Impact films

Researchers in Tanzania talk about what drives them to work on the R21 Matrix-M malaria vaccine, on the journey to save lives among children in Africa.

Radiocarbon dating has determined the age of everything from elephant tusks to ancient scrolls and bits of Chichester Cathedral – but what has to happen for a sample to be tested? Let's take a sample's eye view…

The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) is a radiocarbon laboratory engaged in collaborative research across many disciplines where the measurement of the radiocarbon isotope is useful including:

• Archaeology and art history
• Biological and genetic research
• Earth science
• Environmental science

They provide a radiocarbon dating service for people undertaking research in all these areas. This dating service operates on a commercial basis in conjunction with NERC/ARHC, which funds the NRCF programme for British archaeologists. https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/

Researchers led by the University of Oxford have developed a new test to assess how dangerous robotic lawnmowers are to hedgehogs. They hope this will lead to a certification scheme that will allow consumers to choose ‘hedgehog-friendly’ mowers to help protect these lovable mammals.

Learn more here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-01-16-researchers-develop-hedgehog-safety-test-robotic-lawnmowers

Lead researcher Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen (University of Oxford), also known as ‘Dr Hedgehog’, said: ‘There is an urgent need to identify and phase out models of robotic lawnmowers that pose a threat to hedgehogs. Our new standardised safety test will greatly aid hedgehog conservation, by enabling manufacturers of robotic lawnmowers to ensure their models are “hedgehog friendly” before they are put on the market.’


Thanks:

Stihl
https://www.stihl.co.uk/en
Husqvarna
https://www.husqvarna.com/
British Hedgehog Preservation Society
https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/
Happy Hedgehog Rescue, Yateley

Additional footage:

Stihl
Husqvarna
Alan Allsopp/BHPS

Learn more about the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit: https://www.wildcru.org/
Learn more about Biology at Oxford:
https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/home

The Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) remains an exceptional study that is leading the global fight against COVID-19. The study is continuing to adapt to the changing dynamics of the pandemic, adding new promising candidate treatments, and launching in new countries with different population and healthcare systems.

It is likely that the true impact of RECOVERY can never be fully measured. But through discovering four treatments that effectively reduce deaths from COVID-19, it is certain that the study has saved hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of lives worldwide. Crucially, low- and middle-income countries have shared these benefits, particularly since dexamethasone (the first treatment to be discovered) is inexpensive, easily administered and readily available in most hospitals.

This trial is supported by grants to the University of Oxford from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), UK Research and Innovation, and Wellcome, and by core funding provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Health Data Research UK, the Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, NIHR Clinical Trials Unit Support Funding, and Wellcome.

Learn more here: https://www.recoverytrial.net/

Vaccines usually take decades to develop – so how is Oxford University's ChAdOx1 nCoV-1 vaccine trial moving so quickly? It comes down to careful planning, extraordinary logistics and a whole lot of help from partners around the world.

Find out more about Oxford’s work on a coronavirus vaccine: www.ox.ac.uk/oxford-vaccine

Migration Sounds is the first ever global collection of the sounds of human migration, using sound to reframe and reimagine conversations around migration.

https://citiesandmemory.com/migration/
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/

Academics from the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) worked with the crowdsourcing experts at Cities in Memory to produce an immersive public exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in November 2024.

Visitors were encouraged to reconsider and reframe their ideas of migration by engaging with audio-visual installations and interactive exhibits drawn from sound recordings telling the personal stories of migration from 51 countries.

A story about the collaboration between Oxford Researchers and Neonatal charity Bliss, to tell parents of premature babies about the therapeutic power of human touch.

We’ve heard about how effective vaccines are, but what do we need for them to have the biggest impact on the coronavirus pandemic? We’ve worked to make sure we produce enough of the Oxford vaccine; we’ve made distribution as easy as possible; and kept the delivery simple for as many places as possible. But we’re not protected until we’re all protected: by getting vaccinated, you’re joining the fight too.

We continue to follow through on our commitment with AstraZeneca to protect everyone everywhere, with tens of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine being made available at no profit to 146 low- and middle-income countries through the COVAX programme.

Find out more about Oxford’s work on a coronavirus vaccine: www.ox.ac.uk/oxford-vaccine

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, courts and tribunals suddenly went online. How were people needing to go to court under these unprecedented conditions supposed to understand what to do?

A team of top academics sprung into action to find out what everyone involved in the legal system needed -- most importantly people using the legal system -- and produced a set of online videos in partnership with HM Courts and Tribunal Service.

The films were sent out by court staff to people facing something no-one had before: tribunal hearings in their own homes.

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLORVvk_w75Py6JClMOiiltyTjI2gyc81g

Clip credits: Lucy Klippan

More information: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/SupportingOnlineJustice

Project Team:

Professor Linda Mulcahy (Project Lead), Dr Anna Tsalapatanis, Nikki Macmichael, Rowen Siemans, Lara Maclachlan; Faculty of Law.

Dr Emma Rowden, Oxford Brookes University.

Alison Bergin, HM Courts and Tribunals Service.

Lucy Kippen, Designer, https://www.goodpoint.design

Key Funders: HM Courts and Tribunals Service, UK Research and Innovation.

Project report: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/migrated/supportingonlinejustice_finalreport.pdf

Dr Francesca Lessa researches how South American dictatorships coordinated in the 1970s to abduct, torture and murder their citizens across borders. Her work has been used in court to hold those responsible accountable.

Research supported by:
* Archivo del Terror, Paraguay (Rosa Palau)
* Archivo Histórico-Diplomático, Uruguay (Mariela Cornes and Alvaro Corbacho)
* Dirección de Memoria Histórica y Reparación, Ministerio de Justicia, Paraguay (Rogelio Goiburu)
* Espacio para la memoria ex CCDTyE Orletti (Ricardo Poggio)
* H.I.J.O.S Capital, Argentina (Rolando Alberto Andrade Stracuzzi)
* Museo de la Memoria, Uruguay (Elbio Ferrario)
* National Security Archive, USA (Carlos Osorio)

Funders:
* European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement number 702004
* the University of Oxford’s John Fell Fund Grant numbers 0006189 (2019) and 122/686 (2013)
* the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant number SG142423
* the University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Grant number IAA-MT14-008
* the Open Society Foundation’s Human Rights Initiative

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Insects and bird populations are in rapid decline, seriously impacting global ecosystems and international food security. To help solve the problem we need a detailed understanding of what is happening to our pollinators.

