IT Services

IT Services

Oxford University IT Services is located at Dartington House in Wellington Square, among other locations, and offers facilities, training and advice to members of the University in all aspects of academic computing, as described in our Mission Statement. IT Services is responsible for the core networks reaching all departments and colleges.

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Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
Lessons learned on the way up - how to take control of your career in STEM and still have a life!	Inspirational talk given to young female science students as part of the 3rd Annual OxFest Symposium 2014 - "WHY SO SLOW? Closing the gender gap in STEM" Thursday 27th February 2014	Jackie Hunter	18 March, 2014
Career, Creativity and Confidence	An inspirational talk given to young female science students by engineer Roma Agrawal as part of the OxFest Symposium 2014 - "WHY SO SLOW? Closing the gender gap in STEM",	Roma Agrawal	18 March, 2014
Equality and Diversity Unit: Harassment Advisory Service	Caroline Kennedy, Equality and Diversity Unit, University of Oxford - a briefing about how staff and students access this support and how a Harassment Advisor can help individuals.	Caroline Kennedy	18 February, 2014
Online Harassment and Social Media: Criminal Offences and Defamation.	John X Kelly, Principal Legal Information Specialist, gives a talk for the Safer Internet Day 2014 summit	John X Kelly	18 February, 2014
The Gender and Digital Culture Project presents The Online Professional.	Dr Sara Perry, University of York, explains her personal story in relation to online harassment and bullying, and her research as part of Gender and Digital Culture.	Sara Perry	18 February, 2014
University of Oxford summit for Safer Internet Day 2014	Dr Stuart Lee, introduces the University of Oxford's summit for Safer Internet Day 2014 about the challenges of online harassment and bullying.	Stuart Lee	18 February, 2014
The Importance of Education to Freedom and Equality	A speech given by the late Nelson Mandela on 13th April 2002 at the opening of the "Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre" at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.	Nelson Mandela	6 December, 2013
Mandela in 1997 – Ceremony of Welcome Speech	This short video is taken from 1997 from a speech made by Nelson Mandela, former South African President, during the Ceremony of Welcome, at Convocation House, University of Oxford, 11th July 1997.	Nelson Mandela	6 December, 2013
MediaPub Training	A training video for the MediaPub system for adding new podcasts to the university media portals.	Oxford Podcasts	18 November, 2013
Shot at Dawn	How a contemporary photographer is addressing one of the conflict's most sensitive topics.	Chloe Dewe Matthews	18 July, 2013
From Owen's Doomed Youth, to his doomed youth	Lecture at the event 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to the Battle of the Sambre'. Imperial War Museum, 10th November 2012.	Jean Moorcroft Wilson	27 February, 2013
From Mametz Wood to The General	Lecture on Siegfried Sassoon given at the Imperial War Museum, London, 12th November 2011.	Jean Moorcroft Wilson	27 February, 2013
Les Permissionnaires	A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War (in French).	Emmanuelle Cronier	20 February, 2013
Soldiers on Leave	A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War.	Emmanuelle Cronier	20 February, 2013
The Last Phase	A discussion on the last phase of the First World War. A talk given at 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to Battle of the Sambre', Imperial War Museum, 10th November 2012.	Max Egremont	18 February, 2013
The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation	Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our memory of the Sarajevo assassination.	Dr Paul Miller	10 January, 2013
Popular fiction in World War One	An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public during the First World War.	Jane Potter	10 December, 2012
Wartime Art and Grief	German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War.	Claudia Siebrecht	10 December, 2012
Morality in Wartime Britain	Dr Edward Madigan from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission considers the issue of morality and the role of the British clergy during the First World War.	Edward Madigan	10 December, 2012
Blogging and Twitter	Elizabeth Eva Leach, Tutorial Fellow in Music at Oxford, disseminates her research through her blog as well as using Twitter to encourage succinct scholarly exchange.	Elizabeth Eva Leach	26 November, 2012
Social Media and your Career	How can social media become career tools? In this talk Lucy Hawkins, Careers Adviser at the University of Oxford, reveals the techniques of how to use social media for information gathering, active self-marketing and networking.	Lucy Hawkins	26 November, 2012
Copyright in the Digital Age	Emily Goodhand is the Copyright and Compliance Officer at the University of Reading. She has a strong Twitter presence as @copyrightgirl and is Vice-Chairman of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA).	Emily Goodhand	26 November, 2012
Rethinking impact with social media	Oxford-based researcher Nando Sigona started his blog "Postcards from..." in 2008. Since then his use of social media has expanded into Twitter and Podcasting to engage wider communities in his research on migration, asylum and minority issues.	Nando Sigona	26 November, 2012
