2024 MFO DPhil Prize

In 2022, the MFO and its Oxford committee launched a DPhil Prize for French students starting the final year of their doctorate at the University of Oxford. In 2024, we are pleased to host the third edition including participants working in each of the University’s academic Divisions (Medical Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities and MPLS).

They will be asked to give a 15-minute presentation of their research, in English, accessible to anyone in the audience regardless of their background. 

The audience will consist of the DPhil students, researchers, members of the Oxford Committee for the Maison Française d'Oxford, as well as the Counsellor for Science and Technology and the Cultural Counsellor from the French Embassy in London. A prize will be awarded for the best presentation.

Please join us on this occasion, everyone is welcome!

PROGRAMME

16.00-16.15: Theana Johnson (Medical Sciences) – ‘Understanding the role of primary cilia organisation in the growth plate
16.15-16.30: Jean-Guillaume Magre (Social Sciences) - ‘Uncertainty and Disagreement: A Transaction-Based Proposal’1
16.30-16.45: Edith Darin (Medical Sciences) – ‘The unexpected census: How satellites, social media, and public administration can reshape population counts in data-scarce contexts’
16.45-17.00: Marie Martine (Humanities) – ‘Ferments of Anarchy. French Women Writers and Naturalism’
17.00-17.15: Cassandra Jacobson Russo (Social Sciences) – ‘Taking Communication Seriously: Conceptualising the Demand for Legal Certainty in the EU Institutional Space’