| 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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| Early childhood development – A blue ocean opportunity? |
This talk was recorded as part of the Future of Business Series. |
Tarun Varma, Laura White and Puja Balachander |
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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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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (4) The Stones of Civil War |
Dr John Blakinger speaks about iconoclasm in American history and the vandalism of Confederate monuments. |
John Blakinger |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (3) Dismantling the Gallows |
Dr John Blakinger discusses 'Scaffold', Sam Durant's contentious sculpture. |
John Blakinger |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (2) The Body of Emmett Till |
Dr John Blakinger speaks about the controversy surrounding Dana Shutz's painting of the body of Emmett Till exhibited at the 2017 Whitney Biennnial. |
John Blakinger |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (1) Warhol in Safariland |
Dr John Blakinger talks about demonstrations against the Whitney Museum of American Art related to its connections with the tear gas manufacturer Safariland. |
John Blakinger |
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| Driving Africa's prosperity through sustainable and innovative practices |
Guest lecture by the 6th President of Mauritius- Prof Ameenah Gurib-Fakim. |
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim |
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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 Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution |
Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom delivers the 18th Hintze Lecture. |
Jacqueline van Gorkom |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Creativity Code: how AI is learning to write, paint and think |
In this fascinating and provocative lecture, Marcus du Sautoy both tests our ability to distinguish between human and machine creativity, and suggests that our creativity may even benefit from that of the machines. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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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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| Doing good while doing well - impact investing unpacked |
What is behind the rise of impact investing and is the hype warranted? |
Aunnie Patton Power |
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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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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Graham Farmelo - The Universe Speaks in Numbers |
An old-fashioned tale of tale of romance and estrangement, of hope and despair. |
Graham Farmelo |
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| Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture Discussion |
The discussion after the lecture, with an international guest panel on decolonising education and reimagining the higher education space in Africa and the Diaspora. |
Running Grass, Sizwe Mkwanazi, Shaeera Kalla, Nompendulo Mkatshwa. |
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| Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture |
The Oxford Africa Society will host an annual lecture delivered by the Director of the University of Oxford’s African Studies Centre and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Wale Adebanwi. |
Wale Adebanwi |
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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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| ... from collisions to the Higgs boson |
To study the Higgs boson at the LHC we also need to understand how highly energetic quarks and gluons interact, among themselves and with the Higgs. |
Fabrizio Caola |
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| From protons to collisions… |
We learn about the Higgs Boson and its interactions at the LHC by examining the debris produced by colliding protons head-on at unprecedented high energies. |
Lucian Harland-Lang |
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| What the Large Hadron Collider is telling us about the Higgs sector and its new interactions |
Over the past two years, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has started to directly probe a qualitatively new class of interactions, associated with the Higgs boson. |
Gavin Salam |
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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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| Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture: Analysis III - Integration |
The third in our popular series of filmed student lectures takes us to Integration. This is the opening lecture in the 1st Year course. |
Ben Green |
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| When business and karma collide |
Simon Coley and Albert Tucker of Karma Cola tell the Future of Business podcast how they built a company, a foundation, and a "virtuous circle," bringing organic sodas to consumers and vital investment to communities in Sierra Leone. |
Simon Coley, Albert Tucker |
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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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| Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism |
Dan Edelstein from Stanford University gives the Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture, the convenor is Avi Lifschitz, Magdalen College. |
Dan Edelstein, Avi Lifschitz |
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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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| Religion, War and Terrorism |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Tony Coady argues that religion does not have an inherent tendency towards violence, including particularly war and terrorism. |
Professor Tony Coady |
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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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| Innovations to improve outcome and patient safety in low and middle income countries |
Ms Sarah Kessler discusses and shows clips from ‘The Checklist Effect’, the award-winning documentary inspired by the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. |
Shafi Ahmed, Sarah Kessler |
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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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| How and why did a large majority of Jews survive the Holocaust in France? |
Professor Jacques Semelin (Sciences Po, Paris) presents a multifactorial analysis which can explain the survival of Jews in occupied France, without forgetting the dead. Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College, Oxford) chairs. |
Jacques Semelin, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris |
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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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| Future of workspaces, connected devices and smart cities |
We interviewed Vanessa Lee Butz, CEO and Founder of District Technologies to understand what smart cities are and what the connected future would look like? |
Vanessa Lee Butz |
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| OUCAGS and clinical academic training in the UK |
Professor Chris Pugh gives a talk on clinical academic training and the role OUCAGS (Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School) plays. |
Chris Pugh |
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| Who drives change in Africa? |
In the second of our special two-part episode, we learn about Africa’s competitive advantages, shifting demographics, and the leadership challenges and opportunities faced by young people and women. |
Vera Songwe, Kola Adesina, Erik Hersman |
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| Decolonising African museums: the Africa perspective |
The debate on decolonising museums has been very lively across the gardens, libraries and museums in Oxford over the last few months. |
Fredrick Manthi |
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| Gastrointestinal (GI) haemorrhage |
Dr Raman Uberoi talks about interventional radiology and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. |
