Thursday 30 October 2025

• 14:00 - Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research (online)
  This session provides an introduction to public engagement for anyone interested in getting started or looking for a bit of inspiration.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Friday 31 October 2025

• 11:00 - Approximations of systems of partial differential equations for nonlocal interactions
  Professor Yoshitaro Tanaka (Future University Hakodate)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 3 November 2025

• 14:00 - Non-medical Systematic Reviews – Part 2 (in-person)
  TBA
• 14:00 - Stein's method for spatial random graphs
  Leoni Wirth (Oxford)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - Out on a limb: How and why computer modelling helps unravel the beautiful complexity of organogenesis
  Professor James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 09:30 - How to do a Career Development Review, for reviewers (in-person)
  Regular meaningful Career Development Reviews are an important part of developing a positive research culture.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 11:00 - A large deviation principle for spatial dense random graphs.
  César Zarco Romero (Berlin)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 12:30 - GROW: Discover the Conception X Venture Pathway (online)
  Conception X (Conception X)

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 09:30 - Get that grant
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 10:00 - Viva practice and preparation
  Tailored for third and fourth-year doctoral students, gain insights into viva rules, proactive preparation, and the examiner's perspective. Sharpen your skills through practical exercises for a confident viva experience.
  Dr Molly Grace (University of Oxford)
• 10:00 - Telling stories that matter: Communicating your research through story (in-person)
  Discover more about how to craft and apply storytelling skills to communicate your research.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
• 15:00 - A rat, a starling, a goldfish and a dog walk into a pub…or on using time, choice and movement as windows into cognition​
  Dr Tiago Monteiro (University of Vet Med Vienna & Univ of Aveiro, Portugal)

Friday 7 November 2025

• 11:00 - Programming cells using feedback control and whole-cell models
  Prof Lucia Marucci (University of Bristol)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 10 November 2025

• 13:30 - Host-pathogen interactions in the diseased lung
  Dr Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
• 14:00 - Minimum cost matching with random edge-costs
  Johan Wästlund (Chalmers University, Gothenburg)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 09:30 - Scientific writing: core skills (in-person)
  This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 09:30 - Project management: the essentials (in-person)
  The focus of this course is to provide a practical ‘project management toolbox’ that you can use in your daily work.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 11:00 - Responsive dormancy in the Parabolic Anderson Model (PAM)
  Leo Tyrpak (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 10:00 - Stakeholder Mapping for Academic Policy Engagement
  In this workshop, we will help answer this and other questions by equipping researchers and DPhil students to identify and map the people and groups who influence or are impacted by their research, when it comes to policy engagement.
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team), Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division)
• 10:00 - Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division: Stakeholder Mapping for Academic-Policy Engagement
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 13:00 - Hands on science engagement (in-person)
  Dive into the world of experiential learning with our immersive course, 'Hands-On Science.' This programme is designed to equip you with the practical skills and insights needed to effectively communicate your research through engaging desktop activities.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - From clonal fish and biomimetic robots to Mexican waves of the Sulphur mollies - How individual differences are linked to large scale collective processes. ​
  Dr David Bierbach (Humboldt University Berlin)

Friday 14 November 2025

• 11:00 - Self-generated chemotaxis of heterogeneous cell populations
  Dr Mehmet Can Uçar (University of Sheffield)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 13:00 - From Data Science to Machine Learning: Insights from the Engineering World
  The event is part of the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme and hosted by the Oxford Women in Engineering Network (WiE) in collaboration with the Cambridge University Women in Engineering Society (CUWES).
  TBA

Monday 17 November 2025

• 13:30 - A Life Identification Number Barcoding (LIN Code) System for Neisseria meningitidis: High resolution multi-level typing of meningococci
  Please note: for navigation to the department, google maps will still show OX1 3PS for the Life and Mind Building; however, the new and correct post code is OX1 3EL
  Dr Kasia Parfitt (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 12:30 - Research Data Management (in-person)
  Research data is often at the heart of scientific projects, it’s what you spend hours in the lab generating or in the field collecting. It forms the basis of your analysis and underpins your arguments in papers and theses.
  Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 09:30 - Get that job
  An interactive workshop for researchers on making successful job applications.
  Suzi Black (University of Oxford)
• 10:00 - Time Management (online)
  This online workshop will delve into various aspects of time management, including work-life balance, planning, prioritising, and differentiating between importance and urgency.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Michal Bassan (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 09:30 - Podcast Your Science
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 09:30 - Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
  This course will look at the aspects you need to consider when constructing your paper; demystify peer reviewed journals by giving insider insights from science journal editors and show you what they really want.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 09:30 - How to prepare for a Career Development Review, for reviewees (in-person)
  A positive Career Development Review conversation can play a really positive role in your professional development.
  Jarlath Brine (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 November 2025

