Grand Challenges Seminar Series

Every year, our first year students organise and deliver a series of seminars focussing on some of the grand challenges of our time. These seminars are one of the highlights of the calendar and attract interest from around the world. From 2021, the scope of the seminars has expanded, and is now being delivered by a group of students spanning four UKRI-funded programmes under the auspices of the MPLS Doctoral Training Centre. We will be joined by the BBSRC DTP in Interdisciplinary Bioscience, The Chemistry in Cells DTC and The Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science CDT. Each seminar is organised by a group of students across programmes making the seminars truly interdisciplinary.
Type: Seminar Series
Timing: Thursday evenings in May-June
Web Address: https://envres.web.ox.ac.uk/grand-challenges-seminars
Organising department: Doctoral Training Centre (MPLS)

Talks:

Thursday 22 May 2025

What makes effective conservation? Overcoming barriers to conservation success in the 21st century
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Amy Dickman (University of Oxford), Sophus zu Ermgassen (University of Oxford), Dr Alexandra Zimmerman (Senior Research Fellow, WildCRU), Sahil Nijhawan (University College London and ZSL), Dave Stone (Chief scientist, JNCC)
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editor: Abigail Williams