Many of…
Sneha Malde undertook her first degree at Oxford, studying physics. After graduating she started training to be an accountant,…
I studied Zoology at Cambridge but always had an affinity for computing since learning to program the ZX Spectrum…
Jennifer is the Director of Statistical Consultancy in Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. She has a…
I have been interested in the natural world for as long as I can remember. So, studying Biological Sciences…
What initially got me started was my interest in technology, and my passion for knowing how things work. After…
When you are a medical student you get to spend time working in each specialty – for example as…
I always enjoyed the hands-on aspects of science experiments, mechanical gadgets and photography so by the time I went to…
I am from a family of artists and grew up to think that passion means knowing what you want…
I studied medicine in Edinburgh, and moved to Oxford to train clinically in psychiatry. I became interested in forensic…
I was always a curious child growing up, trying to understand the natural world around me through climbing trees,…
Jane Langdale graduated from the University of Bath in 1982 with a BSc in Applied Biology specializing in microbiology.…
Prof Simon Hiscock is Director of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, and a Professor of Botany…
My Story My family is from North West India – the Punjab. My father moved to Northern Ireland in…
I am a sociologist who studies the social and cultural impact of the Internet. The Internet is one of…
Inspirational teachers were behind Kit Yates choosing to study maths. He also liked the fact that maths was based…
In 2015, Tim left Oxford to take the post of Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Transfer, at the University of Birmingham.…
From a young age I’ve always been interested in space. I wanted a telescope for my birthday when my…
I’ve always been really interested in the natural world. When I was younger, this took the form of spending…
I’ve always been interested in combining physics and chemistry, and in the area of small scale phenomena where physics…
I work on understanding how humans and other species differ at the genetic level, and how this reflects events…
I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and a tutorial…
Gil McVean is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford and Acting Director of Oxford’s Big Data…
As a Chemical Engineering graduate of Bath University I have spent my career within the petrochemical and refining sectors,…
Sooo, I studied Physics at Cambridge University and then went to work in a bank, as you do. After…
My Story I moved frequently with my family – I was born in a rural town in China and…
Barbara is the Director of Lancaster University’s internationally-renowned Centre for Environmental Magnetism & Palaeomagnetism, in the Lancaster Environment Centre.…
I received my first degree in botany and biochemistry at the University of the North-West in South Africa and…
Rachel completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford followed by a DPhil in Clinical…
I’ve always loved being outdoors and surrounded by nature. From an early age I was fortunate enough to have…
Describe yourself in three words Enthusiastic, forgetful, determined. What’s the best thing you’ve ever done in your career? Field…
Describe yourself in three words Excitable, organized, slight-worrier. What’s the best thing you’ve ever done in your career? As…
Tom has studied many aspects of ecology and conservation, driven by a love of wildlife and fieldwork, and his…
My Story I was born and raised in Accra, the capital of Ghana, to a land valuation officer and…
Quantum physics opens a window to a miraculous world, where extraordinary things happen that cannot be explained by our…
My Story I was born in South London, both of my parents are first generation immigrants from Guyana and…
Dorothy Bishop was always interested in psychology, although she admits she didn’t know much about it until becoming an…
The brain is the most precious thing we have. It is what defines our social interactions, our dreams, our…
I’m an evolutionary anthropologist which means I study the influence that evolution has had upon human behaviour, physiology and…
My interest in underground construction stems from my long-standing fascination with civil engineering ‘mega projects’ such as Crossrail and…
I work on the optical properties of materials at the Clarendon Laboratory, and I am also a Fellow of The…
Kate Watkins loved the sciences as a student, but wasn’t sure which area to focus on. By choosing to…
Network science is the study of how objects interact with each other. Quite often, even simple behaviour at an…
I didn’t start off as a scientist – rather I majored in English literature at Tufts University in the…
I am a Radcliffe Scholar in Plant Sciences reading for a doctorate at the University of Oxford. Restoring our…
I’m a DPhil researcher in computer science, and a part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.…
Tim Coulson did his PhD at Imperial College, before conducting post-docs at the Institute of Zoology, London, and the…
I studied mathematics (both as an undergraduate and a postgraduate) at the University of York, and then worked in…
I’ve been interested in how people behave for as long as I can remember. Apparently, even as a toddler,…
