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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice

How body size is used in research and discourse on health, bringing together theory from anthropology, sociology, public health and more. With llya Gutin, University of Texas at Austin

Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways

Exploring children's views on their diets in relation to culture, identity and tradition in their everyday lives. With Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord, University of Agder, Norway

Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity

Where or what is the difference between childhood obesity and fatness, who has the right to decide that, and why is it important? With Zofia Boni, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Digital News Report 2023. Episode 6: The importance of public service media for individuals and for society

In this episode of our #DNR23 podcast we look at how important news audiences feel public service media is, both for themselves and wider society.

Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak

Dr Michael Willis' new book offers an explanation of this unexpected development known as the Hirak Movement, examining the political and social changes that have occurred in Algeria since the ‘dark decade’ of the 1990s

Strachey Lecture: Integrating Logic, Probability and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning using Probabilistic Soft Logic

An overview of work on probabilistic soft logic (PSL), an SRL framework for large-scale collective, probabilistic reasoning in relational domains and a description of recent work which integrates neural and symbolic (NeSy) reasoning.

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

P4 healthcare and precision population health - a transformation of healthcare

Dr Leroy Hood, CEO of Phenome Health, discusses his strategy for precision population health

Panel discussion: 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?

This discussion brings together the editors of a special issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy on Capitalism.

Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics

This UBVO seminar was presented by Zoe Meleo-Erwin (William Paterson University of New Jersey) on 19 November 2020

Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health

This UBVO seminar was presented by Adam Gilbertson (University of North Carolina) on 12 November 2020

Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food

This UBVO seminar was presented by Ben Wurgaft (MIT) on 5 November 2020

Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon

A UBVO seminar presented by Oli Williams (King's College London) on 29 October 2020

The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences

This UBVO seminar was given by Rebecca Puhl (University of Connecticut) on 22 October 2020

The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States

This UBVO seminar was given by William Dietz (George Washington University) on 15 October 2020

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Art and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

The Great Health Dilemma: Is Prevention Better than Cure?

Join Professor Chris Dye, author of The Great Health Dilemma, and Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director of CAPRISA, as they discuss ways to invest more money and effort in health promotion and prevention around the world today.

Emerging technology and systemic risk – maintaining a secure and resilient digital infrastructure as we build back better

Sadie Creese and Jamie Saunders discuss the steps that need to be taken by technologists, businesses, government and the international community to ensure that our digital infrastructure continues to provide the level of resilience and security we need.

Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing

A UBVO seminar presented by Sarah Bourke (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University) on 24 January 2019

Thinking again about the future and prospects for humanity

In conversation with Charles Godfray, Martin Rees will explore how the global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic might change the way societies and policymakers grapple with the major challenges of the 21st century.

Greed is dead: politics after individualism

Economists Paul Collier and John Kay discuss their book, Greed is Dead, with Sir Charles Godfray

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