But how do you track a bee?

Dr Tonya Lander and her cross-department team at the Oxford University Biology department and the Department of Engineering Science have been investigating.

Their BioTracks technology has an answer: the smallest ever harmonic radar tags.

This technology could improve our understanding of insect and bird migration as well opening up a world of exciting new future applications.

Learn more:

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https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/research
https://eng.ox.ac.uk/our-research/

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Oxford scientists talk about how they got from hearing about the risk of a new coronavirus to having 2 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine out in the world.

Check out the Changing Character of Conflict Platform: www.conflictplatform.ox.ac.uk
And the CONPEACE project: conpeace.ccw.ox.ac.uk

Dr Annette Idler leads an interdisciplinary 18-people-team that provides evidence-based guidance on how conflicts change.

She has won in the Early Career category of the 2020 Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/vice-chancellors-innovation-awards

A team led by Professor Andrew Pollard developed a new typhoid vaccine that is now recommended for use by the World Health Organisation for children in high-burden areas.

Professor Pollard and team have won in the Policy Engagement category of the 2020 Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards for this work.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/vice-chancellors-innovation-awards

See the students of Lazzaro High School in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q7QbW72kTg

Professor Jonathan Prag from the Faculty of Classics has been studying the history of ancient Sicily for twenty years.

He has won in the Building Capacity category of the 2020 Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards for his work developing an online open-access corpus of ancient texts.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/vice-chancellors-innovation-awards

90% of childhood blood cancers occur in sub-Saharan Africa, but there diagnosis is unaffordable for most people.

Dr Anna Schuh from the Department of Oncology has won in the Team Work category of the 2020 Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards for her work on a social enterprise aiming to meet this need by developing local diagnostic capacity in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/vice-chancellors-innovation-awards

You can find out more about tools to help address Non-adoption, Abandonment, and support challenges to Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability (NASSS) here: https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/interdisciplinary-research-in-health-sciences/research-studies/scals

This project is funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Read more about the NASSS framework here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29092808

Greenhalgh T, Wherton J, Papoutsi C, Lynch J, Hughes G, A'Court C, Hinder S, Fahy N, Procter R, Shaw S

Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies

J Med Internet Res 2017;19(11):e367

DOI: 10.2196/jmir.8775

PMID: 29092808

PMCID: 5688245

www.climate.ox.ac.uk

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.

Oxford researcher Anant Jani asks ‘should doctors prescribe companionship and time in nature instead of medication? Can it make people physically and mentally healthier?’

Follow a group from local charity Aspire Oxfordshire around the beautiful grounds of the historic Blenheim Palace as part of a six-week research project. See for yourself its positive impact, and find out how data can be measured.

Oxford University's Department of Computer Science has an illustrious history of world-class research and teaching.

Here we celebrate its decades of impact on computing, and look forward to the exciting developments it will bring in the future.

Find out more about our research and opportunities to work and study with us here: www.cs.ox.ac.uk

Oxford's R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine has been proven highly effective. It has been trialled in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali and Tanzania.

The WHO has recommended the vaccine for use in countries around the world. Agreements are in place to deliver hundreds of millions of doses.

Malaria kills hundreds of thousands every year, mostly young children. R21/Matrix-M could reduce that great loss, alongside existing malaria controls.

Scaling & Sustaining Impact winner at the 2025 Social Sciences Impact Awards. Discover more incredible stories of social sciences impact at https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/impact-awards-2025

Since 2021, OPHI has partnered with 15 countries to release new national Multidimensional Poverty Indices as official poverty statistics for the first time: data that enables nations to develop the targeted public policies to address the causes of poverty.

Through extensive collaboration with policy actors and meaningful capacity building, OPHI’s work has now informed public policy activities in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, opening up opportunities for better outcomes for over 3 billion people - delivering impact on a truly international scale.

Find out more about OPHI's work at ophi.org.uk

The Impact Awards are supported by the University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, in partnership with Oxford Brookes University.

Developing Impact winner at the 2025 Social Sciences Impact Awards. Discover more incredible stories of social sciences impact at https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/impact-awards-2025

In the past decade, over 4,000 child marriages were registered in Peru.

Now, in the culmination of over a decade’s collaboration with country partners, the Young Lives team's longitudinal research evidence and policy engagement with Congresswoman Flor Pablo Medina of have directly informed a change in the law, banning marriage with minors under the age of 18.

This change in the law aims to protect thousands of vulnerable girls from child marriage and informal unions, particularly those from poorer households and among indigenous communities who are most at risk.

Young Lives is a unique longitudinal study of poverty and inequality that has been following the lives of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam since 2001. Find out more at www.younglives.org.uk

The Impact Awards are supported by the University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, in partnership with Oxford Brookes University.

Discover how David Johnson has been working with the government of Sudan to support primary education.

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David Johnson is the University Reader in Comparative and International Education and Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He convenes the Oxford Symposium in Comparative and International Education in the Department of Education. David studies learning and cognition and is particularly interested in tracking the learning progression of children, and the growth in the professional capabilities of teachers across national systems of education in low and lower middle-income economies.

Many of his studies have been conducted in partnership with the National and Federal Ministries of Education in Africa, South Asia, and Central America.

In recent years, David has been working with the World Bank to support the Government of Sudan’s Emergency Primary Education Support Project (funded through the Global Partnership for Education. His role was to help the Government establish a National System for the Assessment of Student Achievement.

The first study found that children in the third grade of primary school read on average at a speed of just 15 words per minute. That is too slow for them to comprehend what they read; the common understanding being that children at this stage of schooling should be reading at least 40 words a minute to comprehend at least 80% of what they read.

The key difficulty to making progress in reading was the availability of interesting, age-appropriate reading materials in homes and schools and the involvement of parents in a national literacy drive. David persuaded the then Minister of Education and the World Bank to launch a pilot ‘Book Flood’ experiment where a graded reading scheme consisting of over 100 volumes in each set of readers was distributed to 2,000 schools. Parents were encouraged to record the books their children read by pasting a postage sized ‘stamp’ that contained the picture of each book cover onto a record sheet. The results were extremely encouraging and the Partnership of Education and the World Bank readied themselves to launch a national reading programme. Sadly, this was halted with a renewal of civil conflict in Sudan.

In 2025, the World Bank has handed on the project to UNICEF and David will be supporting the Government of Sudan once more to launch the National Reading Programme and to carry out a third National Assessment of Reading Achievement.

