The panel will share their fundraising experience with the audiences. The main topic of the discussion will be on how they managed to raise substantial amount of money in their campaigns. Answers will touch topics on how they publicised the campaigns and engaged with potential donors etc.

Panellists:

Alexandra Abrahams, the Captain of Somerville Women’s Boat Club.
In the Smash and Dominate: The Women’s Boat Club Challenge on Hubbub, Somerville Women’s Boat Club successfully raised £8,300.

Andrew Cunningham, the Co-Founder of an all girls’ secondary boarding school (www.wisergirls.org) in Kenya, UNICEF Education Consultant and D.Phil student at Department of Education.
Working with WISER in using Facebook to raise funds and awareness, Andy launched a 100 day campaign to raise $25,000 and ended up raising $67,000 last year. In last month, Andy had a 48 hour challenge to raise $5,000 and ended up raising $26,000.

Elliot Falvert-Martin, the Alumni and Database Officer at Wolfson College.
In his successful campaign – Tibetan and Himalayan Studies: research and preservation on Hubhub, Elliot helped the Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre at Wolfson College raised £50,800 to establish a post-doctoral Research Fellowship.

Rachael Owhin, MSc student in Migration Studies.
In the #OXFORD10000 £10,000 in 10 days! campaign on Hubbub, Rachael successfully raised £10,926 to cover the tuition and college fees for her MSc course. Her campaign was reported by Daily Mail and Evening Standard and she was interviewed by various BBC stations, such as BBC Oxford, BBC Bristol, BBC Northampton, BBC Leicester and BBC Derby.

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OxFund – the Crowdfunding Society for Oxford Students
Email: hello.oxfund@gmail.com
Website: http://oxfund.wix.com/oxfund
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OxFund/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OxFund
Fund OxFund to run events: https://hubbub.net/p/oxfundsociety/

During a speech in 1957, Prime Minister Harold MacMillan declared “our people have never had it so good”. Now, more than half a century later, are we fundamentally any better off? Through discussion of technological advances, social changes, political reforms, and economic shocks and recessions, this panel will seek to question whether the world we currently live in is indeed a better place than it was in the 1950s.

Chaired by Professor Brian Nolan, Professor of Social Policy, the panel will consist of:

*Dr Max Roser, James Martin Fellow at The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School
*Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute
*Professor Robert Walker, Professor of Social Policy

A drinks reception will follow, all welcome.

The Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture

Have you thought about using crowdfunding to fund your next degree, innovation, entrepreneurial project, charitable work, creative arts or sports club? What support you need from your college, the university and the crowdfunding platform? Speak out and let them know.

OxFund invited Jonathan May – the CEO and Co-founder of Hubbub, the representatives from the Development Offices at Green Templeton College, Keble College, Merton College, Regent’s Park, St Hugh’s College, Somerville College (the only Oxford college has its own branded crowdfunding platform) and University College, and the staff from ISIS Innovation who are working with Hubbub to build a Oxford-branded crowdfunding platform for Oxford staff and students to raise money for their entrepreneurial projects to form a panel to listen your needs.

More college’s development offices may join, as we are still in the process of confirming. Please check the Facebook event for the updates. Even your college’s development office is not in the panel, speak out your needs and we will pass them to the development office of your college.

As part of this year’s community outreach program, Oxford Brookes University’s 150th anniversary, and as a way showing our appreciation to all participants, clinicians, researchers, members of the public and organisations that have supported our work, we will be holding an open day on Saturday, 30th of May 2015. Over the past decade, the Movement Science Group, which now falls within the Centre for Rehabilitation at Oxford Brookes University, has conducted extensive research on a variety of topics related to rehabilitation and physical activity. Topics include measuring and understanding movement in those with movement difficulties, exercising benefits in people with neurological conditions, and developing novel rehabilitation strategies.

How do the humanities engage with business, and vice-versa? And what might this relationship lead to in the future? This panel will explore the reciprocity – existing and potential – of business and the humanities, considering the contribution humanities researchers and graduates can make to the business world and how the humanities might benefit in return.

Speaker: Dr Donald Drakeman
Panel: Professor Elleke Boehmer (Chair), Professor Howard Hotson, Professor Sally Maitlis

Panel Bios

Don Drakeman has been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the life sciences for many years. A lawyer with a PhD in the humanities, he has also written extensively about religious history and constitutional law. His book, Why We Need Humanities, will be published later this year. He is currently Distinguish Research Professor in the Program on Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a Fellow in Health Management at the University of Cambridge.

