University Administration and Services (UAS)
UAS consists of 16 sections, including the Finance Division, Personnel Services and Research Services. Further information about the work of each section can be found on the UAS sections page. The offices of the UAS sections are spread across the city centre, with the main University Offices located in Wellington Square.
Series associated with University Administration and Services (UAS)
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Alumni Voices
Alumni Weekend
Case Studies In Innovative Practice
Christmas Stories from Oxford University
Data visualisation and the future of academic publishing
E-Learning Podcasts
Encaenia 2012
Engage: Social Media Talks
Exploring Spoken Word Data in Oral History Archives
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
First World War: New Perspectives
Futuremakers
Interviews from the Campaign
Interviews with Oxonians
Learning Technology at Oxford
Learning Technology Resources
Mandela at Oxford
MediaPub training
Openness at Oxford
Orientation for New Students at Oxford
Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
Oxford Abridged Short Talks
Oxford in Berlin
Oxford LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) History Month Lectures
Oxford London Lecture
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive
Oxford Today with Michael Palin
Oxford-India Day
Podcasting Conference at Oxford University
Poetry Slam
Prospectuses
QUADcast
Race Equality Network
RunCoCo - Beyond Collections: Crowdsourcing for public engagement
Running a Community Collection Online
Safer Internet Day 2014
Sebastian Rahtz, a celebration of his work
Sexual violence: prevention and response
Sharing Excellence – The Value of Knowledge Exchange
Sustainable Travel
The Disability Lectures
The Museums of Oxford
The Olympics at Oxford
The Oxford Climate Forum
The Oxford Year
The Romanes Lecture
Towards Low Carbon ICT
Undergraduate Admissions (PodOxford)
UNIQ Summer Schools
University Life
Valentine's Day at Oxford
Vice Chancellor's Welcome
Welcome to Oxford
Women in Science
Women of Achievement
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 101 | Data Visualisation, a publisher's point of view | Richard O’Beirne (Digital Strategy Group, OUP) gives the first talk in the conference. | Richard O’Beirne | 02 Nov 2016 | |
| 102 | Values based leadership in a changing world | 21st century leaders lead complex, diverse and culturally complex organisations: Do women lead these organisations differently? | Valerie Amos | 25 Oct 2016 | |
| 103 | Creative Commons | Director of Modern Art Oxford, Paul Hobson (Brasenose, 1988) | Director of Modern Art Oxford, Paul Hobson, shares his experiences studying Modern History at Brasenose College and talks about how he transitioned into a career in contemporary art. | Paul Hobson | 12 Oct 2016 |
| 104 | Creative Commons | Chief Executive of Stonewall, Ruth Hunt (St. Hilda’s, 1998) | Ruth Hunt discusses her current role at Stonewall and offers advice to students who are considering Oxford as a LGBT-friendly university | Ruth Hunt | 09 Sep 2016 |
| 105 | Creative Commons | Historian and Capability Brown expert, Dr Oliver Cox (Univ, 2006) | Dr Oliver Cox shares his passion for England’s greatest landscape designer, Capability Brown, in an interview recorded for the tercentenary celebrations of Brown’s birth. | Oliver Cox | 15 Aug 2016 |
| 106 | Creative Commons | Women in Engineering | A short promotional film featuring women who have been inspired to work in the engineering. | priyanka dhopade, sina ober-blobaum, Eleanor Stride, ana castro-castellon | 01 Aug 2016 |
| 107 | Creative Commons | Politician and chair of the Alumni Board, Baroness Shephard of Northwold (St Hilda's, 1958) | Recorded only days after the EU referendum, this wide-ranging interview focuses on uncertainty in British politics and the transformative nature of an Oxford education. | Baroness Shephard of Northwold | 14 Jul 2016 |
| 108 | Creative Commons | Freelance journalist and Broadcaster, Henry Bonsu (Magdalen, 1986) | Freelance journalist and broadcaster Henry Bonsu shares his experiences studying Modern Languages at Magdalen College and offers an insight into what it was like to be a black student at Oxford in the late eighties. | Henry Bonsu | 14 Jun 2016 |
| 109 | A Psychiatrist's Experience of Depression | Professor Linda Gask had a successful career as psychiatrist and academic, despite living with depression and anxiety. She speaks with candour about her experiences of periods of mental ill-health. | Linda Gask | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 110 | Sexual Violence: the spectrum of support for survivors | A podcast of an event which brought together local expertise that explored the support available to students who have experienced sexual violence. | Mike Wallen, Mo Sayer, Ammara Kanwal, Siriol Davies | 03 Jun 2016 | |
