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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creative Commons | What to do About Failure: Personal Actions. | How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes. | How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | Failure and the Farewell to Academia. | Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Chiara Cappellaro | 22 May 2018 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Failure and Other People | Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | The Feeling of Failure | What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 6 | The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy | 60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy. | Elleke Boehmer, Stuart Lee, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi | 16 Nov 2015 | |
| 7 | The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy | 60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy | Elleke Boehmer, Stuart Lee, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi | 09 Nov 2015 | |
| 8 | Creative Commons | Open Data: The Golden Age of Discovery | This documentary follows the experiences of a number of academics and researchers at Oxford as they discuss the implications of Open Data for their research, for academia and for humanity. | Chris Lintott, Ben Goldacre | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 9 | Panel - Scholarly Digital Editing | This panel discussion will bring together those working in the area of scholarly digital editing to examine how and why such editions should and are being made and what issues and assumptions we bring to the creation of scholarly digital editions. | Pip Wilcox, Lou Burnard, Eugene Giddens, Eleanor Lowe | 23 Jul 2014 | |
| 10 | Beyond the Academy: Applying Medical History to Health Policy | Fifth and final talk given at the Half Day Workshop for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians of Medicine | Virginia Berridge | 14 Jul 2014 | |
| 11 | Getting Published | Fourth talk given at the Half Day Workshop for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians of Medicine | Bill Luckin, Keir Waddington | 14 Jul 2014 | |
| 12 | Getting your Research Noticed: Public Engagement and History of Medicine | Third talk given at the Half Day Workshop for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians of Medicine. | Lindsay Fitzharris | 14 Jul 2014 | |
| 13 | Early Career Experiences in History of Medicine | First talk given at the Half Day Workshop for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians of Medicine | Matt Smith, Erica Charters | 14 Jul 2014 | |
| 14 | The Merton Equality Conversation: 'Stemming the leakage of women from academia: why do they leave?' | The opening talk at the inaugural annual Merton Equality Conversation, given by Professor Dame Athene Donald FRS at the TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford, on Thursday 20 February 2014. | Athene Donald | 25 Feb 2014 | |
| 15 | Meet the Scientists - Transparent Conductors | Alex T. Vai, DPhil student in the Donohoe Group, University of Oxford, describes his exciting research into touch-screen technology and also tells of his outside work ventures in orienteering and orchestra. | Alex T. Vai | 04 Oct 2013 | |
| 16 | Part 3 - My path to academic success - Asel Sartbaeva | Dr Asel Sartbaeval, a Lecturer at the University of Bath, discusses her path from Kyrgyzstan to Oxford and beyond, and offers some advice on balancing career success with family and relationships. | Asel Sartbaeva | 17 Jul 2013 | |
| 17 | Part 2 - My path to academic success - Ed Anderson | Dr Ed Anderson, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford gives an overview of his current role, and advice on issues he encountered along the way, including the benefits of a post doctoral position in the USA. | Ed Anderson | 17 Jul 2013 | |
| 18 | Part 1 - My path to academic success - Alison Parkin | Dr Alison Parkin, who has just started her own lab group at the University of York, talks about taking career development step by step, and the importance of both research and teaching in academic careers. | Alison Parkin | 17 Jul 2013 | |
| 19 | Creative Commons | The Role of Open Access in Maximising The Impact of Biomedical Research | Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, gives a lecture on scholarship, publishing and the dissemination of research designed to stimulate debate in Oxford on the issues surrounding changes in scholarly communications. | Sir Mark Walport | 26 Apr 2011 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | Research in Classical Archaeology | Discussion between Sir John Boardman and Donna Kurtz on the subject of being classical archaeology researchers and academics and some of the challenges and opportunities they face. | John Boardman, Donna Kurtz | 11 Mar 2010 |
| 21 | Making Science Public: Data-sharing, Dissemination and Public Engagement with Science | Panel discussion on how social media have changed the nature of the scientific debate among scientists, and how they have impacted on engagement with the public understanding of science. | Felix Reed-Tsochas, Maxine Clarke, Ben Goldacre, Cameron Neylon | 30 Oct 2009 | |
| 22 | Making Science Public: Data-sharing, Dissemination and Public Engagement with Science | How have social media changed the nature of the scientific debate among scientists? Are they challenging the supremacy of editors, reviewers and science communicators? How have they impacted on engagement with the public understanding of science? | Felix Reed-Tsochas, Maxine Clarke, Ben Goldacre, Cameron Neylon | 07 Oct 2009 |