Research

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.'

'Morality (or ethics) is to do with how well people’s lives go, it’s not to do with some abstract relation between people – it’s not impersonal in that sense.'

'The single biggest surprise is the incredible importance of education to all the children, all the families, even to the children who are not always able to go to school. Education is the single thing that everybody cares about the most and everybody aspires to.'

Emma Cohen, Arran Davis and Jacob Taylor, from the University’s Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, carried out two experiments to look at how group exercise and social cohesion influence one another.

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.

The research shows pupils from most ethnic minority groups are now on average achieving GCSE results that are as good as or better than their white British peers.

Prof Eleanor Stride and her team are fighting cancer, one bubble at a time, the new technology she is researching means that drugs can find the exact point of the tumour to fight the disease.