International Day of Women & Girls in Science 2023
9 February 2023
Women and girls play a critical role in science and technology communities around the world and their participation should be strengthened. To celebrate International Day of Women & Girls in Science on Saturday 11th February 2023, we are showcasing some of the amazing female students in our department, the vision for their women's health research and who or what inspires them.
Oxford gets £122m funding for healthcare research
20 October 2022
Health and care research in Oxford is to receive £122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients.
PhD Student of the Year 2022 Winner!
28 June 2022
The winners of the Postgrad Awards 2022 have been announced and we are delighted to share that our DPhil student Josephine Agyeman-Duah has won PhD Student of the Year. The award recognises the individual PhD student who has become an excellent and inquisitive researcher, who is an integral part of their research group, someone who encourages and supports more junior members of the team, and works alongside the research community more widely.
Josephine Agyeman-Duah wins at the Oxford Student Union Awards 2022
22 June 2022
Huge congratulations to Josephine Agyeman-Duah, DPhil student in the Kennedy group who won a Race Equality award at the Oxford Student Union Awards 2022.
New Associate Professor Titles
9 June 2022
We're celebrating two new Associate Professors in our department!
AIMDay in Women's Health 2022 - Read the Blogs
10 May 2022
On 22nd March 2022, The University of Oxford hosted an AIMday in Women's Health at St Anne's College in Oxford. The key objective was to match the needs of organisations for new knowledge with academic expertise, with the ultimate goal of improving healthcare diagnoses & treatments for women and reproductive health.
New Professor title awarded
20 December 2021
Our department is celebrating a new WRH Professor! Congratulations to Prof Dagan Wells, who is awarded the full Professor title from the University of Oxford, in their annual Recognition of Distinction Exercise.
AIMday in Women's Health - 22nd March 2022
22 October 2021
The University of Oxford will be hosting an AIMday in Women’s Health on Tuesday 22nd March 2022 at St Anne's College in Oxford. This event will bring together academic excellence from across the University of Oxford together with industry to help answer the most pressing challenges in this area, as identified by industry.
Menopause Workplace Pledge
18 October 2021
We are pleased to share that the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health has signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge. This is a new campaign by Wellbeing of Women that calls on organisations to commit to recognising that the menopause is a workplace issue, and that women need support, as well as talking respectfully and openly about the menopause, and actively supporting and informing colleagues.
Engaging schools with STEM - Bronze Employer Award
26 September 2017
Celine Jones and Kevin Coward - key senior teaching staff for the Dept's MSc in Clinical Embryology, have been awarded a Bronze Employer Award for their excellent engagement with local school children interested in careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The award was given by Science-Oxford and The Careers and Enterprise Company.
Honour for George Institute UK Executive Director
3 July 2017
General Global Health Maternal & Fetal Health
Executive Director of The George Institute, UK, Professor Terry Dwyer has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin for his extensive work in child health.
Executive Committee of the British Andrology Society
20 June 2017
Congratulations to Celine Jones (Laboratory Manager for NDOG’s MSc in Clinical Embryology) who has been elected to the Executive Committee of the British Andrology Society.
Dr Bec Dragovic wins Most Acclaimed Lecturer Award
15 May 2017
Congratulations to Dr Bec Dragovic, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for the department's MSc in Clinical Embryology - she has won the Most Acclaimed Lecturer (Medical Sciences category) at the 2017 Oxford University Students Union Teaching Awards.
Multi-centre collaboration awarded NIH grant funding for endometriosis study
19 January 2017
General Reproductive Medicine & Genetics Research
Funding for a five-year, $3 million multi-centre collaborative study into the causes of endometriosis has been awarded by the US National Institutes of Health to Oxford Professors Krina Zondervan and Christian Becker, Directors of the Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre.
HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year Nominee
18 February 2016
Dr Kevin Coward, Director of the MSc in Clinical Embryology at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford has been shortlisted for The Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award.
MitOX Line Up: 2nd December
23 November 2015
The Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (NDOG) invites you to MitOX - one of the best annual Mitochondrial meetings in the UK on Wednesday 2nd December.
'Miscarriage': a Social, Medical and Conceptual Problem
1 October 2015
The Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology are hosting a new seminar series. Join us as we explore the loaded medical term ‘miscarriage’ from diverse cultural, historical and medical perspectives, and consider whether an alternative conceptualisation is possible.
Athena SWAN Silver Award
1 October 2015
Athena SWAN Silver has been awarded to the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (NDOG) in recognition of their commitment to advancing women's careers in science and medicine in academia.
Frost Scholarships for MSc in Clinical Embryology
14 September 2015
The Frost Scholarship Programme will fund current students of the State University System of Florida (SUSF) and current students of Israeli universities to study the MSc in Clinical Embryology at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, in October 2016.
MitOX: 2nd December 2015
7 September 2015
The Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology invites you to MitOX - an annual meeting in Oxford on Wednesday 2nd December covering a range of mitochondrial associated research areas.