• 11:00 - Bridging scales in biology: using mathematics to understand patterning and morphogenesis from molecular to tissue levels
  Professor Alex Fletcher (University of Sheffield)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 24 November 2025

• 13:30 - The evolution of rabbits and the myxoma virus: invasions, pandemics and resistance
  Prof Frank Jiggins (University of Cambridge)
• 14:00 - Persistence of the maximum degree in preferential attachment trees with vertex death
  Bas Lodewijks (University of Sheffield)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 09:30 - Thesis and report writing (in-person)
  The thesis and report writing course is relevant for research students at any stage.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 15:00 - The neural basis of the honey-bee dance language
  Prof Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 28 November 2025

• 11:00 - Competition and warfare in bacteria and the human microbiome
  Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 1 December 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Luisa Andreis (Università degli Studi di Torino)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 11:00 - Branching particle systems with rank-dependent selection
  Jacob Mercer (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 12:30 - GROW: Unlocking Innovation: Problem-Solution-Fit for STEM Ventures
  Various Speakers
• 16:30 - The ZERO Institute’s John Goodenough Lecture 2025, with Nobel laureate Sir M. Stanley Whittigham
  Sir M. Stanley Whittingham (Binghamton University)

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 09:30 - Interviewing for podcasts (online)
  You are behind the mic, ready to record your first podcast ... but wait! What do you ask? This hands-on training session helps you navigate the world of podcast interviews.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)

Friday 5 December 2025

• 11:00 - Cell shapes, migration and mechanics determine pattern formation during development
  Dr Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (University of Cambridge)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 10 December 2025

• 09:30 - Coaching Skills for Leaders
  Coaching is a highly impactful approach to people development and can support individuals to identify goals, gain insights into challenges, consider options and plan actions
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 January 2025

• 09:30 - Scientific Writing - Core Skills (in-person)
  This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Thursday 22 January 2025

• 09:30 - Interviewing for podcasts
  You are behind the mic, ready to record your first podcast ... but wait! What do you ask? This hands-on training session helps you navigate the world of podcast interviews.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)

Monday 26 January 2025

• 09:30 - Responsible Research and Innovation
  The aim of the course is to enable researchers to adopt a responsible approach when considering the positive and negative aspects of their research, including the moral, ethical and societal impacts of it. The course is a follow up to the online Research Integrity course developed by Research Services, which is a pre-requisite for this face to face course.
  Sarah Callaghan (Research Practice Group, University of Oxford), Sally Charles (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 09:30 - Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
  This session is for people who have experience of presentations and want to hone their skills.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Monday 2 February 2025

• 13:30 - Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?
  Dr John Lees (Welcome Genome Campus Hinxton)

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  The Strachey Lectures in Computer Science

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 09:30 - How to do a Career Development Review, for reviewers (in-person)
  Regular meaningful Career Development Reviews are an important part of developing a positive research culture.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Wednesday 18 February 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiation & Influencing Skills
  This workshop aims to help build confidence and skills for those who wish to influence and achieve mutually beneficial goals with their peers, managers and stakeholders.
  Anne Gallagher (Leapfrog Training & Development)

Thursday 19 February 2025

• 08:30 - How to prepare for a Career Development Review, for reviewees (in-person)
  A positive Career Development Review conversation can play a really positive role in your professional development.
  Jarlath Brine (University of Oxford)
• 09:30 - Project management: the essentials
  The focus of this course is to provide a practical ‘project management toolbox’ that you can use in your daily work.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 09:30 - Get that job
  An interactive workshop for researchers on making successful job applications.
  Suzi Black (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 March 2025

• 09:30 - Coaching Skills for Leaders
  This workshop will provide an introduction to key coaching concepts, approaches and skills. We will explore when and how coaching skills can be used to support effective leadership and management practice. Participants will take part in a practice coaching conversation using real-life examples, topics and challenges.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 April 2025

• 09:30 - Project management: the essentials
  The focus of this course is to provide a practical ‘project management toolbox’ that you can use in your daily work.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Thursday 7 May 2025

• 16:00 - Exploring the link between microsctructure, order and toughness in bioinspired composites
  Dr Florian Bouville (Imperial College London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Wednesday 3 June 2025

• 08:30 - Get that job
  An interactive workshop for researchers on making successful job applications.
  Suzi Black (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 June 2025

• 09:30 - How to prepare for a Career Development Review, for reviewees (in-person)
  A positive Career Development Review conversation can play a really positive role in your professional development.
  Jarlath Brine (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 June 2025

• 09:30 - Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
  This session is for people who have experience of presentations and want to hone their skills.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Wednesday 24 June 2025

• 09:30 - Coaching Skills for Leaders
  This workshop will provide an introduction to key coaching concepts, approaches and skills. We will explore when and how coaching skills can be used to support effective leadership and management practice. Participants will take part in a practice coaching conversation using real-life examples, topics and challenges.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)