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The Division comprises over 2200 academics and staff, 800 graduate students and 900 undergraduates; about 350 NHS Clinicians and GPs contribute to our teaching activities. In total over 2500 individuals are involved in research.
Medical sciences research at Oxford has maintained its pre-eminent standing, as demonstrated by the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). Analysis of the preliminary results published in December 2008 places Oxford medical sciences research as being of the highest quality in the UK in four separate medical science disciplines.
Series associated with Medical Sciences Division
A Good Science Read
A Splash of Colour
Africa Oxford Initiative
After the End
Autoimmune Disease
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
Calleva Research Centre
Cancer
Cancer in the Developing World
Career Equality Talks
Centre for Personalised Medicine
Children's Language and Literacy Impairments
Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Rounds
CortexCast - A Neuroscience Podcast
Crossing Boundaries
Diabetes and Obesity
Epidemics and Vaccines
Ethics and Early Intervention in Mental Health: Promoting Change through Research
Evidence-Based Health Care
Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND (FATHoM) Oxford Meeting
Families for the Treatment of Hereditary Motor Neuron Disease
Futuremakers
Genetics
Global Health
Gut Instinct: GI research update
Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX)
History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford
HIV
IDEAL Collaboration Conference 2016
Immunology
Inside WIMM (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
Inspiring Women in Science
Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
Lectures in Pharmacology
Let's talk e-cigarettes
Malaria
Malaria Atlas Project
McMichael Symposium
Medical Sciences
Mental Health Interventions for Refugee Children
Musical Abstracts
NDM International Activities
NDM Public Engagement
NDM Units
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Nuffield Department of Medicine, Meet our Students
OPDC: Progress in Parkinson's Research.
Our Mental Wellness
Oxford Biomedical Research
Oxford Kafka24
Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life
Power and Privilege in Academia
Primary Care Health Sciences
Psychiatry
Public Health and Epidemiology (Richard Doll Seminars)
Public Lecture Podcasts from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
Research Integrity
Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences
Revolutionary Biology
Science in Ten
Science with Sanjula
Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
Tackling Health Challenges
The Future of Science Symposium
The New Psychology of Depression
The Oxford Colloquy
The Oxford Colloquy: Trusting the Science
To Immunity and Beyond
Translational and Clinical
Translational Health Sciences
Translational Medicine
Trust the Evidence
Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia: Oxford ARUK Public Open Day
Unpacking the Fundamentals of Global Health: Towards a New Generation of Leadership
Vaccine Research at Oxford
Vaccines - From Concept to Clinic with Oxford Sparks
Weatherall lecture
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) Podcast
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Women in Medical Science
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| 916 | Creative Commons | Innovations to improve outcome and patient safety in low and middle income countries | Ms Sarah Kessler discusses and shows clips from ‘The Checklist Effect’, the award-winning documentary inspired by the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. | Shafi Ahmed, Sarah Kessler | 01 May 2019 |
| 915 | Creative Commons | Brain tumour surgery – awake and novel imaging | Mr Plaha talks about where brain tumour surgery was 5 years ago, shares where we are now with the changing philosophy and management of brain tumours, including new surgery technical advances – minimally invasive endoscopic surgery and awake craniotomy. | Puneet Plaha | 26 Apr 2019 |
| 914 | The Future of Treating Genetic MND | Professor Kevin Talbot, University of Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the day's event, looking at the future of genetic MND and what the future holds for it. | Kevin Talbot | 17 Apr 2019 | |
| 913 | Early Genetic Trials in MND: The Sheffield SOD1 Experience | Professor Christopher McDermott, University of Sheffield, gives the fourth talk in the day's event, and, along with Dani Baird, a person living with MND and a participant in the SOD1 trial, discuss her experieces in the trial. | Christopher McDermott, Dani | 17 Apr 2019 | |
| 912 | The Value of Online Shared Experiences | Professor Louise Locock and Jade Howard, Univesity of Aberdeen, give the third talk in the day's event, looking at patient's experiences of motor neuron disease and how patients and families share their experiences online | Louise Locock, Jade Howard | 17 Apr 2019 | |
| 911 | Getting Tested: Experience from the Genetic Clinic | Professor Anneke Lucassen, University of Southampton, gives the second talk fo the day, looking at her research and experience from studying the genetics related to MND | Anneke Lucassen | 17 Apr 2019 | |
| 910 | What are the Issues in Familial MND? | Professor Martin Turner, University of Oxford, gives an introduction to the conference, and outlines some of the research his group has been doing on understanding familial MND and how they can treat it. | Martin Turner | 17 Apr 2019 | |