Due to the ongoing conflict, the vast majority of children in Sudan have had a severely interrupted education. More than 17 million of the 19 million school-aged children remain out of school in Sudan today. Even before the conflict, seven million children, one in every three, were unable to access quality education or were dropping out. Schools have partially opened in six states in Sudan, according to UNICEF in 2024.

David’s work is part of a larger programme in Sudan to build the long-term national primary system’s capacity to deliver quality education by strengthening data collection and use, and improving the monitoring and tracking of children’s progress through learning assessments. A pilot study, led by David, resulted in an important intervention whereby parents were supported to help their children and given extra reading material though a “Book Flood”. Positive results emerged from the study which is now being scaled up with the support of the World Bank and UNICEF.

Find out more about his work in this short film.

Exposure to abuse has severe and lasting adverse effects on children, but interventions like parenting programmes are an effective approach for improving families' outcomes. However, the limited literature on parenting programmes in Nigeria suggests a gap between research and policies on child protection. Dr Isang Awah’s fellowship sought to address this gap by fostering collaboration between research and policy in Nigeria, and ultimately, using research to improve policies on child protection.

During the Fellowship, Dr Awah worked with the Gender, Adolescent, School Health and Elderly (GASHE) Division of Family Health Department at the Federal Ministry of Health to learn more about policy processes in Nigeria and provide technical assistance on how to improve outcomes for children and families through parenting programmes.

Dr Isang Awah works at the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention where she serves as Head of Advocacy at the Global Parenting Initiative (GPI).

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Find out how Martha Newson and Harvey Whitehouse work together with the UK’s Ministry of Justice, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and major British football clubs to investigate how football identities could be harnessed to improve behaviour in prison and reduce reoffending through the charity The Twinning Project.

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Discover how Hannah Budnitz has been working with Oxfordshire County Council to introduce shared electric car clubs in towns and villages around Oxfordshire.

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Find out how Seena Fazel has worked with the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody to provide the UK Government with independent advise on how to prevent deaths in custody and to help tackle health problems amongst some of the most difficult to reach populations.

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Find out how Jamie Hartmann-Boyce has worked with the UK Government and the Action on Smoking and Health charity to investigate the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a stop-smoking aid, and whether they have lower negative health impacts than smoking.

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Find out how Arlene Holmes-Henderson, a Classics academic at Oxford, has helped to shape public policy, with help from the Oxford Policy Engagement Network.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/using-research-engage/policy-engagement/oxford-policy-engagement-network1

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Find out how Dr Jack Matthews, an honorary Fellow at the Oxford Natural History Museum, has helped to shape public policy and helped to instigate UN International Geodiversity Day, with help from the Oxford Policy Engagement Network.

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Find out how Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Oxford Migration Observatory, has worked with the Office for National Statistics to help understand migration patterns within the UK.

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Find out how Dr Samira Barzin, Oxford Martin School and Mathematical Institute Fellow, has worked with the World Bank to use data analysis techniques to inform development interventions.

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Find out how César Palacios-González has been working with policymakers in Mexico to explore the ethics and potential amendments to the law that would legalise uterus transplants in Mexico.

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Find out how Professor Andrew Thompson, a History academic at Oxford, has worked with international NGOs to help them identify the biggest challenges in their futures, with help from the Oxford Policy Engagement Network.

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Just 1.5% of GCSE students study a book by a writer of colour.

In partnership with the University of Oxford’s Department of Education, Penguin Books and the Runnymede Trust are helping to break the barriers for inclusive reading in schools through their Lit in Colour project.

Professor Velda Elliott was commissioned to carry out independent research to uncover these barriers and provide actionable recommendations for change. Discover the latest report: https://wp-stage.penguin.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Lit-in-Colour-Pioneers-Pilot-Report-Full-Final-V12.pdf

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Developing innovative ways to bring data to life can be a catalyst for global impact.

When Professor Max Roser started bringing together a library of datasets for his new book, he never anticipated that ten years later this work would be reaching 100 million users each year.

Our World in Data brings together data on some of the biggest global issues, making it accessible to policymakers, educators, researchers and journalists across the world.

In this video, Professor Roser shares his journey of transforming a personal project into a valuable open data resource accessed by the world’s most senior decision-makers.

Viewers may find the content of this video distressing. Sources of help and support are available to explore here - https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-help

ESRC-funded DPhil student Ellie Whittingdale has helped to deliver a significant law change in England through her placement with Rape Crisis England and Wales.

Using research skills gained throughout her DPhil project with sexual violence support services, Ellie collaborated closely with the policy team at the national charity Rape Crisis England & Wales. Ellie’s research played a crucial role in the organisation’s Keep Counselling Confidential campaign, which has led to a law change that will help to improve the experience of the criminal justice system for survivors of rape and sexual abuse. The placement has also led to a new research partnership between the charity and the University of Oxford.

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Our 'Grand Union' is a Doctoral Training Partnership between Brunel University London, The Open University and the University of Oxford. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), we are one of 15 ESRC Doctoral Training Partnerships across the UK, providing our postgraduate students with high-quality social science research training.

The ESRC has provided the GUDTP with funding to support placements undertaken by GUDTP-funded doctoral students. Each student can undertake a funded placement with an external organisation for up to 3 months, which provides a cost effective way of businesses accessing support for a specific project or specific skillset from the student. During this period their doctoral studies are paused to enable them to focus on the placement. There is flexibility for this to be full or part-time and on the duration of the placement. Please get in touch if you think having one of our excellent doctoral students placed with your business could be of benefit.

How can research into new forms of inclusive digital business models directly benefit those who need them most?

Professor Xiaolan Fu’s IDModel project is paving the way with an app-based solution that empowers users in developing countries to generate income.

In this video, Professor Fu shares how her research creates opportunities for marginalised societies, along with advice for researchers stepping into the world of innovation.

Are you a social sciences researcher with a big idea to bring to life? Discover what support is available to help you incorporate innovation into your research: visit https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/support-for-researchers/innovation

How can social scientists cement beneficial research collaborations with community partners?

With 25 years of experience working with the heritage sector, Professor Heather Viles saw an opportunity for more creative, collaborative partnerships between academics and heritage sites at risk of falling into disrepair. The Kickstarting Heritage Innovations project provides research expertise and equipment to help preserve heritage sites for future generations.

