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Professor Luciano Floridi received Italy's highest honour today [12 October] at Quirinal Palace in Rome. Photo: Arthur Bullard

Oxford Professor, Luciano Floridi, wins Italy's highest award

the study will follow the lives of individual drivers and explore the experiences of workers living away from home for protracted periods.

Driving change: Oxford academic awarded £700k-plus for project to improve working lives in logistics

This new research reveals for-profit children’s homes, on average, receive worse Ofsted ratings than Local Authority homes in all inspection domains. Credit: Shutterstock

Outsourced children’s care homes provide poorer quality care – Oxford study

Said Business School Dean Soumitra Dutta

New Saïd Dean Soumitra Dutta highlights international innovation

new research from Oxford shows a person’s own rating of their feelings – even on such seemingly arbitrary scales – is of greater predictive power, in terms of action, than a collection of socioeconomic measures

Feelings 'ratings' are highly predictive of future behaviour - research

During its hold on the World Heritage Site of Palmyra, for instance, Daesh routinely used the ancient architecture publicly to execute prisoners and otherwise terrorise locals. With time being a dimension of power, the site was mobilised to intimidate and

Cultural Heritage on the Frontline: the destruction of peoples and identities in war

PEAK Urban had research centres at cities across the global south, including Medellin, Columbia, pictured. Credit: Shutterstock

How Global South cities can work better: free course based on Oxford-led urban research

Ways of Being, or the regular Ashmolean website. The former offered access to a diverse range of real-life human stories behind arts and artefacts from the Ashmolean and partner museums

Online arts and culture engagement can have a positive impact on young people’s mental health: Oxford study

save the world at least $12 trillion

Decarbonising the energy system by 2050 could save trillions - Oxford study

Crowd of people on a street

More than 10 million children were affected by COVID-19-associated parental and caregiver deaths

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