I have always been interested in space and geology, so I am excited to be in a field where…
rom the very early days of investigating the brain we have looked at how damage to different areas of…
Hugh Watkins initially trained in medicine, mostly in London but with a spell in Oxford, with the expectation of…
I grew up in Zimbabwe before completing my Bsc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of…
I have been fascinated by plants for a long as I can remember. I spent much of my childhood…
My Story I was born in Shanghai, China. The majority of my school education took place during the infamous…
Stuart Peirson is an Associate Professor in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and a Group Leader in the Sleep…
I received my BSc and MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence in The Netherlands, at Radboud University Nijmegen. Even though…
I’m a University Research Fellow at the Clarendon Lab in Oxford. I am developing devices — like quantum memories…
With interests in subjects as diverse as volcanology and marine biology, Anna decided to study Natural Sciences at Cambridge.…
Kieran Clarke is Professor of Physiological Biochemistry and heads the Cardiac Metabolism Research Group in the Department of Physiology,…
Victoria grew up in Lesotho and South Africa and has always had a passion for wildlife and protecting the…
I’ve always been a fish geek, being given an aquarium for my 5th birthday and fascinated by the aquatic…
My research is about how to take the best quality pictures inside the human brain, using Magnetic Resonance Imaging…
I took a roundabout route to get to planetary exploration. I was looking for work with my Physics degree…
I first became interested in neuroscience as an undergraduate student. I discovered a lecture called “Introduction to Neurophysiology” and…
I am a population ecologist. I was born and raised in Spain, where I attended the University of Cadiz…
My research is focused on the development and functions of chloroplasts in plants. Chloroplasts are the subcellular organelles responsible…
I am a marine biologist fascinated by the largest environment on planet Earth: the oceans. As a student, I…
I started out studying Physics at the University of Southampton, and followed that up by working offshore as a…
I have always been interested in nature, growing up in rural Sussex. I did an undergraduate degree at Oxford…
Hindolo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy and Power Group, within Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science. He comes…
Diogo Veríssimo is an Oxford Martin Fellow focusing on the design and evaluation of behavior change interventions to tackle…
“Professor Przybylski is an experimental psychologist and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute. His work is mainly…
As a geography teacher I always wanted to equip students with the skills and knowledge to look at the…
The fascination of artificial intelligence and the ability of computers to “predict” the future, based on data, has been…
My research focusses on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, which are diseases where brain cells get sick and die.…
My Story After my A-Levels, I faced the challenging question of what to study at university. One of the…
I am a laboratory astrophysicist who uses high-powered lasers to create scaled astrophysical objects such as supernovas to unravel…
I study why females fight, which I first got interested in because it seemed like most science only focused…
I studied theoretical physics in Maynooth University, Ireland, and while I loved learning about science, I realised that a…
I think that I have always liked finding out how things work, and while I was at university (I…
As a teenager, Michele Paulatto became curious about how the Earth and the Universe work, so chose to study…
Kylie has always been fascinated by how cells function, and to get a deeper understanding she studied Chemistry at…
I am an electronics engineer and scientist working on the improvement of solar energy generation. Climate change is one…
My research aims to understand how climate change may affect animal communities in tropical forests, our richest and highly…
I actually first became interested in the science behind the weather during geography lessons at school. I thought it…
My early research was as a member of the Work Interaction and Technology (WIT) Centre at King’s College London. …
While studying maths for my undergraduate and masters degrees at Cambridge, I was always interested in practical applications of…
Alison is an Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Oxford where she leads a research team…
Describe yourself in three words Ginger cat enthusiast. What’s the best thing you’ve ever done in your career? Four…
Professor Kia Nobre left her hometown of Rio de Janeiro with great ambivalence to study at a liberal arts…
My Story I was born in India 31 years ago and since then I’ve lived and worked all over…
I have a background in mathematics (Canterbury University, New Zealand), and now I am a computational scientist at Oxford…
My Story I grew up in Madurai, a small town in the state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. From…
I work in the department of Quantum Nanoscience at the TU Delft and am fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.…
I did a maths degree at Oxford but I got increasingly interested in applying maths to other areas of…
I like to call myself a research engineer because I pride myself that I work on real-life engineering projects…
Malcolm John grew up in Penzance, west Cornwall. He had an early interest in maths and physics, which he…
My Story My parents are of Indian heritage. My dad was born in Uganda and arrived in the UK…
My name is Nacho and I come from Avila, a little town up the mountains in central Spain. For…
Ever since I was little, I have wanted to be an archaeologist. As soon as I was old enough,…
I became interested in visual neuroscience after a conference I attended whilst studying my A Levels. Before coming to…
I originally studied Physics at Durham University before working in the oil industry as a field engineer. I got…
Mat Charles studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, sidestepping biology by choosing Maths with Physics. He focused on particle physics…
My main area of interest lies in the development of medical devices, and their translation from research concept to…
I have always been fascinated by how and why things work. In particular, when I was at school, I…
My Story I grew up in a family of eight in Kumasi, Ghana, and they currently live in Accra.…
Before coming to Oxford in 2012, I studied Engineering and Economics at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and joined both Lancaster…
immune system fights back. This process seemed to me almost like a finely orchestrated game of wits! I went…
My main research interests are in the development of medical devices that support the repair of damaged or diseased…
Christine completed a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Paris V University (CNRS) on isolation and characterization of…
Eleanor Stride obtained her BEng and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University College London, where she subsequently appointed to…
I received my PhD in Neuropsychology (summa cum laude, direct track) from the Ben-Gurion University in 2007, and I…
I studied Engineering at Oxford University. Whilst this is a general engineering course, the part that interested me the…
I grew up in the little fishing town of Kilkeel in County Down, at the foot of the Mourne…
Tom is a Mathematician at the University of Oxford where he holds the position of Early Career Teaching and…
My work involves developing particle detectors and other kit for experiments such as the ATLAS project at the Large…
My passion for Geology began at school in the Mendip Hills where I collected fossils and minerals. After school,…
Alan Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. After spending his childhood…
I was obsessed with animals from childhood and was very lucky to have a parent that happily indulged my…
My passion for physics started in the last two years of high school thanks to the amazing outreach work…
I first became interested in science while working for the Canadian Army as an infantry reservist. I was 19…
I have always been fascinated by the Polar Regions – the harsh but beautiful landscapes, the epic stories of…
I am Professor of Human Centred Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. I…
I am a PhD student studying plant immunology and agricultural biotechnology. My work focuses on the use of essential…
My Story My background is fairly mixed and international. My father is Iranian, my mother is Irish and I…
How did I become the person I am today? Since high school I have been curious about the various…
At school, Dianne Newbury was unsure of her future career path, but she found genetics fascinating and decided to…
As a DPhil candidate in Philosophy, I am based at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. During my…
I’m a mathematician who applies maths to cancer and medicine – I didn’t even realise that existed when I…
One of the most intriguing and complex things for me are other people. I have always wanted to learn…
I was drawn to science after learning about the ‘plastic’ nature of the brain and its implications for brain…
I was always interested in animals and fascinated by animal behaviour. After a PhD at Cambridge University studying parental…
Heidi was not interested in science at school but was interested in human behaviour. She went to the University…
Initially I went to university with ideas of becoming a journalist, embarking on a Joint Honours degree in English…
I started my career as an engineer graduating with a PhD in Engineering from the UCLouvain in Belgium. During…
Kevin Foster is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oxford and is based between the Department of…
I have always been absolutely fascinated by the fact all the information required to build a human being is…
I received my undergraduate and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy, where I started…
I’m fascinated by how and why our brains over-remember the memories we most want to forget. I studied at…
I always was interested in science and biology which resulted in me doing a bachelors degree in Animal genetics at…
During his undergraduate physics degree at Imperial College, London, Andrew developed a passion for instrumentation and fundamental physics. He…
My Story I’m a PhD student here at the University of Oxford, working between the Earth Sciences and Astrophysics…
As an 8 year old, Georgie received a chemistry kit and started running her own experiments, using her sister…
