Research

The research, which appears in the journal Ambio, says while there are some good examples of imaginative products, far more could be done to interpret visits to nature reserves or link up with central biodiversity sites using apps.

US Ambassador Matthew W. Barzun visited Oxford in September 2015 to meet with representatives of the city’s universities, Oxford City Council, social entrepreneurship leads and high-technology businesses.

I could see there were certain things that she was good at: big, overarching ideas. But the nitty gritty of doing algebra, actually manipulating symbols on a page – she wasn't great at that!

To really understand Lovelace’s paper you need to put it in the context of contemporary ideas of literature and science... Where did these ideas of abstract computing come from? What bigger cultural forces were in play?

Research from the University of Oxford's Clinical Genetics Laboratory initiated the introduction of an upper age limit of 40 years for sperm donors in the UK and internationally, and led to increased public awareness of the effect of paternal age in the transmission of inherited disease.

Ada's mother encouraged her interest in mathematics, partly after her own interests but partly to stop her being interested in poetry like her father, the infamous Lord Byron. The interesting thing is that Ada talks about the ‘poetry of mathematics’ – she talks about the two not being in opposition and in some ways being the same thing.

The Oxford Climate Research Network is a cross-divisional research community, harnessing Oxford’s diverse strengths to address the challenge of managing climate change in a complex and uncertain world. The network aims to develop a research agenda to address key challenges of a changing climate, deepen knowledge to inform policy and planning, and develop instruments to improve practice in partnership with government, research and business communities.

Ancient Christian relics are objects that survive from ancient times, often associated with a saint's body or their belongings, and usually kept as objects of historical interest or spiritual devotion.

One of the most intriguing questions researchers hope to answer is whether Celtic art had links into the wider Eurasian world.

The ITRC informs the analysis, planning and design of national infrastructure, through the development and demonstration of new decision support tools – and with a keen eye on the impact of climate change. The ITRC works with 40 partners across government and industry and 10 academic institutions.

I think my personal goal, if it was ever achievable, would be to have chemotherapy with no side effects. There are lots of examples of plants and animals which make ‘poisons’ to protect themselves from predation. But they don’t want to self-poison, so they keep the two components separate so they can attack the predator without harming themselves.

The research involving 78,000 people found that neither wealth nor social status were strongly linked to people taking part in arts activities as amateurs or professionals.  Instead, it was the level of education that lay behind arts participation.

New analysis of the London Tube strike in February 2014 finds that it enabled a sizeable fraction of commuters to find better routes to work, and actually produced a net economic benefit due...

After geocoding Wikipedia edit entries on articles mentioning places, they also found there were more editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined.

Riham is a female clinical neuroscientist turned entrepreneur in a male-dominated start-up field. She is the co-founder and CEO of MeVitae, a cognitive recruiting system that makes intelligent and personalised hiring decisions.

Dominique is the co-founder and Creative Director of UPROSA. Her business ventures started at age 15 when she created an ice cream parlour & café with her mum on the Isle of Wight. She then went on to university and is now studying for a DPhil in Nanoscience at the University of Oxford whilst she pursues UPROSA, a brand that aims to bring real science into the consumer market with a range of fashion & tech accessories created with real scientific imagery.

In some ways, getting computers to understand language about particular technical domains (like, say, maths or logic) – is less challenging, because those domains do have a logical structure, which you can use to guide the understanding of the text.

I’m a strong advocate for teaching children second languages at the earliest possible ages, but we have to be careful how we implement it. In England, unfortunately, there tends to be very limited amounts of time devoted to foreign language instruction in schools.

Because the Oxford English Dictionary was based on examples of real usage it wasn't just a history of the language but a history of 'English' thoughts, history and lived experience over the course of the time that the language had been in existence and written down... a wonderful cultural as well as linguistic record.

'Our ability to acquire, understand and communicate language is unique compared to all other species... the fact a toddler can put words together into real sentences – it's extraordinary.'