| 111 | Creative Commons | Testimonies on Nazi Forced Labour and the Holocaust | Building Digital Environments for Research and Education | Cord Pagenstecher | 16 May 2016 |
| 112 | Creative Commons | Researching Holocaust survivors in Greece through the Visual History Archive | Issues and debates in the research use of testimony | Kateřina Králová | 16 May 2016 |
| 113 | Creative Commons | Forced alignment using FAVE and DARLA | Powerful language technology tools and methods to support oral history research | Josef Fruehwald | 16 May 2016 |
| 114 | Creative Commons | Using forced alignment and HTML5 media syntax to share speech archive data | Powerful language technology tools and methods to support oral history research | John Coleman | 16 May 2016 |
| 115 | Creative Commons | Building an open sound archive | The case of the Grammo-foni (Gra.fo) project | Silvia Calamai | 16 May 2016 |
| 116 | Creative Commons | Oral Histories of Hidden Children in Denmark during the Holocaust | Narratives, Identity and Trauma | Sofie Lene Bak | 16 May 2016 |
| 117 | Creative Commons | Language Technologies: INTER-VIEWS | A Search and Annotation Tool for Oral History | Henk van den Heuvel | 16 May 2016 |
| 118 | Creative Commons | Language Technologies: ELAN | A short introduction to the ELAN annotation and processing suite of tools | Sebastian Drude | 16 May 2016 |
| 119 | Creative Commons | Increasing the Impact of Oral History Data with Human Language Technologies | How CLARIN is already helping researchers | Arjan van Hessen | 16 May 2016 |
| 120 | Creative Commons | CLARIN Data, Services and Tools | What language technologies are available that might help process, analyse and explore oral history collections? | Dieter van Uytvanck | 16 May 2016 |
| 121 | Creative Commons | Oral History Collections | How to exploit the multidisciplinary potential of Oral History narratives | Stef Scagliola | 16 May 2016 |
| 122 | Creative Commons | Oral History as Research Data | Interviews, collections, archives, data and history - a view from the UK Data Archive. | Louise Corti | 16 May 2016 |
| 123 | Creative Commons | From Search to Exploration | Barriers and opportunities in using oral history archives as data resources | Jakub Mlynář | 16 May 2016 |
| 124 | Truth and Reality in a Hyper-Connected World | Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief at The Guardian, delivers the second Women of Achievement Lecture. Drawing on recent high profile news stories, Ms Viner highlights how truth is a troubling concept in todays modern era of journalism. | Katharine Viner | 09 May 2016 | |
| 125 | Creative Commons | Leading lawyer, academic and Marshall scholar, Kathleen Sullivan (Wadham, 1976) | Kathleen Sullivan praises the tutorial system and her Oxford education, explaining how it has contributed to her successful career in academia and the courtroom. | Kathleen Sullivan | 03 May 2016 |
| 126 | Creative Commons | Comedian and broadcaster, Ruby Wax (Kellogg, 2010) | Comedian and broadcaster Ruby Wax shares her experiences of studying mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy and why she taken on a mission to save the world’s mental health. | Ruby Wax | 28 Apr 2016 |
| 127 | Creative Commons | Basketball legend, former Congressman and Rhodes Scholar, Tom McMillen (University, 1974) | Multi-talented alumnus Tom McMillen describes his extraordinary life as a professional basketball player, scholar, politician and businessman. | Tom McMillen | 15 Apr 2016 |
| 128 | Creative Commons | Marathon runner and coach, Mara Yamauchi (St. Anne’s, 1992) | Interview with Olympic athlete and public speaker Mara Yamauchi as part of the Alumni Voices Podcast series. | Mara Yamauchi | 21 Mar 2016 |
| 129 | A Great Unrecorded History. LGBT Heritage and World Cultures | Professor Parkinson discusses how to mobilise historical research into sexuality for maximum impact and the institutional, cultural and political issues that can be at stake, and suggests some of the possible uses of LGBTQ history. | Richard Parkinson | 25 Feb 2016 | |
| 130 | Creative Commons | Best-selling economist, Tim Harford (Brasenose, 1992) | Tim Harford shares his prize-winning economic insights, explaining why you can’t buy a decent used car and why you should exercise caution with big data. | Tim Harford | 11 Feb 2016 |
| 131 | Creative Commons | Chief Executive of Oxfam, Mark Goldring CBE (Keble, 1976) | Mark Goldring describes his distinguished career in international development, including his role as Chief Executive of Oxfam. Drawing upon his own experiences in Borneo, Bangladesh, Syria and beyond, he highlights the causes of poverty, and solutions. | Mark Goldring | 12 Jan 2016 |
| 132 | Creative Commons | Director and CEO of the Oxford Playhouse, Louise Chantal (Lincoln, 1987) | Louise Chantal shares her love of the theatre and describes her involvement in Oxford’s cultural scene during her student days and running Oxford's famous Playhouse today. | Louise Chantal | 04 Dec 2015 |
