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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[...]
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[...]
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,[...]
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,[...]
Special Turner Event at the Ashmolean Museum Turner’s High Street, Oxford: a Unique Townscape With Colin Harrison Wednesday 8 July, 11am-12pm, Lecture Theatre Find out more about Turner’s most significant townscape and the greatest painting[...]
The extraction of oil and the mining of coal are devastating communities across the world. These operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. According to[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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.[...]
The use of data capture and visualisation technologies has grown dramatically, embracing the needs of researchers, stakeholder communities, cultural resource managers, tourists and the general public. This paper previews the types of techniques being used[...]
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[...]
Ecohydrologist Prof David Gowing will speak on “Plant species diversity: the role of soil moisture”. He will discuss the conundrum of how up to 40 species can all sustain themselves in a single metre square[...]
Millions of people worldwide are affected by natural hazards ranging from devastating but localised events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis to the more subtle but global effects of climate change. It is therefore[...]
Dr Rachel Aldred is a Senior Lecturer in Transport at the University of Westminster, and specialises in cycling research. One of her current research projects is the Near Miss Project, funded by Creative Exchange and Blaze.[...]
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[...]
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and[...]
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[...]
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and[...]
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[...]
The fourth annual Ockenden International Prize (www.ockendenprizes.org/) for excellence in self-reliance projects among refugees and displaced people will be presented by John Simpson CBE, BBC World Affairs Editor. Projects in Uganda, Lebanon and Chad will[...]
Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society Seminar Series
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[...]
In his talk, Kerry will explore the pressing practical problem of how hurricane activity will respond to global warming, and how hurricanes could in turn be influencing the atmosphere and ocean.
The 2016 annual Heron-Allen lecture will be given by Dominic Johnson, Alastair Buchan Chair of International Relations, Director of Research, at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), Oxford. For millions of years, humans[...]
Unreasonable Africa: Bold visions, Decisions and Successes; Exploring the Reality of Business in Africa The Oxford Business Forum Africa will explore the reality of business in Africa with the aim of increasing awareness of the[...]
Oxford Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society Seminar Series Abstract: Using recent fieldwork with several international eco-communities this talk critically explores what the physical building of anti-capitalist alternatives entails. With a focus on building[...]
Mitigating climate requires a transition to low carbon energy systems and renewable energy looks increasingly likely to play a key role, but the most important resources are intermittent. This lecture will describe the research of[...]
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