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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 1 | Public trust and police legitimacy: Diversity and complexity in the 'global city' | Prof. Ben Bradford, University College London | Ben Bradford | 15 Jun 2018 | |
| 2 | Innovation and the conversation on the rise of China | Gary Liu, CEO, South China Morning Post, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Gary Liu | 15 Jun 2018 | |
| 3 | Roger Hood Lecture: Portals to Politics: Grassroots Narratives of Policing in the 'Low End', Downtown Baltimore, South L.A., and the 53206 | Vesla M. Weaver: Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology. | Vesla Weaver | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 4 | The Trump Administration and International Law: Will It Get Better or Worse? | The talk will review the Trump administration’s record in international and national security law over the last 18 months, and will address challenges ahead, including the administration’s counter-terrorism policies and approach to international agreement | John Bellinger III | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 5 | From Counter-Terrorism to Employment Tribunals: Academic Engagement with UK and Foreign Policy | Prof Abigail Adams, Department of Economics, University of Oxford and Dr Carlotta Minnella, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford and Louise Barton (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK) give talks for the conference. | Abigail Adams, Carlotta Minnella, Louise Barton | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 6 | Closing Plenary | Dr Caroline Kenny, UCL and Social Science Advisor at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and Alun Evans, Chief Executive of the British Academy to give keynote addresses to close the conference. | Caroline Kenny, Alun Evans | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 7 | Research into Action: Improving Water Security in Developing Countries | Dr Catherine Fallon Grasham and Dr Sara de Wit give talks for the session on research impact. | Catherine Fallon Grasham, Sara de Wit | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 8 | Impact and Influence through the Media | Professor Danny Dorling, Madeleine Sumption and Mikal Mast give talks on the subject of media influence and impact. | Danny Dorling, Madeleine Sumption, Mikal Mast | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 9 | What is the future for Impact in the Social Sciences, beyond REF? | Panel discussion opening the conference, with Dr Melanie Knetsch, Dr Julie Bayley, Professor Peter Kemp, chaired by Professor Mark Pollard. | Julie Bayley, Peter Kemp, Mark Pollard, Melanie Knetsch | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 10 | Scaling up Impact through Partnership Ecosystems | Professor Lucie Cluver and Dr Weizi Li gives talks for this session on impact. | Lucie Cluver, Weizi Li | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Statistics and the battle against misinformation | Denise Lievesley gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Denise Lievesley | 08 Jun 2018 |
| 12 | In pursuit of repertoires of news consumption. Analysing how people use news media in everyday life | Kim Schroder gives the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Kim Schroder | 01 Jun 2018 | |
| 13 | Bashir Abu-Manneh - Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948 | Bashir Abu-Manneh discusses Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948. | Bashir Abu-Manneh | 31 May 2018 | |
| 14 | Rami Ginat - Egyptian Communist Voices of Peace (1947-1958) | Ramit Ginat discusses the Egyptian Communist Party's stance on Israel in its formative first decade of statehood. | Rami Ginat, Yaacov Yadgar | 30 May 2018 | |
| 15 | Genocide on Trial. Witnessing and Evidence at Rwanda's Gacaca Courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Julia Viebach investigates the everyday of witnessing at Rwanda’s Gacaca courts and contrasts its findings with the process of witnessing at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). | Julia Viebach | 22 May 2018 | |
| 16 | Voice, Agency and Responsibility: Victimhood and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland | Dr. Cheryl Lawther explore the construction and meaning of victimhood in post-conflict Northern Ireland. | Cheryl Lawther | 22 May 2018 | |
| 17 | European Union and Democratisation: Backsliding in Tow of Unsuccessful Conditionality? | Dr Katarína Sipulova gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series. | Katarína Šipulová | 22 May 2018 | |
| 18 | Advancing the Rule of Law as part of the International Landscape | The 21st century has seen significant progress and recent regression in terms of entrenchment of the rule of law. These developments have occurred not only in the domestic context but also within the international sphere. | Kimberly Prost | 22 May 2018 | |
| 19 | Book Colloquium; Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia | Gwen Burnyeat discusses her book: 'Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia' with Laura Rival. | Gwen Burnyeat, Laura Rival | 21 May 2018 | |
| 20 | Exploring Needs, Costs and Outcomes of Services Provided to Vulnerable Children and their Families | This seminar will explore the relationship between the needs, services received and outcomes for children and families supported by children’s social care (CSC) services. | Lisa Holmes | 15 May 2018 | |