| 133 | Creative Commons | Writer, doctor and champion of evidence-based medicine, Dr Ben Goldacre (Magdalen, 1992) | Dr Ben Goldacre – author of the bestsellers Bad Science and Bad Pharma – dissects what is wrong with modern medicine and argues for better evidence-based medicine in this podcast. | Ben Goldacre | 17 Nov 2015 |
| 134 | Creative Commons | Historian and trip scholar for Spectacular Ceylon, Dr Maria Misra (Christ Church, 1982) | Dr Maria Misra shares her experiences as both a student and academic at Oxford University, as well as her love of South Asia, in this podcast. | Maria Misra | 26 Oct 2015 |
| 135 | Creative Commons | Near Miss | The Near Miss Project | Rachel Aldred | 20 Oct 2015 |
| 136 | The Oxford LERU Doctoral Summer School 2015 | In July 2015, doctoral students from the 21 League of European Research Universities attended a five-day summer school in Oxford on the topic of knowledge exchange. | Oxford University | 09 Oct 2015 | |
| 137 | Making knowledge exchange work | John Newbigin OBE, Chair of Creative England, reflects on the broad reach of knowledge exchange today, drawing on his extensive experience in the creative industries and the arts in the UK. | John Newbigin | 09 Oct 2015 | |
| 138 | Creative Commons | Neuroscientist and Alumni Weekend speaker, Baroness Susan Greenfield (St Hilda's, 1970) | Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE highlights how the unprecedented use of digital technologies is leaving a mark on our brains. | Susan Greenfield | 01 Sep 2015 |
| 139 | Creative Commons | Campaigner for women’s participation in technology, Ruthe Farmer (St Cross, 2007) | Ruthe Farmer explains how her award-winning work to encourage women and girls to embrace technology can be traced back to her student days at Oxford. | Ruthe Farmer | 06 Aug 2015 |
| 140 | Creative Commons | Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten (Balliol, 1962) | The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH describes his long-standing links with Oxford and his high-profile political career in this wide-ranging podcast interview. | Chris Patten | 21 Jul 2015 |
| 141 | Creative Commons | Ben Holmes on Open Code | Ben Holmes, a web developer for the Oxford IT Services, talks about the relevance of Open Code for the University’s WebLearn platform, the Mobile Oxford App, and his own involvement in GitHub. | Ben Holmes | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 142 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics on Public Engagement | Julian Savulsecu and Dominic Wilkinson discuss the efforts of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics to encourage and support debate on practical ethics through its open events and online materials. | Julian Savulescu, Dominic Wilkinson | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 143 | Creative Commons | Ian Goldin on the Oxford Martin School | Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development and Director of the Oxford Martin School, discusses the efforts of researchers at the Oxford Martin School to address the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. | Ian Goldin | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 144 | Creative Commons | Free Speech Debate on Global Free Expression | Dr Dorian Singh and Sebastian Huempfer discuss Free Speech Debate, a project founded on the belief that making content freely available for non-commercial purposes is an integral part of promoting a global debate on free expression. | Dorian Singh, Sebastian Huemfer | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 145 | Creative Commons | Victoria McGuinness on TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) | Victoria McGuinness, the Business Manager for The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), talks about the Centre’s role as a home for major research programmes at Oxford and its efforts to stimulate and support interdisciplinary research. | Victoria McGuinness | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 146 | Creative Commons | Luciano Floridi on The Ethics of Open Data | Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute, discusses the ethical questions raised by the emergence of Open Data and Big Data. | Luciano Floridi | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 147 | Creative Commons | Ben Goldacre on Open Data | Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma, shares his views on Open Data and discusses his involvement in projects created in the spirit of openness. | Ben Goldacre | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 148 | Creative Commons | Antoine Jerusalem on Open Research Data | Antoine Jerusalem, Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Science, talks about the importance of Open Data for his work on the