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Earlier this year, I stumbled into my first Woodroffe Ethics Society meeting in Worcester College. The Woodroffe Society was set up in 1947, to discuss moral and ethical issues, and since that time, it has always been led by the College Chaplain. On a Tuesday lunch time between 12.30-2pm, the morally curious amongst us meet […]
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Leonie Woodland is a third-year at Merton College who lead the Merton team in the University Challenge final of 2018. The team played against St John’s College, Cambridge, who were victorious in winning the overall competition with a score of 145-100. However, the Merton Team excelled throughout the whole competition, Leonie particularly catching attention due […]
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Ray Bradshaw introduces a new aspect to stand-up comedy with his show Deaf Comedy Fam. The two-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist tells his stories using both English and British Sign Language. The limited number of deaf students at Oxford presents a wider issue of inaccessibility for deaf people in society, including entertainment. Being […]
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I saw that you produce music for films and documentaries, could you tell me a bit more about that, please? When I was at Oxford, I played in a student band which broke out a bit, we made a record which was played on Radio One. Most people that do film and television music seem […]
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In April, the Profile section was contacted by technology giant HP with an invite to attend their roundtable event in partnership with the Fawcett Society to discuss the barriers which make the tech industry less accessible to women. As a historian, the idea of discussing technology seemed daunting, but the opportunity to see what a […]
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Tilly Rose provides a student perspective of Oxford University through her successful book, blog, and social media pages ‘That Oxford Girl’. She aims to provide a free resource which will encourage young people from a range of backgrounds to apply to the university, targeting problems with access that the university faces. She shares her own […]
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Julie Brown is the Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Burberry, a successful high-end fashion company headquartered in London. Julie’s powerful position within the financial sector has led to her role as Patron of the Oxford Women in Business Society, encouraging women to follow her lead and permeate a career route dominated by men. Julie’s […]
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Amelia Standing represented the Dark Blues in this year’s Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race; the first-year engineer from St Anne’s College taking the position of stroke in the Women’s Blue Boat. Being the youngest of the crew, Amelia did not let only being in her first year at Oxford hinder her from representing the Dark […]
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Osaid is a medical graduate (MD) from the Gaza Strip, Palestine. He is currently a student at Green Templeton College, reading for a Masters by Research (MRes) at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS). When I was a child in primary school, I picked up a book which was used by […]
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Oliver Shaw is a 1st year undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford, studying History who self-identifies as having a hearing impairment. As part of the minority at Oxford who suffers from a hearing impairment, I found it interesting to discuss with Oliver how this affects his daily life at university. ‘Access’ is a word that can […]
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At the age of just twenty-three, London-born Scarlett Curtis has already done a lot of things. As the curator of Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies), a collection of essays written by various women, herself included, on what the F-word means to them, one might be tempted to label her a writer. As a […]
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Kerry McCarthy is the Labour MP for Bristol East and has had her seat since 2005. She has been vegan for over 25 years and campaigns tirelessly for ethical improvement and better ecological sustainability as well as national health issues. She kindly invited me to Portcullis House in Westminster where she shared her own reasons […]
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Danny Parrott and Richard Lloyd are two Oxford graduates who first met on their Chinese Studies course at the university. In 2011, they established a social enterprise called Gotoco with their Chinese partner, Lisha Tang, which allows university students from various parts of the world to travel to travel to China on summer teaching and […]
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Simon Upton and Marceline Bresson are 2nd year undergraduates at Teddy Hall, studying PPE and E&M respectively. They have recently set up their own University Society, Oxford European Forum, as a space to discuss Europe holistically rather than in the context of any political agenda – and they are now recruiting for members. I met […]
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Mario Stepanik is a 1st year undergraduate at Merton College, studying Economics and Management. In the elegance and indulgence of Viennese ball culture, Mario saw an opportunity to create an event with a goal far more lucrative than simply perfecting the famed Viennese Waltz. The classic setting of the Viennese Palais housed “La Soiree” on […]
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Image credit: regan76 (Flickr) The similarities between making bread and setting up a time to talk to Ben Lebus, founder of the online food publishing company MOB Kitchen, are few; neither, however, prove easy. It’s almost apt that we finally find the time to call while I am faced with a cupboard as empty as […]
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Image credit: Charlotte Austin As Profile Section Editors, Francesca and I sought to curate stories that were reflective of an increasingly diverse and international Oxford, both in the makeup of its student body and in the individuals that interact with it. For our final print piece, we decided to look inward at the OxStu team […]
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Image credit: Joe Inwood Joe Inwood is the current President of Oxford University Student Union (SU). He is a graduate of Mansfield College and stepped straight into the role after completing his degree. He grew up in Manchester and has a slight Northern twang, noticeable to fellow Northerners like myself. I find him in SU […]
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Image credit: The Oxford Foundry “Tell me about yourself”, asks Oxford Foundry director Ana Bakshi before our full conversation begins. I’m initially disarmed by the question; after all, the job description of a library-bound, technologically-averse History and English student doesn’t typically involve a Friday afternoon chat with a leading entrepreneur. Yet I’m soon shown that […]
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