| Knowledge for bright ideas – how research can support innovative health systems |
Guest lecturer Dr Nick Fahy is a research group director for health and wellbeing at RAND Europe, where he oversees research in such areas as health systems and healthcare innovation, and the behavioural and social determinants of health and wellbeing. |
Nick Fahy |
7 March, 2022 |
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| Justice and the Egalitarian Research Imperative |
In his new book, 'For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics' (Oxford University Press), Prof Alex John London argues that there is a moral imperative to carry out research with human subjects... |
Alex John London |
18 February, 2022 |
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| Using theory, evidence and person-based co-development to improve infection control during COVID-19 |
Until a vaccine can prevent COVID-19, protective behaviours (such as social distancing, handwashing, cleaning/disinfecting) must be used to limit the spread. |
Ben Ainsworth |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Health Technology Assessment: Global alignment of systems, stakeholders and emerging trends |
This talk will introduce and explore, the global mechanisms and initiatives that align process, strategy and methodology for Health Technology Assessment (HTA). |
Neil Bertelsen |
17 December, 2021 |
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| 'Why would anyone hesitate to help kids with cancer?' or: understanding competing perspectives on innovations |
'Homebound' students are unable to attend school for health-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with 'telepresence robots' for remote participation. |
Lars Johannessen |
4 November, 2021 |
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| Why be a Lunatic |
Dr Maggie Adarin-Pocock delivers the 2019 Simonyi Lecture at the Oxford Playhouse |
Maggie Adarin-Pocock |
19 December, 2019 |
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| The future of the planet: life, growth and death in organisms, cities and companies. Geoffrey West |
In this year’s Simonyi Lecture Geoffrey West discusses universal laws that govern everything from growth to mortality in plants, animals, cities and companies. |
Geoffrey West |
9 May, 2018 |
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| Hope |
What is Hope? This seminar explored what hope is and invited us to consider what hope means to people in different circumstances. |
Peter Hinton, Carl Heneghan |
21 November, 2016 |
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| Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth |
The Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language? |
Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? |
Luc Steels, Marcus du Sautoy |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Why climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference |
2014 Charles Simonyi Lecture with David MacKay. David discusses how the laws of physics constrain our energy options, and describes what happened when his reflections on energy arithmetic propelled him into a senior civil service role. |
David MacKay |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place |
Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider |
Melissa Franklin, Marcus du Sautoy |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Right Place, Right Time |
Women composers and their creative communities. |
Anna Beer |
30 June, 2016 |
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| Time and Causation |
Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this? |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| Mental Causation |
We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work? |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The necessary connection analysis of causation |
The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect. |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The singularist theory of causation |
The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover. |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The regularity theory of causation |
Hume's famously influential account of causation |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The counterfactual theory of causation |
The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either. |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| Ordering Disorder: Mental Disorder, Brain Disorder and Therapeutic Intervention |
This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. |
George Graham |
11 February, 2016 |
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| Karl Jaspers and the Ethics of Incomprehensibility |
This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. |
Giovanni Stanghellini |
11 February, 2016 |
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| Mental Health and Moral Virtue |
This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. |
Terence Irwin |
11 February, 2016 |
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| False Perceptions and False Beliefs: Understanding the Symptoms of Schizophrenia |
This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. |
Chris Frith |
14 January, 2016 |
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| Impact |
What is the impact we create? How is it measured, justified, used? Three speakers from a social, historical and professional background examine what impact means in different scenarios, both for academics themselves, and the public at large. |
Gorgi Krlev, Matt Smart, Jonathan Healey |
3 December, 2015 |
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