Current affairs

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)

A group within the University called ‘HERO’ is working towards ecosystem restoration across Oxfordshire, and QUAD talks to one of its chief architects

Research shows that animal movies promote awareness, not harm

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

50 years since the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Alida Young notes the true source of some of his greatest words

For sheer absurdity and slapstick, no one serves it up quite like Mark Hanlon in The Pong of Power

Danny Dorling considers the real meaning of Brexit and how it relates to the end of Empire

Alumna Lucy Johnstone explains a sea change in thinking about mental health

Professor Gina Neff talks to Ruth Abrahams about gender and AI

Asha de Vos (Lincoln, 2003) on whale conservation and her time at Oxford

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.

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

We spoke to alumnus Ashleigh Ainsley (St Catherine’s, 2011) about co-founding colorintech, supporting racial diversity in the tech industry.

Tarek Cheniti (Keble, 2005) on his time studying Management Studies at Oxford and his career in Human Rights

Jason Arora (St John's, 2005) on studying medicine at Oxford, and working for a new system for value-based healthcare

Global Environmental Politics is poised to be transformed by Artificial Intelligence

The true cost of ash dieback is far higher than you may assume

A collection of articles highlighting Black History Month

Oxford has helped craft a landmark marine protection plan

The bonds between alumni in a time of Brexit

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

The pandemic further agitated a furious debate that long-predated it

A packed Sheldonian Theatre was backdrop to a lively discussion around fake news and public misinformation

Oxford to host a special air quality conference

Dr Pete Walton at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute talks about the insights offered by education

A radical billionaire speaks out

A brilliant new history book takes the very long view

Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC recounts a remarkable legal career and discusses his collection of radical literature

Oxford is likely to have electric scooters for rental very soon

Oxford’s Saïd Business School hosts Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit

A recent EV summit in Oxford pointed in an unanticipated direction

The electric MINI will be built in Cowley

Oxford launches new centre for energy demand solutions

Oxford alumni founders of It Gets Brighter launch a campaign for Mental Health Week

QUAD readers have asked more questions about tomorrow’s transport

A green exit from COVID-19 would benefit the economy, says an important Oxford report

Billionaire Tom Steyer will speak in the Sheldonian on 3 June to the theme, 'How corporate money has subverted climate politics.'

Tom Fletcher discusses Oxford, diplomacy and the importance of the digital sphere in the twenty-first century

Artificial Intelligence and conservation

Lady Margaret Hall Bursar Bart Ashton on what it means to be green

Laos has a brilliant DPhil student in Oxford

Infrastructure decisions underpin environmental sustainability, says a new Oxford-UN report

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

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

Matt Perkins explains how Oxford's culture of entrepreneurship has become 'real'

Numerous COVID-19 patients have been shown to be still suffering symptoms months after discharge from hospital

Putting on a new set of food spectacles was good for me

NZ Climate minister discusses the challenge

Climate science pioneer dies aged 88

Oxford scientists have reconstructed ocean warming from 1871 to 2017

Author James Crowden offers a context for recent clashes between China and India

An interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK’s capacity for ventilator manufacture

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.

Oxford are rapidly preparing a COVID-19 vaccine trial in the Thames Valley Region

How we'll achieve 'Net Zero'

A plan to help organisations link small actions to big goals

The University has launched a new centre of global research collaboration and excellence

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

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.

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

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

A test that works in 30 minutes will help health authorities globally

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

Working with the Seychelles Islands Foundation, a group of students will clean up an island

Potential COVID-19 hotspots can be identified using a new online tool from Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

In collaboration with AstraZeneca plc Oxford announces its candidate vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019, is effective at preventing COVID-19

October is a special month

Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr David Prout explains the University’s position

Landmark climate book draws on unique Oxford records

Oxford graduates are filling senior leadership roles in the new US government

Alumna Anna Turns has paddleboarded the entire Salcombe-Kingsbridge estuary in south Devon, raising awareness about ocean pollution

A new Oxford University collaboration has shed light on the damaging health consequences of Britain’s car addiction

An Oxford professor discusses a blueprint for the reform of Capitalism

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

Good companies perform better, argues a Harvard professor in Oxford

Genomic epidemiology has allowed a team of scientists to analyse the transmission chain behind the first wave of the epidemic in early 2020

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

Oxford University has unveiled two new access schemes that will help under-represented students

A new study to explore the effect of social distancing has launched, and seeks volunteers

Rhodes Scholar Kiron Neale discusses his doctoral research on solar energy

Recent Oxford alumna Beverly Leon on being a pro-footballer

Diet and food availability amidst climate change

Two Balliol alums are achieving startling success tackling HIV in South Africa and beyond

Ahead of publication, Richard Lofthouse speaks to the author of an explosive new book about Facebook

Oxford’s renowned ecosystems expert Yadvinder Malhi talks trees

Yadvinder Malhi shares his rediscovery of nature at the local level

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

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

Pakistan’s response to COVID and its broader implications

The western half of Broad Street has been transformed

Human interference in the deep sea could already be outpacing our basic understanding of how it functions, University scientists have warned

Amid a furious debate about air quality, Nick Molden has buckled up his belt of truth

COVID-19 has transformed the NHS family doctor service

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.

The University has ambitious new environmental plans

Two privately-educated alumni reject private schools

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

The University promoted electric vehicles to its own wider community at an E-Fleet Business Breakfast on 12 June

New research into the HIV-1 virus has shed light on the evolution of viruses

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

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

Risk around radio frequency radiation