Research on Australia at Oxford University is conducted across a range of disciplines and departments. Comparative research on Australia takes place in the faculties of law, politics, economics, and sociology.
Medical Sciences 
In the medical sciences, the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit included Australia in its study of mortality from smoking in developed countries, and have shown that deaths from lung cancer in Australia have now gone down to pre-1950s levels, after peaking in the 1970s, thanks to worldwide education about the dangers of smoking.
Geochemists
Geochemists and climate modellers from Oxford have been studying extreme weather conditions and the recent flooding in Queensland, and have published research predicting that such extreme climatic events will become more frequent in the future.
As these examples of Oxford scientists demonstrate, Oxford University researchers
continue to make a notable impact on the lives of Australian people.
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