All events
Upcoming university events.
Unintended consequences of open datasets: is agent-driven secondary analysis publishable?
A Bodleian, Oxford Open Scholarship Event (BOSE)
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Matt Spick (University of Surrey)
Department: Bodleian Libraries (Department)
Organiser: Bodleian Libraries Office for Open Research
Host: Bodleian Libraries Office for Open Research
Series: Bodleian Open Scholarship Event (BOSE)
Audience: Public Format: Online
Lunchtime Lab Talks: Stephanie Dakin, NDORMS
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Speaker(s): Stephanie Dakin
Department: The Centre for Human Genetics (Unit)
Organiser: Charmaine Lang; Isabel Schmidt
Series: CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
Towards a Grammar of Health: From Deep Phenotyping to Longitudinal Prediction
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Prof Alexandre Perera i Lluna (UPC Barcelona and B2SLab)
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari
Host: Prof Aiden Doherty, Dr Anya Topiwala
Series: Digital Phenotyping
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
Shades of Survival
Join us for a screening of Shades of Survival, a film exploring the lives of Black women diagnosed with cancer.
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 4pm to 8pm
Speaker(s): Dr Toral Gathani, Associate Professor and Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon (Oxford Population Health and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), David Ayeni, the film's director, Georgette Oni, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Petrina Kamara (Founder of Africa Cancer Support and patient with lived experience of breast cancer)
Department: Nuffield Department of Population Health (Department)
Organiser: Toral Gathani and Lulu Phillips
Host: Toral Gathani and Lulu Phillips
Series: Festival of Global Health
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Blavatnik Book Launch: Postpartum Depression
Join us for the launch of Postpartum Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach to Recovery.
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 5pm to 6.30pm
Speaker(s): Anne Stewart (Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Heather O'Mahen (Professor of Perinatal and Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter), Alan Stein (Senior Research Fellow in Global Health and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government), Fiona Alderdice (Professor in Perinatal Health and Wellbeing, Queen's University Belfast)
Department: Blavatnik School of Government (Department)
Host: Blavatnik School of Government
Audience: Public Format: Hybrid
Professor Stefano Fusi
The geometry of spatial neural codes in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Professor Randy Bruno
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
The geometry of spatial neural codes in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr. Stefano Fusi (Columbia University)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Organiser: Ian Cone
Host: Randy Bruno, Rui Ponte Costa
Series: Oxford NeuroAI Forum
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Timing Matters: How Hormonal Rhythms Govern Mutation Spread, Cancer Initiation, and Treatment Response
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Dr Jacco Van Rheenen
Department: Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Unit)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates
Host: Prof Richard White
Series: Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Exploiting Cancer's Achilles' Heels
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): John Pollard PhD (Dark Blue Therapeutics, Visiting Professor Oxford University)
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Yasmine Saito
Host: Professor Simon Davis
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Medical Grand Round - Palliative Care/Pain Medicine
‘A framework for navigating uncertainty and challenging conversations'
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Department: Medical Sciences (Division)
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Audience: OUH clinical, University academic staff and medical students Format: In Person
Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 3pm to 4.30pm
Speaker(s): Carolyn Smith
Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)
Organiser: Helen Bond
Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Online
Decoding T cell antigen specificity through structural analysis and deep learning
In person only
Friday, 3 July 2026, 9.15am to 10.15am
Speaker(s): Benjamin McMaster, Koohy Group University of Oxford
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Renata Sojka, Alina Bovtenko
Series: MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Sensing self-derived dsRNA: distinct functions of Dicer and LGP2 in cell-intrinsic immunity
Friday, 3 July 2026, 10.30am to 11.30am
Speaker(s): Laurens ter Haar, Department of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, NL
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Renata Sojka, Alina Bovtenko
Host: Prof Jan Rehwinkel
Series: TIDU seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Botanical Design Embroidery Workshops
Learn the botanical painting/drawing and embroidery techniques to complete your own 'Flanders Cherry'. Booking required
Friday, 3 July 2026 to Saturday, 4 July 2026, 10.30am - 4pm
Department: Ashmolean Museum (Department)
Organiser: Public Programmes
Series: Shaped by Nature Season
Audience: Public Format: In Person
DPAG Neuroscience Seminar: 'A Preconceptional Stress Model Identifies Thalamostriatal Substrates of Intergenerational Vulnerability'
Friday, 3 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Professor Anthony Vernon (King's College London)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Professor Zoltán Molnár and Professor Stuart Peirson
Series: DPAG Neuroscience Seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
How a single kinase switch dissociates sleep depth, quantity, and circadian timing
Friday, 3 July 2026, 3pm to 4pm
Speaker(s): Staci Jakyong Kim (KAIST)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Organiser: Fiona Woods
Host: Haram Park
Series: CNCB Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Productioon: ROBOTA
A creation story for the end of time.
Friday, 3 July 2026 to Saturday, 18 July 2026, 7pm - 9.30pm
Host: Headlong and Schwarzman Centre
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Science Wonder Garden Party 2026
Everyone is welcome at this free, family-friendly science engagement event at Oxford University Science Park, Begbroke.
Saturday, 4 July 2026, 11am to 4pm
Organiser: Eleanor Mathieson
Host: Oxford University Development
Audience: Public Format: In Person
The Body in History | Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Career Researcher and Early Career Researcher Conference
Monday, 6 July 2026, 9am to 5pm
Department: History (Department)
Series: TORCH Body in History Network
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
AI Exploration Week
AI Exploration week will help University staff build confidence and critical judgment in using AI for their own work.
Monday, 6 July 2026 to Friday, 10 July 2026, 10am - 5pm
Speaker(s): Anders Reagan (University of Oxford), Dominik Lukes, Kelly Webb-Davies (University of Oxford), Ella Wicks (University of Oxford), Alok Sahu
Department: Digital Governance Unit (Unit)
Organiser: Zoe Case
Host: AI Competency Centre
Audience: Member of University - Staff Format: In Person