| 21 | Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of the Intercultural Universities in Mexico | This seminar will present findings of an exploratory study of the Intercultural University of Veracruz, one of a number of institutions created in Mexico to ensure access for indigenous populations, promote local development and to provide... | Tristan McCowan | 15 May 2018 | |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Political actors and the manipulation of social media audience groups through the use of junk news and other forms of automation | Vidya Narayanan (Director of Research, Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford Internet Institute) delivers a lecture for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Vidya Narayanan | 08 May 2018 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Faisal Devji: Jewish Pecedents and Muslim Nationalism | Faisal Devji discusses the surprising relations between Pakistani nationalism and Zionism. | Faisal Devji, Yaacov Yadgar | 02 May 2018 |
| 24 | The Untapped Potential of 'Work' for Looked After Young People – Challenges and Opportunities | The seminar will explore the transformative potential of 'work' (ranging from paid employment to internships to volunteering) for marginalised young people. | Robbie Gilligan | 30 Apr 2018 | |
| 25 | Reporting The World | Roula Khalaf, deputy editor, The Financial Times, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Roula Khalaf | 27 Apr 2018 | |
| 26 | Successes and Challenges in the Fight against Impunity | Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Twenty years after the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the ICC is thought to be in crisis. | Olympia Bekou | 27 Apr 2018 | |
| 27 | Spotting Investment Opportunities in an Uncertain World - A Panel Discussion | Spotting Investment Opportunities in an Uncertain World - A Panel Discussion at Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2018. | Spencer Crawley, Stephan Morais, Jenny Tooth, Joe White | 09 Apr 2018 | |
| 28 | What Lays Ahead for Government Technology? - A Panel Discussion | What Lays Ahead for Government Technology? - A Panel Discussion at Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2018 - Daniel Korski (Public), Robyn Scott (Apolitical), Pere Valles (Scytl) and Peteris Zilgalvis (DG Connect European Commission) | Daniel Korski, Robyn Scott, Pere Valles, Peteris Zilgalvis | 09 Apr 2018 | |
| 29 | Feeding 9 Billion - A Panel Discussion | A Panel Discussion at Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2018 - Robert Opp (Innovation Division World Forum Programme (UN)), Tim Röhrich (European Founders Society), Willem Sodderland (Seamore) and Ilana Taub (Snact) | Robert Opp, Tim Röhrich, Willem Sodderland, Ilana Taub | 09 Apr 2018 | |
| 30 | Moving Money: The Story of TransferWise | Kristo Käärmann (Executive Founder of TransferWise) gives the afternoon keynote at Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2018. | Kristo Käärmann | 09 Apr 2018 | |
| 31 | Biz Stone in conversation with Brent Hoberman | Biz Stone (Co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly) in conversation with Brent Hoberman (Co-Founder of Lastminute.com and Founders Forum) at Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2018. | Biz Stone, Brent Hoberman | 09 Apr 2018 | |
| 32 | The journey of Just Eat UK | David Buttress (Ex CEO of Just Eat UK, angel investor and Partner at 83North Venture Capital) - gives the morning keynote at Oxford Said Entrepreneurship Forum 2018. | David Buttress | 09 Apr 2018 | |
| 33 | The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field) | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Rafael Schacter (University College London) on 1 December 2017 | Rafael Schacter | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 34 | A study of children starting school and the progress they make in their first year around the world: The iPIPS project | Professor Peter Tymms (Durham University) delivers a seminar on the iPIPS project; an international study of children starting school around the world and the progress that they make in their first year at school. | Peter Tymms | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 35 | The concept of culture in cultural evolution | The Keynote speech by Tim Lewens (Professor of Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) for the Cultural Evolution Workshop held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, on 28 February 2017 | Tim Lewens | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 36 | Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Elizabeth Ewart and Wolde Tadesse (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) on 13 October 2017 | Elizabeth Ewart, Wolde Tadesse | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 37 | Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Michael Jackson (Emeritus Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School), 20 October 2017 | Michael Jackson | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 38 | Words and Deeds - the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017 | Michael Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, delivered the Astor Visiting Lecture at Oxford on 19 October 2017. Introduced by Ramon Sarró (Oxford). | Michael Jackson | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 39 | Ebola: A biosocial journey | The inaugural Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture delivered in Oxford on 3 November 2017 by Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Melissa Parker | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 40 | Creative Commons | The King of Whoppers and political factchecking in the 2016 US presidential race | The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Lucas Graves (Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute, Oxford University) delivers a lecture for the Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series. | Lucas Graves | 21 Mar 2018 |
