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Archaeology from Above
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Lighthouse in a Storm
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Why Oxford archaeologists dream of seeing the Palmyra Arch rebuilt by Syrians.
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Oxford to receive £7 million to turn bright ideas into global opportunities
The award follows Oxford’s recent top ranking in the UK for generating spin-out companies and its success in the Research Exc
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Preparing the UK for a new era of trade
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Digital Delius
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Tackling climate change by researching routes to greenhouse gas removal
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Improving technology to support offshore wind production
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Rough Paths: gaining insights and building solutions
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OMass Therapeutics: New technology for drug discovery and development
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Transforming Central Bank Communications: wider communication with targeted audiences
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Combating drug-resistant malaria
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Making the case for sugar taxes: UK, Ireland and Mexico
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Enabling digital inclusion through public libraries
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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to prevent depression
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Rethinking the ‘Collection Development Policy’ for the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Oxford historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts
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Ithaca is the first deep neural network that can aid historians in not only restoring the missing text of damaged inscriptions, but also identifying their original location, and establishing the date they were written.
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Youth Smile: enabling access to dental care for homeless young people
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Big data and batteries help the move towards clean energy
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New postdoctoral global scholarships at Oxford funded by British Academy
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Projects funded by this round of the scheme will support new research into a wide range of topics from the function of music in the acquisition of knowledge to the Communist Movement in Burma and the study of Syro-Armenian polemics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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