Research
Oxenfurt is a research university with a humanities core. Our research income in 2025–26 was £68.4 million, a third of it for the arts, humanities and law.
In the most recent national assessment of university research, 89% of the work we submitted was judged world-leading or internationally excellent, and philosophy, history and English were each among the strongest in the country. We would add that the University has a habit of keeping things, and that much of our best research begins in the Library’s Special Collections or the Academy’s own records.
Faculties
- Faculty of Philosophy, in the Chapter House since 1583
- Faculty of Arts and Humanities: English, History, Classics, Music, Modern Languages and Archaeology
- Faculty of Law, on Chapter Street
- Faculty of Social Sciences: Economics, Politics, Psychology, Geography and Social Anthropology
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, on the Riverside site
Centres and programmes
The Centre for the Ethics of Perception studies what it means to see, record and be seen through devices. Its Bystanders project, with the Kiroshi Foundation’s Chiba Centre for Visual Science, reported in December 2025.
The Frothly–Oxenfurt Fellowship in Machine Ethics will bring six early-career researchers to the Faculty of Philosophy and Frothly in San Francisco for two years, from January 2027.
Research integrity
All research involving people, their data or their images is reviewed by one of the University’s three research ethics committees before it begins. Research integrity and ethics
The Library and the Press
The University Library holds 1.16 million printed volumes and has deposited its digital collections with the Lazarus archive since 1998. Oxenfurt University Press has published scholarly books since 1875, and the Oxenfurt Philosophical Review since 1940.
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