# Oxford e-Research Centre

**Source**: https://oerc.ox.ac.uk/
**Parent**: https://ori.ox.ac.uk/news/rethinking-robotics-from-intelligent-machines-to-intelligent-environments

# Oxford e-Research Centre

We are a multidisciplinary data science research and education institute, part of the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science. We research and implement innovative digital methodologies, information and computational solutions for academic research and industrial applications. The Centre provides a world-leading environment for over 50 staff, including academics, students, data scientists, postdocs, as well as professional research software and knowledge engineers, who work together on interdisciplinary projects for the benefit of research and society.

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[12 Feb 2026

Rethinking Robotics: From Intelligent Machines to Intelligent Environments](https://ori.ox.ac.uk/news/rethinking-robotics-from-intelligent-machines-to-intelligent-environments)

[29 Jan 2026

Creating a New Reality: A Sustainable Digital Transformation](/news/creating-a-new-reality-a-sustainable-digital-transformation)

[28 Jan 2026

Global population living with extreme heat to double by 2050 - Oxford study finds](https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/global-population-living-with-extreme-heat-to-double-by-2050)

[15 Jan 2026

Rethinking Robotics: From Intelligent Machines to Intelligent Environments](/news/rethinking-robotics-from-intelligent-machines-to-intelligent-environments)

[03 Dec 2025

Managing the Load Profile: Study Shows Heat Pumps Cut Energy Use but Increase Peak Demand](/news/managing-the-load-profile-study-shows-heat-pumps-cut-energy-use-but-increase-peak-demand)

[26 Nov 2025

ZERO Institute announces Thesis Award 2025 winners](https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/zero-institute-announces-thesis-award-2025-winners)

[04 Nov 2025

Third cohort of Optiver Foundation Scholars begin their studies in Oxford](https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/third-cohort-of-optiver-foundation-scholars-begin-their-studies-in-oxford)

[16 Oct 2025

Oxford e-Research Centre Academics Contribute Leadership in MPLS Division and University-wide Roles](/news/oxford-e-research-centre-academics-contribute-leadership-in-mpls-division-and-university-wide-roles)

#### Our impact-driven data science projects, products and infrastructure

###### **What we do**

- [Climate Services](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/climate-services/ "Climate Services")
- [Cybersecurity](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/cybersecurity/ "Cybersecurity")
- [Data Management & Reproducibility](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/data-management-and-reproducibility/ "Data Management and Reproducibility")
- [Digital Humanities](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/digital-humanities/ "Digital humanities")
- [Energy Digitisation](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/energy-digitisation/ "Energy digitisation")

- [Internet of Things](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/internet-of-things/ "https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/internet-of-things/")
- [Language Modelling](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/language-modelling/ "Language modelling")
- [Research Practice](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/scholarly-publishing-and-communication/ "Scholarly Publishing and Communication")
- [Scientific Computing](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/scientific-computing/ "Scientific Computing")
- [Visual Analytics](https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research-themes/visual-analytics/ "Visual Analytics")

###### **How we do it**

- Informatics
- Cloud computing
- Machine learning & analytics

- High performance computing
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Software engineering

## Featured Case Studies

[### Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Radio telescopes

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING](/case-studies/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-the-universe-with-radio-telescopes)

[### Switzerland, UK and Norway "dangerously unprepared" to keep people cool if global target missed

CLIMATE SCIENCE](/case-studies/switzerland-uk-and-norway-dangerously-unprepared-to-keep-people-cool-if-global-target-missed)

[### UK Research and Innovation announces £34 million to fund BioFAIR

BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES](/case-studies/uk-research-and-innovation-announces-34-million-to-fund-biofair)

Our expertise spans across data science domains and technologies. Via a broad range of collaborations, we deliver novel methodological, technical, social and policy advancements across disciplines: physical sciences and engineering; arts, humanities and social sciences; energy and environment; the biological and medical sciences; as well as information and library sciences.

Our work is diverse and international. Our academics advise governments and other organisations on strategic data-drive decisions, work with policy makers on open and reproducible science agendas, consult for industry and publishers, collaborate with libraries and research communities around the world. Our academic staff run courses, training modules and events, as well as host and supervise under- and post-graduates, preparing the new generation of data scientists, scholars and entrepreneurs.

DPhil student Erin Canning won the ASIS&T 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award

Technology Demonstrator Showing How CHERI Can Protect Against Cyberattacks

Knowledge Engineer Dr Allyson Lister

SKA radio telescope arrays in South Africa. Image courtesy of SKA Organisation

Dr Philippe Rocca Serra at the FAIRplus Innovation and SME Forum, Hinxton

Professor David De Roure gives the opening keynote talk at the Internet of Things India Congress in Bangalore (Image: David Murray-Rust)

Participants at the inaugural JADE Day

Hands-on “Stop the flood” activity at Super Science Saturday

The Lovelace engine visits the Centre. This musical machine was build to celebrate the work pioneering computer scientist Ada Lovelace

Participants at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS)

Ramon Grannell and Prakyat Gailani at AIBC24 in India

Professor of Language Modelling Janet B. Pierrehumbert. Photograph by Ian Wallman

Infographic showing the impact of the Minas Gerais 2020 weather event. A workshop funded by the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership Brazil focused on event attribution, a method which uses science to assess climate events and assign causes to them.

Networking at the inaugural JADE Day

Unlocking Musicology event 'Narratives through Data'

Music Encoding and Linked Data (MELD) framework's ‘Lohengrin TimeMachine’, a digital companion to a musicological study of leitmotifs in Wagner’s opera.

ELIXIR UK Dash Mentoring Project

Participants at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS)

Students on the MSc Energy Systems course visit Sandford Hydro

The Sound of Contagion performance of music generated and inspired by Artificial Intelligence

A presentation at the inaugural JADE Day

Performance Of Forager with Instruments and AI

Dr Iago Pérez Fernández presenting work at the Centre International des Conférences on the Météo-France on an early warning system for dengue in Vietnam

The OxNLP Organising Team

Enriching Exhibition Stories with the Quire Linked Art Extension. Cheney School students visit the Ashmolean Museum