AI AND DEMOCRACY EVENT LAUNCHES INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS IN AI 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) 16 Feb 2021
'HEROES' WILL RESTORE NATURE IN OXFORD A group within the University called ‘HERO’ is working towards ecosystem restoration across Oxfordshire, and QUAD talks to one of its chief architects 1 Sep 2021
'THE NEMO EFFECT' IS UNTRUE Research shows that animal movies promote awareness, not harm 19 Aug 2019
1 TRILLION TREES ARE GREAT – EXCEPT WHEN THEY'RE NOT Tree-planting gained President Trump’s support this week as a tool to fight climate change. But done wrong, it could hurt people and the environment 30 Jan 2020
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOTION Just in time for World Car-Free Day, alumnus Tom Standage discusses his new book and what he thinks we’ll be driving (or is that riding?) soon… 21 Sep 2021
A BUMPY (BOTLEY) ROAD TO A NET ZERO OXFORD Richard Lofthouse considers Oxford’s latest traffic furore, the role of local policy towards global climate ambitions, and whether Network Rail is a secret superhero. 14 Nov 2022
A FOOTNOTE TO TRUTH 50 years since the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Alida Young notes the true source of some of his greatest words 14 Aug 2018
A FUNNY BREXIT NOVEL, AT LAST For sheer absurdity and slapstick, no one serves it up quite like Mark Hanlon in The Pong of Power 22 May 2019
A HELL OF A SHOCK Danny Dorling considers the real meaning of Brexit and how it relates to the end of Empire 19 Sep 2018
A MAJOR SHIFT IN MENTAL HEALTH Alumna Lucy Johnstone explains a sea change in thinking about mental health 4 Sep 2018
A RAY OF CLIMATE HOPE? Trees are shaping up as the best ‘carbon capture and storage’ opportunity, suggest preliminary results from an immensely important ongoing arboreal experiment. 17 Oct 2022
A SENSE OF DEJA VU Ekaterina Pravilova has published a timely history of the Russian currency, the rouble 23 Aug 2023
A SURPRISE PUBLISHING HIT Former Oxford Professor Xiang Biao has scored a massive publishing success with an unconventional book. 24 May 2023
AFTER BLETCHLEY: NOW BUILD THE BEST AI TOOLS AI investor and entrepreneur James Dancer (Keble, 1994) asks what next, following the London AI Summit 14 Nov 2023
ALEXA, DOES AI HAVE GENDER? Professor Gina Neff talks to Ruth Abrahams about gender and AI 15 Oct 2018
ALUMNI STORIES: 'A CAREER IN SPORTS JOURNALISM IS AN EXCITING LIFE BUT NOT A LAZY OR EASY LIFE.' Jen O'Neill (Keble, 1993), Editor of Women's Football Magazine She Kicks gives tips for a career in sports journalism 30 Aug 2023
ALUMNI STORIES: 'A PILE OF WHALE POOP INSPIRED ME TO WORK IN CONSERVATION’ Asha de Vos (Lincoln, 2003) on whale conservation and her time at Oxford 6 Nov 2018
ALUMNI STORIES: 'ALWAYS HAVE HALF AN EYE OUT OR EAR OPEN FOR A PLOT IDEA' Author Thomas Mogford (St Catherine's College, 1996) gives his tips for writing your first novel 15 Mar 2023
ALUMNI STORIES: 'CONNECTING WITH OTHERS IS A GREAT WAY TO HAVE BIGGER IMPACT THAN YOU CAN ALONE' OxCAN volunteer Trustee Ben Tuppen (Balliol, 1998) talks about leading community and sustainability charity projects. 17 May 2023
ALUMNI STORIES: 'HOW MY QUEERNESS EXISTED BEYOND BOUNDARIES OF GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND COLONIALISM' Dan Laurin (Oriel, 2018) talks to us about his time at Oxford, being indigenous, transgender and queer plus working as a Community Curator with the Pitt Rivers 13 Jun 2022
ALUMNI STORIES: 'I HOPE THE MENOPAUSE WILL BECOME AN ACCEPTABLE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION' Rachel Weiss (Hertford, 1985) talks about what inspired her to set up the Menopause Cafe charity 24 Aug 2023
ALUMNI STORIES: 'I WANT TO HELP MAKE CHILDREN'S BOOKS MORE REPRESENTATIVE' We spoke to Jasmine Richards (LMH, 1999) about getting BAME representation into children's books. To celebrate Black History Month 2019, Jasmine spoke to us again about inclusivity at Oxford and what BHM means to her. 22 Jan 2019
