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201 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 The tool box at states' disposal to prevent displacement: a Swiss perspective | A harmful action that is looming and has not yet taken place is difficult for third-party states to denounce or counter. A whole range of measures and methodologies is at their disposal enabling them to contribute to the prevention of forced displacement. | Isabelle Gómez Truedsson | 08 May 2013 |
202 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Driving displacement: explosive weapons in populated areas | The issue of the role of explosive weapons in generating displacement in urban areas has recently risen up the international agenda. | Simon Bagshaw | 08 May 2013 |
203 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Predicting disasters and protecting rights | In order to prevent or reduce disaster-related displacement, we need to address some clear gaps in both knowledge and capacity by improving research on and awareness of disaster risks and associated human rights, and the capacity to address them. | Justin Ginnetti, Nina Schrepfer | 08 May 2013 |
204 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Towards a uniform legal system of protection | There exists a set of inter-related normative texts for the protection of the environment and for the prevention and reduction of disasters, as well as for ensuring respect for human rights in all circumstances. | Dimitrios Chotouras | 08 May 2013 |
205 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Flooding in Thailand: flee, fight or float | The severity of recent flooding in Thailand and the probability of future flooding have triggered a re-assessment of coping mechanisms employed by both the Thai population and the government. | Wan S Sophonpanich | 08 May 2013 |
206 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 The management of climate displacement | Knowing that displacements will occur as a result of climate change, the humanitarian community will need to work pre-emptively with communities identified as likely to be threatened on the land-based solutions that may be available to them. | Scott Leckie | 08 May 2013 |
207 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Shelter interventions prevent and mitigate displacement | In hazard-prone developing countries, shelter interventions are an important way to prevent or mitigate natural disaster-induced displacement. To be effective, they need to be multi-faceted and carried out with the involvement of the communities affected. | Davina Wadley | 08 May 2013 |
208 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Recognising the land rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities | Current global trends are putting increasing economic pressure on land and natural resources, raising the risk that new waves of internal displacement may be caused by the combined forces of climate change and large-scale investment in agriculture. | Rhodri C Williams | 08 May 2013 |
209 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Voluntariness to remaın | The 'choice' to remain rather than flee is often in effect not really voluntary. | Arzu Guler | 08 May 2013 |
210 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 The ICRC approach in situations of pre-displacement | The ICRC prioritises the need to prevent displacement-triggering events when possible. Their experience highlights the complexity of the challenges and the central role of working in partnership to serve communities at risk. | Veronika Talviste, Jamie A Williamson, Anne Zeidan | 08 May 2013 |
211 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Businesses' human rights responsibilities | Businesses have the responsibility to avoid infringements of human rights that could lead to displacement and also to take actions to remedy their human rights violations that might lead to displacement. | Corinne Lewis | 08 May 2013 |
212 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Undermining development: forced eviction in Bangladesh | The case of a proposed coalmine in Bangladesh clearly illustrates the potential for human rights violations in such projects, the need for stronger safeguard policies that uphold people's rights and prevent displacement, and the power of local protest. | Kate Hoshour | 08 May 2013 |
213 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 The UN Security Council and prevention of displacement | Respecting the prohibitions against forced and arbitrary displacement could significantly reduce the risk of, or prevent, displacement in situations of armed conflict. | Sanjula Weerasinghe, Elizabeth Ferris | 08 May 2013 |
214 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Preventing re-displacement through genuine reintegration in Burundi | Displacement is often part of a cyclical process of conflict and displacement. Preventing displacement, therefore, is not only about preventing new displacement but about ensuring that people do not get re-displaced. | Lucy Hovil | 08 May 2013 |
215 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Post-conflict land insecurity threatens re-displacement in northern Uganda | For many in northern Uganda, access to land and property remains an unresolved issue that threatens peace and sustainable returns. | Levis Onegi | 08 May 2013 |
216 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Education as an essential component of prevention of youth re-displacement | If education is seen as a factor that keeps refugees in camps or host communities rather than encouraging them to go back home, it should be systematically included as part of return to prevent re-displacement. | Marina L Anselme, Barbara Zeus | 08 May 2013 |
217 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 The role of women defenders of human rights in Colombia | Women in Colombia are increasingly being attacked because of their efforts to defend human rights and to bring an end to the conflict and displacement in their country. | Juanita Candamil, Claudia María Mejía Duque | 08 May 2013 |
218 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Property restitution in Colombia | The Colombian government has established a legal framework to prevent further displacement. The rebuilding of community relationships and institutional trust are central to the success of this approach. | Eduardo Medina | 08 May 2013 |
219 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Natural disasters and indigenous displacement in Bolivia | Those seeking to understand and address the reasons for growing numbers of displaced indigenous people in Bolivia should consider the relationship between traditional knowledge and the impacts of climate change. | Ludvik Girard | 08 May 2013 |
220 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Attempts to prevent displacement in the occupied Palestinian territories | Prevention has become a strategy increasingly adopted by the humanitarian community in addressing forced displacement in the occupied Palestinian territories and responding to immediate emergency needs for families displaced or at risk. | Karim Khalil | 08 May 2013 |