| 41 | A Founding Editors Perspective | Professor Patricia Broadfoot, Emeritus Professor of Education, gives a presentation for the OUCEA conference. | Patricia Broadfoot | 19 Mar 2018 | |
| 42 | Future Direction | Therese N. Hopfenbeck gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Therese N. Hopfenbeck | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 43 | Assessment and learning theories | Jo-Anne Baird gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Jo-Anne Baird | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 44 | Creative Commons | Resisting moralisation in health promotion | A seminar by Rebecca Brown (University of Oxford) | Rebecca Brown | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 45 | Creative Commons | Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0 | A seminar by Cat Pausé (Massey University, New Zealand) | Cat Pausé | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 46 | Formative assessment: where do we go from here? | Ernesto Panadero gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box | Ernesto Panadero | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 47 | Creative Commons | Anorexia, care and comfort | A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Anna Lavis | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 48 | Assessment in Education's knowledge contribution to Formative Assessment | Gordon Stobart gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Gordon Stobart | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 49 | Bitter-sweet adaptation | A seminar by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) | Stanley Ulijaszek | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 50 | Creative Commons | Macaques at the margins | Professor Sarah Elton (Durham) discusses 'what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates outside the tropics', a UBVO seminar 16 November 2017 | Sarah Elton | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 51 | Comments from previous editors' presentations | Mary James gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box | Mary James | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 52 | Formative assessment: Confusions, clarifications, and prospects for consensus | Dylan Wiliam gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box | Dylan Wiliam | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 53 | Creative Commons | The discursive regulation of 'too fat' and 'too thin' bodies | A presentation by Helen Malson (University of the West of England) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Helen Malson | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 54 | An author's appreciation | Paul Black gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Paul Black | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 55 | Creative Commons | Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010 | A presentation by Natalie Boero (College of Social Sciences, San Jose, California) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Natalie Boero | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 56 | Creative Commons | Completing contemporary discourses of obesity | A presentation by Helene Shugart (University of Utah) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Helene Shugart | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 57 | Welcome to the conference | Therese N. Hopfenbeck opens the conference; Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Therese N Hopfenbeck | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 58 | Creative Commons | Analytic approaches to media representations | A presentation by David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | David Zeitlyn | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 59 | Creative Commons | Text mining techniques | A presentation by John McNaught (Deputy Director of the National Centre for Text Mining) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | John McNaught | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 60 | Creative Commons | Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media | A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Anna Lavis | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 61 | Creative Commons | Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places | Paul Norman (University of Leeds) presented this UBVO seminar on 2 November 2017 | Paul Norman | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 62 | Creative Commons | Constructing the archetypal anorectic trends in media representations of eating disordered celebrities | A presentation by Paula Saukko (Loughborough University) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Paula Saukko | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 63 | Creative Commons | In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey | Professor Akhavan will speak about his recent book In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey, the 2017 CBC Massey Lectures which became the best-selling non-fiction book in Canada. | Payam Akhavan | 09 Mar 2018 |
| 64 | Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine | Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century. | Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar | 07 Mar 2018 | |
