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
'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 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
ALEXA, DOES AI HAVE GENDER? Professor Gina Neff talks to Ruth Abrahams about gender and AI 15 Oct 2018
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: '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: '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
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
CAPITALISM AFTER COVID The pandemic further agitated a furious debate that long-predated it 21 Jul 2020
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 CHANGE AND THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY A radical billionaire speaks out 4 Jun 2019
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
FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH Oxford alumni founders of It Gets Brighter launch a campaign for Mental Health Week 19 May 2020
GREENING THE RECOVERY FROM COVID-19 A green exit from COVID-19 would benefit the economy, says an important Oxford report 18 Aug 2020
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
HOW DOES AN OXFORD COLLEGE TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE? Lady Margaret Hall Bursar Bart Ashton on what it means to be green 5 Oct 2020
INFRASTRUCTURE AT CENTRE OF SUSTAINABILITY, SAYS NEW REPORT Infrastructure decisions underpin environmental sustainability, says a new Oxford-UN report 24 Oct 2018
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
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
OCEAN WARMING OFFERS CLUES Oxford scientists have reconstructed ocean warming from 1871 to 2017 29 Jan 2019
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 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 LAUNCHES BIODIVERSITY PLAN TO HELP ORGANISATIONS A plan to help organisations link small actions to big goals 17 Dec 2019
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 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 RETAINS FIRST PLACE IN WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS Oxford University has topped the THE World University Rankings for a fifth consecutive year 17 Sep 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 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 URGES A MORE RADICAL TRANSPORT STRATEGY FOR THE CITY Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr David Prout explains the University’s position 3 Dec 2019
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
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
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
TACKLING HIV WITH AI Two Balliol alums are achieving startling success tackling HIV in South Africa and beyond 26 Sep 2019
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 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 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 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
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
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'RE ALL PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE The academic field of existential risk is booming - should we worry? 2 Apr 2020
WHAT DOES BREXIT REALLY MEAN? It's the final convulsion of empire, say two Oxford academics 24 Jan 2019