Thursday 16 October 2025

• 09:30 - Navigating Health and Solidarity: Refugee Perspectives and Practical Challenges
  Various Speakers
  Tropical Medicine Seminars
• 12:00 - Splenic sensing and processing of red cells in malaria and sickle cell disease
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Neurology - 'Inflammatory Neuropathies'
  Prof Simon Rinaldi
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 10:00 - Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
  Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Clinical Immunology - 'Managing immunoglobulin demand and ensuring evidence-based use – the role of peer review'
  Dr Siraj Misbah, Ms Letty Yeung
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Monday 27 October 2025

• 09:30 - Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
  The course will cover the key principles of planning and delivering a successful talk, and help to build your confidence. Each subject area in the MPLS Division has its own specific requirements for research presentations: please note that this course does not seek to address these.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 15:30 - Ethox Seminar - The Age of Health
  Professor Alex Broadbent (Durham University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Ethics and Law
  Prof Dominic Wilkinson
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 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)

Monday 3 November 2025

• 09:30 - Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Miguel Arana-Catania (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

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)

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)
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Clinical Pharmacology
  Dr James Fullerton
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Monday 10 November 2025

• 13:00 - Counting the dead (from infections) with lessons from India on malaria and HIV, and from Sierra Leone on malaria
  Professor Prabhat Jha (University of Oxford)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Host-pathogen interactions in the diseased lung
  Dr Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Haematology
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Monday 17 November 2025

• 09:30 - Introduction to Endnote for medicine
  Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 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)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 11:00 - Introduction to Zotero for medicine
  Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 14:00 - Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
  Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences

Wednesday 19 November 2025

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

Thursday 20 November 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)
• 11:00 - Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:30 - Narrative CVs for Funding Applications
  Mary Muers (Research Culture Facilitator, Medical Sciences Division), Kanza Basit (Senior Research Facilitator, Social Sciences Division), Gavin Bird (Research Facilitator, Earth Sciences), Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Medical Ophthalmology
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Friday 21 November 2025

• 09:30 - EndNote for referencing
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Monday 24 November 2025

• 13:30 - The evolution of rabbits and the myxoma virus: invasions, pandemics and resistance
  Prof Frank Jiggins (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 09:30 - Zotero for referencing
  Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Combined Surgical/Medical Grand Round
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Monday 1 December 2025

• 13:30 - Development and use of enabling technologies to accelerate schistosome drug discovery​
  Prof Karl Hoffmann (Dept of Life Sciences Aberystwyth University)

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 12:30 - Introduction to Endnote for medicine
  Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  Dr Garry Tan
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Thursday 11 December 2025

• 11:00 - AI Tools for Research: A Hands-On Workshop
  Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Dr Bradley Segal (University of Oxf), Gavin Hubbard (NIHR CLAHRC Oxford)
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Gastroenterology
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds

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)