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| 1 | Who drives change in Africa? | In the second of our special two-part episode, we learn about Africa’s competitive advantages, shifting demographics, and the leadership challenges and opportunities faced by young people and women. | Vera Songwe, Kola Adesina, Erik Hersman | 16 Apr 2019 | |
| 2 | OSEF 2019: Rise of the robots | OSEF 2019: Rise of the Robots with Ingmar Posner (Oxbotica), Boris Krumrey (UiPath), Samer Al Moubayed (Furhat Robotics) | Ingmar Posner, Boris Krumrey | 12 Apr 2019 | |
| 3 | OSEF 2019: Making smart cities smarter | OSEF 2019: Making smart cities smarter with Amir Elichai (Carbyne), Vanessa Lee Butz (District Technologies), Eugenie Teasley (Uber) | Amir Elichai, Vanessa Lee Butz, Eugenie Teasley | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 4 | OSEF 2019: FinTech: Disrupting the financial system from the outside or the inside? | OSEF 2019: FinTech: Disrupting the financial system from the outside or the inside? WEith Diana Biggs (HSBC), Nick Ogden (ClearBank), Karen Kerrigan (Seedrs), Francesca Carlesi (Molo) | Diana Biggs, Nick Ogden, Karen Kerrigan, Francesca Carlesi | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 5 | OSEF 2019: When creativity and tech collide | OSEF 2019: When creativity and tech collide, with Maria Tanjala (FilmChain), Robert Norton (Verisart) and Isabel Garvey (Abbey Road Studios) | Maria Tanjala, Robert Norton, Isabel Garvey | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 6 | OSEF 2019: Panel Discussion How can entrepreneurship drive social innovation? | OSEF 2019: Panel Discussion How can entrepreneurship drive social innovation? With Robert Opp (United Nations World Food Programme) and Bill Cummings (Cummings Foundation). | Robert Opp, Bill Cummings | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 7 | OSEF 2019: Panel discussion: 12 years, 1.5 degrees: Innovation for sustainable energy | OSEF 2019: Panel discussion: 12 years, 1.5 degrees: Innovation for sustainable energy with Nikhil Nair (M-Kopa), Shalini Rao (Generation) and Nicky Chambers (Origen Power) | Nikhil Nair, Shalini Rao, Nicky Chambers | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 8 | OSEF 2019: Keynote: Philip Sheppard and Chris Walch, Lifescore, in conversation with Professor Thomas Hellmann, Saïd Business School | Keynote: Philip Sheppard and Chris Walch, Lifescore, in conversation with Professor Thomas Hellmann, Saïd Business School | Philip Sheppard, Chris Walch, Thomas Hellmann | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 9 | OSEF 2019 - Pitching competition | Introduced by Jenny Tooth OBE - CEO of UK Business Angels Association and announcement of winning team of pitching competition - Introduced by Oliver Csendes, Pioneers. | Jenny Tooth, Oliver Csendes | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 10 | OSEF 2019: Keynote: Imagine - The journey of Shazam | OSEF 2019: Keynote: Imagine - The journey of Shazam, with Dhiraj Mukherjee, Co-Founder Shazam | Dhiraj Mukherjee | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 11 | OSEF 2019: Introduction to the afternoon keynote session | OSEF 2019: Introduction to the afternoon keynote session, with Dean Peter Tufano, Saïd Business School | Dean Peter Tufano | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 12 | OSEF 2019: Keynote: Can mindfulness take place in the contemporary world? | Oxford Said Entrepreneurship Forum 2019: Keynote: Can mindfulness take place in the contemporary world? Rich Pierson, CEO and Co-Founder of Headspace in conversation with Professor Willem Kuyken, University of Oxford. | Rich Pierson | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 13 | OSEF 2019 - Welcome to OSEF 'Keep calm and carry on' | OSEF 2019 - Welcome to OSEF 'Keep calm and carry on' with Dean Peter Tufano, Saïd Business School. | Dean Peter Tufano | 10 Apr 2019 | |
| 14 | A closer future for Africa? | As countries across Africa vote on ratification of the landmark Continental Free Trade Agreement, we learn more about what's at stake for the continent in the first of a special two-part episode. | Vera Songwe, Kola Adesina, Erik Hersman | 05 Apr 2019 | |
| 15 | Creative Commons | The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford) | Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three. | Yehouda Shenhav, Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar | 03 Apr 2019 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 2: Liberalism and Secularism: a dialogue between Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern) and Yolanda Jansen (Amsterdam) | Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Yolande Jansen discuss the notion of the “secular,” liberal politics of the nation-state. Session 2 in a series of three | Elisabeth Shakman Hurd, Yolande Jansen | 03 Apr 2019 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 1 Religion and Politics: a dialogue between William Cavanaugh (DePaul) and Timothy Fitzgerald (Centre for Critical Research on Religion) | Timothy Fitzgerald and William Cavanaugh discuss the politics and history of the conceptual duality and its current usages. First session in a series of three | Timothy Fitzgerald, William Cavanaugh | 03 Apr 2019 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | On Purpose and Profit: Deciphering the Economics of Mutuality | What is the right level of profit for a company? | Bruno Roche | 26 Mar 2019 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | All Souls Seminar Series: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse | The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse | Prabha Kotiswaran | 13 Mar 2019 |