221 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 East African refugees adapting to life in the UK | This article reflects on the first-hand life experiences of refugees of East/Horn of Africa origin on arrival in the UK. The experiences, some of which could be seen as humorous or sad, may be informative and relevant for other practitioners. | Samuel Bekalo | 08 May 2013 |
222 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 The conveniently forgotten human rights of the Rohingya | As stateless Rohingya in Burma face containment in IDP camps and within their homes and communities in what is effectively segregation, their human rights are on the whole being ignored. | Natalie Brinham | 08 May 2013 |
223 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 North Koreans in China in need of international protection | Ihe international community needs to reconsider how it might better work towards securing protection for North Koreans. Some may be political refugees, others 'refugees sur place'. | Roberta Cohen | 08 May 2013 |
224 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 From a lab in Luxembourg to satellites in South Sudan | A new communications platform for use in humanitarian emergencies made its debut in January 2012 in South Sudan, and is now being deployed elsewhere. Emergency.lu aims to be a global inter-agency tool. | Marianne Donven, Mariko Hall | 08 May 2013 |
225 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Making work safe for displaced women | Understanding risk factors and protection strategies allows practitioners to ensure appropriate programme design and implementation for displaced women. | Dale Buscher | 08 May 2013 |
226 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Lessons from mobilisation around slum evictions in Tanzania | A study of forced urban eviction in Tanzania shows that grassroots mobilisation alone may be unable to confront the challenges of displacement and that there are risks when mobilisation around displacement is premised on unrealistic expectations. | Michael Hooper | 08 May 2013 |
227 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Are refugees an economic burden or benefit? | Governments emphasise the negative impacts and costs but these, although undeniable and well documented, are only part of the picture. | Roger Zetter | 08 May 2013 |
228 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Overseas cultural orientation programmes and resettled refugees' perceptions | Resettled refugees often have misconceptions about their potential for self-sufficiency in the United States, and experience adjustment problems after their arrival. | Julie M Kornfeld | 08 May 2013 |
229 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 LGBT: equally entitled to human rights and dignity | Recognition that LGBT rights are universal rights is gaining ground. The trend, finally, is positive. But greater respect for LGBT rights and inclusion of LGBT people still is not a worldwide movement. | Anne C Richard | 10 May 2013 |
230 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 Challenging RSD clients' preferences for foreign service providers | Organisations that provide legal services to refugees and asylum seekers face the challenge of responding ethically to clients' requests to be assisted by foreigners as opposed to by nationals in country offices. | Christian Pangilinan | 08 May 2013 |
231 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 From the editors | From the editors. | Editors | 08 May 2013 |
232 | Creative Commons | Fmr 42 Ensuring protection for LGBTI Persons of Concern | There needs to be greater awareness not only of the specific protection concerns relating to LGBTI individuals but also of related jurisprudence and guidance available for UN staff, partners, state authorities and decision-makers. | Volker Türk | 10 May 2013 |
233 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 New UNHCR SOGI Guidelines | New UNHCR SOGI Guidelines. | Editors | 10 May 2013 |
234 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Mental health challenges of LGBT forced migrants | Mental health providers can assist in documenting the psychological impact of anti-LGBT persecution and its impact on the ability to secure refugee status. | Ariel Shidlo, Joanne Ahola | 10 May 2013 |
235 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 The Rainbow Group in Mae La camp | Discrimination, verbal abuse and physical and sexual violence follow Burmese LGBTI people who cross into Thailand to seek shelter in camps. | Moses | 10 May 2013 |
236 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 "On what grounds?" LGBT asylum claims in Canada | A number of positive developments have occurred over the past two decades to create more robust protection and community support within Canada, but recent legislative changes will jeopardise fairness and justice for LGBT refugee claimants. | Sharalyn Jordan, Chris Morrissey | 10 May 2013 |
237 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 LGBTI asylum claims - the Central and Eastern European perspective | Low levels of awareness, lack of guidance and cultural hostility are jeopardising asylum seekers' prospects for fair treatment. | Anna Śledzińska-Simon, Krzysztof Śmiszek | 10 May 2013 |
238 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Global human rights frameworks applicable to LGBTI migrants | Although no international legal instrument exists to specifically protect the human rights of LGBTI individuals, over recent years international legal bodies have interpreted basic human rights provisions to apply to LGBTI populations. | Shana Tabak, Rachel Levitan | 10 May 2013 |
239 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 LGBTI refugees: the Brazilian case | Public policies in defence and in favour of LGBT people are neither sufficient nor effective in reducing homophobic violence in Brazil. | Henrique Rabello de Carvalho | 10 May 2013 |
240 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Sexual orientation and gender identity: developments in EU law | The amended version of the EU Qualification Directive, adopted in 2011, marks further progress in ensuring LGBTI applicant' rights by explicitly adding gender identity alongside sexual orientation as a cause of persecution. | Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi | 10 May 2013 |
241 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 LGBT refugee protection in the UK: from discretion to belief? | The UK government used to have no specific guidance or training for decision-makers for claims brought on the grounds of sexual orientation. It was only in 2010 that specific policy guidance was speedily issued and significant progress was seen. | Amanda Gray, Alexandra McDowall | 10 May 2013 |
242 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Seeking asylum in the UK: lesbian perspectives | Many aspects of the UK asylum process can be confusing, disempowering and traumatic for lesbian asylum seekers. Recent research examines the impacts of this process on their experiences, their identity and their well-being. | Claire Bennett, Felicity Thomas | 10 May 2013 |
