Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
For most of the world’s toughest challenges, there exists a tension between the needs of an individual and what is best for the common good. Income derived from fishing may be vital to one country’s economy but overfishing depletes stocks to dangerously low levels. Low income countries need to develop in order to lift people out of poverty but this increases demand for fossil fuels at a point where global efforts to reduce carbon emissions have become critically important.
Some of Oxford’s leading thinkers on how to manage global commons and shared resources come to together for a lively panel debate to address the tension between individual rationality and collective responsibility, drawing on examples from the four lectures in this term’s series.
Panellists:
Professor Ian Goldin, (Chair), Director, Oxford Martin School
Professor Richard Bailey, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans
Professor Nick Eyre, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy
Professor Cameron Hepburn, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative
Professor Angela McLean, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Diseases
Registration required.
Professor Trevor Young, Dean of the University of Toronto and world expert on bipolar disorder, is coming to Oxford to give a talk on “Your Brain Needs YOU: Why Psychiatry Is the Best Specialty for the Brightest Medical Minds”.
Venue: Blue Boar Lecture Theatre
Time: 6-7pm (please arrive promptly)
Cost: FREE!
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As an active clinician scientist, Dr. Young’s principal research interest includes understanding the molecular basis of bipolar disorder and its treatment, and how to apply these findings to the clinical setting. He is widely published and well funded by peer-reviewed granting agencies. His research is particularly focused on understanding the processes that lead to long-term changes in brain structure and function in patients with bipolar disorder and how these changes can be targeted by mood stabilizing drugs.
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Dr. Young was appointed Chair, Department of Psychiatry effective September 1, 2010. He received his medical degree at the University of Manitoba. This was followed by residency training at McGill University and the University of Toronto where he also completed his PhD in Medical Sciences. He completed a Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. His former roles include Physician-in-Chief, Executive Vice President Programs at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Professor and Cameron Wilson Chair in Depression Studies in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. He was received numerous awards including the Douglas Utting Award for outstanding contributions in the field of mood disorders, the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology Heinz Lehmann Award, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has led several large clinical programs including the Mood Disorders Program at Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, which received the American Psychiatric Services Gold Achievement Award. In 2009, he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Dr. Young serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, effective January 1, 2015.
Check out http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/oxford-science-fair.html for a full list of stalls. This is a FREE, drop in event with something for the whole family. Saturday 25 June 12-5pm, Sunday 26 June 1-5pm.
Date/Time: Monday 27 June 12:30-13:15
Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
Admissions: Free, Drop-In
Suitability: 14+
Find out more: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com
Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short
introduction’ series, and researchers and health practitioners from the Oxford Academic Health Science Network.
Today’s session: Schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, bipolar disorders… get ‘a very short introduction’ to severe mental illness and dive into a thought provoking discussion with psychiatrist Tom Burns.
Date/Time: Tuesday 28 June 12:30-13:15
Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
Admissions: Free, Drop-In
Suitability: 14+
Find out more: www.oxscifest.org
Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short
introduction’ series, and researchers and health practitioners from the Oxford Academic Health Science Network.
Today’s session: Get ‘a very short introduction’ to mental health during adolescence and dive into a thought-provoking discussion with psychiatrist Belinda Lennox and psychologist Peter Smith
Date/Time: Wednesday 29 June 12:30-13:15
Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
Admissions: Free, Drop-In
Suitability: 14+
Find out more: www.oxscifest.org
Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short introduction’ series, and researchers and health practitioners from the Oxford Academic Health Science Network.
Today’s session: Drugs can help patients suffering from various mental illnesses like depression, anxiety or schizophrenia. How do these drugs work in the brain? How to ensure the safety of patients? Get ‘a very short introduction’ to drugs for psychotherapy, and dive into a thought-provoking discussion with pharmacologist Les Iversen.
‘Gene-editing’ sounds like science fiction, but today it is an emerging reality. This raises hope for treating medical problems, but also opens ethical quandaries about equality, privacy, and personal freedom. Discuss these questions with a panel of experts including geneticist Andy Greenfield, science fiction author Paul McAuley and science policy advisor Elizabeth Bohm. Lisa Melton, Senior News Editor at Nature Biotechnology, will moderate the event, with Ben Davies, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, presenting technical background.
Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/wednesday.html
Date/Time: Thursday 30 June 12:30-13:15
Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
Admissions: Free, Drop-In
Suitability: 14+
Find out more: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com
Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short introduction’ series, and researchers and health practitioners from the Oxford Academic Health Science Network.
Today’s session: Mental health problems account for nearly 40% of all illness but only 13% of NHS funds are devoted to their treatment. How to best address the mental health challenge with limited resources? Get ‘a very short introduction’ to mental health services, and dive into a thought provoking discussion with psychiatrist David Clark.
Date/Time: Friday 1 July 12:30-13:15
Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
Admissions: Free, Drop-In
Suitability: 14+
Find out more: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/friday.html
Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short introduction’ series, and researchers and health practitioners from the Oxford Academic Health Science Network.
Today’s session: Why do we need sleep? What happens to our health when we don’t get enough, and how does our modern lifestyle impact our sleep quality? What causes the major sleep disorders? Get ‘a very short introduction’ to sleep and dive into a thought-provoking discussion with neuroscientist Russell Foster.
Imagine constantly worrying about something that you know is not real, or feel a deep anxiety that only repetitive (and often embarrassing) behavior can diminish. Now imagine this happening 24 hours a day for 365 days a year and you can begin to understand what it might be like to suffer from OCD. Join scientist Paula Banca who will discuss the OCD brain and why psychopaths never suffer from it, followed by artist Dan Holloway’s performance poetry inspired by his own experience. This event is part of the Storytelling Science project.
Psychologist in the Pub events are completely free and open to everyone, so please join us on:
Thursday 7th July, 6:30 for 7pm start, with Dr Kinga Komarzynska & Dr Chelsea Slater
What can we learn from crime scene behaviour?
Crime linkage focuses on identifying crimes committed by the same offender using crime scene behaviour. Offender behaviour is used to distinguish between crimes committed by the same person and crimes committed by different people. The presentation will introduce this evidence-based approach to the detection of serial offenders and will be a brief introduction to the theory behind crime linkage as well as exploration of some of the empirical research that investigated behavioural consistency and change within a series of crimes perpetrated by serial offenders.
The talk will be held in the function room in Wig & Pen pub.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Get your game face on – it’s poker night at Science Oxford.
Brush off your pack of cards and outplay Lady Luck with an evening of poker probability and psychology. Learn more about the head games that define what happens at the poker table with mathematician and author of The Perfect Bet Adam Kucharski and psychologist Danielle Shore, who’ll show how your poker face can affect your opponents’ decision-making. Their talks will be followed by a friendly poker tournament – the perfect opportunity to put into practice the science of poker.
Chips included as part of ticket price.
Delivering reliable drinking water to millions of rural people in Africa and Asia is an elusive and enduring global goal. A systematic information deficit on the performance of and demand for infrastructure investments limits policy design and development outcomes.
Since 2010, the ‘Smart Handpump’ project has been exploring new technologies, methods and models to understand and respond to this challenge. A mobile-enabled data transmitter provides foundational data on hourly water usage and failure events which has enabled the establishment of performance-based maintenance companies in Kenya that are improving handpump reliability by an order of magnitude.
The research is a collaboration between the School of Geography and the Environment and the Department of Engineering Science with a range of partners including government, international bodies such as UNICEF and the private sector. New research involves modelling the accelerometry data from the handpumps to predict aquifer depth. We invite you to test the Smart Handpump in the car park and debate how the ‘accidental infrastructure’ of rural handpumps can spark bolder initiatives to deliver water security for millions of poor people in Africa and Asia.
‘Depression and the Brain’ will be discussed from the point of view of neuroscience, psychology/psychiatry and philosophy. Three eminent speakers will give talks and arising questions will be discussed under audience participation. Tea and coffee will be served at the interval.
Xtrac / Oxford e-Research Centre
October 20, 2016 – 19:00
Oxford e-Research Centre
7 Keble Road, Oxford
Seminar Open to all
This exciting talk from Xtrac – global leaders in racing gearbox design will discuss the challenges of designing a gearbox for a unique hypercar – the Pagani Huayra. Voted in 2015 by IMechE as one of the leading engineering companies, this talk will discuss what sets Xtrac apart from its competitors as well as the challenges that arise when you are involved in a hypercar design project.
