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

Nov 4 – Nov 5 all-day Spyre Labs Ltd
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[...]
Nov 14 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm The West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College
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[...]
Nov 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm The University Church of St Mary
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[...]
Nov 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
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[...]
Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Story Museum
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[...]
Nov 25 @ 10:30 am – 2:00 pm The Jam Factory
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[...]
Nov 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Brookes University (John Henry Brookes Lecture Theater)
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[...]
Dec 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The Bullingdon
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[...]
Dec 10 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Oxford Brookes University
CARU | Arts re Search Annual Conference 2017 “What does it mean to research art / to research through art?” CARU brings together artists and researchers for yet another day of cross-disciplinary exploration into arts[...]
Dec 11 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
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[...]
Dec 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Museum of the History of Science
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
Jan 17 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Saskatchewan room, Exeter College
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[...]
Jan 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
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[...]
Jan 24 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Thom Building (Dept of Engineering) (side entrance upstairs - signage will be in place)
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[...]
Jan 31 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Saskatchewan room, Exeter College
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[...]
Feb 1 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
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[...]
Feb 6 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
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[...]
Feb 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Main entrance at History of Science Museum
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[...]
Feb 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Main Seminar Room, New Biochemistry Building
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[...]
Feb 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room)
They say you never forget your first love. David Acheson believes you never forget your first moment of real excitement in mathematics, either. So why not join him for an informal and off-beat look at[...]
Feb 15 @ 7:45 pm – 9:00 pm Northcourt Centre
Old Images of Abingdon – various images and what they show. Speakers AAAHS members: Anne Smithson, Judy White, Jackie Smith, Jessica Brod, Manfred Brod and John Foreman. The meeting will consist of a number of[...]
Mar 5 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Mawby Room, Kellogg College
As part of Bletchley Park Week 2018 Ben Goldacre will be giving this talk entitled ‘Bad Science, Better Data’. Ben Goldacre is a doctor, researcher, best-selling author, and Director of the DataLab at the Dept of Primary[...]
Mar 5 @ 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Stanford University Centre in Oxford
Mental health, like other areas of medicine, is set to benefit from dramatic advances in the biological and medical sciences – yet values (what matters or is important to those concerned) are key to the[...]
Mar 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Main Seminar Room, New Biochemistry Building
Do we need more management and leadership skills? Do we need to know more about intellectual property? Perhaps we should learn more about the benefits of programming? As future leaders in science, we need to[...]
Mar 6 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Sultan Nazrin Shah Building, Worcester College
Worcester Medical Society is incredibly excited to bring you a talk by Dr Ben Goldacre, author of “Bad Science”, “Bad Pharma”, and plenty of fascinating articles on how science is used and misused. He has[...]
Mar 7 – Mar 8 all-day Laser Support Services, Unit 2, Building 363
CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE SNOW IN SCOTLAND WHERE THE SPEAKERS ARE BASED A free event to meet guest speaker from Standa over 3 sessions. Presentations will cover motion control components and accessories as well as[...]
Mar 12 – Mar 13 all-day The Ioannou Centre
Archaeology, its methods, theories and typologies, brings order to a disordered world, helping us to navigate a path to understand past societies more fully. Chaos is everywhere, from volcanic eruptions, messy conflicts and population upsets[...]
Mar 14 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Jericho Tavern
Bright Club is a night of academics, researchers and scientists turning their work into stand-up for your entertainment. Part of a national network, Bright Club trains academics to make their work accessible, interesting and above[...]
Apr 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room)
Dr Simone Sturniolo will talk about How computational science helps us understand the world and how you can try it too.