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SCIO announces prize winners of the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford spring term 2014 - on 26th August 2014 in News, Student Programmes

SCIO is delighted to announce the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford de Jager prize winners for spring 2014. The de Jager prizes are funded by a generous donation to SCIO from Geoffrey and Caroline de Jager who have a long standing commitment to encouraging excellence in education and scholarship.... Read More >

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Research published by SCIO’s senior tutor, Dr Elizabeth Baigent - on 20th August 2014 in News, Research and Projects

Dr Elizabeth Baigent Kate Marsden (1892) Two recent publications by Elizabeth Baigent, SCIO’s senior tutor, bring to a close her long-running research interest in a famous—or infamous—Victorian woman traveller.  Kate Marsden was a nurse who in the 1890s travelled to the... Read More >

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SCIO staff member appointed Lecturer in Twentieth-century British and European History - on 8th August 2014 in News, Research and Projects

SCIO is delighted to announce that Dr Sam Brewitt-Taylor, a longstanding member of the SCIO team, has been appointed Lecturer in Twentieth-century British and European History at Plymouth University. Sam served SCIO first as junior dean and latterly as lecturer in history, and so... Read More >

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Oxford interdisciplinary seminars in science and religion: application process now open - on 1st August 2014 in News, Research and Projects

We are pleased to announce that the application process for the science and religion seminars, Bridging Two Cultures, funded by the Templeton Religion Trust, is now open. Alister McGrath has joined this project as its academic director and we will... Read More >

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Oxford tutor and SCIO alumna is awarded Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh - on 27th June 2014 in Life after SCIO, News

Dr Lydia Schumacher, currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion and Tutor in Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall, will take up a Chancellor’s Fellowship in the School of Divinity at the University of... Read More >

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SCIO announces Balancing Perspectives report release - on 12th June 2014 in News, Research and Projects

  SCIO is pleased to announce the public release of a substantial research report that was written for the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) by the CCCU, as part of the Balancing Perspectives research project. This report gives a sector-wide analysis... Read More >