computational modeling of materials and his involvement in the Human Connectome Project. | Antoine Jerusalem | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 149 | Creative Commons | Open Data in the Humanities | Jacob Dahl, Associate Professor of Assyriology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, talks about his research with cuneiform tablets and his hopes for the future of Open Data in the Humanities. | Jacob Dahl | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 150 | Creative Commons | Open Research | Researchers and Academics at Oxford share their experiences with sharing their data openly and the projects, collaborations and opportunities Open Data makes possible. | Maja Zaloznik, Antoine Jerusalem | 15 Jul 2015 |
| 151 | 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 |
| 152 | Creative Commons | Emma Goodwin on 'Crowdscribing' | Emma Goodwin is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Collaborative Skills Project, ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities’ (dhAHRC). | Emma Goodwin | 09 Jul 2015 |
| 153 | Creative Commons | Simon Benjamin on Open Science | Simon Benjamin, Associate Professor at the Materials Department, gives an in-depth talk on the importance of Open Science for researchers, students and the general public. | Simon Benjamin | 09 Jul 2015 |
| 154 | Creative Commons | Aruna Bhaugeerutty on Open Museum Collections | Aruna Bhaugeerutty, Manager of Digital Collections at the Ashmolean Museum, talks about the Museum’s efforts to open up its collections to a wider audience via interactive online platforms. | Aruna Bhaugeerutty | 09 Jul 2015 |
| 155 | Creative Commons | Open Educational Resources (OER) | Find out about the Open Education Resources and Initiatives at the University of Oxford! | Sean Faughnan, Marion Manton | 06 Jul 2015 |
| 156 | Creative Commons | Podcasting | Watch leading academic talk about their experiences with the University’s Podcasting Initiative! | Ian Goldin, Julian Savulescu | 06 Jul 2015 |
| 157 | Creative Commons | What is Openness? | ‘Openness’ is a far-reaching concept--find out what it is about and why it is becoming increasingly important to academics, researchers, students and the general public! | Marianne Talbot, Simon Benjamin | 06 Jul 2015 |
| 158 | Creative Commons | Champion of renewable energy Juliet Davenport OBE (Merton, 1986) | Juliet Davenport emphasises the role of renewable energy in the fight against climate change and shows how unprecedented progress is being made. | Juliet Davenport | 30 Jun 2015 |
| 159 | Creative Commons | Love's Labour's Lost | Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. | Emma Smith | 27 May 2015 |
| 160 | Creative Commons | Foreign correspondent Bethany Bell (Keble, 1987) | BBC journalist Bethany Bell shares her love of Vienna and talks about her experiences as a reporter in this first interview in a new podcast series. | Bethany Bell | 19 May 2015 |
| 161 | 2015 Oxford Disability Lecture | Hilary Lister is giving the first University of Oxford Disability Lecture. Hilary was an undergraduate at Jesus College who has since gained fame as a quadriplegic sailor. She was the first disabled woman to sail solo around Britain. | Hilary Lister | 07 May 2015 | |
| 162 | Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably? | This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably. | Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, Juliet Davenport, Jan Dusik, Graham van't Hoff | 28 Apr 2015 | |
| 163 | Cultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna | Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and in Western culture. | Bethany Bell, Shearer West, Ritchie Robertson, Jonathan Cross | 28 Apr 2015 | |
| 164 | Quo Vadis Ukraine: The Conflict and Beyond | Panel discussion of the Ukraine reviewing the current situation, exploring the context of the conflict which broke out in 2014, assessing its impact on Europe, and identifying what the international community can learn and how it should respond. | Lord Patten of Barnes, Jutta Edthofer, Gwendolyn Sasse, Michael Bociurkiw | 28 Apr 2015 | |
| 165 | Creative Commons | Crowdsourcing- The Oxford Community Collection Model | The Oxford Community Collection Model brings together online crowdsourcing with personal, face-to-face interaction. It has been used successfully in a range of ways from collating Anglo-Saxon teaching resources to memories of WW1. | Ylva Berglund Prytz | 13 Mar 2015 |
| 166 | Creative Commons | LGBT equality in the 21st Century | Ruth Hunt, Chief Executive of Stonewall and alumna of St Hilda’s, gives the 2015 LGBT History Month Lecture. | Ruth Hunt | 23 Feb 2015 |