Raman Uberoi |
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| The conservation of Japanese collections at Bodleian Libraries |
Learn about the conservation of unique Japanese items such as Naraehon, a Japanese genre of lavishly-illustrated literature from the fifteenth-eighteenth centuries. |
Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán |
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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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| A closer future for Africa? |
As countries across Africa vote on ratification of the landmark Continental Free Trade Agreement, we learn more about what's at stake for the continent in the first of a special two-part episode. |
Vera Songwe, Kola Adesina, Erik Hersman |
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| Thinking 3D: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture |
Thinking 3D is an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences, co-investigated by Dr Laura Moretti and Daryl Green. |
Laura Moretti, Daryl Green |
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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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| Communication in Healthcare: A Failure in Need of Rescue? |
Professor Amir Ghaferi discusses the current state of communication in healthcare and in particular surgery. Is there a failure in need of rescue? |
Amir Ghaferi |
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| The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford) |
Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three. |
Yehouda Shenhav, Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 2: Liberalism and Secularism: a dialogue between Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern) and Yolanda Jansen (Amsterdam) |
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Yolande Jansen discuss the notion of the “secular,” liberal politics of the nation-state. Session 2 in a series of three |
Elisabeth Shakman Hurd, Yolande Jansen |
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| The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 1 Religion and Politics: a dialogue between William Cavanaugh (DePaul) and Timothy Fitzgerald (Centre for Critical Research on Religion) |
Timothy Fitzgerald and William Cavanaugh discuss the politics and history of the conceptual duality and its current usages. First session in a series of three |
Timothy Fitzgerald, William Cavanaugh |
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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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| The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel |
Professor Seumas Miller sets out how the use of lethal and coercive forces may erode moral character and cause moral injury. |
Seumas Miller |
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| On Purpose and Profit: Deciphering the Economics of Mutuality |
What is the right level of profit for a company? |
Bruno Roche |
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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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| The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times |
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture was given by Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University. |
Marci Shore, Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Bolder Action for health in Africa |
This talk was delivered by Dr Tolullah Oni, Clinical Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge. |
Tolullah Oni |
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| Is energy bad for Africa? |
This talk was delivered by Prof Malcolm McCulloch, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy. Many utility companies are setting up large scale energy projects in African countries. |
Malcolm McCulloch |
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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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| Lighting up Africa |
There are currently over one billion people without access to electricity. A significant number of these people live in Africa where inadequate infrastructure restricts access. |
Greta Talbot-Jones, Laurence Copson |
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| Personalised external aortic root support: the Oxford experience |
Miss Renata Greco talks about personalised external aortic root support and in particular the Oxford experience with this technique. |
Renata Greco |
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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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| Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today |
Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel. |
Avner Offer |
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| Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel |
Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state |
Eyal Chowers |
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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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| Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy? |
Is 'gig work' exploitative and injust? In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Daniel Halliday examines the common concerns from an ethical perspective. |
Daniel Halliday |
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| Guy Burton - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947' |
How have rising power engaged with the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as their behaviour in international politics more generally? |
Guy Burton |
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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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| Loathly Ladies |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the loathly lady: the hideous hag who knows the secret that the hero seeks, and whom he must learn how to respect. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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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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| The Alseran Ruling One Year On; Session 2: A Critical Assessment of Recent Investigations and Prevention Efforts |
On the first anniversary of the Alseran ruling, where it was found that detainees in British military custody in Iraq had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment, and had been unlawfully detained. |
Thomas Obel Hansen, Elizabeth Stubbins Bates, Dapo Akande |
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| The Alseran Ruling One Year On; Session 1: Alseran in Context |
On the first anniversary of the Alseran ruling, where it was found that detainees in British military custody in Iraq had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment, and had been unlawfully detained. |
Liora Lazarus, Nicholas Mercer, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Melanie Jacques |
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| Oxford Mathematics First Year Student Tutorial on Dynamics |
The Oxford Mathematics educational experience is a journey, a journey like any other educational experience. |
Ian Hewitt, Kate Adams, Farid Manzoor |
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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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| Davos Doom and Gloom |
This year's World Economic Forum was punctuated by an overall sense of pessimism and concern for the future. One attendee, Oxford Saïd Business School Dean Peter Tufano, gives his take on the state of business. |
Peter Tufano |
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| Cricket to clinic via the lab |
Professor Giles Toogood talks about his background which combined sport and surgery, and discusses the advances in hepatobiliary. |
Giles Toogood |
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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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| Why the world is simple - Prof Ard Louis |
The coding theorem from algorithmic information theory (AIT) - which should be much more widely taught in Physics! - suggests that many processes in nature may be highly biased towards simple outputs. |
Ard Louis |
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