243 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Resources for those representing asylum claims on grounds of sexual orientation | Resources for those representing asylum claims on grounds of sexual orientation. | Editors | 10 May 2013 |
244 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Barriers to justice in the UK | In recent years, there have been significant legal advances in the treatment of the cases of lesbian and gay asylum seekers in the UK. However, significant barriers still remain. | Charlotte Mathysse | 10 May 2013 |
245 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Asylum for persecuted homosexuals in the Republic of Korea | Two recent successful claims for asylum suggest that the Republic of Korea may be prepared to serve in the future as an important country of asylum for those suffering persecution due to their sexual orientation. | Andrew Wolman | 10 May 2013 |
246 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Challenges to producing LGB-specific Country of Origin Information | Evaluations of whether LGB asylum claimants have a well-founded fear of persecution frequently require Country of Origin Information but information on LGB populations in countries where being LGB is criminalised is often difficult to obtain. | Christian Pangilinan | 10 May 2013 |
247 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Assessing transgender asylum claims | It can be challenging for all asylum seekers to demonstrate that they are at risk of persecution but perhaps even more so for transgender applicants. | Jhana Bach | 10 May 2013 |
248 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Kosovo: what does the future hold for LGBT people? | States considering such claims need to look beyond Kosovo's apparently progressive constitution to the rather different reality on the ground. | Agathe Fauchier | 10 May 2013 |
249 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 City planning for sexual diversity: new policies in Bogotá | In 2009 the city council of Bogotá introduced a policy to guarantee equal rights for LGBT people in the city. | Marcela Ceballos, Juan Carlos Prieto | 10 May 2013 |
250 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Towards inclusive resettlement for LGBTI refugees | Practical initiatives, such as creating a welcoming space, ensuring confidentiality, training staff, providing critical resources and fostering inclusive workplaces, can promote a more humane resettlement experience. | Jennifer Rumbach | 10 May 2013 |
251 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 LGBT refugee resettlement in the US: emerging best practices | US refugee resettlement agencies are directing more attention and effort toward assisting LGBT refugees and asylum seekers, and best practices are beginning to emerge. | Scott Portman, Daniel Weyl | 10 May 2013 |
252 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 LGBTI migrants in immigration detention | As states increasingly use detention as a means of controlling migration flows, sexual minority migrants find themselves in detention facilities where they may face multiple violations of their human rights. | Shana Tabak, Rachel Levitan | 10 May 2013 |
253 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 A model immigration detention facility for LGBTI? | The US has taken some positive steps to improve the treatment of gay and transgender asylum seekers in immigration detention but could make improvements in four key areas. | Christina Fialho | 10 May 2013 |
254 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Protection in the city: some good practice in Nairobi | Despite a challenging protection environment, an assistance programme for LGBTI refugees in Nairobi offers examples of good practice that could be replicated in other urban settings. | Duncan Breen, Yiftach Millo | 10 May 2013 |
255 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Identity and integration in Israel and Kenya | Expression of non-conforming sexual orientation and gender identity depends on social, legal, cultural and political opportunities which provide space for exploration and the emergence of new identities. People's protection will also depend on these. | Yiftach Millo | 10 May 2013 |
256 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Gender identity and disaster response in Nepal | Agencies need to be mindful of the special needs of LGBTI victims of disasters in order to enhance protection and minimise unintended harmful consequences of relief efforts. | Kyle Knight, Courtney Welton-Mitchell | 10 May 2013 |
257 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 LGBT aid workers: deployment dilemmas | LGBT aid workers and their managers confront a number of dilemmas in deciding whether LGBT staff will be safe - and accepted - working in certain countries. | Anon | 10 May 2013 |
258 | Creative Commons | FMR 42 Grantmaking for SOGI programmes | With issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity a relatively new field for funders, the opportunity exists for funders to exert strategic influence on the development of improved policy and practice. | Andrew S Park | 10 May 2013 |
259 | Creative Commons | FMR 35 Kakuma's first raffle | In the face of continuing funding cuts to programmes, residents and staff in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya have had to find new ways to support persons with disabilities. | Menbere Dawit with the Kakuma Syndicate Disabled Group | 29 Mar 2013 |
260 | Creative Commons | Human Genetics | Professor Peter Donnelly tells us how genetics helps us to understand common diseases and develop new drugs. | Peter Donnelly | 09 Jul 2013 |
261 | Creative Commons | FMR 41 From the Nansen Principles to the Nansen Initiative | The Nansen Initiative launched in October 2012 aims to build consensus among states about how best to address cross-border displacement in the context of sudden- and slow-onset disasters. | Walter Kälin | 08 May 2013 |
262 | Creative Commons | Tower Poetry 2013: Investigation Details; Echo and Narcissus | Kathryn Cussons reads her entry to the 2013 Tower Poetry competition. | Kathryn Cussons | 10 Jul 2013 |
263 | Part 2 - My path to academic success - Ed Anderson | Dr Ed Anderson, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford gives an overview of his current role, and advice on issues he encountered along the way, including the benefits of a post doctoral position in the USA. | Ed Anderson | 17 Jul 2013 | |
264 | Part 3 - My path to academic success - Asel Sartbaeva | Dr Asel Sartbaeval, a Lecturer at the University of Bath, discusses her path from Kyrgyzstan to Oxford and beyond, and offers some advice on balancing career success with family and relationships. | Asel Sartbaeva | 17 Jul 2013 | |
265 | What has chemistry ever done for me? Or, how did I get here? | Professor Lesley Yellowlees, the first female President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, talks about the choices she had to make in order to obtain her two dream jobs (and hold them at the same time). | Lesley Yellowlees | 17 Jul 2013 | |
