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Students

Computer science

DeepMind Scholarships are helping Oxford to close the diversity gap.

DeepMind Scholar Mizu-Nishikawa Toomey with a night-time city scape behind her

Sustainable water

A Swarovski Scholar graduate is contributing to water management solutions.

Swarovski Scholar graduate Claire Nakabugo standing in the reception of the African Development Bank.

Seismic hazard

Doctoral students from China are making waves in scientific research.

DPhil scholarship student Qi Ou standing next to a design of an early seismometer at the University of Hamburg

Saven Scholarships

A life-changing opportunity for Europe’s brightest graduate students.

Saven Scholar Jan Berge dressed in sub fusc in the grounds of Balliol College in Oxford

Reuben College

Oxford’s newest college and two scholarship programmes have been boosted by an £80 million gift.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Arlan Hamilton

Creating opportunities

The University’s first dedicated scholarship for disadvantaged Black British students has been established.

‘I’m so grateful to the Swarovski Foundation because so many students may have the ability, but not all of us have equal opportunities’

– Claire Nakabugo

Research

Future of food

The Food Climate Research Network is generating knowledge for better food systems.

A combine harvester and a tractor harvesting crops in a snow-dusted field

Refugee economies

Professor Alex Betts is helping to change the narrative on refugees.

Alex Betts with about 20 refugees, standing in a circle around him, in the Dollo Ado refugee camps in Ethiopia

Pancreatic cancer

Philanthropic support has set research on a new and powerful course.

Microscopic cells derived from KRAS mutated model: a spherical structure covered in blue and red clusters

Eastern Christianity

Professor Phil Booth’s work in this field is making its mark in teaching and research.

Detail of an ornate mosaic of Christ’s image from Hagia Sophia, which was recently reconsecrated as a mosque, in Istanbul

A COVID-19 vaccine researcher using scientific equipment in an Oxford University laboratory

Combating COVID-19

Donor support has enabled Oxford to respond rapidly to the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Philanthropic support is absolutely golden because it allows you to get to the true heart of the matter. It’s the flexibility and the honesty of it’

– Professor Eric O’Neill

Libraries and museums

Dr Federica Gigante standing in front of display of Islamic ceramics at the Ashmolean Museum

Trainee curators

Two Oxford museums are working to provide much-needed support to the next generation of curators.

A black and blue block-printed Gujarati cotton textile fragment from the Ashmolean Museum’s collections

Treasured threads

Donor support has enabled Oxford to build one of the world’s most important textile collections, and is also the key to helping it thrive.

A hand-written and illustrated score of Schilflied (Reed Song) by Felix Mendelssohn from the Bodleian’s collections

Bodleian conservation

A fundraising appeal to conserve and digitise valuable collections at the Bodleian Libraries has received tremendous support.

‘There are so very few curatorial jobs available… it is statistically easier to become a striker in the Premier League than a curator in your own field’

– Dr Federica Gigante

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