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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[...]
Between the rush to keep up with the latest miracle ingredient, anxiety about E-numbers, and demonization of gluten/dairy/sugar, many of us are left in a virtual panic in the supermarket aisle. Tabloid headlines, ‘free-from’ labels[...]
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 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[...]
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[...]
Join us on Friday 1st December as our speaker panel explores the world of the much loved beverage, beer. We will be joined by a line-up of highly acclaimed experts in the Beer Industry who[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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