Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
For STEM Postgrads and Postdocs: Do you want to work with Science, Tech & Sustainable development companies, or start your own? Apply for Spyre’s LEEP into Business workshop: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise & Project Management. Delivered[...]
he travelling exhibition first launched at the Edinburgh Festival, and its next stop in Oxford has been designed to mark the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Act, which introduced a set of legal grounds for[...]
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons grew up in Coventry and graduated in 1974 with a BA in Mathematics from the University of York and in 1977 with a DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He[...]
Katharine Hayhoe has been named one of FORTUNE’s ‘World’s Greatest Leaders’, TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ and Huffington Post’s ‘20 Climate Champions’, and has shared the stage with Barack Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio to talk[...]
By the end of the century our energy system will have to be transformed. However it is not clear when and how. Professor Steve Cowley, Acting Director of the Oxford Martin School and President of[...]
What is the naughtiest word you can think of? The baddest of bad language, the monarch of F-bombs? The word you swore you’d NEVER say, but sometimes makes a sneaky reappearance after a stubbed toe[...]
The management of emerging infectious disease outbreaks is a defining problem of our ever more mobile and connected world. Pathogen genomes contain a remarkable amount of information about disease transmission, and genomic technologies are being[...]
The Oxford constituency of the Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK) is holding a discussion panel entitled “Women in science and the glass ceiling” where three invited speakers will give a short talk about[...]
Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy, Stanley Ulijaszek, St Cross Fellow Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways in which obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science[...]
Professor Tim Shreeve will explore why different species of butterflies have alternative responses to environmental change. Butterflies are important indicators of environmental change and their status in the UK and Europe is changing rapidly. Tim’s[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion
THIS EVENT HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEEN CANCELLED Time to chill? Skate down to The Bullingdon this Christmas for a blizzard of talks by our talented Oxford science performers. Watch them take to the stage to deliver[...]
Today we are witnessing many shifts in scholarly practice, in and across multiple disciplines, as researchers embrace digital techniques to tackle established questions in new ways and new questions afforded by our increasingly digital society[...]
William Myers (author of Bio Art: Altered Realities) explains how BioArt responds to our changing definitions of life, nature, and identity. Part of the special exhibition Anna Dumitriu: BioArt and Bacteria
Dr Katherine Pollard will present a paper discussing mixed methods research in health care education and practice, drawing on her experience of two large mixed methods projects to demonstrate salient issues: a longitudinal evaluation of[...]
Here are 10 questions we cannot answer after nearly 70 years of a purportedly National Health Service. The lecture will address these questions and how they can be answered. 1. Is the service for people[...]
Professor Fabrizio Schifano studied at the University of Padua, qualifying in both psychiatry and clinical pharmacology. He spent several years as a consultant in the Italian health service before moving to the UK to lecture[...]
What makes chemistry so boring? Talk followed by questions and discussion. All wecome This is one of a series of weekly talks organized by the Oxford Communist Corresponding Society. These talks are held every Thursday[...]
A free lecture by Robert O. Ritchie of Lawrence Berkeley (USA). Free pre-lecture drinks and nibbles and free post-lecture buffet and drinks (please email lorraine.laird@materials.ox.ac.uk to reserve a place). Abstract: The ability of a material[...]
It seems like everywhere we look computers are running more and more of the world around us. In healthcare, we have seen an astounding level of hype surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in image[...]
Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories. These[...]
Dr. Claire Patterson is Associate Principal Scientist in Biopharmaceutics at AstaraZeneca, Macclesfield. She works at the interface between formulation development and in vivo product performance. Claire’s talk will introduce concepts in building mechanistic models of[...]
Immense ingenuity and unprecedented levels of funding are available for drug discovery, yet pharmaceutical research and development is failing to produce the medicines society requires. New organisational models of drug discovery are clearly needed, and[...]
This fifteen-year project has studied the fates and fortunes of 400 or so of the rarest plants in the county. The rate of loss of species has risen sharply from about one per decade to[...]
The global food system is facing momentous global changes: rapid urbanisation and rising middle income populations; changing diets; climate change; political uncertainties and anti-globalisation sentiments; and advances in technology in and out of agriculture, among[...]
Dr Peter Lovatt (AKA Dr Dance) will talk about the relationship between movement, health, hormones and thinking. The simple act of dancing can change us in fundamental ways. It can make us more creative, improve[...]
Malaria remains a global health threat. Over the last 15 years there has been major international investment for malaria control and there have been substantial gains in reducing malaria in many countries, but now there[...]
The Oxford constituency participates in the commemoration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with a guided tour through some of the most iconic places in Oxford city center, linking them to[...]
If you have an idea but you don’t know where to start or if you are interested in entrepreneurship, this is a must-attend event for you! Time: 5:30 pm on 12th February Venue: Main Seminar[...]
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