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Updated 22 May 2024 | 6 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
The COVID pandemic exposed the extent to which sleep is entwined with social conditions - sleep is highly dynamic and very little about sleep is unchangeable. For example, changed social conditions over the past 100 years appear to have had a marked impact upon key elements of sleep. Studies on circadian rhythms and sleep, along with historical insights, have shown that such changed societal...
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Updated 16 May 2024 | 9 episodes | University Administration and Services (UAS)
This annual lecture series celebrates the achievements of disabled people. The University is committed to establishing an inclusive environment, and we hope that this lecture series will be inspiring and empowering for everyone, particularly for our disabled staff and students. We hope that it will also increase understanding of the experiences of people living with a disability and of the...
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Updated 14 May 2024 | 3 episodes | Equality and Diversity Unit
The BME Staff Network acts as a confidential discussion forum, and holds various meetings throughout the year, both social and work-related.
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Updated 10 May 2024 | 14 episodes | Voltaire Foundation
The Voltaire Foundation is a world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship, publishing the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC), the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies, and the correspondences of several key French thinkers.
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Updated 19 Apr 2024 | 2 episodes | Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
בהסכית החדש של המרכז ללימודי יהדות מדברות המורה אסתר, והתלמידה אליסיה על השפה העברית, אנחנו לומדות אחת מהשנייה מילים חדשות ואיך באמת מדברים בישראל. A new podcast from the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. We speak in Hebrew and about Hebrew, where do words came from into Hebrew, how we say and why we say. Idioms, expressions and slang. Esther And Alicia talk about Where Yiddish...
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Updated 12 Apr 2024 | 18 episodes | IT Services
In this series we seek to rediscover film footage of Oxford’s past and make it available for public viewing. How has Oxford changed? How has it remained the same? What important events have happened at Oxford University? Each episode in the series makes use of archive films to explore when, where and how the films were taken, and what they can tell us about the history of the University, the...
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Updated 11 Apr 2024 | 3 episodes | University Counselling Service
This series of three podcasts aims to help you reflect on how you are feeling about your time abroad as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, to prepare you for some of the ups and downs of culture shock, and to encourage you to do some contingency planning so that the whole experience goes as smoothly and enjoyably as possible.
Cover art photo by Emanuela Picone on Unsplash
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Updated 28 Mar 2024 | 18 episodes | Department of Paediatrics
Bringing you the facts, stories and people behind the science. This podcast series is dedicated to exploring the world of science by delving into the fascinating facts, stories, and people that make it all possible. With each episode, listeners can expect to gain a deeper understanding of the discoveries that shape our world, and to learn about the brilliant minds behind them. So, join us as...
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Updated 28 Mar 2024 | 141 episodes | Uehiro Oxford Institute
A selection of seminars and special lectures on wide-ranging topics relating to practical ethics brought to you by the Uehiro Oxford Institute.
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Updated 20 Mar 2024 | 26 episodes | Medical Sciences Division
In-depth yet accessible interviews with world-leading neuroscientists, exploring cutting edge techniques, challenges in the field, and how these researchers think not only about the brain but life in general. The conversations are accessible to anyone with an interest in science. CortexCast is the official podcast of the Oxford University Cortex Club, a student run society that connects local...
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Updated 15 Mar 2024 | 36 episodes | Uehiro Oxford Institute
The annual public Uehiro Lecture Series captures the ethos of the Uehiro Centre, which is to bring the best scholarship in analytic philosophy to bear on the most significant problems of our time, and to make progress in the analysis and resolution of these issues to the highest academic standard, in a manner that is also accessible to the general public. Philosophy should not only create...
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Updated 21 Feb 2024 | 5 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Munich, 1942. War rages across Europe. After nearly a decade of Nazi rule, Hitler is at the height of his power. Any form of opposition is unimaginably dangerous. Anyone who dares to oppose the regime risks imprisonment, deportation, and even death. To stand up and speak out would take incredible strength and courage. There were some willing to take that risk.