My pathway to what I do now is a varied one, but there has always been an interest in…
I chose chemistry as a career partly because, when I was a schoolboy at a state school in rural…
David Pyle was first captivated by volcanoes at the age of seven, while sitting on the freshly erupted deposits…
I studied Zoology at Sheffield and, after working as a research assistant and postman, took up a PhD on sexual…
I am in my 8th year of study in Oxford, having started with a 4 year undergrad Masters in…
The Com-COV 3 study has been commissioned through the NIHR and backed by £2.8 million government funding, with support…
Today marks the official launch of an international knowledge-sharing partnership of distribution network operators and community energy enterprises and…
Oxford mathematician Ehud Hrushovski and Noga Alon receive the award for their contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction…
A study co-led by the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and Southampton and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), published…
The generous donation will drive forward several core research strands, provide support for doctoral students and secure the future…
Among the many insights from the process of collecting and annotating Voltaire’s writings was the discovery in 2012 of…
New reporting guidelines, jointly published in Nature Medicine and the BMJ by Oxford researchers, will ensure that early studies…
Deterioration of such forests reduces biomass and carbon storage, making it increasingly difficult to keep global peak temperatures well…
At the Encaenia ceremony, degrees will be awarded to Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Sir Lenny Henry, Dr…
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited Trinity College on Thursday 12 May to officially open the new…
The UK Funding Bodies have published the outcomes of the recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework…
All were selected for their outstanding contributions in various scientific fields and are as follows: Professor Fernando Alday of…
Bank of America has pledged £1.2 million to the University of Oxford to support greenhouse gas and sustainable finance…
A renowned neuroscientist, Professor Tracey has led Merton College since 2019 and is also currently Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience…
Newly published research raises important concerns about whether the trade in donkey skins is being used as a cover…
Overall evidence to date on whether eating dairy products affects the risk of cancer has been inconsistent. Studies on…
Overall evidence to date on whether eating dairy products affects the risk of cancer has been inconsistent. Studies on…
Building on Oxford’s long-standing commitment to refugee scholars and other forced migrants globally, a graduate scholarship scheme offering targeted…
The lecture, which will be hosted by Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI, is part of The Obert…
The programme, part of Oxford’s continuing drive to diversify the undergraduate body and wholly funded by an anonymous donor,…
The findings, published in two papers in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), come from the largest…
Injection of the anti-TNF drug adalimumab into Dupuytren’s disease nodules is effective in reducing nodule hardness and nodule size.…
Leading the Oxford contribution are Dr Jamie Lachman and Professor Lucie Cluver, part of the team behind the highly successful research-based COVID-19…
Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) signed a cooperation agreement at a virtual unveiling ceremony…
The Oxford Vaccine Group’s Lead Statistician, Professor Merryn Voysey, received the prestigious Australian of the Year in the UK…
To mark 100 years of BBC broadcasting, the AHRC has given seven researchers funds for public engagement activities. Alice’s…
Call the Midwife fan and Oxford postgraduate student, Alice Watson, has today been awarded Arts and Research Council funding…
Wytham Woods’ Great Tit study celebrates 75 years and reveals how spring has advanced a calendar month in that…
The headline insights from the final instalment of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report were clear: Evidence on what works…
The prestigious grants have been made after a highly-competitive process. Just 14% of applications were successful this year: only…
The work, published in the journal Optics Express, uses a sapphire optical fibre – a thread of industrially grown…
People’s identification with the Soviet Union appears to have a clear and growing basis in Russian public opinion. Surveys…
In 2021, Oxford University adopted a world-leading Environmental Sustainability Strategy, which committed it to both Net Zero carbon emissions…
GPS data shows new mothers and calves can keep up with the herd right after birth. Research published today…
Globally, more than 37 million people were living with HIV in 2020, including 19 million women of childbearing age…
More than £15million has today been awarded to six UK universities and laboratories, for work on what will be…
International scientists have taken the most precise measurement of the W boson to date – determining the mass of…
Adoption has long been seen as better for children than remaining in care, but the results – based on…
