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An expert panel discussion about AI’s interaction with democracy will mark the launch of Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI today (16 February)

Reflecting on black history as British history, Christienna Fryar delivered Oxford’s Annual Black History Month lecture

How pandemics end has become a leading research topic at Oxford’s History Faculty, explains one of its leaders Professor Erica Charters

The first weekend in March will celebrate one of Oxford’s greatest and least known collections

How research gained traction at Oxford

One of the most famous discoveries in the history of archaeology is brought vividly to life in Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive, a compelling new exhibition at the Weston Library

A landmark international study shows 1,437 fails and 63 successes, and why

Trees are shaping up as the best ‘carbon capture and storage’ opportunity, suggest preliminary results from an immensely important ongoing arboreal experiment.

NASA’s James Webb space telescope has produced some stunning images of spiral galaxies

Eireann speaks to QUAD from the 2022 long vacation, having just completed her first year at Mansfield College, reading for a degree in geography

Leaders of Britain’s top aid agencies gathered at Oxford’s Nuffield College to discuss the future of UK charities.

A remarkable new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum combines new and old seen through the eyes of one of Pakistan's greatest living talents

Joe Seddon (Mansfield, 2015) recently received The Diana Award for his work through his company Zero Gravity

You won’t dream the same after this intriguing aesthetic reflection on sleep paralysis and the cognitive games our minds play

Revealing a time capsule of plant life, Oxford researchers have contributed to the first successful extraction of ancient DNA from a 2,900 year-old clay brick.

Things may have to get better

Former Chair of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce, Dame Catherine Bingham DBE (Christ Church, 1983), delivered the University’s Romanes lecture and called for root and branch change in government systems

Instead of nurturing their sick young, ant queens eat their infected offspring at the first sign of illness

Global Environmental Politics is poised to be transformed by Artificial Intelligence

Artists Flora Yukhnovich and Daniel Crews-Chubb take inspiration from Ashmolean collections for a new exhibition

People who have had COVID-19 but don’t complain of long COVID symptoms in daily life nevertheless can show degraded attention and memory for up to 6-9 months

First-ever black College Head appointed at Oxford

The great archaeologist talks about the guiding lights of his life’s work: connectivity and human interactions with the environment, and with each other

Dr Mike Clark, Director of the Food Programme at the Oxford Smith School, discusses the environmental impacts of eating meat.

Solid state batteries may transform EVs

Julia Ebner discusses her current research on violent political extremism

Ahead of COP 26, climate change expert and DPhil student Stuart Jenkins (Wadham, 2014) is suspending his PhD to join the Oxford Net Zero group on a four-month Fellowship

Scientists believe they have discovered the site of the biggest meteorite impact ever to hit the British Isles

Dr Anthony Reddie discusses his life as a theologian

Scientists at the University have made big strides towards understanding the brain fog associated with long-COVID.

Paul Shearing shares his notes on how Oxford is playing a major role in battery sustainability

Sarah Whitebloom profiles the man who oversees the Bodleian, glimpsing the future role of great libraries at the same time

This free exhibition is a gift in itself, but also takes a look at the psychology of gift-giving, especially of the bookish variety

A University derived start-up, Brill Power, is making waves in the critical area of battery management

Two former Oxford students have greatly amplified our knowledge of the hey-day of British Liberalism through the little known diary of a Cabinet Minister

Alumni who can build businesses are sought to help Oxford spin-outs in 2025

The question will be debated at Blackwell's on 12 March

Dr Nicola Ranger is deputy director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance, a Government-backed organisation established to provide up-to-date analytics on the risks to the financial sector and investment of climate change

Developments in solar power are set to offer cheaper, better energy, reducing the impact of climate change

There is no ‘magic’ technology to solve climate change

Experimental physicist Athene Donald discusses her new book examining why there are still far too few female scientists

On the eve of its 500th anniversary Christ Church launches a Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

New research led by the University of Oxford has found that rubisco – the enzyme that fuels all life on Earth – is not stuck in an evolutionary rut after all.