ALUMNI STORIES: 'IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY TO USE MY FAME FOR GOOD' Jeetendr Sehdev (Wolfson, 2001) about his career as a bestselling author and ‘celebrity branding expert’, and his work with the UN to end modern slavery 29 Jan 2019
ALUMNI STORIES: 'JUST 2.6% OF TECH LEADERS ARE ETHNIC MINORITIES' We spoke to alumnus Ashleigh Ainsley (St Catherine’s, 2011) about co-founding colorintech, supporting racial diversity in the tech industry. 12 Dec 2018
ALUMNI STORIES: 'SOMETIMES IT'S THE SMALLER, QUIETER STORIES THAT CAN BE MOST POWERFUL' Filmmakers Cat Haigh (Keble, 2014) and Hannah Congdon (Pembroke, 2014) spoke to us about 'Women Behind the Wheel' - a road trip documentary exploring women's issues in Central Asia 28 Feb 2023
ALUMNI STORIES: 'THE NO.1 HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE WE SHOULD BE TACKLING IS...' Tarek Cheniti (Keble, 2005) on his time studying Management Studies at Oxford and his career in Human Rights 27 Nov 2018
ALUMNI STORIES: 'WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES' Jason Arora (St John's, 2005) on studying medicine at Oxford, and working for a new system for value-based healthcare 15 Nov 2018
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU Akaash Maharaj reflects on the day he met the late bishop and political leader of South Africa 17 Jan 2022
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY Global Environmental Politics is poised to be transformed by Artificial Intelligence 15 Nov 2018
ASH DIEBACK IS PREDICTED TO COST £15 BILLION IN BRITAIN The true cost of ash dieback is far higher than you may assume 7 May 2019
BOTLEY ROAD CLOSED! A new railway station and road upgrade has led to the complete closure of Oxford’s Botley Road for six months. 13 Apr 2023
BRITAIN AS ‘BAD ACTOR’ Former diplomat Arthur Snell (Magdalen, 1994) discusses his book, 'How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997-2022' 1 Sep 2022
CAN FINANCE HELP THE CLIMATE? 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 27 Sep 2021
CAN SOLAR SAVE US? Developments in solar power are set to offer cheaper, better energy, reducing the impact of climate change 1 Nov 2021
CAN WE REMOVE CARBON FROM THE ATMOSPHERE? There is no ‘magic’ technology to solve climate change 18 Oct 2021
CAPITALISM AFTER COVID The pandemic further agitated a furious debate that long-predated it 21 Jul 2020
CHINA TO RULE THE WORLD? One of 2024’s most important books answers the real questions about Chinese identity and Xi Jinping’s thought 22 Jan 2024
CLAMPING DOWN ON FAKE NEWS A packed Sheldonian Theatre was backdrop to a lively discussion around fake news and public misinformation 3 Feb 2020
CLIMATE BURNOUT – WHY PEOPLE ARE BORED ABOUT CATASTROPHE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT Dr Pete Walton at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute talks about the insights offered by education 20 Sep 2021
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY A radical billionaire speaks out 4 Jun 2019
COMMENT: JUST STOP OIL IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE Professor Myles Allen discusses the realities of how the world might reduce its fossil fuel emissions, amidst the COP28 6 Dec 2023
COMPETING IDENTITIES OF THE PAST AND FUTURE IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE Popular attitudes in Russia and Ukraine show significant differences towards national identities and relations with the outside world. Russia's invasion of Ukraine will deepen this divide 28 Feb 2022
COP27 MUST DELIVER FAST ACTION, SWIFT JUSTICE AND PROTECT NATURE – OXFORD EXPERTS In a series of powerful 'hopes' for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the University have recorded wishes and warnings in videos and written messages for the delegates to COP27. 8 Nov 2022