In this video, Professor Viles shares her top tips for developing external partnerships, and how reflecting on what your project partners need can lead to the most impactful outcomes.

Are you a social sciences researcher with a big idea to bring to life? Discover what support is available to help you incorporate innovation into your research: visit https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/support-for-researchers/innovation

If you have a strong idea for research that could change the world – follow it.

For Professor Mark Graham, this led to the Fairwork Project, which evaluates companies in the digital economy based on five key principles of working practices. With Fairwork’s global network of collaborators, this action research project provides a benchmark of fair work for companies, workers, customers and policymakers.

In this video, Professor Graham shares how Fairwork is impacting the jobs of millions of workers worldwide.

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Can gaming contribute to positive wellbeing?

In partnership with the Oxford Internet Institute, games developer FuturLab are co-producing research to explore the wellbeing benefits of playing Powerwash Simulator.

Together with Professor Andrew Przyblyski, the team created a research version of the game where players can provide valuable insights on how the game impacted their wellbeing.

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To meet net zero targets, over the next decade there needs to be a tenfold increase in annual installations of energy-efficient heat pumps into UK homes.

In partnership with the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute, Samsung Research UK are working with community members to develop new ways to roll-out heat pumps in Rose Hill and Iffley, Oxford, through the Clean Heat Streets project.

Dr Nick Banks is part of the team developing place-based, socially inclusive approaches that help to build trust and understanding around this new technology. Their approach could pave the way for a national rollout.

Clean Heat Streets is funded by the UK Government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) Heat Pump Ready Programme.

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In 'The Heroes in the Fire', witness the daily struggle of local brigades against the flames sweepping two protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon: the Tapajós National Forest and the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve. This short film shows the relentless determination of anonymous heroes who fight to protect the future of the Amazon rainforest.

Work from the University of Oxford appears in your daily life more than you might think...

A team of researchers—funded by the BBSRC, ESRC and the NERC—ran a pilot project in Pickering, North Yorkshire to study the effectiveness of a new methodology for flood management decision-making.

The outcome was much more than academic, and the town is safer for it.

The Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy research project just turned one, and it has a lot to shout about. These are the people who found that dexamethasone reduces deaths among the sickest people in hospital, and disproved the notion that hydroxychloroquine might help.

Find out more about their work: https://www.recoverytrial.net/

Our strengths and successes in global health research are exemplified by collaboration across multiple disciplines, equitable partnerships and the passion and commitment of our researchers to apply their expertise for the benefit of others. Decades of global health research has resulted in established centres of excellence, with strategic research and capacity building at their core that deliver the most significant research outcomes and facilitate their greatest impact. As a priority for our global health research we support inclusive, ethical and engaged work that has a high impact on lives in low and middle-income countries, and which demonstrates how Oxford addresses the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals through its research, innovation and impact.

Quantum computing promises to deliver processing power that surpasses current supercomputers. So far, however, they have only managed a few specialised computations.

London-based start-up Quantum Motion, has taken an approach that utilises an already well-tested and ubiquitous material: silicon to build its quantum computers. For Quantum Motion co-founder, John Morton, silicon allows fast and cheap manufacturing of quantum processors that could soon put the power of quantum computing in the palm of our hands. We visited their test facility to find out more.

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The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca led a consortium of manufacturers, suppliers and other partners in the development of an innovative manufacturing process that was rolled out globally to supply over 3 billion doses of the ChAdOx1 Covid vaccine, saving over 6 million lives.

The innovative approach combined cutting-edge cell culture technologies with streamlined workflows and robust quality control processes, enabling swift and efficient production of billions of vaccine doses at multiple sites in record time. This effort not only played a crucial role in managing the pandemic but also set new benchmarks in pharmaceutical manufacturing, process development and technology transfer, and made possible a more efficient and versatile route to disease control now and in the future. Using the pioneering new process, one of the collaborators, the Serum Institute of India, has since successfully scaled up manufacturing of an Ebola vaccine in response to an outbreak, delivering doses in just 81 days.

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How Oxford Academic Professor Tiffany Stern helped a pioneering company of American actors to see Shakespeare and other early modern playwrights in a new light – by almost totally eschewing rehearsals.

Composer Robert Schumann's late work is often overlooked due to its association with his struggles with mental health.

Oxford scholar Laura Tunbridge works with performers and the public to broaden their understanding and appreciation of lesser known but valuable works.

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Oxford University Physics Department, IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), and national forecasting and meteorology agencies across east Africa are joining forces to pioneer a transformative initiative that is revolutionising extreme weather forecasting and early warning systems in the region.

In east Africa, where deadly floods have succeeded the worst drought in decades, climate change is accelerating the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, the need for precise and timely forecasts has never been more critical. In an era marked by escalating weather variability, accurate weather predictions are essential to safeguard lives and livelihoods.

Find out how a multidisciplinary team of scientists came to create England's new way to identify how to fight and track TB outbreaks using DNA analysis.

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Why did new religious imagery and iconographies emerge in different religious traditions across Asia and Europe in the period AD 200-800?

The British Museum asked Oxford University this question, and of the many things they created together, one was the Imagining the Divine exhibition at Oxford's own Ashmolean Museum: https://www.ashmolean.org/imaginingthedivine

Empires of Faith was a five-year humanities research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Find out more here: https://empiresoffaith.com/

Youth worker Mel Jewell, and researchers Dr Niall Winters and Dr Anne Geniets from the University of Oxford's Department of Education, talk about how the Go Girl project introduced a group of young women from non-traditional educational backgrounds into website and app design, computer game design and coding.

With comments from some of the Go Girls themselves, the team explain how the project helped to improve the confidence and educational opportunities for the young women involved.

The research was funded by Oxford University IT Services IT Innovation Challenges in collaboration with Oxfordshire County Council's Early Intervention Service.

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Patient choice over treatment and care is a central feature of the UK’s National Health System, and patients' experience of treatment and care is a major indicator of quality. But it isn’t easy to find out how well a treatment has worked.

Find out how a group of Oxford University researchers pioneered the use of questionnaires about hip and knee replacements, and revolutionized how patients’ experience could be used to assess and improve the UK’s healthcare.

The rights to the hip and knee questionnaires are owned by Oxford University Innovation: innovation.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Ladan Baghai-Ravary is developing a fully automatic system to record and analyse speech, using existing telephone lines.

This could lead to dramatic changes in the treatment of patients with speech disorders around the world, especially where smartphones might not be affordable or convenient.