Speakers:
Jon Marsh – Chief Designer
Dominic Smith – Head of Advanced Engineering
Paul Pomfret – Assistant Chief Designer
Refreshments will begin at 6.30pm, with the talk starting at 7pm. Booking is not compulsory but is helpful for the organisors.
‘Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions’
In these Loebel lectures Prof Essi Viding will use disruptive behaviour disorders as an illustrative example to introduce the challenges we face when we try to understand development of psychopathological outcomes. We classify disorders at the level of behaviour, yet individuals arrive at the same behavioural outcomes via multiple different developmental trajectories; a phenomenon called equifinality in the developmental psychopathology literature. A related concept is heterogeneity; we can find individuals with markedly different aetiology to their disorder within the same diagnostic category. The current diagnostic categories identify clinically disturbed functioning, but they do not identify a homogeneous group of individuals.
Getting better at individuating distinct pathways to a disordered outcome is only part of the challenge. Once risk factors for a specific developmental trajectory are identified, we still need to understand their modus operandi. There is no doubt that both biology and the social environment play a role in the emergence of psychopathology, but meaningfully studying their interplay is far from trivial. What are the key biological indicators of vulnerability and resilience? How can we isolate causal mechanisms? How do we model multiple social risk factors and their impact over development?
In Essi Viding’s Loebel lectures, as well as in the talks given by speakers in the accompanying workshop, the following questions will be considered:
How does ‘latent vulnerability’ (of either genetic or environmental origin) translate to a disordered outcome, or conversely what makes some individuals with ‘latent vulnerability’ resilient? To what degree are individuals agents in generating their own environmental circumstances? Do certain behaviours, which can appear disordered, represent adaptations to a specific social ecology? The workshop will also involve discussion between the speakers and the participants on the following issues:
i.what study designs can help us advance our understanding of the questions outlined above
ii.what implications can be drawn for prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders
iii.what are the challenges of translating individual differences and group level data to bear on the treatment of a single individual
The Oxford e-Research Centre is pleased to welcome Paul van Veggel, Aerodynamics Operations Manager for Red Bull Racing F1 Team.
He will explain what the Red Bull F1 team does, their work philosophy and describe the opportunities they have for people with a software engineering, mathematics or engineering background. The event is open to all.
Red Bull will also bring parts of the car for people to look at.
The F1 team are looking for a broad set of students this year, for 1 year industrial placements starting summer 2017:
· Aerodynamics Development (both practical and computational)
· Aerodynamics Tools (software development, methodology development, embedded systems and electronics)
· Aerodynamics Design (mechanical design of aerodynamic parts for models and race car, plus CFD models)
· Plus a whole host of other engineering students in electronics, IT, R&D test, Vehicle Design & Vehicle Dynamics.
Open to all. Lunch provided. No booking required.
‘Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions’
In these Loebel lectures Prof Essi Viding will use disruptive behaviour disorders as an illustrative example to introduce the challenges we face when we try to understand development of psychopathological outcomes. We classify disorders at the level of behaviour, yet individuals arrive at the same behavioural outcomes via multiple different developmental trajectories; a phenomenon called equifinality in the developmental psychopathology literature. A related concept is heterogeneity; we can find individuals with markedly different aetiology to their disorder within the same diagnostic category. The current diagnostic categories identify clinically disturbed functioning, but they do not identify a homogeneous group of individuals.
Getting better at individuating distinct pathways to a disordered outcome is only part of the challenge. Once risk factors for a specific developmental trajectory are identified, we still need to understand their modus operandi. There is no doubt that both biology and the social environment play a role in the emergence of psychopathology, but meaningfully studying their interplay is far from trivial. What are the key biological indicators of vulnerability and resilience? How can we isolate causal mechanisms? How do we model multiple social risk factors and their impact over development?