| 167 | Creative Commons | Widening Access to the British Library's Collections and Services | Dr Aquiles Alencar-Brayner walks through some of the extraordinary projects led at the British Library which aim to engage and encourage interaction with the general public. | Aquiles Alencar-Brayner | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 168 | Creative Commons | Exploring the Learning Benefits of Lecture Capture | Jill Fresen and Debra Garretson discuss the Lecture Capture project led at Oxford and the how the software can be used to offer students various benefits. | Jill Fresen, Debra Garretson | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 169 | Creative Commons | Tracking Your Impact | Dr Kathryn Eccles discusses her knowledge exchange work with TORCH and comments on the various ways you can monitor the impact of your projects. | Kathryn Eccles | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 170 | Creative Commons | IWM's 'Computer Club': Engaging staff with Digital Technologies | Simon Delafond and Jesse Alter explore the exciting staff initiative ('Computer Club') led at the Imperial War Museums which encourages colleagues to use digital technologies to support and enhance their work. | Simon Delafond, Jesse Alter | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 171 | Creative Commons | Livestreaming Events to Reach Global Audiences | Peter Robinson and Josh Carr explore the benefits of using Livestream to reach out to large audiences. | Peter Robinson, Joshua Carr | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 172 | Creative Commons | Bringing WW1 History into the Present with Twitter | Mechthild Herzog discusses how Twitter can be harnessed to engage large audiences with WW1 history in a range of creative ways. | Mechthild Herzog | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 173 | Creative Commons | Facebook Pages that Work | Liz McCarthy discusses a range of strategies for maximising the reach and effectiveness of your Facebook page. | Elizabeth McCarthy | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 174 | Creative Commons | Using Social Media to Extend the Reach of your Projects | Professor David Pyle discusses his public engagement work for the Department of Earth Sciences with specific reference to the London Volcano and Volcano top trumps project. | David Pyle | 16 Feb 2015 |
| 175 | Varsity Trip: The Oxford and Cambridge Ski Trip | In 1949, filmmakers Guy L. Coté and Hugh Wyn Griffith directed the film ‘Sestrieres’ for the Oxford Ski Club, about their trip to the Italian ski resort, Sestriere. We compare this with film of a recent trip, highlighting obvious changes in student life! | Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 176 | A Yank Abroad: Visiting (and re-visiting) the Oxfordshire countryside | Rare 16 mm film footage from the mid-1930s of american tourists touring the Oxfordshire countryside by bike, and also footage shot by US airforce crew in 1944 visting Wallingford and Aylesbury. | Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 177 | Mesopotamia: An Oxford Archaeological Expedition | Film of the joint expedition to Kish, Mesopotamia, by Oxford University with the Field Museum of Natural History, of Chicago, Illinois, from 1920-29. The 16mm footage reveals the immense scale of the archaeological dig involving hundreds of people. | Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 178 | Sacred Landscapes, Buddhist Temples: A case study from Central Tibet | This talk illustrates how Tibetan Buddhism relates to the landscapes of the Tibetan plateau, to form a unique, truly Himalayan blend. | Ulrike Roesler | 11 Nov 2014 | |
| 179 | Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War | The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate. | Margaret MacMillan | 04 Nov 2014 | |
| 180 | The Commercial Evolution of Microfinance: From donor dependence to sustainable social investment institutions | Ira Lieberman provides an expert analysis on the evolution of micro-finance institutions. Followed by Juan Guerra, founder of StudentFunder – a case study. | Ira Lieberman, Juan Guerra | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 181 | Oxford’s Global Leadership in Social Enterprise: A panel discussion | Social finance and social investment is creating a global buzz, with estimates that the sector will grow over the next decade – an emerging trend that may lead to both vibrant social change and financial returns on investment. | Pamela Hartigan | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 182 | Innovation in Financing Human Well-being | Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford, in conversation. | John Bell, Will Hutton | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 183 | Creative Commons | RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online | Find out about “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing since 2007. The RunCoCo service at the University of Oxford University shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. | Patrick Penzo, Alun Edwards, Ylva Berglund Prytz, Stuart Lee | 13 Oct 2014 |