266 | Part 1 - My path to academic success - Alison Parkin | Dr Alison Parkin, who has just started her own lab group at the University of York, talks about taking career development step by step, and the importance of both research and teaching in academic careers. | Alison Parkin | 17 Jul 2013 | |
267 | Industry research and management at Infineum | Dr Martin-Dare Edwards (University College, 1974), Project Director for Infineum UK, talks about transitioning from research to management roles within the chemical industry. | Martin-Dare Edwards | 17 Jul 2013 | |
268 | Science Communication at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden | Dr Alison Foster (Jesus College), Senior Curator at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, talks about her journey from industrial pharmaceutical chemistry research to her current role in horticulture, and offers some tips for major career transitions. | Alison Foster | 17 Jul 2013 | |
269 | Patent Law | Dr John Fisher (Oriel College, 2001), talks about his role as a patent attorney, and offers advice for students who are considering a similar career. It's all about advocacy! | John Fisher | 17 Jul 2013 | |
270 | Science Journalism | Laura Howes (Merton, 2001), a science correspondent for Chemistry World, talks about the ins and out of science journalism in general, and her path to a career with the Royal Society of Chemistry. | Laura Howes | 17 Jul 2013 | |
271 | Parenting, politics and petrol bombs: trying to reduce child abuse in Africa | In her talk, Prof Lucie Cluver explores: can we really improve parent-child relationships, reduce child abuse and reduce poverty? | Lucie Cluver | 18 Apr 2017 | |
272 | Book Launch: 'East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity' | Prof Philippe Sands (QC) presents his new book in a colloquium with Prof Dapo Akande and Dr Stephen Humphreys in the OTJR series. | Philippe Sands, Dapo Akande, Stephen Humphreys | 13 Apr 2017 | |
273 | Supercapacitors, Ionic Liquids, and Implications for Sustainable Energy | From smart phones to electric cars, batteries and energy storage devices are vital. Dr Nico Cousens is studying ionic liquid supercapacitors - a next generation technology with the potential to transform energy storage and power the cars of the future. | Nico Cousens | 18 Jul 2013 | |
274 | Conclusion: Strange Substances and Structures | Imagine being able to transform an insulating material into an electrical conductor just by touching it with a magnet. | Andrew Goodwin | 18 Jul 2013 | |
275 | Crystals, Hydrothermal Bombs, and the Study of Strange Mechanical Properties | Andrew Cairns and Ines Collings, DPhil students in the Goodwin Group, explain how they make single crystals in the lab and study their unusual properties. | Andrew Cairns, Ines Collings | 18 Jul 2013 | |
276 | Introduction to Solar Fuels | In an 'Oxford tutorial' style podcast, Professor Fraser Armstrong introduces the concept of artificial photosynthesis: coupling a light harvesting material with a fuel producer in order to generate storable energy from sunlight. | Fraser Armstrong | 19 Jul 2013 | |
277 | Enzymes as Fuel Producers | Growing energy demand worldwide is a crucial challenge for chemists. Suzannah Hexter, Armstrong Group, shows how, with the help of enzymes, the principles of photosynthesis may be artificially exploited and improved to provide a clean energy resource. | Suzannah Hexter | 19 Jul 2013 | |
278 | Photosynthesis in Nature | Dr Alison Foster, a former chemist and Senior Curator at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden explains the principals of natural photosynthesis that the Armstrong Group is trying to mimic in the lab. | Alison Foster | 19 Jul 2013 | |
279 | Conclusion: Inspired by Nature | The current energy crisis is a time of intense challenges but also of opportunities for fantastic science and innovative ideas. | Alex T. Vai | 19 Jul 2013 | |
280 | Artificial Photosynthesis - From Photon to Fuel | Andrea Bachmeier, a DPhil student in the Armstrong Group, is helping to create a fully integrated artificial photosynthesis (APS) system which could be much more efficient at turning sunlight into fuel than living systems. | Andreas Bachmeier | 19 Jul 2013 | |
281 | 3D Printing and The Structure of Proteins | Using 3D printed molecules, Rok Sekirnik, a DPhil student in the emerging field of chemical biology, shows how protein structures can be determined in some of the Department's most distinctive looking labs. | Rok Sekirnik | 19 Jul 2013 | |
282 | Epigenetics and New Anti-Cancer Treatments | At the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine, Cyrille Thinnes, a DPhil student in the Schofield Group, shares his research into the next generation of anti-cancer treatments. | Cyrille Thinnes | 19 Jul 2013 | |
283 | Synthesizing Anti-Cancer Drugs from Nature | Chemicals found in nature can have incredibly useful functionality, including anti-malarial and anti-cancer properties. However, they are usually found in small amounts. | Chris Jones | 19 Jul 2013 | |
284 | Lasers, Cell Membranes, and the Basis of Life | Being a chemist doesn't have to mean giving up on biology and physics. | Mark Wallace, Matt Baker | 19 Jul 2013 | |
285 | Practical Uses of NMR: Exploring Enzymes to Fight Disease | The mutant enzymes that cause disease in our bodies can be combated by chemical inhibitors if we understand how these molecules are interacting. | Ivanhoe Leung | 19 Jul 2013 | |
286 | Christmas Chemistry Show 2010 | Join chemists Dr Hugh Cartwright and Dr Malcolm Stewart at Oxford University and find out just how much fun chemistry can be. You will be entertained and educated by the sort of chemistry you never get to see at school, baffling, tantalising and LOUD. | Hugh Cartwright, Malcolm Stewart | 18 Dec 2010 | |
287 | Chemistry Information Day Talk | A talk about Chemistry, studying at Oxford, the course, admissions and Oxford interviews. | Nick Green | 19 Sep 2008 | |
288 | Electrochemistry Research | Professor Richard Compton talks about his research interests, plans and spin-out companies. | Richard Compton | 17 Sep 2008 | |
289 | Creative Commons | Oxford at Said: A human genome in minutes and what it will mean to you | Oxford Nanopore is a British company, spun out of the University of Oxford in 2005 and founded on the science of Prof Hagan Bayley. It is developing new technology that has the potential to improve greatly the speed and cost of DNA sequencing. | Hagan Bayley | 25 Mar 2013 |
290 | Molecular Gastronomy is Not Molecular Cooking: A Demonstration: Part 2 | Second part of the Molecular Gastronomy is Not Molecular Cooking: A Demonstration special lecture, combining chemistry with cooking. With leading chemist Professor Hervé This and top chef Raymond Blanc OBE. | Hervé This, Raymond Blanc | 22 Dec 2010 | |
291 | Molecular Gastronomy is Not Molecular Cooking: A Demonstration: Part 1 | First part of a special Christmas event, with Professor Hervé This; Physical Chemist in the Molecular Gastronomy Group at the Chemistry Laboratory of AgroParisTech and Raymond Blanc OBE; renowned chef and owner of Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons. | Hervé This, Raymond Blanc | 22 Dec 2010 | |
