Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Oxford / Regno Unito

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum or OUMNH, is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the university's chemistry, zoology and mathematics departments. The museum provides the only public access into the adjoining Pitt Rivers Museum.

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (Oxford)

Oxford / Regno Unito

The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is a major chemistry laboratory at the University of Oxford, England. It is located in the main Science Area of the university on South Parks Road. Previously it was known as the Physical Chemistry Laboratory.

St Cross College

Oxford / Regno Unito

Il St Cross College è uno dei collegi costituenti l'Università di Oxford. Fondato nel 1965, è riservato ai soli graduate students e fu creato per permettere di aumentare i posti disponibili all'università per gli studenti post-laurea. Le principali strutture del collegio sono datate 1911-1926 anche se sono in stile gotico; un secondo quadrangle più moderno è stato completato nel 1993.

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

Oxford / Regno Unito

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education is a department within the University of Oxford that provides continuing education mainly for part-time and mature students. It is located at Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford, England. Some 15,000 students comprise the department, of which roughly 5,000 study for an Oxford University award or credit-bearing course. Other types of course offered by the department include online courses, short courses, weekly classes, day and weekend courses and summer schools.

Green Templeton College

Oxford / Regno Unito

Il Green Templeton College è uno dei collegi costituenti l'Università di Oxford. Fondato nel 2008 dall'unione fra il Green College e il Templeton College, è il più nuovo fra quelli di Oxford. Si trova dove era sito il Green College ed occupa le stesse costruzioni, tra cui il settecentesco Radcliffe Observatory che fu per un lungo periodo l'osservatorio astronomico dell'università. Come i suoi due predecessori, anche il Green Templeton ospita solo graduate students ammettendo solo studenti che abbiano già conseguito la prima laurea. Il Green College era stato aperto nel 1979 grazie alla generosità di Cecil Green, uno dei co-fondatori della Texas Instruments. Il Templeton era di soli dieci anni più vecchio, ed era basato al di fuori del centro della città di Oxford. L'unione fra le due istituzioni venne annunciata nel luglio 2007 e approvata dal consiglio direttivo dell'università prima dell'inizio dell'anno accademico 2008-2009.

Linacre College

Oxford / Regno Unito

Il Linacre College è uno dei collegi costituenti l'Università di Oxford. Fondato nel 1962, ammette solo graduate students e prende il nome da Thomas Linacre, un medico ed umanista che aveva insegnato presso l'università a cavallo fra il XV ed il XVI secolo. L'ampio spettro di materie offerte presso il collegio riflette l'ideale di multidisciplinarità che lo stesso Linacre desiderava portare avanti. Il Linacre fu anche il primo collegio di Oxford ad ammettere sia uomini che donne.

St Antony's College

Oxford / Regno Unito

Il St Antony's College è uno dei collegi costituenti l'Università di Oxford. Fondato nel 1950, è uno dei sette collegi di Oxford aperti solo ai graduate students, cioè coloro che abbiano già conseguito la prima laurea. È specializzato in materie quali la politica, l'economia e le relazioni internazionali. Ha ammesso le donne a partire dal 1962 ed è stato riconosciuto ufficialmente dall'università nel 1963. Possiede una grande biblioteca che ospita più di 60000 volumi.

Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Oxford / Regno Unito

The Department of Social Policy and Intervention is a leading interdisciplinary centre for research and teaching in social policy and the systematic evaluation of social intervention based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. It dates back to ‘Barnett House’, a social reform initiative founded in 1914 and became a department of University of Oxford in 1961. The Department hosts two main research units: the Oxford Institute of Social Policy and the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Intervention . Since October 2017 Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Head of Department.

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

Oxford / Regno Unito

The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards. It is housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St. Aldate's. The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment. The current curator is Andy Lamb, a former NCO who served in the Royal Artillery and was a trumpeter in their Junior Leaders band during his training as a Boy Soldier. There are frequent gallery events and special exhibitions. More than a thousand instruments by important English, French and German makers, are on display, showing the musical and mechanical development of wind and percussion instruments from the Renaissance to the current day.The collection is named after Philip Bate who gave his collection of musical instruments to the University of Oxford in 1968, on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it. The collection also houses an archive of his papers. The Bate Collection is additionally the home of the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns and other Brass and Woodwind Instruments; the Anthony Baines Collection; the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders and other instruments; the Jean Henry Collection, the Taphouse Keyboard Loans; the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection; the Michael Thomas Keyboard Collection; a number of instruments from the Jeremy Montagu Collection; a complete workshop of the English bow-maker William C Retford, as well as a small collection of Bows formed in his memory, the Wally Horwood Collection of books and recordings, and other instruments acquired by purchase and gift. An album, 'Voices From The Past, Vol. 2: Instruments of The Bate Collection' was released in 2015.