DECARBONISING THE ENERGY SYSTEM BY 2050 COULD SAVE TRILLIONS, SAYS NEW OXFORD STUDY Going green will be vastly cheaper than fossil fuels, argues a remarkable new report by Oxford researchers 14 Sep 2022
DEFENDER OF THE RIGHT TO DISAGREE Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC recounts a remarkable legal career and discusses his collection of radical literature 22 Oct 2019
E-SCOOTERS PERMITTED IN OXFORD Oxford is likely to have electric scooters for rental very soon 1 Jul 2020
ELECTRIC CARS IN OXFORD? Oxford’s Saïd Business School hosts Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit 18 Jul 2018
ELECTRIC CARS OR NO CARS? A recent EV summit in Oxford pointed in an unanticipated direction 6 Aug 2019
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF 57,000 PROCESSED FOODS REVEALED Many meat alternatives, can have 90% less environmental impact than meat-based equivalents 9 Aug 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL VISIONARY ALUMNA DISCUSSES SOLAR MICROGRIDS AND BANGLADESH Sohara Mehroze Shachi discusses her Oxford degree, her role at the UN and how her native Bangladesh is adapting to climate change 11 Nov 2021
FAILURE IS THE NEW SUCCESS A remarkable new book paints a searing portrait of our era of sham politics and fake wars 14 Dec 2023
FEEL BETTER IN 2023 Consultant clinical psychologist and alumna Dr Lucy Maddox has published a wonderfully smart but accessible book to help us all 30 Jan 2023
FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH Oxford alumni founders of It Gets Brighter launch a campaign for Mental Health Week 19 May 2020
FULLY FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME LAUNCHES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM UKRAINE 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 9 May 2022
GREENING THE RECOVERY FROM COVID-19 A green exit from COVID-19 would benefit the economy, says an important Oxford report 18 Aug 2020
HARCOURT ARBORETUM WINS LOTTERY SUPPORT FOR NEW CENTRE The University’s arboretum has received first stage support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) to develop a new Visitor and Learning Centre 7 Feb 2022
HEAR RADICAL BILLIONAIRE TOM STEYER, 3 JUNE, SHELDONIAN THEATRE Billionaire Tom Steyer will speak in the Sheldonian on 3 June to the theme, 'How corporate money has subverted climate politics.' 28 May 2019
HERTFORD COLLEGE'S NEW PRINCIPAL Tom Fletcher discusses Oxford, diplomacy and the importance of the digital sphere in the twenty-first century 20 Jan 2021
HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CORONATION The Coronation is based on 3,000-year old Biblical tradition. Prof George Garnett on kings, crowns and...communism 5 May 2023
HOW CAN WE EAT WITHOUT COOKING THE PLANET? Oxford’s diet and population health expert, Professor Susan Jebb maintains that ‘we cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet’ 11 Oct 2021
HOW DOES AN OXFORD COLLEGE TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE? Lady Margaret Hall Bursar Bart Ashton on what it means to be green 5 Oct 2020
HOW IS CLIMATE CHANGING OUR WEATHER? Dr Friederike Otto explains the influence of climate change on extreme weather events 22 Sep 2021
HOW ORDINARY UKRAINIAN FAMILIES ARE SUFFERING UNDER RUSSIAN SHELLS Marnie Howlett, Departmental Lecturer in Politics, shares insights on Ukraine based on deep knowledge of the country 21 Mar 2022
HOW UKRAINE HAS KEPT THE LIGHTS ON 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 31 Oct 2023
HOW WILL WE LIVE IN THE FUTURE CLIMATE? It is essential to accurately understand the threats; for governments, populations and for investors 3 Nov 2021
INFRASTRUCTURE AT CENTRE OF SUSTAINABILITY, SAYS NEW REPORT Infrastructure decisions underpin environmental sustainability, says a new Oxford-UN report 24 Oct 2018
