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| 303 | Bridging the subject divide (Vice-Chancellor’s Colloquium - Climate) | Exploring the Vice-Chancellor’s Colloquium on Climate, where 200 undergrads join forces with top academics to combat the climate crisis. VC Irene Tracey talks to programme lead Bill Finnegan, Pablo Mukherjee and two students. | Irene Tracey, Bill Finnegan, Erin Adlard, Michał Pietrzak | 12 Jul 2024 | |
| 302 | Oxford women making a global impact | This International Women's Day (8 March), Professor Irene Tracey sat down with women from across the University who are making a global impact with their work. | Irene Tracey, Kokila Lakhoo, Isang Awah, Katrina Charles | 09 Apr 2024 | |
| 301 | Evidence-based strategies for suicide and self-harm prevention | Professor Lennox sits down with Professor Seena Fazel, to discuss his work on better understanding the causes of suicide. | Belinda Lennox, Seena Fazel | 08 Feb 2024 | |
| 300 | Suicide prevention and mental health advocacy | Professor Lennox speaks to Ben West, mental health campaigner, best-selling author and social media influencer, about suicide prevention. | Belinda Lennox, Ben West | 08 Feb 2024 | |
| 299 | Innovation and spinouts | Mairi Gibbs, Chief Operating Officer at Oxford University Innovation and Lilly Bussmann, Principal at Oxford Science Enterprises, join Professor Irene Tracey for the latest podcast in this series to discuss innovation at Oxford. | Irene Tracey, Mairi Gibbs, Lilly Bussmann | 02 Feb 2024 | |
| 298 | Fire and Wire in the Garden | Irene speaks to Dr Chris Thorogood, the Head of Science at Oxford Botanic Garden, about the past, present and future of this extraordinary institution. | Irene Tracey, Chris Thorogood | 02 Feb 2024 | |
| 297 | Wellbeing in the workplace | Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of Oxford's Wellbeing Research Centre, speaks to Irene about why wellbeing matters in the workplace. He also discusses some of the latest research findings coming out of the Wellbeing Research Centre. | Irene Tracey, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve | 02 Feb 2024 | |
| 296 | Women in STEM | Irene speaks to DPhil student Misha Patel and Professor Sonia Antoranz Contera . They touch on their pathways into science as women, the importance of networks and what direction their work will take next. | Irene Tracey, Misha Patel, Sonia Antoranz Contera | 02 Feb 2024 | |
| 295 | Supporting the mental health of young people | Professor Lennox talks to Cynthia Germanotta and Dr. Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes from 'Born This Way Foundation' and Professor Mina Fazel about the importance of supporting young people’s mental health. | Belinda Lennox, Mina Fazel, Cynthia Germanotta, Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes | 11 Sep 2023 | |
| 294 | Protecting mental health in crisis contexts | Professor Lennox is joined by Benjamin Perks from UNICEF, Sabine Rakotomalala, from the World Health Organization and researchers from Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention, to discuss protecting mental health in crisis contexts. | Belinda Lennox, Benjamin Perks, Sabine Rakotomalala, Jamie Lachman | 11 Sep 2023 | |
| 293 | Workplace wellbeing | Professor Lennox sits down with Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to look at what contributes to our wellbeing at work, and the evidence linking happiness and productivity. | Belinda Lennox, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve | 11 Sep 2023 | |
| 292 | Building resilient mental health in the workplace | Professor Lennox is joined by Sir John Kirwan, a former New Zealand rugby player and co-founder of workplace wellbeing technology platform Groov, to discuss preventative mental health in the workplace. | Belinda Lennox, John Kirwan | 11 Sep 2023 | |
| 291 | Childhood and adolescent anxiety | Professor Lennox sits down with Professors Cathy Creswell and Polly Waite to talk about how anxiety affects young people and the effective new treatments being developed. | Belinda Lennox, Cathy Creswell, Polly Waitse | 11 Aug 2023 | |
| 290 | Maternal mental health | Professor Lennox talks to Professors Marian Knight and Fiona Alderdice about how mental illnesses impact women and families in the postnatal period, and the power of speaking out. | Belinda Lennox, Marian Knight, Fiona Alderdice | 11 Aug 2023 | |