| 909 | Creative Commons | OUCAGS and clinical academic training in the UK | Professor Chris Pugh gives a talk on clinical academic training and the role OUCAGS (Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School) plays. | Chris Pugh | 17 Apr 2019 |
| 908 | Decolonising African museums: the Africa perspective | The debate on decolonising museums has been very lively across the gardens, libraries and museums in Oxford over the last few months. | Fredrick Manthi | 15 Apr 2019 | |
| 907 | Creative Commons | Gastrointestinal (GI) haemorrhage | Dr Raman Uberoi talks about interventional radiology and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. | Raman Uberoi | 12 Apr 2019 |
| 906 | 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 | |
| 905 | Creative Commons | Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare | Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others. | Carl Heneghan | 09 Apr 2019 |
| 904 | Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research? | For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative researcher's methodological toolkit. | Cassandra Phoenix | 08 Apr 2019 | |
| 903 | Size matters a tous les temps, a tous les peuples | Dr. Martyn Sene is Deputy CEO of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), here, he gives an introduction to the importance of measurement and metrology (the science of measurement). | Martyn Sene | 03 Apr 2019 | |
| 902 | Creative Commons | Communication in Healthcare: A Failure in Need of Rescue? | Professor Amir Ghaferi discusses the current state of communication in healthcare and in particular surgery. Is there a failure in need of rescue? | Amir Ghaferi | 03 Apr 2019 |
| 901 | The role of network meta-analysis in the evaluation of antidepressants for depression | Andrea Cipriani is NIHR Research Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford. | Andrea Cipriani | 26 Mar 2019 | |
| 900 | Creative Commons | Bolder Action for health in Africa | This talk was delivered by Dr Tolullah Oni, Clinical Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge. | Tolullah Oni | 15 Mar 2019 |
| 899 | Creative Commons | Is energy bad for Africa? | This talk was delivered by Prof Malcolm McCulloch, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy. Many utility companies are setting up large scale energy projects in African countries. | Malcolm McCulloch | 15 Mar 2019 |
| 898 | Personalised external aortic root support: the Oxford experience | Miss Renata Greco talks about personalised external aortic root support and in particular the Oxford experience with this technique. | Renata Greco | 08 Mar 2019 | |
| 897 | Creative Commons | Cricket to clinic via the lab | Professor Giles Toogood talks about his background which combined sport and surgery, and discusses the advances in hepatobiliary. | Giles Toogood | 19 Feb 2019 |
| 896 | The Dreaded Flu | How do we protect ourselves from spiky invaders? | Claire Hill | 10 Feb 2019 | |
| 895 | Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the digital era is transforming Kenya | Writer and political activist Nanjala Nyabola delivers our first insaka of 2019. In this podcast, Nanjala explores shifts in power, popular action and social capacity in the digital age. | Nanjala Nyabola | 06 Feb 2019 | |
| 894 | Creative Commons | Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems | Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis. | Carl Heneghan | 06 Feb 2019 |
| 893 | School Based Approaches for Mental Health Interventions | Outlining the opportunities schools have to work on their own school culture to best support refugee children with mental health problems, and unaccompanied refugee children in schools. | Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Aoife O'Higgins | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 892 | Family, Home and Community Interventions for Refugee Children | How the family, home and community impact refugee children’s mental health and what can be done to support them. Links between parental and children’s mental health, and recognising young people’s agency. | Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Aoife O'Higgins, Katy Robjant | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 891 | Trauma Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) | What is TF-CBT, how is it used with young people post trauma, and how young people can be assisted to continue with therapy. | Esther Schroeder, Ruth Reed | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 890 | Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) | What is NET, how it is used, who can be trained to do NET, and outlining the sessions. | Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Katy Robjant, Kerry Young | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 889 | Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Refugee Children | What traumatic events can increase the risk of having PTSD, how children with PTSD present, what happens in the brain, and grounding techniques. | Esther Schroeder, Kerry Young, Katy Robjant | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 888 | Psychological Assessment Approaches for Refugee Children | Barriers, diagnostic difficulties, and cultural and language considerations for doing a thorough psychological assessment. | Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Ruth Reed, Katy Robjant | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 887 | Machine perfusion – a new dawn or optimistic hyperbole? | Professor Peter Friend, Dr David Nasralla and Dr Carlo Ceresa discuss liver transplantation and why they are replacing conventional cold storage in an ice box with normothermic automated, transportable liver preservation. | Peter Friend, David Nasralla, Carlo Ceresa | 28 Jan 2019 | |