IS THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT ELECTRIC? 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 27 Sep 2021
ITALIAN FASCISM REBUKED 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 5 Oct 2022
JANINA DILL The first Dame Louise Richardson Professor in Global Security discusses the state of the world and how good government matters more than ever. 4 Oct 2023
LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS DONATE PPE TO FRONTLINE WORKERS The Bodleian Libraries and other museums across the University have answered a call to donate their Personal Protection Equipment to key workers and frontline healthcare professionals 14 Apr 2020
LONG COVID DRUG TRIAL ADVANCES TO THE NEXT STAGE A drug to treat the fatigue from Long COVID is showing promise 18 Apr 2023
LONG-COVID EXPERTS PERSPECTUM SHARE STARTLING RESEARCH Oxford University spin-out company Perspectum predicts a global healthcare policy challenge as millions of former patients now suffer multi-organ damage from Long-COVID 9 Apr 2021
LORD PATTEN OF BARNES ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT AS CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Lord Patten of Barnes announces his retirement as Chancellor of the University of Oxford 6 Feb 2024
LUKE HARDING DISCUSSES UKRAINE The Guardian newspaper’s foreign correspondent discusses Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 26 Jun 2023
MAKING AN IMPACT Matt Perkins explains how Oxford's culture of entrepreneurship has become 'real' 31 Jan 2018
MEDIUM-TERM IMPACT OF COVID-19 REVEALED IN NEW STUDY Numerous COVID-19 patients have been shown to be still suffering symptoms months after discharge from hospital 29 Oct 2020
MEETING GRETA, LAUNCHING HER NEW CLIMATE BOOK Ahead of COP 27, Oxford authors cycled to London to co-launch a Greta Thunberg book about the climate crisis 9 Nov 2022
MOREANGELS MBIZAH A leading conservation biologist discusses the challenges of lion ecology in Zimbabwe 4 Oct 2023
NEW EXHIBITION CONSIDERS GLOBAL WATER EQUITY Fair Water?, the new research-based exhibition at Oxford’s Museum of Natural History, offers unique insights into our relationship with water 23 Nov 2023
OCEAN WARMING OFFERS CLUES Oxford scientists have reconstructed ocean warming from 1871 to 2017 29 Jan 2019
OFF THE SHELF: AUGUST 2022 This month sees British identity and the ‘special relationship’ with the US under the spotlight, and a new history of the CIA 11 Aug 2022
OFF THE SHELF: MAY 2023 Why projects fail, how to be a maverick, US dynasties and the shadow Beijing is casting over all of us 3 May 2023
OFF THE SHELF: SEPTEMBER 2022 Punchy short stories, ecocriticism, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and an easy-reading encyclopedia 21 Sep 2022
ON THE GALWAN BRAWL AND BORDER DISPUTES IN LADAKH Author James Crowden offers a context for recent clashes between China and India 17 Jul 2020
OXFORD AND KING'S DEVELOP RAPID PROTOTYPE FOR VENTILATOR An interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK’s capacity for ventilator manufacture 23 Mar 2020
OXFORD CLIMATE SCIENTISTS: NO DOUBT ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Leading Oxford climate scientists today insisted there can be no doubt that human-driven climate change is a fact and urgent action is needed, as the IPCC’s report is released showing emissions are driving up temperatures. 10 Aug 2021
OXFORD COVID-19 VACCINE PROGRAMME OPENS FOR CLINICAL TRIAL RECRUITMENT Oxford are rapidly preparing a COVID-19 vaccine trial in the Thames Valley Region 31 Mar 2020
OXFORD DOCTORATE A BEST-SELLER EIGHT DECADES AFTER PUBLICATION 'Capitalism and Slavery' by Eric Williams hits the best seller list in 2022; a lesson in history 9 Mar 2022
OXFORD LAUNCHES BIODIVERSITY PLAN TO HELP ORGANISATIONS A plan to help organisations link small actions to big goals 17 Dec 2019