| 289 | Brain injury and rehabilitation | Professor Belinda Lennox is joined by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg and Jenny Clarke from the charity SameYou to discuss the impact of traumatic brain injury and how researchers can help patients in their recovery. | Belinda Lennox, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Jenny Clarke | 11 Aug 2023 | |
| 288 | Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’ | Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X | Peter Millican, Sarah Gilbert, Peter Horby, Jimmy Whitworth | 14 Jan 2021 | |
| 287 | Ebola | Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. | Peter Millican, Kevin Decock, Katie Ewer, Brian Angus | 14 Jan 2021 | |
| 286 | HIV/AIDS | In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV. | Peter Millican, Harold Jaffe, John Frater, Kevin Decock | 14 Jan 2021 | |
| 285 | The 'Spanish' Flu | Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak. | Peter Millican, John Oxford, Brian Angus, Claas Kirchhelle | 14 Jan 2021 | |
| 284 | 'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't? | In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak... | Peter Millican, Julia Mannherz, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus | 14 Jan 2021 | |
| 283 | Cholera | Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow | Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti | 14 Jan 2021 | |
| 282 | Smallpox, and Jenner | Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries. | Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 281 | The Great Plague | in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England. | Peter Millican, Paul Slack, Emma Smith, Kees Windland | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 280 | The Black Death | Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak. | Peter Millican, Samuel Cohn, Blanche Oguti | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 279 | The Plague of Justinian | Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced. | Peter Millican, Michael McCormick, Abigail Buglass | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 278 | Athens: the first plague? | Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted. | Peter Millican, Tim Rood, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 277 | Mark Carney on Climate Change | Professor Millican travels to the Bank of England to interview its Governor, Mark Carney. | Peter Millican, Mark Carney | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| 276 | Solving climate change - nature or technology? | Solving climate change can involve either mitigation – reducing the greenhouse gases we're putting into the atmosphere – or adaptation – the process of adjusting to our changing environment. | Peter Millican, Nathalie Seddon, Jim Hall, Helen Gavin | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| 275 | Is climate conflict inevitable? | In this Futuremakers episode we ask experts the question - is climate conflict inevitable? | Peter Millican, Kate Guy, Troy Sternberg | 13 Dec 2019 | |
| 274 | Climate change - who should we sue? | In this episode of Futuremakers, we’re asking what does a rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets? | Peter Millican, Fredi Otto, Liz Fisher, Myles Allen | 13 Dec 2019 | |
| 273 | Can we be green AND capitalist? | In this episode we ask; can we be green AND capitalist? | Peter Millican, Ben Caldecott, Thomas Hale, Charmain Love | 28 Nov 2019 | |
| 272 | Should nuclear power be part of our energy system? | Should nuclear power be part of our energy system? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with experts from Oxford. | Peter Millican, Nick Eyre, Sarah Darby, James Marrow | 28 Nov 2019 | |
| 271 | What did the Paris Climate Agreement change? | What did the Paris 2015 Climate Agreement change? what did the politicians at Paris actually achieve? | Peter Millican, Fredi Otto, Richard Miller, Sugandha Srivastav | 07 Nov 2019 | |
| 270 | Climate change: do individual actions matter? | Is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet? | Peter Millican, Susan Jebb, Tina Fawcett, Tristram Walsh | 28 Oct 2019 | |
| 269 | How do you build a greener country? | What does the current infrastructure in the UK look like, and how far is it from where we need to be to meet our international commitments? | Peter Millican, Cameron Hepburn, April Burt, Alison Smith | 28 Oct 2019 | |
| 268 | Climate change and politics - why haven’t we done more? | With the IPCC warning that policymakers have limited time to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5° C - why haven’t we done more? | Peter Millican, Caroline Lucas, Ryan Rafaty, Tristram Walsh | 28 Oct 2019 | |
