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Founders & Funders: Accelerating Oxford entrepreneurial capacity through a grassroots knowledge exchange programme
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Live well in Braunton
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Contested legacies
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The Oxford Research Centre in Humanities launches Egypt Season
Using creative artistic practice, alongside cutting-edge technology and research, the season will tell the story of Egypt from the land of the Pharaohs to the modern, diverse country of today.
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Oxford Professor Ketan Patel appointed as Chief Scientist at Cancer Research UK
Professor Patel (KJ) will provide scientific leadership for the charity’s activities and ambitions, and he joins at an important time following the launch of the organisation’s new long-term strategy earlier this year that puts discovery science at the heart of its work.
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Fostering connections between social prescribing link workers and the cultural sector
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Life expectancy of minorities hit hardest in the US during COVID-19
The Oxford team found that in 2020 life expectancy for Hispanic and Black males saw major set-backs of 4.5 years and 3.6 years respectively, compared with a reduction of 1.5 years in White males’ life expectancy.
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From OPEC to Net Zero and still optimistic: Professor Nick Eyre on 34 years as an environmentalist
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Now (sort of) approaching retirement, Professor Eyre offers a unique perspective on the history of the environmental movement, at a time when it has gone mainstream. When he commenced his interest, one of the great social issues of the day was the demand to keep coal mines open.
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Confronting the past through history education
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Prophetic Assyrian Omens
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Digging into Oxford’s past
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Please Touch the Art
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Tackling climate change by researching routes to greenhouse gas removal
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From the lab to the bedside: Translating healthcare research into clinical patient benefit
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Revolutionising solar power technology: Oxford PV
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SOPHIA: Helping private companies reduce poverty
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Whose Heritage, Whose Reconstruction?
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The National Trust Partnership: Connecting cutting-edge Oxford University research with the National Trust’s places and collections
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Identifying and fixing critical design flaws in Bluetooth
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