OXFORD LAUNCHES PANDEMIC SCIENCES CENTRE The University has launched a new centre of global research collaboration and excellence 3 Jun 2021
OXFORD LEADS NATURE POSITIVE UNIVERSITIES ALLIANCE TO REVERSE BIODIVERSITY DECLINE At the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), the University of Oxford and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced the launch of the Nature Positive Universities Alliance 11 Dec 2022
OXFORD NAMED BEST UNIVERSITY FOR SPIN-OUTS 2021 saw Oxford crowned best for successful commercial spin-outs, measured over two decades 9 Jan 2022
OXFORD OPENS A BIG ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING HUB Alumni attending Meeting Minds with an electric car will be able to charge at one of Europe’s top sites 19 Aug 2022
OXFORD PHILOSOPHER RECEIVES AWARD TO EXPLORE AI ETHICS Professor John Tasioulas has been awarded an AI2050 Senior Fellowship by Schmidt Futures. 15 Feb 2023
OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP IN VACCINOLOGY SECURED WITH £3.5 MILLION GIFT 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 28 Jul 2020
OXFORD REPORT DEFINES A PATH TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS We take a look at the third of three reports tackling the ‘Final 25%’ of climate emissions – the hardest emissions to eliminate. This time the subject is petrochemicals and plastics. 7 Sep 2021
OXFORD REPORT SUGGESTS ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS TO ANIMAL PRODUCTS We take a look at the second of three reports tackling the ‘Final 25%’ of climate emissions – the hardest emissions to eliminate. This time the subject is food 6 Sep 2021
OXFORD REPORT SUGGESTS HOW NATURE CAN CAPTURE CO2 The Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment is forging ahead into often untested and under-researched areas of climate change mitigation, that go far beyond what readers might have encountered in the broader media 2 Sep 2021
OXFORD RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW RAPID TEST TO DETECT SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) A test that works in 30 minutes will help health authorities globally 18 Mar 2020
OXFORD STUDENTS TACKLE MARINE PLASTIC Working with the Seychelles Islands Foundation, a group of students will clean up an island 25 Feb 2019
OXFORD STUDY SHOWS HOW ORGANISATIONS MUST SET BOLD TARGETS TO ACHIEVE ‘NATURE-POSITIVE’ CATERING Organisations aiming to make their catering more sustainable can make genuine positive contributions, though it will take extremely ambitious action to come close to fully mitigating biodiversity loss within the current food system, reveal researchers fro 16 Jan 2023
OXFORD TOOL MAPS FUTURE COVID-19 HOTSPOTS Potential COVID-19 hotspots can be identified using a new online tool from Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science 29 Jun 2020
OXFORD UNIVERSITY BREAKTHROUGH ON GLOBAL COVID-19 VACCINE In collaboration with AstraZeneca plc Oxford announces its candidate vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019, is effective at preventing COVID-19 23 Nov 2020
OXFORD UNIVERSITY IS THE WORLD’S TOP UNIVERSITY FOR A RECORD EIGHTH YEAR Oxford University is the world’s top university for a record eighth year 27 Sep 2023
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS PRODUCES CORONATION BIBLE Oxford is behind the splendid King Charles III Coronation Bible that will be used on May 6 24 Apr 2023
OXFORD URGES A MORE RADICAL TRANSPORT STRATEGY FOR THE CITY Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr David Prout explains the University’s position 3 Dec 2019
OXFORD’S ZERO EMISSION ZONE BEGINS The ‘ZEZ’ sets a national precedent not just a local one, and is set to expand in 2023 28 Feb 2022
OXONIANS IN THE NEW BIDEN ADMINISTRATION Oxford graduates are filling senior leadership roles in the new US government 10 Mar 2021
PADDLEBOARDING AGAINST PLASTIC Alumna Anna Turns has paddleboarded the entire Salcombe-Kingsbridge estuary in south Devon, raising awareness about ocean pollution 26 Jul 2018
