Ex Aula Prize 2026 Winner: Protecting the unseen: conserving sharks and rays in remote, data-deficient coastal areas
By: Isabel Black (DPhil DTP in Environmental Research, 2023) In May each year, fishers in Aceh Jaya,…
Research Spotlight: Can you smell a sick tree?
By: Kieran Storer (DPhil in Biology, 2024) Ex Aula Prize 2026 Runner Up Picture walking through a fo…
Research Spotlight: After Adversity: How Identity Shapes the Way We Heal
By: Manjistha Datta (DPhil in Psychiatry, 2024) Ex Aula Prize 2026 Runner Up Most of us typically re…
Research Spotlight: Measuring the Invisible: Mental Health & Social Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
By: Nayantara Arora (DPhil in Clinical Medicine, 2024) Ex Aula Prize 2026 Runner Up Mental health co…
Research Snapshot: Declining birth rates are drawing attention to reproductive health and fertility
By: Vincent Straub (DPhil in Population Health, 2023) It has recently been suggested that an epidemi…
Research Snapshot: Mapping electrons in the building blocks of life
By: Shiyang (Ann) Lu (DPhil in Chemistry, 2024) This image shows the crystal structures of several p…
Research Spotlight: Equity, culture, and livelihood as the social dimension of human-ocean relationships
By: Leah Tavasi (DPhil in Environmental Research (NERC DTP), 2023) In marine management frameworks, …
Research Spotlight: Preventing the preventable: Why adolescent liver cancer is a policy failure, not a clinical inevitability
By: Inae Kim (MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine, 2025) Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC…
Research Spotlight: Rusty pipes in the brain: How a disease which causes strokes behaves like rust in water pipes
By: Samantha Foster (DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences, 2024) Let’s start by talking about the w…
Editor’s Note: Hilary 2026
By: Greco Malijan One of the small miracles of formal hall is that you almost never sit next to anyo…
Beneath the Surface: Exploring the Lower Mantle with Diamond Anvils and Quantum Theory
By: Brittany Kulka Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, between 660 and 2,900 kilometres down, li…
The Whatness of Obstetric Violence: How reframing violent practices in UK maternity wards helps us to tackle them
By: Frances Hand Childbirth is often heralded as a joyful occasion. Yet, the 2022 Health Strategy fo…
Controlling Radio Waves – From the Staff of Ra to Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
By: Bradley Mee Picture the map room scene from Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark – the titular…
How might generative AI impact the labour market?
By: Jacob Greenspon Generative artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT and DALL-E have wowed a…
Rewriting the Narrative: A Journey Through Sustainable Technology and Love’s Resilience
By: Jasper Singh On the ill-fated maiden voyage of April 1912, Mr. J Dawson, and Ms. R Bukater fell …
Bridging the Divide: Understanding the Long-Term Growth and Productivity Performance of China, 1840–2010
By: Ms Menggelisha In the fading days of the Qing Dynasty, a poignant ballad portrayed the struggles…
WANTED: Killer Prostate Cancer Cells
By: Sophia Abusamra A reward is being offered to the first person to catch killer prostate cancer ce…
Economic Reform in Countries of the Global South: The Peruvian Experience
In the year 1990, Peru seemed a country in the brink of collapse. The Andean nation had gone through…
Therapeutic? Exploring the Foster Home as a Therapeutic Landscape
The term therapeutic has gained a lot of momentum within the state’s child protection and family wel…
Social Protection for the Unprotected: the Guatemalan Case
In Guatemala, social protection coverage is marred by significant challenges, particularly in the re…