What if AI agents learn to coordinate without saying anything suspicious? Oxford Engineering’s Witt Lab has developed a way to detect hidden collusion by analysing activity inside AI models. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/how-can-we-tell-when-ai-agents-are-secretly-colluding

Starting Engineering Science at Oxford this October? 🎓 Our current students share what they wish they’d known before first year – from balancing work and life to making friends, getting enough sleep and discovering that Oxford wasn’t quite what they expected. We can’t wait to welcome you! 👋

Around 170,000 people die from cardiovascular disease in the UK each year. This World Heart Day, we’re highlighting Prof Abhirup Banerjee’s research at the MultiMeDIA Lab. Watch the video to find out more about their work. Find out more about his work here: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/multimedia

Congratulations to Professor Martin Booth, elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. His research spans optics, adaptive optics, advanced microscopy and laser-based microfabrication. https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-martin-booth-one-of-royal-academy-of-engineering-s-75-new-fellows

Congratulations to Matthew Stokes, Dr Nafiz Chowdhury and Professor Thomas Povey on receiving the GPPS Best Paper Award – Propulsion! 🏆 Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-researchers-receive-gpps-best-paper-award #OxfordEngineering #EngineeringResearch

Jianou Jiang and Prof Budimir Rosic have combined machine learning with turbulence physics to develop a simple formula for describing turbulent energy near a surface. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-researchers-use-machine-learning-to-simplify-a-longstanding-turbulence-problem

Congratulations to Professor David Howey and the Bboxx team on winning the Faraday Institution’s Battery Innovation Programme – Innovation Award. 🏆 Read more: nhttps://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-collaboration-wins-faraday-institution-innovation-award-for-battery-research

Oxford researchers are investigating the 200-year-old cast iron of Chepstow’s Old Wye Bridge, the world’s largest pre-1830 cast-iron road bridge. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-heritage-science-facilities-to-support-research-into-historic-cast-iron-bridge

Researchers at the Podium Institute have developed PoseDreamer, an AI-generated dataset of 500,000 photorealistic human images, each paired with detailed 3D body data. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/posedreamer-could-transform-the-study-of-human-movement

A bold new chapter for UK AI research 💡 350+ people joined the BOLD launch, led by Oxford’s Prof Jakob Foerster and uniting Oxford, UCL & Imperial. Supported by UKRI, BOLD is recruiting Fellows. 🔗 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/british-open-ended-learning-and-discovery-lab-festival-launches

What should you ask at an Oxford Open Day? 💭 Our Engineering student ambassadors share their tips – from asking about the course to finding out what student life is really like. 📅 Come and ask your questions in person at our next Open Day on Friday 18 September!

Our AI4DH Lab team took 🥈 at the Oxford AI for Good Hackathon! Their AI approach aims to reduce the psychological impact of harmful content on human moderators. 🔗 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-ai-for-good-hackathon-challenges-students-to-build-ai-solutions-for-social-good

Prof Eleanor Stride of Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering explains her team’s drug-delivery research on BBC Radio 4’s - Best Medicine. Read more: https://beyondantibiotics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-eleanor-stride-featured-on-bbc-s-best-medicine-podcast-series-3

For Women’s Equality Day, Prof Dong (Lilly) Liu says gender balance must start at school: give girls and boys the same information, treat them equally and support girls to follow their own career paths. Be good at what you do. #WomensEqualityDay

New research involving Dr Thomas Monahan uses 40+ years of satellite images to measure tides at 100m intervals revealing local variations missed by existing systems. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/tides-can-vary-by-almost-a-metre-across-a-single-bay-four-decades-of-satellite-images-reveal

Kudos to our students Nina Marcjasz, Orlanda Knapp and Darcey Sutcliffe on winning 3rd place in the 2026 ASHRAE Design Competition for their net-zero building design. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-students-win-3rd-place-in-prestigious-sustainable-design-competition

Congratulations to Oxford Engineering alumnus Dr Christian Peters, runner-up in the 2026 EFCE Excellence Award! 👏💧 His DPhil, supervised by Prof Nick Hankins, explored low-energy desalination using OARO. 🔗 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/alumnus-selected-for-excellence-award-for-chemical-engineering

At Oxford Engineering, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) turns images into precise measurements of deformation. Researchers used DIC to study fracture behaviour of Roman concrete from the Podium Temple in Antioch- helping determine the fracture resistance of this ancient material. #WorldPhotographyDay

Researchers from the Podium Institute and Institute of Biomedical Engineering have developed a method that can measure sleep disruption without expert annotation. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-researchers-develop-ai-tool-that-advances-automated-sleep-monitoring-for-health-and-sport

Congratulations to Professors Amy Zavatsky, Martin Davy and Emilio Martínez Pañeda, who have been awarded the title of Full Professor in the University of Oxford’s latest Recognition of Distinction Awards. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/university-recognition-of-distinction-awards-2026

A new Science Advances roadmap examines the challenges from neural interfaces and materials to manufacturing and clinical translation. Read the paper: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-researchers-contribute-to-roadmap-for-neural-technology #OxfordEngineering #Neurotechnology

Good luck to everyone receiving their A Level results today! 🎓✨ And if you’re joining us at Engineering Science – congratulations! We can’t wait to welcome you in October. 💙 Tag us in your celebrations and use #GoingToOxford!

Oxford Engineering academic Prof James Kwan, will lead a new research programme SOUNDCHEM, exploring how ultrasound can help make chemical manufacturing cleaner and sustainable. More info 👉🏻 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-to-lead-67m-programme-to-scale-up-sustainable-sonochemistry

Congratulations to Oxford Engineering researchers Ayush Noori and Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde, recognised in the prestigious G-Research 2026 PhD Prize. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/two-oxford-engineering-dphil-students-win-g-research-2026-phd-prize #OxfordEngineering #AI #MachineLearning

Oxford Engineering and ConnectionAI have launched a research partnership to develop AI-driven solutions for structural steel connection design. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/connectionai-and-the-university-of-oxford-announce-research-partnership

Oxford Engineering researchers have developed an AI system that predicts viscosity and surface tension while uncovering hidden patterns in fluid behaviour that conventional analysis misses. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-reveals-the-hidden-physics-of-a-breaking-droplet

Meet Professor Natalia Ares from Oxford Engineering, featured in the University's #OxfordWomenInAI campaign. Her journey shows how engineering research is helping shape the future of AI while inspiring the next generation of researchers. 🎥

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Oxford University Racing recorded the 11th fastest Sprint time after months of designing, manufacturing and testing their latest car.  Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-university-racing-competes-at-formula-student-2026-with-its-most-advanced-car-yet #OxfordEngineering #FormulaStudent

Tiny antennas. Global conservation 🐦🌍 Professor Chris Stevens' ARIA-funded Internet of Birds project is developing miniature tracking technology to help scientists better understand bird movements and protect biodiversity. Happy #WorldNatureConservationDay #OxfordEngineering

This summer, 57 Year 12 students joined our UNIQ residential programme, taking part in hands-on engineering challenges, Oxford tutorials, drone workshops and robotics demonstrations.. Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/uniq-students-gain-hands-on-engineering-experience-at-oxford-1