| 65 | Draft Principles on Shared Responsibility | A presentation of the new principles of shared responsibility in international law | Ilias Plakokefalos, Jean D'Aspremont | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 66 | FMR 57 - From the editors | This issue therefore focuses – as did the 2014 issue – on displacement from and within Syria. | Marion Couldrey, Jenny Peebles | 05 Mar 2018 | |
| 67 | FMR 57 - Foreword: Syria in 2018 – in search of solutions | This important issue of Forced Migration Review draws our attention to the current challenges facing displaced Syrians and the continuing search for solutions. | Noor Al Hussein | 05 Mar 2018 | |
| 68 | FMR 57 - Protecting the dignity of displaced Syrians | What does dignity mean to Syrian refugees and practitioners? And what can humanitarian organisations do – or abstain from doing – to help Syrians preserve and protect their dignity? | Kholoud Mansour | 05 Mar 2018 | |
| 69 | FMR 57 - One camp, three refugee groups: challenges for local NGOs | Local non-governmental organisations in Lebanon's Bourj al-Barajneh camp face challenges in responding to the complex needs of three different refugee groups. | Olfat Mahmoud, Rebecca Roberts | 05 Mar 2018 | |
| 70 | FMR 57 - Refugee-led humanitarianism in Lebanon's Shatila camp | Refugee-led humanitarian initiatives by 'established' Palestinian refugees in response to the arrival of 'new' displaced Syrians to Shatila camp raise key questions. | Hind Sharif | 05 Mar 2018 | |
| 71 | FMR 57 - The role of municipalities in ensuring stability | Responses to crises in Lebanon's Beka'a region in 2017 show that refugee-hosting municipalities can be a pillar of peaceful coexistence and must be supported. | Josep Zapater | 05 Mar 2018 | |
| 72 | FMR 57 - Competing security and humanitarian imperatives in the Berm | Approximately 60,000 Syrians are trapped in 'the Berm', a desolate area on the Syria-Jordan border. When security concerns are prioritised over humanitarian needs and aid agencies turn to militant groups to deliver aid, the consequences can be deplorable. | Charles Simpson | 05 Mar 2018 | |
| 73 | FMR 57 - Categorising Syrians in Lebanon as 'vulnerable' | Vulnerability assessments are used by humanitarian actors to identify those at greater risk of harm but their use in the response to displaced Syrians in Lebanon is problematic. | Maja Janmyr, Lama Mourad | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 74 | FMR 57 - Rethinking the lessons from Za'atari refugee camp | Humanitarian efforts to build a model refugee camp when constructing Azraq camp in Jordan – drawing on what was supposed to have been learned in Za'atari camp – missed crucial aspects of Za'atari's governance. | Melissa N Gatter | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 75 | FMR 57 - The neglected health needs of older Syrian refugees in Jordan | In Jordan, the specific health needs of older Syrian refugees tend to be overlooked, due in part to a lack of data, institutional biases and the nature of the humanitarian response. | Sigrid Lupieri | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 76 | FMR 57 - The importance of social capital in protracted displacement | We hope to generate discussion about ways to further tailor assessments, targeting and programming in this and other situations of protracted displacement. | Ana Uzelac, Jos Meester, Markus Goransson, Willem van den Berg | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 77 | FMR 57 - From vulnerability to resilience: improving humanitarian response | Lessons from responses to the Syrian displacement crisis can inform broader discussions on how to build responses that better address vulnerability, support resilience and include displaced women, children and young people in all their diversity. | Emma Pearce, Boram Lee | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 78 | FMR 57 - Syrian refugees: thinking beyond gender stereotypes | The dominant gender narratives among NGOs responding to Syrian refugees, and their subsequent interventions, are based on sometimes simplistic understandings of the ‘traditional’ Syrian household and power dynamics. | Michelle Lokot | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 79 | FMR 57 - How migration to Europe affects those left behind | Families are frequently separated as a result of migration and displacement from the Middle East to Europe, yet humanitarian aid is often difficult to access and insufficient to meet the needs of those left behind. | Megan Passey | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 80 | FMR 57 - Peace education and psychosocial support for social cohesion | Evidence from psychosocial support-based peace education work with young displaced Syrians shows that addressing trauma is critical in overcoming psychological barriers to social cohesion. | Ruth Simpson | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 81 | FMR 57 - Private sector engagement in refugee education | The involvement of the private sector in providing education for Syrian refugees has much to commend it but greater consideration needs to be paid to the ethical and practical concerns that may arise. | Zeena Zakharia, Francine Menashy | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 82 | FMR 57 - Caring for male and LGBTI sexual violence survivors: learning from local organisations | Local organisations responding to the Syrian humanitarian crisis are at the forefront of providing care for both male and LGBTI