This project involves close collaboration with two industrial partners, Aculab plc and Oxford Wave Research (OperaVOX).

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Prof David Clark and his team have tirelessly worked with successive governments, using evidence to demonstrate how the NHS can better tackle depression and social anxiety.

Find out more about the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme here: http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/

If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this video, please visit: www.talkingspaceplus.org.uk or http://www.healthymindsbucks.nhs.uk

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School design is a complex and challenging process for schools and of paramount social importance.

This video introduces school building guidance co-designed with schools by researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Education, as part of an ESRC IAA-funded project entitled 'Building on Design Matters'.

The guidance focuses on the pedagogic implications of school design for headteachers, school building commissioners, teachers and the wider school community. The process aims to share lessons learned on school design and construction processes with practitioners for future new school buildings, school refurbishment and conversion projects. The guidance applies to mainstream primary and secondary schools, as well as special schools. (This is a consultation document. The research team seek feedback on how to improve the content for practitioners.)

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Alternative energy sources don’t yet pack the desired punch – but researchers in Oxford, funded by the EPSRC and the BBSRC, are changing that by developing fuel cells inspired by nature.

A case study about using the Nuffield Early Language Intervention, developed by Oxford Academics, in a school in Stoke-on-Trent.

If you are a school that would like a proven intervention early years programme to improve children’s oral language skills and support reading comprehension, visit www.oxfordprimary.co.uk/NuffieldIntervention

Around 7% of people suffer from a developmental language disorder, and yet not many people have even heard of them.

Oxford's Dorothy Bishop realised that, if sufferers were going to get the help they need, the public would need to know about their condition. But before that could happen, the academic and professional communities would need to decide what to even call it...

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Funded by the EPSRC, the UK Infrastructure Transition Research Consortium is a collaboration between nine research centres.

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.

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Wytham Woods is an ancient semi-natural woodland, owned and maintained by the University of Oxford since 1942. A surprising amount of what we know about nature is thanks to research conducted in these woods, with some studies running for over 70 years.

Meet Nigel Fisher, the conservator of Wytham Woods. In his varied role, he manages the woods for biodiversity, helps researchers carry out their work smoothly and even educates the public. With multiple experiments taking place in the woods at any one time, researchers rely on Nigel and his team to make sure they don't interfere with one another's work. Nigel has worked as conservator for over 20 years, and in that time he's seen an expansion in the horizons of research.

"The more we learn, the more there is to find out. And the amazing thing at the moment is technology has moved in huge leaps and bounds, especially in the last decade, and we can look at ecosystems in ways that we'd never dreamt of before."

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The research assistant designing healthier food for bees, the engineer studying climate change at sea, the chef feeding station staff in Antarctica, the technician helping fieldwork to go smoothly, the glassblower making scientific equipment. It takes many people and a wide variety of roles to help answer the big questions around climate change, what the universe is made of, how we can age more healthily, how our lives will look like in the future, and more.

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The Gough Map, thought to be Britain's oldest, has been revealed in unprecedented detail thanks to cutting-edge 3D technology more commonly used in computer games and CGI. The ARCHiOx Project in partnership with the Factum Foundation uses a prototype photographic system to examine some of Britain's oldest artefacts held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK. The new scanning techniques not only give researchers new ways to study rare objects like the Gough Map, but new preservation tools for archivists to keep priceless artefacts safe for future generations.

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Scientists at the University of Oxford, funded by the NERC, are applying their knowledge to inform national and international policy on mercury, which is one of the most dangerous environmental pollutants.

Each year, 17,000 children in Africa are infected with HIV.

'I first realised the importance of this issue when I was working as a social worker in South Africa at the height of the AIDS pandemic. I realised that rigorous research was needed to fight the disease'

- Lucie Cluver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Oxford University

The Young Carers study was developed by Lucie, and was the largest longitudinal study of adolescents affected by AIDS. Her research on #HIV prevention led to a Cash plus Care programme that has helped over two million girls in ten #African countries avoid contracting HIV/AIDS since 2014.

Watch the video to see how the research is influencing governments to establish HIV prevention schemes using similar methods.

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A spin-out company from the University of Oxford is building a franchised network around cutting-edge technology designed to help professional athletes, sportsmen and women, and runners all over the world, avoid injuries and improve their performance.

Run3D, a biomechanical engineering company specialising in 3D motion, has developed a real-time analysis and retraining system that identifies patterns in running style.

There are now Run3D sports clinics in Oxford, London, Surrey, Essex, Hampshire and Dublin.

Real-time reporting and retraining

Some three-quarters of runners get injured every year, mainly due to poor running style.

Run3D received £83,000 from Innovate UK to develop a prototype 3D gait analysis system for use in sports clinics and tailored to specific sports, with real-time reporting and retraining of posture and style.

Running injury research

The project, funded under the emerging and enabling technologies programme, was completed in December 2016 after more than 2 years’ research and development.

Dr Jessica Bruce, founder and managing director of Run3D, who has represented Wales at cross-country and road running events, said:

"We know that the technology can benefit runners of all ages and all abilities.

"Our aim was to bring the latest advances in running injury research and performance to clinicians, coaches and runners everywhere. Innovate UK helped us to achieve this goal."

More than 4 million amateur sports people are injured every year in the UK, usually through poor running style or posture or by over-ambitious training. It also costs the economy an estimated £61 million in lost productivity.

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What is the value of #justice? This video explains a research project which set out to discover whether adverse economic incentives could be a barrier to justice.

Research evidence presented to the Supreme Court led to a unanimous ruling that UK #employment #tribunal fees of up to £1,200 for claimants, introduced in 2013, were unlawful. Dr Abi Adams' analysis contributed to the unanimous #SupremeCourt finding in July 2017 that the fee system for UK employment tribunal claimants was unlawful.

'I want to understand how we can best run the courts so they run as efficiently as possible whilst maintaining access to justice' - Dr Abi Adams

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Celebrating Impact: Understanding justice for inequality and gender-based violence
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ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist: Susan Durbin
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In 2010, Professor Paul Newman, at the University of Oxford, became an EPSRC Leadership #Fellow. Paul leads the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group (MRG), which is at the cutting-edge of UK research into #driverless technology.

The fellowship gave him the opportunity to take projects forward on a number of levels from establishing essential industrial links with partners such as BAE Systems and Nissan to setting up a spin out company Oxbotica. It also gave Paul the chance to contribute to the Department for Transport's review on driverless vehicle technology.