Which technologies do Oxford University students use?	Melissa Highton, University of Oxford, presents the findings of the DIGE Project which investigated the use of technology by students from Oxford.	Melissa Highton	26 November, 2012
Is blogging and tweeting about research papers worth it?	Does using social media have an impact on disseminating your research papers? Dr Melissa Terras, UCL, gives her experiences and opinions on this question through her own personal findings.	Melissa Terras	21 November, 2012
Conflict Culture	How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier?	Matthew Leonard	29 October, 2012
The Better Part of Valour	Combatant Courage on the Western Front.	Edward Madigan	29 October, 2012
Surplus Women	The First World War and its impact on emigration, work and marriage.	Rosemary Wall	29 October, 2012
The Indian Sepoy in the First World War	The role of India and the Indian Sepoy in the First World War.	Santanu Das	29 October, 2012
Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours?	The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914.	Catriona Pennell	29 October, 2012
The Historian and the Centenary	Important questions, problems, and challenges pertaining to the role historians and scholars will play in the centenary of the First World War.	Pierre Purseigle	29 October, 2012
Some people visit the Web. Other people live there.	Using his own research on what motivates individuals to become more 'Resident' online, David White will explore the pros and cons of developing a professional online persona and what it takes to get started.	David White	18 October, 2012
Would you blog the truth?	Peter Gill discusses the power of the blog for knowledge exchange and communicating the truth behind health research findings to wider audiences.	Peter Gill	18 October, 2012
What does Marcus du Sautoy do with Social Media?	At the launch of the 'Engage' programme, Professor Marcus du Sautoy discusses the role that digital technologies play in his work as the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University.	Marcus du Sautoy	18 October, 2012
Weblearn: Improving Admin	Dr Claire Aland, Director of Anatomy at University of Oxford, talks about how the WebLearn Sign Up tool has galvanised the organisation of anatomy demonstration at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.	Claire Aland	24 August, 2012
Europeana 1914-1918: Community Collection	Alun Edwards, Manager for RunCoCo, University of Oxford, discusses the value of crowd-sourcing and public engagement in the Europeana 1914-1918 project to digitise First World War memorabilia.	Alun Edwards	24 August, 2012
23 Things: Oxford	Laura Wilkinson and Penny Schenk, librarians at the University of Oxford and members of the 23 Things Oxford Team, talk about their blog-based training programme to teach Web 2.0 skills to Oxford librarians.	Laura Wilkinson, Penny Schenk	24 August, 2012
Student Innovation: the LHSee app	Chris Boddy, a Physics DPhil candidate at University of Oxford, talks about how he developed a smartphone app to explain the complex images produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.	Chris Boddy	21 August, 2012
Blogging to Engage: Politics in Spires	Kate Candy, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, explains the cross-institutional blog, Politics in Spires, which aims to share thoughts on Politics and International Relations with the subject community.	Kate Candy, A. Blake Ewing	2 March, 2012
Assessment for Learning: Using Mobile Polls in the Classroom	Dr Helen Christian describes her use of the audience response system via the WebLearn Polls Tool and Mobile Oxford supplied for free by Oxford University.	Helen Christian	15 February, 2012
Blended Learning in Cross-Disciplinary Programmes: WebLearn	Dr Adrian Stokes explains how the systematic use of Weblearn, the university's VLE, has led to a sustainable and efficient framework for blended learning.	Adrian Stokes	9 February, 2012
Student Innovation: Developing Mobile Apps for learning	Helen Ginn, a Biochemistry undergraduate at Magdalen College, talks about how she developed a mobile app to serve a specific niche task.	Helen Ginn	1 February, 2012
Using Agent-based Modelling to think about Complex Systems	The Modelling4All project at the University of Oxford have developed the BehaviourComposer tool to enable scholars to create agent-based models, opening up this area of investigation to much wider audiences in teaching, learning, research and outreach.	Ken Kahn, Howard Noble, Angela McLean, Samir Bhatt	25 January, 2012
Supporting Tutorials: Using Weblearn	Revd Dr James Robson at Wycliffe Hall has used WebLearn, the University's Virtual Learning Environment, for tutoring and supporting his students in their learning and formation.	James Robson	18 January, 2012
