Black holes in Einstein's gravity and beyond

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Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 5th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Black holes: where physics reaches its limit.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures

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Andrei Starinets

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Department: Department of Physics

Date Added: 05/11/2014

Duration: 00:44:01

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The Major Assumptions of Evidence-Based Policy: Bringing Empirical Evidence to Bear

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Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures

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The Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2014 given by Professor Tom Cook.

This paper identifies three major assumptions of the current evidence-based policy movement that seeks to use scientific methods to identify effective social policy initiatives: (1) Randomized controlled trials are the best way of identifying what works and should be preferred for building up an evidence base or should even constitute the only legitimate inputs into that base; (2) In policy research it is not difficult to label the causal agent in general language; and (3) Extrapolating from past causal findings (however secure) to future policy contexts depends on formal sampling theory. Empirical evidence is used to address these three assumptions. Each is found to be overstated. A somewhat different model of evidence-based research is briefly proposed. It makes more realistic assumptions about how research can contribute to evidence-based policy and respects the conceptual interdependencies between creating high quality tests of causal propositions, correctly labeling the cause (or effect), and minimizing the extrapolation from past knowledge to future applications.

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Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures

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Tom Cook

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Department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Date Added: 04/11/2014

Duration: 00:51:33

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Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War

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Alumni Weekend

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The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 04/11/2014

Duration: 00:39:56

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Blood based biomarkers and Alzheimer’s; what do we want, when do we want it?

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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar

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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

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Simon Lovestone

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alzheimer's

Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Date Added: 04/11/2014

Duration: 00:56:29

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The ethics of sexuality

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Practical Ethics Bites

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Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.

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Practical Ethics Bites

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Janet Radcliffe Richards

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Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute

Date Added: 04/11/2014

Duration: 00:17:37

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American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

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Rothermere American Institute

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The Hon. Christopher Bancroft Burnham, Former US Under Secretary of State and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute seminar series

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Rothermere American Institute

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Christopher Bancroft Burnham

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Department: Rothermere American Institute

Date Added: 03/11/2014

Duration: 00:37:27

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Sustainable finance: Restoring confidence and stability in the financial system

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European Studies Centre

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Colin Mayer (Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School) gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. Chaired by Adam Bennett (St Antony's College, Oxford).

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European Studies Centre

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 03/11/2014

Duration: 00:57:10

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The Fixed-term Parliaments Act: Quiet Revolution or mere Technical Detail?

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts

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Prof. John Curtice discusses the implications of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Is it merely a technical detail of little consequence - or does it represent a quiet constitutional revolution?

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act is one of the very few constitutional changes included in the coalition's Programme for Government that has managed to see the light of day. Yet it is little discussed and its potential effects seemingly inadequately understood. This lecture discusses its apparent effects on UK politics to date and its potential effects in future, focusing in particular on its implications for Prime Ministerial power, government formation, and the parliamentary and devolved electoral cycles. This was the keynote lecture of a one day workshop on “The Fixed-term Parliaments Act”, co-sponsored by the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Constitutional Studies Programme.

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts

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John Curtice

Petra Schleiter

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constitutional studies

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 03/11/2014

Duration: 00:51:33

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Future-Proofing Business - Chapter 3

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Building a Business

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Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship presents the B-Impact Assessment tool. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 21st, 2014.