Oxford University

Education: 2022/23 HIGHLIGHTS * TEF 2023 Gold rating * 1st in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University rankings * 26,495 students at Oxford, including 12,685 undergraduates and 13,320 postgraduates * 23,193 applications for 3,217 undergraduate places for 2023/24 entry * 67.8% of UK undergraduate admissions from state schools Overall applications for undergraduate study rose by 0.9% and the number of admitted students fell by 1.6%. The largest decreases have been amongst applicants and admitted students from the EU. Disadvantaged students are identified during the admissions process through ongoing use of contextual data, including information on eligibility for free school meals which has not previously been available. 2023 continued to deepen in-person outreach, with the flagship UNIQ programme again taking a hybrid approach. UNIQ welcomed 1,153 participants to Oxford for a 3-day residential course, and 333 more joined an online academic programme. Applications remained stable in the 2022/23 admissions cycle with a modest increase of about 1.5% (around 37,000 applications). The University's Graduate Access Working Group continues to lead on a number of pioneering initiatives to encourage and support access to graduate study for students from underrepresented and deprived backgrounds. In 2023, the UNIQ+ graduate access research internship programme continued to welcome 130 students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Oxford for seven weeks. The University continued to work with the University of Cambridge on the four-year Close the Gap project (started in January 2022) co-funded by the Office Students and Research England to improve access to doctoral study for historically marginalised students. students. After a mapping exercise to understand current admissions processes, sixteen departments across the two institutions will be piloting a set of new initiatives from September 2023. In parallel, our ground-breaking pilot to contextualise admissions by using socio-economic data has continued to expand to circa 150 courses across the four divisions, including the whole of the Medical Sciences Division. The University seeks to equip all its students with the skills and knowledge to succeed in future study or employment. Outside the curriculum, support provided for students included the following: * More than 14,000 jobs and internships were advertised by employers and more than 1,750 exclusive internships in the UK and around the world were advertised to Oxford students through our programmes * Careers Advisers offered personalised support to 4,320 students in one-to-one advice appointments * More than 200 events were run by the Careers Service including the Creative Careers Week, Sustainability Careers Week, and the Careers Beyond Academia conference for researchers * Also 9 careers fairs were organised engaging with more than 4,770 students and researchers and 362 recruiting organisations plus programmes such as the Future Leaders Innovation Programme * Original skill development programmes such as the Oxford Strategy Challenge and the Student Consultancy provided 361 Oxford undergraduate and postgraduate students the opportunity to work on dozens of business projects with real organisations

Academic and Educational Publishing: 2022/23 HIGHLIGHTS * Migrated 42,000 books to the Oxford Academic platform * Supported 230,000 people to advance their English language skills through the Oxford English Hub * Helped 53 million learners in 159 countries through schools publishing * Academic titles won 84 major awards * Achieved the one billionth visit to the Oxford Academic platform * 340,000 people voted to select Goblin Mode the 2022 Word of the Year Oxford Academic - the Press's principal platform for academic research -now hosts 42,000 books, 500,000 chapters, 500 journals, and more than three million journal articles. This year, the platform had 175 million visitors and 230 million visits; it has now been visited over one billion times since its launch in 2017. The Press demonstrated its commitment to open access by adding new titles to its OA collection, including Oxford Open Digital Health and Oxford Open Infrastructure and Health to the flagship Oxford Open series. A third of all journal articles are OA, and 120 journals are now fully OA. The Press continued to build and strengthen its English language network across the world. It held 375 global events and gained 54,000 new followers to its online teaching community. It also offered support to students affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine and the earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria. The Press's academic book publishing continued its strong track record of winning prestigious prizes, with success in 84 major categories, including: * British Medical Association Outstanding Book Awards in four categories; * The American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize for the best book in modern European intellectual history; and * A trio of prizes at the Society of Military History's Distinguished Book Awards. The Press announced a three-year research project to compile the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE), a collaboration with Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. The project will record the most comprehensive and up-to-date picture of African American English to date. The Press was honoured to be commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury to produce The Coronation Bible, which was subsequently used by His Majesty King Charles III when taking the Coronation Oath.

Research: 2022/23 HIGHLIGHTS * For the eighth consecutive year, ranked first in the Times Higher Education (THE) worldwide ranking of universities (both overall and for research) * Highest overall research income of any UK university including highest for UK public sector, industry and the European Commission * REF 2021 results mean that Oxford will again be the recipient of the highest quality-related recurrent funding for research of any UK university in 2023/24 * Oxford University retains top spot as the leading UK academic institution for generating spinouts The scale of the University's research activity is substantial, involving over 1,900 academics, almost 4,900 research staff and over 7,000 postgraduate research students. The University collaborates with other universities and research organisations, healthcare providers, businesses, community groups, charities and government agencies, nationally and internationally. The public benefits from this research include better public policy, improved health outcomes, economic prosperity, social cohesion, international development, community identity, the arts, culture and quality of life. In 2022/23 2,750 new research awards were received, with a cumulative value of $1,350m and which will be spent over the lifetime of the awards across future years. In addition, Research England provided invaluable support through Quality- Related recurrent grant funding totalling $209m. Annual research income rose in 2022/23 to $1,005m, an increase of 10.9% compared to 2021/22. The University's leading position in so many facets of national and international research has driven this year's research income growth. Income from industry increased the most, from $149m in 2021/22 to $187m in 2022/23, largely due to investment by INEOS, and to a lesser extent from AstraZeneca, GSK,and the Coalition for Medical Preparedness Other research funding highlights in the past year include: * $37m from the Faraday Battery Challenge for six innovative projects, four of which involve Oxford researchers, to drive progress towards developing the next generation of batteries * $15m investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for a Future Vaccines Manufacturing Hub, co-led by Oxford and UCL, to make the UK a global centre for vaccine discovery, development, and manufacture * $10m from EPSRC to co-lead the establishment, with UCL, of a national energy data platform to help facilitate the transition to net-zero carbon emissions. * $3m from the Rockefeller Foundation to develop an open-source platform that, for the first time, will enable access to real-time, anonymized health data on infectious disease outbreaks. * $1.3m from Wellcome to further strengthen research leadership at Oxford.