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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?	Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be?	Robin Thompson	15 April, 2020
The Lillies of the Fields	The beautiful snake's-head fritillary is the flower of Oxfordshire. In this episode we look closely at the flowers it produces.	Lindsay Turnbull	13 April, 2020
Deceived with ornament	Plants attract pollinators through their colourful flowers but some plants aren't quite what they seem.	Lindsay Turnbull	6 April, 2020
Strachey Lecture: Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics	Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics: Newton Abraham Lecture 2020	Alan Garfinkel	2 April, 2020
Sex and the single primrose	In early spring, primroses and cowslips can be found in many gardens and parks. Their yellow flowers are certainly beautiful, but they also hold a secret: they come in two different types that can only mate with each other.	Lindsay Turnbull	26 March, 2020
From Inclusion to Exclusion from School: Transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities?	This seminar explores the process of formal and informal exclusion from the macro, meso and micro level to understand some of the complex interactions between policy, school and individual factors.	Jill Porter, Ruth Moyse	25 February, 2020
Being a working class queer in theatre	Louise Wallwein MBE, a renowned and award-winning poet, playwright and performer, gives the 11th annual LGBT History Month lecture	Louise Wallwein	25 February, 2020
Race and the problem of the public in postwar America	Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government	Margaret Weir	25 February, 2020
Imitating Authors	Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors	Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell	24 February, 2020
Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening	Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise.	Carl Heneghan	14 February, 2020
2020 Colin Ford Lecture	Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne.	Larry Schaaf	14 February, 2020
Law and Exclusion from School	Combining legal analysis, theory, and evidence from practice, Lucinda Ferguson argues that the law is ill-equipped to support children at risk of permanent exclusion from school, particularly children with disabilities or other additional needs.	Lucinda Ferguson	13 February, 2020
Exclusion and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Improved Provision in Schools	This talk discusses the latest understanding of mental health needs in adolescent populations in the UK and the potential role that mental health services in schools can play.	Mina Fazel	13 February, 2020
All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations	All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations	Simon Cole	10 February, 2020
S1E4: Adolescence, narrative and storytelling	This episode hosts a discussion reflecting on the meeting points between narrative and adolescence.	Elleke Boehmer, Oluwafemi Oyebode, Caroline Adjimi, Hermann Wittenberg	6 February, 2020
S1E3: Performance and Adolescence	This episode explores the relationship between performance and selfhood in adolescent lives.	Elleke Boehmer, Alude Mahali, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Kopano Ratele	6 February, 2020
S1E2: Adolescence and Care	This epsiode addresses the role of care in adolescence in African contexts.	Chris Desmond, Olayinka Omigbodun, Cindi Katz, Lucie Cluver	6 February, 2020
S1E1: Violence and Adolescence	This episode explores the impact of violence in the lives of young people, both in African contexts and beyond.	Elleke Boehmer, Diana Walters, Patricia Daley, Heidi Stöckl	6 February, 2020
Alternative Provision and School Exclusions	This presentation will discuss the place of Alternative Provision (AP) in the process of exclusion in England, with a particular focus on issues related to social justice.	Martin Mills	4 February, 2020
Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia	In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyzes how our definitions of what is legal affect our view of the state and governance.	Christine Cheng	30 January, 2020
We Are Not Good at Translating Lab Science Into New Medicines for Patients	Inaugural lecture delivered by Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford	Chas Bountra, Marta Arnaldi, Magdalena Kubiak	22 January, 2020
Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it’s time for a UK Sunshine Act	Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ instead? Who should hold and maintain conflicts of interest registers for doctors?	Carl Heneghan	21 January, 2020
Ethics at the Edge of Madness	Ethics at the Edge of Madness - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anand Vivek Taneja	20 January, 2020
The Opioid Epidemic in India	The Opioid Epidemic in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Bhrigupati Singh	20 January, 2020
Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom	Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Ankhi Mukherjee	20 January, 2020
Issues in Public Health in India	Issues in Public Health in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Keshav Desiraju	20 January, 2020