| 886 | Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future | Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary. | Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani | 28 Jan 2019 | |
| 885 | Creative Commons | Genes, Hands, Nerves, and Brains | Professor Dominic Furniss and Dr Akira Wiberg discuss the tremendous connection we have between the hand and the brain, focusing their talk on Dupuytren's Disease and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. | Dominic Furniss, Akira Wiberg | 21 Jan 2019 |
| 884 | Creative Commons | Achieving the Holy-Grail: The Humanising Healthcare Methodology | Mr Hamish Dibley, a senior management consultant, explores a new and refreshing approach to how we understand and improve healthcare systems. | Hamish Dibley | 16 Jan 2019 |
| 883 | Creative Commons | Effect of metformin on breast cancer metabolism | Dr Simon Lord presents a clinical study to understand the effect of metformin - one of the most commonly prescribed treatments worldwide for diabetes - on breast cancer metabolism. | Simon Lord | 16 Jan 2019 |
| 882 | Personal Development Reviews - In conversation with Bill Dunn | Bill Dunn, Oxford University's Professional Development Advisor, talks to Kamal Mahtani from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences about Personal Development Reviews. | Bill Dunn | 15 Jan 2019 | |
| 881 | New Year, New Me | Are some people taking the 'New Year, New Me' concept a little too far these days? | Claire Hill | 09 Jan 2019 | |
| 880 | 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 | |
| 879 | Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials | Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. | David Torgerson | 07 Jan 2019 | |
| 878 | 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 | |
| 877 | 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 | |
| 876 | The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it | Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. | Mike Kelly | 12 Dec 2018 | |
| 875 | Gut Feeling | Are our gut microbes more in control of us than we think? | Claire Hill | 09 Dec 2018 | |
| 874 | 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 | |
| 873 | How imperfect can a study be? | Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'. | Alan Silman | 05 Dec 2018 | |
| 872 | 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 | |
| 871 | 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 | |
| 870 | Creative Commons | Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses | Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco control and her particular interests lie in evidence synthes | Jamie Hartmann-Boyce | 06 Nov 2018 |
| 869 | More than meet the eye: Hyperspectral imaging | How many colours we see is limited by our eye, which contains only three types of colour sensors. Using advanced techniques, vision scientists can take images of this “invisible” information and make it visible. | Sérgio Nascimento | 06 Nov 2018 | |
| 868 | Neurons code the colour we see | All activity in your brain – including those which mediates your perception of colour – is based on electrical messages between neurons. Vision scientists can measure these signals at the eye, and at the back of the brain. | Neil Parry | 06 Nov 2018 | |
| 867 | Seeing neurons inside the living eye | Using techniques borrowed from astronomy, vision scientists can take high-resolution images of the retina, the fine layer of cells in the back of your eye. | Hannah Smithson, Laura Young | 06 Nov 2018 | |
| 866 | Panel discussion: #TheDress – What do we know? | In early 2015, an image of a dress polarised the internet: Some people saw it as black-blue, and some as white-gold. Three years on, we revisit the dress and discuss how vision science can explain this phenomenon. | Manuel Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Karl Gegenfurtner, David Brainard | 06 Nov 2018 | |
| 865 | 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 | |
| 864 | Can antibiotics make you pregnant? | Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. | Jeffrey Aronson | 29 Oct 2018 | |
| 863 | History of evidence synthesis | Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. | Mike Clarke | 29 Oct 2018 | |
| 862 | 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 | |
| 861 | 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 | |
| 860 | 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 | |
| 859 | 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 | |
| 858 | Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare | Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. | Carl Heneghan | 10 Oct 2018 | |
| 857 | Creative Commons | Global Surgery: Paediatric Surgery Team | Medical student Ms Shannon Gunawardana talks about Oxplore, an outreach portal for schools and young people. | Kokila Lakhoo, Shannon Gunawardana, Kathryn Ford | 25 Sep 2018 |
