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Here is a (very small) selection of blogs by staff at the University of Oxford. To request an addition to this page, or change the current information, please contact digicomms@admin.ox.ac.uk. 

21st Century challenges and opportunities

• Oxford Martin School blog
  Blogs that explore and discuss key 21st century challenges addressed through the research, events, publications and activities of the Oxford Martin School.

• The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food blog
  The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food blog posts articles by members of the Oxford Food Research Network about recent research findings, food events and topical issues surrounding food.

• The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
  Our aim is to undertake research into the implications of population change.

Alumni

• Oxford Today
  Oxford Today blogs are an online-only feature, written by and for Oxonians! We currently have eight blogs covering a variety of topics and themes, updated on a monthly basis.

Art

• History of Art Department’s blog
  History of Art at the University of Oxford draws on a long and deep tradition of teaching and studying the subject.

Bodleian Libraries

• Bodleian blogs
  Dozens of engaging blogs kept by members of library staff, providing content on a broad range of subjects.

Colleges

• Balliol Archives & Manuscripts
  Notes, frequently asked questions and useful links from the Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts at Balliol College 

• Exeter College's 'Cohen Quadrangle'
  On 17 March 2010, Exeter College purchased Ruskin College’s campus on Walton Street. It will become Exeter’s 'third quad' in the heart of Oxford, named 'Cohen Quadrangle'. You can follow the development of the site at exetercohenquad.com. 

• Kellogg College
  Fellows, students, alumni, and staff share insights and opinions, providing a forum for discussion for researchers, academics and students across the breadth of academic disciplines that Kellogg represents.

• Lady Margaret Hall
  Hell's Passage: The Principal's blog. Alan Rusbridger's 'introduction to Oxford in several chapters'.

• Master of St Peter’s blog
  Mark Damazer CBE is the Master of St Peter's College  and a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 7.

Courses

• SBS blogs
  Blogs from students at the Saïd Business School.

Creative Writing

• Master's in Creative Writing
  Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing blog - a resource for Oxford events, calls for submission, competitions, news, interviews and more.

Early career academic outreach network

• Oxford Early Career Academic Outreach Network blog
  The Oxford Early Career Academic Outreach Network was founded in 2013 by Dr James Castell & Dr Eleanor David, two University of Oxford fixed-term early career academics who were managing portfolio careers that included professional outreach work.
  The Network aims to connect early career academics (DPhil students, postdocs or fixed-term lecturers from any subject area) with opportunities to do schools outreach in Oxford and further afield, as well as to provide them with appropriate training opportunities and recognition for their work at an institutional level. This network, which celebrated its first birthday in MT 2014, is intended to complement, not replace, current training provision elsewhere within the collegiate University and facilitates communication between the early career academic community and schools outreach projects across Oxford.
  If you are enthusiastic about widening access to higher education in general and the University of Oxford in particular, then please sign up now to be added to our database. 

English

• Stylisticienne
  Stylisticienne (Fr, ‘one who specialises in stylistics’).  I am a Fellow by Special Election and Lecturer in English at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.  I teach Old English and Middle English Literature, as well as Prelims Paper 1 Section A ‘Approaches to Language’. 

Ethics

• Practical Ethics News
  A daily ethical analysis of the latest developments in science, technology and other current affairs. Features authors from Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford Martin School and Future of Humanity Institute.

Forced migration

• Forced Migration Online: Blog
  John Pilbeam, Sean Loughna, Kirsty Lothian and Mike Cave from the Refugee Studies Centre provide information on the work of Forced Migration Online and discuss issues regarding human displacement.

French

• Adventures on the Bookshelf
  A blog for students and teachers of Years 11 to 13, and anyone else with an interest in French language and culture. From the Oxford University Modern Languages Faculty.

History

• History Monograph
  A blog about the ups and downs of writing a historical monograph.

• Somerville Historian
  A blog about writing and teaching history at Oxford.

International Development

• Debating Development
  Debating Development is a conversational blog from researchers and research students at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID). The blog aims to promote conversation within ODID, as well as dialogue between the department and those interested in our work, on the issues we are researching. These include economic growth and instability, trade and investment, poverty and inequality, insecurity and conflict, the history of social and political change, migration and refugees, global governance and the environment, and children and human development.

• Young Lives - The Child Poverty and Development blog
  The Young Lives blog aims to promote conversation between Young Lives and partners in our four study countries of Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, as well as dialogue between the study and those interested in our work, regionally and internationally.

IT Services

• IT Services blogs
  Latest updates from Oxford University Computing Services.

• Director's Cut
  Dr Stuart Lee, Deputy CIO IT Services, blogs about IT-related issues of concern to the wider University community.

• Erewhon Project
  Blogging the progress of the Erewhon project for creating a geolocation database for Oxford University and pursuing the goal of improving mobile access to Oxford's resources.

• OpenSpires
  World class open educational resources.

Law

• Blog of the European Journal of International Law
  Dapo Akande, Yamani Fellow and Tutor in Public International Law, St Peter's College, is the editor of EJIL:Talk!

• Border Criminologies
  Showcasing original research from a range of perspectives, we hope to better understand the effect of border control and to explore alternatives. 

• Criminology at Oxford

• Oxford Business Law Blog
  The OBLB is a forum for reporting on current developments and new research in business law (which we define broadly to include, among other things, corporate governance, corporate finance, financial regulation, commercial law, M&A, and corporate tax). Based at the University of Oxford, we cover these developments all around the world.

• The Oxford Human Rights Hub 
  Promoting dialogue between human rights researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from around the world. 

Medical Sciences

• Oxford Vaccine Group
  A source of up-to-date news and comment on vaccines and infectious diseases. 

Oxford Internet Institute (OII)

• Blogs of individuals at OII
  A number of faculty and students at OII blog.

Politics and International Relations

• Oxford Politics
  Hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, this blog aims to promote our academic research and commentary to readers in and outside the university.

• Blavatnik School of Government
  News and views from the Blavatnik School of Government community.

Science

• Astro Blog
  Latest research from the Astrophysics department and a wider round-up of astronomy news.

• Oxford Protein Informatics Group
  Blog from the research group in the statistics department focusing on aspects of protein modelling, homology modelling, membrane proteins, sequence alignment, anti-bodies, and drug-discovery.

• Oxford Science Blog
  Latest science news and views from the University's News Office.

Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning

• TALL Blog
  Multiple contributors from the Department for Continuing Education discussing Pedagogy, research in technology and learning, online courseware, e-learning, courses, projects and ICT.

Transport

• Oxford Transport Network
  Sustainable transport issues in Oxfordshire from the Transport Studies Unit (in the School of Geography and the Environment).

• Urban demographics
  Urban and Population issues, with special emphasis on transport and migration, from DPhil student Rafael Pereira.

Urban Development

• Sustainable Urban Development Blog
  Students, alumni and staff from the Department for Continuing Education Sustainable Urban Development Programme share their ideas and experiences. 

Voltaire Foundation

• Voltaire Foundation blog
  Latest updates from the Voltaire Foundation - a world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship and a research department of the University of Oxford.