Thursday 27 February 2025

• 09:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Hands on science engagement (in-person)
  Dive into the world of experiential learning with our immersive course, 'Hands-On Science.' This programme is designed to equip you with the practical skills and insights needed to effectively communicate your research through engaging desktop activities.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 11:00 - Machine learning interatomic potentials to dynamics-preserving coarse-graining strategies
  Dr Matthias Sachs (University of Birmingham)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 13:00 - Isotopic constraints on the formation and evolution of the Earth-Moon system
  Prof Francis Nimmo (UC Santa Cruz)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 17:00 - Follow-on HAPP Lecture: Origin of Life on Earth
  Dr Mario Livio (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
  HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics

Monday 3 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Parasitic worms: old questions, new tools
  Dr Gabriel Rinaldi (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - The Innovation that Follows Open Scholarship: Examples from eLife and the Public Knowledge Project
  John Willinsky (Stanford University), Godwyns Onwuchekwa (eLife Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
  Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - OxFOS25 - How To Start and Manage a Journal on the World’s Most Widely Used (Free) Journal Platform OJS
  John Willinsky (Stanford University)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Keynote - As Open as Possible, As Permanent as Necessary: Towards the Sustainability of Openness
  Professor Christopher Smith (AHRC), Richard Ovenden (Chair)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 09:30 - Scientific writing: core skills (in-person)
  This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 09:30 - Explore the Human Body with Virtual Reality (VR)
  Sharmila Rajendran (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - Privacy, Verification, Robustness: A Cryptographer's perspective on ML
  Professor Shafi Goldwasser (University of California Berkeley)
  The Strachey Lectures in Computer Science
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Economics and Experiments in Open Access Publishing
  Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Ronald Snijder (OAPEN)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Houghton Lecture 2025 - Oceans and ice shelves – observing the polar regions
  Professor Karen Heywood (University of East Anglia)
• 17:00 - Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 7: Harvesting energy from the Cold Universe: The missing piece in the renewables puzzle?
  Professor Ioannis Papakonstantinou (UCL)
  Oxford Energy Network Seminar Series 2024-25

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiation & Influencing Skills
  This workshop aims to help build confidence and skills for those who wish to influence and achieve mutually beneficial goals with their peers, managers and stakeholders.
  Anne Gallagher (Leapfrog Training & Development)
• 10:00 - Trusted Research and Assurance Surgery (10:00-14:00)
  To book a timeslot, please contact: [email protected] ***A kind reminder, the deadline for booking a timeslot is Tuesday, March 4th 2025
  Dr Katarina Wiecha (Research Assurance), Dr Nick Gehman (Trusted Research)
• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Open Monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Research Data Management - Show & Tell
  David Watson (University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries), Damon Strange (Humanities, University of Oxford), Alexandra Rooney (University of Oxford), Peter Micklem (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford), Dr Meriel Patrick (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Nature narratives: Eden, spoils or garden
  Professor Sandra Diaz (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 09:30 - Interviewing for podcasts (online)
  You are behind the mic, ready to record your first podcast ... but wait! What do you ask? This hands-on training session helps you navigate the world of podcast interviews.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: ORCIDs from scratch
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:00 - Fluid-dynamics modelling with the Fokker-Planck equation on lattices
  Dr Kasper Petersen (University of Oxford)
  Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
• 12:00 - Working alongside UK Biobank - Olink
  Mohammed Ismael (Olink)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - An introduction to Carpentries
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Referencing: Zotero
  Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Friday 7 March 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 10:00 - OxFOS25 - Building open research communities
  Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford, Chair), Anna Guttesen (WIN Open Science Ambassador), Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - Nonlocal advection-diffusion for modelling organism space use and movement
  Prof Jonathan Potts (University of Sheffiled)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Iron-rich peatlands in a warming world
  Dr Casey Bryce (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 12:00 - Oxford Energy Lunch, by The ZERO Institute & Oxford Energy Network
  Please register by 27 February
  N/A
• 13:00 - OxFOS 2025 - Redefining Scientific Publishing
  Brian Nosek (Centre for Open Science), Alex Freeman (Octopus.ac), Allyson Lister (University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 10 March 2025

