Funding rounds:

• Michaelmas term 2014 (MT-14) Staff only
• Hilary term 2015 (HT-15) Staff and student
• Trinity term 2015 (TT-15) Staff only
• Autumn 2015 (Autumn-15) Staff and student
• Spring 2016 (Spring-16) Staff only
• 2016/17 Students only
• 2018 Staff and student
• 2019 GLAM Labs (GL-19)
• 2019 Staff only (2019)

IT Innovation Challenges have funded the following projects
(click on a title to see the abstract and more information):

• Better Research Ethics Application Process – creating an online process for Research Ethics applications (2019)
• Between Text and Object / CabiNET– developing an online platform to mesh text, image, and object in the learning process (TT-15)
• Bibliographic and Publication Data Visualisation Services to University Researchers – scoping and developing a new service (2019)
• Bibliotech: Spotify for e-Textbooks – enabling students to access any textbook, at any time and on any device. (HT-15 student)
• Building a Writing Space (HomeR) – developing an application to help writers plan and structure writing and thinking (Autumn-15)
• Clinical Research Data Management Toolkit – identifying sound strategies for new projects (2016/17 student)
• Collaborate App – facilitating digital collaboration across the University particularly among students and lecturers. (HT-15 student)
• Computer marked free text and algebra – extending on-line assessment capabilities to improve feedback to current and potential students. (HT-15)
• ConnectOx – enhancing research collaboration through an algorithmic approach (Autumn-15)
• Decoding Programming–Engineers Without Borders (Oxford) – improving IT literacy among state educated school children in Oxford and encouraging uptake of IT careers. (withdrawn HT-15 student)
• Digital Makers – piloting digital making workshops in museums and libraries (GL-19)
• Diversifying the University Voice – researcher/student mobile trails (Spring-16)
• Easy sign-up – frictionless attendance tracking and sign-up for events using University cards. (HT-15)
• Effective Computing for Research Reproducibility (Spring-16)
• Embedding Innovative use of Wikimedia across the University (Spring-16)
• Enabling Research and Public Engagement with VR – developing unique and exciting VR applications and experiences. (2018 staff)
• Evershelf – knowledge-sharing and connecting people through streamlined cataloguing of physical media. (HT-15 student)
• Exam Panic Mobile Website – a mobile website to help students manage and reduce exam panic. (TT-15)
• The Exchange – to create an application that connects people across colleges over formal dinners. (Autumn-15 student)
• First Response App – to be developed by women to help students to respond to sexual violence at Oxford. (HT-15 student).
• Frameworks: Oxford Mobile Career Planner – easy tracking and monitoring of career development on the go for researchers and training providers . (HT-15)
• GoGirl: Code and Create – engaging with teenage girls and developing their skills in IT, and complementing other access widening programmes at the University. (HT-15)
• The Hidden Museum – exploring ways for delivering collections-related digital content in a context-specific way. (MT-14)
• Instant Video Creation  – piloting an all-in-one video creation solution (2018 staff)
• Interactomy – an interactive app for anatomy teaching and learning. (2016/17 student)
• An introductory resource for digital textual editing and analysis. (withdrawn Autumn-15 student)
• Join In – developing a series of short technology engagement activities to raise digital literacy and spark new ideas around the University. (MT-14)
• Learmapp – an app that helps learners navigate and collaborate around learning resources. (2016/17 student)
• Mapping Playful Spaces in the Museum – pilot the use of social media data to enhance our understanding of ‘playful’ visitor behaviour. (GL-19)
• Methodicate – reproducible data science. (Spring-16)
• Mobile Web Appl Builder – to develop a platform to allow staff and students to publish content and functionality to users of smartphones and other mobile devices. (Autumn-15)
• MoLexia App – providing easily accessible advice and help for students with dyslexia and other SpLDs (specific learning difficulties). (HT-15 student)
• Multisensory Access – bringing visual art to life through touch and sound. (Spring-16)
• MYSH – an app to Manage Your Self Harm. (Autumn-15 student)
• Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology Simulator – building a simulator for browsing anatomy and examining a virtual patient. (TT-15)
• OAR – The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform. (Autumn-15 student)
• Oxford Mental Health Network (OMHN) – The Web App. Creating a local ‘mental health search engine’
• Online Reading List Management System (ORLiMS) – transforming the way in which taught course reading materials are provided for students. (MT-14)
• Open Cabinet: AR access to Oxford’s collections – virtual handling of 3D artefacts in the museum. (2018 staff)
• OxBud – widening access by digitally connecting undergraduates and prospective students. (Autumn-15 student)
• OxChange – connecting and developing students through the exchange of skills. (HT-15 student)
• Oxford 101 – augmented reality tour of Oxford for new and prospective students. (2018 staff)
• Oxford Accessibility Project – mapping Oxford’s colleges to produce the first free, online accessibility guide of its kind (2018 student)
• Oxford Careers Compass – a web-app for values driven career planning. (2018 staff)
• Oxford Looking-Glass – a web-based augmented reality application. (2018 student)
• Oxford Restfulness Tracker – an app to help student athletes avoid over-training. (2016/17 student)
• OxPortal/ShOAL – Oxford portal to on-line resources for teaching and learning. (Autumn-15)
• OxReach Crowdfunding Platform – helping students, researchers and staff to solicit funding for their projects. (HT-15)
• Peer Support Programme Student Hub – creating an online space for peer supporters and students. (2019)
• Putting the Oxford Alternative Prospectus on-line – extending its scope and reach. (HT-15 student)
• Physical and virtual show and tell –  using VR and 3D printing to visualise specimens that are normally behind glass (GL-19)
• Replicating Historical Musical Instruments – creating and comparing different 3D-printed replicas (GL-19)
• ResearchRecipes / Scitocols – aiding knowledge-sharing on research methods and protocols. (HT-15 student)
• Research Software Developers Digital Network – establishing a network for research software developers. (TT-15)
• ReSounding – bringing the University’s musical instrument collections to life. (MT-14)
• Sanctum – a website allowing students and staff find places to study/work in Oxford. (2016/17 student)
• Simple, Flexible Option Choosing – creating a web application for simple collating, communicating and choosing of options. (TT-15)
• Studious – a networked knowledge platform allowing students to collaborate around reading list resources (withdrawn 2016/17 student)
• Student Marketplace – to reduce the waste produced by the University by enabling users to donate and sell unwanted items within their community. (Autumn-15 student)
• VESPA – an interactive tool for learning sampling techniques in a virtual environment. (2016/17 student)
• Virtual Reality Oxford Network – bringing together people, knowledge and resources related to VR. (2016/17 student)
• Visualising Research Data in 3D with Blender – design pipelines for turning research data into 3D visualisations using Blender. (TT-15)
• Women at Oxford University: an Online Resource – online hub for resources related to the history of women at Oxford (2019)
• Zooniverse + Facebook – bringing citizen science to a younger audience. (HT-15)