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English. She has published Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 (2002), Stories of Women (2005), and Nelson Mandela (2008). She is the author of four acclaimed novels, including Screens again the Sky (short-listed David Hyam Prize, 1990), Bloodlines (shortlisted SANLAM prize), and Nile Baby (2008), and the short-story collection Sharmilla and Other Portraits (2010). A book on ‘Empire’s Networks’ and a new novel, The Shouting in the Dark, are forthcoming.

Sally Maitlis is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her areas of expertise include sensemaking in organisations, trauma and adversity at work, and processes of personal growth. Sally conducts research in a range of public and privatesector organisations, with a particular interest in the cultural industries,studying symphony orchestras, dancers, and other creative professionals. She specialises in qualitative research, closely observing individual, team and organisational processes as they unfold in real time, and analysing these processes through talk and text.

Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Oxford. He currently works on traditions of religious non-conformity in the Holy Roman Empire in the post-Reformation period, pedagogical innovations linking Ramus to Comenius and Leibniz and a book on the intellectual diaspora of the Thirty Years War. He also directs the Oxford-based collaborative research project, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: Networking the Republic of Letters, 1550-1750’.

Image: The Moneylender and his Wife, The Yorck Project, Wikimedia Commons

Professor Rachel Bowlby from Princeton University will give a seminar on Commuters: From the Nineteenth Century to Now as part of the Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century seminar series. All are welcome, no booking is required.

So many of us are desperately busy doing what’s immediately in front of us rather than the things that make a real difference.

Ben will tell the story of the GB men’s rowing 8+ in the build up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where they won the gold medal, and how they challenged everything to make the boat go faster. For Ben it was the culmination of nine years in the national team.

Ben’s story is a call to action, challenging you to examine how you spend your time in a way that ensures you are travelling in the direction that you want to go.

About the Speaker
Ben Hunt-David MBE
BEN HUNT-DAVIS MBE

Former Brookes student, Ben Hunt- Davis is a performance coach, speaker and author. Ben has been involved in five Olympic Games – three as a competitor and two as a member of the headquarters team. He was also Chairman of the Organising Committee for both the 2011 World Rowing Junior Championships and the 2013 Rowing World Cup. He now runs a performance consulting company helping companies to make their ‘boats go faster’. His first book is entitled Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?

Two hour cycle ride with Max as he reveals some surprising facts about the science of cycling. Ride and demonstration.
Please show up 10 minutes before departure at The Story Museum. The ride will finish back at The Story Museum.

Author and cyclist Max Gaskin explores the science of cycling from hydrogen to helmets!
6.30pm – 7.30pm £8/£5 concessions

International table tennis player, broadcaster and writer, Matthew Syed will reflect on the psychology of performance.

Demographic changes across the world pose one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Longer lifespans and shifting fertility rates bring with them an array of global health issues. In this lecture, Professor Sarah Harper, Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, will talk about the causes and effects of population change and the global age structural shift, and Professor Robyn Norton, Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Health, will address the implications of these changes on global health.

Oxbotica are an Oxford University Spin-Out Company from the mobile robotics group. Oxbotica specialize in mobile navigation and perception – allowing robots to precisely map, navigate and interact with their surroundings.”
Graeme Smith, Oxbotica’s Chief Executive has a substantial track record in delivering complex products and services from research and development through to customer launch and has held executive leadership positions in several global start-ups and Joint Ventures.

If you want to learn more about the technology, a career in research, or just have an interest in robotics, come to hear Graeme at OUEngSoc’s first of many lunchtime talks this year. There will be a Q&A session at the end of Graeme’s talk. A buffet lunch will be served after the talk.

In today’s publishing world, it has become the norm for publishers to only receive submissions that come via a literary agent, but what does it really take to excel in this oft’ overlooked role? What do literary agents look for? How do they connect authors to publishers? And what about those complicated discussions about rights and money? In the Society of Young Publishers’ next event we’ll be hearing from industry experts about how they got into agenting and what their job entails.

Join us at The Wig and Pen, 6.30pm on 28th October to hear from Peter Buckman from The Ampersand Agency and Caroline Wood from Felicity Bryan Associates about literary agents and why they’re more than just middle men.