The Indian Oedipus	The Indian Oedipus - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Shruti Kapila	20 January, 2020
Welcome	Welcome - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Roger Goodman, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon	20 January, 2020
Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approach	Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approachl - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Georgia Watson	20 January, 2020
Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries	Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Soumitra Pathare	20 January, 2020
Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative	Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anees Pari	20 January, 2020
Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries	Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Prathap Tharyan	20 January, 2020
Opening address	Opening address - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Premila Webster	20 January, 2020
Responsive mental health systems to address the poverty, homelessness and mental illness nexus	Responsive mental health systems to address the poverty, homelessness and mental illness nexus - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Lakshmi Narasimhan	20 January, 2020
Innovative provision of primary mental health care in rural India	Innovative provision of primary mental health care in rural Indial - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Pallab Maulik	20 January, 2020
Ecology and Mental Health in India	Ecology and Mental Health in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Maan Barua, Sushrut Jadhav	20 January, 2020
Identifying perinatal depression in resource-constrained settings	Identifying perinatal depression in resource-constrained settings - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Gracia Fellmeth	20 January, 2020
Differences in rates of school exclusions in the four jurisdictions to the UK	This seminar reports on the ongoing work of the multi-disciplinary and multi-site Excluded Lives Group whose work has led to the ESRC funds project The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences.	Harry Daniels, Ian Thompson, Alice Tawell	20 January, 2020
The Mental Health Act in India - what next?	The Mental Health Act in India - what next? - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Keshav Desiraju	20 January, 2020
Working outside the traditional clinical model	Working outside the traditional clinical model - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anna Tharyan	20 January, 2020
A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford - Seminar 1	An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare	Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Gil McVean, Jess Morley	20 January, 2020
All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights	All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights	Eddie Bruce-Jones	2 January, 2020
UK Supreme Court: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22	Session 3 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Nick Barber, Richard Ekins, Jeff King, Helen Mountfield	20 December, 2019
Kenyan Supreme Court: Raila Odinga and Another v IEBC and Others, 2017	Session 2 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Anne Makena, John Ambani, Nic Cheeseman, Luis Franceschi	20 December, 2019
International Criminal Court: Appeal against the decision under article 87(7)of the Rome Statute on the non-compliance by Jordan with the request by the Court for the arrest and surrender of Omar Al-Bashir (ICC- 02/05-01/09 OA2) 6 May 2019	Session 1 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Catherine O’Regan, Dapo Akande, Evelyne Asaala, Dire Tladi	20 December, 2019
How effective can litigation be in foreseeing and preventing human rights abuse?	Alejandra Ancheita delivers the keynote address at the Justice for Transnational Human Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship Conference June 2019	Alejandra Ancheita	20 December, 2019
The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context	Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Ramon Sarró, Marina P. Temudo	14 December, 2019
Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta	David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	David Pratten	14 December, 2019
Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt	Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Enid Guene	14 December, 2019
Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire	Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Sarah Van Beurden	14 December, 2019
The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters	New Yorker fiction through the decades	Deborah Treisman	12 December, 2019
Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare	William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing.	William Bird	6 December, 2019
Plant genetics from Mendel to Monsanto	Ottoline Leyser discusses the ability to target and/or select specific genetic changes in plant genomes, and the impact of this on the governance of our food system.	Ottoline Leyser	6 December, 2019
Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data	Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a key part of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and whether it is relevant to regulate political candidates' access to data.	Jens Koed Madsen	4 December, 2019
