25 August 2022
\n \n \n \nFollowing 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.
\n \n\n \n \n4 August 2022
\n \n \n \nA multi-institutional project involving a team from Oxford\u2019s Department of Physics is one of 17 new projects to share in \u00a36 million of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) quantum technology funding, announced this week.
\n \n\n \n \n19 July 2022
\n \n \n \nA gift of \u00a3110,000 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is enabling the creation of two new scholarships for students from developing countries accepted onto the University\u2019s Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) in Environmental Research.
\n \n\n \n \n19 July 2022
\n \n \n \nNew funding will drive the creation and growth of transformational businesses built on ground-breaking Oxford research.
\n \n\n \n \n7 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe new investment in Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from the Department of Physics, will accelerate the company\u2019s research and development and fuel its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. The Series A investment funding is the largest ever secured in the UK by a quantum computing start-up.
\n \n\n \n \n15 June 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Fellowships were announced by Science Minister George Freeman this morning, to help the UK\u2019s most promising science and research leaders to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations within the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n15 June 2022
\n \n \n \nThe University has been awarded more than \u00a37 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)\u2019s Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), which supports the \u2018best, brightest and most disruptive ideas\u2019 from UK research institutions, including funding for engineering and physical science innovation.
\n \n\n \n \n1 June 2022
\n \n \n \nFunding to train the next generation of cutting-edge antimicrobial resistance researchers has been announced by Ineos Oxford Institute (IOI), the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge.
\n \n\n \n \n18 May 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessors Andrew Goodwin and Iain McCullogh in the Department of Chemistry are part of the team of 10 researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge that will be at the forefront of work that on a new generation of soft functional materials.
\n \n\n \n \n12 May 2022
\n \n \n \nToday the UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK\u2019s most recent national research assessment exercise, REF 2021.
\n \n\n \n \n26 April 2022
\n \n \n \nFour \u2018excellent research leaders\u2019 at Oxford, three of them from MPLS Division, have today been awarded major European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to fund boundary-pushing research projects in Biology, Linguistics, Mathematics and Physics.
\n \n\n \n \n12 April 2022
\n \n \n \nSix institutions, including the University of Oxford, are leading efforts to deliver computational systems that will enable the world\u2019s largest radio telescope
\n \n\n \n \n1 April 2022
\n \n \n \nProf Speller will lead research on high temperature superconductors for fusion technologies and new initiatives aimed at widening participation in STEM.
\n \n\n \n \n22 March 2022
\n \n \n \nThe programme will establish a cross-disciplinary community of researchers in quantum computing and computer science, who will collaborate to address the global challenge of delivering quantum computing that is robust, reliable, and trustworthy.
\n \n\n \n \n1 March 2022
\n \n \n \nThe University\u2019s 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.
\n \n\n \n \n22 February 2022
\n \n \n \nUK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome have announced a \u00a318 million investment for nine multidisciplinary research projects through the Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund. Two of these projects are co-led by academics in MPLS departments.
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2022
\n \n \n \nInterdisciplinary teams in The Agile Initiative aim to deliver rapid answers to the most pressing environmental policy questions, using cutting edge research.
\n \n\n \n \n1 February 2022
\n \n \n \nA project to harness three ground-breaking technologies developed by Oxford Chemistry researchers \u2013 to analyse individual proteins and decipher the complexity of bacterial communication \u2013 has been awarded \u00a35.5m by the BBSRC.
\n \n\n \n \n26 January 2022
\n \n \n \nA \u00a311 million Cancer Research UK investment has been awarded to the University of Oxford and Oxford-based NHS to catalyse the translation of its world-leading cancer research for patient benefit.
\n \n\n \n \n4 January 2022
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