Innovators or amateurs? The role of do-it-yourself-aid

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Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation

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Anne-Meike Fechter (University of Sussex) gives a talk for the Co-Creation and Participatory Approaches to Humanitarian Innovation session.

This presentation investigates the phenomenon of ‘Do-it-yourself-aid’ organisations in Cambodia, describing the ways in which their small-scale and transnational nature enables them to implement innovative approaches to local problems, and suggesting this trend as an example of innovation that might occur in the space created by transnational collaborations between foreign and local small-scale actors.
Co-Creation and Participatory Approaches to Humanitarian Innovation
This panel explores theories and approaches to engaging in participatory work and co-creation with affected populations and vulnerable groups, focusing on interactions between ‘transnational’ organisations and local actors.

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 02/12/2016

Duration: 00:13:39

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Clytemenstra

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In Our Spare Times

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Host Alice Harberd discusses Clytemnestra, a fascinating character from Greek Tragedy, with Emily Clifford and Lily Aaronovitch.

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Department: Magdalen College

Date Added: 02/12/2016

Duration: 00:45:35

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Between Languages: Working in and out on Translation

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Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)

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With Adriana X. Jacobs (Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature), Kasia Szymanska (Junior Research Fellow in Slavonic Studies, University College), chaired by Kate Costello (DPhil candidate in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature).

In Michaelmas 2016 the OCCT Discussion Group will follow a new format: we’ll be focussing on key issues in the methodology of comparative study. The sessions will begin with a short conversation between two senior members moderated by a graduate representative, followed by a discussion of the recommended readings. We hope to encourage graduates to think about their research within a comparative context, and contribute to creating a vibrant OCCT graduate community.

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Department: St Anne's College

Date Added: 30/11/2016

Duration: 00:23:29

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Bariatric surgery: new challenges

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures

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Mr Bruno Sgromo talks about bariatric surgery (weight loss and metabolic surgery) and the new challenges that it brings to the bariatric team and the patient.

Mr Sgromo is Lead Consultant Bariatric Surgeon at the Oxford Bariatric Unit, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures

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Department: Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences

Date Added: 30/11/2016

Duration: 00:42:35

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Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation

The Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015, #HIP2015, was hosted by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, in partnership with the World Humanitarian Summit, in Oxford on 17 and 18 July 2015. The theme of the conference was ‘facilitating innovation’. As interest and dialogue around humanitarian innovation continues to expand, conference participants were invited to explore the challenges of creating an enabling environment for humanitarian innovation. In the lead up to the World Humanitarian Summit 2016, a key focus of the conference explored how we enable innovation by and for affected communities. What does it mean to take a human-centred approach seriously, and to engage in co-creation with affected populations? It also sought to examine what facilitation means across the wider humanitarian ecosystem, and how we can better convene the collective talents of people within and across traditional and non-traditional humanitarian actors.

Why we work on Alzheimer’s disease

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Translational Medicine

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Housed within the Target Discovery Institute, the Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute (ODDI) juxtaposes drug discovery expertise alongside scientific and academic understanding of patients, disease mechanisms and model systems.

The burden caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias represents one of the biggest problems for our healthcare systems. The last medicine was approved in 2002 and today we only have symptomatic treatments. ARUK-ODDI brings together chemists, biologist, psychiatrists and neuroscientists, many of them with pharmaceutical background, aiming to accelerate the discovery of novel and effective treatments.

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Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Date Added: 30/11/2016

Duration: 00:06:30

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Gastrointestinal cancers

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Translational Medicine

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Dr Claire Palles studies whole genome sequencing data and targeted analyses with the aim of discovering genetic variants that affect susceptibility to colorectal cancer and Barrett’s oesophagus.

The gastrointestinal track is responsible for more cancers than any other system. A condition called Barrett's oesophagus, characterised by a change in the cells lining the oesophagus, can lead to oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Only few people with Barrett's oesophagus will go on to develop cancer, and genome sequencing studies aim to identify genetic risk factors and therefore better target high-risk patients.

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Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Date Added: 30/11/2016

Duration: 00:04:32

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Poor quality medicines

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Translational Medicine

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LOMWRU researchers conduct clinical research to help improve global, regional and Lao public health. They focus on infectious diseases, and also investigate diseases of nutrition and poverty.

Poor quality medicines are a serious threat to our health. Falsified medicines and substandards medicines are a problem for all countries, but particularly for low and middle income countries where we see, for example, a large epidemic of fake anti-malarial drugs. Globally, better medicine regulatory authorities will help improve the quality of our medicines.

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Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Date Added: 30/11/2016

Duration: 00:03:58

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Why we work on Alzheimer’s disease

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Translational and Clinical

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Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Date Added: 30/11/2016

Duration: 00:06:30

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Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures

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Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder

The gamma-ray band of the electromagnetic spectrum probes some of the most extreme environments in the Universe. Photons of these very-high energies can only be produced by the interactions of subatomic particles that have been accelerated to almost the speed of light. This acceleration occurs in a surprisingly wide variety of astrophysical sources: close to black holes and neutron stars, in the blast waves of supernova explosions, and in the relativistic jets of active galaxies. Gamma-ray emission might also result from the interactions of dark matter particles, and so provide a non-gravitational method to detect dark matter in the Universe and to determine its nature. Dr Holder will describe the detection methods for gamma-ray astronomy and highlight some of the most exciting results from the VERITAS observatory, which has been studying astrophysical sources from a mountain in Arizona since 2007. He will also describe the status and prospects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, a next-generation gamma-ray observatory on a much larger scale.