Residential Programme Fees - £1,600
Fees include:
- All tuition
- Social programme
- Accommodation in a single en suite room in St Hilda's College with private shower and toilet for the nights of Sunday 18 June to Friday 23 June 2023 inclusive;
- All meals in College starting with an opening drinks reception and dinner on Sunday 18 June, and then breakfast, lunch and dinner during the week and ending with breakfast on Saturday 24 June 2023. Also included is a gala dinner during the week.
- Weekday morning tea/coffee and biscuits
We regret that participants cannot be accommodated at college either prior to or beyond their programme dates. Family members and/or friends who are not enrolled on this programme cannot be accommodated in college.
Non-residential Programme Fees (no accommodation)* - £1,200
Fees include:
- All tuition
- Social programme
- Opening drinks reception and dinner on Sunday 18 June
- Lunches and dinners in college from Monday 18 June June to Friday 23 June including a gala dinner during the week.
- Weekday morning tea/coffee and biscuits
*please note that there is only a limited number of non-residential places available.
If you are offered a place on the course you will then be sent an invoice for the course fee. You have several options for payment, including full payment online by credit/debit card or via bank transfer within 30 days of the invoice date.
Please note that if your course fees will be paid by an organisation such as your university or employer, it would be greatly appreciated if applicants can check with their finance colleagues before applying on what information needs to be included on the invoice for it to be paid to avoid delays.
Cancellations and refunds
You will enter into your contract with the University when you pay the full amount of the course fees. You have the right to cancel your contract at any time within 14 days of its commencement (ie when you pay your fees). You will receive a full refund of any payments you have made.
If you cancel your place on a course at any time after expiry of the 14-day period you will not be entitled to a refund, except in exceptional circumstances, at the discretion of the University. If a refund is made an administration fee may be charged.
Participants who wish to cancel must inform the Programme Administrator by emailing summercourses@conted.ox.ac.uk.
Please be aware that all payments (and refunds) are subject to exchange rates at the time of processing. You can find the full terms and conditions here. The status of the course will be reviewed on 19 May 2023. If it is likely that the course may be cancelled, all participants enrolled on the course will be notified in writing within seven days, and possible options clearly explained.
Important information regarding visa requirements
You can check if you need a visa for this course using this link on the GOV.UK website. If you require a visa to study abroad, then we strongly recommend that you apply for this course as early as possible in order to allow yourself sufficient time to make a successful visa application.
You would be provided with a letter from the course administrator confirming your place on the course; this confirmation letter will not be issued until all course fees have been paid in full.
In the case of a visa application being unsuccessful the Department will not offer a refund.
Please note that, for legal reasons, the programme administrator is not permitted to provide any visa advice to applicants. All such enquiries should be submitted to Oxford University’s student visa and immigration advisers via email at student.immigration@admin.ox.ac.uk
Tutors
Prof Daniel Wilson - Course Director
Danny Wilson is Director of Studies in Data Science at the Department for Continuing Education and Professor of Infectious Disease Genomics at the Big Data Institute. Originally trained in biology and statistics, his work focuses on genetics and infectious diseases, analysing large datasets and developing new computational tools.
Prof Cecilia Lindgren - Speaker
Cecilia Lindgren is Director the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Research Fellow at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford and Wellcome Trust Investigator.
Prof Simon Myers - Speaker
Simon Myers is Professor of Mathematical Genomics at the Department of Statistics and Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics.
Dr Nicky Whiffin - Speaker
Nicky Whiffin is Group Leader and Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow in Computational Rare Disease Genomics at the Big Data Institute.
Prof Pier Palamara - Speaker
Pier Palamara is Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics.
Dr Bernadette Young - Speaker
Bernadette Young is a consultant physician and researcher in infectious diseases at the Nuffield Department of Medicine and a philanthropist.
Dr Jethro Johnson - Speaker
Jethro Johnson is Innovation Track Principal Investigator at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies.
Dr Gavin Band - Tutor
Gavin Band is Senior Statistician and GMS D.Phil. Programme Statistics Teaching Lead at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics.
Nikolas Baya - Tutor
Nik Baya is a D.Phil. student in Genomics Medicine and Statistics, supervised by Cecilia Lindgren, at the Big Data Institute, and Simon Myers at the Department of Statistics.
Arni Gunnarsson - Tutor
Arni Gunnarsson is a D.Phil. student in Genomic Medicine and Statistics, supervised by Pier Palamara and Yee Whye Teh at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics.
Dr Jerome Kelleher - Tutor
Jerome Kelleher is a Group Leader and Robertson Fellow in Biomedical Data Science at the Big Data Institute, developing genealogy based methods and software for large scale genomics.
Dr Duncan Palmer - Tutor
Duncan Palmer is Senior Statistical Geneticist at the Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health and Big Data Institute.
Annie Forster - Tutor
Annie Forster is a D.Phil. student in Genomic Medicine and Statistics at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics.
Georgios Kalantzis - Tutor
Georgios Kalantzis is a D.Phil. student in Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science at St. Edmund Hall.
Dr Yan Wong - Tutor
Yan Wong is an evolutionary geneticist at the Big Data Institute who has collaborated with Richard Dawkins and worked in popular science broadcasting.
Dr Leo Speidel - Tutor
Leo Speidel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Statistics and lecturer in mathematics at St Hilda’s College.
Dr Shing Zhan - Tutor
Shing Zhan is a Janssen-Oxford Translational Genomics Fellow based at the Big Data Institute