The technology developed from his fellowship is now being exported around the world. It's finding uses not just in cars, but in mines, quarries, ports, fields, warehouses and personal mobility, it has even found its way to Mars.

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Sir Martin Wood founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 as a spin-out company to manufacture superconducting magnets for research. We find out how an Oxford researcher of quantum computation is working with the company today to create tools for tomorrow's researchers.

The invention of the Oxford Knee revolutionised orthopaedic surgery. This short documentary charts the innovations of the last 40 years that have made it one of the most successful and widely used partial knee replacements in the world. Presented by Dr Ben Kelly.
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Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty following the lives of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India (in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam over 15 years.

Find out how understanding the changes in children's lives across time and space have been able to influence government policy.

When he was photographing Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, Harry Burton could not have imagined that his work would one day allow the creation of a full-size replica of this incredible find.

Researchers from the University's Griffith Institute for Egyptology and the director of Factum Arte—a team of artists, technicians and conservators based in Madrid—talk about the cutting edge of conservation, and why it matters.

University of Oxford research, supported by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is looking to halt and even reverse vision loss for blind patients at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford with funding from Oxford BRC. Electronic retinal implants - referred to some as the 'bionic eye' - are designed to replace the lost photoreceptors in the eyes of patients suffering from degenerative retinal diseases. In healthy eyes, light falling on the photoreceptors in the retina is converted into electrical signals which are carried by the optic nerve from the eye to the brain where 'seeing' actually occurs. In many retinal diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), the photoreceptors die, and therefore the light falling onto the retina can no longer be converted into electrical signals. The research involves surgery to place an electronic retinal implant underneath the central part of retina which is connected by an electrical cable to a power supply behind the ear, which can be recharged wirelessly via electromagnetic induction. The electronic retinal implant is a grid of photosensitive electrodes similar to those found in digital cameras and is able to act as an artificial layer of photoreceptor cells. It is able to convert light into a pixelated array of electrical signals which can then be carried to the brain by the optic nerve. Learn more at https://oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/

Professor Catherine Harmer on how understanding facial recognition can help us find better antidepressants.

Medical professionals used to believe that babies simply don’t feel pain. Building on critical work started in Oxford in the 1980s that proved them wrong, Dr Rebeccah Slater is developing new ways to see inside the minds of newborns. More details here: http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-04-21-babies-feel-pain-adults and full paper here: http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e06356

In work funded by the MRC, the NIHR and the Wellcome Trust, Dr Slater is using state-of-the-art brain scanning technology to look at babies’ neurological responses to painful stimuli, so that we can understand which drugs can help them.

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Find out how researchers at the University of Oxford worked with a country's biggest star to spread conservation messages through a song:
Mém di Omali by João Seria featuring Sebastiana.

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Professor Sir Marc Feldmann and Professor Sir Ravinder Maini talk about how they discovered that blocking a single molecule can improve the quality of life for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis.

The two professors have been named winners of a 2014 Canada Gairdner Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for medical research. Their discovery of an antibody-based treatment, or 'anti-TNF' therapy, for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases has transformed the lives of great numbers of patients.

Previously, they have also jointly received the Crafoord Prize by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Lasker prize for Clinical Research, the Dr Paul Jannsen Award for Biomedical Research, and the Ernst Schering Prize, among other honours.

The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology was formed in 1965 as the Mathilda and Terrence Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. The Institute is still closely linked to the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research (KirTrust) which became a separate entity after the Institute merged with Imperial College London. The Institute joined Oxford University in August 2011, becoming part of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS).

Dominic and Vanessa are DPhil candidates investigating the impact of human activity on the soft corals and fish populations off the coast of Honduras.

Their work is supported by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI) and Operation Wallacea.

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Working with the Chilean government and NGOs, Tonya Lander's team worked out how the genes of the endangered Gomortega keule (queule) tree can move. Their findings have changed how economically important pine plantations are planned and treated, in such a way that we don't lose this rare species.

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Professor Liora Lazarus talks about how important it is for researchers of law to influence government policy, and how she has leveraged her own specialism in human rights to the benefit of society.

We take a look at the 2010 Stern Review of how rape complaints are handled by public authorities in England and Wales, with comments from Baroness Vivian Stern and Parliamentary Legal Adviser Professor Murray Hunt.

The work of Professor Robert Walker and his collaborators investigates the day-to-day experiences of low-income families living in societies as diverse as Norway and Uganda, Britain and India, China, South Korea, and Pakistan, and confirms the role of shame in their lives – which has already shaped how policymakers deal with poverty, in a way that tries to retain the dignity of the individual.

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Professor Fritz Vollrath discusses the appeal of working with spiders–and the amazing properties of the silk which they and other creatures produce, a candidate for 'material of the future'.

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.

Oxford researchers, led by Professor Andrew Wilkie, were the first to describe the exclusively paternal transmission of genetic mutations in a rare craniofacial disorder called Apert Syndrome; they also showed that the accumulation of such mutations leads to a disproportionate risk of disease transmission with age.

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Professor Federico Varese talks about his research on the mafia
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The #Migration Observatory has shifted thinking on contentious migration issues by providing the first UK source of independent, high-quality evidence and analysis aimed at public audiences.

Between 1992 and 2015, the foreign-born population in the UK more than doubled from 3.8 million to around 8.7 million. Migration has been a contentious issue for many years and a key factor in the UK's decision to leave the EU. However, there are lots of knowledge gaps among the public when it comes to migration.

For the last seven years, the Migration Observatory has been informing public debate, helping to separate fact from fiction. Learn more about their work in the video.

The Migration Observatory, led by Director Madeleine Sumption with Carlos Vargas-Silva as current Acting Director, is a finalist for Outstanding #Impact in #Society in the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2017.

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Could a substance found in certain fish help childhood reading scores – and if so how? See more of the story here
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Adolescent to parent violence has remained under-explored and largely unarticulated within the fields of youth justice, domestic violence, policing, and criminology, particularly in the UK.

The project aims to map the contours of the problem, exploring how it is defined, experienced and negotiated by parents and adolescents and how violent assaults committed by adolescents within the home are currently processed and managed within the criminal justice system. The research aims to increase the visibility and understanding of adolescent to parent violence and to develop clear recommendations for effective policies and appropriate interventions for these families and the criminal justice agencies they encounter.

