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NERC are encouraging public engagement project applications to this year's fellowship call, which are intended to enable the sharing and flow of knowledge and expertise between NERC funded researchers and their stakeholders, partners and/or user communities with the aim of generating impact from NERC funded research in the priority areas detailed in the NERC delivery plan.

Destination net zero: the push for cleaner aviation

The UK aviation industry alone is targeting a reduction of just over 30 million tonnes of CO2 per year, to zero. A 50-year collaboration between Rolls-Royce and the University of Oxford is hoping to rise to the challenge by designing more efficient jet engines. Includes a profile of Manuela Sisti, who recently won a $10,000 prize from the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship. Named after the pioneering aviator, the prize is awarded to women breaking barriers in aerospace.

Innovation Festival at Begbroke Science Park

Discover some of the transformative science and innovation happening right now, across Oxfordshire and the University, and learn about the radical new plans for Begbroke Science Park’s future development as an Innovation District, where more world-class research ideas will find a home.

On the edge of existence: rediscovering a lost coral

In this new Oxford Sparks film, marine biologist Dr Bryan Wilson shares the incredible story of his rediscovery of a once-thought-to-be-extinct coral.

MPLS supports Mental Health Awareness Week 2022

Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 is from Monday 9 May - Sunday 15 May. The theme for the week this year is loneliness. MPLS are once again planning a programme of activity Monday - Friday of that week. We hope you can join us!

i-City

i-City (Intelligent sustainsble networked City) is an exciting student innovation competition sponsored by MathWorks and jointly run by MPLS and Reuben College.

Connecting with Industry

Connecting with Industry is designed to help give PhD students (and other postgraduates) the confidence, tools and skills to help them more effectively engage with and work with industry.

New Statesman: AI facial recognition software now works for wild chimpanzees too

Towards Efficient and Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning using AWS

By Zheng Xiong, AIMS CDT Student. Despite that robots driven by hard-coded instructions have achieved great success in the past decades, their applications are still quite limited in highly controlled scenarios due to the lack of adaptability to flexible environments with unforeseen variations. Reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to tackle these challenges.

Learning How to Learn Where You Are: Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Camera Localization using AWS

By Dominik Kloepher, AIMS CDT Student. In this project, we looked at the task of camera localization: given a number of images of a scene (a room, a street, …) and the positions and viewing directions from which they were taken (together, these are the camera pose), can we determine the camera pose from which a new, unseen image was taken? A method that could do so reliably and quickly would find use in many different fields, from robotics and autonomous driving to augmented reality applications.

New human-machine collaborations unlock society’s big challenges

AWS blog on the Oxford X-Reality Hub Ed Tech project, which set out to investigate how virtual reality (VR) could transform the classroom experience and close the gap between disadvantaged groups of pupils who statistically do less well than their peers.

Mission critical cloud: Transforming education

From digital transformation to virtual reality, hear how educational institutions are continuing to redefine and reimagine virtual learning. An AWS podcast.

RisingWISE role models and case studies

Our previous participants are inspiring in ways both big and small and we are proud to share some of their motivating profiles here.

Enterprising Women Lunch and Learn Podcasts

A series of talks by enterprising and successful women working in STEM.

Using AWS to analyse Elephant Rumbles

Elephants generate a wide range of vocalisations to communicate with one another, such as snorts, trumpets and infrasonic rumbles. Since these rumbles are so low frequency, they cannot be heard by the human ear, but can be detected either by microphones or seismometers.