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A large audience gathered at the Sheldonian Theatre on Tuesday 21 October to hear invited panellists share enthusiastic discourse on a diverse range of views about 'Cancel Culture' for the latest event in the Sheldonian Series, which is open to all and aims to promote freedom of speech and inclusive inquiry. I felt this Sheldonian Series event at the University of Oxford, by seeking to model what it means to secure…

Professor Jan Rosenow. Credit: John Cairns Positioning Europe for leadership in the next industrial era, Professor Rosenow argued that strategic industrial electrification - twin-tracked with ambitious energy efficiency - offers the single most powerful lever for Europe to cut costs, cut emissions, and compete on the world stage. He contrasted Europe’s current exposure to volatile fossil fuel imports, laid bare during the 2022 gas crisis, with China’s rapid advance as the…

The first Ellison Scholars and Ellison Institute Technology (EIT)-funded students have begun their studies in Oxford, as a new academic year gets underway. They were welcomed at a special event attended by Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey, as well as Lisa Flashner, COO of EIT Oxford.  Forty-six students from 18 countries and 5 continents are part of EIT’s inaugural Education & Scholarships programmes which span undergraduate, graduate and doctoral study…

The Philip Leverhulme Prizes commemorate the contribution to the work of the Leverhulme Trust made by Philip, Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of William Lever, the founder of the Trust. This year, the Leverhulme Trust awarded five prizes in each of the following subject areas: Archaeology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Geography, and Languages and Literatures.Each prize winner will receive £100,000 to be used for any purpose that advances their research.About the…

The 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), ‘Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards’, presents critical new evidence of how the climate crisis is reshaping global poverty. This report shows where the climate crisis and poverty are notably converging. Understanding where the planet is under greatest strain and where people face additional burdens created by climate challenges is essential to creating mutually reinforcing development strategies that put humanity at the centre of…

Chronic pain, a leading global cause of disability, is one of the great unmet needs in medicine. In the UK alone, between one-third and one-half of the adult population (just under 28 million) are affected by chronic pain, costing health services millions in direct treatment, with indirect costs in lost productivity estimated to be billions. But despite its scale, progress in chronic pain treatments has stalled with few major breakthroughs…

Speaking at the Sheldonian Theatre on the subject of ‘Empire, Identity and the Search for Reason’, award-winning journalist Mishal Husain talked of a search for points of light, and finding them beyond the headlines, in history and forgotten context: ‘In that tapestry are the common threads that enrich my understanding of the world and that give me hope’.The ‘search for reason’ is part of this Lecture’s title because my own…

The Life and Mind building, enabled by Legal & General (L&G), is one of the largest building projects in the University’s history and will be home to the Departments of Biology and Experimental Psychology, as well as the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI). Designed by internationally-renowned architecture practice NBBJ, it will enable researchers to investigate the most fundamental questions of our age – from what it means to…

The NHS incurs an estimated £340 million in additional healthcare costs annually due to weight-related health problems in children, but it is not just obesity driving the costs. New research from the University of Oxford reveals that underweight children need comparable medical support as those who are severely obese, challenging assumptions about childhood health priorities.The study, published in JAMA Network Open and funded by the National Institute for Health and…