| Argument, Evidence and Continuity in the Augar Report |
Released in May 2019, the Augar report was a result of a 6 person panel chaired by Philip Augar and was the first in England to have a remit for the whole of tertiary education. Parry argues whether its features are the nature of expert panels. |
Gareth Parry |
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| Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria |
Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Society in Nigeria. |
Gavin Williams, Portia Roelofs |
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| Integrating and AugmentingTertiary Education Students' Experiences in Workplace Settings |
Drawing upon three large studies in Australian higher education, this presentation sets out a case for the kinds of curriculum practices, as well as a range of pedagogic practices that can be enacted prior to, during and after students’ work placements. |
Stephen Billett |
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| Artificial Intelligence and Social Relations in Schools: Who are the 'Digital winners'? |
This lecture explores the different types of artificial intelligence systems in common use in education, before relating this to the covert use of algorithms in influencing educational journeys. |
Sandra Leaton-Gray |
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| All Souls Seminar Series: Democracy and the Mafia. |
Democracy and the Mafia. |
Federico Varese |
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| Litigating Rights : The Right to Health |
Litigating Rights : The Right to Health – Mark Heywood and Maya Foa in Conversation |
Mark Heywood, Maya Foa |
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| Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory Book launch of Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa |
Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are central to this interesting discussion. |
Carli Coetzee |
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| Re and De-contextualizing global citizenship education – systematic analysis of the scholarship in the field |
With the rising interest in GCE, understanding the current research landscape could be useful for policy-makers, educators and scholars who seek to build upon the existing body of knowledge and develop it in new directions. |
Miri Yemini |
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| Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria |
In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Obani also analyzes how these strategies could be improved for the betterment of the community as a whole. |
Dr Pedi Obani |
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| Everything is a poison |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, gives a talk on dose-response curves for the EBHC podcast series. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| Poverty Matters: Family income, parenting and child outcomes |
Naomi Eisenstadt presents evidence that low income itself reduces the chances of good outcomes for children and causes stress in families which exacerbates the risk. |
Naomi Eisenstadt |
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| Litigating Rights - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation |
Litigating Rights Series - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation |
Wolfgang Kaleck, Ben Wizner, Annelen Micus |
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| Safe and effective drugs: The need to use all the available evidence to inform the effectiveness of commonly used medicines |
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, employs evidence-based methods to research diagnostic reasoning, test accuracy and communicating diagnostic results to a wider audience. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Diabetes, blood sugar, and red wine: a personal study |
This talk was delivered by Martin Bland. |
Martin Bland |
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| (De)constructing the crimmigrant other: migration, citizenship, and penal power |
Annual Roger Hood Lecture: Professor Katja Franko University of Oslo |
Katja Franko |
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| The Shamima Begum case: Citizenship Stripping and Belonging in Britain |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Devyani Prabhat, University of Bristol |
Devyani Prabhat |
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| "Doing Civilization's Heavy Lifting": The State of Injustice in the United States |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Dr Tony Platt, University of California, Berkeley |
Tony Platt |
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| Historicising American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment and Inequality |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Prof. Niki Lacey |
Niki Lacey |
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| The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch) |
ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio |
Marco Di Nunzio |
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| Joao Lourenco's reform agenda in post Dos Santos Angola: Ambiguities and asymmetries |
ASC seminar with Rui Verde |
Rui Verde |
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| Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership |
ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT. |
Max Price |
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| Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection |
What is the Dark Matter which makes 85% of the matter in the Universe? We have been asking this question for many decades and used a variety of experimental approaches to address it, with detectors on Earth and in space. |
Elena Aprile |
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| The secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it *really* like doing qualitative observation in operating rooms, ambulances, triage call centres and other health care settings? |
This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years' experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, injury, disease, emotions, and technologies. |
Catherine Pope |
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| Big data in heart failure - opportunities and realities |
The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension and heart attacks) and a common point on the trajectory of non-cardiovascular diseases (e.g. chronic respiratory disease). |