In Essi Viding’s Loebel lectures, as well as in the talks given by speakers in the accompanying workshop, the following questions will be considered:
How does ‘latent vulnerability’ (of either genetic or environmental origin) translate to a disordered outcome, or conversely what makes some individuals with ‘latent vulnerability’ resilient? To what degree are individuals agents in generating their own environmental circumstances? Do certain behaviours, which can appear disordered, represent adaptations to a specific social ecology? The workshop will also involve discussion between the speakers and the participants on the following issues:
i.what study designs can help us advance our understanding of the questions outlined above
ii.what implications can be drawn for prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders
iii.what are the challenges of translating individual differences and group level data to bear on the treatment of a single individual
‘Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions’
In these Loebel lectures Prof Essi Viding will use disruptive behaviour disorders as an illustrative example to introduce the challenges we face when we try to understand development of psychopathological outcomes. We classify disorders at the level of behaviour, yet individuals arrive at the same behavioural outcomes via multiple different developmental trajectories; a phenomenon called equifinality in the developmental psychopathology literature. A related concept is heterogeneity; we can find individuals with markedly different aetiology to their disorder within the same diagnostic category. The current diagnostic categories identify clinically disturbed functioning, but they do not identify a homogeneous group of individuals.
Getting better at individuating distinct pathways to a disordered outcome is only part of the challenge. Once risk factors for a specific developmental trajectory are identified, we still need to understand their modus operandi. There is no doubt that both biology and the social environment play a role in the emergence of psychopathology, but meaningfully studying their interplay is far from trivial. What are the key biological indicators of vulnerability and resilience? How can we isolate causal mechanisms? How do we model multiple social risk factors and their impact over development?
In Essi Viding’s Loebel lectures, as well as in the talks given by speakers in the accompanying workshop, the following questions will be considered:
How does ‘latent vulnerability’ (of either genetic or environmental origin) translate to a disordered outcome, or conversely what makes some individuals with ‘latent vulnerability’ resilient? To what degree are individuals agents in generating their own environmental circumstances? Do certain behaviours, which can appear disordered, represent adaptations to a specific social ecology? The workshop will also involve discussion between the speakers and the participants on the following issues:
i.what study designs can help us advance our understanding of the questions outlined above
ii.what implications can be drawn for prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders
iii.what are the challenges of translating individual differences and group level data to bear on the treatment of a single individual
Interdisciplinary seminars in psychoanalysis. The seminar is open free of charge to members of Oxford University and to mental health professionals but space is limited.
To attend it is helpful (but not essential) to e-mail Paul Tod at paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Explore the latest thinking and research in the pursuit of happiness during this open lecture followed by the award winning documentary HAPPY
Tweet, unlike, hashtag, unfriend. While these terms can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the effect of social media on human psychology is still widely unknown. Is social media really changing the way people socialise? Amy Orben is a College Lecturer in Psychology at The Queen’s College Oxford and currently doing her DPhil in Experimental Psychology. Her research focuses on Facebook stalking and its effect on friendship formation online. Her newest findings paint an exciting picture about social media, evolutionary limitations and new methods of communication. She will talk to us about her recent work and its implications for friendship psychology and social media.
The talk will be held in the function room at the
Wig & Pen pub, George Street, which is wheelchair accessible.
Psychologist in the Pub talks are completely free, and open to all; British Psychological Society members and non-members,
so please join us for the evening. No booking required.
Tweet, unlike, hashtag, unfriend. While these terms can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the effect of social media on human psychology is still widely unknown. Is social media really changing the way people socialise? Amy Orben is a College Lecturer in Psychology at The Queen’s College Oxford and currently doing her DPhil in Experimental Psychology. Her research focuses on Facebook stalking and its effect on friendship formation online. Her newest findings paint an exciting picture about social media, evolutionary limitations and new methods of communication. She will talk to us about her recent work and its implications for friendship psychology and social media.
The talk will be held in the function room at the
Wig & Pen pub, George Street, which is wheelchair accessible.
The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car, launched by Richard Noble and Andy Green in October 2008, is set to take the Land Speed Record into a whole new speed regime. The team, including researchers from Swansea University, plans to take a manned vehicle to 1000mph by 2018, increasing the current Land Speed Record (763mph) by over 30%.
This target presents the team with massive scientific and engineering challenges, not least of which being how the car will stay attached to the ground at such speeds!
The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) research team at The College of Engineering at Swansea University has been working on answering these questions, and predicting the overall aerodynamic behaviour of the vehicle.
