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The Disability Lectures
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2023 Disability Lecture: Going beyond standards in technology and accessibility

Dr Jessica Boland shares her experiences as a hard-of-hearing/deaf academic in science and technology, and her passion for improving accessibility in higher education.
Israel Studies Seminar
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Amos Morris-Rich: The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?

On Zionism's relation to Science
Inside WIMM (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

How can we support scientific leaders of the future?

How our Women in Leadership Programme is supporting researchers on their leadership journeys
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Amplifying the voices of climate experts worldwide

In this episode of Future of Journalism, we look at a project to improve climate coverage by making scientists and experts from overlooked regions more accessible.

From COVID to cancer to GM crops: helping journalists understand science

Fiona Fox of the Science Media Centre discusses how her organisation works to improve the relationship between scientists and journalists to ensure accurate, evidence-based information around topical scientific issues reaches the public.
Asian Studies Centre
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Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1960

The twentieth century was a period which saw debates on ecology, cytology, genetics and eugenics in the West develop in new and interesting ways both positive and negative to understand the position of humans within the natural world.
Oxford Summit 2021

Closing Remarks of the Oxford Summit 2021

Closing remarks from the Oxford Summit 2021 online event. With Prof Chas Bountra CBE, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford and Dr Phil Clare, Deputy Director, Research Services, University of Oxford.
Oxford Summit 2021

Transitioning to a Sustainable Future research focus group feedback

Feedback from the research focus groups which explored specific topics identified in the keynotes in more detail.
Oxford Summit 2021

Transitioning to a Sustainable Future talk 2

Transitioning to a Sustainable Future: Mobilising the University-Industry-Government Partnership to drive innovative solutions at pace and scale
Oxford Summit 2021

Transitioning to a Sustainable Future talk 1

Transitioning to a Sustainable Future: Mobilising the University-Industry-Government Partnership to drive innovative solutions at pace and scale.
Oxford Summit 2021

A return to multilateralism research focus group feedback

With delegates from the UK, US and Europe in attendance the research focus groups reflected on and discussed the practicalities of international partnerships in this new era of Post-Trump and Post-Brexit.
Oxford Summit 2021

A return to multilateralism Q and A

Q and A session with the keynote speakers of the a return to multilateralism theme
Oxford Summit 2021

A return to multilateralism talk 2

A return to multilateralism: How are the UK and US Governments grappling with grand challenges in a multilateral way using international partnerships?
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Protein structure and AI: the excitement about the recent advance made by Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold Programme

Why is it important to understand the 3-D structures of protein, why are they difficult to construct, and what is the nature of AlphaFold’s advance? Why is this so exciting and what further advances in medicine and the other biosciences may result?
The Secrets of Mathematics
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Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal

Science and maths are full of smart tools for explaining the world around us. Those tools can feel far removed from the way the rest of us understand that world. Can we reconcile the two approaches? Oxford Mathematician Anna Seigal provides some answers.
Museum of Natural History Public Talks
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Of parasites, dinosaurs, and other model animals

Elaine Charwat has been on a journey into the attic storerooms behind the scenes of the Museum to discover 19th-century wax models of parasites.
Temple of Science
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Episode 5 – Babylon: Natural Theology versus Scientific Naturalism

When Museum opened in 1860, a new secular approach to science was on the rise. In the final episode of Temple of Science we see how ‘natural theology’ responded to the challenges of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection.
Temple of Science
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Episode 4 – Chambers of the Ministering Priests: Building Scientific Disciplines

The Museum was founded on the principle that art should be used to teach science and to inspire generations of scientists. In episode 4 of Temple of Science we see how this was put into practice in some of the building’s less familiar spaces.
Temple of Science
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Episode 3 – The Sanctuary of the Temple of Science: The Central Court

The central court of the Museum was described by one founder as ‘the sanctuary of the Temple of Science’. In this episode we see how every detail of this unique space was carefully planned and crafted to form a comprehensive model of natural science.
Temple of Science
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Episode 2 – 'God’s Own Museum': The Façade

In episode 2 of Temple of Science, we take a closer look at the decoration on the outside of the Museum building, which captures the vitality of nature, presented in Victorian Oxford as the study of God’s creation.

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