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MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2021

MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award Winners

We are delighted to announce our 2021 winners for the MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Awards. Every other year, alternating with the University-wide Diversity Awards, we recognise staff and students in MPLS who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to advance ED&I within our communities.

Ear to the ground: Locating elephants using ground vibrations

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Mpala Research Center and Save the Elephants, have used a combination of acoustic microphones and seismometers to locate elephants.

Oxford researchers develop tool to predict where people go after a disaster

Researchers at Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), have developed an open source software package to estimate displaced populations post-disaster, currently with a focus on earthquakes and cyclones.

Image shows a brain made up from data lines

Global leaders named as Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellows

Five internationally-recognised researchers have been appointed as the first Turing Artificial Intelligence (AI) World-Leading Researcher Fellows.

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New network Oxford Cancer launches

A new pan-divisional initiative has launched at the University of Oxford, bringing together the collective force of cancer research, outreach and care that happen across the city of Oxford.

Alpha variant spread via ‘super-seeding’ event: warning over COVID-19 variants

The COVID-19 Alpha (or Kent) variant is not 80% more transmissible, as was originally thought, according to a new study published by researchers at universities including Oxford. But, they warn, the rapid spread of the variant around the UK last year has major implications for the treatment of other variant outbreaks, because it resulted from multiple ‘exports’. It was, in fact, a major ‘super-seeding’ event, with the variant ‘exported’ numerous times from the large outbreak in the Kent/London area.

A Formula 1 car with the slogan 'F1 - We race as one'

Oxford University collaborate with Formula 1 to increase diversity and inclusion in engineering

Oxford University is to collaborate with Formula 1 on a new scholarship to support talented undergraduate engineers from under-represented backgrounds into careers in the motorsports industry.

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Stay COVID-safe. Keep protecting yourself and the community (SSO required)

The UK Government has now confirmed that it plans to move to Step 4 of its Roadmap for lifting COVID-19 restrictions on Monday 19 July. However, with rates of COVID-19 in Oxford 70% above the national average, all staff and students working and studying on site should continue to follow all existing University health guidance. Staff should carry on following Return to On-site Working principles.  This position will be kept under constant review in coming weeks and will adapt as the local and national situation evolves.

Thank you for all you have done so far to protect staff, students and the wider community from COVID-19. Staff and students are asked to remember that COVID-19 remains a real threat to many people in our community and that the pandemic is not yet over.

It’s still important that everyone who is in Oxford continues to follow all of the University's health measures as the vaccine is rolled out:

Continue social distancing – assume 2 metres within University buildings unless told otherwise
Keep washing your hands
Keep wearing a face covering (unless you’re exempt)
Get tested – twice a week, with Lateral Flow Devices (LFDs); and take a PCR test if you have symptoms or have received a positive LFD test result or have been advised that you are a close contact of someone who has a PCR-confirmed case of COVID-19.
Continue to follow the self-isolation guidance.

We realise these measures have been in place for several months, but it’s really important that we all continue to follow all the guidance – even if you have already had COVID-19 or have been vaccinated. This will help to create a safe environment for teaching, research and working across the University, and help to bring University life back to normal.

We also strongly encourage all students who are in Oxford, and all staff who are working on site, to take regular symptom-free Lateral Flow Device (LFD) tests, twice a week. If you receive a positive result, or develop symptoms, you must immediately self-isolate and book a confirmatory PCR test via the University’s Testing for COVID-19: Early Alert Service.

COVID-19 information, guidance and advice for staff and students at Oxford

General coronavirus advice and support for staff and students can be found on the University's 'Oxford and coronavirus' homepage.

Please contact the relevant MPLS Team if you have questions or concerns that are not answered on these pages or can't be answered by your department.

The MPLS Graduate School has also created a webpage with PDF versions of all communications sent out to PGR students and links to other useful resources.

MPLS ED&I Fellows 2021-22 - Call for applications

We are pleased to announce for the second year our ED&I Fellowships for 2021-2022 to work alongside our divisional ED&I team and ED&I Steering Group to help inform and implement our new 2020-2023 ED&I action plan. We are looking for enthusiastic and proactive researchers (including DPhils and postdocs) and professional service staff members – specifically those with experience, knowledge or interest in issues of racial justice, mental health and disability, LGBT+ equality, and/or gender equality – and their intersections.

Deadline: 31 July 2021

Find out more about the ED&I Fellows call

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