POLLUTION FROM CARS AND VANS COSTS £6 BILLION PER YEAR IN HEALTH DAMAGES A new Oxford University collaboration has shed light on the damaging health consequences of Britain’s car addiction 14 Jun 2018
PURPOSE UNLOCKS PROFIT An Oxford professor discusses a blueprint for the reform of Capitalism 15 Jan 2020
RAGE FOR AND AGAINST THE MACHINE Paula Boddington discusses the infant field of ethics for Artificial Intelligence, with Richard Lofthouse 15 Feb 2018
REIMAGINING CAPITALISM Good companies perform better, argues a Harvard professor in Oxford 7 May 2019
RENOWNED WRITERS READ FOR SALMAN RUSHDIE AT BODLEIAN LIBRARIES Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Lisa Appignanesi and Phillip Pullman came to Oxford for an event in solidarity with Salman Rushdie 22 Nov 2022
REVEALED: HOW COVID-19 CAME INTO THE UK Genomic epidemiology has allowed a team of scientists to analyse the transmission chain behind the first wave of the epidemic in early 2020 11 Jan 2021
REWILD THE ARCTIC TO ADDRESS BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE The wide-scale introduction of large herbivores to the Arctic tundra to restore the ‘mammoth steppe’ grassland ecosystem and mitigate global warming is economically viable, suggests a new paper 27 Jan 2020
RUSSIAN INVASION IN UKRAINE: AN ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE Andriy Tymoshenko (Kellogg, 2014) shares his experience of the atrocities happening in Ukraine. 5 May 2022
SEA-CHANGE IN OXFORD ADMISSIONS Oxford University has unveiled two new access schemes that will help under-represented students 6 Jun 2019
SOCIAL DISTANCING STUDY WANTS VOLUNTEERS A new study to explore the effect of social distancing has launched, and seeks volunteers 20 Apr 2020
SOLAR ENERGY ON ISLAND STATES Rhodes Scholar Kiron Neale discusses his doctoral research on solar energy 28 Mar 2019
STUDY REVEALS CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON ANTARCTIC PENGUINS Diet and food availability amidst climate change 2 Dec 2019
SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST A moving memoir of his mother by a former Rhodes Scholar speaks to the world we find ourselves in late in 2023 18 Oct 2023
SWEET TASTE OF LIBERTY A remarkable book about a slave who successfully sued her slaver has caught the broader reading public’s imagination 4 Oct 2022
TACKLING HIV WITH AI Two Balliol alums are achieving startling success tackling HIV in South Africa and beyond 26 Sep 2019
THE CHANCELLOR’S CORONATION ADDRESS On 5 May, the Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, KG, CH, PC, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, gave an address at the Service of Thanksgiving for the Coronation of King Charles III 15 May 2023
THE COMING WAR OVER SOCIAL MEDIA Ahead of publication, Richard Lofthouse speaks to the author of an explosive new book about Facebook 7 Jun 2018
THE GREAT SIGNIFICANCE OF OBSERVING NATURE IN YOUR BACK GARDEN Yadvinder Malhi shares his rediscovery of nature at the local level 16 Mar 2021
THE IMPORTANCE OF RECORDING HEATWAVES Extreme heat events in sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly worsening because of climate change, but they are not being adequately recorded, says a new Oxford report 11 Aug 2020
THE JET STREAM AND FOOD PRODUCTION Researchers at Oxford University, together with and international colleagues, have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production 9 Dec 2019
THE NATURAL WORLD IS CRITICAL TO CLIMATE The living world is not a sideshow in the climate debate. Our climate benefits from a healthy and flourishing biosphere, just as ecosystems and the diversity of living organisms depend on climate 11 Oct 2021
THE OXFORD PHYSICIST BEHIND NET ZERO OFFERS THE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE Professor Myles Allen says it is entirely possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere on an effective scale. 7 Nov 2022
