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Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Sheila A. Smith, a senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses her new book, "Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China."

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Sheila A. Smith
Rosemary Foot
Keywords
japan
china
territory
economy
decline
diplomacy
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 01/02/2016
Duration: 00:44:48

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St Cross Seminar: Governing life: is it wrong to intervene in biological processes?

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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In this seminar we explore why human interventions such as euthanasia or use of biotechnologies are controversial.
Is it wrong to intervene in biological processes? Human intervention in the living world gives rise to controversies where scientists are criticised for working on biotechnologies and physicians for ending life when a terminally ill patient is experiencing unmanageable suffering. This lecture will explain the perpetuation of political controversies by showing that scientific and moral assessments of human intervention in the living world are unsolvable because they are based on cognitive biases. Looking at case studies of such controversial issues (end of life intervention, GMOs and synthetic biology
debates), my analysis will focus on the apparent clarity of the double contrast between natural beings and artificial objects on the one hand, and risk and realms of uncertainty on the other. The interesting point here is that the relationship between scientific expertise and political issues is clearly related to these implicit epistemological prerequisites.

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
People
Virginie Tournay
Keywords
biological processes
life
biotechnologies
end-of-life
euthanasia
controversy
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 01/02/2016
Duration: 00:24:28

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Incorporating Ethnicity: Ethnodevelopment Policy in Latin America, 1985-2005

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Professor Sarah Chartock discusses ethnodevelopment policies, illustrated with the cases of Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala.

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Sarah Chartock
Maya Tudor
Keywords
ethnicity
Latin America
peru
ecuador
guatemala
development
poverty
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 01/02/2016
Duration: 00:35:47

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UK Drought governance arrangements

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Drought and Water Scarcity
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Dr Christina Cook talks about the governance research taking place in the MaRIUS project.
Dr Christina Cook talks about the governance research taking place in the MaRIUS project.

http://www.mariusdroughtproject.org/

This podcast was made in December 2015 to record the presentation delivered at the Oxford Drought Symposium in September 2015.

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Drought and Water Scarcity
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Christina Cook
Keywords
drought
water scarcity
Governance
drought planning
Department: Environmental Change Institute
Date Added: 29/01/2016
Duration: 00:15:08

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Designing social learning systems for improving drought monitoring and early warning

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Drought and Water Scarcity
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DrIVER – Designing social learning systems for improving drought monitoring and early warning
Dr Kevin Collins talks about the research taking place in the DRIVER project.

https://www.drought.uni-freiburg.de/

Recorded at the Drought Risk & Decision Making Symposium, hosted by the MaRIUS project, on 8 September 2015.g

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Drought and Water Scarcity
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Kevin Collins
Keywords
drought
social learning
kevin collins
open university
Department: Environmental Change Institute
Date Added: 29/01/2016
Duration: 00:13:41

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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
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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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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Carl Heneghan
Keywords
EBM
Evidence Based Primary Healthcare
EBHC
evidence based healthcare
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 29/01/2016
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