Funding to inspire future engineers Future Engineers Project – Rose Hill Community Centre, 13th-17th August This summer we are running a very special week-long holiday club that is designed specifically for young people aged 11-15 in… Read More
Science Oxford wins national award for work to support young people into careers Science Oxford has been recognised for our work supporting careers education and helping young people into the world of work by being announced as Provider of the Year by the… Read More
Robertswood School wins Buckinghamshire Big Science Event 2018 Four ingenious primary school pupils from Year 3 at Robertswood School in Chalfont St Peter have been crowned winners of the Buckinghamshire Big Science Event 2018. The Big Science Event is… Read More
Science Oxford Library tour is Magic this summer We’re out on tour again this summer with our fabulous library tour, which brings the best of Science Oxford’s interactive and engaging science shows out to venues across the county…. Read More
Local primary schools to get first sight of new science education centre Pupils from four primary schools in and around Headington are getting the chance to go on site at Stansfeld Park in Headington Quarry this week, to see how work is… Read More
Summer of Science Film Production Internship open call for applications Calling budding film makers! Science Oxford are looking to hire an intern with experience of film production to work with our communications team over the summer to produce a film… Read More
Young Photographers Wow With Wildlife Shots at Headington Festival Oxford has discovered a new generation of top wildlife photographers thanks to a competition organised by Science Oxford, in partnership with Headington Action. The Wildlife in your Neighbourhood photography competition challenged… Read More
Science Oxford’s Queen of the Jungle Lucy Guile competes for FameLab International crown Bristol based junior doctor Lucy Guile became Science Oxford’s ‘Queen of the Jungle’ in the search for Britain’s next science presenter when she won over hearts and minds at the Oxford… Read More
Super-weekend kicks off June events programme They say that good things come in threes and we certainly support that theory, as we have a bumper weekend of activities coming up at the start of June that… Read More
SCIENCE OXFORD celebrates unsung Super HERoines of science Have you been inspired by an unsung Super HERoine who has invented, innovated, created or achieved something special in science, technology, engineering and technology (STEM)? Can you tell us ‘HERstory’… Read More
A world of Adventure with Wildlife Cameraman Doug Allan It can only can say good things about your character if one of your friends and work colleagues is Sir David Attenborough. Or that you’re willing to wait out a… Read More
Science Oxford launch Hub for The Presenter Network We’re excited to announce that Science Oxford is now running the Oxford hub of The Presenter Network (TPN) – a local, national and international network set up for presenters to… Read More
Schools celebrate International Women In Engineering Day 2018 International Women in Engineering Day, on 23rd June, is a great opportunity to celebrate the achievements of female engineers. Shockingly, only 11% of engineers in the UK are female, which shows… Read More
Students ‘meet the scientists’ at Dunn School As part of our STEM Experience Week in March, students from three Oxfordshire secondary schools visited research-based organisations and STEM businesses across the region to explore what a STEM-based career… Read More
Wildlife in your neighbourhood – Children’s Photo Competition for Headington Festival 2018 We’re thrilled to be teaming up with Headington Action to launch an exciting new children’s wildlife photography competition, which aims to capture and explore the wonderful wildlife living on our… Read More
It’s a win at FameLab UK final! Lucy Guile, a junior doctor based in Bristol, has won the final of FameLab UK 2018. At a thrilling final in London yesterday Lucy, who came through the Oxford heats… Read More
Successful Science Partnership shortlisted for TES Schools Awards 2018 We are delighted that the Abingdon Science Partnership, which we have worked closely with over the past four years, has been shortlisted for the prestigious TES Schools Awards 2018 in the… Read More
Stage-tech takes Creation’s Dracula to a Brave New World Recent smash hit – Creation’s ‘Dracula’ – is a new adaption of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic horror, which was staged deep in the bowels of Oxford’s Blackwell’s Bookshop from 3rd… Read More
Ring the changes – Join in with a community Robin-watch project! Oxford bird-lovers are invited to get involved with a new community project to spot Stansfeld Park’s resident robins, inspired by a British Trust for Ornithology ‘ringing’ scheme which aims to… Read More
Cheeseology – Reinventing Cheese Who doesn’t love a slice of toast dripping in melted cheddar as the ultimate comfort food, or a beautiful platter of regional cheeses with precisely-selected homemade chutneys at the end… Read More
