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)
• 17:30 - Understanding Infectious Disease Transmission: Insights and Uncertainty - Christl Donnelly
  Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
• 18:00 - Leading Change: Making Medicines in the Era of AI
  Dr Mishal Patel (Senior Vice President, AI & Digital Innovation, R&D at Novo Nordisk), Professor Blanca Rodriguez (Professor of Computational Medicine, University of Oxford)

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)
• 10:00 - Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Functional Ecology and Climate Resilience: Wild Bee Biology in a Changing World
  Dr Madeleine Ostwald (Queen Mary University of London)

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
• 12:00 - Earth's Climate as an Evolutionary Agent: Quantifying Temperature Change Across Major Diversification Events
  Dr Kristin Bergmann (MIT)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 8 December 2025

• 17:00 - Oxford Health Innovation Forum: From first sparks to first steps
  Dr Danuta Jeziorska (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford), Emilie Syed, Esther Richardot Reynal de Saint-Michel (Thena Capital), Christiaan de Koning (Researcher at University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 December 2025

• 10:00 - REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Searching for patents and standards
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

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)

Thursday 11 December 2025

• 11:00 - Overton walkthrough for Oxford University
  Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Eleanor Downes (Overton)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Monday 15 December 2025

• 17:00 - MPLS Researcher Conference: AI & Ethics - January 15th 2026
  The deadline to register for this conference is 5pm on the 15th December 2025 - The conference will take place on Thursday 15th January 2026 from 9.30am at The Mathematical Institute.
  Professor Tom Stoneham (University of York), Dr Heloise Stevance (Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, University of Oxford), Professor Gemma Derrick (AI, Ethics & Research Culture, University of Bristol.), Dr Caroline Green (AI & Ethics Institute, Oxford.)

Tuesday 16 December 2025

• 17:15 - Biology Christmas Lecture 2025 - Seismic Senses: from Spiders to Elephants - IN PERSON
  Dr Beth Mortimer (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Biology Christmas Lecture 2025 - Seismic Senses: from Spiders to Elephants - ONLINE
  Dr Beth Mortimer (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 January 2025

• 17:00 - From Flatland to Cannonballs – designing historical lessons and workshops for secondary school pupils & their teachers
  Snezana Lawrence (Middlesex University)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Tuesday 13 January 2025

• 14:00 - Archiving and preservation for open access monographs
  Dr Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers), Dr Gareth Cole (University of Exeter), Dr Holly Turpin (Loughborough University)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 20 January 2025

• 14:00 - REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Rebecca Collyer (PIE Climate)
  Oxford Energy Network Seminars 2025-26

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)
• 14:00 - Sociality, heterogeneity, organisation and leadership in animal groups
  Prof Andrew King (Swansea University)

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)

Wednesday 28 January 2025

• 09:30 - Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Session (in-person)
  A 50,000 word thesis would take 7 hours to present; how about in just 3 minutes with the aid of a single slide?
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 January 2025

• 09:30 - Podcast your science (in-person)
  From inception to publication this practical session delivered by Emily Elias, journalist and producer of the Oxford Sparks podcast series, is a whirlwind tour through the basics of how to share your research in an engaging manner through podcasting.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 09:30 - Managing difficult situations
  The aim of the course is to provide participants with an awareness of what causes difficult situations / behaviour, a set of skills for managing them, and opportunities to practice the skills.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Alison Trinder (University of Oxford)
• 15:30 - A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
  Professor Michael I. Jordan (Inria Paris and University of California, Berkeley)
  Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures

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 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  The Strachey Lectures in Computer Science

Wednesday 4 February 2025

• 09:30 - Get that grant (in-person)
  Learn the art of writing compelling research proposals, uncover potential pitfalls to avoid, and discover what reviewers look for in a proposal.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Friday 6 February 2025

• 09:30 - Undergraduate critical thinking with academic sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Rhodes (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

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)
• 09:30 - Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 12 February 2025

• 13:00 - Engaging with controversial and sensitive topics
  Engaging with sensitive or controversial topics in research requires a thoughtful and strategic approach, especially when communicating with diverse audience groups.
  Hana Ayoob (Hana Ayoob)

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

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)
• 10:00 - You and your Supervisor
  This course provides information and introduces strategies to enable DPhil students to develop an effective working relationship with their supervisor.
  Dr Molly Grace (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 February 2025

• 10:00 - Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Session (in-person)
  A 50,000 word thesis would take 7 hours to present; how about in just 3 minutes with the aid of a single slide?
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 March 2025

• 13:30 - Developing Sustainable Public Health Policy Through and Beyond Mathematical Modelling
  Joaquin Prada (University of Surrey)

Tuesday 3 March 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 5 March 2025

• 14:00 - Getting Started in Public & Community Engagement with Research (online)
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 10:00 - Thriving in Research: core strategic skills and mindsets for research impact (in-person)
  Natacha Wilson (Director Cambridge Insights)

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 09:30 - Get that fellowship (in-person)
  This session will help you to understand the dos and don’ts of a fellowship application. It will guide you through the process and explain the support that is available. A holder of a research fellowship will discuss their application experience.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Tuesday 17 March 2025

• 14:00 - How to peer review journal papers (in-person)
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Wednesday 18 March 2025

• 10:00 - Time Management
  Being able to manage time effectively will help you to be more successful in all aspects of your life.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 March 2025

• 10:00 - Telling stories that matter: communicating your research through story
  Discover more about how to craft and apply storytelling skills to communicate your research.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
• 10:00 - Viva practice and preparation (in-person)
  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)

Monday 23 March 2025

• 11:00 - REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

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)

Thursday 26 March 2025

• 09:30 - Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
  If you are nearing the end of your DPhil, this workshop will help you develop a plan for completing your DPhil and prepare for the viva.
  Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), 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

Tuesday 19 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 26 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 27 May 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)

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)