| 856 | Medicine and Art | Professor David Cranston takes us on a little trip through art and medicine using illustrations of works that portray the changing role of medicine in society. | David Cranston | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 855 | The jugglers and the black cat | There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client. | Kerina Jones | 31 Jul 2018 | |
| 854 | How do you grow rice faster? | 3 billion people depend on rice for survival & owing to predicted population increases, land that provided enough rice to feed 27 people in 2010 will need to support 43 by 2050. In this week's podcast episode we ask: how do you grow rice faster? | Jane Langdale | 11 Jul 2018 | |
| 853 | Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain | In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be necessary, even in surgical trials. | Karolina Wartolowska | 02 Jul 2018 | |
| 852 | The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data | Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. | Carol Lefebvre | 26 Jun 2018 | |
| 851 | Is there a faster way to diagnose Tuberculosis? | Tuberculosis is still one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, with 1.4 million people dying from TB in 2015. If your doctor suspects you have the disease it can take up to 6 weeks to get a diagnosis! | Philip Fowler | 26 Jun 2018 | |
| 850 | Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality | Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure. | Annalise Weckesser | 22 Jun 2018 | |
| 849 | How do you teach a robot social cues? | As robots are increasingly deployed in settings requiring social interaction we asked the Big Question: How do you teach a robot social cues? To find out we visited Shimon Whiteson, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science | Shimon Whiteson | 19 Jun 2018 | |
| 848 | Can you stop Alzheimer’s before it even starts? | Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time. In this podcast episode we ask: Can you stop Alzheimer's before it even starts? | Jennifer Lawson | 31 May 2018 | |
| 847 | What is antimatter? | What is antimatter? Antimatter was one of the most exciting physics discoveries of the 20th century, and has since been picked up by fiction writers such as Dan Brown. But what exactly is it? | Donal Hill | 17 May 2018 | |
| 846 | Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics? | Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health economics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare? | Muir Gray, Lucy Abel | 16 May 2018 | |
| 845 | Can you cure HIV? | HIV isn’t a death sentence anymore. People can live long lives with the virus in their body, as long as they have the right combination of drugs. But some researchers want to take the fight against HIV and AIDS even further... | John Frater | 02 May 2018 | |
| 844 | Creative Commons | Prostate cancer genomic surgery: A shifting paradigm | In the first half, Dr Alastair Lamb discusses the problem with prostate cancer and what it is that needs to be addressed, his previous research and future plans for research. | Alastair Lamb | 30 Apr 2018 |
| 843 | What do water striders have in common with Game of Thrones? | On this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Question’s podcast we visited Dr Jennifer Perry, evolutionary biologist and entomologist to ask: What do water striders have in common with Game of Thrones? Listen here to find out…. | Jennifer Perry | 17 Apr 2018 | |
| 842 | Creative Commons | Oesophageal Cancer: Past, Present and the Future | Professor Tim Underwood takes us through the history of oesophageal cancer, where we are now, and some of the science that is done to ask questions about where we might go with the treatment of oesophageal cancer. | Tim Underwood | 16 Apr 2018 |
| 841 | The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis? | Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine. | Alexander Bird | 11 Apr 2018 | |
| 840 | How does the brain identify voices? | In this episode of The Big Questions podcast we joined the experiment to ask: How does he brain identify voices? To find out we interviewed MRI Physicist Stuart Clare and Neuro Scientist Holly Bridge at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative for Neuroimaging | Stuart Clare, Holly Bridge | 09 Apr 2018 | |
| 839 | Creative Commons | Médecins Sans Frontières: The Role of Humanitarian Aid in Global Surgery | Professor Kathryn Chu gives an introduction to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF); what it is and who they are, and talks about MSF surgery and the role of MSF in global surgery. | Kathryn Chu | 28 Mar 2018 |
| 838 | Creative Commons | How do you mend a broken heart? | In this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast we visited Cardiovascular Biologist, Nicola Smart, from the department of physiology, anatomy and genetics to ask: How do you mend a broken heart? | Nicola Smart | 23 Mar 2018 |
| 837 | Creative Commons | Safe surgery in Africa: Exploring barriers and trialling interventions | Professor Peter McCulloch and Dr Tinashe Chandauka talk about improving surgery in Africa and designing a surgical safety education programme. | Peter McCulloch, Tinashe Chandauka | 14 Mar 2018 |