Beyond 2011 - The Sequel	Debate and discussion about academic crowdsourcing and community content in the UK and beyond, with highlights and interesting ideas from the day.	Alastair Dunning, Stuart Lee, Chris Batt	27 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - A Nursery Rhyme	Melissa Highton (Oxford University Computing Services) examines how Oxford's crowdsourced and community collections of open educational resources are supported and embedded in practice for sustainability.	Melissa Highton	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - A Saga of Creativity	Gail Durbin (Victoria and Albert Museum) examines how a nationally focused museum can use its web presence to foster the interest and expertise of users, as well as sharing its own authoritative information?	Gail Durbin	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - A Cautionary Tale	Arfon Smith (University of Oxford) presents the experience of the Zooniverse team with their citizen science and crowdsourcing efforts and the changing role of the citizen scientist.	Arfon Smith	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - A Road Movie	Alun Edwards and Stuart Lee (Oxford University Computing Services) present their experiences of running public participation days in Germany to gather everyday objects from World War I.	Alun Edwards, Stuart Lee	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - Choose Your Own Adventure	'Time Travels' from the creator of How To Be A Retronaut and inventor of the Retroscope, and a leader of Museumpreneurs.	Chris Wild	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - Character Journey	The story of the super-transcribers involved in the project to understand the thousands of manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham.	Valerie Wallace, Tim Causer	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - "...apart from that he was completely naked" and other stories of the amazing everyday in the community	Chris Morgan 'Mog' (University of Glamorgan, GEECS) presents on the Communities 2.0 digital inclusion project and the collection of digital stories that community members make.	Chris Morgan	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - Keynote: Tales of Big Society	Beyond 2011 Keynote presentation from Robert Ashton, author of The Barefoot Entrepreneur.	Robert Ashton	26 May, 2011
Beyond 2011 - Introduction: Once Upon a Time...	Melissa Highton, Head of the Learning Technologies group at Oxford University Computing Services opens the conference. She referred to the themes of earlier Beyond conferences, and introduced today's theme "Beyond Collections".	Melissa Highton	26 May, 2011
Garr Reynolds on Presentations	Conversation with Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen.	Garr Reynolds	8 February, 2011
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, text of the edition by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon. 2nd ed., ed. Norman Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.	Anonymous	23 December, 2010
Twas The Night Before Christmas	'Twas The Night Before Christmas. A Visit from St. Nicholas. By Clement C. Moore.	Clement Moore	22 December, 2010
A Christmas Carol	A Christmas carol in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas. By Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.	Charles Dickens	21 December, 2010
Ways out of the Climate-Finance-Energy Triple Crunch	Jeremy Leggett (Founder and CEO, Solar Century) presents the closing keynote speech for the Oxford Climate Forum 2010.	Jeremy Leggett	14 April, 2010
Panel debate: Have activists added to the climate change problem?	Neil Bowerman gives the opening talk to the debate, have activists added to the climate change problem?	Neil Bowerman	14 April, 2010
After Copenhagen: Change Politics, not the Climate	Pam Giddy, director of Power 2010, gives a talk for the 2010 Oxford Climate Forum.	Pam Giddy	14 April, 2010
The Politics of Climate Change: Problems and Solutions	Lord Anthony Giddens gives the opening keynote address to the Oxford Climate Forum, talking about the politics of climate change.	Anthony Giddens	14 April, 2010
Alisa Miller: 'Selling Patriotism: Rupert Brooke in the First World War'	Alisa Miller takes a look at the 'Rupert Brooke cult', examining why this particular poet was so popular during the First World War, both with the general public and the soldier, at home and abroad.	Alisa Miller	26 January, 2010
Tim Kendall: 'Ivor Gurney: First War Poet'	Professor Tim Kendall considers what composer and poet Ivor Gurney understood by the phrase 'war poet' and how he saw his own work as belonging to (and eminent amidst) a tradition of writing about war.	Tim Kendall	26 January, 2010
An interview with Colin Hughes	Colin Hughes, author of David Jones: the man who was on the field (1979), discusses his friendship with poet and artist David Jones and his research on the Battle of Mametz Wood.	Colin Hughes, Alun Edwards	26 January, 2010
Mandelson: Enterprise-led Recovery	Lord Peter Mandelson gave a key-note speech following an invitation by the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Said Business School.	Lord Peter Mandelson	10 December, 2009
Gargoyles Unveiled	Nine new gargoyles for the Bodleian Library, Oxford are unveiled. The gargoyles were designed by children as part of the Millennium Myths and Monsters competition.	University of Oxford	8 October, 2009
University Club	The University Club provides social, sporting and hospitality facilities for all staff, post-graduates, alumni and retired staff of the university and associated institutions.	University of Oxford	8 October, 2009
Vice Chancellor's Welcome	A welcome message from Professor Andrew Hamilton, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford.	Andrew Hamilton	30 September, 2009
David Smith on Dementia	Professor Smith talks about his research at OPTIMA (Oxford Project To Investigate Memory and Ageing) on dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s and the relation between diet and blood pressure in younger life and dementia in older life.	David Smith, Oliver Lewis	17 August, 2009