Dr Mason Porter discusses the beauty of network maths, and how he and his colleagues have pioneered a programme to teach others about this vital area of mathematical understanding.

Based on work funded by the EPSRC

The internet was built as a trusting, open, academic network – so how should it be governed and policed, now that it has become central to our daily lives? Oxford academics discuss the internet policy landscape, following a year of explosive revelations about internet security. Based on work supported by the European Commission, the EPSRC and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Featuring contributions from Ian Brown, Professor of Information Security and Privacy; Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity; and Andrew Martin, Professor of Systems Security.

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Trust between users is fundamental to online commerce and culture – and is in short supply, given the many breaches to internet security in recent months. Oxford academics discuss measures to build security into hardware and software systems, not simply bolt it on top. Based on work supported by the European Commission, the EPSRC and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Featuring contributions from Ian Brown, Professor of Information Security and Privacy; Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity; and Andrew Martin, Professor of Systems Security.

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With huge corporations working to tackle problems in cybersecurity, what role can universities play? Oxford academics discuss the unique contributions that can come to computer science from inside the ivory towers.

Based on work supported by the European Commission, the EPSRC and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Featuring contributions from Ian Brown, Professor of Information Security and Privacy; Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity; and Andrew Martin, Professor of Systems Security.

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Immunocore is harnessing the body’s own immune cells to fight cancer. The biotechnology underpinning Immunocore is based on the science of founder Dr Bent Jakobsen, who led his own research team at Oxford’s Institute of Molecular Medicine until 2000. That work is now paying dividends, with positive results for their first clinical trials recently announced. Immunocore’s ambition is to become a premier global biotechnology company and a leader in the field of cancer immunotherapy.

The UK’s excellent science base supports companies across industrial sectors to innovate, bringing broad benefits for society and supporting economic growth.

A collection of stories about businesses using science in the UK, 'Inspiring innovations' is available to read on the Royal Society website:

Watch our ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist’s short film: Refugee-Led Social Protection During COVID-19.

Watch our ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist’s short film: Refugee-Led Social Protection During COVID-19.

Watch our ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist’s short film: Supporting European and UK cities to integrate newcomers and vulnerable migrants.

There have been huge changes in Bemni over the past decade. The village now has access to dirt roads, schools, electricity and communications. But it's also a time of great uncertainty. The youth are managing this economic uncertainty in creative ways such as small-scale entrepreneurship, social activism, or by playing key roles in the village.

Dr Jane Dyson wanted to share their stories with a wider audience by making a short documentary film.

Dr Jane Dyson’s #documentary on the challenges facing young people in the Indian #Himalayas has now reached school children, students and policymakers worldwide. Find out more about it in this video.

Dr Dyson is first prize winner of the 'Outstanding International Impact' category of the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2015. The Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards the successes of ESRC-funded #researchers achieving outstanding economic and societal impacts.

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Celebrating Impact: Understanding justice for inequality and gender-based violence
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ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2022: Introducing the The John Hills Impact Prize
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Celebrating Impact Prize: what happened next?
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Policing is a contentious subject in Nigeria. There are problems with corruption, poorly trained officers and a difficult working environment.

Dr Oliver Owen’s five-year fieldwork study within the #Nigerian #Police Force is providing unique #research evidence for reforms aimed at improving police performance, effectiveness and accountability.

Watch the video to see how Dr Owen worked with over 130 police officers of various ranks to explore the world of #policing from their point of view. His research identified how at risk many officers felt, both physically and in their positions, and how under-equipped and under-trained they often were.

Evidence from this research was used by police forces and policymakers in Nigeria to plan reforms - such as improving skills around conflict resolution.

Dr Owen is second prize winner of the 'Outstanding Early Career Impact' category of the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2015. The Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards the successes of ESRC-funded researchers achieving outstanding economic and societal impacts.

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Celebrating Impact: Redesigning prisons to foster rehabilitation and hope
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Helping prisoners back into society | Celebrating Impact
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Research makes police custody more 'autism-friendly' | Celebrating Impact
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Population projections are essential to understand the future, how fast a population is ageing, where people will live, how many houses we need and so on. An ageing population with rapid decline can create problems for societies as they need to find ways to care for older people whilst dealing with a shrinking labour force.

In 2010, the UN predicted that fertility in East Asia would rise until the end of the century. In-depth research led by Dr Stuart Basten from the University of Oxford into Asian #fertility helped convince the United Nations to revise its influential forecasts on future #population trends, with particularly large effects for Pacific Asian economies.

Stuart and the team analysed the existing data, as well as asking women about their fertility plans, how many children, if any, they were planning and when. They discovered that more women only planned to have one child which would have a big impact on population growth.

Taking an evidence-based approach helps foster better social and economic planning to benefit governments and societies. Watch the video to learn more.

Dr Basten won Second Prize for 'Outstanding International Impact' at the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2014. The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards the successes of ESRC-funded researchers achieving outstanding economic and societal impacts.

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ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist: Heather Joshi
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ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist – Simon Rushton
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Celebrating Impact: Professor Lord Richard Layard
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Over five decades, Professor Sir David Hendry has developed #macroeconomic models capturing how #economies work, which are now embedded in software widely used by policymakers and decision-makers.

When Professor Hendry started his career, econometric models were derived from reasonably abstract economic theory that was then fitted to the data, which he found rather limited.

'In 1968 it occurred to me we needed to write software that can tackle all the problems that confront an empirical practitioner simultaneously'

In this video, we explore some of this fascinating and impactful research.

Professor Hendy has received funding from the ESCR for over 20 years for research on #econometrics and #economic forecasting. His research is consistently rated as outstanding.

Professor Hendry is winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ESRC Celebrating #Impact Prize 2014. The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards the successes of ESRC-funded #researchers achieving outstanding economic and societal impacts.

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ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist: Laura Bear
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Celebrating Impact: Professor Lord Richard Layard
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Network boosts ethnic minority business
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In 1979, after a century of failed #conservation efforts and decline across Europe, the iconic large blue #butterfly was declared extinct in the UK. But after 40 years of field and lab #research by Professor Jeremy Thomas at the University of Oxford, and previously NERC's Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (now a part of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), the globally-threatened species has been successfully reintroduced.

Thomas's work has helped to identify the factors that determine the ability of this extreme specialist to survive under different and changing #climates. This led to new, larger and more stable populations, an expansion of its range into cooler UK regions and new, more robust, races. The species' global conservation status has now been upgraded from 'vulnerable' to 'near threatened' and it is one of just three UK #butterflies to meet the Convention of #Biological Diversity's target to reverse species' declines by 2010.