New research points to a coral ‘superhighway’ across a million square kilometres of ocean

Going green will be vastly cheaper than fossil fuels, argues a remarkable new report by Oxford researchers

Delayed second dose and third doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine lead to heightened immune response to SARS-CoV-2

Recently appointed Professor Charlie Wilson heads the Energy programme at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute

A mini-series concerning Oxford’s digitisation of its collections starts with natural science, a critical way for understanding our world and its future

A canon of Christ Church cathedral, Graham Ward is naturally looking forward to Christmas, but also to the secular celebrations.

Six widely-esteemed recipients were awarded honorary degrees at Encaenia

The English Faculty is collecting World War 2 memoirs and recruiting volunteers to help

In a farewell interview the Chancellor shares some memories and extols Oxford as a force for good in the world

Serum Institute of India ships its first set of R21/Matrix-M™ Malaria Vaccine doses to Africa

QUAD talks to Colin Mayer about how to reform capitalism so it stops causing crises

A remarkable study shows how beetles once fed on the feathers of dinosaurs

The Graduate Scholarship Scheme for Ukraine Refugees will provide financial support and welfare assistance to those whose lives have been badly impacted by war and extends the University’s well established tradition of support for refugee scholars

Oxford University receives planning permission for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Sarah Knott gave the Ewen Green Memorial Lecture on the subject of ‘Histories of Maternal Labour.’

Côte d’Ivoire makes history as first nation to deploy R21/Matrix-M™ Malaria Vaccine

Archaeology is solving huge mysteries about the evolution of humans, says a remarkable new book

Nine people are to receive honorary degrees from Oxford University this year

One of the world’s most highly cited ecologists, an American medievalist, and an award-winning British actor, comedian, television presenter, and philanthropist were among the nine recipients

Recipients of honorary degrees at Oxford University’s Encaenia ceremony span the fields of science, politics, literature, journalism, and academia.

Oxford’s diet and population health expert, Professor Susan Jebb maintains that ‘we cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet’

Dr Friederike Otto explains the influence of climate change on extreme weather events

The endangered seabird shows surprising individual flexibility to adapt to climate change

Find out more about Oxford’s work on a coronavirus vaccine

Ukraine’s unique response to the Russian invasion has set a new blueprint for successfully protecting infrastructure during conflict and catastrophe, says Professor Daniel Armanios

It is essential to accurately understand the threats; for governments, populations and for investors

Professor Chas Bountra, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation at Oxford, considers innovation at the University

Researchers at the University of Oxford uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth – hinting at the likelihood of complex life on other planets

Transport is the third largest source of greenhouse gases in the world, says Professor Tim Schwanen, director of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit, and there are no easy answers

28 October marks the centenary of Mussolini’s ‘March on Rome.’ Paul Corner debunks the tendency to go easy on Mussolini in a searing work of scholarship

The first Dame Louise Richardson Professor in Global Security discusses the state of the world and how good government matters more than ever.

Oxford University announces the appointment of its first Director of the Humanities Cultural Programme (HCP).

The Director of Oxford's new Institute for Ethics in AI outlines his strategy

The chief librarian for Oxford's Bodleian library has become a cyber campaigner

Oxford Cold War specialist Archie Brown reflects on the human actors who ended the Cold War

A huge dataset confirms that a vegan diet is dramatically better than a meat diet across a broad range of environmental measures including biodiversity

The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery was formally launched at an event held at the Oxford Botanic Garden on Monday 9 May 2022

Oxford centre aims to investigate how to halt and reverse ongoing nature and biodiversity loss

A drug to treat the fatigue from Long COVID is showing promise

Lord Patten of Barnes announces his retirement as Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Mathematicians have teamed up with Google Deepmind to prove that AI can unlock mathematical theorems

Professor Alexander Betts discusses how the University is striving to create a community of welcome for refugees

Children with acute malnutrition across Africa and Asia have a higher risk of treatment failure, finds new research

Emily Wilson’s widely acclaimed new translation of Homer’s The Odyssey is the first in English by a woman

QUAD takes a whirlwind tour of the book lovers’ approach to Meeting Minds

Services by members of Oxford University have been recognised and celebrated in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours list.