• 13:30 - OxFOS25 : How Research Security Matters for Participatory Science
  Paul Ayris (University College, London), Dr. Tiberius Ignat (SKS Knowledge Services)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Emma Horton (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Research Practice - Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact
  Sarah Callaghan (Research Practice Group, University of Oxford), Dr Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Multi-host multi-parasite evolution and impact in action: challenges for the schistosomiasis elimination targets
  TBA

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Open Knowledge Infrastructure
  Wolfram Horstman (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure “FIZ Karlsruhe” (Germany)), Caroline Edwards
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 8: The astonishing rise of solar PV
  Dr Chris Jardine
  Oxford Energy Network Seminar Series 2024-25
• 17:00 - OxFOS25: Lightning Talks
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 10:00 - Stakeholder Mapping for Academic Policy Engagement
  In this workshop, we will help answer this and other questions by equipping researchers and DPhil students to identify and map the people and groups who influence or are impacted by their research, when it comes to policy engagement.
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
• 10:30 - OxFOS25: Past and Present of Open
  Sally Rumsey, Beth Montague-Hellen (Francis Crick Institute), Jenni Adams (University of Sheffield), Ric Campbell
  Open Scholarship
• 12:30 - OxFOS25 Reproducible Research Oxford lunch
  The RROx team
  Open Scholarship
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open
  TBA
  Open Scholarship
• 15:30 - OxFOS25 Would I lie to you?
  Patricia Logullo, Marc Brouard, Mae Chester-Jones, Gaurav Bhalerao, Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Posters and Wine
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 10:00 - OxFOS25 Peer Reviewing Peer Review
  Nick De Vito (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open Publication: the publishers’ view
  Alessio Bolognesi, Rebecca Lawrence
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.
  Professor Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 16:00 - Exploring the link between microsctructure, order and toughness in bioinspired composites
  Dr Florian Bouville (Imperial College London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 14 March 2025

• 11:00 - Hierarchical inference for more mechanistic functional response models using machine learning
  Prof Ben Lambert (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - From Sediment to Spodumene
  Prof Claire E.Bucholz (Caltech)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Efficiency, Resilience, and Artificial Intelligence
  Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University, USA)

Monday 17 March 2025

• 09:00 - The Characterisation of Radiation Damage in Materials
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) - core programme (in-person & online)
  This is a four session blended learning course - starting 17th March 2025 | 10:00-13:00 (in-person), then takes place 19th March 2025 | 10:00-14:00 (online), 21st March 2025 | 10:00-13:00 (online), final session on 26th March 2025 |10:00-16:00 (in-person). The Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) is designed for Associate Professors/Senior Independent Research Fellows (e.g. Royal Society and UKRI funded Fellows)/Lecturers in scientific disciplines at the University of Oxford.
  Various Speakers
  Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) - core programme (in-person & online)

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 14:00 - Completing Your DPhil
  Join Dr. Justin Hutchence for the Completing Your DPhil course. Master thesis structuring, effective writing, and viva preparation.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Wednesday 19 March 2025

• 10:00 - Time Management (online)
  This online workshop will delve into various aspects of time management, including work-life balance, planning, prioritising, and differentiating between importance and urgency.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - The Gender Advantage: Building Inclusive & Thriving Ventures
  Various Speakers

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 09:30 - Putting Science into Action: building a research system to address environmental crises (Agile Initiative’s Showcase and Forum on Advanced Policy Research)
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Putting stories to work
  This builds on the introductory workshop (Telling Stories that Matter) and introduces new elements of great storytelling including clarity, summary and message.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
• 10:00 - Viva practice and preparation
  Tailored for third and fourth-year doctoral students, gain insights into viva rules, proactive preparation, and the examiner's perspective. Sharpen your skills through practical exercises for a confident viva experience.
  Dr Molly Grace (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 March 2025

• 13:00 - iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 25 March 2025

• 10:30 - Oxford Advanced Materials Network Launch
  Various Speakers

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 7 April 2025

• 14:00 - Fostering Accountability for the Integrity of Research Studies (FAIRS)
  Various Speakers

Thursday 10 April 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 13:30 - Referencing: Choosing and using software for referencing
  Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Monday 12 May 2025

• 13:00 - iSkills: Searching for patents and standards
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 09:00 - Leadership in Action
  An in-person leadership programme for research staff. Leadership in Action is a 3-day participative leadership course that provides the opportunity to explore and develop your own leadership style. You will also be able to meet, work, and network with others. The course culminates in a celebratory dinner on the final evening.
  Various Speakers
  Leadership in Action