Outreach

Science is extremely important in everyday life. However, to most people, it is seen as something that is difficult to understand and requires a large amount of time and effort to grasp even the basic principles. What we are trying to do here at the Oxford chemistry department, is to make science more exciting, understandable and relevant to the general public in an attempt to encourage more people to take an interest. If more students chose to study science, not only does the economy benefit, the world at large should too with increased advancement in our understanding of how things work. 

The UK Chemistry community in general, and Oxford in particular, has long been involved in public and schools engagement events. Here at Oxford we are increasing both the number and scope of our events in an effort to interact with even more members in our community.

For more information on what we can offer, please use the tabs along the top of this website or click on the links to the forthcoming events, found to the left of this.

We can be found on iTunes U

As an example of the kind of thing we can offer, see last year's Christmas Science Lectures - link to iTunes.

Or download this poster which shows a brief account of what we can offer. 

Information about our undergraduate course and what its like to be an Oxford student can be found below

• Chemistry Undergraduate Prospectus
• Wall of 100 faces

Some helpful information about the university campus and Oxford in general can be found below

• Map of the departments in the science area
• Virtual Tour of The Chemistry Research Laboratory
• Virtual Tour of Oxford
• Map of Oxford University departments

There are many useful links to other science activities within the university. Some example can be seen below  

• Oxford Sparks
• Oxford University Science Blog 
• Bang! Oxford Science Magazine
• University's Museums & Collections Outreach Programmes