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Professor Trish Greenhalgh

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Trust the Evidence
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Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Kamal R. Mahtani in conversation in the third episode of Trust The Evidence.

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Trust the Evidence
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Kamal R. Mahtani
Trish Greenhalgh
Keywords
Medicine
Health
evidence based healthcare
Department: Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Date Added: 20/04/2017
Duration: 00:15:00

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Parenting, politics and petrol bombs: trying to reduce child abuse in Africa

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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In her talk, Prof Lucie Cluver explores: can we really improve parent-child relationships, reduce child abuse and reduce poverty?
This ERC Starting Grant,Preventing Abuse of Children in the context of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, has developed and tested a free child abuse prevention parenting programme for low and middle income countries. The project has been in close partnership with UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and USAID-PEPFAR. Lucie will report for the first time on the new findings from the final cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of 1100 children and families in 40 sites in South Africa. The programme is currently being scaled up to 90,000 families in DRC, Uganda, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Cameroon, the Philippines and Thailand.

Lucie Cluver is a Professor of Child and Family Social Work, in the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Intervention in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and an Honorary Lecturer in Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town.

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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Lucie Cluver
Keywords
child abuse
HIV/AIDS
south africa
intervention
positive parenting
Department: Social Sciences Division
Date Added: 18/04/2017
Duration: 00:16:43

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Ten things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do about them)

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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In this talk, Prof Phil Howard explains how we are targeted and manipulated by social media and bots trying to influence voter behaviour.
Since 2012, Professor Howard and team have been investigating the use of algorithms, automation and computational propaganda in public life. Political bots are manipulating public opinion over major social networking applications. This project enables a new team of social and information scientists to investigate the impact of automated scripts, commonly called bots, on social media. They study both the bot scripts and the people making such bots, and then work with computer scientists to improve the way we catch and stop such bots. Political actors have used bots to manipulate conversations, demobilize opposition, and generate false support on popular sites like Twitter and Facebook from the U.S. as well as Sina Weibo from China.

Philip Howard is a professor and writer on the use of digital media for both civic engagement and social control in countries around the world. He is Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Professorial Fellow at Balliol College.

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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Philip Howard
Keywords
internet
social media
twitter
elections
propaganda
Department: Social Sciences Division
Date Added: 18/04/2017
Duration: 00:19:15

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English landscapes and identities

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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Prof Chris Gosden explains what his research tells us about regional developments and variations in English settlement and landscape changes over time.
The English Landscapes and Identities project pulled together all the major digital sources for archaeology in England into a single database from which statistical and spatial analyses were undertaken. The project combines evidence on landscape features, such as track-ways, fields and settlements, with the distribution of certain artefact types (particularly metalwork). They looked at the period from 1500 BC when the first field systems and agricultural landscapes were set up to AD 1086 when the first reasonably detailed written account of the landscape was produced through the Domesday Book.We found marked regional variation, with the north and west of England having dispersed settlement and low levels of artifact use throughout our period of interest, whereas in the south and east larger settlements gradually developed within a denser overall population and higher levels of artifact use. Within these broad differences we also recognized smaller scale local variations in the growing and consumption of food, landscape layouts and so on, providing a multi-scalar impression of the landscape creating a kaleidoscope of similarity and difference. There was considerable continuity in landscape use in the south and east between the prehistoric and the Roman periods, but from the middle of the early medieval period onwards the landscape changed dramatically with the growth of nucleated villages, open fields and of private property. In the north and east more continuity is seen, with some sites being revisited over many centuries and even millennia maintaining a dispersed settlement pattern. The main outcomes of the project are a monograph authored by the team as a whole, an atlas combining the results of computer analysis and art work and a website, which has made the data publically available. The website can accessed at http://englaid.arch.ox.ac.uk

Chris Gosden is Professor of European Archaeology and Professorial Fellow at Keble College. He is Director of the Institute of Archaeology.

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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Chris Gosden
Keywords
archaeology
Landscape
cultural identity
england
Department: Social Sciences Division
Date Added: 18/04/2017
Duration: 00:13:29

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Why immigration detention is a form of punishment

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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In this talk Prof Mary Bosworth explores the daily experiences of the people held in immigration detention.
Prof Bosworth's (2012 - 2017) ERC grant, ‘Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power’, seeks to develop new methodological and intellectual tools in understanding the global and transnational reach of penal power and to revitalize the literature on subjectivity and identity in criminology. In addition to leading a series of linked empirical studies on immigration detention in the UK, France and Greece, Mary has created the interdisciplinary, international network and website Border Criminologies, which has given its name to a whole new subfield of the discipline.

