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Could fish oils or aspirin delay dementia?
Video feature: Can learning to code change young women's lives?
Youth worker Mel Jewell, and researchers Dr Niall Winters and Dr Anne Geniets from the University of Oxford's Department of Education, talk about how the Go Girl project introduced a group of young women from non-traditional educational backgrounds into website and app design, computer game design and coding.
Oxford and the media
Laws, sausages and newspaper articles...
...three things that some feel the public should never see being manufactured. However, we believe there is wide interest in journalism, public relations and the interaction between the two. This occasional series offers a behind-the-scenes view of how Oxford's News and Information Office works with the media to secure high-profile, accurate coverage of the University and also how things can (sometimes) go wrong. Continue reading here...
In our latest Medium article, we reflect on the media's appetite for stories about Oxford undergraduate admissions: Inside the Oxford interview.
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Announcing the class of 2016-17 Skoll Scholars at Oxford
Thinking Behind the Numbers: Understanding Public Opinion on Immigration in Britain
Prof Simon Lovestone heads up £7 million trial to find early Alzheimer's test
Shaping Aspirations and Outcomes: Gender and Adolescence in Young Lives
Why Putin is escalating Russia's military buildup
Mathematics enables a better understanding of damage during brain surgery
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Watching emotional films can boost our physical pain thresholds, scientists say
Pro-Brexit articles dominated newspaper referendum coverage, study shows
Cross Section: Sir Roger Penrose – Science Weekly podcast
UN and White House summits could offer a ray of hope to those stuck in camps
British Academy Prizes and Medals announced
Tackling obesity in Oxfordshire: soups, smartphones and supermarket shopping
Science Minister sees development of Oxford's Centre for Advanced Research during China visit
New study provides strongest evidence that oxygen levels were key to evolution of early animals
10,000th patient for pioneering cardiac genetic testing service
Gaps in data place thousands of illegally traded wild animals at risk, say researchers
Rise of online work captured in the first Online Labour Index
Research looks at the physical facts behind fiction's fascination
Oxford ranked first among global universities
The science behind the 1.5 °C climate goal