| 267 | Twelve years to climate disaster? | The IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C broke into the public consciousness through media reporting that we only had twelve years to limit climate change catastrophe. | Peter Millican, James Painter, Myles Allen, Helen Johnson | 28 Oct 2019 | |
| 266 | Could quantum computing change the world? | Peter Millican tries to discover the truth about a global race to develop the world’s first scalable quantum. | Peter Millican, Peter Leek, David Deutsch, Vera Schafer | 11 Apr 2019 | |
| 265 | Making the Case for Democracy | Hillary Clinton delivers the Romanes Lecture of Hope in the Sheldonian Theatre, 25th June 2018 | Hillary Clinton | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 264 | QUADcast episode 2: Admissions - an interview with Tilly Rose, Oxford alumna, blogger and social media influencer. | This month on QUADcast, we’ve interviewed alumna Tilly Rose (Jesus, 2011) about her work widening access to Oxford University, and her life as a blogger and social media influencer. | Tilly Rose | 16 Jan 2019 | |
| 263 | Season Finale: AI selection box | In the final episode of our series, we’re looking back at the themes we’ve discussed so far, and forward into the likely development of AI. | Gil McVean, Sandra Wachter, Nigel Shadbolt, Peter Millican | 08 Jan 2019 | |
| 262 | Is China leading the way in AI? | In the penultimate episode of series one of Futuremakers, we’re looking at the development of AI across the globe. | Peter Millican, Mike Wooldridge, Xiaorong Ding, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer | 19 Dec 2018 | |
| 261 | Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation | Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | James Ivory, Richard Parkinson, Katherine Harloe, Jennifer Ingleheart | 18 Dec 2018 | |
| 260 | What does AI mean for the future of humanity | Join our host, philosopher Professor Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with three experts from Oxford University. | Peter Millican, Allan Dafoe, Mike Osborne, Jade Leung | 12 Dec 2018 | |
| 259 | Has AI changed the way we find the truth? | Around the world, automated bot accounts have enabled some government agencies and political parties to exploit online platforms in dispersing fake messages. | Peter Millican, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vidya Narayanan, Mimie Liotsiou | 06 Dec 2018 | |
| 258 | QUADcast episode 1: Careers - an interview with Jonathan Black, Director of the Careers Service. | In this episode, Richard and Tabitha visit Jonathan Black, Director of the Careers Service here at the University to talk about the benefits our alumni can still receive from the service. | Jonathan Black | 03 Dec 2018 | |
| 257 | From Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, the birth of AI? | Many developments in science are achieved through people being able to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and in the history of AI two giants in particular stand out. | Peter Millican, Ursula Martin, Andrew Hodges, Jacob Ward | 19 Nov 2018 | |
| 256 | Does AI have a gender? | Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topics of gender and AI. | Peter Millican, Gina Neff, Carissa Véliz, Sian Brooke | 12 Nov 2018 | |
| 255 | Is AI good for our health? | Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topic "Is AI good for our health?" | Peter Millican, Alison Noble, Paul Leeson, Jessica Morley | 02 Nov 2018 | |
| 254 | Is the banking sector about to change for ever? | AI is already playing a role in the finance sector, from fraud detection, to algorithmic trading, to customer service, and many within the industry believe this role will develop rapidly within the next few years. | Peter Millican, Stephen Roberts, Nir Vulkan, Jannes Klaas | 22 Oct 2018 | |
| 253 | Are all algorithms biased? | Our lives are increasingly shaped by automated decision-making algorithms, but do those have in-built biases? If so, do we need to tackle these, and what could happen if we don't? | Peter Millican, Sandra Wachter, Helena Webb, Brent Mittelstadt | 22 Oct 2018 | |
| 252 | How will the automation of jobs likely progress? | In 2013 two Oxford academics published a paper entitled 'The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?', estimating that 47% of U.S. jobs were at risk of automation. | Peter Millican, Mike Osborne, Judy Stephenson, David Clifton | 22 Oct 2018 | |
