| Supporting the mental health of young people |
Professor Lennox talks to Cynthia Germanotta and Dr. Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes from 'Born This Way Foundation' and Professor Mina Fazel about the importance of supporting young people’s mental health. |
Belinda Lennox, Mina Fazel, Cynthia Germanotta, Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes |
11 September, 2023 |
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| Protecting mental health in crisis contexts |
Professor Lennox is joined by Benjamin Perks from UNICEF, Sabine Rakotomalala, from the World Health Organization and researchers from Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention, to discuss protecting mental health in crisis contexts. |
Belinda Lennox, Benjamin Perks, Sabine Rakotomalala, Jamie Lachman, Isang Awah, Stephanie Eagling-Peche |
11 September, 2023 |
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| Workplace wellbeing |
Professor Lennox sits down with Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to look at what contributes to our wellbeing at work, and the evidence linking happiness and productivity. |
Belinda Lennox, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve |
11 September, 2023 |
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| Building resilient mental health in the workplace |
Professor Lennox is joined by Sir John Kirwan, a former New Zealand rugby player and co-founder of workplace wellbeing technology platform Groov, to discuss preventative mental health in the workplace. |
Belinda Lennox, John Kirwan |
11 September, 2023 |
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| Childhood and adolescent anxiety |
Professor Lennox sits down with Professors Cathy Creswell and Polly Waite to talk about how anxiety affects young people and the effective new treatments being developed. |
Belinda Lennox, Cathy Creswell, Polly Waitse |
11 August, 2023 |
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| Maternal mental health |
Professor Lennox talks to Professors Marian Knight and Fiona Alderdice about how mental illnesses impact women and families in the postnatal period, and the power of speaking out. |
Belinda Lennox, Marian Knight, Fiona Alderdice |
11 August, 2023 |
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| Brain injury and rehabilitation |
Professor Belinda Lennox is joined by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg and Jenny Clarke from the charity SameYou to discuss the impact of traumatic brain injury and how researchers can help patients in their recovery. |
Belinda Lennox, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Jenny Clarke |
11 August, 2023 |
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| Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’ |
Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X |
Peter Millican, Sarah Gilbert, Peter Horby, Jimmy Whitworth, John Bell, Erica Charters |
14 January, 2021 |
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| Ebola |
Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. |
Peter Millican, Kevin Decock, Katie Ewer, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
14 January, 2021 |
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| HIV/AIDS |
In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV. |
Peter Millican, Harold Jaffe, John Frater, Kevin Decock, Jimmy Whitworth |
14 January, 2021 |
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| The 'Spanish' Flu |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak. |
Peter Millican, John Oxford, Brian Angus, Claas Kirchhelle |
14 January, 2021 |
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| 'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't? |
In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak... |
Peter Millican, Julia Mannherz, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
14 January, 2021 |
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| Cholera |
Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
14 January, 2021 |
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| Smallpox, and Jenner |
Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries. |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Erica Charters |
1 December, 2020 |
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| The Great Plague |
in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England. |
Peter Millican, Paul Slack, Emma Smith, Kees Windland |
1 December, 2020 |
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| The Black Death |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak. |
Peter Millican, Samuel Cohn, Blanche Oguti |
1 December, 2020 |
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| The Plague of Justinian |
Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced. |
Peter Millican, Michael McCormick, Abigail Buglass |
1 December, 2020 |
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| Athens: the first plague? |
Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted. |
Peter Millican, Tim Rood, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Nicolette D'Angelo |
1 December, 2020 |
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| Mark Carney on Climate Change |
Professor Millican travels to the Bank of England to interview its Governor, Mark Carney. |
Peter Millican, Mark Carney |
20 December, 2019 |
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| Solving climate change - nature or technology? |
Solving climate change can involve either mitigation – reducing the greenhouse gases we're putting into the atmosphere – or adaptation – the process of adjusting to our changing environment. |
Peter Millican, Nathalie Seddon, Jim Hall, Helen Gavin |
20 December, 2019 |
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| Is climate conflict inevitable? |
In this Futuremakers episode we ask experts the question - is climate conflict inevitable? |
Peter Millican, Kate Guy, Troy Sternberg |
13 December, 2019 |
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| Climate change - who should we sue? |
In this episode of Futuremakers, we’re asking what does a rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets? |
Peter Millican, Fredi Otto, Liz Fisher, Myles Allen |
13 December, 2019 |