Rising inequality is a key focus in today’s policy discussions and media discourse. Building on research from The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford), Professor Brian Nolan, Director of the Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at INET Oxford and Professor John Muellbauer, Deputy Director of Economic Modelling at INET Oxford, will consider the causes and consequences of inequality, and what can be done to address it.

This workshop will inquire how neoliberalism, as ideology and policy, has transformed employment law and employment relations. Towards this end, participants will question what neoliberalism truly stands for, and what can be derived from it. To what extent do reforms implemented in recent years derive from a neoliberal agenda and ideology?

The workshop will explore the reasons for the increasing significance of equality and non-discrimination in the work of labour lawyers, and ask: Is there an ideological, political and legal future beyond neoliberalism, and if so – what could it look like?

Participants:

Amir Paz-Fuchs, Senior Lecturer in Employment Law, University of Sussex

Amy Ludlow, Lecturer, Law Faculty, University of Cambridge

Matthew Eagleton-Pierce, Lecturer in International Political Economy, SOAS, London

Judy Fudge, Professor of Law, Kent Univesity

Jason Hickel, Department of Anthropology, LSE

Ben Jackson, Leslie Mitchell Tutorial Fellow in History and Associate Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford

Ewan McGaughey, Lecturer in Private Law, King’s College London

Guy Mundlak, Professor of Law, tel Aviv University

Martin Upchurch, Professor of International Employment Relations, Middlesex University

Richard White, Reader in Human Geography, Sheffield Hallam University

Intern Avenue are hosting an exclusive event with the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) for Oxford students and graduates and would love to invite you to join us. The event will be held this Thursday 26 Jan 2016 at 6 pm in Oxford at the Examination Schools.

The DWP’s technology team handles some of the most complex and challenging issues surrounding security, visualisation, analytics and big data. In both DWP’s approach and its challenges, it is arguably one of the largest fintech start ups in the world. Two of its most prominent leaders on innovation will be speaking about some of its most exciting projects and also their innovative Digital Graduate and Student Expert Development Schemes.

DWP’s unique graduate offering promises a competitive starting salary of £28k, a funded MSc in your chosen discipline (Security, Data, Digital or Technology), and a comprehensive development program which will allow candidates from ANY discipline to be trained into top technology experts. It is also offers industrial placements for students studying technical disciplines. You can find out register to find out more about DWP 2016/17 opportunities here.

You will also have a chance to meet the speakers (Mayank Prakash, Director General Technology & Annette Sharkey, Chief Operating Officer, Technology) and network over drinks and nibbles following the keynote speeches.

We look forward to seeing a number of you there, please use the Eventbrite link to register your interest in the event and book your seats as places are strictly limited.

Any queries, please contact us on the details provided,
The Intern Avenue Team (on behalf of DWP)

Developments of the critical discursive tradition within social psychology offer both a conceptualisation of a gendered contemporary subject and an analytic approach to talk and text data, including media representations. In this paper I discuss representations which centre on a new worker as a gendered variant of two other idealised figures, the entrepreneur and the creative artist. The figure of the entrepreneur, eager to pursue opportunities and take risks, is central to the market-driven accounts of economic development associated with neoliberalism. The image of the artist following a creative vocation underlies many of the now-established understandings of careers and work practices in the contemporary cultural and creative industries (CCI), a global sector first identified in the late 20th century. I argue that the discursive drift between enterpreneurship and creative work valorises the new worker as a feminised, though not inevitably female, figure. I suggest that media representations invite identification with this new worker figure through a ‘new mystique’, promising autonomy and creative fulfilment as compensation for the precariousness and difficulty of freelancing and self-employment on the margins of contemporary economies.

Stephanie Taylor is the author of Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work (Ashgate 2012, with Karen Littleton) and What is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013). Her research employs a narrative-discursive approach to explore identification and a complex gendered subject, following theoretical and methodological work in narrative and discursive psychology. She has presented her innovative work on research methods and conducted methodology workshops in Turkey, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland and the UK, including at the ESRC Research Methods festival in Oxford (2011, 2012) http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/video/stats.php http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/video/stats.php.

Machine learning, or the study of algorithms that can learn and act, allows automated decision-making that is both scalable and free of human error. It is becoming increasingly apparent that many tasks and even jobs traditionally done by humans can be carried out in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost by machines. Dr Michael Osborne, Associate Professor in Machine Learning, and Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, will look at current advances in machine learning, and consider the applications these could have on future technologies.