292 | Creative Commons | Discovery of new medicines and the future of drug development | How does medicine work? How are new drugs made? What role does the pharmaceutical industry play? Professors Stefan Knapp and Chas Bountra work in the field of drug discovery. They joined Science Oxford talks in spring 2013. | Stefan Knapp | 16 Jul 2013 |
293 | Creative Commons | Freeing Voices: Your questions | Specific Language Impairment affects hundreds of thousands of British children, and causes them to have difficulties speaking and understanding language. | Dianne Newbury | 16 Jul 2013 |
294 | Creative Commons | Drug Discovery: Your questions | How does medicine work? How are new drugs made? What role does the pharmaceutical industry play? Professors Stefan Knapp and Chas Bountra joined Science Oxford Live in spring 2013 for an evening of Scientists on the sofa, to take your questions. | Stefan Knapp, Chas Bountra | 16 Jul 2013 |
295 | Creative Commons | Drug Discovery | How does medicine work? How are new drugs made? What role does the pharmaceutical industry play? Professors Stefan Knapp and Chas Bountra work in the field of drug discovery. They joined Science Oxford talks in spring 2013. | Chas Bountra | 16 Jul 2013 |
296 | Creative Commons | Freeing Voices | Specific Language Impairment affects hundreds of thousands of British children, and causes them to have difficulties speaking and understanding language. | Dianne Newbury | 16 Jul 2013 |
297 | Creative Commons | Well-being and Desire | I address the question of what constitutes an addition to well-being. Perhaps under specifiable conditions what someone desires is pivotal to what should be done, even if fulfilment of the desires does not add to that person's well-being. | Brad Hooker | 08 Jul 2013 |
298 | Creative Commons | How Youtube is being used as a platform to share opinions and experiences of a controversial treatment for Multiple Sclerosis | Brandon O'Neill, DPhil Candidate, PCHS, gives a lecture on treating Multiple Sclerosis and how social media is being used to share experiences of patients. | Brandon O'Neill | 16 Jul 2013 |
299 | Large Meteorite Impacts on Earth | Ken Amor looks at the science of large meteorite impacts on Earth. | Ken Amor | 30 Jan 2013 | |
300 | The Chelyabinsk Meteor | In this talk Dr Ken Amor talks about the Chelyabinsk meteor, which entered Earths atmosphere over Russia on the 15th of February 2013. | Ken Amor | 16 Apr 2013 | |
301 | Creative Commons | A behavioural perspective of translating evidence to policy and practice | Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, UCL, gives a talk at Kellogg College for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. | Susan Michie | 16 Jul 2013 |
302 | Creative Commons | A behavioural perspective of translating evidence to policy and practice | Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, UCL, gives a talk at Kellogg College for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. | Susan Michie | 16 Jul 2013 |
303 | Creative Commons | How can the customer and consumer participate in the electricity demand-side - and what's in it for them? | Panel discussion from the UKERC conference 'GB Electricity Demand - Realising the Resource' held on 16th May 2013 at Royal Society, London. | Gill Owen, Maria Pooley, Sophie Neuberg, Jeremy Nicholson | 22 Jul 2013 |
304 | Democratic Statehood in International Law | Dr Jure Vidmar, University of Oxford - 2 May 2013. | Jure Vidmar | 18 Jul 2013 | |
305 | Creative Commons | Crisis and displacement; different solutions for different kinds of displaced | Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop. | Laura Hammond | 22 Jul 2013 |
306 | Creative Commons | Insider-outsider and gendered dynamics for Somali researchers in Somalia | Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop. | Siham Rayale | 22 Jul 2013 |
307 | Creative Commons | State-building in Somali Studies: Future framework | Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop. | Mohamed Ingiriis | 22 Jul 2013 |
308 | Creative Commons | Shot at Dawn | How a contemporary photographer is addressing one of the conflict's most sensitive topics. | Chloe Dewe Matthews | 18 Jul 2013 |
309 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators | Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the first lecture, Brown discusses the use of the unreliable narrator, particularly in Nabokov's Lolita and McEwan's Atonement. | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
310 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 2: Chapters | Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the second lecture, Brown talks about the ways in which writers choose to break up their works into chapters, parts, and volumes. | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
311 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting | Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including the differing ways writers plot their work; from multi-plotted works like Ulysses (Joyce) to double plotted works like Daniel Deronda (George Eliot). | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
312 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"? | Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. With a philosophical discussion on what Comparative Literature is and how we can study 'literature in comparison'. | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
313 | Creative Commons | George Eliot 1. Intellect and Consciousness | In this lecture Dr Catherine Brown brings her discussion to focus primarily upon Eliot's atypical novella 'The Lifted Veil' and her novel 'Middlemarch'. | Catherine Brown | 10 Nov 2011 |
314 | Creative Commons | George Eliot 2. Genre and Justice | The second lecture in the series on George Eliot considers how narrative justice operates in relation to the genres of comedy and tragedy, particularly in 'Adam Bede' and 'Daniel Deronda'. | Catherine Brown | 15 Nov 2011 |
315 | Creative Commons | George Eliot 3. Reception History | In this third and final podcast, Dr Catherine Brown discusses the popularity of George Eliot's work in the Victorian period, which led to her status as a sage and the steady accumulation of her wealth. | Catherine Brown | 05 Dec 2011 |
316 | Creative Commons | William Blake | Dr David Fallon introduces the poetry, painting, and engraving of William Blake, focusing on the imaginative and visionary aspects of Blake's work and his desire to break the publics 'mind-forg'd manacles'. | David Fallon | 07 Feb 2012 |
317 | Creative Commons | Beowulf | Dr Francis Leneghan gives a talk on Beowulf, one of the most important works in Anglo-Saxon literature. | Francis Leneghan | 07 Feb 2012 |
318 | Creative Commons | Ezra Pound | Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central figure in early 20th Century poetry movements. | Rebecca Beasley | 10 Apr 2012 |
319 | Creative Commons | Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine | Dr Faith Binckes explains why modernist short story writer and critic Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is a great writer, highlighting her involvement with the 1911-1913 periodical Rhythm, edited by her second husband John Middleton Murry. | Faith Binckes | 07 Feb 2012 |
