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« Back to NewsOxford recognised with Silver Athena Swan award
24 March 2023
Oxford University has been awarded an institutional Silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our collective and continued efforts to advance gender equality across the University.
MPLS staff recognised at Vice-Chancellor’s Professional Services Awards
24 March 2023
Award Equality and Diversity MPLS
Congratulations to Daisy Hung (MPLS Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) and Louisa Bailey (Head of Administration and Finance, Earth Sciences) who were amongst the finalists for the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Professional Services Awards announced on Tuesday 21 March.
Beyond Boundaries school science and art competition opens for entries
9 March 2023
Equality and Diversity MPLS Outreach Public Engagement
The University of Oxford’s science-inspired art competition is back for its third year and is now open for entries from state school students in Years 5 to 8, across Oxfordshire.
DeepMind offers six scholarships at Oxford University for under-represented students
5 December 2022
Computer science Equality and Diversity Funding
DeepMind, the leading British artificial intelligence company, has renewed its commitment to supporting students at the University of Oxford following the success of its scholarship programme for under-represented groups in AI.
Engineering student recognised with upReach social mobility award
26 July 2022
Award Engineering Equality and Diversity Women in science
Fourth-year student Anahy Mercado Zambrana has been recognised with an upReach Student Social Mobility Award, awarded annually to ten students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, across the UK, who have excelled in their studies and show great potential for their future careers.
Success for MPLS students and staff in the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Awards 2022
31 May 2022
Congratulations to all the students and staff in the MPLS Division who have been successful in the University's 2022 Vice Chancellor's Diversity Awards.
Oxford University launches the Astrophoria Foundation Year for underrepresented students
4 May 2022
Equality and Diversity Teaching
The Foundation Year will help able students from disadvantaged backgrounds raise their academic standards and apply successfully to Oxford. A combined Chemistry, Engineering and Materials Science course will be offered to students joining the Foundation Year of undergraduate science courses at the University, from October 2023.
Professor Susie Speller awarded a five year £2.4M Fellowship under the new EPSRC Open Plus scheme
1 April 2022
Equality and Diversity Funding Materials science
Prof Speller will lead research on high temperature superconductors for fusion technologies and new initiatives aimed at widening participation in STEM.
DeepMind donation creates 12 new research internships in artificial intelligence and machine learning
1 March 2022
Computer science Engineering Equality and Diversity Funding Maths Statistics
The University’s flagship UNIQ+ graduate access programme for students from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds will expand further in 2022 thanks to a generous donation from leading British artificial intelligence company DeepMind.
DeepMind offers five scholarships at Oxford University for under-represented students
1 December 2021
Computer science Equality and Diversity
DeepMind, the leading British artificial intelligence company, has renewed its commitment to supporting students at the University of Oxford following the success of its scholarship programme for under-represented groups in AI.
Science looks to the past to challenge its future
18 November 2021
A set of major collaborations between science, mathematics and history staff and students at the University of Oxford - seeking to diversify the curriculum in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines - was launched last week.
Oxford University staff and students consulted on race equality proposals
20 October 2021
The University’s Race Equality Task Force has outlined a set of proposed measures aiming to address the under-representation of racial minorities at all levels across the University.
Oxford University collaborate with Formula 1 to increase diversity and inclusion in engineering
15 July 2021
Engineering Equality and Diversity
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.
Science Blog: Geoscientists Call for Action on Tackling Racial Inequity
6 May 2021
Earth sciences Equality and Diversity
A recent article published in the journal Nature Geoscience has highlighted the shocking under-representation of students from ethnic minority backgrounds in the Geosciences. Ben Fernando writes about a new paper that lays out steps to address this diversity crisis and make the discipline more equitable.
Winners announced for Oxford’s Beyond Boundaries art competition to encourage inclusion in STEM sciences
24 February 2021
Biology Equality and Diversity Materials science Plant sciences Statistics Zoology
Oxford University has today announced the winners of its science-inspired schools’ art competition Beyond Boundaries which was launched to encourage inclusion in science research
DeepMind offer four scholarships at Oxford University for under-represented students
10 December 2020
Computer science Equality and Diversity Funding
Four more DeepMind graduate scholarships for students wishing to pursue a master’s degree in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science will be made available for students commencing courses in 2021–22.
Computer scientist Dr Chao Mbogo on her pathbreaking career
2 October 2020
Computer science Equality and Diversity Women in science
Dr Mbogo got onto the Masters in Computer Science programme at Oxford with a full scholarship through the Shell Centenary Foundation, and is now Dean of the School of Science and Technology at the Kenya Methodist University and the first ever Kenyan to receive the prestigious OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award earlier this year.