Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.

Apr 7 all-day St Catherine's College, Oxford
Present your research on innovations in surgery and therapeutic technology to an international audience of clinicians, scientists, industry and regulatory representatives. Learn about the latest developments in the scientific methodology for investigating surgery. And hear[...]
Apr 16 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Join Katherine Clough, Assistant Curator (Photograph and Manuscript Collections) for an interactive introduction to some of the photograph collections in the Museum. Visitors are encouraged to bring along their web-enabled mobile phones for use in[...]
Apr 18 @ 9:00 am – Apr 19 @ 5:00 pm Merton College, Oxford
IN[SCI]TE is a new interdisciplinary science, technology, and engineering conference, which will take place on Monday and Tuesday of 0th Week Trinity Term 2016. IN[SCI]TE is run by undergrads, and the talks will be both[...]
Apr 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Jane Ashley Lecture Theatre, Marston Road Campus
Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary was late in accepting professional, trained nursing. Not until 1891 was a trained matron appointed, the able Flora Masson who was coached and mentored by Florence Nightingale. Masson’s years at the Radcliffe[...]
Apr 19 @ 5:15 pm – 7:00 pm The Oxford Martin School
Come and hear researchers from Oxford Vaccine Group talk about the unique typhoid human infection studies we run. There will be a Q&A session and opportunity for discussion.
Apr 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Film Oxford
Adobe’s Richard Curtis will join us in Oxford to provide a guided tour of Photoshop’s 3d tools. He will demonstrate how to work with virtual models to enhance photos, explain 3d printing functions, look at[...]
Apr 22 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1
‘Rare events – unavoidable challenges and lessons to be learned’ Treating rare diseases raise the challenge of minimal previous exposure to similar operations. Defining a learning curve is therefore controversial as many such ‘events’ seem[...]
Apr 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Kellogg College
The second session in on-going seminar series on Building capacity on disability in low- and middle-income countries will be given my Prof. Charles Newton and Dr. Melissa Gladstone. The theme of this session is the[...]
May 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Mathematical Institute
The second Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate, and entitled “Global Challenges in Modern Medicine and in Revealing the Origin of Life”. The lecture will be held at[...]
May 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Museum of the History of Science
Enter the Museum for a unique evening of performance and drama. Drawing from a rich variety of medical plays and historical material, the event will illuminate, provoke, and dramatize developments which have shaped ideas of[...]
May 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Oxford Town Hall
An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the[...]
May 6 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am John Radcliffe Hospital, Academic Centre, Lecture Theatre 1
Professor Rachel Clough will be discussing ‘Personalised Medicine for Aortic Disease’ Professor Clough graduated from medical school at the University of London and then completed her medical and basic surgical training in the London Deanery.[...]
May 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Old Fire Station
After being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Ted goes on the trip of a lifetime…and so does his pet fish. As the disease starts to cause his mobility to degenerate, Ted rushes to experience[...]
May 13 – May 14 all-day John Radcliffe Hospital
This 2 day event features talks and workshops from some of the most eminent personalities and thinkers in the field of emergency medicine. It is aimed at students, doctors, allied health professionals and anyone with[...]
May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm Pitt Rivers Museum New Extension
Tea/coffee at 18.00 Lecture from 18.30 German archaeologists excavated extensively at Babylon, but were unable to find credible remains of the fabled Hanging Garden. Recent research has shown that the much later Greek texts describing[...]
May 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Prevention and management of infectious diseases remains one of this century’s biggest challenges. As drugs and vaccinations have proliferated, protection from disease has increasingly been seen as an individual problem, requiring individual action. But due[...]
May 21 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Clare Harris, Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Visual Anthropology, will give an illustrated presentation on her forthcoming book on the history of photography of Tibet from the mid-nineteenth[...]
May 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Rewley House
Kamal Mahtani, NHS GP, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Kamal Mahtani will be giving a free talk as part of the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care Programme.[...]
May 27 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital
Professor Michael Douek will be discussing ‘Magnetic guidance in cancer surgery’. Professor Douek is a breast surgeon with an interest in breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction. He is professor of surgical oncology at King’s[...]
Jun 3 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital
Lt Col Ross Moy will give a talk on ‘Pre-hospital emergency medicine – recent developments and top tips for the first on scene’ Lt Col Moy is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in the British[...]
Jun 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Blue Boar Lecture Theatre
Professor Trevor Young, Dean of the University of Toronto and world expert on bipolar disorder, is coming to Oxford to give a talk on “Your Brain Needs YOU: Why Psychiatry Is the Best Specialty for[...]
Jun 10 @ 8:00 am – 9:30 am Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital , Lecture Theatre 1
Professor George Youngson is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Aberdeen. He will be talking about ‘Non-technical skills for surgeons: a hard time for soft skills’.
Jun 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Rewley House
While qualitative research has received greater acceptance in a great variety of disciplines, including health and medicine, the true potential of qualitative analysis seems not to have been realised in such areas. Hence, the critique[...]
Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Said Business School
Welcome to Future Debates, a series of public events supported by the British Science Association. A genome is an entire set of DNA; all the instructions for making every part of a living thing. Research[...]
Jun 17 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am John Radcliffe Hospital , Lecture Theatre 1
Professor Gerhard Schroth is Emeritus Professor of Radiology/Neuroradiology at the University of Berne in Switzerland. The title of his talk is: ‘The development and effects of thrombectomy in the treatment of actute stroke.’
Jun 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Lecture Theatre 1
Professor Bill Fulford is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick Medical School; and Director of the[...]
Jun 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Museum of Natural History, Oxford
Kay Davies has dedicated her life to the cure of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which is one of the most common, fatal genetic disorders diagnosed in children. She contributed to the design of the pre-natal tests[...]
Jun 25 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Magdalen College School
Bookseller and chef turned food writer for The Telegraph, Xanthe Clay shares her tips for successful food writing whilst demonstrating a recipe from The Contented Cook.
Jun 25 @ 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Magdalen College School
Join Great British Bake Off winner, Frances Quinn, as she demonstrates how to decorate gorgeous Confetti Cupcakes with beautiful Marzipan Bees while talking about her design background and Quinntessential Baking cookbook. Save up your questions[...]
Jun 25 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Oxford Town Hall, Long Room
What would it have been like to visit your physician in the 19th century? Researcher Melissa Dickinson takes you on a time travel to discover how the sounds of the body helped determine medical diagnoses[...]