The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation	Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap'	Carl Benedikt Frey	4 December, 2019
Diet, obesity and health: from science to policy	Susan Jebb discusses how science and policy can help us make wiser choices for our health.	Susan Jebb	4 December, 2019
Essai, roman, film: réflexion sur les métamorphoses de l'écriture	Dr Chantal Thomas delivers the 2019 Zaharoff lecture (in french)	Chantal Thomas	2 December, 2019
Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present	Robin Cohen discusses migration throughout history and in the present day.	Robin Cohen	2 December, 2019
Linking people, nature, food and climate: progress and implications	David Nabarro, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition, will give a talk on what implications there will be for the planet and us in linking nature, food and the climate.	David Nabarro	2 December, 2019
Operationalising the potential of Applied Digital Health research	The increased reliance of health systems on the digital record as the primary mechanism for storing data on consultations and other health interactions has opened new opportunities for research, healthcare innovation, and health policy.	Richard Hobbs	27 November, 2019
Ending energy poverty: reframing the poverty discourse	The President of the Rockefeller Foundation discusses the need for new solutions for energy transformation and economic development.	Rajiv J. Shah	27 November, 2019
Sustainability scenarios for the global food and land-use system	Michael Obersteiner presents new insights from co-producing a set of new sustainability scenarios.	Michael Obersteiner	27 November, 2019
Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris	Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture	Lorraine Daston	21 November, 2019
Rethinking Work from A Uganda Marketplace	William Monteith explores the marketplaces of Uganda, specifically larger ones in Kampala, to discuss how the differences between waged and non-waged labour are viewed. He also discusses the role of different types of work in this context.	William Monteith	20 November, 2019
The First Image of a Black Hole	Professor Heino Falcke of Radboud University, Nijmegen delivers the 19th Hintze Lecture - reviewing the latest results of the Event Horizon Telescope, its scientific implications and future expansions of the array	Heino Falcke	19 November, 2019
Argument, Evidence and Continuity in the Augar Report	Released in May 2019, the Augar report was a result of a 6 person panel chaired by Philip Augar and was the first in England to have a remit for the whole of tertiary education. Parry argues whether its features are the nature of expert panels.	Gareth Parry	19 November, 2019
Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria	Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Society in Nigeria.	Gavin Williams, Portia Roelofs	13 November, 2019
Integrating and AugmentingTertiary Education Students' Experiences in Workplace Settings	Drawing upon three large studies in Australian higher education, this presentation sets out a case for the kinds of curriculum practices, as well as a range of pedagogic practices that can be enacted prior to, during and after students’ work placements.	Stephen Billett	12 November, 2019
Artificial Intelligence and Social Relations in Schools: Who are the 'Digital winners'?	This lecture explores the different types of artificial intelligence systems in common use in education, before relating this to the covert use of algorithms in influencing educational journeys.	Sandra Leaton-Gray	12 November, 2019
All Souls Seminar Series: Democracy and the Mafia.	Democracy and the Mafia.	Federico Varese	12 November, 2019
Litigating Rights : The Right to Health	Litigating Rights : The Right to Health – Mark Heywood and Maya Foa in Conversation	Mark Heywood, Maya Foa	8 November, 2019
Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory Book launch of Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa	Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are central to this interesting discussion.	Carli Coetzee	6 November, 2019
Re and De-contextualizing global citizenship education – systematic analysis of the scholarship in the field	With the rising interest in GCE, understanding the current research landscape could be useful for policy-makers, educators and scholars who seek to build upon the existing body of knowledge and develop it in new directions.	Miri Yemini	4 November, 2019
Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria	In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Obani also analyzes how these strategies could be improved for the betterment of the community as a whole.	Dr Pedi Obani	30 October, 2019
Everything is a poison	Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, gives a talk on dose-response curves for the EBHC podcast series.	Jeffrey Aronson	29 October, 2019
Poverty Matters: Family income, parenting and child outcomes	Naomi Eisenstadt presents evidence that low income itself reduces the chances of good outcomes for children and causes stress in families which exacerbates the risk.	Naomi Eisenstadt	28 October, 2019