| 184 | Creative Commons | What is a Roadshow? | Find out about roadshows - face-to-face engagement – part of “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing, e.g. Europeana 1914-1918. RunCoCo shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. | Patrick Penzo, Alun Edwards, Ylva Bergland Prytz | 13 Oct 2014 |
| 185 | Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines? | Chas Bountra, a popular speaker at the recent Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia, will explain how Oxford is creating a new ecosystem for drug discovery. | Chas Bountra | 07 Oct 2014 | |
| 186 | Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate | Nigel Bowles explores Nixon’s politics that achieved a synthesis of strategy, imagination, ideologies, and calculation rare among Presidents. | Nigel Bowles | 07 Oct 2014 | |
| 187 | Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation | Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian and Fellow of Balliol, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church and Fellow of St Cross. | Richard Ovenden, Diarmaid MacCulloch | 06 Oct 2014 | |
| 188 | What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate | How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more. | Alain Goriely | 06 Oct 2014 | |
| 189 | Creative Commons | Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas | Joe Cartwright provides a geological perspective into the exploration of shale gas reserves. | Joe Cartwright | 06 Oct 2014 |
| 190 | Oxford At War: Footage from Mount Farm Airbase | World War Two arrives in Oxford in this episode, using never before seen Oxford footage from a US Flight Surgeon for the 14th Photo Reconnaissance Unit at Mount Farm Airbase, Dorchester. Includes colour and monochrome film from 1944. | Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 191 | A Day on the River: The Oxford Steamers | Salter’s Steamers have operated since 1858, and we revisit them in the 1940s as an American U.S.A.F Unit make use of a break from their war service to enjoy a leisurely day on the Thames to Wallingford. Includes rare colour 16mm film from autumn 1944. | Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 192 | What is a Cyber-Attack? | What constitutes a cyber-attack and who conducts them? What are the risks to society? Sadie Creese will discuss these issues and explain research underway at Oxford to help in the detection and prevention of attacks. | Sadie Creese | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 193 | Creative Commons | The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford | Professor Lionel Tarassenko, an alumnus of the Department and its new Head as of September 2014, sets out his vision for the Department for the next five years. | Lionel Tarassenko | 03 Oct 2014 |
| 194 | Creative Commons | Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar | Paul Newman talks about the UK’s first self-driving car – being developed at the Department of Engineering Science. He’ll explain the project’s motivation, its underlying technology, and its impact on the transport sector and beyond. | Paul Newman | 03 Oct 2014 |
| 195 | The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks | Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Ian Goldin argues that it also has the potential to destabilise our societies. | Ian Goldin | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 196 | Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing environmental risk | Professor Whatmore, who focuses on the interface between cultural geography, political theory and science and technology studies, will draw upon her recent research to propose a new approach to living with flooding. | Sarah Whatmore | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 197 | The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East | Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Middle East from both sides of the trenches. | Eugene Rogan | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 198 | The Future of the Past: Dating archaeology using radiocarbon and particle accelerators | Tom Higham examines some of the projects the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has been involved with over the last few years; from dating the Neanderthal extinction, to identifying the bones of Richard III and Alfred the Great. | Tom Higham | 03 Oct 2014 | |
| 199 | Heroes, Villains and Victims: The dangerous politics of international migration | This panel debate discusses key facts and fiction in international migration, and presents new ideas for a better politics of immigration. | Bridget Anderson, Hein de Haas, Martin Ruhs, Katrin Bennhold | 02 Oct 2014 | |
| 200 | Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture | World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold. | Roger Penrose | 02 Oct 2014 |
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