Mary Bosworth is Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She is Assistant Director of the Centre for Criminology and Director of Border Criminologies, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on the intersections between criminal justice and border control.

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Beyond boundaries: research worth sharing
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Mary Bosworth
Keywords
criminology
immigration detention
UK immigration control
Department: Social Sciences Division
Date Added: 18/04/2017
Duration: 00:11:42

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Book Launch: 'East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity'

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Prof Philippe Sands (QC) presents his new book in a colloquium with Prof Dapo Akande and Dr Stephen Humphreys in the OTJR series.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Philippe Sands
Dapo Akande
Stephen Humphreys
Keywords
otjr
sands
genocide
international criminal law
Lauterpacht
Department: Centre for Criminology
Date Added: 13/04/2017
Duration: 01:00:00

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Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine.

Hard though this often is to achieve in practice, one fundamental principle is that evidence integrated into decision making should be the “current best evidence.” Whilst the amount of research, funded and published, has grown enormously, there is little to suggest concomitant increases in outputs that have led to real improvements in patient care. Equally worrying, the growth and volume of evidence has been accompanied by a corrosion in the quality of evidence, which has compromised medicine’s ability to provide affordable, effective, high value care.

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Carl Heneghan
Keywords
EMB
Evidence-Based Medicine
Primary Care
Health Sciences
EBHC
Evidence-Based Health Care
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 12/04/2017
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Molecular diagnosis and bacterial genotyping

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Translational Medicine
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Dr Janjira Thaipadungpanit from our MORU unit in Bangkok, Thailand, tells us about her research on molecular diagnosis and bacterial genotyping
A molecular microbiologist, Dr Janjira’s research focusses on using bacterial typing based on genome to confirm which disease is present in a patient. She aims to develop a single whole genome sequence type test using mutliple-PCR assays that can determine from a single sample of blood what bacteria or viruses are present in a patient’s blood – thereby speeding up diagnosis and potentially saving lives in resource-limited settings.
Head of Molecular Microbiology at MORU, Dr Janjira Thaipadungpanit’s research interests include the molecular epidemiology of leptospirosis and melioidosis using multilocus sequence typing or genome data and molecular diagnosis to identify the causes of acute febrile illness and sepsis in patients.
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Translational Medicine
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Janjira Thaipadungpanit
Keywords
translational medicine
global health
diagnosis
genotyping
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 12/04/2017
Duration: 00:04:14

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Molecular diagnosis and bacterial genotyping

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Global Health
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Dr Janjira Thaipadungpanit from our MORU unit in Bangkok, Thailand, tells us about her research on molecular diagnosis and bacterial genotyping
A molecular microbiologist, Dr Janjira’s research focusses on using bacterial typing based on genome to confirm which disease is present in a patient. She aims to develop a single whole genome sequence type test using mutliple-PCR assays that can determine from a single sample of blood what bacteria or viruses are present in a patient’s blood – thereby speeding up diagnosis and potentially saving lives in resource-limited settings.
Head of Molecular Microbiology at MORU, Dr Janjira Thaipadungpanit’s research interests include the molecular epidemiology of leptospirosis and melioidosis using multilocus sequence typing or genome data and molecular diagnosis to identify the causes of acute febrile illness and sepsis in patients.
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Global Health
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Janjira Thaipadungpanit
Keywords
translational medicine
global health
diagnosis
genotyping
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 12/04/2017
Duration: 00:04:14

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Biomarkers for tropical diseases

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Translational Medicine
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Dr Markus Winterbert from our MORU unit in Bangkok, Thailand, tells us about his research on biomarkers for tropical diseases
Having a background in malaria physiology and biochemistry, Markus Winterberg’s research focus is on the interaction between host, pathogen and drug, the metabolism of antimalarial drugs and discovering biomarkers for tropical diseases. Markus aims to use these biomarkers to develop non-invasive, field-based rapid diagnostic tests for tropical diseases that quickly identify pathogens, thereby improving diagnostics and the treatment of patients.
Dr Markus Winterberg is Head of Laboratory and a Principal Investigator in MORU’s Department of Clinical Pharmacology. The key aspect of his research is ‘trop-med-omics’, the application of mass spectrometry-based bioanalysis in tropical medicine, particularly using proteomics and metabolomics to identify a disease in a patient.
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Translational Medicine
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Markus Winterberg
Keywords
translational medicine
global health
malaria
tropical diseases
Biomarkers
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 12/04/2017
Duration: 00:05:14

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