We are all epidemiologists now - except we are not

A new analysis led by researchers at the University of Oxford finds that virtually all care homes forced to close in England are run on a for-profit basis.

Oxford researchers have developed a new minimally invasive and inexpensive blood test that can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms

A new Oxford study could help unlock ‘game-changing’ batteries for electric vehicles and aviation

The Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professorship will enable a 'scientist surgeon' to lead the way in the treatment of colorectal disease

Sarah Whitebloom profiles Oxford’s Professor Sir Dieter Helm

This month counter-terrorism, art history, mystery novels, climate policy and complexity economics

This month Catullus, the Holocaust, making money from Space and a new biography of Oxford big beast philosopher J.L. Austin

Neuroscience unravels populism this month, plus hijacking to kayaking and much more besides

This month, animal senses, the invasion of Ukraine, the symmetry of all things, how to edit your life and literary poisonings

Hong Kong diaries, women in tech, espionage, Ukraine, and the biggest bank fraud in Dutch history

This month, a novel about female identity, a brilliant architectural history of Oxford and the re- translation of the original Bambi novel from 1923

This month Oxford at war, Margery Ord, criminality in New Mexico, a history of migration and Chilean student resistors

Oxford spies, Hobbes, family unravellings, the evils of American mass incarceration and a wonderful poetry collection

Scholarship now includes food

Newly honoured Paul Newman’s Oxford company Oxa is a rapidly growing global force in autonomous driving

A graduate scholarship programme aimed at under-represented groups at Oxford University is set to expand over the next 12 months, thanks to the generosity of external donors.

Former United States First Lady and Secretary of State, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and the award-winning author, Jeanette Winterson CBE, were among the six recipients of honorary degrees at Oxford University’s Encaenia ceremony on 22 September 2021

For 75 continuous years, researchers have studied the great tit population in the University’s Wytham Woods. We explore the findings.

An enterprising tutor and group of Oxford undergraduates have published a fresh translation of a series of anti-Nazi pamphlets originally distributed in Munich in 1942-3

A new professorship of the history of sexualities has been established in Oxford University’s History Faculty in association with Mansfield College

John Blair has transformed our view of the Anglo-Saxons

Researchers from Oxford, Venice and Athens have teamed up with Google DeepMind

The University takes its ninth consecutive first position in the THES rankings

The University has launched the ZERO Institute (Zero-Carbon Energy Research Oxford) to tackle the challenges of an equitable, secure global zero-carbon energy transition

The University will lead a new Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing Research Hub

At the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), the University of Oxford and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced the launch of the Nature Positive Universities Alliance

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their work on black holes

The University of Oxford has been named the best university in the world for a record seventh consecutive year in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023

Artist Arturo Soto (St Catherine’s, 2015) reflects from Mexico on his new art book about Oxford

New research facility is national and will help develop the next generation of advanced functional materials in applications from solar panels to electronics

Professor John Tasioulas has been awarded an AI2050 Senior Fellowship by Schmidt Futures.

A generous gift of £3.5 million from Lakshmi Mittal and his family has secured the future of a critical professorship in vaccinology at the University

Oxford University has received the University of Sanctuary award

Oxford University has topped the THE World University Rankings for a fifth consecutive year

Oxford researchers have published a vision for a sustainable, circular economy of plastics

The University of Oxford is to lead an ambitious £7 million project to help deliver tidal stream energy, boosting energy security and taking advantage of a huge natural resource in the UK

The pioneering work of members of the University, including research into tackling the Coronavirus pandemic, has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List

Oxford University Chancellor appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

The University of Oxford contributed a total of £15.7 billion to the UK economy in 2018/19, a report by the economic research consultancy London Economics has revealed

Oxford University Innovation (OUI) has announced the permanent appointment of Chief Executive Officer Dr Mairi Gibbs.

Oxford University is the world’s top university for a record eighth year

The University of Oxford today launches an innovative new access programme, the ‘Astrophoria Foundation Year’, to help able students from disadvantaged backgrounds raise their academic standards and apply successfully to Oxford

Professor Timothy Palmer from Oxford University's Department of Physics, has received the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal.