This work was nominated for the NERC inaugural impact award, and Jeremy won his category, recognising research that has achieved exceptional social, cultural, public policy or service, health, environmental or quality of life benefits.

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Keeping bumblebee parasites at bay - Peter Graystock
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Protecting biodiversity in palm oil plantations with Dr Jennifer Lucey
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Fur seal evolution outpaced by climate change
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Deep Planet Founder and CEO, Sushma Shankar and #innovateukedge Innovation and Growth Specialist, Eileen Modral, talk about how tailored support on #strategy and #IP along with participation in Innovate UK’s Global Business Innovation Programme in Australia accelerated its growth.

Impact includes international expansion, going from pilot to commercial-scale and an increase in headcount. #GBIP #agritech #innovation


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We drive productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas, including those from the UK’s world-class research base.

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An innovative method for measuring multidimensional #poverty, developed by Dr Sabina Alkire and colleagues, is helping governments and organisations globally to design more effective poverty-reduction programmes.

We have the data on how many people are income poor around the world. However, our assumption that income poverty is a good indicator of other kinds of poverty such as a lack of nutrition or sanitation is not accurate.

The research project in this video looks at developing complementary poverty measures that reflect different deprivations around health, education and living standards. This new, practical and multi-dimensional methodology could help governments eradicate poverty.

Dr Sabina Alkire is winner of the 'Outstanding International Impact' category of the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2014. The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards the successes of ESRC-funded #researchers achieving outstanding economic and societal impacts.

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Wednesday's child: poverty and inequality | Seven days of social science research
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Food banks - emergency food provision and food poverty in the UK | Celebrating Impact
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The fuel poverty index changing EU policy
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Professor David Gavaghan on mathematical models of the heart, and making them work better to allow for predictions of heart function

Based on work funded by the EPSRC

Professor Paul Klemperer on how auction maths can make markets work better: and how academic research (in this case, on geometry) can be turned immediately into real-world policy.

Professor Gideon Henderson and colleagues on on understanding the underpinnings of Life in the Oceans.

Based on work funded by the NERC

Cooling or 'moderate hypothermia' is used to treat term babies who experienced a lack of oxygen during birth. It has been shown to reduce the risk of death or impairment and is now the treatment recommended by National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
The Medical Research Council funded one of the largest clinical trials that demonstrated the benefits of cooling, the TOBY Trial, which started in 2002. The National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford co-ordinated the project and stored the data, while Imperial College London provided the clinical expertise, along with many other neonatal intensive care units who collaborated and recruited infants to the research study.
Now the TOBY babies are TOBY Children; they are being followed up again at school age to assess their ongoing progress, in a continued collaboration between Oxford University and Imperial College London, with further funding from the MRC.

Professor David Pyle discusses work understanding the processes that underpin volcanic eruptions: and the devastating effects that volcanic plumes can have

Based on work funded by the NERC

What next for citizen science? Professor Steve Roberts on how advanced maths can make the findings of this exciting new field more useful.

Based on work funded by the EPSRC

Dr Alison Foster on audio trails in Oxford's botanic gardens, which allow visitors to learn about chemistry in beautiful surroundings.

Based on work funded by the EPSRC

Professor Constantin Coussios and colleagues on using ultrasound to deliver drugs much closer to tumors and other targets in the body

Professor Katherine Willis on the global race for biofuels: and Oxford's role in assessing their impact for policymakers.

Based on work funded by the NERC.

Professor Yadvinder Mahli on work in Peru on the effect of tropical forests on climate change.

Based on work funded by the NERC

Professor Peter Dobson and his colleagues discuss the use of nanoparticles to improve cancer treatments.

Based on work funded by the EPSRC

Professor Gus Hancock and colleagues discuss the many things we can learn about the body's health through the breath: and new technologies that can make that process easier.

Based on work funded by the EPSRC

Professor Li He on understanding better how turbines function at high temperatures: making jet engines greener, and turbines cheaper to run.

Based on work funded by the EPSRC. Footage courtesy of Rolls-Royce.

Dr David Griffiths talks about how community archaeology is building skills and creating links with employers and communities in East Oxford

Gene Therapy for Retinal Disease
Professor Robert MacLaren talks about an exciting new technique for treating a hereditary form of blindness

This short film, in association with ITN Productions and the Royal Society of Biology, shows off the staggering range of research taking place in Biology at the University of Oxford. From plastic clean ups on UNESCO world heritage sites to tracking the epidemiology and evolution of rapidly evolving viruses through hand-held portable devices, this short film delves in to the world of how biology impacts lives.

Three of our social scientists explain why their research must change policy to be worthwhile.

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Filming by impactmediaspecialists.co.uk

Five recipients of the BBSRC's Sparking Impact award talk about the work they have undertaken.

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Oxford is a world leading centre for AI research, and over the past few years, we’ve witnessed a sharp increase in interest our AI research from industry, commerce, and government alike. On 27 March 2018, the University of Oxford showcased AI research across the whole collegiate university with a one-day expo. Held at Worcester College’s stunning new Sultan Nazrin Shah Conference Centre, the event brought together Oxford’s AI and machine learning thought leaders, providing a unique opportunity to hear from them about their work and their vision for the future. The day included lectures from the experts, panels, demos, poster sessions with students, and an opportunity to talk one-to-one with professors at the heart of the AI revolution.

Journalist Sue Saville talks with members of the Department to discover how innovative research in chemistry has positive and sustainable impacts in the real world. Graham Richards, Hagan Bayley, Dermot O’Hare, Martin Smith and students from the EPSRC-supported SBM CDT discuss spinout companies, industrial partnerships and a ground-breaking Centre for Doctoral Training.

The film forms part of a programme – #SolutionsForOurFuture –  created by ITN Productions for the Chemical Industries Association. The programme, introduced by national newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, features key industry interviews and news-style reports along with sponsored editorial profiles and was launched at the Chemical Industries Association conference and dinner in London on November 15th.

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Dr Abigail Williams describes her experience of bringing 18th Century miscellanies to life for 21st Century audiences

Professor Jennifer Welsh describes how her research helps the international community act effectively against genocide and ethnic cleansing

The Oxford Impacts video series celebrates the ways that Oxford University benefits the world of policy, health, business and culture.

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