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Tracking the breakdown of the world's largest known chimpanzee community
A collaborative study published this week in Science, reports the first clearly documented permanent split of a wild chimpanzee community and the intergroup aggression that followed.
Oxford × QRT Labs: investing in the next generation of scientific leaders through multi-university partnership
Oxford statistician elected Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences
Professor Christl Donnelly, Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Statistics, has been elected a Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences as part of its inaugural cohort.
Pier Palamara receives European Research Council Consolidator Grant
Professor Pier Palamara has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant as part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme
Professor Alison Etheridge awarded an honorary doctorate by Heriot-Watt University
Professor Dame Alison Etheridge, Professor of Probability in the Department of Statistics, has been recognised with a Doctor of Science (DSc) from Heriot-Watt University.
Applications open for the Statistics Summer Research Internships
Applications for the Department of Statistics' Summer Research Internships Programme 2026 open today.
Discover postgraduate study at our graduate open day
The Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford is now welcoming applications for our DPhil (PhD) in Statistics and StatML CDT.
Department of Statistics welcomes Optiver Foundation Scholar
The Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome Yaxuan Ju from China as part of the third cohort of Optiver Foundation Scholars who have just begun their studies at Oxford.
New software opens T-cell receptor structure analysis to more researchers
A new open-source toolkit from Oxford’s Department of Statistics makes it easier for researchers to analyse the 3D structures of T-cell receptors, key molecules in the immune system and cancer therapy.