| 20 | Lighting up Africa | There are currently over one billion people without access to electricity. A significant number of these people live in Africa where inadequate infrastructure restricts access. | Greta Talbot-Jones, Laurence Copson | 12 Mar 2019 | |
| 21 | Student Access to Colleges at the University of Oxford | Seminar led by a panel of heads of colleges and senior tutors to discuss Oxford's student selection process | Ivor Crewe, Helen King, Alan Rusbridger, Maggie Snowling | 07 Mar 2019 | |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today | Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel. | Avner Offer | 06 Mar 2019 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel | Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state | Eyal Chowers | 06 Mar 2019 |
| 24 | Creative Commons | Unmasking Africana in British Art | ASC seminar by Kimathi Donkor | Kimathi Donkor | 05 Mar 2019 |
| 25 | Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions and the Status of Explanation of Votes | Even though UN Security Council resolutions may have major consequences for the disputes and states concerned, some of the resolutions are ambiguous in their meaning. | Mark Klamberg | 05 Mar 2019 | |
| 26 | Promoting fairer access to higher education: the necessity of contextualised admissions | The ethical case for reducing entry requirements for disadvantaged learners | Vikki Boliver, Andrew Bell, Peter Thonemann, Neil Harrison | 05 Mar 2019 | |
| 27 | Should the state pay for journalism? | Polly Curtis considers how journalism has become unsustainable and what role the state should play in making it widely available | Polly Curtis | 05 Mar 2019 | |
| 28 | Guy Burton - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947' | How have rising power engaged with the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as their behaviour in international politics more generally? | Guy Burton | 27 Feb 2019 | |
| 29 | Ibrahim Khatib - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict | Ibrahim Khatib discusses the correlations between identity, conflict perception, and willingness to reconcile. | Ibrahim Khatib | 27 Feb 2019 | |
| 30 | Rethinking Teacher Education - The Problem with Accountability | Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith argues why we need to “reclaim” teacher education accountability for the profession and in support of the larger democratic project. | Marilyn Cochran-Smith | 26 Feb 2019 | |
| 31 | The Alseran Ruling One Year On; Session 2: A Critical Assessment of Recent Investigations and Prevention Efforts | On the first anniversary of the Alseran ruling, where it was found that detainees in British military custody in Iraq had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment, and had been unlawfully detained. | Thomas Obel Hansen, Elizabeth Stubbins Bates, Dapo Akande | 25 Feb 2019 | |
| 32 | The Alseran Ruling One Year On; Session 1: Alseran in Context | On the first anniversary of the Alseran ruling, where it was found that detainees in British military custody in Iraq had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment, and had been unlawfully detained. | Liora Lazarus, Nicholas Mercer, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Melanie Jacques | 25 Feb 2019 | |
| 33 | Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance | Oceans are increasingly under pressure; be it for the multiplication and diversification of economic activities performed at sea, for the consequences of climate change, or for the deterioration of their environmental health. | Seline Trevisanut | 22 Feb 2019 | |
| 34 | FMR 60 - General - Implementing the Global Compacts: the importance of a whole-of-society approach | The global community must now take incisive, coordinated action through a whole-of-society approach to push forward the effective implementation of the two Global Compacts. | Tamara Domicelj, Carolina Gottardo | 20 Feb 2019 | |
| 35 | FMR 60 - General - Localisation: we are frustrated, not stupid! | The Grand Bargain promises much but an inherent lack of trust in the international system is hampering local capacity building. | Listowell Efe Usen | 20 Feb 2019 | |
| 36 | FMR 60 Evidence for education in emergencies: who decides and why it matters | Analysis of educational research funding proposals submitted to Dubai Cares, a global education funder, indicates an alarming absence of input from local actors and end-users at all steps of the process. | Nadeen Alalami | 20 Feb 2019 | |
| 37 | FMR 60 - Feasible measurement of learning in emergencies: lessons from Uganda | A new assessment tool aims to provide a rapid, holistic understanding of displaced learners' needs. | Nikhit D'Sa, Allyson Krupar, Clay Westrope | 20 Feb 2019 | |
| 38 | FMR 60 - Improving learning environments in emergencies through community participation | An education in emergencies toolkit developed by Save the Children looks at how learning environments can be improved through community participation. | Zeina Bali | 20 Feb 2019 | |
| 39 | FMR 60 - Schooling gaps for Syrian refugees in Turkey | Turkey and the wider international community must address gaps in educational provision so that Syrian refugees can access appropriate opportunities to learn. | Melissa Hauber-Özer | 20 Feb 2019 | |
| 40 | FMR 60 - Navigating curricula choices for Palestine refugees | Curriculum choices matter greatly in countries that host large number of refugees for increasingly long periods of time. | Jo Kelcey | 20 Feb 2019 | |
