This features in depth research by The Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) at the Department of Social Policy and Social Research at the University of Oxford.
It's a question that I hear frequently and I guess will hear even more often after the latest research from scientists at the University of Oxford.
An inaugural symposium was organized in 2010 by the Born Free Foundation and the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) of the University of Oxford and to date there have been three further international meetings in the UK, China, and Australia.
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The latest search for unknown beasties, carried out by Charles Paxton of the Animal Behaviour Research Group at Oxford University, is rather more unusual.
Simon Rippon is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University and a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci, gives the careful estimate that there are probably no more than 20 paintings by the master in the world, which suggests there could be five more to be discovered.
He has also endowed the Khalili Research Centre for the Arts and Material Culture of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, and is the co-founder and chairman of the Maimonides Foundation, which promotes peace and understanding between the three great monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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But Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, said that while "the future looks pretty bright" there are "dark shadows" because technologies to improve the world also bring fears such as security worries over advances in sharing technology and bio-weapons coming out of bio-technology meant to feed us and bring us new sources of energy.
This includes Professor Richard Pring, head of education at Oxford University, Dr Anne West, director of the Centre for Education Research at the London School of Economics and Professor Clyde Chitty, head of education at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
"The possibility that current climate models underestimate the effect of solar variations on climate is probably the single most contentious issue in climate research at the moment, " said Dr Myles Allen of the department of physics at Oxford University.
The research, published in the British Medical Journal, was led by the eminent cancer expert Professor Sir Richard Doll, of Oxford University.
He is also a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
From 1986 to 1987 David worked as research student at Oxford University's Department of Atmospheric Physics, specifically working on the ozone hole and global warming.
Dr Mark Stokes, a cognitive neuroscientist from the University of Oxford, said it was an "exciting" piece of research that brought us closer to the concept of dream-reading machines.
But Sir John, a Royal Society research professor at Oxford University, said his lack of experience would make it easier for him to introduce the fresh approach that the agency would seek to provide.
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