Amitava Banerjee |
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| Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) |
Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) |
Carolyn Hoyle, Respondent Hannah Quirk |
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| Evolving, Maturing, Rejuvenating: 30 Years of University-Industry Engagement |
The interactions between university and industry have firmly been on the agenda of policy making and university administration for more than 30 years now. |
David Gann |
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| Keynote Panel - Investing for the Future, Research, and Industrial Competitiveness |
With changing international landscapes, now, more than ever, the interplay between government-funded research and industrial strategies is in sharp focus. |
Alison Campbell, Sir Mark Walport, Walt Copan |
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| Welcome |
Opening remarks from the Oxford UIDP Summit. With Phil Clare, University of Oxford, Jay Walsh, Northwestern University and Patrick Grant, University of Oxford. |
Patrick Grant, Jay Walsh, Phil Clare |
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| Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group |
Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Lecturer in German, Magdalen College and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, gives a talk on the White Rose Resistance Group. |
Alexandra Lloyd |
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| New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene |
Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system. |
Eric Beinhocker |
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| From pollution to solution: will China save the planet? |
Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe. |
Barbara Finamore, Radhika Khosla |
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| The future of the corporation, economy and society |
Professor Sir Paul Collier and Professor Colin Mayer CBE will share the latest thinking and research into the future of capitalism and the corporation to understand how business might be changed to make it work better for society. |
Colin Mayer, Paul Collier |
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| Protecting the high seas (Oxford Green Week talk) |
As part of Oxford Green Week, Prof Alex Rogers and Dr Gwilym Rowlands discuss the importance of protecting the high seas, and how marine protection areas can be enforced. |
Alex Rogers, Gwilym Rowlands |
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| What are Teachers' Professional Competencies? |
This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice. |
Auli Toom |
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| Building Research Capacity in Teacher Education |
Seminar 8 of 8 on teacher education reforms. Alis unpacks the notion of 'capacity' through a historiography of initiatives and a review of attempts at conceptual development. |
Alis Oancea |
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| Changing technology, changing economics |
Prof Diane Coyle discusses how digital technologies are changing economics. |
Diane Coyle |
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| Is the human species slowing down? |
Prof Danny Dorling discusses the idea that that humanity is slowing down in almost everything that we do, and what this means for our future. |
Danny Dorling |
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| 2019 Disability Lecture: The Triple Cripples... creators, educators, rule breakers, and the personification of empowerment |
Jay Abdullahi and Kym Oliver, a team of two black disabled women, reclaim the word ‘cripple’ in their fight against three layers of discrimination. |
Jay Abdullahi, Kym Oliver |
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| Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions |
6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. |
Matthew Landrus |
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| Particles in space |
Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles. |
Donal Hill |
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| Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D |
Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau. |
Kerstin Timm, Justin Lau |
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| Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings |
Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence. |
Karl Kinsella |
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| Parallel lines down the centuries |
For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. |
Christopher Hollings |
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| Behavioural Interventions to Improve the Quality of the Grocery Shopping |
This evening lecture is given in conjunction with the Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods accredited short course, part of the Evidence-Based Healthcare programme at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education. |
Carmen Piernas |
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| Navigating knowledge: new tools for the journey |
Like the wind, knowledge can be difficult to see or grasp, but if well-harnessed, it can help us do extraordinary things. |
Penny Mealy |
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| Unlocking digital competition |
Is competition in the digital economy desirable? Does it currently exist? Is it possible? Is there anything policy can do? |
Jason Furman |
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| The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History |
Health and disease history of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: two syndemics |
John R. McNeill |
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| From global to local - the relationship between global climate and regional warming |
Professor David Battisti, The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences, will be talking about global climate sensitivity controlling regional warming uncertainty and its role in impacting on human health, particularly heat stress. |
David Battisti |
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| Is Dark Matter Made of Black Holes |
The 2019 Halley lecture |
Marc Kamionkowski |
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| The Connections and Disconnections in Teacher Education Policy, Research and Practice Future Research Directions |