A planning application for Oxford University’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities has been submitted to Oxford City Council

Scholarship is chasing the controversial work of art attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi

Researchers explain how an unprecedented manufacturing strategy provides a template for future global vaccine supply

A landmark gift from the Reuben Foundation secures a bright future for Oxford’s newest college

Reuben College’s Grand Opening took place on 15 June, 2024

A new state-of-the-art facility, the Centre for Energy Materials Research, was officially launched in May by the University of Oxford’s Department of Materials.

Oxford’s new Professor of Poetry has been announced

The UK Funding Bodies have published the outcomes of the recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

Pembroke has announced the next Master of the College

Artist Pio Abad reflects on the toxic legacy of empire, via artefacts drawn from Oxford collections

Biologist Niko Tinbergen honoured with a Blue Plaque at his Oxford home in Summertown

The theme for the 2024 Earth Day on Monday 22 April was ‘Planet vs Plastics.’ Oxford University researchers commented on the global plastic waste crisis

Poet Paul Gittins (Exeter, 1964) considers the return of rhyme and meter to poetry to Oxford, in the recent appointment of A.E. Stallings as Professor of Poetry

Professor John B Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work at Oxford University on lithium-ion batteries

Professor Irene Tracey, currently Warden of Merton College, Oxford, has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

She will continue as Vice-Chancellor at Oxford until the end of her seven-year term

The second public consultation for Oxford University’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities has launched

Researchers led by the University of Oxford have developed a new test to assess how dangerous robotic lawnmowers are to hedgehogs.

An Oxford professor discusses a blueprint for the reform of Capitalism

Professor Louise Richardson becomes Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) alongside awards for other academics

Paula Boddington discusses the infant field of ethics for Artificial Intelligence, with Richard Lofthouse

Oxford’s Saïd Business School Dean discusses the rapidly evolving role of a business school, globally and locally

Twenty-year study shows that replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings accelerates restoration

New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that bumblebees cannot taste pesticides present in nectar, even at lethal concentrations.

A new study shows how small seabirds, Manx shearwater, have mastered the art of working smarter not harder when soaring at sea

A Chair in Celtic Studies has been restored

Reuben College President Lionel Tarassenko appointed as non-political life peer in the House of Lords

John Fulljames speaks freely about his sky-high ambitions for Oxford’s first Humanities Cultural Programme

Seven academics from the University of Oxford have been elected as 2022 Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their distinguished contribution to research

For the first time, researchers have proved human-caused global warming is directly responsible for creating a ‘critical threat’ of a devastating outburst flood

Alex Betts discusses his vision as the University's first Local and Global Engagement Officer

Modern Chinese art enters the Ashmolean permanent collection via the man behind Spitting Image

Professor Sir Peter J Ratcliffe, Director for the Target Discovery Institute within the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University and Director of Clinical Research at Francis Crick Institute, London, has today been announced as a winner of the

Datasets that put the pandemic and everything else in their place

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has found that birds that are more social are more likely to use novel sources of food.

New solar technology will make everyday objects a source of energy

Looking to the future with a new, progressive campaign

A magnificent library and study centre opens in October

November 13 is loaded with meaning for St John’s College, where the victims of a massacre in 1002 were rediscovered in 2008

Professor Stephen Blyth became Principal of Lady Margaret Hall in October 2022, returning to his native UK from a sixteen-year stint in the US.

Two weeks of July special events celebrating the UK’s oldest botanic garden

Global study shows vegan and vegetarian diets cheapest option in high-income countries, while ‘£1 Chef’ Miguel Barclay backs study

The Ashmolean has launched a fabulous exhibition honouring French artist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

QUAD interviews Edmund Herzig, Director of Oxford’s flourishing Ertegun Scholarship Programme

Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins celebrates the achievements of the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme as it enters its tenth anniversary year

Oxford publishes three reports addressing the 'Final 25%' of emissions required to achieve 'Net ZERO'

Oxford Moral Philosopher Derek Parfit is now the subject of a major biography

New research by Oxford University reveals how studying a humanities degree at university gives young people vital skills which benefit them throughout their careers.