survivors of sexual violence. | Sarah Chynoweth | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 83 | FMR 57 - Child marriage in Jordan: breaking the cycle | In seeking to combat the growing phenomenon of child marriage among Syrian refugees, it is vital to engage the whole range of actors involved, and to recognise that girls and boys have the capacity to address this issue in their own communities. | Georgia Swan | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 84 | Creative Commons | Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part B | Arbitrators have many powers – express, implied, and those inherent in the very process of arbitration. Disputes that involve corruption put into question the breadth of those powers. | Andrea Bjorklund | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 85 | Creative Commons | Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part A | Arbitrators have many powers – express, implied, and those inherent in the very process of arbitration. Disputes that involve corruption put into question the breadth of those powers. | Andrea Bjorklund | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 86 | Polyrational approaches to obesity | In this talk, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek considers whether obesity is a polyrational problem | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 87 | Physical activity and the built environment | A presentation given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Fribourg Obesity Research Conference in Switzerland in 2017 | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 88 | Creative Commons | Models of Obesity - A Book Launch | To mark its publication of Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy in September 2017, author Stanley Ulijaszek discusses the book's themes and purpose | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 89 | Interaction between Hard Law and Soft Law in United Nations Law-Making | From a law-making perspective 'soft-law' is simply a convenient description for a variety of non-binding, normatively worded instruments used in contemporary international relations by states and international organisations. | Alan Boyle | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 90 | Creative Commons | Listening to the News Audience - What's Missing from Obesity News? | A seminar by Catriona Bonfiglioli, a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia | Catriona Bonfiglioli | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 91 | Creative Commons | Childhood Obesity in Portugal | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek interviews Professor Cristina Padez as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) 'Instruments and Institutions' interviews series | Stanley Ulijaszek, Cristina Padez | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 92 | What is Nutritional Anthropology? | A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 93 | Obesity and Consumption | A lecture presented by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 94 | FMR 57 - Expanding economic opportunities in protracted displacement | Welcome progress has been made towards realising commitments made by international donors and host country governments to expand economic opportunities for Syrian refugees and host communities in neighbouring countries. | Miki Takahashi, Michael Moroz, Jonathan Peters, Jason Pronyk | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 95 | FMR 57 - Learning from the Jordan Compact | Analysis of the implementation of the Jordan Compact offers three key lessons: governmental approval is important but not sufficient, the incorporation of critical voices is crucial, meeting numeric targets is not the same as achieving underlying goals. | Katharina Lenner, Lewis Turner | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 96 | FMr 57 - Designing refugee compacts: lessons from Jordan | Analysis of progress to date under the Jordan Compact highlights a number of shortcomings that need to be addressed if the model is to be used effectively elsewhere. | Cindy Huang, Nazanin Ash, Katelyn Gough, Lauren Post | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 97 | FMR 57 - Turkey: between hospitality and hostility | Recent political developments and changes in Turkey’s asylum law have had a significantly injurious impact on the safety and legal certainty of refugees in Turkey. | Margarite Helena Zoeteweij-Turhan | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 98 | FMR 57 - Refugee youth, unemployment and extremism: countering the myth | Refugee youth unemployment has been linked to increased risk of extremism and/or exploitation. Research indicates, however, that unemployment is just one of many factors triggering frustration among young refugees. | Drew Mikhael, Julie Norman | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 99 | FMR 57 - Establishing legal identity for displaced Syrians | Seven years of conflict have had a serious detrimental effect on many Syrians' ability to prove their legal identity. | Martin Clutterbuck, Laura Cunial, Paola Barsanti, Tina Gewis | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 100 | FMR 57 - When is return voluntary? Conditions of asylum in Lebanon | The decision of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return to Syria must not be based on a deteriorating quality of asylum that creates physical, social and material pressures on decisions to return. | Amy Keith, Nour Shawaf | 27 Feb 2018 |
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