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Wellcome report of 4000 researchers experience of research culture "paints a shocking portrait of the researcher environment".
£100 million donation from Ineos to create new institute to fight antimicrobial resistance
Chemistry Funding Medical science Zoology
19 January 2021
Ineos, one of the world’s largest manufacturing companies, and the University of Oxford are launching a new world-leading institute to combat the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which currently causes an estimated 1.5 million excess deaths each year.
Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics: exciting science awaits
Funding Physics Research
13 January 2021
Oxford’s Department of Physics is playing a key role in three of the seven quantum projects supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
UK population movement falls 59%, compared to -89% in March - COVID-19 Monitor
COVID-19 Engineering Maths Research
12 January 2021
The latest data from Oxford’s COVID-19 Impact Monitor shows the January lockdown has, so far, had one third less national impact on movement than the March shutdown. The figures demonstrate that some regions are still moving at more than 50% of pre-pandemic levels, despite the tough restrictions and calls for people to remain at home.
COVID-19 transmission chains in the UK accurately traced using genomic epidemiology
COVID-19 Research Zoology
12 January 2021
A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, has analysed the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK and produced the most fine-scaled and comprehensive genomic analysis of transmission of any epidemic to date.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell receives highest accolade from Royal Astronomical Society
Award Physics
11 January 2021
Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s highest honour, the Gold Medal 2021. The medal recognises her extraordinary achievements and has been awarded not only for her personal research but also for her contributions to the field of astronomy generally.
Light-carrying chips advance machine learning
Materials science Research
11 January 2021
A team of international scientists has demonstrated an initial prototype of a photonic processor using tiny rays of light confined inside silicon chips that can process information much more rapidly than electronic chips and also in parallel - something traditional chips are incapable of doing.
Professor Martin Booth receives ERC Proof of Concept grant
Engineering Funding
7 January 2021
The project will develop the commercial potential of the novel imaging technology developed by Prof Booth, adaptive optical microscopy.
An OBE for Professor Eleanor Stride in New Year's Honours
Award Biomedical engineering Engineering
4 January 2021
Cecil the lion’s legacy: five years on
Zoology
21 December 2020
Lion numbers have disappeared from 92% of their historical range. The death of Cecil the lion in 2015 and the resulting global outcry brought this sobering fact into sharp focus.
Spotting elephants from space: a satellite revolution
Engineering Research Zoology
21 December 2020
Using the highest resolution satellite imagery currently available, researchers at the University of Oxford Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and Machine Learning Research Group have detected elephants from space with comparable accuracy to human detection capabilities.
How is my town doing? A local view of COVID-19 reproduction rates
COVID-19 Research Statistics
18 December 2020
Led by Professor Yee Whye Teh, a team from the Computational Statistics and Machine Learning research group at the Department of Statistics has built a model that monitors the daily spread of the virus locally.
‘Science’ publishes new paper on Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19
COVID-19 Computer science Engineering Research Statistics
17 December 2020
EC advisory group, led by Prof Nicole Grobert, issues recommendations on the use of biodegradable plastics
Materials science
15 December 2020
Most biodegradable plastics only degrade in specific environments and should only be used in line with new recommendations from the European Commission’s independent Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA), led by Oxford Professor Nicole Grobert.
AI test rules out a COVID-19 diagnosis within one hour in Emergency Departments
COVID-19 Engineering Research
14 December 2020
Artificial Intelligence test has been shown to be able to rapidly screen patients arriving in Emergency Departments for COVID-19
DeepMind offer four scholarships at Oxford University for under-represented students
Computer science Equality and Diversity Funding
10 December 2020
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.
Aliens (or at least intelligent ones) are rare
Research Zoology
10 December 2020
In a collaboration between the Department of Zoology’s Mathematical Ecology Research Group and the Future of Humanity Institute, researchers created a mathematical model to simulate the likelihood of the emergence of intelligent observers.
Eight Oxford researchers, including five from MPLS, awarded major European Research Council funding
Chemistry Engineering Funding Plant sciences Zoology
9 December 2020
European Research Council grants worth more than €16.3 million have been awarded to University of Oxford researchers for a range of cutting-edge projects.
Researchers find very high rates of Covid-19 in the Brazilian Amazon
COVID-19 Research Zoology
9 December 2020
An international team of researchers have shown that, while both cities have experienced large epidemics with high mortality, as much as three-quarters of the population in Manaus was infected between March and October, and a third of the population in São Paulo.
$10 million gift for new Nanoscience Institute in Oxford
Biomedical engineering Chemistry Engineering Funding Materials science Medical science Physics
7 December 2020
A new institute for nanoscience research is to open in Oxford thanks to a $10 million gift from The Kavli Foundation.
From the Science Blog: What is the real point of lockdowns?
COVID-19 Zoology
7 December 2020
By Michael Bonsall, Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology