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The Prime Minister wants to defeat dementia by 2025 and says: “Dementia now stands alongside cancer as one of the greatest enemies of humanity.” It affects over 800,000 people in Britain, at huge cost to[...]
From the struggle to get up on a Monday morning to coping with jet-lag, the body has to carefully balance our need to be alert or to be at rest. But how does the brain[...]
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series ‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’ Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
Dr Abril Saldaña Tejeda, University of Guanajuato(Mexico) & Collen Visiting Fellow at OIPA This presentation looks into the lived experiences of young mothers in higher education in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. It draws on[...]
Professor Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Professor of Global Health; and Commissioner on the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations, will provide his perspective on the key long-term[...]
Prof Peter Visscher, Professor and Chair of Quantitative Genetics, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Driven by advances in genome technologies, the last 7 years have witnessed a revolution in our understanding of complex[...]
The first speaker in Oxford Females in Engineering, Science and Technology brand new speaker series ‘Inspiring STEM’ promises a fascinating talk on her research and personal experiences in combining professional career and personal life, do[...]
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live[...]
The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest[...]
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series ‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’ Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
No other large-scale health intervention can have as big an impact on child mortality as vaccination. Across the world millions of lives have been saved by innoculation, and in the past ten years the annual[...]
Despite our extensive knowledge of the major challenges the world faces during coming decades, impasse exists in global attempts to address economic, climate, trade, security, and other key issues. The Chancellor will examine the implications[...]
Unwrapping Tutankhamun With Dr Christina Riggs, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia Ashmolean Lecture Theatre Tue 28 Oct, 2.30‒3.30pm After three years of work in the tomb,[...]
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series ‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’ Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
Dr David Clifton, Royal Academy of Engineering University Fellow in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, will discuss how healthcare systems world-wide are entering a new, exciting phase: ever-increasing quantities of[...]
A public meeting with a short introductory talk followed by questions and discussion. Understanding other people: a science of belief systems Speaker: Dr Edmund Griffiths, author of “Towards a Science of Belief Systems” (Palgrave Macmillan[...]
Craig Clunas, Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford and co-curator of the British Museum’s blockbuster exhibition ‘Ming: 50 years that changed China’, will discuss the exhibition with an interdisciplinary panel of[...]
The Innovation Forum, a student led, UK-wide network, invites all medics, entrepreneurs, scientists and coders to connect at our Oxford Launch event and to find out about “Digital Health: Opportunities and challenges in Oxford”. Our[...]
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series ‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’ Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
Professor Sarah Whatmore, head of School of Geography and the Environment, will speak about ‘Living with flooding: the science and politics of flood risk management’. Sarah Whatmore is Professor of Environment and Public Policy at[...]
Non-fat, low-fat, saturated fat, trans fats, healthy fats – in an era where we seem to be constantly bombarded with often conflicting messages about our diets, is all this information actually making us any healthier?[...]
In May 1914 Polish anthropologist Marie Antoinette Czaplicka set off for Siberia in charge of an expedition to study the reindeer-herding Evenki people. She was twenty-nine years old, had recently completed a diploma in anthropology[...]
Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, argues that it also has the potential to destabilise our societies. In[...]
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series ‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’ Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
There remain many unanswered questions in medical research about both the prevention and treatment of disease, but new technologies are opening up new opportunities to provide insights. One approach, in particular, the capacity to assemble[...]
Oxford University Archaeological Society invites you to our annual undergraduate conference, the theme of which is: CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF ARCHAEOLOGY Papers will be presented by undergraduate students from across the country on the following[...]
Panel: Professor Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and author of the chapter How can 9-10 Billion People be Fed Sustainably and Equitably by 2050? Professor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford[...]
The Colloquium is a seminar series at Kellogg College, Oxford. Poppy is a 2nd year DPhil student at the department of Oncology. She completed her BSc Biochemistry at the University of Southampton and did a[...]
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series ‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’ Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
The next decade could see significant steps towards eradicating viruses which threaten the lives of millions of people worldwide. Major progress has been made towards a cure for hepatitis C, but at $84,000 for a[...]
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