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Unique collaboration between artists and academics
30 Jun 2009
Earlier this week three scientists from the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) set out for the Peruvian Andes, launching a bold new ...
New video for James Martin 21st Century School
24 Jun 2009
We have produced a new video to promote the work of the 21st Century School and the $50 million Matched Funding Challenge, launched by Ja...
Professor Savulescu named 'top emerging thinker'
22 Jun 2009
Professor Julian Savulescu, Director of the Programme on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, has received two awards in the space of on...
International Migration Institute awarded NORFACE grant
22 Jun 2009
We are pleased to announce a funding award for the International Migration Institute to conduct a new project entitled, Theorizing the...
Can the NHS afford to treat self-inflicted illnesses?
22 Jun 2009
On Monday 22 June, Oxford University launched its latest online Oxford Debates, with Dr Mark Sheehan, James Martin Research Fellow at ...
Practical guidance for families dealing with dementia
18 Jun 2009
We are delighted to announce that the Oxford Institute of Ageing has been awarded a dissemination grant of over £18,000 by the A...
Swine flu: keep perspective over death
16 Jun 2009
In an article for The Telegraph (16 June 2009), Professor Angela McLean, co-Director of the Institute for Emerging Infections, explain...
Tahitian corals shed new light on Earth's ice ages
16 Jun 2009
New research on fossilised corals from Tahiti, conducted by researchers from the 21st Century Ocean Institute, shows that the behaviou...
Steve Rayner speaks to Parliament about the implications of geoengineering
16 Jun 2009
Professor Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, will be speaking at a House of Commons seminar ...
Earth Journalism Awards recognise outstanding reporting on climate change
11 Jun 2009
Dr Max Boykoff, a former James Martin Fellow and current researcher at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), has recently helped to p...
Dr Hein de Haas awarded ERC grant
05 Jun 2009
We are delighted to announce that Dr Hein de Haas, a Senior Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, has been select...
Dapo Akande Appointed as a Consultant by the African Union
04 Jun 2009
Dapo Akande, Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, (currently on sabbatical at Yale), has been appoi...