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Presenter Network Oxfordshire is back for 2022!

Calling Oxfordshire presenters! If you love inspiring audiences in museums, discovery and visitor centres, science communication or the media, the Presenter Network is for you! Our Education Programme Officer, Ian Snell, dons his ‘Presenting-hat’ as leader of the Oxfordshire Hub and tells all…

Inspiring change at the Science Oxford Centre

Science Oxford is delighted to have taken part in ‘Project Inspire’ with the Association of Science and Discovery Centres‘ (ASDC) this spring and summer and inspired change in our Centre!…

Summer woodland delights at the Science Oxford Centre

Enjoying the outdoors this summer? We were delighted to finally welcome back visitors to our Centre this season, where we are lucky enough to have 15 acres of woodlands, grassland…

The science of gardening – top tips for National Gardening Week

As spring arrives, we’re championing the great outdoors for National Gardening Week – the UK’s biggest annual celebration of gardening, organised by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) 26th April –…

Branching out: celebrating National Tree Week at the Science Oxford Centre

Planting trees seems more important than ever under the current circumstances – a chance to create positive change. This year we have been funded by the Tree Council Branching Out…

Experiment with Outdoor Science

Want to take part in our Big Science Event at home this summer? Are you looking for outdoor projects that you can do with all the family? It’s the perfect…

Cats, Easter eggs and Rube Goldberg machines – deliver the Science Oxford Challenge

We’re all facing new challenges at the moment, and looking for creative ways to bring fun and learning into the home during ‘lockdown’. So why not get your household and…

Update on Science Oxford and COVID-19

Following Government recommendations to minimise the risk of person-to-person transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have temporarily closed our Science Oxford programme. This means our Science Oxford Centre is shut and…

Science Oxford and COVID-19 Information

Due to the situation with regard to the global COVID-19 outbreak, we would like to reassure you that we are taking action to mitigate risks for those visiting the Science…

Oxford champion will go to FameLab UK final

We celebrated the launch of British Science Week with the Oxford FameLab Regional Final 2020 at our new Science Oxford Centre Theatre at Stansfeld Park. Our eight brave and brilliant…

Explore our world with British Science Week

British Science Week is officially here. The Science Oxford team is excited to bring hands-on science-inspired fun to over 5000 school children, families and adults across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire over…

FameLab back with a Bang – Oxford’s battle of the brains begins

This February, we put science centre-stage and hosted FameLab UK’s first round of Oxford heats, where sci-curious stars of the future battle it out for a place in the nation’s…

Search for new science stars comes to Oxford

It’s time to nourish those neurones as the UK’s longest running competition for the science stars of the future comes to Oxford this winter. Science Oxford is delighted to announce…

The Future of Artificial Intelligence? with IF Oxford

Recently put on the map with the canonisation of Cardinal Newman, University Church again became the focus of attention last night with a discussion between Rt Revd Steven Croft, the…

Countdown to Oxford’s science and ideas festival

With only two weeks to go, we’re getting super-excited about the IF Oxford science and ideas festival, which we are delighted to support once again as associate partners. Amid a flurry of…

Badger project at Stansfeld Park wins University award

We’re delighted to share the news that WildCRU PhD student Tanesha Allen has been given a University of Oxford Vice Chancellor Public Engagement Award for her citizen science project, How…

Muir Gray celebrates 75 years and talks the Elixir of Life

“I’m going to make a donation to the new centre because it needs a clock!” said NHS health expert and anti-ageing champion Sir Muir Gray, as he began his talk on…

A uni-verse of talent at UK FameLab Final 2019

Our Events Officer Rowena Fletcher went along to the UK FameLab 2019 science communication competition at Cheltenham Festival to cheer on Sam Hatfield, an atmospheric physics PhD student at the…

Oxford Student Storms FameLab national finals 2019

After winning the Oxford heats of FameLab back in March, we were delighted to see Sam Hatfield, an atmospheric physics PhD student at the University of Oxford, be named Runner…

Make a difference for Oxford Green Week

It’s Oxford Green Week (OGW) and Science Oxford is lending its support with events and activities for all the family on the theme of One Planet Living. OGW is a…

