What you might not know about Oxford’s interdisciplinary research activities...
Image Credit: Hannaford The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) is an amazing intellectual hub of interdisciplinary research. Founded only 5 years ago in May 2013 with the mission to...
View ArticleDid you miss something at Freshers’ Fair? We’ve got you covered!
Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama Last week, the Freshers’ Fair turned out to be a great success with each college’s freshers thronging in to over 400 booths. At the jam-packed Examination Hall, Oxford’s...
View ArticleA whistle-stop tour of Oxford’s best coffeehouses and cafés
Most students would vouch for the fact that caffeine is an integral part of student life here in Oxford. Whether you’re nursing your post-Park End hangover, cracking out a last-minute essay, or simply...
View ArticleShiver Me Timbers: Escape Hunt Oxford Reviewed
Image Credit: Rachel Rowlands The OxStu team received a free experience of the room for a press day Last week, The OxStu editorial team took on it’s greatest challenge of the term so far-no, not...
View ArticleRemembering DPhil student Christopher Peel: an obituary
Image Credit: Michael Dustin A memorial gathering for Oxford DPhil student Christopher Peel was held on 12 October 2018 at 4pm in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. Tributes have poured in after...
View ArticleOxford University Media Society hosts Spotify VP Macro Bertozzi
Image Credit: Ben Darwent On the first Friday evening of Michaelmas term, Trinity College welcomed Marco Bertozzi, a Vice-President of Spotify Europe, as a guest speaker for the Oxford University Media...
View ArticleAn Austrian in Oxford: it’s my home away from home
Image credit: Will Cross-Birmingham Isabella Deutsch is from Austria and is pursuing a MSc in Statistical Science at Oxford. “This all must be a bureaucratic error,” I thought to myself countless times...
View ArticleFinding your worth: a Canadian on impostor syndrome
Image credit: Facebook Danielle is from Canada and is undertaking a DPhil in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. “Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to the programme of...
View Article“Shark bait hoo ha-ha”: A New Yorker’s take on the Oxford lingo
Image credit: Pixabay Evalena is a visiting student from New York reading English. This is my first year at Oxford and the longest time I’ve spent in the UK. So, as a disclaimer, I have had admittedly...
View ArticleA second language, a second self: being an Israeli in Oxford
Image credit: Facebook Yotam Vaknin is from Israel pursuing his MSc in Physics. One evening during my second week at Oxford, my flatmate explained to me how to read the little pictures on the stove...
View ArticleExhibition Review: Hooked at the Science Gallery London
Image Credit: Wikipedia I had come across The Science Gallery’s motto, “Where art and science collide,” months before I officially made the move to England. As an art historian and curator, this short...
View ArticleThe McGovern Lecture: “Louis Pasteur and the Pleasures of Art”
Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman On Wednesday 25 October 2018, Dr. Bert Hansen, author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in...
View ArticleDigitisation of Knowledge? Joanna Vestey’s Conditions of Knowledge Exhibition
Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman What are the conditions that allow us to use and store knowledge? What supports (both physical and otherwise) do we use to access this knowledge? Moreover, how has this...
View ArticleBlack, British, and a graduate at Oxford
Image Credit: Michael Gribben Black History Month has just ended, and very few people can claim to know much about the contribution that black people have made to this country. Even fewer still, can...
View ArticleA manifesto for anti-racism
Image Credit: Flicker Guo-Sheng Liu was formerly co-chair of the SU LGBTQ+ Campaign, BME Representative of the LGBTQ+ Society, LGBTQ+ Representative at Lincoln College, committee member of the SU...
View ArticleOnyx Magazine showcases black students’ creativity
Image Credit: Aleksandra Cywinska Onyx Magazine celebrated the launch of its inaugural issue on 18 October 2018, with the mandate to be a magazine created by and for black students at the University...
View ArticleMy mental breakdown at Oxford: how university counselling can help
Image Credit: James Cashman Please note that this article contains explicit discussion of anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. My mental health had been poor for a year and had deteriorated...
View ArticleDe-stress with fluffy friends: Wellbeing Dog Walk
Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama Life in Oxford can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially towards the end of the term with impeding essays due and upcoming exams tying us to the desk. For anyone who...
View ArticleBullet journaling: the essential tool to achieving peace of mind
Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman It is never too late to start over and re-organise yourself nearing the end of term. Though I originally believed (and maybe took for granted) that bullet journaling had...
View ArticleWhat happens when you try to correct misinformation on the internet?
Image Credit: Twitter Last week, a news story caused shockwaves on Twitter, titled ‘Cambridge students reject Remembrance Day’. That’s just one article, but if you Google it, you’ll see about seven...
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