| 41 | FMR 60 - Street schools and school buses: informal education provision in France | In the face of increasingly limited access to schooling for asylum seekers and migrants in France, volunteer initiatives have sprung up to provide much-needed informal education. | Maria Hagan | 19 Feb 2019 | |
| 42 | FMR 60 - Early childhood development and psychosocial support in Syria | Programming for early childhood development and psychosocial support needs to be able to evolve in order to cater for changing needs and to respond to emerging challenges. | Fatima Khaddour | 19 Feb 2019 | |
| 43 | FMR 60 - Foreword: Education – a humanitarian and development imperative | For far too long, donors and the international community have neglected education in humanitarian response. Switzerland was no exception. Food, water, health and shelter were the usual priorities during emergencies, while education was considered more of | Manuel Bessler | 19 Feb 2019 | |
| 44 | FMR 60 - Gender equality in education in emergencies | Evidence from programming built around this framework shows how a gender-responsive approach can alleviate the particular risks that face girls and boys during crisis and displacement. | Eva Iversen, Else Oestergaard | 19 Feb 2019 | |
| 45 | Creative Commons | All Souls: 'Pervasive Punishment' Making sense of mass supervision | Fergus McNeill introduces the main arguments from his recent book explaining the meanings of 'mass supervision’ and outlining its scale and social distribution, the processes by which it has been legitimated and its significance as a penal phenomenon. | Fergus McNeill | 19 Feb 2019 |
| 46 | Davos Doom and Gloom | This year's World Economic Forum was punctuated by an overall sense of pessimism and concern for the future. One attendee, Oxford Saïd Business School Dean Peter Tufano, gives his take on the state of business. | Peter Tufano | 19 Feb 2019 | |
| 47 | Diving Deep. Slow News and Reader Engagement | Chris Cook of 'slow news' start-up Tortoise on providing an alternative to the 24/7 news cycle | Chris Cook | 18 Feb 2019 | |
| 48 | India's Social Media Elections | Dr Vidya Narayanan of the Oxford Internet Institute on how India's 2019 general elections will be affected by the influence of social media | Vidya Narayanan | 18 Feb 2019 | |
| 49 | The politics of distribution in Ethiopia's 'developmental state' | ASC seminar by Tom Lavers | Tom Lavers | 16 Feb 2019 | |
| 50 | Public health and gender: Assumptions, disjunctures in practice, and implications for HIV prevention within marriages in Kenya | ASC seminar by Roseanne Njiru | Roseanne Njiru | 16 Feb 2019 | |
| 51 | Access and Participation at Postgraduate level: research findings and their implications for policy and practice | This seminar will review the evidence on access to postgraduate study, identify what this might mean for funders, universities and their communities, and outline outstanding gaps in our knowledge. | Paul Wakeling, Mike Bonsall, Nick Brown, Paul Martin | 13 Feb 2019 | |
| 52 | From village chickens to maternal and child health | A UBVO seminar presented by Robyn Alders (Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney) in July 2018. | Robyn Alders | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 53 | Marion Nestle and Claude Fischler in conversation about commensality and the soda tax, Tokyo | A conversation for UBVO between Professor Marion Nestle (NYU Steinhardt) and Professor Claude Fischler (CNRS, Paris), December 2018. | Marion Nestle, Claude Fischler | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 54 | Corporations and Human Rights Regulation | This talk will consider the regulation of corporations for the human rights impacts of their activities. | Robert McCorquodale | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 55 | Northern Borders: Addressing Immigration Detention, Deportation, and Degradation in Scandinavia and the UK | Annika Lindberg Shahram Khosravi and Victoria Canning give a talk for the Border Criminologies series on 22nd January 2019. | Annika Lindberg, Shahram Khosravi, Victoria Canning | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 56 | Sociality and aging | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Oxford) gave this presentation at the Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Dublin, in 2018 | Stanley Ulijaszek | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 57 | How could it be otherwise? The body as a resource for exploring the past | A UBVO seminar given by Dr Caroline Potter of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, on 10 May 2018. | Caroline Potter | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 58 | Ultra-processed Foods, Big Food and the Corporate Capture of Nutrition | A UBVO seminar given by Gyprgy Scrinis of the University of Melbourne on 31 October 2018. | Gyorgy Scrinis | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 59 | An interview with Professor Meg Warin on 'the Australian Senate Inquiry into Obesity' | An interview for UBVO with Professor Meg Warin, University of Adelaide, 8 October 2018 | Meg Warin | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 60 | A cognitive profile of obesity and its translation into new cognitive-behavioural health care interventions | A UBVO seminar by Anita Jansen, Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology at Maastricht University, given 13 June 2018 | Anita Jansen | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 61 | An interview with Andrew Ross on 'The future of bread' | An interview with Professor Andrew Ross (Food Science and Technology Department, Oregon State University) for the UBVO 'Instruments and Institutions' series. July 2018. | Andrew Ross | 12 Feb 2019 | |