We will be welcoming the following speakers :
Dr Sunny Singh (Author & Senior Lecturer on BA in Creative Writing, London Met)
Rachel Calder (Literary Agent)
Karen Shook (Book Review Editor at the Times Higher Education).

The talk is jointly sponsored by Mind the Gap: Equalities Research Network and Women in the Humanities.

For more information, please contact Eve Worth: eve.worth@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk

Technologies are not neutral tools that emerge independently of the society that invents them. Rather, their design and use reflect as much as shape society. So what does the contemporary fascination with humanoid robots and automation more generally tell us about how our culture envisages the relationship between humans and machines?

In this lecture Professor Judy Wajcman, Visiting Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, will examine the ways in which robotics embody the desire to save valuable time by enabling us to complete tasks ever faster and more efficiently. They are supposed to make our lives easier. Yet we hear constant laments that we are pressed for time, and that the pace of everyday life is accelerating. How do we explain this conundrum? And why is it that machines designed for today’s service economy often resemble gender stereotypes? Perhaps we need a female Doctor Who to provoke a feminist reimagining of robotics, one that challenges the future on offer from the evangelists of Silicon Valley.

It’s been a terrible time for the glorious game: corruption, escalating prices and shrinking grass roots involvement. Could a more scientific approach to everything from the offside rule to deciding who hosts World Cups make it fairer and more watchable? Join hardcore Arsenal fan Marcus du Sautoy, Leeds supporter Jim Al-Khalili and statistician David Spiegelhalter as they’re refereed by follower of Grimsby Town and Manchester City Quentin Cooper to see if science really can save football…

Science Oxford staff will be on hand at half-time with oranges and a little hands-on fun.

Writer Robert Penn discusses his love affair with cycling and how the journey to build his dream bike ended in a freewheeling pilgrimage.

Legendary British athlete Roger Black MBE discusses lessons learned throughout his career as well as his thoughts on Team GB’s prospects at Rio 2016.

The Weston Library will be opening its doors for visitors to see many of the wonderful things that the University of Oxford has to offer. Doors open at 1 however talks will be from 1:15 onwards. For more information check out; http://www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk/content/ood-events

The Symposium focuses on drought and water scarcity in the UK and globally. A range of expert speakers give their perspectives from an academic and practisers view on the impact of drought and how to manage drought risk in the Up and beyond.

This event is organised and subsidised by the MaRIUS project, and so has a very low price of either £25 for the conference incl. lunch and a drinks reception; or £35 for conference, lunch, drinks reception and dinner!

More information on the event can be found here: http://www.mariusdroughtproject.org/news/

Pen Hadow is one of the world’s leading polar explorers; in 2003 he made history and became the first, and so far only, person to trek solo without resupply from Canada to the North Pole. It was an astonishing achievement that included traversing huge boulder fields of broken ice and swimming open water in the arctic ocean, completely alone, whilst hauling a sledge weighing up to 125kg.

Just months later he became the first Briton to make unsupported journeys to both the North and South poles. Pen’s experiences in the polar regions haven’t just been limited to adventurous journeys; he developed a keen focus on scientific return and was the driving force behind the vision for the 2009-11 Catlin Arctic Surveys. Pen’s efforts surveying sea ice thickness, alongside Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, led to them being named TIME magazine “Heroes of the Environment”.

Join us to hear Pen’s extraordinary journey as a polar explorer first hand. From his record breaking expeditions to stories of fending off a polar bear with a saucepan – it promises to be a fantastic evening.

Image Credit: Martin Hartley

Ready to go on an expedition? Your health is of the utmost importance! OUEC is dedicated to provide you with a wealth of information for any expedition and wilderness medical advice or training! Our speaker, Dr Tariq Qureshi, has been an expedition advisor to Oxford University for many years. Last year he traveled to Greenland on an exploratory mountaineering expedition, including three first ascents.

He is also an instructor for Wilderness Medical Training, a rapidly evolving field providing vital emergency care in remote environments. Wherever you’re planning to go, this is your first stop! 🙂

Tuesday October 25th
7.30pm – Department of Earth Sciences
Members: Free
Non-Members: £5

As always, you can get your OUEC membership by speaking to a member of the committee before or after our talks in Earth Sciences. Life membership is £30, Year is £15, Term £7. We take cheque and cash 🙂