In the largest ever clinical trial of VR for mental health, published today in The Lancet Psychiatry, and funded…
Oxford’s men’s crew won the 2022 Gemini Boat Race as it returned to the Tideway this year, where Cambridge…
The report, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering, has identified 193 spinouts emerging from Oxford University since 2011,…
From snowflakes to sunflowers, starfish to sharks, symmetry is everywhere in nature. Not just in the body plans which…
Launching in Trinity term, the Dr Miranda Brawn Award will enable recipients to undertake career development projects during the…
Since mobile phones are held close to the head, the radiofrequency waves they emit penetrate several centimetres into the…
The little understood area of the brain called the claustrum may be the next frontier in improving outcomes for…
Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during…
Since the 2014 invasion of Crimea, the UK has spent in excess of £22 bn importing oil and gas…
New research by a multi-institution team including the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the University of Oxford and…
Russia has become the reviled aggressor in a war it seemingly cannot win, rather than the clever player of…
Named in recognition of a generous donation from the Peter Bennett Foundation, the new Bennett Institute is based within…
On the second anniversary of its official launch, the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) remains an exceptional study…
On the second anniversary of its official launch, the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) remains an exceptional study…
Bringing together leading academics from a range of disciplines, the Institute will address the questions surrounding zero-carbon energy systems…
Dr Holmes-Henderson will be working with Voice 21, the national oracy education charity, carrying out research into the problem…
Data derived using the new index also identified that countries with more universal healthcare systems had better health outcomes,…
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania…
A new genetic study of the bacteria that cause pleurisy has shown most cases involve more than one type…
To address these issues, we analysed the effects of sanctions on Russian public opinion using surveys we conducted in…
As someone who has spent extensive time in Ukraine over several years studying, volunteering with orphaned children and families…
With the central government in disarray, President Yanukovych fled to Russia, with the help of Russian military intelligence and…
The University of Oxford has become an institutional member of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), a national peer-led initiative…
Oxford University is initiating a population-based newborn screening study in the Thames Valley. This study aims to make it…
Ithaca is the first deep neural network that can aid historians in not only restoring the missing text of…
Ithaca is the first deep neural network that can aid historians in not only restoring the missing text of…
Oxford University’s application to build the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site…
Oxford University’s application to build the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site…
Lives are saved when countries offer people at risk of serious harm safe and legal routes to protection. It…
‘At the bottom of the Kremlin’s view of world affairs is a traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity,’…
In the first study of its kind, after vaccination volunteers will be ‘challenged’ with paratyphoid to see whether the…
The BLAST (Building Links in Ageing Science and Translation) network brings together researchers from across the country to increase…
The findings, published in Nature, reveal tissue damage and greater shrinkage in brain areas related to smell. This new…
For 77 years since 1945, people have compared this or that European figure to Adolf Hitler. For 77 years,…
The University of Oxford and the Ifakara Health Institute today announced the vaccination of the first participants in a…
When it comes to helping mitigate the effects of climate change by absorbing carbon, flora rather than fauna usually…
When it comes to helping mitigate the effects of climate change by absorbing carbon, flora rather than fauna usually…
The benefit was in addition to those of dexamethasone and tocilizumab, two other anti-inflammatory treatments which have previously been…
Presenter Michael Buerk and panellists, Melanie Phillips and Matthew Taylor, asked the questions: Q. What principle helps us to…
Presenter Michael Buerk and panellists, Melanie Phillips and Matthew Taylor, asked the questions: Q. What principle helps us to…
The COVID-19 Multi-omic Blood Atlas (COMBAT) defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity. A multi-disciplinary, cross-Divisional collaborative team led…
Parents & Caregivers are heroes: Protecting your children in the crisis Responding to the crisis in Ukraine, Oxford University…
Faced with population growth, environmental change, and increasing concerns over food security and sustainability – the interest in Controlled…
Two years into the pandemic, marginalised young people in developing countries are struggling to cope and going hungry –…
The report, ‘AI and the Arts: How Machine Learning is Changing Artistic Work’, was co-authored with OII researchers Professor…