Brought to you by SANSARA...
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Updated 12 Feb 2024 | 13 episodes | Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
This series of video podcasts highlights some of the key moments of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference which took place at the University of Oxford on 5-6 September 2023. This international conference explored, for the first time and in an interdisciplinary fashion, the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; it invoked the role of the arts, humanities and...
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Updated 12 Feb 2024 | 53 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare, the kinds of evidence that might be used to strengthen our critical...
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Updated 08 Feb 2024 | 86 episodes | Oxford University Development Office
Welcome to Futuremakers from the University of Oxford, where our academics debate key issues for the future of society.
Season Four: Futuremakers is back for a fourth season focusing on Brain and Mental Health. Hosted by Professor Belinda Lennox, hear Oxford experts talk to guests about the science behind the human brain and the wide-reaching impacts of mental health.
Season...
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Updated 08 Feb 2024 | 6 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
"Chaucer for Beginners" is a captivating conversational podcast series that delves into the life and enduring legacy of the renowned 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer. Hosted by a Chaucer expert, the series provides students with a comprehensive understanding of Chaucer's life and times, exploring the reasons behind the enduring relevance of his masterpiece, the Canterbury...
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Updated 06 Feb 2024 | 3 episodes | Oxford Department of International Development
The Skills for Young Lives Podcast takes a deep dive into the topic of children’s skills in the Global South. In a series of absorbing conversations with academic, policy and programme experts, Young Lives Director Cath Porter unpacks the latest research on how girls and boys develop skills throughout childhood and adolescence; how poverty, gender and global crises shape their experiences; and...
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Updated 06 Feb 2024 | 264 episodes | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
The Oxford Anthropology Podcast brings together talks by internationally renowned scholars and cutting edge researchers. Their lectures explore a wide range of human experience and feature case studies from around the world.
We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.
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Updated 22 Jan 2024 | 5 episodes | Bodleian Library
A self-destructive collaborative artist’s book by Kevin Begos Jr, William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh (1992)
Held Thursday 18 and Friday 19 May 2023, Weston Library, Oxford
Organised by Justine Provino, PhD Candidate, Jesus College, Cambridge with Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book and the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts. -
Updated 21 Dec 2023 | 107 episodes | Department of Physics
The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about the research at Oxford Physics take place throughout the academic year. Looking at topics diverse as the creation of the universe to the science of climate change.
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Updated 13 Dec 2023 | 7 episodes | Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library in Oxford has books. Lots of books. But also books that don’t look like books. Books that self-destruct. Books that decay.
Join librarian Jo Maddocks and conservator Alice Evans to explore the wonderful world of the Bodleian’s artists’ books and discover what makes a book a book.
This podcast is for book lovers, book nerds and book makers.Brought to you...
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Updated 08 Dec 2023 | 157 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Research in Medicine needs to ultimately translate into better treatment of patients. Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, collaborate to develop better care and improved preventive measures. Findings in the laboratory are translated into changes in clinical practice, from Bench to Bedside.
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Updated 01 Dec 2023 | 10 episodes | Department of Plant Sciences
Biology is the science of the 21st Century and everyone should know the fundamentals. In this series, Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the Department of Biology will guide you through key concepts, building a big picture of what Biology is all about. Based on her recent book, this video series is perfect for GCSE or A-level students, especially those looking for a University perspective.
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Updated 05 Oct 2023 | 57 episodes | Saïd Business School
The Future of Business podcast takes you inside Saïd Business School. Produced, edited and presented by a team of MBA students, this podcast takes you on a journey to explore the diverse range of sectors, stories, and students embedded in the Oxford MBA cohort and beyond, and how they will shape the future of business.
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Updated 08 Sep 2023 | 11 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
A series of podcasts from Oxford University's 'Their Finest Hour' project. Led by the Faculty of English, this project aims to collect stories, objects, and memories around British involvement in the Second World War using Oxford's Community Collection Model (OCCM). The podcasts will cover what the project is about, how it works, what it is trying to achieve, but also will...