| 251 | Trailer: season one launching 22nd October! | Down winding streets, beyond the dreaming spires, inside the college walls, debates are happening - in every study room and lecture theatre - about the future of society. Futuremakers, from the University of Oxford, invites you to that debate. | Peter Millican | 16 Oct 2018 | |
| 250 | Does love have a scent? | Love is in the air - or is it? Companies are advertising that they can find you love through the power of scent! But are pheromones a chemical way to find your true love? Or is it just a myth? | Tristram Wyatt | 06 Feb 2018 | |
| 249 | Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times (St Edmund Hall, 1974) | Lionel Barber discusses the changing media landscape, the impact of social media, and how the award-winning Financial Times continues to respond to the digital age. | Lionel Barber | 14 Aug 2017 | |
| 248 | Creative Commons | Dr Desirée Cox, stem cell and regenerative medicine expert, and artist (Pembroke, 1987) | Dr Desirée Cox describes her extraordinary journey from growing up in a tough urban area in the Bahamas to becoming a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. | Desirée Cox | 23 Jun 2017 |
| 247 | Creative Commons | Dr Tom Crawford, mathematician and presenter (St John's College, 2008) | Dr Tom Crawford, also known as the Naked Mathematician, shares his love of Maths and describes how he is dispelling stereotypes to explain Maths to teenagers. | Tom Crawford | 01 Jun 2017 |
| 246 | Creative Commons | Sir Roger Bannister, athlete and neurologist (Exeter College, 1946) | Sir Roger Bannister relives running the first sub-four-minute mile in a special podcast to mark the anniversary of his extraordinary achievement in May 1954. | Roger Bannister | 28 Apr 2017 |
| 245 | Creative Commons | Leading businesswoman Grace Sai describes how disruptive technology, including virtual and augmented reality, are changing how consumers interact with products. | Leading businesswoman Grace Sai describes how disruptive technology, including virtual and augmented reality, are changing how consumers interact with products. | Grace Sai | 25 Apr 2017 |
| 244 | Creative Commons | David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (Corpus Christi, 1984) | David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (Corpus Christi, 1984) David Miliband talks about the unprecedented global refugee crisis, its long-term characteristics and efforts to address the challenges ahead in this podcast. | David Milliband | 27 Feb 2017 |
| 243 | Creative Commons | Zoe de Toledo, Olympic silver medalist (St Catherine’s, 2010) | Zoe de Toledo shares her extraordinary experiences of coxing at the highest levels, and her love of studying at Oxford in this podcast. | Zoe de Toledo | 10 Feb 2017 |
| 242 | Creative Commons | Writer and performer, Gyles Brandreth (New College, 1967) | Celebrated writer, broadcaster, performer and former politician, Gyles Brandreth, talks about his extraordinary career and varied interests in this podcast. | Gyles Brandreth | 19 Dec 2016 |
| 241 | Creative Commons | Menswear Designer, Patrick Grant (New College, 2004) | Menswear designer, Patrick Grant, shares his experiences studying for an Executive MBA at Oxford’s Said Business School, and talks about how he became an award-winning designer. | Patrick Grant | 12 Dec 2016 |
| 240 | Creative Commons | Warden of New College, Miles Young (New College, 1973) | Miles Young, newly-installed Warden of New College, Oxford, shares his experiences studying history as an undergraduate and talks about how he transitioned into a career in PR and advertising. | Miles Young | 10 Nov 2016 |
| 239 | Creative Commons | Director of Modern Art Oxford, Paul Hobson (Brasenose, 1988) | Director of Modern Art Oxford, Paul Hobson, shares his experiences studying Modern History at Brasenose College and talks about how he transitioned into a career in contemporary art. | Paul Hobson | 12 Oct 2016 |
| 238 | Creative Commons | Chief Executive of Stonewall, Ruth Hunt (St. Hilda’s, 1998) | Ruth Hunt discusses her current role at Stonewall and offers advice to students who are considering Oxford as a LGBT-friendly university | Ruth Hunt | 09 Sep 2016 |
| 237 | Creative Commons | Historian and Capability Brown expert, Dr Oliver Cox (Univ, 2006) | Dr Oliver Cox shares his passion for England’s greatest landscape designer, Capability Brown, in an interview recorded for the tercentenary celebrations of Brown’s birth. | Oliver Cox | 15 Aug 2016 |
| 236 | Creative Commons | Politician and chair of the Alumni Board, Baroness Shephard of Northwold (St Hilda's, 1958) | Recorded only days after the EU referendum, this wide-ranging interview focuses on uncertainty in British politics and the transformative nature of an Oxford education. | Baroness Shephard of Northwold | 14 Jul 2016 |