An Oxford-based charitable organisation that aims to change the world’s giving culture and encourages members to donate 10% of…
Launched in 2019, UNIQ+ provides talented individuals from underrepresented and disadvantaged groups with a real day-to-day experience of postgraduate…
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing evidence has shown that severe COVID-19 infection in pregnant women significantly raises the risk…
The world is already at 1.1C and, consequently, along with steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that cause global…
The world is already at 1.1C and, consequently, along with steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that cause global…
Wars are often critical junctures in the politics and political cultures of countries. We write as Kyiv is under…
The past two decades have seen extraordinary advancements in human genetic research, generating genomic data for hundreds of thousands…
When the state intervenes to safeguard a baby at or close to birth, it is traumatic for birth parents…
Published in JAMA Network Open, the study finds the enactment of stand your ground laws led to an overall…
The research team from Oxford University and the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre Abu Dhabi (ICLDC) think that these…
The review, published in the European Heart Journal, was conducted by researchers from the University of Oxford, the University…
New research finds that, while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or…
The Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry have announced that three University of Oxford Earth Scientists have…
This is not an exaggeration. There is general agreement in the climate science community that we need to reach…
Less than a year after three papers reporting the main results of the INTERCOVID Study were published in leading…
Oxford University has today [15 Feb] been awarded £10 million by UKRI, the official research and innovation body, to…
She was honoured alongside other new Laureates during a ceremony in South Korea to mark the World Summit 2022…
At the eve of moving from mandatory to discretionary COVID advice across many countries, people are being asked to…
Four new talented overseas postdoctoral researchers are set to join the University of Oxford thanks to awards by The…
In a study published recently in Science Advances, researchers found that the distinctive pattern on the underside of the…
Scientists from the University of Oxford are field-testing seismic sensors in the bitter conditions of Antarctica to simulate the…
Jonathan Cooper OBE, The Chair has been named in honour of Jonathan Cooper OBE, a barrister with expertise in…
The study is a collaboration between Neurosurgery (Associate Professor Alex Green), Engineering Science’s Professor Tim Denison and a UK-based…
The study is a collaboration between Neurosurgery (Associate Professor Alex Green), Engineering Science’s Professor Tim Denison and a UK-based…
The new glass has a spectrally tuneable low-emissivity coating that uses a phase change material to control the amount…
A new award at Oxford University will support excellence and ambition among talented UK undergraduates of Black African, Black…
Since spring 2021, a team of researchers from five leading UK universities have been tracking the development of babies…
The project, led by Queen’s University Belfast and funded by the Medical Research Council, will bring together experts from…
As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, new mutations in viral genetic sequences can have significant impacts on the…
More than 4 out of 10 families living in communities across the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR)…
The Duke of Westminster visited the University of Oxford on 1st February to see first-hand the positive impact of…
New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in research by an international team,…
A research team led by members of Oxford University’s Department of Zoology has found evidence that migratory birds, like…
She joins a list of eminent individuals from beyond the art world who are nominated by the Academy’s President…
The Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Sciences, on the site of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, carries out research…
Oxford researchers are seeking participants for a trial to discover what happens when people who have either already had…
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall enjoyed a visit to the city of Oxford on Wednesday 26 January…
A sustainable future for Africa can be achieved through strategic investment in wind and solar farms, reveals an Africa-wide…
Report reveals the tough choices faced by couples in receipt of Universal Credit. Fluctuations in income from month to…
Oxford researchers are seeking participants for a trial to discover what happens when people who have either already had…
The results from a study funded by the Ministry of Health, Brazil, and conducted by researchers from Brazil and…
Years of careful taxonomic research by a team led by Robert Scotland, Professor of Systematic Botany at Oxford Plant…
The highly competitive Cancer Research UK Centre awards recognise the UK’s most innovative, high-impact cancer research and NHS-University collaborations.…
Estimates for 204 countries and territories confirm AMR as a global health threat, with worst impacts in low- and…
