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How do we best teach children to have a sceptical and questioning attitude? Can pupils learn everything they need to know from first principles? Are there some things they just need to take on trust?[...]
Present your research on innovations in surgery and therapeutic technology to an international audience of clinicians, scientists, industry and regulatory representatives. Learn about the latest developments in the scientific methodology for investigating surgery. And hear[...]
Planning has been wholly devolved to the Scottish Government since devolution in 1999. Since then, the Scottish planning system has seen significant change, improvement and review. In this lecture, John will describe the evolution of[...]
The Oxford Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers invites you to a new lecture with Saif Kamal (Founder of Toru & Curator of the Dhaka Hub of the Global Shapers). Saif is visiting[...]
Join Katherine Clough, Assistant Curator (Photograph and Manuscript Collections) for an interactive introduction to some of the photograph collections in the Museum. Visitors are encouraged to bring along their web-enabled mobile phones for use in[...]
IN[SCI]TE is a new interdisciplinary science, technology, and engineering conference, which will take place on Monday and Tuesday of 0th Week Trinity Term 2016. IN[SCI]TE is run by undergrads, and the talks will be both[...]
Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary was late in accepting professional, trained nursing. Not until 1891 was a trained matron appointed, the able Flora Masson who was coached and mentored by Florence Nightingale. Masson’s years at the Radcliffe[...]
Come and hear researchers from Oxford Vaccine Group talk about the unique typhoid human infection studies we run. There will be a Q&A session and opportunity for discussion.
Adobe’s Richard Curtis will join us in Oxford to provide a guided tour of Photoshop’s 3d tools. He will demonstrate how to work with virtual models to enhance photos, explain 3d printing functions, look at[...]
‘Rare events – unavoidable challenges and lessons to be learned’ Treating rare diseases raise the challenge of minimal previous exposure to similar operations. Defining a learning curve is therefore controversial as many such ‘events’ seem[...]
The second session in on-going seminar series on Building capacity on disability in low- and middle-income countries will be given my Prof. Charles Newton and Dr. Melissa Gladstone. The theme of this session is the[...]
The second Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate, and entitled “Global Challenges in Modern Medicine and in Revealing the Origin of Life”. The lecture will be held at[...]
Enter the Museum for a unique evening of performance and drama. Drawing from a rich variety of medical plays and historical material, the event will illuminate, provoke, and dramatize developments which have shaped ideas of[...]
An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the[...]
Professor Rachel Clough will be discussing ‘Personalised Medicine for Aortic Disease’ Professor Clough graduated from medical school at the University of London and then completed her medical and basic surgical training in the London Deanery.[...]
Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the relation between literature and intellectual history from the early 20th century to the present.
After being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Ted goes on the trip of a lifetime…and so does his pet fish. As the disease starts to cause his mobility to degenerate, Ted rushes to experience[...]
This 2 day event features talks and workshops from some of the most eminent personalities and thinkers in the field of emergency medicine. It is aimed at students, doctors, allied health professionals and anyone with[...]
Tea/coffee at 18.00 Lecture from 18.30 German archaeologists excavated extensively at Babylon, but were unable to find credible remains of the fabled Hanging Garden. Recent research has shown that the much later Greek texts describing[...]
Prevention and management of infectious diseases remains one of this century’s biggest challenges. As drugs and vaccinations have proliferated, protection from disease has increasingly been seen as an individual problem, requiring individual action. But due[...]
For the third lecture of the Trinity Term Annual Lecture Series on ‘Global Education’, Dr Mary Robinson, will discuss ‘Educating for climate justice after the Paris climate agreement’. Speaker Dr Mary Robinson founded The Mary[...]
Clare Harris, Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Visual Anthropology, will give an illustrated presentation on her forthcoming book on the history of photography of Tibet from the mid-nineteenth[...]
Kamal Mahtani, NHS GP, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Kamal Mahtani will be giving a free talk as part of the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care Programme.[...]
Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are characterised by an acute shortage of trained doctors and nurses, and a strong reliance on community health workers. In this talk, drawing on recent research in urban and[...]
In the fourth and final lecture of the Trinity Term Annual Lecture Series on ‘Global Education’, Prof Stefan Dercon will discuss ‘Education and jobs as a response to the Syrian refugee crisis’. Speaker Prof Stefan[...]
Professor Michael Douek will be discussing ‘Magnetic guidance in cancer surgery’. Professor Douek is a breast surgeon with an interest in breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction. He is professor of surgical oncology at King’s[...]
Lt Col Ross Moy will give a talk on ‘Pre-hospital emergency medicine – recent developments and top tips for the first on scene’ Lt Col Moy is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in the British[...]
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[...]
Professor George Youngson is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Aberdeen. He will be talking about ‘Non-technical skills for surgeons: a hard time for soft skills’.
While qualitative research has received greater acceptance in a great variety of disciplines, including health and medicine, the true potential of qualitative analysis seems not to have been realised in such areas. Hence, the critique[...]
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