Author: Santanu Bhattacharya

I recently attended a talk by Ms. Layla Moran, the former Liberal Democrat candidate for Oxford West, at the Quaker Religious Society of Friends. She was not there to talk about politics. Rather, she was there to share stories from the memoirs of her great-grandfather, drawing from his book “The Storyteller of Jerusalem : The […]

Inspired by his time as a Teach First teacher and seeing that the social work sector needed fresh new graduate talent just as teaching had done, Josh MacAlister decided to apply a similar model to social work. Launching in 2014, around 100 graduates started an intensive five-week induction programme in social work, followed by a year of on […]

Features sits down with Abbas Kazmi, student entrepreneur, to chat about the Guild’s latest project, a start up incubator, the Oxford Accelerator 1) How did Oxford Accelerator come to be? The Guild is always striving to innovate and stay ahead of the game. We like to try out new and exciting ideas and this is […]

As we approached the McDonald’s for a jetlagged breakfast at dinner, an armed guard held the door open for us. You’d expect to enter and find president Obama enjoying a Big Mac following such a welcome. In Honduras’s second biggest city however, this sort of security was far from abnormal. In fact you rarely walk […]

This might disappoint a few but this is not an article about how Andrew Lincoln tackles to save our human species from a zombie invasion. In biology, the living dead is a concept referring to species whose only chance of survival is through rapid human intervention. These species cannot recover if habitat loss alone is stopped. Also referred […]

An interdisciplinary team of sixteen science and engineering Oxford undergraduates travelled to the Giant Jamboree to present their project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where they secured a gold medal and were nominated for 5 special awards. iGEM is an international Genetically Engineered Machine competition that aims to produce novel Synthetic Biology-based solutions […]

The media’s huge appetite for publishing reports about newly discovered risk factors for cancer means associations between human diet and carcinogenesis are continuously reaching the headlines. A 2013 ‘systematic cookbook review’ investigated the prolific nature of nutritional epidemiology within the media, with a remarkable 80 per cent of the common ingredients selected at random from […]

It was the end of a very hot Indian summer, and my study at Oxford had just gotten confirmed. It was time for a holiday! I wanted to do something different and adventurous, explore a region I had not been to yet, and spend superior quality time with some of my closest friends. A Himalayan trek it had […]