We're looking for mentors and projects for online research projects with Africa. This scheme matches mentors with Master’s-level students in sub-Saharan Africa who are not currently enrolled in a PhD programme; through a combination of research experience and skills training, the scheme aims to empower students to make competitive graduate applications in Africa and elsewhere.
The MPLS Divisional Teaching Award Scheme celebrates success, and recognises innovation and/or leadership in teaching. Awards are available to all those who teach, including graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and learning support staff.
Nominations open on 1st March and may be made by academics, staff and students. You can nominate yourself or another person.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning invites staff to apply for the new Oxford Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Recognition Scheme, following its successful reaccreditation by Advance HE. The new scheme includes a strong emphasis on recognition and educational leadership, and is designed for staff who teach and support learning to achieve fellowships of the Higher Education Academy.
Glen Callater Room, H B Allen Centre, Keble College, Wednesday, 12 February 2025. All welcome. Coffee from 4.10 pm.
Public Lecture: Helge Holden (Chair of the Abel Prize Committee) - The Abel Prize
Workshops: Jose Carrillo - Aggregation-Diffusion Equations for Collective Behaviour in the Sciences;
François Caron - Frequentist, Assisted by Bayes, Prediction-Powered Inference;
Andras Juhasz - The Unknotting Number, Hard Unknot Diagrams, and Reinforcement Learning
Bodleian iSkills workshops are available to all University of Oxford students, researchers, academics and other staff. The details for all our workshops are available on our website along with the booking links.
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As usual we at the MPLS division are running a broad range of online and in-person free training courses this term. You can see the full list of courses for the term by visiting our website or downloading the Hilary Term Training Brochure.