The University of Oxford’s Public and Community Engagement with Research (PCER) Fund offers termly funding rounds to support researchers and engagement professionals in developing or enhancing their research through high-quality public and community engagement activities. 

Applicants can request up to £6,000 for projects that build on existing engagement work, test innovative approaches, or support skill development in engagement practice.

Congratulations  to:

Monika Kudlinska, for her transformative ideas showing how free-by-cyclic groups are much more badly behaved than fundamental groups of 3–manifolds, while also providing a collection of tools for their study which will have a lasting impact on the field.

Philipp Jettkant, for his versatility, great intuition and technical skill, including the use of sophisticated numerical algorithms, to address novel mean field problems with theoretical developments which will be of much wider interest.

If you are aged 18 to 55 years old, and in good health, you may be eligible to take part in the BiVISTA study to find a vaccine against typhoid and paratyphoid A fever.

Participants will be vaccinated with the new vaccine or control, and then exposed to the bacteria that causes paratyphoid fever. All study participants will receive antibiotic treatment.

All participants will be reimbursed up to £4585 for their time, inconvenience, and travel.

Three College Vacancies:

Stipendiary Lecturership in Applied Mathematics at Wadham College

Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall

Stipendiary Lecturership in Mathematics at Christ Church College

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And we're also recruiting a Graduate Studies Officer to work with our fab grads and colleagues in Academic Administration.

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Saïd Business School is recruiting student ambassadors to deliver a suite of short summer courses for ambitious young learners. A range of roles are available across the summer, with accommodation in Oxford provided. Full details are available here.

Image: The Ambassadors - Hans Holbein the Younger