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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 1 | Research Behind... The Great Vape Debate | A podcast about a song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford | Jamie Hartmann-Boyce | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 2 | Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly | Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit. | Jonathan Cook | 06 Dec 2017 | |
| 3 | A little known law of numbers | Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series, | Jeffrey Aronson | 20 Oct 2017 | |
| 4 | Dr Lisa Schwartz and Dr Steven Woloshin | Professor Carl Heneghan in conversation with Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, and Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, Professors of Medicine, of Community and Family Medicine, and Co-Directors of Medicine and the Media Programs at The Dartmouth Institute. | Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, Carl Heneghan | 03 May 2017 | |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter | Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, speaks to Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, about the importance of medical statistics. | David Spiegelhalter, Carl Heneghan | 28 Mar 2017 |
| 6 | Statistics: Why the Truth Matters Tim Harford | Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less", argues that politicians, businesses and even charities have been poisoning the value of statistics and data. | Tim Harford | 14 Feb 2017 | |
| 7 | Quantum Geometry, Exclusion Statistics, and the Geometry of "Flux Attachment" in 2D Landau levels | Duncan Haldane talks about Quantum Geometry, Exclusion Statistics, and the Geometry of "Flux Attachment" in 2D Landau levels. | Duncan Haldane | 11 Oct 2016 | |
| 8 | Exchange statistics - Basic concepts | In this talk Jon Magne Leinaas from University of Oslo reviews some of the basic ideas and questions related to the exchange symmetry of identical particles. | Jon Magne Leinaas | 11 Oct 2016 | |
| 9 | New Statistics and Prediction | In the first part of their discussion, Joe Silk and John Peacock compare approaches to statistics and how these bear on predictions in cosmology, including Weinberg’s prediction of the cosmological constant. | John Peacock, Joe Silk | 13 Jul 2016 | |
| 10 | New Approaches to Probability | In the second part of their discussion, Luke Barnes and David Sloan go over the difference between frequentist and bayesian statistics, and how this difference applies to astrophysics and cosmology. | Luke Barnes, David Sloan | 13 Jul 2016 | |
| 11 | Creative Commons | The history of the future | The founders lecture 2016, by eminent historian and Honorary Fellow, Professor Sir Brian Harrison, FBA. | Brian Harrison | 14 Jun 2016 |
| 12 | Bioinformatics at the heart of biology and genomics medicine | The Ninth annual Florence Nightingale Lecture, given by Professor Dame Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. Held on Thursday 21st April 2016. | Dame Janet Thornton | 27 Apr 2016 | |
| 13 | Creative Commons | Evidence-Based Decision Making for Collection Management | A talk delivered by Paul Cavanagh & James Kay at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. | Paul Cavanagh, James Kay | 15 Sep 2015 |
| 14 | Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences | Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focussing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, and (b) using "big data" examples to generate and maintain students' interest. | Chris Zorn | 04 Jun 2015 | |
| 15 | The 17th Ockham Lecture - 'Physics in the World of Ideas: Complexity as Energy' | Given by Professor Yuri Manin, Professor Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany; Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; Principal Researcher, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. | Yuri Manin | 03 Jun 2015 | |
| 16 | Creative Commons | Andy Field on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Andy Field (University of Sussex) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students. | Andy Field | 09 Sep 2013 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | Manfred te Grotenhuis on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Manfred te Grotenhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students. | Manfred te Grotenhuis | 27 Aug 2013 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | Communicating Risk and Uncertainty Opening Address | Opening Address by Professor Speigelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Cambridge University. | David Speigelhalter | 20 Dec 2012 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | Paul Kellstedt on teaching quantitative methods to political science students | Paul Kellstedt discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students and other social scientists. | Paul Kellstedt | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | 02. Numbering the people: the Census, Vital Registration and Population Registers | Professor David Coleman gives the second lecture on Demographics, where he looks at different ways in which governments and demographers have collected population data. | David Coleman | 26 Oct 2012 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | 01. Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century | Professor David Coleman gives the first lecture in his Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World series. | David Coleman | 26 Oct 2012 |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Numbers are Weapons - A Self Defence Guide | Tim Harword, Financial Times, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar Series. | Tim Harford | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | What are the latest trends in migration into and out of the UK? - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing | Sarah Croft (Office for National Statistics) gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series on December 10th, 2010. | Sarah Croft | 11 Mar 2011 |
| 24 | When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age | Discussion of media buying and the attention-creation industry - showing how the fixation on audiences' click-like behaviour is a disruptive institutional force, and how buyers' new approaches to attention are creating new forms of social discrimination. | Joseph Turow | 08 Mar 2010 | |
| 25 | Genetics of Common Human Diseases | Peter Donnelly, one of the UK's leading statisticians and geneticists, discusses his involvement in recent projects aimed at understanding the genetics of common human diseases. | Peter Donnelly | 29 Apr 2009 | |
| 26 | Genetics of Common Human Diseases | Peter Donnelly, one of the UK's leading statisticians and geneticists, discusses his involvement in recent projects aimed at understanding the genetics of common human diseases. | Peter Donnelly | 29 Apr 2009 |