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The latest news from the University. For media enquiries, contact the Press Office on 01632 960541. Older stories are listed by year.
2026
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The Library’s early educational software is now in the catalogue
Every one of the 1,412 programs written by the University’s Computer-Assisted Learning Unit between 1979 and 1996 now has a catalogue record, linked to the copy kept by the Lazarus archive since 1998.
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Six fellows appointed to the Frothly–Oxenfurt Fellowship in Machine Ethics
The first fellows, chosen from 213 applicants in 31 countries, take up their posts at the start of 2027.
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Rector’s address: a new Library store, the Riverside site and a balanced budget by 2028
Professor Alison Treadwell opened the academic year with an address to Congregation in the Old Schools.
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Oxenfurt and Frothly launch a fellowship in machine ethics
From the start of 2027, six early-career researchers will spend two years between Oxenfurt and San Francisco working on the moral status of AI systems.
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Pontar Crossing: a student fare for the ferry from September
Students living in Novigrad will pay £41 a term for unlimited crossings, under an agreement between the University and Novigrad Harbour Authority.
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Gender pay gap report for 2025 published
The University’s mean gender pay gap fell to 12.6% at the snapshot date of 31 March 2025, from 13.9% a year earlier.
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The Old Library reading room reopens after fourteen months
The roof has been re-leaded, the lantern repaired and 31,000 volumes returned to the gallery shelves.
2025
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Most optical implants detect the faces of passers-by in every frame, report finds
Bystanders, published today with the Kiroshi Foundation’s Chiba Centre for Visual Science, asks what nine implant models record, process and keep about the people their wearers look at.
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Oxenfurt University Press marks 150 years on Printer’s Row
The Press, which printed its first book in June 1875, has published 6,118 titles. It still keeps every one of them in print or in its archive.
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Who is filming the classroom? Teachers and philosophers on head-worn cameras in schools
A workshop at the Centre for the Ethics of Perception brought together 26 teachers, head teachers and researchers to talk about cameras worn by pupils, staff and visitors.
2024
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Treasury opens its doors for a weekend, for the first time since 2013
2,380 visitors queued along Bellhouse Lane to see the Academy’s plate, its charter chest and the 1611 benefaction book.
2023
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Oxenfurt Philosophical Review becomes free to read
From volume 84, every article in the Review will be free to read online on publication, with no charge to authors.
2022
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Faculty of Philosophy awarded a grant to study the ethics of seeing through a device
A three-year project led by Professor Judith Demery will ask who has a say in what head-worn cameras and optical implants record about other people.
2021
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Professor Alison Treadwell installed as Rector
The University’s thirty-seventh Rector was installed at a Congregation in the Old Schools, with the Academy bell rung for the first time since 2019.
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