University of Oxford

The Nature Positive Universities Alliance brings higher education institutions together to use their unique power and influence as drivers of positive change. Universities already carry out environmental and conservation research to help…

As world leaders, government negotiators, scientists and conservationists gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, to agree to halt and reverse nature loss, an international team of marine scientists and conservationists have made…

Researchers say more awareness is needed across a range of health, social care, and school-based services in how to recognise suicidal risk, especially for those who also have physical pain and are more likely to come into contact with…

A new pilot programme offering financial support to graduate students who have experienced being in care in the UK has been launched for 2023 entry. The Care-Experienced Academic Futures scholarships are open to applicants to all academic…

Next, among the NRI’s top 10, network ready nations, are Singapore, Sweden and the Netherlands. Europe is the leading region, according to the report, with seven of the top 10.Only the US, Singapore and South Korea are located outside the…

The study, published in the journal Cancer Discovery, describes a new method using human stem cells grown in a specially designed 3D ‘scaffold’, to generate the key cell types that exist in human bone marrow (the which is factory that…

Research led by the University of Oxford, and funded by Cancer Research UK, has found the strongest evidence yet that e-cigarettes, also known as ‘vapes’, help people to quit smoking better than traditional nicotine replacement therapies,…

A consortium set up to respond to the outbreak, including CEPI, Gavi, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Ugandan public health authorities, have outlined a range of measures.They include the ring vaccination trial that will deploy…

Meteorites can offer an invaluable window into the early solar system, since most originate from asteroids that formed in the same era as the planets (4.5 billion years ago). When they land on Earth, however, the fragments usually become…

The OxWell Student Survey is one of the largest school surveys of adolescent health and wellbeing in England. More than 12,000 secondary school-aged students (12-18 years) took part in the latest survey in June-July 2021 and provided…