320 | Creative Commons | Olive Schreiner | Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist, pioneering feminist, and anti-imperialist polemicist. | Elleke Boehmer | 07 Feb 2012 |
321 | Creative Commons | What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question. | In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry, Dr Margaret Kean, Professor Peter McDonald and Dr Ankhi Mukherjee discuss what we mean when we talk about greatness in writing. | Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee, Rebecca Beasley | 15 May 2012 |
322 | The Domain of the Poem: Lyric, Sign, Meaning and Rhythm in Contemporary Ars Poetica (2) | Don Paterson, acclaimed poet, gives the second lecture for Humanitas lecture series on Comparative European Literature. | Don Paterson | 24 Jul 2013 | |
323 | The Domain of the Poem: Lyric, Sign, Meaning and Rhythm in Contemporary Ars Poetica (3) | Don Paterson, acclaimed poet, gives the third lecture for Humanitas lecture series on Comparative European Literature. | Don Paterson | 24 Jul 2013 | |
324 | The Domain of the Poem: Lyric, Sign, Meaning and Rhythm in Contemporary Ars Poetica (4) | Don Paterson, acclaimed poet, gives the fourth and final lecture for Humanitas lecture series on Comparative European Literature. | Don Paterson | 24 Jul 2013 | |
325 | Creative Commons | Panel 1 Lecture 2 Playing In the Dark (with the Archive): African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions | Panel 1, Lecture 2 Theorizing Black Diasporic Visual Cultures - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Alan Rice | 24 Jul 2013 |
326 | Creative Commons | Panel 1 Lecture 3 - Getting into Character: Encounters with 'Tricksterism' in Contemporary Depictions of the American Slave Plantation | Panel 1, Lecture 3 Theorizing Black Diasporic Visual Cultures - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Keith Piper | 24 Jul 2013 |
327 | Creative Commons | Panel 2 lecture 2 Uncle Tom and the Problem of 'Soft' Resistance to Slavery | Panel 2, Lecture 2 The Histories, Narratives, and Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | David Bindman | 24 Jul 2013 |
328 | Creative Commons | Panel 2 Lecture 1 Slavery, Literature, and the Image of the African American Woman as Public Record | Panel 2, Lecture 1 The Histories, Narratives, and Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Fionnghuala Sweeney | 24 Jul 2013 |
329 | Special Lecture at Modern Art Oxford: Lost and Found at the Swop Meet: Betye Saar and the Everyday Object | Special Lecture at Modern Art Oxford. Part of the Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Lubaina Himid MBE | 24 Jul 2013 | |
330 | Creative Commons | Panel 4 Lecture 1: 'The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth': Richmond Barthé's Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines | Panel 4- African American and Black Diasporic Visual Cultures in Comparative Perspective - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Hannah Durkin | 24 Jul 2013 |
331 | Panel 4 Lecture 3 - Guyana, 1763 and 1960: Art, Memory and Modernism | Panel 4 Lecture 3 - African American and Black Diasporic Visual Cultures in Comparative Perspective - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Leon Wainwright | 24 Jul 2013 | |
332 | Panel 1 Keynote Lecture - What goes without saying | Panel 1, Lecture 1 Theorizing Black Diasporic Visual Cultures - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Hank Willis Thomas | 24 Jul 2013 | |
333 | Panel 2 Keynote Lecture - Preserves | Second Keynote lecture for the Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Debra Priestly | 24 Jul 2013 | |
334 | Panel 4 Lecture 2 - Could the Master's Tools Dismantle the Master's House? | Panel 4 lecture 2 - African American and Black Diasporic Visual Cultures in Comparative Perspective - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Elvan Zabunyan | 24 Jul 2013 | |
335 | Panel 2 Lecture 3 The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Twentieth-Century Black Visual Culture | Panel 2, Lecture 3 - The Histories, Narratives, and Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium. | Zoe Trodd | 24 Jul 2013 | |
336 | Creative Commons | The Oxford Philosophical Society and the Royal Society: a meeting of minds? | Dr Anna Marie Roos gives a talk as part of the Museum's celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Royal Society. | Anna Marie Roos | 24 Jul 2013 |
337 | Creative Commons | Well-being in a Flux | Standard forms of desire-based theories of well-being claim that what is better for you is what you prefer. But how shall we decide whether one life is better for you than another when your preferences change across these lives? | Krister Bykvist | 25 Jul 2013 |
338 | Chemistry at Oxford | Why chemistry will change the world - Interview with former Chairman of Chemistry and Waynflete Professor of Chemistry: Professor S.G. Davies. | Steve Davies | 11 Sep 2008 | |
339 | Creative Commons | Migration research at Oxford: Dr Evelyn Ersanilli | In this podcast Farhan Samanani interviews MSc Migration Studies lecturer Dr Evelyn Ersanilli to find out more about her research, and the advantages of studying migration and working at the University of Oxford. | Evelyn Ersanilli, Farhan Samanani | 25 Jul 2013 |
340 | Creative Commons | Ascension Day | Sermon delivered in Oriel College Chapel on 9th May 2013 on the meaning of Christ's Ascension into Heaven by The Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby. | Judith Maltby | 30 Jul 2013 |
341 | Creative Commons | English and Gender | Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by women and men. Are we really so different? | Deborah Cameron | 21 Oct 2011 |
342 | 01 L'Histoire de Juliette et le tournant fantastique | This lecture is in French. First lecture from the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Michel Delon | 22 Jul 2013 | |
343 | Creative Commons | Out of the Jaws | Sermon about Eastertide delivered in Oriel College Chapel on 28th Apr 2013 by The Revd The Lord Leslie Griffiths. | Lord Leslie Griffiths | 30 Jul 2013 |
344 | Creative Commons | After the Ascension: Real Presence or Real Absence? | Sermon delivered in Oriel College Chapel on 12th May 2013 about the relationship between Jesus' presence and absence and making room for the Spirit by The Revd Canon Dr Joseph Cassidy. | Joseph Cassidy | 30 Jul 2013 |
345 | 02 Le personnage sadien: de l'histoire naturelle à la fiction romanesque | This lecture is in French. Second lecture of the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Alexandre Wenger | 22 Jul 2013 | |
346 | Creative Commons | 03 Lire Sade avec Rousseau | This lecture is in French. Third lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Mladen Kozul | 24 Jul 2013 |
347 | 04 Sade subversif et immoral? Le préjugé de l'intentionnalité | This lecture is in French. Fourth lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Michèle Vallenthini | 22 Jul 2013 | |
348 | 05 Le libertinage du lecteur. La question de l'identification chez Sade | This lecture is in French. Fifth lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Manuel Mühlbacher | 22 Jul 2013 | |
