Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health

Overview

There are around 180 people working in the department, including senior academic staff, research support staff, professional staff, and graduate students (including clinicians) carrying out research towards a higher degree. The department's work has four overarching themes:

• cancer
• global health
• maternal and foetal health
• reproductive medicine and genetics

The laboratories of the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health are fully equipped for a wide range of molecular and cell biology work with dedicated image analysis and flow cytometry facilities. The department's clinical and laboratory programmes are based in:

• the Women’s Centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital,
• the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital;
• the Institute of Reproductive Sciences (IRS), Oxford Business Park; and
• the Big Data Institute.

The laboratories at the the Women’s Centre give excellent access to patients and clinical samples for research from clinics, theatres and delivery suites. The department maintains many special clinical services which help generate programmes of research.

There are also collaborations with the School’s Institutes, the University’s Science Departments and with researchers outside Oxford, in both the UK and abroad, especially in low middle income countries.

The department has a variety of students studying towards research degrees, including students from both scientific and clinical backgrounds. The basis of the department’s research programmes are laboratory or clinical projects in which you carry out independent research in your chosen area, as agreed with your supervisor.