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Impact of drought and water scarcity on agriculture

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Drought and Water Scarcity
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Evidence of increasing resilience in the irrigated agricultural sector to water scarcity and drought
Dr Rey talks about the impact of drought on agriculture, and how water scarcity has resulted in farmers in the East England becoming increasingly resilient.

Recorded at the Drought Symposium "Drought Risk and Decision Making", on 08/09/15, Exeter College, UK.
Hosted by the MaRIUS project: http://www.mariusdroughtproject.org/

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Drought and Water Scarcity
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Dolores Rey
Keywords
drought
water scarcity
irrigated agriculture
Dolores Rey
oxford
MaRIUS
Department: Environmental Change Institute
Date Added: 29/01/2016
Duration: 00:17:42

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Western US drought, and the generation of drought datasets for risk-based impact studies

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Drought and Water Scarcity
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An exploration of the climatic factors influencing drought, with a focus on the current western US drought and the research being undertaken in the MaRIUS project.
Dr Guillod talks about the climatic factors influencing drought, the Weather @ Home citizen science approach devised to examine climatic impacts, with a focus on the Western US drought and the research being undertaken in the MaRIUS project.

Recorded at the Drought Symposium "Drought Risk and Decision Making", on 08/09/15, Exeter College, UK.
Hosted by the MaRIUS project: http://www.mariusdroughtproject.org/

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Drought and Water Scarcity
People
Benoit Guillod
Keywords
Benoit Guillod; drought; MaRIUS; Oxford
Department: Environmental Change Institute
Date Added: 29/01/2016
Duration: 00:23:19

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200 years of fun and games

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Richard Ballam talks about the rich collections of games and pastimes he has recently donated to the Bodleian, the subject of the display Playing with History.
Playing with History celebrates Richard Ballam's donation to the Bodleian of his rich and varied collection of games and pastimes. This small selection of items from the wider collection gives us insights into the presentation of history to children, and the ways in which they were encouraged to engage with contemporary issues, such as War and Empire through game play.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Richard Ballam
Keywords
games
pastimes
collections
bodleian library
children
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 29/01/2016
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'Killers' part 2 - Keeping water flowing with smartphones

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Water pumps are a lifeline for many communities in developing countries. But how can you monitor them all to know whether they're in working order? And can you collect data based on pump usage to provide useful insights into community health?
Water is essential for life. So when your only source of safe water is from a water pump you grow to depend on it. If it broke then you'd have to walk further, or go thirsty. With so many water pumps so vital to so many vulnerable communities in developing countries Dr David Clifton explains how the work they're doing seeks to find a way of monitoring large numbers of water pumps, using smartphones. And with the huge volumes of data collected, can they spot patterns that give tell-tale signals that other things aren't going right in the community?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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David Clifton
Keywords
engineering
big data
Health
water
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 29/01/2016
Duration: 00:11:32

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10 Top tips for doing applied healthcare research: How to get started

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Carl Heneghan gives a talk held on January 11th 2016 Kellogg College.

Recommended reading:
Strunk Jr, W. and White, E.B. (1999) The Elements of Style, 4th Ed. Longman. ISBN: 978-0205309023.

King, G. (2014) Improve Your Writing Skills, 1st Ed. Collins.

Mathews, J., Bowen, J M. and Matthews, R W. (2000) Successful Scientific Writing, 2nd Ed. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521789622.

Seely, J. (2004) Oxford Everyday Grammar. Oxford University Press. ISBN:978-0198608745

Forsyth, M. (2014) The Elements of Eloquence: How to turn the perfect Englis phrase. Icon Books Ltd. ISBN: 978-1848317338

Gwynne, N M. (2013) Gwynne's Grammar. Ebury Press. ISBN: 978-0091951450

Murray, R. (2011) How to Write a Thesis, 3rd Ed. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335244287

Kane, T S. (1994) The New Oxford Guide to Writing. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195090598

King, S. (2012) On Writing. Hodder Paperbacks. ISBN:978-1444723250
 

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Carl Heneghan
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EBM
Evidence Based Primary Healthcare
EBHC
evidence based healthcare
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 29/01/2016
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Oxford Women in Politics with Dr Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Dr Slaughter discusses workplace policies and the value we place on care of children and other loved ones.

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Rebecca Fradkin
Keywords
care
equality
work
gender
childcare
feminism
public policy
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 28/01/2016
Duration: 00:29:58

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The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series - Navigating the infosmog

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Richard Sambrook, Director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff School of Journalism and RISJ senior research fellow, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series . Introduction by James Painter.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Richard Sambrook
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reuters
journalism
information
internet
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 28/01/2016
Duration: 00:26:11

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Migration, politics and political change: Introduction to the seminar series and preliminary TRANSMIC findings

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International Migration Institute
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Ali Chaudhary and Marieke van Houte introduce the seminar series on migration, politics and political change and their TRANSMIC project, examining the links between migration, citizenship, and migration and development
This presentation is part of the 2016 IMI Hilary Term seminar series, which seeks to interrogate the relationship between migration, politics and political change. The series offers a wide range of (inter)disciplinary, methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of the processes and outcomes that link migration, emigrants and immigrants with politics and political change. The series seeks to discuss both how political actors govern migrants’ actions and movements ‘from above’, through policies and resources, and how migrants may shape politics ‘from below’, and can be grassroots ‘agents of change’.
Key themes highlighted in this collection of seminars include research on diasporas, transnational engagement, im/migrant politics in origin and receiving countries and political change, and the implications of migration as manifestation of social transformation. The seminar series is organised and coordinated by IMI postdoctoral fellows Dr. Marieke Van Houte and Dr. Ali R. Chaudhary who are currently working on TRANSMIC, a Marie Curie-funded project, which explores the topic of migration, politics and political change.
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International Migration Institute
People
Ali R Chaudhary
Marieke van Houte
Keywords
migration
politics
political change
Tunisia
migrant
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 27/01/2016
Duration: 00:46:26

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The time of our lives: Migration and slow pain

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths College, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Yasmin Gunaratnam
Keywords
migration
wellbeing
Health
politics
law
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 27/01/2016
Duration: 00:32:14

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Love and Legality: questions of wellbeing for irregular migrants and their citizen partners

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Melanie Griffiths, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.
For academics, politicians and NGOs alike, the issues seen to relate to irregular migrants, especially if they are male, tend to revolve around questions of legality, criminality and mobility. Little concern is generally afforded to their emotional lives and wellbeing. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with UK-based precarious male migrants with British or EU citizen partners and children, this talk considers the effect of having family ties in the UK on the men’s experience of the immigration system, as well as the impact of immigration concerns on family life itself. A variety of repercussions are identified in relation to the formation and sustainability of partnerships and families, including in terms of suspicion over motives, the threat of enforced separation and other relationship strains. Particular attention is given to immigration detention and the prohibition of employment as examples of ways in which the immigration system reaches into the heart of family life and produce gendered implications for the men’s ability to be the parents and partners they wish to be. The talk also considers the wellbeing of the British and European women in mixed-citizenship couples, exploring the impacts of the immigration struggles of their loved ones on the women’s sense of security, privilege and belonging as citizens. Considering wellbeing in the context of relationships illuminates the significant and wide-ranging impact of the immigration system on family lives and gender roles. Laying bare the fallacy of migrant/citizen binaries, such impacts not only affect irregular migrants, but also the citizens close to them, who are not themselves subject to immigration control but whose lives are nonetheless shaped by immigration objectives.
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
People
Melanie Griffiths
Keywords
politics
law
society
migration
immigration
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 27/01/2016
Duration: 00:52:08

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