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

Jun 21 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
As part of the Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences: Mr Ravish Jootun will present “Towards 0% 90-day Colorectal mortality: Accepting a low floor in the anastomotic leak[...]
Jul 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute 30 Polstead Road, Oxford
Dr Larkman is a retired Oxford biologist who has been chairman of OOS for the last 5 years. His main interest is the precipitous decline in the UK’s small, seed-eating farmland birds over the last[...]
Sep 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute 30 Polstead Road, Oxford
The ability to accurately identify and interpret Track and Sign rests on a body of traditional knowledge that previous generations of naturalists would have regarded as fundamental. Sadly, now it is largely unknown and untaught,[...]
Sep 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Oxford Martin School
Crocodiles once roamed the Arctic, during the Eocene about 50 million years ago. Polar regions were lush and warm. Greenhouse gas concentrations were higher than today, but at most about 4 times higher – not[...]
Sep 27 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Register to get Zoom dial in details
Interested in medical device regulation? Get together with experts within the University and other researchers to discuss aspects of Medical Device Regulation relevant to your innovation. You can join us online at the comfort of[...]
Oct 1 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
Slime moulds thrive in damp woodlands and normally spread over rotting logs eating bacteria and fungi. They are also unusual in being single giant cells that show remarkably sophisticated behaviour considering their humble form. This[...]
Oct 7 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Oxford Martin School
We cannot end poverty without ending energy poverty. Ever since the world’s first power plants whirred to life in 1882, we have seen how electricity is the lynchpin for development in all of its forms.[...]
Oct 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
In this book talk the Author, Carl Benedikt Frey, will discuss how the Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but how few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. Now that we are[...]
Oct 14 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Rewley House
Professor Carl Heneghan will talk about his involvement in Tamiflu research that led to the discovery of 170,000 pages of clinical study reports, the subsequent development of Alltrials he was involved in and the current[...]
Oct 18 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital
As part of the Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Professor Michael Griffin OBE will present ‘Talking to cancer patients – do not promise what you cannot deliver’.[...]
Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm Weston Library
Visual Artist Dr Clair Chinnery interprets the ‘shapeshifting’ capabilities of human bodies as they emerge, grow, mature and die, informed by the physical materials left behind when such changes occur. With Digital Developer Gerard Helmich[...]
Oct 21 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre
Breakthroughs using gene therapy and gene editing are regularly in the news, but how close in reality are we to them to be used to treat actual patients? Professor of Molecular Therapy and Co-Director of[...]
Oct 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Ultimate Picture Palace
This is the 100 year journey to fusion: an award-winning documentary that follows the story of dedicated fusion scientists working to build a small sun on Earth, which would unleash perpetual, cheap, clean energy for[...]
Oct 23 @ 6:45 pm – 9:15 pm Exeter Hall
Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture – Joint with Oxford Ornithological Society
Nov 1 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
As part of the Surgical Grand Round lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam from the University of Cambridge will discuss ‘Using research to change paradigms in diagnosing and[...]
Nov 8 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
As part of the Surgical Grand Round lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Professor Chris Lavy from the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences will present ‘Public-private partnerships in[...]
Nov 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Rewley House
The logic and principles behind the drive for evidence-based health care are so compelling that often the limitations of evidence go unacknowledged. Despite a strong evidence base demonstrating the health risks associated with higher body[...]
Nov 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Main Seminar Room, Earth Sciences
Join us to learn about the progress being made in biomaterials, the next generation of innovative solutions that aim to tackle current health challenges, and what it takes to start your own venture. The event[...]
Nov 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Department of Pharmacology
This is an exclusive event brought to you by the SIU in partnership with the Oxford Pharmacology Society. The application of big data and genomics in healthcare is vast, with tremendous opportunities to revolutionise current[...]
Dec 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
The talk will provide an overview of dragonflies and their life cycles and habitats as well illustrating a number of species that occur in England including those that are currently colonising from the Continent and[...]
Jan 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm OU Museum of Natural History
Tara Pirie recalls her three years living in a tent, while tracking and gathering data on these elusive, but beautiful big cats. She is now one of the world’s leading experts on Leopard ecology and[...]
Jan 20 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Rewley House
Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ instead? Who should hold and maintain conflicts of interest registers for doctors? Should practicing doctors work[...]
Jan 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work,[...]
Feb 4 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
Warburg Memorial Lecture – Joint with BBOWT Volunteer-based botanical monitoring has been a mainstay of British and Irish botany for decades, but only recently has a recording scheme for plant communities been established. Dr Pescott[...]
Feb 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
One estimate suggests that $2.3trillion was invested in infrastructure worldwide last year. That vast investment has provided roads, power plants, mobile phone networks, dams and recycling plants. Whether those investments have been sustainable is questionable.[...]
Feb 10 @ 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Rewley House
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of “disease” that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient’s lifetime. Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival[...]
Feb 11 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
In this book talk, Claas will review central findings of his research on the past 80 years of antibiotic use, resistance, and regulation in food production with introduction by Prof Mark Harrison, Director of Wellcome[...]
Feb 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Globally, renewable energy has a foot in the door. But significant challenges remain. Will we be able to execute on the rapid deployment of zero carbon energy required to meet a 1.5C future? This presentation[...]
Feb 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
In modern high-tech health care, patients appear to be the stumbling block. Uninformed, anxious, noncompliant individuals with unhealthy lifestyles who demand treatments advertised by celebrities and insist on unnecessary but expensive diagnostics may eventually turn[...]
Feb 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Oxford Martin School
With the UK population predicted to grow nearly 20% by 2050 (circa 77 million people), over 65s making up around 25% of the population and more and more demands being put on the healthcare system[...]