Research to recycling – Science Oxford takes students to the heart of STEM businesses for work experience week “We saw heart cells beating in a culture flask and learnt how our skin cells can be turned into stem cells in order to diagnose disease.” Our STEM Experience Week in… Read More
Our Top 3 Spring Science Resources for primary schools Spring has sprung and as the weather gets warmer, it’s becoming easier for teachers to take the curriculum outside. We’ve rounded up our favourite outdoor learning resources for primary schools, including… Read More
The Only Way is Essex and Herefordshire for Thinking, Doing, Talking Science Education departments in two counties have received funding to trial our Science Oxford Thinking, Doing, Talking Science programme in their schools. Thinking, Doing, Talking Science (TDTS) is an educational research… Read More
New Maker Club for 12-17 year olds launches this Easter Calling Young Makers, Crafters, Inventors and Designers! If you’re aged 12-17 and interested in opportunities to experiment with science and art, get creative and learn new skills, then why not… Read More
Official Breaking Ground Ceremony in the Sun at Stansfeld Park Oxford After all the recent snow, we were lucky to have a bright sunny day for our official Breaking Ground Ceremony at Stansfeld Park at Headington Quarry, Oxford last Wednesday. Members… Read More
IF you can dream – Science & Ideas Festival launches schools poetry competition Science Oxford is proud to be supporting this year’s IF Oxford festival – formerly known as the Oxfordshire Science Festival – and the IF Oxfordshire schools poetry competition especially. The… Read More
Science Takes The Stage As FameLab Oxford Competition 2018 Heats Up A toga-clad mathematician, a corn-on-the-cob wielding virologist, and the youngest ever countdown competitor walk in to a bar.. Standard Oxford! Find out what happened next.. The FameLab regional final on March 7th saw seven brave… Read More
Primary schools activities for British Science Week 2018 British Science Week 2018 runs from 9th – 18th March and schools, families and organisations all over the UK will be ‘exploring and discovering’ with a wide range of special… Read More
Oxford primary school design to fly in to space New Marston Primary School is celebrating after winning a competition to have a special mini-sculpture taken in to space. With support from Science Oxford, several schools from across Oxfordshire entered… Read More
Star Moments with Oxford’s Star Light, Star Bright Imagine if the stars shone just for you! Over the past six weeks, you may have noticed some strange, Black Mirror-esque installations pop-up around the streets of Oxford – maybe… Read More
Inspiring women in science 2018 looks to be an inspiring year for women and this Sunday, 11th February is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The number of women working in science and tech is… Read More
Science Oxford’s Month of Computing for schools February is our Month of Computing and we’re all about supporting primary school teachers in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire to learn innovative and fun new ways to confidently teach computing! From… Read More
Scientists on point for Oxford’s FameLab heats Following talks as diverse as ‘How to build a mind,’ ‘Jungle remedies’ and ‘Scrambled flu and contagious eggs’, eight brave and brilliant performers have made it through to the final… Read More
Unravel the science behind M.E at ‘Unrest’ screening and talk at the UPP Our sci-screen partnership with the Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP) Oxford is all about exploring the science behind some of cinema’s most popular science-fiction movies. We watched Close Encounters of the Third… Read More
Event raises Wong-a for UNICEF A Science Oxford event aimed at inspiring people to eat better has also helped raise over £700 for UNICEF – the world’s leading organisation working for children in danger. In… Read More
‘Science on Your Doorstep’ turns a spotlight on Headington for new series of Oxford talks We are excited to be running a new series of events for 2018 that will showcase the scientists who live and work in the Headington area. Science on Your Doorstep will feature… Read More
Science Oxford’s Brand New CPD for Primary School Teachers Calling Oxon and Bucks Primary School Teachers! For those of you who’ve been interacting with us for a while, you might remember our Thinking, Doing, Talking Science (TDTS) research project,… Read More
12 Days of Science Oxford Christmas It’s Christmas! Just in case you run out of things to do over the festive break, we asked some of our team to come up with some simple science inspired ideas to… Read More
Beetle-juice to Betelgeuse – High-street-tech lights up Christmas The Oxford Trust, parent charity to Science Oxford, part-funded the ‘Smart Oxford Playable City’ competition earlier this year. Winning commission ‘Star Light, Star Bright’ is an urban installation by Bristol’s… Read More
Beer on Tap workshop makes perfect gift for Christmas If you’re stuck for a festive gift for the person who has everything – what about treating them to an evening at a microbrewery – but with a twist? Today… Read More