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Updated 25 Aug 2023 | 12 episodes | Wolfson College
A podcast series that dives into the personal moments that shape our academic and professional lives.
Host: Femke Gow, Head of Communications at Wolfson College
Intro/Outro credit: Alessandro Zammataro, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (FT)
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Updated 20 Aug 2023 | 7 episodes | Bodleian Library
The symposium A New Power: Photography 1800-1850 (18 March 2023) presents recent research which considers the history of photographic invention and innovation in a truly global context and addresses the mid-19th-century history of photography through current critical concerns such as ecological change, imperial power, ethnicity and gender. The symposium was held at the Bodleian’s Weston...
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Updated 01 Aug 2023 | 98 episodes | Bodleian Libraries
The Collecting COVID oral history project captures the University of Oxford's research response during an unprecedented time, revealing the professional and personal stories of a diverse range of individual researchers and teams. Since November 2021, science writer and broadcaster Georgina Ferry has interviewed researchers and support staff from across Oxford’s academic divisions,...
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Updated 13 Jul 2023 | 10 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
The NDM recognises that public engagement is vital in order to educate, inform and build a relationship with the community. Our scientists are actively engaging in open discussion, and meeting people to debate, listen and learn.
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Updated 16 Jun 2023 | 9 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
The Oxford Professor of Poetry holds a public lecture each term. The current Professor of Poetry is A.E.Stallings.
The Professor of Poetry lectures were conceived in 1708 by Berkshire landowner Henry Birkhead and began after he bequeathed some money so it could be a valuable supplement to the curriculum. He believed ‘the reading of the ancient poets gave keenness and polish to the minds...
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Updated 18 May 2023 | 34 episodes | Department of History of Art
The Slade Lectures, which were founded in pursuance of the will of Felix Slade in 1869, focused on art historical topics, as they continue to do so today. John Ruskin delivered his first lecture as the Slade Professor of Fine Art in 1870. The Slade Professorship in conjunction with the University's museums, libraries and college collections helped to foster a wider interest in the...
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Updated 12 May 2023 | 10 episodes | Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
How can the war in Ukraine inform our understanding of peace? Experts from the Oxford Network of Peace Studies -- from University of Oxford, United Nations, World Economic Forum and more -- explore the origins, impacts and lessons of the conflict for peacebuilding.
'OxPeace', the Oxford Network of Peace Studies, is a multidisciplinary network to promote the study of peace,...
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Updated 20 Apr 2023 | 3 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Investigating the relationship between magic and location/geography via folklore, history, archeology and literature, 'Magic and the Sense of Place' was a three-day conference held in 2022. The goal of the conference was to explore magic and the sense of place in four geographical locations – Britain, Northern Europe, Central Europe, and the Americas. Bringing together personnel from...
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Updated 28 Mar 2023 | 12 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Cities are often famous for their visual architecture – just think of the Oxford skyline – but how do they sound? The Oxford Sound Album presents a selection of favourite Oxford city soundscapes chosen by a group of people who rely on sound for spatial information, work with or study music, or both. We hear the friendly, warm tones in Radcliffe Square; the narrow, echoing sounds in Holywell...
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Updated 22 Mar 2023 | 4 episodes | Wadham College
A podcast from Wadham College, University of Oxford. Bringing you interviews, seminars, and stories from our community.
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Updated 20 Feb 2023 | 4 episodes | Nuffield Department of Population Health
Join Dr Sanjula Singh for conversations with world-leading scientists who tackle today’s biggest challenges in global health. Sanjula is a researcher at Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford.
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Updated 09 Feb 2023 | 4 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Practice Makes is the podcast for the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Reimagining Performance Network (https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/reimagining-performance-network). Each episode stages a discussion between a leading performance scholar and a theatre practitioner – actors, playwrights, directors and more — to crack...
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Updated 31 Jan 2023 | 4 episodes | MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
The people behind the science at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford.
The MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (MRC WIMM) at the University of Oxford was founded in 1989 by Sir David Weatherall to foster research in molecular and cell biology, with the aim of improving human health. Through our excellent basic and applied research...
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Updated 20 Jan 2023 | 9 episodes | Middle East Centre
Welcome to Oxford Political Thought - the Oxford podcast where each week guest speakers working on Islam, politics, and history to discuss their cutting-edge research on political thought. Our guests will each speak for 20mins, one after the other and a Q&A discussion will follow. The series convenors are Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's College, University of Oxford) and Dr Usaama...
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Updated 17 Jan 2023 | 15 episodes | Middle East Centre
Almanac is a student-run initiative at the University of Oxford. Every two weeks, a number of students sit down for an in-depth discussion about the region which has made history for thousands of years and continues to make headlines today.
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Updated 23 Dec 2022 | 6 episodes | Mathematical Institute
A podcast exploring the role of mathematics and statistics in cancer research – and the stories behind the people making it happen.
Maths + Cancer is hosted by Dr Vicky Neale, a mathematician at the University of Oxford. Since March 2021, she has been receiving treatment for a rare form of cancer, prompting her to discover more about how her colleagues in the mathematical community are...
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Updated 05 Dec 2022 | 6 episodes | Uehiro Oxford Institute
The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator was a project to examine the ethical challenges faced during pandemics. It combined expertise from the Universities of Oxford, Bristol, Edinburgh, University College London, and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. This six-part podcast series is hosted by David Edmonds and covers some of the themes that emerged from the research.
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Updated 28 Nov 2022 | 1 episode | Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) at the University of Oxford aims to bridge the gap between laboratory neuroscience and human health, by performing multi-scale studies spanning from animal models through to human populations. WIN spans three departments in the University's Medical Sciences Division (Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Experimental Psychology) and...
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Updated 15 Nov 2022 | 11 episodes | Department of Social Policy and Intervention
The Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures were established after the First World War in memory of Sidney Ball who was a philosophy fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Sidney Ball was both a political radical and 'an energetic university reformer' concerned that contemporary social and economic problems should be studied at Oxford.
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Updated 08 Nov 2022 | 5 episodes | Mansfield College
Mansfield hosts a lively and engaging series of free public talks, every Friday, during Oxford University term time. The Mansfield Public Talks are convened by College Principal, Helen Mountfield QC, and platform leading figures from varied fields, aimed at opening up ideas and debate in front of a wide audience. The talks are open to all and as such are an important element of the College’s...
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Updated 17 Oct 2022 | 4 episodes | Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Inaugural lectures from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
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Updated 04 Oct 2022 | 17 episodes | Uehiro Oxford Institute
Thinking Out Loud provides audio-podcasts based on a series of videos produced by Katrien Devolder in which she talks to leading philosophers from around the world on topics related to practical ethics. The podcast and videos are meant for a non-specialist audience. You can watch the videos on the Practical Ethics Channel. Katrien is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for...
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Updated 13 Sep 2022 | 6 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Gut Instinct: GI Research Update is a podcast that brings you the latest research in gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition direct to your headphones. Hosts Tamsin Cargill and Michael FitzPatrick, gastroenterology doctors and researchers at the University of Oxford, talk you through recent clinical and translational research papers that have caught their eye, with clear explanations,...
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Updated 05 Sep 2022 | 5 episodes | Oxford Martin School
The Oxford Martin School Programme on the Future of Cooling focuses on understanding and shaping sustainable cooling solutions. We aim to make access to cooling just and equitable in a warming world. This podcast series intends to raise awareness on relevant topics around the future of cooling to a broad audience. These include the development of super-efficient energy technologies, the use of...
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Updated 31 Aug 2022 | 3 episodes | Museum of Natural History
This series of three epic (length-wise ;-)) podcasts takes a close look at some fascinating and surprising objects in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. It is a kind of fringe-event to go hand in hand with the major redisplay happening at the Museum in 2022.
Each podcast is a journey of discovery through the nooks and crannies of the Museum, talking to researchers and...