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Development and roll-out of Typhoid Vi-conjugate vaccine (TCV)
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Three Oxford academics shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
Professor Emma Smith (Faculty of English), Professor Henrietta Harrison (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) and Professor James Belich (Faculty of History) are among only six nominees for their outstanding books.
Development of automated speech recognition and language learning tools
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Meat the future and Meat your Persona: starting the conversation about sustainable diets
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Research-based child abuse prevention and parenting programme to support lifelong health
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Revolutionary new method of analysis boosts UK life sciences sector
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Oxford R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccine receives regulatory clearance for use in Burkina Faso
Phase IIb and phase III trials in Burkina Faso, have demonstrated high efficacy levels and a reassuring safety profile among children who received a three-dose primary regimen and one booster dose a year later.
Routine brain scanning may improve clinical care for people with psychosis
Researchers led by Dr Graham Blackman and Professor Philip McGuire at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry reviewed t
New research shows how studying the humanities can benefit young people’s future careers and wider society
The report, called ‘The Value of the Humanities’, used an innovative methodology to understand how humanities graduates have fared over their whole careers – not just at a fixed point in time after graduation.
University of Oxford researchers work together to protect COVID-19 orphans
Life as a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) fellow
My work with patients often involves the Mental Heath Act and my academic work is inspired by the need to develop more collaborative approaches with patients.
From Research to Policy: a masterclass in engaging the UK Parliament with scientific evidence
Arctic voices
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New research shows how cultural transmission shapes the evolution of music
The research team made up of scientists from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, used singing experiments to perform the largest ever cultural transmission study on the evolution of music.
Enhancing marine conservation and fisheries policy in Indonesia
Mitigating the impact of mining in Mongolia
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Coronavirus Vaccines Research and Development Roadmap launched
There are two key concerns about coronaviruses that demand better vaccines today. New COVID-19 variants continue to emerge, evade immune protection, and fuel the current pandemic, and the threat of other new and dangerous coronaviruses jumping from animals to humans in the future.
NHS COVID-19 app saved estimated 10,000 lives in its first year, research finds
The new research, published today [22 February 2023] in Nature Communications, is the most comprehensive evaluation of the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app to date.
Oxford philosopher launches project to explore the ethics of AI
This comes with a grant which will allow Professor Tasioulas to jointly pursue a research project with Professor Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Professor Abigail Williams hosts docuseries on BBC Radio 4: I Feel Therefore I Am
Where once facts, evidence and rationality were the path to knowledge, now the logic of feeling, of ‘my truth’ and ‘lived experience’ offers an alternative. Do we know our world through objective facts, or through subjective feelings?
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