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The University of the West of England's Bristol's Science Communication (SCU) Masterclass is an intensive, short course (four days) created to provide professional development in science communication.

Oxford Mathematician James Maynard awarded Fields Medal 2022

Award Maths

Professor James Maynard has been named one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics for those under 40.

Department of Physics looks back on 10 years since the discovery of the Higgs Boson

Physics Space

Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, an international collaboration of particle physicists announced to the world that they had independently observed a new particle – the Higgs boson. Oxford physicists were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role in Higgs-boson research ever since.

Oxford mathematicians win London Mathematical Society prizes

Award Maths

Three Oxford Mathematicians, John Ball, Ian Griffiths and Dawid Kielak, have won prizes from the London Mathematical Society (LMS) today.

Oxford zoologists find rare wild ancestors of feral pigeons living on British and Irish islands

Biology Research Zoology

DNA testing reveals that rock doves, the wild ancestors of the common domestic and feral pigeons, now extinct in many parts of the world, are still living on islands in Scotland and Ireland.

Next generation of innovators recognised at inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Awards

Award Chemistry Innovation and Enterprise

Oxford Chemistry students with innovative, game-changing ideas have been highlighted at the inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Awards ('The Jamies'), a new annual awards scheme co-developed by the Department of Chemistry and Oxford University Innovation (OUI) in honour of the late Dr Jamie Ferguson.

Physicists shed light on how Tonga eruption triggered atmospheric gravity waves that reached the edge of space

Physics Research

Oxford Flight Group reveals how hawks control flight and landing to prioritise safety

Biology Engineering Research Zoology

Oxford biomechanics researchers have been using computer simulations and Hollywood-style motion capture to reveal how Harris hawks optimise their landing manoeuvres for an accurate descent.

Professor Samuel Sheppard, to join Ineos Oxford Institute to further interdisciplinary research on antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance Biology Research Zoology

Professor Sheppard will join the Department of Biology and the IOI in September 2022, with the aim of using fundamental evolutionary and ecological theory to address consequential questions in pathogen emergence and spread.

MPLS Teaching Award 2022 Winners announced

Award MPLS Teaching

Congratulations to the eight staff in MPLS departments who have recently been given divisional awards for teaching excellence. The MPLS Divisional Teaching Award Scheme celebrates success, and recognises and rewards excellence in innovative teaching.

Nadja Yang recognised by Women's Engineering Society with 'Top 50 Women in Engineering - Inventors and Innovators' award

Award Engineering Sustainability & the environment Women in science

DPhil Systems Engineering student, Nadja Yang has been recognised as one of the UK's top 50 women engineers who are creating or significantly improving products or processes to make a difference in the world, on International Women in Engineering Day.

Engineering researcher awarded funding to lead international collaboration on machine-learning for cardiac monitoring

AI and data science Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Engineering Women in science

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Dr Tingting Zhu, has been awarded Royal Society funding to lead an international collaboration that aims to develop an open-source platform for cardiac monitoring, using machine-learning.

Researchers develop world's first ultra-fast photonic computing processor, using polarisation

Computer science Functional materials Innovation and Enterprise Materials science Research

The innovative technique, developed in the Department of Materials, uses multiple polarisation channels to carry out parallel processing – enhancing computing density by several orders over conventional electronic chips.

MPLS Professor Laurence Brassart and physicist Dr Archie Bott among 84 scientists awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

Award Engineering Funding Physics

The Fellowships were announced by Science Minister George Freeman this morning, to help the UK’s most promising science and research leaders to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations within the UK.

MPLS research teams to benefit from share of £7m UKRI award

Funding Innovation and Enterprise MPLS

The University has been awarded more than £7 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), which supports the ‘best, brightest and most disruptive ideas’ from UK research institutions, including funding for engineering and physical science innovation.

Jurassic World Dominion: a palaeontologist on what the film gets wrong about dinosaurs

Earth sciences The Conversation

Ben Igielman, DPhil student in palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences, writes about the new Jurassic World film in an article first published on the Conversation.

Wytham Woods badgers studied to complete first complete genome of the European badger

Biology Climate Research Zoology

The study carried out by researchers from Oxford's Department of Zoology and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, as part of the Darwen Tree of Life project, will shed new light on badger biology, disease and responses to climate change.

MPLS student Hannah Rana, who recently completed a DPhil in Engineering, selected for Schmidt Science Fellowship

Award Biomedical engineering Engineering Innovation and Enterprise Women in science

Hannah is one of 29 Schmidt Science Fellows selected this year to receive support for up to two years from Schmidt Futures, working in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, to help advance interdisciplinary research and innovation around major challenges facing humanity.

Nobel prize-winning Oxford biologist Niko Tinbergen honoured with Blue Plaque

Biology Zoology

The late Professor of Animal Behaviour, Niko Tinbergen, has been honoured with the plaque for his founding contributions to the field of ethology - the study of animal behaviour - which is now a recognised area of biological study.

Gravity-defying spike waves rewrite the rule book

Engineering Research

Researchers studying wave breaking have found that axisymmetric ‘spike waves’ can far exceed limits that were previously thought to dictate the maximum height of ocean waves.

Common drug-resistant superbug develops fast resistance to 'last resort' antibiotic

Antimicrobial resistance Biology Research

A study published today in Cell Reports reveals how populations of a bacterium called Pseudomonas respond to being treated with Colistin, a 'last resort' antibiotic for patients who have developed multi-drug resistant infections.

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