How to give to the Department of Physics
The Department of Physics at Oxford tackles some of the most urgent and fascinating challenges we face today: our physicists are probing new ways to harness solar energy, modelling the earth’s atmosphere to predict future climate, exploring the potential of quantum physics to revolutionise information technologies and executing calculations that reveal the fundamental structure of space and time. We participate in many large-scale, international physics projects that challenge our understanding and the way we think, including the Large Hadron Collider and Square Kilometre Array. Your donations will help. provide equipment for cutting‑edge experiments, support our academics as they collaborate internationally, and enable them to share their discoveries at world‑leading conferences.
Support graduate students
Graduate students contribute enormously to the work of our department, formulating new ideas and finding novel answers to pressing technical challenges which is why we established Oxford Physics Endowment for Graduates (OXPEG). This fund provides scholarships and flexible financial support to graduate students; donations to OXPEG enable us to attract the best possible candidates from around the world, and foster the keenest minds, regardless of their financial circumstances or backgrounds.
Physics in schools and the community
Our outreach programmes have engaged more than 200,000 people with physics in the last five years – from primary and secondary school pupils to community groups. It is our aim to inspire young scientists around the world – particularly those who would not usually consider physics as a pathway. Our outreach programmes improve access to Oxford's Department of Physics for secondary school children and widen young people’s participation in STEM; equally, we work closely with our local communities and run a diverse programme of activity to engage the public with our research. Donations help to sustain our outreach team and expand flagship programmes as well as fund equipment, school visits, workshops and events. Find out more about our outreach work with schools and with the wider public.
Supporting larger projects
Your gift could help to transform our research, teaching and public outreach. For example, by supporting an academic post, donors enable us to recruit the most brilliant physicists from around the world, while funding a graduate scholarship enables talented students to study at Oxford who may not otherwise have the means to do so. Gifts can often be enhanced by a variety of tax-efficient giving initiatives. If you would like to discuss what a donation or legacy could do or to visit and see the impact of philanthropy, please get in touch: mpls@dae.ox.ac.uk.