| 235 | Creative Commons | Freelance journalist and Broadcaster, Henry Bonsu (Magdalen, 1986) | Freelance journalist and broadcaster Henry Bonsu shares his experiences studying Modern Languages at Magdalen College and offers an insight into what it was like to be a black student at Oxford in the late eighties. | Henry Bonsu | 14 Jun 2016 |
| 234 | Creative Commons | Leading lawyer, academic and Marshall scholar, Kathleen Sullivan (Wadham, 1976) | Kathleen Sullivan praises the tutorial system and her Oxford education, explaining how it has contributed to her successful career in academia and the courtroom. | Kathleen Sullivan | 03 May 2016 |
| 233 | Creative Commons | Comedian and broadcaster, Ruby Wax (Kellogg, 2010) | Comedian and broadcaster Ruby Wax shares her experiences of studying mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy and why she taken on a mission to save the world’s mental health. | Ruby Wax | 28 Apr 2016 |
| 232 | Creative Commons | Basketball legend, former Congressman and Rhodes Scholar, Tom McMillen (University, 1974) | Multi-talented alumnus Tom McMillen describes his extraordinary life as a professional basketball player, scholar, politician and businessman. | Tom McMillen | 15 Apr 2016 |
| 231 | Creative Commons | Marathon runner and coach, Mara Yamauchi (St. Anne’s, 1992) | Interview with Olympic athlete and public speaker Mara Yamauchi as part of the Alumni Voices Podcast series. | Mara Yamauchi | 21 Mar 2016 |
| 230 | A Great Unrecorded History. LGBT Heritage and World Cultures | Professor Parkinson discusses how to mobilise historical research into sexuality for maximum impact and the institutional, cultural and political issues that can be at stake, and suggests some of the possible uses of LGBTQ history. | Richard Parkinson | 25 Feb 2016 | |
| 229 | Creative Commons | Best-selling economist, Tim Harford (Brasenose, 1992) | Tim Harford shares his prize-winning economic insights, explaining why you can’t buy a decent used car and why you should exercise caution with big data. | Tim Harford | 11 Feb 2016 |
| 228 | Creative Commons | Chief Executive of Oxfam, Mark Goldring CBE (Keble, 1976) | Mark Goldring describes his distinguished career in international development, including his role as Chief Executive of Oxfam. Drawing upon his own experiences in Borneo, Bangladesh, Syria and beyond, he highlights the causes of poverty, and solutions. | Mark Goldring | 12 Jan 2016 |
| 227 | Creative Commons | Director and CEO of the Oxford Playhouse, Louise Chantal (Lincoln, 1987) | Louise Chantal shares her love of the theatre and describes her involvement in Oxford’s cultural scene during her student days and running Oxford's famous Playhouse today. | Louise Chantal | 04 Dec 2015 |
| 226 | Creative Commons | Writer, doctor and champion of evidence-based medicine, Dr Ben Goldacre (Magdalen, 1992) | Dr Ben Goldacre – author of the bestsellers Bad Science and Bad Pharma – dissects what is wrong with modern medicine and argues for better evidence-based medicine in this podcast. | Ben Goldacre | 17 Nov 2015 |
| 225 | Creative Commons | Historian and trip scholar for Spectacular Ceylon, Dr Maria Misra (Christ Church, 1982) | Dr Maria Misra shares her experiences as both a student and academic at Oxford University, as well as her love of South Asia, in this podcast. | Maria Misra | 26 Oct 2015 |
| 224 | Creative Commons | Neuroscientist and Alumni Weekend speaker, Baroness Susan Greenfield (St Hilda's, 1970) | Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE highlights how the unprecedented use of digital technologies is leaving a mark on our brains. | Susan Greenfield | 01 Sep 2015 |
| 223 | Creative Commons | Campaigner for women’s participation in technology, Ruthe Farmer (St Cross, 2007) | Ruthe Farmer explains how her award-winning work to encourage women and girls to embrace technology can be traced back to her student days at Oxford. | Ruthe Farmer | 06 Aug 2015 |
| 222 | Creative Commons | Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten (Balliol, 1962) | The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH describes his long-standing links with Oxford and his high-profile political career in this wide-ranging podcast interview. | Chris Patten | 21 Jul 2015 |
| 221 | Creative Commons | Champion of renewable energy Juliet Davenport OBE (Merton, 1986) | Juliet Davenport emphasises the role of renewable energy in the fight against climate change and shows how unprecedented progress is being made. | Juliet Davenport | 30 Jun 2015 |