But the Online Information Environment report, created by a working group of leading researchers, including Oxford computing, internet and…
In a recent study published in Current Biology, a collaboration between researchers from Oxford University, University of Lisbon and…
Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Erin Saupe, is one of nine UK recipients of the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young…
Researchers at Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry have found that people with schizophrenia and related disorders are at higher-than-average…
Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have shown that people who have…
The paper forecasts that the new Plastic Drawdown tool is set to lead to reductions in plastic waste in…
Continued public access to a collection of manuscripts written by Jane Austen has been secured following their donation to…
While many of these measures are unsustainable outside of the pandemic, the researchers call for further evaluation of interventions…
Professor Soumitra Dutta Professor Dutta is currently Professor of Management at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at…
While currently developed in an animal model, although in a brain area homologous to the one in humans, this…
More than 3600 talented students will today receive offers of places for undergraduate study from October 2022, after a…
Professor Daniel Grimley has been appointed Head of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford, and has spoken…
A new £10 million Oxford-based Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery has today [10 Jan] been announced – one of…
Staphylococcus aureus first developed resistance to the antibiotic methicillin around 200 years ago, according to a large international collaboration…
Nations and industries benefit from longer supply chains and deeper networks, which magnify the benefits of innovative improvements, according…
A University of Oxford study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research,…
Professor Irene Tracey FMedSci, MAE, Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience and Warden of Merton College, has been appointed CBE for…
The UK government recently selected four sites to develop multi-billion-pound CCS projects as part of its scheme to cut…
The researchers believe their work could enable Oxford’s ChAdOx vaccines to hit the “moonshot” objective set earlier this year…
Millions of people around the world lack access to electricity. Decentralised solar-battery systems are key for addressing this whilst…
– £50 million donation will see physical creation of a new building on Old Road Campus, Oxford – The…
Alpha-synuclein is a protein known to form sticky clumps, known as Lewy bodies, in the brain cells of people…
Carbapenems, such as meropenem, are a group of vital often ‘last-resort’ antibiotics used to treat serious, multi-drug resistant infections…
COVID-19 certification led to increased vaccination uptake 20 days before and 40 days after introduction, in countries with lower-than-average…
Researchers from the University of Oxford have analysed the impact of the Omicron COVID-19 variant of concern on one…
Since March 2020, the RECOVERY Trial has discovered three effective treatments for COVID-19: the inexpensive steroid dexamethasone; the arthritis…
The information comes as new, regularly-updated indicators – about prioritisation lists, which population groups are receiving vaccines, and the…
The annual Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship, attached to St Catherine’s College, was inaugurated by Stephen Sondheim in 1990, the…
In the USA, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) compiles data on national vaccine uptake, but reporting…
By Professors Xiaolan Fu and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea of the Oxford Department of International Development
Government, the food industry, financial investors, charities and researchers all have a key role to play in securing the…
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, Saïd Professorship of Vaccinology, Jenner Institute & Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, delivered the 44th Richard Dimbleby…
Researchers at the University of Oxford uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth…
Following up first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines with second doses of the Moderna or Novavax jabs…
Many have claimed this research is damning, but to undertake proper science and research, you need proper researchers and…
By Professor Andrew Pryzbylski, senior research fellow Oxford Internet Institute. People are rightly sceptical about scientific discoveries made in secret…
The competition for a short story attracted 70 entries and judges included Boyd Tonkin, former chair of the judging panel of…
Four researchers from the University of Oxford have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to immunology with Honorary Lifetime…
A University of Oxford study of almost 1,600 year 10 and 11 pupils in 28 North-East schools has shown that…
GlaxoSmithKline plc and the University of Oxford today announced a major five-year collaboration to establish the Oxford-GSK Institute of…
For the first time, mathematicians have partnered with artificial intelligence to suggest and prove new mathematical theorems.
