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How research gained traction at Oxford

Former Oxford Professor Xiang Biao has scored a massive publishing success with an unconventional book.

Benedict Pollard recounts how he is harvesting specimen acorns from special oak trees, to turn them into great oak trees of the future.

We talk to existing students and recent leavers about their career moves, and their advice to others

Dr Franziska Kohlt (Brasnose, 2013) discusses how 19th c. science influenced children's literature like Lewis Carroll, and how she didn't think Oxford was 'a place for someone like me'

Greg Scannell (St Benet’s Hall, 2005) talks about coming to Oxford from a working class background

Alumnus Brett Yuskiewicz (Brasenose, 2016) on returning to education aged 48, his time in Oxford studying for his MBA, and his plans for the future

Oxford people recommend their top book from the past year.

Two former Oxford students have greatly amplified our knowledge of the hey-day of British Liberalism through the little known diary of a Cabinet Minister

Dr Nicola Ranger is deputy director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance, a Government-backed organisation established to provide up-to-date analytics on the risks to the financial sector and investment of climate change

Developments in solar power are set to offer cheaper, better energy, reducing the impact of climate change

There is no ‘magic’ technology to solve climate change

The Victorian novelist’s books are still available and immensely readable, argues literary scholar Clemence Schultze, and are partly about Oxford

Harcourt Arboretum hosted a coppicing course in late January, part of a program of alumni and public-facing outdoor adventures

QUAD visits the world’s leading life-writing centre, at Wolfson College

Oxford’s diet and population health expert, Professor Susan Jebb maintains that ‘we cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet’

Dr Friederike Otto explains the influence of climate change on extreme weather events

It is essential to accurately understand the threats; for governments, populations and for investors

Transport is the third largest source of greenhouse gases in the world, says Professor Tim Schwanen, director of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit, and there are no easy answers

An alumni group bursary helped Joe Double explore the further reaches of mathematics during the long vacation

The Ashmolean’s first exhibition in 2023 runs 10 Feb to 30 July and is already a ‘must-visit’ in 2023

From sustainable futures to the Russo-Ukraine war, and alternative history to French drama – this autumn has something for everyone

From vegan cookery to galaxy evolution, and doodling for relaxation to the etymology of Oxford slang; Meeting Minds Global has something for everyone

The University of Oxford has marked the opening of the Beecroft Building, a new 8,950sqm building for experimental and theoretical physics

Some of our favourite books of 2023 with an Oxford connection

This month, spying on Hitler, a tribute to the joy of mathematics and a heart-warming novel about the transformative effect of an Oxford education

Hong Kong diaries, women in tech, espionage, Ukraine, and the biggest bank fraud in Dutch history

Handwriting, Nazi conformity, the economics of climate change, how to act on a Board and chess tips

Researchers from Oxford, Venice and Athens have teamed up with Google DeepMind

A magnificent library and study centre opens in October

25 July will see the start of many events connected to the 400 year anniversary of the Oxford Botanic Garden

The Ashmolean has launched a fabulous exhibition honouring French artist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

QUAD interviews Edmund Herzig, Director of Oxford’s flourishing Ertegun Scholarship Programme

A new home for Oxford Humanities

Continued public access to a collection of writings by Jane Austen has been secured following their donation to the Bodleian Libraries and Jane Austen’s House

Discover Oxford's research for a changing world in an exclusive new video series

Two privately-educated alumni reject private schools

The formal opening of a £13 million, 61,500 sq ft laboratory and office facility designed to promote collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas

The effectiveness of nature in fighting the impacts and drivers of climate change

‘How can we meet our long-terms goals, when our short-term targets fall radically short of what is necessary?’ asks Professor Lavanya Rajamani

Investment is urgently needed into safer, permanent CO2 disposal, to reduce the burden of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and limit warming

The Ashmolean Museum sparks joy with its latest blockbuster exhibition about the Victorian revolution in colour.

Oxford novelist Beth Lewis discusses her latest unworldly novel based on memories of Shotover Park