| 220 | Creative Commons | Love's Labour's Lost | Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. | Emma Smith | 27 May 2015 |
| 219 | Creative Commons | Foreign correspondent Bethany Bell (Keble, 1987) | BBC journalist Bethany Bell shares her love of Vienna and talks about her experiences as a reporter in this first interview in a new podcast series. | Bethany Bell | 19 May 2015 |
| 218 | Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably? | This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably. | Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, Juliet Davenport, Jan Dusik, Graham van't Hoff | 28 Apr 2015 | |
| 217 | Cultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna | Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and in Western culture. | Bethany Bell, Shearer West, Ritchie Robertson, Jonathan Cross | 28 Apr 2015 | |
| 216 | Quo Vadis Ukraine: The Conflict and Beyond | Panel discussion of the Ukraine reviewing the current situation, exploring the context of the conflict which broke out in 2014, assessing its impact on Europe, and identifying what the international community can learn and how it should respond. | Lord Patten of Barnes, Jutta Edthofer, Gwendolyn Sasse, Michael Bociurkiw | 28 Apr 2015 | |
| 215 | Sacred Landscapes, Buddhist Temples: A case study from Central Tibet | This talk illustrates how Tibetan Buddhism relates to the landscapes of the Tibetan plateau, to form a unique, truly Himalayan blend. | Ulrike Roesler | 11 Nov 2014 | |
| 214 | Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War | The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate. | Margaret MacMillan | 04 Nov 2014 | |
| 213 | The Commercial Evolution of Microfinance: From donor dependence to sustainable social investment institutions | Ira Lieberman provides an expert analysis on the evolution of micro-finance institutions. Followed by Juan Guerra, founder of StudentFunder – a case study. | Ira Lieberman, Juan Guerra | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 212 | Oxford’s Global Leadership in Social Enterprise: A panel discussion | Social finance and social investment is creating a global buzz, with estimates that the sector will grow over the next decade – an emerging trend that may lead to both vibrant social change and financial returns on investment. | Pamela Hartigan | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 211 | Innovation in Financing Human Well-being | Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford, in conversation. | John Bell, Will Hutton | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 210 | Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines? | Chas Bountra, a popular speaker at the recent Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia, will explain how Oxford is creating a new ecosystem for drug discovery. | Chas Bountra | 07 Oct 2014 | |
| 209 | Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate | Nigel Bowles explores Nixon’s politics that achieved a synthesis of strategy, imagination, ideologies, and calculation rare among Presidents. | Nigel Bowles | 07 Oct 2014 | |
| 208 | Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation | Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian and Fellow of Balliol, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church and Fellow of St Cross. | Richard Ovenden, Diarmaid MacCulloch | 06 Oct 2014 | |
| 207 | What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate | How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more. | Alain Goriely | 06 Oct 2014 | |
| 206 | Creative Commons | Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas | Joe Cartwright provides a geological perspective into the exploration of shale gas reserves. | Joe Cartwright | 06 Oct 2014 |
| 205 | What is a Cyber-Attack? | What constitutes a cyber-attack and who conducts them? What are the risks to society? Sadie Creese will discuss these issues and explain research underway at Oxford to help in the detection and prevention of attacks. | Sadie Creese | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 204 | Creative Commons | The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford | Professor Lionel Tarassenko, an alumnus of the Department and its new Head as of September 2014, sets out his vision for the Department for the next five years. | Lionel Tarassenko | 03 Oct 2014 |
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