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The various academic faculties, departments, and institutes of the
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are organised into four divisions, each with its own Head and elected board. They are the Humanities Division; the Social Sciences Division; the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division; and the Medical Sciences Division.


Humanities Division

The Humanities Division has received considerable praise for its work at the forefront of digitising the Humanities. The Humanities Division has been physically expanding into the new Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in Oxford. The current Head of the Humanities Division is Professor Karen O'Brien. Professor
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was Head from 2006 to 2011, Professor
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served as Head between August 2011 and 2015, and Chris Wickham until 2018. The Division contains the following faculties and departments: * Rothermere American Institute * Ruskin School of Art * Faculty of Classics *
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* Faculty of History * History of Art Department * Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics * Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages *
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* Faculty of Oriental Studies * Faculty of Philosophy * Faculty of Theology and Religion * The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) * Voltaire Foundation


Medical Sciences Division

Medicine has been taught at the University of Oxford since the 13th century. In 1770, John Radcliffe, an Oxford-educated physician founded the
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. The current Head of the Division is Gavin Screaton, the current Divisional Registrar & Chief Operating Officer is Chris Price. Professor
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was head from 2007-2017 The Division contains the following Faculties and departments: * Department of Biochemistry * Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine * Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences * Department of Experimental Psychology * Radcliffe Department of Medicine * Department of Oncology * Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences * Department of Paediatrics * Sir William Dunn School of Pathology * Department of Pharmacology * Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics * Nuffield Department of Population Health * Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences * Department of Psychiatry *
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* Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health The
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine The MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford is a research institute located at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Founded in 1989 by Sir David Weatherall, the institute focuses on furthering our understandi ...
is a research institute of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine The
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is a research institute of the Nuffield Department of Medicine. The Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response is a partnership between the Nuffield Department of Medicine and
CUHK Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) () was established in 1981 and consists of five schools which offer an array of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the field of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and publ ...
. The
Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology The John Radcliffe Hospital (informally known as the JR) is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Oxford, England. It forms part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is named after John Radcliffe, an 18th-century physici ...
is a division of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. The CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology is a research institute of the Department of Oncology. The
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, is an academic-led centre dedicated to the practice, teaching, and dissemination of high quality evidenc ...
is a research centre of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.


Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division

From 2015 the head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division (MPLS) is Professor Donal Bradley. From 2007 to 2015 the head was Professor Alex Halliday. The Division contains the following departments: * Begbroke Science Park * Department of Biology (formed from the merger of the Department of Plant Sciences and Department of Zoology) * Department of Chemistry * Department of Computer Science *
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* Department of Earth Sciences * Department of Engineering Science * Department of Materials * Mathematical Institute * Department of Physics * Department of Statistics


Social Sciences Division

The Social Sciences Division represents the largest grouping of
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of any
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in the
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. As a major provider of
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research Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...
, it is accredited by the
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as a
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of excellence in
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training. From 2018 the division's head is Professor Sarah Whatmore. From 2008 to 2017 the head was Professor Roger Goodman. The Division contains the following faculties and departments: * School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography *
School of Archaeology The School of Archaeology is an academic department of the University of Oxford comprising the Institute of Archaeology and the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), and is part of Oxford's Social Sciences Division. ...
*
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* Department of Economics * Department of Education * School of Geography and the Environment * Oxford School of Global and Area Studies *
Blavatnik School of Government The Blavatnik School of Government is a school of public policy founded in 2010 at the University of Oxford in England. The School was founded following a £75 million donation from a business magnate Leonard Blavatnik, supported by £26 millio ...
* Department of International Development *
Oxford Internet Institute The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multi-disciplinary department of social and computer science dedicated to the study of information, communication, and technology, and is part of the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxfor ...
*
Faculty of Law A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In American usage such divisions are generally referred to as colleges ...
*
Oxford Martin School The Oxford Martin School is a research and policy unit based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. It was founded in June 2005 as the James Martin 21st Century School and is located in the original building of the Indian ...
* Department of Politics and International Relations *
Department of Social Policy and Intervention The Department of Social Policy and Intervention is an interdisciplinary centre for research and teaching in social policy and the systematic evaluation of social intervention based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. ...
* Department of Sociology


Gardens, Libraries and Museums

In 2016 Academic Services and University Collections (ASUC) changed its name to Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM), and now operates as an effective fifth division of the university. Responsible for four museums (the
Ashmolean Museum The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University o ...
, the History of Science Museum, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and the Pitt Rivers Museum), the
Bodleian Libraries The Bodleian Libraries are a collection of 28 libraries that serve the University of Oxford in England, including the Bodleian Library itself, as well as many other (but not all) central and faculty libraries. As of the 2016–17 year, the librari ...
, and the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, GLAM is overseen by the directors of the six GLAM departments chaired by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (People & GLAM), Anne Trefethen.


Department for Continuing Education

The Department for Continuing Education works with the divisions to promote continuing education.


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Divisions and Departments

Humanities Division

Medical Sciences Division

MPLS Division

Social Sciences Division
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