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[...]
This workshop will examine how the increasing ease and speed that we are able to purchase goods and services online exposes consumers to the increasing risk of new types of disputes. The international panel of[...]
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[...]
Professional social media like LinkedIn are changing the professional landscape. Users can now connect and get to be known by creating personal information profiles and inviting colleagues to have access to those profiles. Sending emails[...]
What is the social responsibility of the sciences? In recent times, ethical conflicts surrounding race, gender, and the natural sciences have surfaced again. A recent editorial in Nature defending memorials to J. Marion Sims, who[...]
Join Saba Douglas-Hamilton, the highly acclaimed elephant conservationist and wildlife TV presenter of This Wild Life and Big Cat Diaries for an evening of exciting animal stories and intimate behind the scenes tales of life[...]
Ever felt like there was something you really wanted to say but you just weren’t sure how? We’re exploring the why and how of women’s speech and writing with the help of some amazing women[...]
At 8pm, following Cylox’s AGM, Peter Headicar will be our guest speaker. Author of ‘Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain’ and former Reader in Transport in the Department of Planning at Oxford Brookes University,[...]
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 is a joint lecture with INET Oxford From biology to technology, a powerful mechanism to create innovation is recombination – the formation of new systems by combining old parts in new ways. However, we[...]
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 Oxford Israel Forum, Oxford PPE Society and Oxford International Relations Society are delighted to host Dan Meridor, former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. Mr Meridor will be discussing the current political situation in Israel[...]
Biomimetics is about bringing nature’s technology to business, but as commercial products appear on the horizon, more skills are quickly needed. In this case, the journey moves from the Great Barrier Reef to the Cambrian[...]
Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world… but is it biased? Join us on International Women’s Day in the new Makerspace at the Oxfordshire County Library. We’ll have a short talk on[...]
Workshop on the theory and practice of compassion by Emma Slade, a Buddhist nun living in Bhutan.
A lecture on compassion by Alexander Norman, the author of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama biographies and the President of Help Tibet.
Beautiful Japanese Teas Open your mind and palate as we introduce you to classic examples of the finest Japanese teas. We will be sharing a hand-picked selection of stunning teas sourced directly from Japan’s tea[...]
Whether you’re a regular user of one of the Oxford bike hire schemes or if this is something you have not done yet, then come along to an open forum on the new landscape for[...]
Professor Susan Brooks will take you on a personal journey beginning in breast cancer research and leading to a passionate commitment to supporting and developing the next generation of researchers. Susan discovered that a chemical[...]
Neocortical networks must generate and maintain stable activity patterns despite perturbations due to learning and experience, and this stability must be maintained across distinct behavioral states with different sensory drive and modulatory tone. There is[...]
Butterflies and moths are suffering impacts from changes in climate, habitats and plant communities, alongside wider challenges to nature. The talk will describe these challenges, some of the actions being taken to tackle them, locally[...]
Neurons use two fundamental coding schemes to convey information: rate coding (frequency of firing) and temporal coding (timing of firing). Although temporal coding has long been postulated to be important for encoding responses to stimuli[...]
Adult stem cells are a rare population of undifferentiated cells found throughout our bodies which are able to divide infinitely and give rise to the different types of cells that maintain the body’s tissues and[...]
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