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Not-for-Profit Journalism: A New Model

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Rachel Oldroyd (Managing Editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism), gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Rachel Oldroyd
Keywords
politics
journalism
Investigative Journalism
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 29/01/2018
Duration: 00:47:30

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How do you measure a Mars quake?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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In this episode of the Big Questions podcast, we visited Dr Neil Bowles, Jane Hurley and Tristram Warren from the Atmospheric Oceanic & Planetary Physics Department to ask the question: how do you measure a Mars quake?
When the ground shakes on Earth we call them earthquakes. Even weak ones can be detected by 'seismometers' and from listening carefully to them we can learn a lot about the makeup of the planet - that it has a solid core, molten mantle under a thin crust. But can we learn anything from listening out for quakes on Mars?
This May 2018 the InSight lander will be launched and head to Mars, landing in November 2018 in the quest to hear Mars Quakes!

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Neil Bowles
Jane Hurley
Tristram Warren
Keywords
discovering planets
space
mars
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 29/01/2018
Duration: 00:13:51

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A History of Algeria

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country
Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of Algeria's people and their cultures through the dramatic changes and crises that have marked the country. Whether examining the emergence of the Ottoman viceroyalty in the early modern Mediterranean, the 130 years of French colonial rule and the revolutionary war of independence, the Third World nation-building of the 1960s and 1970s, or the terrible violence of the 1990s, this book will appeal to a wide variety of readers in African and Middle Eastern history and politics, as well as those concerned with the wider affairs of the Mediterranean.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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James McDougal
Eugene Rogan
Laleh Khalili
Robert Gildea
Philip Bullock
Keywords
algeria
Ottoman Empire
arab uprising
Africa
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 25/01/2018
Duration: 00:45:17

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Galaxy Dynamics: The chemical evolution side

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Dr Ralph Schoenrich will talk about the chemical evolution side
Spiral density waves patterns re-distribute stars throughout the entire system, making it impossible to know a star's origin from just its kinematics. However, stars are more than just points in phase space: every star is labelled with the elemental abundances of the gas cloud from which it was formed. Over the last few years a number of observational campaigns have started to measure these labels for millions of stars in our own Galaxy's disc. Ralph Schoenrich will describe how chemodynamical models are being used to piece together the evolution of our Galactic environment from presolar times to the present.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Ralph Schoenrich
Keywords
galaxy
gravity
dynamics
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 25/01/2018
Duration: 00:39:04

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Literacy and foundation learning in multilingual India

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Dr Sonali Nag, Oxford Departmant of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the department's Families, Effecrive Learning and Literacy Research Group

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Dr Sonali Nag
Keywords
language
linguistics
literacy
learning
children
india
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 25/01/2018
Duration: 01:01:45

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Galaxy Dynamics: The dynamics of galaxy discs

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Dr John Magorrian will talk about the dynamics of galaxy discs
In galaxy discs it is energetically favourable for angular momentum to move outwards and mass to move inwards. This transportation is effected by spiral arms, but what causes them? Simple linear response calculations demonstrate that even the smallest perturbation is amplified manyfold, while the differential rotation of the disc means that the response is stretched out into a spiral-like pattern. John Magorrian will introduce the notion of the disc as a resonant cavity, within which spiral density perturbations rattle back and forth.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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John Magorrian
Keywords
galaxy
gravity
dynamics
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 25/01/2018
Duration: 00:44:24

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Galaxy Dynamics: Stellar systems: a new state of matter

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Prof James Binney FRS will talk about stellar systems: a new state of matter
The long range of gravity means that many concepts from undergraduate statistical mechanics do not apply: energy is not extensive; there is no microcanonical or canonical ensemble. Stars and dark matter particles have long mean free paths, which means that to a very good approximation their motion is determined by the mean-field gravitational potential. James Binney will identify a hierarchy of timescales, explaining how the Boltzmann equation for the full 6N-dimensional many-particle phase space distribution function can be reduced to an evolutionary equation of a function of a mere 3 variables that is governed by the resonances among the particles' orbital frequencies.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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James Binney
Keywords
galaxy
gravity
dynamics
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 25/01/2018
Duration: 00:51:19

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Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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imagining
divine
art
history
material
culture
empires
faith
torch
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 24/01/2018
Duration: 01:09:15

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Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business?

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series.

This talk focuses on mixed methods research in health care education and practice, drawing on Kathy's experience of two large mixed methods projects to demonstrate salient issues: a longitudinal evaluation of an interprofessional undergraduate curriculum and a case study of quality measurement in community nursing. Kathy discusses research design and implementation, highlighting the challenges that arose, and the strategies employed to ensure successful project delivery.

Dr Pollard has been an active researcher since 1998 and is currently employed as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Wet of England, Bristol. She has a clinical background in midwifery.

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Katherine Pollard
Keywords
EBM
Evidence-Based Medicine
Primary Care
Health Sciences
EBHC
Evidence-Based Health Care
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 24/01/2018
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How To Think About Limited War (Without Limiting Your Thinking)

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Changing Character of War
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'Limited War' is one of the terms making a frequent appearance in the strategic studies, international relations, and military history realms over the last 70 years.

What does 'Limited War' mean? When do we know we are in one? What unique problems arise when waging one? What are the problems with ending them? And what should states do to secure a lasting peace? Distinguished Vienna Diplomatic Academy Fulbright Professor Donald Stoker discusses these issues and others by drawing upon what he has learned researching the subject for his forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press.

Donald Stoker, PhD, was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College’s Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from 1999 until 2017. The author or editor of eight books, his Carl von Clausewitz: His Life and Work (Oxford University Press, 2014), is on the British Army professional reading list. His The Grand Design: Strategy and the US Civil War, 1861-1865 (Oxford University Press, 2010), won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt award, was a Main Selection of the History Book Club, and is on the US Army Chief of Staff’s reading list. In 2016, he was a Fellow of the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford’s Pembroke College. He is currently writing a book on limited war for Cambridge University Press and is the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria.

This event was part-sponsored by the US-UK Fulbright Commission

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Changing Character of War
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Donald Stoker
Keywords
international relations
strategic studies
military history
clausewitz
changing character of war
Department: Pembroke College
Date Added: 24/01/2018
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