The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (Oxfordshire Automotive Division) and the University of Oxford e-Research Centre is pleased to invite Dr Ben Evans, Senior Lecturer at the University of Swansea, to give this exciting talk on the aerodynamics of the Bloodhound SSC project. He will discuss the extreme challenges of designing a car to reach 1000mph. Dr Evans will discuss the aerodynamic work he and his colleagues undertook as well as discussing the overall project.
High Performance Computing was used as an integral component of the design and optimization cycles for the vehicle. In order to achieve the final design predicted lift and drag responses over 14 full vehicle design iterations were carried out and numerous sub-assembly optimization studies.
The design work on this vehicle has inspired the development of novel methods for simulating high speed particle entrainment, mesh-based optimization and CFD data visualization. At the time of writing the BLOODHOUND SSC is being built, with testing due to commence in 2017.
Registration is required.
The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car, launched by Richard Noble and Andy Green in October 2008, is set to take the Land Speed Record into a whole new speed regime. The team, including researchers from Swansea University, plans to take a manned vehicle to 1000mph by 2018, increasing the current Land Speed Record (763mph) by over 30%.
This target presents the team with massive scientific and engineering challenges, not least of which being how the car will stay attached to the ground at such speeds!
The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) research team at The College of Engineering at Swansea University has been working on answering these questions, and predicting the overall aerodynamic behaviour of the vehicle.
The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (Oxfordshire Automotive Division) and the University of Oxford e-Research Centre is pleased to invite Dr Ben Evans, Senior Lecturer at the University of Swansea, to give this exciting talk on the aerodynamics of the Bloodhound SSC project. He will discuss the extreme challenges of designing a car to reach 1000mph. Dr Evans will discuss the aerodynamic work he and his colleagues undertook as well as discussing the overall project.
High Performance Computing was used as an integral component of the design and optimization cycles for the vehicle. In order to achieve the final design predicted lift and drag responses over 14 full vehicle design iterations were carried out and numerous sub-assembly optimization studies.
The design work on this vehicle has inspired the development of novel methods for simulating high speed particle entrainment, mesh-based optimization and CFD data visualization. At the time of writing the BLOODHOUND SSC is being built, with testing due to commence in 2017.
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
The seminar is open free of charge to members of Oxford University and to mental health professionals but space is limited.
To attend it is helpful (but not essential) to e-mail Paul Tod at paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Studying or working in a science or engineering subject? Interested in how to close the gender gap, and want to hear great role models speak about their experiences?
Join Oxford Females in Engineering, Science and Technology (OxFEST), alongside OxWIB and OxWomIn, on Saturday 18th February for our annual conference at the Oxford Maths Institute! We’ll be hosting inspiring women from industry and academia who are breaking boundaries in their fields. The day will involve talks, workshops on diversity, entrepreneurship and communication, and a panel discussion on promoting women in STEM. Breakfast, lunch, refreshments and prosecco will be provided! This is a great opportunity to be inspired, add to your skills, make new connections and get involved.
We are proud to introduce our first speaker: Anne-Marie O. Imafidon MBE. Anne-Marie is a computing, mathematics and language child prodigy who graduated from Oxford aged 20 and was awarded an MBE for championing women in STEM in her organisation Stemettes. You can read about her recent thoughts on the glass ceiling here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/…/the-glass-ceiling-is-made…
Like our Facebook page for more updates as we reveal our other amazing speakers: https://www.facebook.com/oxwomanempowerment/
Tickets are heavily subsidised and cost just £8 for the whole-day program and food and drink. Get yours here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breaking-boundaries-shatteri….
We look forward to welcoming you on the day!
Lord Browne of Madingley is presently Chairman of L1 Energy, the Chairman of Trustees of both the Tate and the QEII Prize for Engineering, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis. The seminar is open free of charge to members of Oxford University and to mental health professionals but space is limited. To attend it is helpful (but not essential) to e-mail Paul Tod at paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk
The construct of gratitude is gaining wide attention in the field of positive psychology. Gratitude diaries can be used as a simple, intentional activity to reframe our daily experiences and encourage positive reflection.
The majority of studies have used adult participants and there has been limited research into how gratitude diaries can have a positive impact on children’s well-being. Tara Diebel is an Educational Psychologist working for Hampshire County Council and completed her professional doctorate at Southampton University in 2013. She will talk about her research in primary schools that evaluated whether gratitude diaries could improve a child’s school experience and social well-being.