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« Back to NewsNew hub receives £2m to develop the communications technology of tomorrow
1 March 2023
The Future Communications Hub on All Spectrum Connectivity is being supported by investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in a project led by Professor Dominic O’Brien (Department of Engineering Science).
€2m grant awarded to Oxford researcher for fundamental research in machine learning
10 February 2023
Computer science Funding Research Statistics
Associate Professor Patrick Rebeschini, in the Department of Statistics, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth €2 million, to develop theoretical foundations that could advance machine learning methods used to analyse Big Data.
Wellcome funding for multidisciplinary project to improve understanding about deadly disease outbreaks
3 February 2023
Climate Engineering Funding Medical science Research
DART (Dengue Advanced Readiness Tools) is a new, Oxford-led project involving scientists around the world, and one of 24 Wellcome-supported projects that will use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks.
Oxford University to co-lead £8m Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory to help UK reach net-zero
12 January 2023
The five-year programme, funded by the EPSRC and working with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), will establish a national energy data platform to help facilitate the transition to net-zero carbon emissions.
Significant scale-up investment for three Oxford spinouts
11 January 2023
Engineering Funding Physics Spin out
Three University of Oxford spinouts, including two from MPLS, have raised significant investment to scale their companies in vehicle automation, quantum computing and medical imaging respectively.
Oxford climate research excellence recognised by renewed Met Office partnership
15 December 2022
Climate Earth sciences Funding Maths Physics Research Statistics
The University of Oxford has been selected to help deliver the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years, as part of a multi-institutional agreement supporting cutting-edge research in the science of weather and climate prediction.
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.
Scholarship scheme for graduates displaced by the war in Ukraine receives funding to continue
24 November 2022
XTX Markets is partnering with the University to fund a scholarship programme for the academic year 2023/24 supporting graduate students studying in MPLS.
Four MPLS academics ‘showing great promise’ awarded major European Research Council Starting Grants
23 November 2022
Earth sciences Engineering Funding Physics
This year’s funding totals €636 million, with grants awarded through a highly-competitive process. Overall, just 14% of applications were successful this year.
Uncover Engineering programme funded for a further five years by CIWM
8 November 2022
Engineering Funding Outreach Schools
The programme is designed to increase the number of engineering students from socio-economically disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds and help address the UK skills shortage
Oxford University joins €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project
3 November 2022
Engineering Funding Materials science
The grant to Professor Natalia Ares from the Department of Engineering Science will fund the ASPECTS consortium, which brings together leading experimental and theoretical physicists across Europe with the common goal of uncovering the limitations of natural timekeeping devices to assess whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.
$3m Rockefeller Foundation funding to strengthen pandemic surveillance and response innovation co-developed by Oxford biologists
1 November 2022
Biology COVID-19 Funding Medical science
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced $3 million in new funding for Global.health (G.h) – a first-of-its-kind, open-source platform for scientific pandemic data.
Oxford joins Schmidt Futures’ $148 million global initiative to accelerate use of AI in scientific research
26 October 2022
AI and data science Funding MPLS
The University of Oxford is one of nine leading research universities around the world selected to deliver a new global postdoctoral fellowship programme to drive the innovative use of artificial intelligence across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research.
Oxford to benefit from STFC theoretical physics funding
25 October 2022
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) announced this week that they have awarded more than £20 million for UK theoretical physics. The investment will benefit the Particle Theory group in the Department of Physics as well as the Mathematical Physics group in the Mathematical Institute.
MPLS students take up Google PhD Fellowships in Engineering and Statistics
14 October 2022
Award Engineering Funding Research Statistics
MPLS DPhil candidates Liliane Momeni and Sheheryar Zaidi have taken up prestigious Google PhD Fellowships, each worth $60,000, after been selected from a highly competitive field of applicants last year.
University of Oxford partners with Novo Nordisk Foundation to offer new research opportunities for talented international postdoctoral scientists
11 October 2022
The fellowship programme provides international research and career development opportunities for early-career researchers in the natural, technical and life sciences.
Oxford Mathematics joins Martingale Postgraduate Foundation programme
6 October 2022
Martingale is a new postgraduate foundation that offers full funding and multi-year support for outstanding UK students to complete STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) PhDs at leading UK research universities. The first cohort will be concentrated on mathematics.
Students take up Black Academic Futures Scholarships thanks to support from 'activist investor’
28 September 2022
Funding Materials science Sustainability & the environment Women in science
A DPhil candidate in the Department of Materials is amongst three 2022-entry Scholars to embark on postgraduate studies with support from the Black Academic Futures programme, with a fourth Scholar due to join in 2023/24.
Oxford partners with the Optiver Foundation to launch new international postgraduate scholarship programme for women in STEM
26 August 2022
Chemistry Computer science Engineering Funding Maths Physics Statistics Teaching Women in science
The partnership aims to increase the number of women from low- and middle-income countries who take up offers to study Master's programmes in MPLS departments, with the first Optiver Foundation Scholars joining in October 2023.
Professor Matt Jarvis awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant
25 August 2022
Following the award of three European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to MPLS academics in April 2022, a fourth award has subsequently been made to Professor Jarvis in the Department of Physics.