The various academic faculties, departments, and institutes of the University of Oxford 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.
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 Chris Wickham. Professor Sally Shuttleworth was Head from 2006 to 2011, and Professor Shearer West served as Head between August 2011 and 2015.
The Division contains the following faculties and departments:
Rothermere American Institute
Faculty of Classics
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Faculty of English Language and Literature
History of Art Department
Faculty of History
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Faculty of Music
Faculty of Oriental Studies
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Theology
Voltaire Foundation
Medicine has been taught at the University of Oxford since the 13th century. In 1770, John Radcliffe, an Oxford-educated physician founded the Radcliffe Infirmary. The current Head of the division is Alastair Buchan.
The Division contains the following Faculties and departments:
Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics
Department of Biochemistry
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Department of Clinical Neurology
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Clinical Pharmacology
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism (OCDEM)
Department of Experimental Psychology
Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB)
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Investigative Medicine Division
Medical Oncology
Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Department of Oncology
Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology
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
Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Department of Psychiatry
Department of Public Health
Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division (MPLS)
The Division contains the following departments:
Begbroke Science Park
Department of Chemistry
Department of Computer Science
Department of Earth Sciences
Engineering Science
Department of Materials
Mathematical Institute
Oxford E-Research Centre
Department of Physics
Department of Plant Sciences
Department of Statistics
Department of Zoology
The Social Sciences Division represents the largest grouping of social sciences of any University in the United Kingdom. As a major provider of social science research, it is accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council as a Doctoral Training Centre of excellence in research training. The Division's current Head is Professor Roger Goodman.
The Division contains the following faculties and departments:
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
School of Archaeology
Saïd Business School
Department of Economics
Department of Education
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
School of Geography and the Environment
Blavatnik School of Government
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies
Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House)
Oxford Internet Institute
Faculty of Law
Oxford Martin School
Department of Politics and International Relations
Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Department of Sociology