News and events
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Video feature: Stopping floods on the cheap – a success story from Yorkshire
A team of researchers ran a pilot project in Pickering, North Yorkshire to study the effectiveness of a new methodology for flood management decision-making.
Oxford and the media
Laws, sausages and newspaper articles...
...three things that some feel the public should never see being manufactured. However, we believe there is wide interest in journalism, public relations and the interaction between the two. This occasional series offers a behind-the-scenes view of how Oxford's News and Information Office works with the media to secure high-profile, accurate coverage of the University and also how things can (sometimes) go wrong. Continue reading here...
In our latest Medium article, we reflect on the media's appetite for stories about Oxford undergraduate admissions: Inside the Oxford interview.
News from other websites
Oxford develops tiny mesh tube devices to treat brain aneurysms
Inaugural Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at University of Oxford Announced
Impact of the recent recession on self-harm
Call for new blood pressure lowering guidelines
Reducing the rate of infection in trauma surgery
RISE programme publishing its first research
How knowledge leaders turn academic research into organisational impact
In the news
UK flooding: How a Yorkshire town worked with nature to stay dry
University Life: Fix system and train team for improved patient care
'How many Oxbridge academics does it take to decide if a student should get a place?'
Cold-sore virus fights skin cancer
UK among world's worst for 'teaching to the test', research finds
The science of a perfect Christmas dinner? Put jam in your gravy and arrange Brussels in triangles
2,000 babies suffer serious defects 'because of failure to add folic acid'
Bigger and faster: how rogue waves are whipped up in a perfect storm
New CEOs who 'talk the talk' drive up stock prices
Monitoring chicken flock behaviour could help combat leading cause of food poisoning
Typhoid vaccine volunteers sought
Oxford develops tiny mesh tube devices to treat brain aneurysms
Blind woman’s joy as she is able to read the time thanks to 'bionic eye'
Making patients safer in surgery
New Vice-Chancellor pledges ‘innovative, creative’ future for Oxford
New Year Honours 2016
More insecticide-treated malaria nets and improved delivery efficiency needed to achieve universal coverage
'Shared bad memories' bind fighters and terrorists to their groups