This seminar examines the alignments and tensions between teacher education research, policy and practice. This is the sixth seminar in a series of eight public seminars on 'Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy'. |
Diane Mayer |
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| City region food systems: potential for impacting planetary boundaries and food security |
Dr Mike Hamm will explore the opportunity for regional food systems in-and-around cities for mutual benefit. |
Michael Hamm |
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| How complexity can resolve the crisis in economics |
Professor Doyne Farmer will discuss the constraints of current economic models and propose complexity economics as a solution. |
J Doyne Farmer |
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| OES Annual Lecture: The Quest for Better Teaching |
This lecture explores why efforts to improve teaching too often fail and outlines new research on pedagogy and teacher development, which has been achieving promising signs of real change. |
Jenny Gore (Visiting Professor, Department of Education) |
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| Comparative teacher education research: Global perspectives in teacher education past, present and future |
Seminar five of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". |
Maria Teresa Tatto |
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| Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the sixth and final lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| The earth compels: Forces of destruction and creation in the history of African popular culture |
Prof Karin Barber delivers keynote lecture for 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop |
Karin Barber |
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| Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fifth lecture inthe 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| The BMJ's open data campaign |
Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of The BMJ, gives a talk for the EBHC podcast series |
Fiona Godlee |
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| Africa in transformation: economic development in the age of doubt with Prof Carlos Lopes |
Carlos Lopes will deliver an overview of the critical development issues facing the African continent today. |
Carlos Lopes |
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| Making Change Happen - The Reform of Initial Teacher Education in Wales |
This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice. |
John Furlong |
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| Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy |
Richard Sharpe |
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| Library books and personal books - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (3) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the third lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| Classroom-based Interventions Across Subject Areas: Research to Understand What Works in Education |
Seminar two of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". This seminar is based on a recent book, which aims to help researchers and practitioners understand how and why interventions can be successful or not. |
Gabriel Stylianides, Ian Thompson, Katharine Burn, Nicholas Andrews, Alexandra Haydon, Ann Childs, Trevor Mutton |
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| English medieval library catalogues - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (2) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the second lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| A Westphalia for the Middle East? |
This talk will discuss the parallels between the Thirty Years War and today’s Middle East and suggest ways in which lessons drawn from the congress and treaties of Westphalia. |
Patrick Milton |
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| The Consequences of Refugee Repatriation for Stayees: A Threat to Stability and Sustainable Development? |
Using longitudinal data from Burundi collected in 2011 and 2015, this paper explores the consequences of repatriation for stayee households i.e. those who never left the country during the conflict |
Carlos Vargas-Silva |
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| Why the Responses to Address Intrastate Armed Conflicts fail? |
Michael von der Schulenburg will discuss the shortcomings of the UN Charter to regulate foreign military interventions and paradoxes in UN peacekeeping |
Michael von der Schulenburg |
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| Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| The Law and Practice of Cross-border Humanitarian Relief Operations: Syria as Case Study |
Dapo Akande and Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard from ELAC (Oxford) discuss humanitarian relief in Syria |
Dapo Akande, Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard |
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| Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context |
Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context |
Judith Gardner |
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| The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Contested Sovereignty in Territorial Domains |
Within the context of modernity and globalisation, this research project investigates the processes by which governance arises in territories subjected to illicit forms of social order that contest state sovereignty and authority. |
Christopher Lilyblad |
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| Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research? |
For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative researcher's methodological toolkit. |
Cassandra Phoenix |
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| Size matters a tous les temps, a tous les peuples |
Dr. Martyn Sene is Deputy CEO of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), here, he gives an introduction to the importance of measurement and metrology (the science of measurement). |
Martyn Sene |
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| Strachey Lecture: Doing for our robots what evolution did for us |
Professor Leslie Kaelbling (MIT) gives the 2019 Stachey lecture. The Strachey Lectures are generously supported by OxFORD Asset Management. |
Leslie Kaelbling |