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| Can we be green AND capitalist? |
In this episode we ask; can we be green AND capitalist? |
Peter Millican, Ben Caldecott, Thomas Hale, Charmain Love, Johan Rockström |
28 November, 2019 |
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| Should nuclear power be part of our energy system? |
Should nuclear power be part of our energy system? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with experts from Oxford. |
Peter Millican, Nick Eyre, Sarah Darby, James Marrow |
28 November, 2019 |
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| What did the Paris Climate Agreement change? |
What did the Paris 2015 Climate Agreement change? what did the politicians at Paris actually achieve? |
Peter Millican, Fredi Otto, Richard Miller, Sugandha Srivastav |
7 November, 2019 |
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| Climate change: do individual actions matter? |
Is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet? |
Peter Millican, Susan Jebb, Tina Fawcett, Tristram Walsh |
28 October, 2019 |
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| How do you build a greener country? |
What does the current infrastructure in the UK look like, and how far is it from where we need to be to meet our international commitments? |
Peter Millican, Cameron Hepburn, April Burt, Alison Smith |
28 October, 2019 |
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| Climate change and politics - why haven’t we done more? |
With the IPCC warning that policymakers have limited time to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5° C - why haven’t we done more? |
Peter Millican, Caroline Lucas, Ryan Rafaty, Tristram Walsh |
28 October, 2019 |
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| Twelve years to climate disaster? |
The IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C broke into the public consciousness through media reporting that we only had twelve years to limit climate change catastrophe. |
Peter Millican, James Painter, Myles Allen, Helen Johnson |
28 October, 2019 |
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| Could quantum computing change the world? |
Peter Millican tries to discover the truth about a global race to develop the world’s first scalable quantum. |
Peter Millican, Peter Leek, David Deutsch, Vera Schafer, David Lucas, Simon Benjamin, Tyson Jones, Natalia Ares, Jason Smith, Andrew Briggs, Chris Timpson, Jamie Vicary, Ali El Kaafarani |
11 April, 2019 |
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| Season Finale: AI selection box |
In the final episode of our series, we’re looking back at the themes we’ve discussed so far, and forward into the likely development of AI. |
Gil McVean, Sandra Wachter, Nigel Shadbolt, Peter Millican |
8 January, 2019 |
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| Is China leading the way in AI? |
In the penultimate episode of series one of Futuremakers, we’re looking at the development of AI across the globe. |
Peter Millican, Mike Wooldridge, Xiaorong Ding, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer |
19 December, 2018 |
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| What does AI mean for the future of humanity |
Join our host, philosopher Professor Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with three experts from Oxford University. |
Peter Millican, Allan Dafoe, Mike Osborne, Jade Leung |
12 December, 2018 |
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| Has AI changed the way we find the truth? |
Around the world, automated bot accounts have enabled some government agencies and political parties to exploit online platforms in dispersing fake messages. |
Peter Millican, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vidya Narayanan, Mimie Liotsiou |
6 December, 2018 |
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| From Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, the birth of AI? |
Many developments in science are achieved through people being able to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and in the history of AI two giants in particular stand out. |
Peter Millican, Ursula Martin, Andrew Hodges, Jacob Ward |
19 November, 2018 |
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| Does AI have a gender? |
Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topics of gender and AI. |
Peter Millican, Gina Neff, Carissa Véliz, Sian Brooke |
12 November, 2018 |
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| Is AI good for our health? |
Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topic "Is AI good for our health?" |
Peter Millican, Alison Noble, Paul Leeson, Jessica Morley |
2 November, 2018 |
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| Is the banking sector about to change for ever? |
AI is already playing a role in the finance sector, from fraud detection, to algorithmic trading, to customer service, and many within the industry believe this role will develop rapidly within the next few years. |
Peter Millican, Stephen Roberts, Nir Vulkan, Jannes Klaas |
22 October, 2018 |
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| Are all algorithms biased? |
Our lives are increasingly shaped by automated decision-making algorithms, but do those have in-built biases? If so, do we need to tackle these, and what could happen if we don't? |
Peter Millican, Sandra Wachter, Helena Webb, Brent Mittelstadt |
22 October, 2018 |
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| How will the automation of jobs likely progress? |
In 2013 two Oxford academics published a paper entitled 'The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?', estimating that 47% of U.S. jobs were at risk of automation. |
Peter Millican, Mike Osborne, Judy Stephenson, David Clifton |
22 October, 2018 |
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| Trailer: season one launching 22nd October! |
Down winding streets, beyond the dreaming spires, inside the college walls, debates are happening - in every study room and lecture theatre - about the future of society. Futuremakers, from the University of Oxford, invites you to that debate. |
Peter Millican |
16 October, 2018 |
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