349 | Creative Commons | 06 Sade, nouvelle classique 'British' | This lecture in French. Sixth lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Thomas Wynn | 22 Jul 2013 |
350 | Creative Commons | 07 Sade, homme de lettres | This lecture is in French. Seventh lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Stéphanie Genand | 22 Jul 2013 |
351 | Creative Commons | 08 Obscenity off the Scene: Sade's La Philosophie dans le Boudoir | This lecture is in English. Eighth lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | John Phillips | 22 Jul 2013 |
352 | 09 Le paradigme homosexuel chez Sade | This lecture is in French. Ninth and final part of the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques conference. | Jean-Christophe Abramovici | 22 Jul 2013 | |
353 | Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre | Isaiah Berlin gives the third of his four Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University, New York, 27 October 1965 | Isaiah Berlin | 31 Jul 2013 | |
354 | The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes | Isaiah Berlin gives the second of his three Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 20 February 1973 | Isaiah Berlin | 31 Jul 2013 | |
355 | Creative Commons | Migration research at Oxford: Dr Evelyn Ersanilli | In this podcast Farhan Samanani interviews MSc Migration Studies lecturer Dr Evelyn Ersanilli to find out more about her research, and the advantages of studying migration and working at the University of Oxford. | Evelyn Ersanilli, Farhan Samanani | 25 Jul 2013 |
356 | Introduction: How Chemistry Research Impacts Human Health | To truly understand disease, we need to understand the underlying chemical processes that direct human biology. Dr Emily Flashman introduces some of the research in the Department of Chemistry that will help improve our health in future. | Emily Flashman | 19 Jul 2013 | |
357 | Conclusion: How Chemistry Research Impacts Human Health | Wrapping up this series on human health, Dr Emily Flashman talks about her work studying the mechanisms by which our bodies respond to low levels of oxygen. | Emily Flashman | 19 Jul 2013 | |
358 | Postcolonial futures: the Caribbean in dialogue | Dr Kevon Rhiney, Commonwealth Fellow and lecturer (Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies) considers contemporary social and economic development in Jamaica, in the light of environmental vulnerability and climate change. | David Howard, Kevon Rhiney | 12 Jun 2013 | |
359 | Creative Commons | The evolving role of Islamist groups in Somali politics | Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop. | Mohammed al-Hadi | 22 Jul 2013 |
360 | Creative Commons | Pictures and Texts | A symposium with William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita and Estrella de Diego Otero, chaired by Shearer West on Thursday 9 May 2013 in the Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford. | William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita, Estrella de Diego Otero, Shearer West | 28 May 2013 |
361 | Creative Commons | Transitional justice in the Somali setting | Markus Hoehne, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, gives a talk for the Horn of Africa seminar series workshop 'Post-transitional' directions in the Somalias on 30th April 2013. | Markus Hoehne | 24 Jul 2013 |
362 | Creative Commons | Thinking on one's feet and Museums: experience versus numbers | Double inaugural lecture with William Kentridge and Ivo Mesquita, chaired by Seamus Perry. | William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita, Seamus Perry | 28 May 2013 |
363 | Creative Commons | Film Workshop: the cinema of Michael Winterbottom | Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom hosts a workshop on Film for the Humanitas lecture series on Film and Television. | Michael Winterbottom | 28 May 2013 |
364 | Creative Commons | In conversation: Music theatre between opera and drama - Contemporary opera, modern staging, bad or good public. | Gerard Mortier in conversation with Ashutosh Khandekar, Editor of Opera Now followed by a roundtable discussion with Hugo Shirley, Deputy-Editor of Opera magazine. | Gerard Mortier, Ashutosh Khandekar, Hugo Shirley | 17 Jun 2013 |
365 | Creative Commons | Our Religious Traditions in a long Historical Perspective | Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies. | Abdou Filali-Ansary | 28 May 2013 |
366 | Creative Commons | Two Concepts of Sharia? | Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies. | Abdou Filali-Ansary | 28 May 2013 |
367 | Creative Commons | One Century of 'Liberal islam': Where do we find ourselves now? | Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies. | Abdou Filali-Ansary | 28 May 2013 |
368 | Creative Commons | Marshall G S Hodgson, Islam and World History | Professor Sir Christopher Bayly gives a talk for the Humanitias lecture series in Historiography with a response from Dr Faisal Devji. | Sir Christopher Bayly, Faisal Devji | 28 May 2013 |
369 | Creative Commons | Resisting Apologetics: What can we learn from Ibn Rushd and our contemporaries? | Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies. | Abdou Filali-Ansary | 28 May 2013 |
370 | Creative Commons | In Conversation: Writing the History of Reason | Professor Lorraine Daston in conversation with Professor Sally Shuttleworth. | Lorraine Daston, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie | 28 May 2013 |
371 | Creative Commons | Performance - interpretation or identification? Symposium | Symposium with Imogen Cooper actor, Simon Callow, musicologist, Professor Eric Clarke and Professor Jason Stanyek. | Imogen Cooper, Simon Callow, Eric Clarke, Jason Stanyek | 28 May 2013 |
372 | A Fire at Sea (1957) | Isaiah Berlin introduces and reads his translation of Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev's short story 'A Fire at Sea', in which Turgenev recounts an embarrassing episode from his youth. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 23 July 1957. | Isaiah Berlin | 15 Apr 2009 | |
373 | Creative Commons | Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, Collecting, Representing and Reading in Early Modern Europe | With Professor Lorraine Daston, Dr Simon Werrett (UCL), Dr Rhodri Lewis (Oxford), Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Prof Martin Mulsow (Erfurt), chaired by Prof Laurence Brockliss (Oxford). | Lorraine Daston, Simon Werrett, Rhodri Lewis, Sachiko Kusukawa, Martin Mulsow, Laurence Brockliss | 28 May 2013 |
374 | Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952) | Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952. | Isaiah Berlin | 14 Apr 2009 | |
375 | The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians | Isaiah Berlin gives the third of his three Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 22 February 1973 | Isaiah Berlin | 31 Jul 2013 | |
376 | The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition | Isaiah Berlin gives the first of his Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 19 February 1973 | Isaiah Berlin | 31 Jul 2013 | |
