| 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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| Topology in Biology - Prof Julia Yeomans FRS |
Active systems, from cells and bacteria to flocks of birds, harvest chemical energy which they use to move and to control the complex processes needed for life. |
Julia Yeomans |
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| Welcome from the Head of the Physics Department |
Ian Shipsey delivers the welcome speech for the Saturday Mornings of Theoretical Physics. |
Ian Shipsey |
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| Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Undergraduate Lecture James Sparks - Dynamics |
For the first time ever, Oxford Mathematics has live streamed a student lecture. It took 800 years but now you can see what it is really like. We hope you find it familiar and intriguing and challenging. |
James Sparks |
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| James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all |
Prime Numbers are fascinating, crucial and ubiquitous. The trouble is, we don't know that much about them. James Maynard, one of the leading researchers in the field explains all (at least as far as he can). |
James Maynard |
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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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| Helpful Fairies |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss how fairies and humans can co-operate and assist each other. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Lucy Farrell, Ewan McPherson |
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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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| The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09 |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history. |
Simukai Chigudu |
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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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| Neo banks vs traditional banks - Are we witnessing disruption in the banking industry? |
Can banks survive without caring about customers? |
Tom Blomfield, Alice Truswell |
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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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| Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries |
An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Hooke Lecture - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere |
In some of the world’s rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses direction and flows upstream. |
Michael Berry |
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| Introducing Fairies and Fairyland |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the Modern Fairies project and talk about traditional imaginings of fairyland. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| Machine perfusion – a new dawn or optimistic hyperbole? |
Professor Peter Friend, Dr David Nasralla and Dr Carlo Ceresa discuss liver transplantation and why they are replacing conventional cold storage in an ice box with normothermic automated, transportable liver preservation. |
Peter Friend, David Nasralla, Carlo Ceresa |
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| Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future |
Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary. |
Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
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| Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
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| What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau |
ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo |
Teresa Almeida Cravo |
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| Student activism in an era of decolonization |
ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck. |
Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre, Marcia Schenck |
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| Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan |
Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives. |
Khaled Furani |
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| Oxford Mathematics Student Lectures: An Introduction to Complex Numbers - Vicky Neale |
Much is written about life as an undergraduate at Oxford but what is it really like? |
Vicky Neale |
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| Genes, Hands, Nerves, and Brains |
Professor Dominic Furniss and Dr Akira Wiberg discuss the tremendous connection we have between the hand and the brain, focusing their talk on Dupuytren's Disease and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. |
Dominic Furniss, Akira Wiberg |
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| Achieving the Holy-Grail: The Humanising Healthcare Methodology |
Mr Hamish Dibley, a senior management consultant, explores a new and refreshing approach to how we understand and improve healthcare systems. |
Hamish Dibley |
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| Effect of metformin on breast cancer metabolism |
Dr Simon Lord presents a clinical study to understand the effect of metformin - one of the most commonly prescribed treatments worldwide for diabetes - on breast cancer metabolism. |
Simon Lord |
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| Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948 |
How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine? |
Netta Cohen |
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| Admissions Testing Preparation Effects |
This seminar is the first of a five-part seminar series on 'Student Access to University'. This seminar discusses the relationships between student characteristics and test performances with Oxford University admissions tests data. |
Jo-Anne Baird, Karen O'Brien, Samina Khan, Rebecca Surender |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Num8er My5teries |
With topics ranging from prime numbers to the lottery, from lemmings to bending balls like Beckham, Professor Marcus du Sautoy provides an entertaining and, perhaps, unexpected approach to explain how mathematics can be used to predict the future. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice |
The peacebuilding literature has long emphasised that youth involvement is key to ensuring long-term peace. In the aftermath of the 'no' victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements' push for peace. |
Elena Butti |
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| Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials |
Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. |
David Torgerson |
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| Strachey Lecture: Steps Towards Super Intelligence |
Why has AI been so hard and what are the problems that we might work on in order to make real progress to human level intelligence, or even the super intelligence that many pundits believe is just around the corner? |
Rodney Brooks |
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| All Souls Blog: The Politics of Global Policing |
Professor Ben Bowling |
Ben Bowling |
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| Process thinking in four modes |
Professor Ann Langley, Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings, HEC Montréal discusses her research work. |
Ann Langley |
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| Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC |
Focusing on the 'male perpetrator,' this paper first examines how, why, and with what effect gendered and raced imaginaries became encoded in international peace and security policy. |
Chloe Lewis |
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| Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts |
Dr Katerina Tkacova, member of CCW, introduces the seminar series based on the CCW research project - Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts. |
Katerina Tkacova |
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| The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it |
Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Mike Kelly |
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| How imperfect can a study be? |
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'. |
Alan Silman |
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| Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England |
Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english. |
Julia Mattison |
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| Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century |
Dr Medha Saxena (Delhi, and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow), gives the 2018 annual Marconi lecture. |
Medha Saxena |
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| Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews |
Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism. |
Brian Klug |
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| Writing Rights in 1789 |
Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. |
Keith M Baker |
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| Orna Sasson-Levy - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence |
Orna Sasson-Levy discusses the cast of women soldiers who decide to speak |
Orna Sasson-Levy |
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| Creating More Peaceful Societies - Global Strategies to Reduce Interpersonal Violence by 50 Percent in 2040 |
Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge |
Manuel Eisner |
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| Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building |
Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature. |
Adriana X Jacobs |
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| Live panel on digital engagement |
In this live panel, we sit down with Resident Advisor founder Nick Sabine and fellow MBA slash film producer Yetunde Dada to discuss community engagement through digital media. |
Nick Sabine, Yetu Dada |
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| BCorps: the future firm What is a bcorp? How do people know what this is |
Can businesses lead the charge for social good? That is the idea behind B Corps, a movement of 2,500 businesses in 50 countries committed to having a positive impact in the world. |
Michaelanne Butler, Charmain Love |
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| David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships |
David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships. |
David Tal |
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