Professor Brenda E Stevenson is an award-winning historian of race, slavery, gender, family, and conflict

The first Oxford Amnesty Lectures were staged in Oxford 30 years ago. Stephen Shute remembers what happened

Professor Myles Allen says it is entirely possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere on an effective scale.

Oxford’s Director of Innovation considers the recent revival of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc

Notes for 26,000 alumni voting for the next Chancellor, 800 years after the first

Spoken word poetry, song and parkour performances took place on the building site for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Oxford got itself onto Mars

A new home for Oxford Humanities

The 2023 Pharos lecture by John Gray put Liberalism under the spotlight

Come 12 October, Oxford’s CEO Sleepout will take place with the Vice-Chancellor taking part

New Bodleian Library exhibition These Things Matter: Empire, Exploitation and Everyday Racism presents six examples of artefacts from the Bodleian Libraries’ colonial collections and considers how oppression can be normalised.

It's Biology's time now - the enthusiastically scary Professor Mike Bonsall talks aliens, bio-threats and cool science

The Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) has demonstrated that an anti-inflammatory treatment, tocilizumab, reduces the risk of death when given to hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19

Oxford chemists have made a breakthrough towards successfully producing sustainable aviation fuel directly from air (CO2 source) and water (H2 source)

Experience the air quality of five major cities this autumn with St John’s College and the Oxford Cultural Programme

Continued public access to a collection of writings by Jane Austen has been secured following their donation to the Bodleian Libraries and Jane Austen’s House

Why did Russia invade Ukraine and who knew Ukrainians would be so resolute, asks Dr Marnie Howlett

Oxford’s first endowed college, University College, is building an extraordinary new development in North Oxford, Univ North.

Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, explores the international response to Covid-19 and the role of universities, who are working with colleagues across the globe to understand the disease and protect our communities

Professor Louise Richardson has delivered her annual Oration to the University in the Sheldonian Theatre

Robert Hannigan went from Wadham to GCHQ and back again, now as Warden

International law experts condemn the exploitation of legal concepts in Israel, Gaza

Extinction is back on the agenda in all sorts of troubling ways, reports Richard Lofthouse

The academic field of existential risk is booming - should we worry?

A pioneering effort is transforming extreme weather forecasting

Professor Dame Sarah Springman starts her post as Principal of St Hilda's College

The effectiveness of nature in fighting the impacts and drivers of climate change

‘How can we meet our long-terms goals, when our short-term targets fall radically short of what is necessary?’ asks Professor Lavanya Rajamani

It's the final convulsion of empire, say two Oxford academics

24 months plus eight years: Ukraine’s war for independence continues, writes Oxford’s Dr Marnie Howlett

Investment is urgently needed into safer, permanent CO2 disposal, to reduce the burden of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and limit warming

The RECOVERY trial, which discovered four effective treatments for COVID-19, has expanded to investigate treatments for influenza (flu).

Professor Yadgar discusses Israel Studies at Oxford

One of Oxford’s first Ukrainian scholars talks about her year in Oxford, and being President of the University’s Ukrainian Society

Four of the six workstreams receiving new funding towards next generation batteries involve Oxford researchers

Oxford's Sustainable Finance Group has won funding for four highly original projects aimed at re-aligning global finance with climate goals

The Poonawalla Vaccines Research Building is to be established at Oxford University following £50m funding commitment from Serum Life Sciences

Kate Bernstock discusses her research of a black female criminal in 18th century London

Renowned clinician PG Roy discusses breast cancer, and the plans for a charity fashion show in the Examination Schools, Oxford.

One of Oxford’s greatest public intellectuals, Alister McGrath considers how we can find hope in a newly reawakened concept of natural philosophy

Professor Irene Tracey CBE, FMedSci has set out her vision for Oxford’s future as she is formally admitted as the University’s 273rd Vice-Chancellor, expressing her ambition ‘to be an advocate for Oxford like no other.’

World famous physicist Professor Tim Palmer (Wolfson, 1974) discusses his life’s work, distilled into a remarkable book aimed at the general public

The University is working with Oxford’s other big employer, car manufacturer, BMW Group, in an innovative fellowship scheme aimed at graduate students.