Peter McDonald on Censorship in South Africa	Peter McDonald talks about censorship, its philosophical basis and general history within Apartheid South Africa.	Peter McDonald, Oliver Lewis	11 August, 2009
Peter McDonald on Literature	Summary: Peter McDonald talks about how he became to be interested in Literature, how he became to be an academic at Oxford and what it is like to study literature at Oxford.	Peter McDonald, Oliver Lewis	11 August, 2009
David Willetts on Investment in Sciences at Universities	David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Universities and Skills, visited the University of Oxford on Thursday 18 June. Here he discusses the importance of investment in the sciences at universities, particularly during an economic downturn.	David Willetts	13 July, 2009
Boat Race Naming Ceremony 2009	The 2009 Boat Race naming ceremony.	John Bell	28 May, 2009
Introduction to Sport at Oxford	A short introduction to sport at Oxford.	University of Oxford	28 May, 2009
Obama's First 100 Days	Orla De Burca interviews Desmond King, Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, on Barack Obama’s first 100 days as President; discussing Obama’s plans to recover America’s Economy and the success so far of his foreign and domestic plans.	Desmond King, Orla De Burca	6 May, 2009
Poetry Slam: Judges Verdicts	The judges deliver their verdicts of the entries for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Steve Larkin, Heidi Vaughan, Bernard O'Donoghue	13 March, 2009
Your Parents' Careers	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Robert Rapoport	13 March, 2009
Untwining	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Antonia Tam	13 March, 2009
One Thing Leads to Another	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Dan Stott	13 March, 2009
Michelangelo	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Jesse Bordwin	13 March, 2009
Letter from a Predator	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Thomas John Stevenson	13 March, 2009
Instant Symphony Mix	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Aisha Mirza	13 March, 2009
Poetic Phonetics	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Christopher Peter Joseph Turner	13 March, 2009
Dia de los Muertos	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Thomas John Stevenson	13 March, 2009
A System of Education	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Christopher Peter Joseph Turner	13 March, 2009
Take a Rectangle	A shortlisted entry for the 2009 University of Oxford Online Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Competition.	Sophie Duker	13 March, 2009
Second Life and E-Learning	Karl Harrison talks to Orla de Burca about the 3D virtual world Second Life, including Oxford's own virtual island and how it is being used to facilitate learning and engaging with students in new ways.	Karl Harrison, Orla De Burca	13 March, 2009
7 Keys to the Future	Veronica Sartore interviews Ray Hammond about his role as a futurologist and the seven major trends he predicts will affect life throughout the 21st century.	Ray Hammond, Veronica Sartore	12 March, 2009
WW1 Poetry Digital Archive Project	JISC documentary introducing the WW1 Poetry Digital Archive Project website and providing an overview to the wealth of material available.	Kate Lindsay	13 November, 2008
Peter Harrison on Science and Religion	Professor Peter Harrison discusses the relationship between science and religion, the myths that surround the relationship, and discusses some of the contentious contemporary issues.	Peter Harrison, Oliver Lewis	22 October, 2008
Marc Stears on Radical Political Thought	Political theorist Dr. Marc Stears talks about the importance of political theory and describes some of the radical political movements of Britain and the United States.	Marc Stears, Oliver Lewis	22 October, 2008
Student Newspapers	An introduction to the student newspapers in Oxford.	Henry Clarke Price, Rosie Macaulay, Natasha Vashisht, Rebecca Molyneux	18 September, 2008
Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire	Bryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.	Bryan Ward-Perkins, Oliver Lewis	13 September, 2008
Jennifer Lau on Anxiety and Depression in Children	Dr Jennifer Lau discusses her research into the development of anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence.	Jennifer Lau, Oliver Lewis	13 September, 2008
Gero Miesenboeck on Fruit Flies and Neuroscience	In this podcast, Professor Gero Miesenboeck begins with a discussion of DNA and neuroscience, and then talks about his experiments on the brain of the fruit fly.	Gero Miesenboeck, Oliver Lewis	13 September, 2008
The Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Natural History	An introduction to the Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Natural History.	Oxford University	12 September, 2008
Oliver Taplin on Classics	Professor Oliver Taplin, an authority on classics and the performance of ancient drama, talks about the subject and his research.	Oliver Taplin, Oliver Lewis	12 September, 2008
Adrian Moore on Metaphysics	Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, explores the definition and origin of metaphysics, and then discusses some of the enduring metaphysical questions.	Adrian Moore, Oliver Lewis	12 September, 2008
Irene Tracey on FMRI and Pain	Professor Irene Tracey, director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, explains how MRI works and then talks about her research into people’s perception of pain.	Irene Tracey, Oliver Lewis	12 September, 2008