Six new research centres have today been announced by the Economic and Social Research Council – as part of…
Tributes from across the University are being paid to Sir Martin Wood who died last week at the age…
The team at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute has been celebrated for their global pandemic work by The…
Her Majesty The Queen has approved the award of The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes to twenty-one higher and further education…
Established in 1892, the Romanes Lecture is the annual public lecture of Oxford University. Previous speakers include Baroness Hale…
The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have been awarded OfS/Research England funding to improve Black, Asian and minority ethnic…
Islands are biodiversity hotspots yet, paradoxically, are also extinction hotspots.
The IKEA Foundation is supporting, with a grant of £4.5 million over three years, four key University of Oxford Sustainable…
The full week of bite-sized webinars covering research across the space domain will take place from Monday 22 November…
The Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) celebrated its third anniversary on Wednesday 17 November.
Professor Louise Richardson will continue as Vice-Chancellor at Oxford until the end of her seven- year term.
The planning application outlines how the Centre has ambitious sustainability objectives and would benefit the city of Oxford as well as transform the…
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research…
Scientists have shed light on an important stage of early embryonic development that has never been fully mapped out…
Science has never been more in the spotlight than over the last two years. From the pandemic to climate…
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence (AI) models to recognise behaviours of chimpanzees in…
The challenges and opportunities of human mobility in the Global South are the focus of a new project just launched…
When the history of COP26 and the battle to reduce emissions is written, last minute manoeuvrings in Glasgow will be…
The University of Oxford is to benefit from $2 million (£1.49 million) in funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative…
Antibiotic consumption rates grew by 46 percent after 2000, according to findings which also suggest lack of treatment access…
Researchers explain how unprecedented manufacturing strategy provides a template for future global vaccine supply.
Two leading scientists from the University of Oxford will join Professor Jonathan Van-Tam at this year’s Christmas Lectures by…
The University of Oxford is launching Digital Scholarship @Oxford (DiSc), a five-year, £2.4 million inter-disciplinary project aimed at transforming the application…
The University of Oxford have begun recruiting for a Phase I trial to test an Ebola vaccine in human…
By Michael Keith , a Professor in the Centre on Migration Policy and Society and Director of the Future of Cities Network…
Global study shows vegan and vegetarian diets cheapest option in high-income countries ‘£1 Chef’ Miguel Barclay backs study
By Francesco Rampazzo from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Studying Facebook has helped reveal the number of European migrants in the…
Oxford University today joins a consortium led by the digital quantum computing company, SEEQC, to build and deliver a…
Scientists at Oxford University have identified the gene responsible for doubling the risk of respiratory failure from COVID-19. Sixty…
The new Warden will bring ‘great energy and enthusiasm to the role’ when he takes up the post from…
New software can help determine the movements of large wild animals, thereby minimising conflicts with people.
This is the largest building project ever undertaken on behalf of the University and will be its largest teaching and…
Net Zero pledges must be backed up by action at COP26 – say new Net Zero Tracker researchers
The University of Oxford and Brazilian Ministry of Health have announced a joint initiative to set up a global…
Former Minister to chair Oxford University’s research commercialisation arm amidst period of record growth for Oxford’s innovation ecosystem
Early childhood education in England has undergone a ‘levelling up’ in the last two decades, according to research from…
The University of Oxford is leading a new a phase 2a clinical trial to investigate whether a drug could treat…
While some of the high rates of post-traumatic stress (PTSD) seen in healthcare workers during the pandemic are specifically…
The University of Oxford is part of a new international research network to investigate the interactions between the biology…
Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Professor Reinhold Geilsdoerfer, Managing Director of the Dieter Schwarz…
$14.4 trillion dollars – is being spent on an unsustainable recovery Vulnerable nations cannot raise $100 million in climate…
Oxford Martin School food researchers recently worked with the supermarket chain Tesco to highlight the environmental benefits of plant-based…
People who wore face coverings or masks outside of the home, and were more exposed to infection due to…
A major new $9 million (£6.6 million) University of Oxford-led project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)…
Hopes that tamoxifen could improve survival for a deadly form of fungal meningitis have been dashed by the results…
Most G20 net-zero pledges are weak – and not backed by action. Developing and emerging nations will become world’s…