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Co-led by Professor Keith Hawton CBE, Emeritus Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at the University of Oxford, the series argues that a change in the narrative is needed to move from presenting suicide as an entirely mental health…

Mathematicians have long studied how shapes can fit together to cover surfaces without gaps. However, their typical approach – using shapes with sharp corners and flat faces – is rarely seen in the natural world. Nature not only abhors a…

During the past ten months, local community groups and organisations have been collaborating with researchers and facilitators from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University on research initiatives focusing on local needs,…

Researchers analysed electronic health records from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD GOLD and Aurum), encompassing a representative cohort of 22 million individuals. This included 1,650,052 people newly diagnosed with at least…

The travelling event brought together Oxford researchers and 500 11 to 13-year-olds from local state schools, with the aim of reaching, informing and inspiring children about higher education and Oxford. It is one of a number of access…

Digital contact tracing uses a proximity-detecting phone app to alert people at risk of being infected. It was implemented for COVID-19 in the UK by the NHS, and also in many other countries. In a new study published in Science,…

Côte d’Ivoire will become the first country to roll-out the new R21/Matrix-M™ vaccine with the first child vaccinated in Abidjan, marking a critical step and historic milestone in the global fight against malaria. Every year…

Supported by Oxford University Innovation, the company will leverage over two decades of work by co-founder Professor Paresh Vyas to target common cancer proteins and revolutionise treatment options for patients. The company…

University of Oxford and Oxford City football club have embarked on a long-term partnership which will see the University and the oldest football club in Oxford working closely together across three key areas: education, research…

Established in 2017 by three University of Oxford professors — Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Bernardo Cuenca Grau — Oxford Semantic Technologies (OST) holds cutting-edge technological capabilities in the areas of knowledge…