Following the scent – badger project comes to Stansfeld Park

What a strange request – to be asked for a urine sample to be used as part of a study into the olfactory responses of badgers. And what a strange…

Science Oxford Centre – Special Family Launch Day and Live Show

Celebrate the late May half term with a preview of the beautiful new Science Oxford Centre, which will be fully open from September this year. We’re offering you the chance…

Science Poetry Competition for Oxfordshire’s young wordsmiths

Are you 16 or under and can you write a terrific science-inspired poem? If so, you’ve got until 30th April to enter the IF Oxford 2019 Poetry of Science Competition…

Science Oxford announced as partner in national programme to encourage more diversity in science

Science Oxford is delighted to announce that we have been selected as partners for a new national programme to increase diversity and inclusion in science. We are one of just…

New Science Oxford Centre one step closer

We’re one step closer to opening our brand new science centre this week, as the team at the Oxford Trust (the charity behind Science Oxford) received the keys to the…

Oxford champion will go to FameLab UK final

Sam Hatfield, an atmospheric physics PhD student at the University of Oxford, has won the Oxford final of FameLab UK 2019 – the countrywide talent competition for people working in…

Brexit to Beds in the NHS with Keith Willett

With only 31 days to go until the UK leaves Europe, we were very lucky to welcome Keith Willett, the newly-appointed Strategic Commander for the EU exit process for the…

Nothing neurotrash about our new theatre

We are thrilled to announce the very first public event to take place in the theatre at our new Science Oxford Centre, which opens later this year. Debunker of sexist…

The new science of psychedelics

Science Oxford recently teamed up with the Ultimate Picture Palace to screen Magic Medicine, a documentary film by filmmaker Monty Wates. The film follows a cohort of patients with chronic…

Evolutionary tales – Storytelling at the Presenter Network

A magician, a librarian and a dinosaur scientist walk into a room…. Well, after all, this is Science Oxford, where absolutely anything can happen! Especially in a Presenter Network storytelling…

FameLab-ulous week for science stars

Science Oxford has had an absolutely FameLab-ulous week, with 27 brave contestants performing a combined 2 hours and 15 minutes worth of sci-comm gold in front of judges and audience…

Earth to humans – Lewis Dartnell talks Origins: Oxford, Brexit and Alien Invasion

Here at Science Oxford we’ve moved heaven and earth to invite Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist, writer and Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster, to join us in Oxford to…

Tune In to Science Oxford for 2019

The arctic winds are circling and the central heating is maxed out so why not stay in, switch off Brexit, snuggle up on the sofa and be ‘The Best We…

From the Slime to the Riddikulus – Science of Magic evening enchants and entertains

For those quick enough to ‘Accio‘ a hot ticket, sixty Harry Potter enthusiasts jumped on their Nimbus 2000s, dockless bikes or the park and ride – and descended on Oxford…

Science stars in the making – Sign Up for FameLab 2019 now!

Nourish your neurones and enter FameLab UK 2019, where explaining your research to a lay audience happens against the clock. All the lab’s a stage, and nowhere more so than…

MY IF FESTIVAL – What will yours be? Team Science Oxford get ready to go…

There’s only a week to go until IF Oxford Science and Ideas Festival serves up over one hundred thought-provoking bespoke happenings with a science riff all over the city, from…

What’s your elephant? Top tips a presenter never forgets

Oxford Presenter Network Hub leader, chemistry buff, science communicator and Science Oxford Events Officer Rowena Fletcher Wood shares a few tips and highlights from the recent Presenter Network Conference, a local,…

What If? Our Top Picks for IF Oxford Science and Ideas festival

With over 100 events for all the family, next month’s Oxford Science & Ideas Festival – IF for short – is one to get in the diary ASAP. Running from…

Fall for beautiful woodland at next Stansfeld Park conservation day

Gather your gloves and wellies this autumn and join our Oxford Conservation Volunteers (OCV) led Conservation Day on Sunday 23rd September. Building work on our new Science Oxford Centre and…

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…