Catalysts for innovation at pace talk 1

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Oxford Summit 2021

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Dr Nick Scott-Ram MBE, Managing Director - Life Sciences, Sensyne Health, Chaired by Dr Phil Clare, Deputy Director, Research Services, University of Oxford.

Examples of how Sensyne Health has responded to COVID-19, what drove the changes, what difficult choices had to be made, and what was possible in a crisis that would have been more difficult before.

The pandemic has presented society with urgent challenges, with governments acting at pace to tackle different aspects of the crisis, from provision of PPE and ventilators to the development, manufacture and distribution of vaccines.
Companies, University and Governments have had to innovate at pace, developing policy, legislation, products and entirely new research programmes at great speed. This has meant diverting people, resources and capacity to new projects, requiring quick and decisive leadership. Companies in particular have responded very quickly to these needs, often working together with universities.

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Department: University Administration and Services (UAS)

Date Added: 27/10/2021

Duration: 00:25:50

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October 2021 with special guest Nicholas DeVito

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Let's talk e-cigarettes

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Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Nicholas DeVito.

In this episode Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss the emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Nicholas DeVito. This podcast is a companion to the electronic cigarettes Cochrane living systematic review and shares the evidence from the monthly searches.

In the October 2021 episode Jamie Hartmann-Boyce talks with Nick DeVito from the Evidence Based DataLab at the University of Oxford. They discuss his recent research which looks at e-cigarette manufacturers' compliance with clinical trial reporting expectations focussing on trials by Juul Labs and how they report their data. Nick's study was published in BMJ Tobacco Control (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056221). The discussion covered the importance of whether, where and how research findings are reported or published including publication bias and reporting bias, the selective reporting of outcomes. This interview covers the crucial role of trial registration for research transparency. Nick describes the FDA amendment act, in which studies are registered within 21 days with pre-registered outcomes and a primary completion date and that the results are to be put onto clinicaltrials.gov within a year. Clinicians, public health professionals, and the public cannot make informed choices about the benefits or hazards of e-cigarettes if the results of clinical trials are not completely and transparently reported. This interview highlights that transparency is key and the importance of all evidence being made available.

For more information on the September Cochrane review see: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub6 or our webpage.

Jamie and Nicola also bring us up to date with the literature search conducted on October 1st. The October search found one new included study two reports linked to studies already in the review, and one new ongoing (NCT04854616). The DOI for the new included study (Morris 2021) is https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-021-02813-w. We will include the studies we've found in future updates of the Cochrane review.

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Department: Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

Date Added: 27/10/2021

Duration: 00:26:53

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Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan

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Asian Studies Centre

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Positioning dead body politics and ritualistic mourning as technologies of rule, through a focus on subjectivity, intimacy and affect, the talk will explicate the persuasive powers through which they seek to produce consensus and ideological conformity.

Saturated with tropes of honour, nation and gender, military deaths are political instances that attach meaning to private grief to produce a public politics of service and sacrifice for the nation-state. The Pakistan Military invested heavily in crafted rituals for mourning dead soldiers as soldier casualties and the clamour against ‘America’s war’ mounted during the military operations in the ‘War on Terror.’ Through an ethnographic exploration of soldier death in military commemorative ceremonies and its reception in ‘martial’ villages in Punjab, this talk explores the gap between everyday experiences of families that mourn their dead in rural Pakistan and the idealized image of the martyr that saturates national representations. Positioning dead body politics and ritualistic mourning as technologies of rule, through a focus on subjectivity, intimacy and affect, the talk will explicate the persuasive powers through which hegemonic institutions seek to produce consensus and ideological conformity.

Maria Rashid completed her doctorate in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2018. Her book Dying to Serve, Militarism, Affect and the Politics of Sacrifice was published in 2020 by Stanford University Press and was shortlisted for the IPS- International Political Sociology Book Award, 2021. A psychologist by training, she has worked with various national and international non-governmental organizations in Pakistan for over twenty years. She continues to be involved in research around violence, gender and militarism, and is associated with a number of networks and collaboratives both in Pakistan and the UK. Rashid is a post-doctoral scholar at the Social Research Institute at University College London, UK where she is involved in a project that studies the Bengali community in Pakistan, tracing it history and exploring how its members traverse the space between being Pakistani and being Bengali.

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 26/10/2021

Duration: 00:45:33

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Strasbourg on Compulsory Vaccination

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Public International Law Part III

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Professor Paul Gragl, European Law at the University of Graz, Austria, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series.

Abstract: Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are, in general, safe and effective, vaccine hesitancy continues to thrive due to various reasons, such as misinformation, the wish to protect one’s personal autonomy, and/or religious or moral beliefs. Vaccine hesitancy therefore endangers attaining and maintaining herd immunity which protects those that cannot be vaccinated due to medical reasons. Some States have consequently implemented compulsory vaccination schemes in order to close this gap in protecting public health, which, however, raises two essential questions in the context of human rights protection: (i) if a State has done so and implemented a compulsory vaccination scheme, does it potentially violate Articles 2,8, and 9 of the ECHR? In other words, are the ECHR Contracting Parties under a negative obligation to abstain from introducing such measures? Or (ii) if a State has not done so (yet), is it actually under a positive obligation to introduce such measures in order not to violate these provisions? On the basis of the ECtHR’s recent judgment in Vavřička and others v. the Czech Republic (April 2021), I will discuss these questions and conclude that States are, if specific requirements are met, not prohibited from implementing such measures, whilst they are also not obligated to do so under the ECHR as long as they protect those most vulnerable to infectious diseases through other means.

The presentation is based on a paper which will be published in the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review.

Paul Gragl is Professor of European Law at the University of Graz, Austria. His research interests include public international law, EU law, human rights law, and legal theory as well as philosophy, which is reflected in his most recent monograph Legal Monism: Law, Philosophy, and Politics (OUP, 2018).

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Public International Law Part III

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Department: Faculty of Law

Date Added: 25/10/2021

Duration: 00:42:57

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Diversity Issues in International Legal Acadmia and Practice

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Public International Law Part III

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Julia Emtseva, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series.

Julia Emtseva is a research fellow and a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. Julia obtained her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, M.A. in Human Rights and Democratization in the Global Campus of Human Rights Regional Program in the Caucasus, and LL.B. at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA). Julia Emtseva obtained her qualification as a lawyer in Kyrgyzstan and before starting her PhD, she interned at different national courts, including the Constitutional Chamber of the Kyrgyz Republic, and worked as a teaching and research assistant at the law faculty of the AUCA, a human rights observer with the American Bar Association as well as in different NGOs, including the National Committee of the Red Cross in Kyiv and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin.