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Access Week 2025: From Local to Global

Designed to emulate 'a week in the life of an Oxford undergraduate', Access Week is an annual summer residential at Pembroke College. Select pupils from our target regions who have participated in our Access and Outreach programmes were invited to attend the residential, which took place this summer. We welcomed 120 pupils who participated in tutorials, seminars, mock interviews, academic trips, and much more.

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Reflections of a Recent Pembroke Graduate

Michaelmas term is fast approaching, which can only mean one thing – an onslaught of Freshers will be imminently arriving to Oxford and Pembroke. Starting university can be a big transition for anyone. We thought we’d ask one of our fresh graduates, Rohit Ghosh, to reflect on his time at Pembroke, looking all the way back to his own Freshers’ week.

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Dr. Rob Salguero-Gómez wins ‘Open Science’ Award

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Congratulations to Dr. Rob Salguero-Gómez, Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology, for winning the “Open Science” award given by the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology.

Reflecting on this prestigious recognition, Rob commented:

“Society demands global solutions to the many challenges that we are faced with (e.g. climate change, human-driven habitat degradation, etc.). Only by examining how biological systems respond at the global level will researchers be able to enhance our understanding of the resilience of nature. The emergent knowledge is key to make sure that going forward food provisioning, buffering against extreme climatic events and other ecosystem services are secured.

The work I have lead now for over a decade with the COMPADRE and COMADRE databases and the new PADRINO database (led by Sam Levin, a student that I co-supervise with Prof Tiffany Knight, at iDiv) allows for these much-needed kind of analyses. Research manuscripts that have emerged from the open-access information on natural populations around the world and the Tree of Life (from lions to dandelions, and anything in between) have provided key insights regarding the ecology, evolution, and conservation biology of hundreds of species. These papers have been published in the highest ranked journals, including Nature, PNAS, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Scientific Advances, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and Ecology Letters.

I am ecstatic about this recent recognition by the “Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre” (Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology) of our efforts towards a more comprehensive, transparent, and open world of population ecology led by my research group, the Salgo Team and with multiple international collaborators. The work that we do with these databases, including data digitalisation, curation, complementation, R programming functionality, teaching workshops and much more is rarely supported by funding agencies. I hope that this recognition will enhance the funding opportunities for more open-access biological platforms, such as our COMPADRE, COMADRE & PADRINO databases.”