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| The role of network meta-analysis in the evaluation of antidepressants for depression |
Andrea Cipriani is NIHR Research Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford. |
Andrea Cipriani |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marc Lackenby - Knotty Problems |
Knots are a familiar part of everyday life, for example tying your tie or doing up your shoe laces. They play a role in numerous physical and biological phenomena, such as the untangling of DNA when it replicates. |
Marc Lackenby |
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| Faith and Sexuality – A Safeguarding Crisis? |
Ozanne outlines clear evidence of the harm that certain teachings have caused the LGBT community and what can be done to address this major safeguarding issue affecting young LGBT Christian teenagers today. |
Jayne Ozanne |
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| Electron Paramagnetic Resonance - Past, Present and Future |
Professor Mark Newton describes some of the key events in the discovery and development of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR). |
Mark Newton |
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| All Souls Seminar Series: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse |
The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse |
Prabha Kotiswaran |
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| Student Access to Colleges at the University of Oxford |
Seminar led by a panel of heads of colleges and senior tutors to discuss Oxford's student selection process |
Ivor Crewe, Helen King, Alan Rusbridger, Maggie Snowling, Simon Smith, Mark Wormald, Lucas Bertholdi-Saad |
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| Unmasking Africana in British Art |
ASC seminar by Kimathi Donkor |
Kimathi Donkor |
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| Promoting fairer access to higher education: the necessity of contextualised admissions |
The ethical case for reducing entry requirements for disadvantaged learners |
Vikki Boliver, Andrew Bell, Peter Thonemann, Neil Harrison |
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| Ibrahim Khatib - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict |
Ibrahim Khatib discusses the correlations between identity, conflict perception, and willingness to reconcile. |
Ibrahim Khatib |
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| The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme |
A talk on President Nixon's radical new healthcare programme proposed in early 1971. |
John Price |
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| Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance |
Winant Lecture in American Government |
Stephen Skowronek |
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| Making Oscar Wilde |
Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. |
Michèle Mendelssohn |
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| Rethinking Teacher Education - The Problem with Accountability |
Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith argues why we need to “reclaim” teacher education accountability for the profession and in support of the larger democratic project. |
Marilyn Cochran-Smith |
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| All Souls: 'Pervasive Punishment' Making sense of mass supervision |
Fergus McNeill introduces the main arguments from his recent book explaining the meanings of 'mass supervision’ and outlining its scale and social distribution, the processes by which it has been legitimated and its significance as a penal phenomenon. |
Fergus McNeill |
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| Fairies, Children and Changelings |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the strange interest that fairies take in human infants, and the plight of children who stumble into this world, and can’t get home. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Marry Waterson, Ben Nicholls, Barney Morse-Brown. |
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| The politics of distribution in Ethiopia's 'developmental state' |
ASC seminar by Tom Lavers |
Tom Lavers |
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| Public health and gender: Assumptions, disjunctures in practice, and implications for HIV prevention within marriages in Kenya |
ASC seminar by Roseanne Njiru |
Roseanne Njiru |
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| Access and Participation at Postgraduate level: research findings and their implications for policy and practice |
This seminar will review the evidence on access to postgraduate study, identify what this might mean for funders, universities and their communities, and outline outstanding gaps in our knowledge. |
Paul Wakeling, Mike Bonsall, Nick Brown, Paul Martin |
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| Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books |
A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. |
Emily Martin |
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| Access and Participation in English HE: A Fair and Equal Opportunity for All? |
The seminar will identify how universities and government have sought to make progress in this area during the last two decades and the patterns of participation arising from this. |
Simon Marginson, Chris Millward, Martin Williams |
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| Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about love and marriage between humans and fairies. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed |
Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. |
Menachem Klein |
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| Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the digital era is transforming Kenya |
Writer and political activist Nanjala Nyabola delivers our first insaka of 2019. In this podcast, Nanjala explores shifts in power, popular action and social capacity in the digital age. |
Nanjala Nyabola |
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| Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems |
Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| A Rational Approach to Evidence-Based Decision Making in Education Policy |
If education policy-making is based strictly on rigorous evidence there is a risk of bias towards simple, discrete, measurable interventions. We present a framework for considering inconclusive evidence. |
Matthew Jukes |
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