Ambition This is a statement that captures the ‘what’: what we are and what we do. Itcontains ambitions that can at some level be monitored and measured, so we can be clear if progress is being made. Although it appears as one sentence, it contains 5 separate ambitions for planning purposes: to be a diverse community to be an inclusive …
Professor Imogen Goold, Professor of Medical Law, Faculty of Law at University of Oxford and Fellow of St Anne’s College, was appointed Visiting Gresham Professor of Medical Law in 2021. Her second lecture of a three part series is now available to watch online: Your Body Parts and the Law ‘Do we own our own body …
Professor Saiful Islam Professorial Fellow and Statutory Chair in Materials Science Email: saiful.islam@materials.ox.ac.uk Social media: Twitter @SaifulChemistry Academic background Saiful grew up in Crouch End, north London and obtained his Chemistry degree and PhD (1988) from University College London (with Richard Catlow FRS), followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Eastman Kodak Labs in New …
Dillon as a monk [Private Collection of Liz Hodgkinson] Childhood Born Laura Maud in 1915, Dillon grew up in Folkestone with his aunts. His mother died of sepsis just days after his birth and his father of alcoholism ten years later. Despite this and the state of semi poverty enforced by the frugality of their …
A world-first pilot of predictive genetic testing aiming to identify those at high risk of cardiovascular disease is under way in GP surgeries in the north of England. The NHS pilot, called Heart, is offering genetic tests to 1,000 healthy volunteers aged between 45 and 64 years old to give more accurate predictions for their …