377 | Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 2 – J. G. Hamann | Isaiah Berlin gives the second of his four Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University, New York, 26 October 1965 | Isaiah Berlin | 31 Jul 2013 | |
378 | Creative Commons | TORCH Launch | The highlights of the launch event for The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). | Jonathan Bate, Clare Copeland, Andrew Hamilton, Marcus du Sautoy, Imaobong Umoren, Shearer West, Abigail Williams | 29 May 2013 |
379 | Creative Commons | Humanities Graduates and the British Economy | Humanities Graduates and the British Economy. | Shearer West, Sir Adam Roberts, Philip Kreager, Stephen Tuck, Andrew Hamilton | 01 Aug 2013 |
380 | What to expect from the World Economy | Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times, gives a talk for a St Edmund Hall Networking Breakfast. Introduced by David Waring, Senior Managing Director, Evercore. | Lionel Barber, David Waring | 07 Aug 2013 | |
381 | Liberalism and State Violence: Reflections on the Liberal Way of War | Director of Liberal Way of War Program Professor Alan Cromartie gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar series on 9th October 2012. Introduced by Dr Robert Johnson. | Alan Cromartie, Robert Johnson | 09 Aug 2013 | |
382 | The Ethics of Humanitarian Accountability | Alice Obrecht (One World Trust) and Philip Tamminga (DARA) give a talk for Oxford Humanitarian Group/ELAC seminar series. Introduced by Hugo Slim. | Alice Obrecht, Phillip Tamminga, Hugo Slim | 09 Aug 2013 | |
383 | Creative Commons | Influence Operations and Psyops: Information Warfare in the 21st Century | Bob Seeley, MOD, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 13th November 2012. | Bob Seeley | 09 Aug 2013 |
384 | Preventative War | Professor Deen Chatterjee gives a talk for the ELAC semianar series on 21st May 2013. With Professor Cheyney Ryan and Dr David Rodin. | Deen Chatterjee, David Rodin, Cheyney Ryan | 09 Aug 2013 | |
385 | Creative Commons | An introduction to Medical Statistics with Carl Heneghan and Rafael Perera | Dr Carl Heneghan talks to Rafael Perera about medical statistics and gives an introduction to the subject. | Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera | 09 Aug 2013 |
386 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 From the Editors | From the editors. | The editors | 09 Aug 2013 |
387 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Understanding refugees' concepts of sexual and gender-based violence | Sexual and gender-based violence prevention campaigns that incorporate culturally sensitive understanding will stand a better chance of breaking down barriers to accessing services. | Carrie Hough | 09 Aug 2013 |
388 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Emergency need for telecommunications support | The Haiti experience challenged the international humanitarian community to take advantage of the possibilities of increasingly available and common communications technologies and networks, and to ensure access to the infrastructure enabling it to do so. | Marianne Donven, Mariko Hall | 09 Aug 2013 |
389 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Poetry as women's resistance to the consequences of Bedouin displacement in Jordan | Bedouin women are able to mitigate some of the consequences of that displacement through the opportunities and influence they have gained as Nabati poets. | Maira Seeley | 09 Aug 2013 |
390 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Older people and displacement | At all phases of the displacement cycle, flight, displacement and return, older people are exposed to specific challenges and risks which are not sufficiently taken into account. | Piero Calvi-Parisetti | 09 Aug 2013 |
391 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Harming asylum seekers' chances through poor use of human rights treaties | Over the past decade, UK courts and administrative tribunals have become increasingly comfortable relying on international human rights treaties in cases where non-citizens claim asylum or other means of protection from persecution. | Stephen Meili | 09 Aug 2013 |
392 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Trails of Tears: raising awareness of displacement | Trails of Tears have arisen to draw attention and give legitimacy to multiple movements for fairness and justice, hoping to create a community of support strong enough to rectify a past injustice or prevent a future one. | Ken Whalen | 09 Aug 2013 |
393 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 The arts in refugee camps: ten good reasons | Refugees' involvement in artistic activity: music, theatre, poetry, painting, often plays a powerful positive role in their ability to survive physically and even emotionally and spiritually. | Awet Andemicael | 09 Aug 2013 |
394 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Crisis in Lebanon: camps for Syrian refugees? | Lebanon has absorbed the enormous Syrian influx but at a high cost to both refugees and Lebanese populations. Current humanitarian programmes can no longer cope and new approaches are needed. | Jeremy Loveless | 09 Aug 2013 |
395 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 State fragility, displacement and development interventions | The development approach to displacement brings advantages not only in addressing the needs of refugees, IDPs and host communities but also in helping societies tackle the underlying aspects of fragility that may have caused the displacement. | Yonatan Araya | 09 Aug 2013 |
396 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Psychiatric treatment with people displaced in or from fragile states | Psychiatrists working to assess psychological distress and mental health in fragile states, or with refugees from fragile states, need to adopt flexible approaches. | Verity Buckley | 09 Aug 2013 |
397 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Displacement in a fragile Iraq | The post-Saddam Iraqi state enjoys only limited support from the population, excludes significant sections of its people from power, suppresses the opposition and does not protect citizens from arbitrary arrests, and corruption is rampant. | Ali A K Ali | 09 Aug 2013 |
398 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Was establishing new institutions in Iraq to deal with displacement a good idea? | The humanitarian, developmental and political consequences of decades of mass forced migration are part of the legacy that the current political leaders of Iraq need to address. | Peter Van der Auweraert | 09 Aug 2013 |
399 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 Data quality and information management in DRC | Forced migration creates special challenges to collecting data and monitoring responses in fragile states where infrastructure and systems are weak or non-existent. | Janet Ousley, Lara Ho | 09 Aug 2013 |
400 | Creative Commons | FMR 43 The curious case of North Korea | Displacement and distress migration within and outside North Korea may be an indicator of state fragility but a reduction in numbers should not necessarily be read as a sign of improving conditions there. | Courtland Robinson | 09 Aug 2013 |