Litigating Rights - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation	Litigating Rights Series - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation	Wolfgang Kaleck, Ben Wizner, Annelen Micus	24 October, 2019
Safe and effective drugs: The need to use all the available evidence to inform the effectiveness of commonly used medicines	Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, employs evidence-based methods to research diagnostic reasoning, test accuracy and communicating diagnostic results to a wider audience.	Carl Heneghan	21 October, 2019
Diabetes, blood sugar, and red wine: a personal study	This talk was delivered by Martin Bland.	Martin Bland	17 July, 2019
(De)constructing the crimmigrant other: migration, citizenship, and penal power	Annual Roger Hood Lecture: Professor Katja Franko University of Oslo	Katja Franko	16 July, 2019
The Shamima Begum case: Citizenship Stripping and Belonging in Britain	All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Devyani Prabhat, University of Bristol	Devyani Prabhat	16 July, 2019
"Doing Civilization's Heavy Lifting": The State of Injustice in the United States	All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Dr Tony Platt, University of California, Berkeley	Tony Platt	16 July, 2019
Historicising American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment and Inequality	All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Prof. Niki Lacey	Niki Lacey	16 July, 2019
The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch)	ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio	Marco Di Nunzio	13 July, 2019
Joao Lourenco's reform agenda in post Dos Santos Angola: Ambiguities and asymmetries	ASC seminar with Rui Verde	Rui Verde	13 July, 2019
Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership	ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT.	Max Price	13 July, 2019
Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection	What is the Dark Matter which makes 85% of the matter in the Universe? We have been asking this question for many decades and used a variety of experimental approaches to address it, with detectors on Earth and in space.	Elena Aprile	8 July, 2019
The secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it really like doing qualitative observation in operating rooms, ambulances, triage call centres and other health care settings?	This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years' experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, injury, disease, emotions, and technologies.	Catherine Pope	3 July, 2019
Big data in heart failure - opportunities and realities	The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension and heart attacks) and a common point on the trajectory of non-cardiovascular diseases (e.g. chronic respiratory disease).	Amitava Banerjee	3 July, 2019
Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019)	Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019)	Carolyn Hoyle, Respondent Hannah Quirk	3 July, 2019
Evolving, Maturing, Rejuvenating: 30 Years of University-Industry Engagement	The interactions between university and industry have firmly been on the agenda of policy making and university administration for more than 30 years now.	David Gann	30 June, 2019
Keynote Panel - Investing for the Future, Research, and Industrial Competitiveness	With changing international landscapes, now, more than ever, the interplay between government-funded research and industrial strategies is in sharp focus.	Alison Campbell, Sir Mark Walport, Walt Copan	30 June, 2019
Welcome	Opening remarks from the Oxford UIDP Summit. With Phil Clare, University of Oxford, Jay Walsh, Northwestern University and Patrick Grant, University of Oxford.	Patrick Grant, Jay Walsh, Phil Clare	30 June, 2019
Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group	Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Lecturer in German, Magdalen College and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, gives a talk on the White Rose Resistance Group.	Alexandra Lloyd	25 June, 2019
New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene	Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system.	Eric Beinhocker	24 June, 2019
From pollution to solution: will China save the planet?	Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe.	Barbara Finamore, Radhika Khosla	24 June, 2019
The future of the corporation, economy and society	Professor Sir Paul Collier and Professor Colin Mayer CBE will share the latest thinking and research into the future of capitalism and the corporation to understand how business might be changed to make it work better for society.	Colin Mayer, Paul Collier	19 June, 2019
Protecting the high seas (Oxford Green Week talk)	As part of Oxford Green Week, Prof Alex Rogers and Dr Gwilym Rowlands discuss the importance of protecting the high seas, and how marine protection areas can be enforced.	Alex Rogers, Gwilym Rowlands	19 June, 2019
What are Teachers' Professional Competencies?	This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice.	Auli Toom	19 June, 2019
Building Research Capacity in Teacher Education	Seminar 8 of 8 on teacher education reforms. Alis unpacks the notion of 'capacity' through a historiography of initiatives and a review of attempts at conceptual development.	Alis Oancea	19 June, 2019