THE SHOCKING GAP IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF DEEP SEA LIFE Human interference in the deep sea could already be outpacing our basic understanding of how it functions, University scientists have warned 30 Aug 2017
THE TOPSY-TURVY WORLD OF AIR QUALITY Amid a furious debate about air quality, Nick Molden has buckled up his belt of truth 16 Jan 2018
THE UK REVOLUTION IN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE COVID-19 has transformed the NHS family doctor service 29 Jun 2020
THE VICE-CHANCELLOR ACTS ON HOMELESSNESS Come 12 October, Oxford’s CEO Sleepout will take place with the Vice-Chancellor taking part 26 Sep 2023
THE WAR OVER SOCIAL MEDIA: WHAT'S NEXT? In a recent QUAD article, ‘The coming war over social media’, we spoke to US professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of a new Oxford University Press book, Anti-Social Media, How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. 10 Jul 2018
THESE THINGS MATTER 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. 23 Nov 2022
TIME FOR BIOLOGY - MIKE BONSALL ON ALIENS, BIO-THREATS AND COOL SCIENCE It's Biology's time now - the enthusiastically scary Professor Mike Bonsall talks aliens, bio-threats and cool science 1 Dec 2022
TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL Oxford chemists have made a breakthrough towards successfully producing sustainable aviation fuel directly from air (CO2 source) and water (H2 source) 4 Nov 2021
TRUE PLANET: COUNTDOWN TO COP26 Discover Oxford's research for a changing world in an exclusive new video series 29 Sep 2021
UKRAINE EXPERT COMMENT, ONE YEAR ON Why did Russia invade Ukraine and who knew Ukrainians would be so resolute, asks Dr Marnie Howlett 24 Feb 2023
UKRAINE SCULPTURE UNVEILED IN BROAD STREET Solidarity sculpture for Ukraine goes up in Broad Street 1 Apr 2022
UNIVERSITIES INTO THE BREACH 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 14 Apr 2020
UNIVERSITY LEADS CHARGE TO EVs The University promoted electric vehicles to its own wider community at an E-Fleet Business Breakfast on 12 June 12 Jun 2019
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S ORATION 2021 Professor Louise Richardson has delivered her annual Oration to the University in the Sheldonian Theatre 6 Oct 2021
VIRUSES EVOLVE DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT POPULATIONS New research into the HIV-1 virus has shed light on the evolution of viruses 19 Nov 2020
WE'D BETTER GET USED TO THE 'M' WORD... Alumnus and geologist Dr Nick Gardiner (St Peter's, 1991) shares his reaction to the COP26 10 Nov 2021
WE'RE ALL PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE The academic field of existential risk is booming - should we worry? 2 Apr 2020
WHAT CAN NATURE OFFER FOR COP26, AND WHAT CAN COP26 OFFER FOR NATURE? The effectiveness of nature in fighting the impacts and drivers of climate change 3 Nov 2021
WHAT DO COUNTRIES NEED TO AGREE AT COP26? ‘How can we meet our long-terms goals, when our short-term targets fall radically short of what is necessary?’ asks Professor Lavanya Rajamani 3 Nov 2021
WHAT DOES BREXIT REALLY MEAN? It's the final convulsion of empire, say two Oxford academics 24 Jan 2019
WHY NET ZERO (AND WHAT IS IT)? Investment is urgently needed into safer, permanent CO2 disposal, to reduce the burden of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and limit warming 25 Oct 2021
WOLFSON’S DECARBONISATION PLAN A BLUEPRINT FOR ALL THE COLLEGES The graduate college by the Cherwell is forging ahead with a remarkable plan to achieve net zero by 2024 16 Nov 2022
WORSE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK Recent governments have presided over a collapse in public standards, contends the Principal of Brasenose College 9 May 2024