| 836 | How do you become an astronaut? | Millions dream of being an astronaut, but how many of us have what it takes? In this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Question's podcast, we visit Merritt Moore, quantum physicist from The University of Oxford, to ask: How do you become an astronaut? | Merritt Moore | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 835 | How did Mary Somerville get on the Scottish 10 Pound note? | In this episode of the Big Questions podcast we are asking: How did Mary Somerville get on the Scottish 10 Pound note? | Brigitte Stenhouse | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 834 | Creative Commons | How to ask the right questions: Lessons learned in 30 years of research | Professor Wytske Fokkens (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam) talks about how to ask yourself the right questions, which is the most important thing that she has learned in her 30-year research career. | Wytske Fokkens | 05 Mar 2018 |
| 833 | Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference? | A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen. | Trish Greenhalgh | 02 Mar 2018 | |
| 832 | Creative Commons | Upper GI Surgery | Dr John Findlay (Oxford University) presents 'Heavy Petting in Oesophago-gastric Cancer’ and Mr Nick Maynard (Oxford University) presents ‘How Much Should we Tell the Public About Outcomes from Oesophagectomy?’ | Nick Maynard, John Findlay | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 831 | Creative Commons | Side Effects to Some, Therapies to Others: Autonomic Neuromodulation | Professor Alex Green (Oxford University) talks about the autonomic side-effects of neuromodulation including deep brain stimulation and dorsal root ganglion stimulation for pain. It may be possible to harness such effects for new therapies. | Alex Green | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 830 | Challenges of being an academic surgeon and journal editor | Professor Prokar Dasgupta from King's College London talks about the challenges of being an academic surgeon and an Editor-in-Chief for the journal BJUI. | Prokar Dasgupta | 20 Feb 2018 | |
| 829 | Creative Commons | Laparoscopic aortic surgery: Credible or just plain crazy? | Mr Dominic PJ Howard talks about the current management and Oxford research on aortic disease, and the endovascular revolution. Mr Adam Howard discusses the exciting area of laparoscopic aortic surgery and where that is placed in this field. | Dominic PJ Howard, Adam Howard | 20 Feb 2018 |
| 828 | Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research | Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research. | Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers | 05 Feb 2018 | |
| 827 | Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests | Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories. | Phil Turner | 30 Jan 2018 | |
| 826 | How do you measure a Mars quake? | In this episode of the Big Questions podcast, we visited Dr Neil Bowles, Jane Hurley and Tristram Warren from the Atmospheric Oceanic & Planetary Physics Department to ask the question: how do you measure a Mars quake? | Neil Bowles, Jane Hurley, Tristram Warren | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 825 | Creative Commons | Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business? | Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. | Katherine Pollard | 24 Jan 2018 |
| 824 | The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based | Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals. Here he gives a talk on improving healthcare systems. | Muir Gray | 19 Jan 2018 | |
| 823 | What happens after a storm? | In our latest episode of the Big Questions podcast we visited Dr Peter Walton, a geography teacher turned fellow of the Environmental Change Institute, at the University of Oxford, to ask: What happens after a storm? | Peter Walton | 10 Jan 2018 | |
| 822 | Is vaping better than smoking? | As many of you set your new year’s resolution to quit smoking and start vaping, we thought we’d ask the question: Is vaping better than smoking? And could it help you quit? | Jamie Hartmann-Boyce | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 821 | How do you survive the office Christmas party? | ‘Tis the season to be merry, so it’s time for the annual Christmas party. For some employers it can be more fraught than fun! In this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast we ask: how do you survive the office Christmas party? | Robin Dunbar | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 820 | Research behind... Understanding Misunderstanding | A podcast about a song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford | Abigail Williams | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 819 | Research Behind... The Great Vape Debate | A podcast about a song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford | Jamie Hartmann-Boyce | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 818 | Research Behind... Stomach is the Monarch | The research behind a song about how Victorians saw the conversation between the gut and mood, featuring an interview with researcher Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown at the University of Oxford | Emilie Taylor-Brown | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 817 | Research Behind... Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See | The research behind a song about mapping the internet and how it links to our physical world, based on research by Prof Mark Graham at the University of Oxford. | Mark Graham | 08 Jan 2018 |
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