| 62 | Access and Participation in English HE: A Fair and Equal Opportunity for All? | The seminar will identify how universities and government have sought to make progress in this area during the last two decades and the patterns of participation arising from this. | Simon Marginson, Chris Millward, Martin Williams | 11 Feb 2019 | |
| 63 | Creative Commons | Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed | Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. | Menachem Klein | 06 Feb 2019 |
| 64 | Neo banks vs traditional banks - Are we witnessing disruption in the banking industry? | Can banks survive without caring about customers? | Tom Blomfield, Alice Truswell | 06 Feb 2019 | |
| 65 | Short and strong: Making the Economist Espresso | Lane Greene, language columnist and editor of the Economist's daily briefing, Espresso, on creating the ultra-concise news app and email | Lane Greene | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 66 | Creative Commons | The Coldest Story Ever Told: Kanye and the Up Next Algorithm | Caithlin Mercer, Managing Editor, Yahoo!, uses the hip-hop star as an example of how social media's algorithms can enforce biased perspectives | Caithlin Mercer | 01 Feb 2019 |
| 67 | The 2020 UN Human Rights Treaty Body Review: strengthening or strangling the system? | Following a difficult and protracted process, in 2014 the UNGA adopted Resolution 68/268 which set out to strengthen the UN human rights treaty body system. | Malcolm Evans | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 68 | A Rational Approach to Evidence-Based Decision Making in Education Policy | If education policy-making is based strictly on rigorous evidence there is a risk of bias towards simple, discrete, measurable interventions. We present a framework for considering inconclusive evidence. | Matthew Jukes | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 69 | FMR 60 - From the editors | In this issue of FMR, authors from around the world debate how better to enable access to quality education both in emergency settings and in resettlement and asylum contexts. | Marion Couldrey, Jenny Peebles | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 70 | FMR 60 - Feeling safe enough to learn in a conflict zone | Building an internal sense of safety while also teaching coping skills and how to remain alert to the very real risks outside is essential if psychosocial programming in Afghanistan is to provide a ‘safe space’ for children to learn in a context of high i | Bethan McEvoy | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 71 | FMR 60 - Breaking the silence: sexual coercion and abuse in post-conflict education | Experience from the Central African Republic makes clear that global efforts to increase numbers of children in school, particularly in conflict-affected areas and for displaced children, need to pay greater attention to safety and accountability. | Sophie Bray-Watkins | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 72 | FMR 60 - Strengthening education systems for long-term education responses | Implementation of programmes in DRC and Nigeria demonstrates how the building blocks for long-term improvements can be laid in the earliest stages of an education in emergencies response, even in the most challenging contexts. | Thea Lacey, Marcello Viola | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 73 | FMR 60 - Jordan: education policy in transition | As the education sector in Jordan moves from a humanitarian to a development response, a lack of planning for an appropriate transition risks excluding some groups of learners. | Julie Chinnery | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 74 | FMR 60 - Applying learning theory to shape 'good learning' in emergencies: experience from Dadaab, Kenya | Applying one learning theory retrospectively to a non-formal education programme for youth shows how learning theories can be used to assess learning in diverse EiE programmes. | Allyson Krupar, Marina L Anselme | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 75 | FMR 60 - Child-friendly spaces: enhancing their role in improving learning outcomes | Providing psychosocial support to children through the medium of child-friendly spaces can improve learning outcomes for children but requires more localised, partnership-driven and gender-responsive approaches and strengthened monitoring and evaluation. | Gurvinder Singh, Charlotte Tocchio | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 76 | FMR 60 - Refugee children with communication disability in Rwanda: providing the educational services they need | Research undertaken in Rwanda aims to provide firm evidence for use in improving access to inclusive educational services for refugee children with communication disability. | Helen Barrett, Julie Marshall, Juliet Goldbart | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 77 | FMR 60 - Refugee education in Greece: integration or segregation? | Although education policies have been devised to integrate these children into the Greek education system, these policies have actually led to some students being segregated. | Giorgos Simopoulos, Antonios Alexandridis | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 78 | FMR 60 - Accessing and thriving in education in the UK | Research shows that significant barriers confront refugee and asylum-seeker children arriving in the UK in terms of them getting into school and thriving in education. | Catherine Gladwell | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 79 | FMR 60 - Learning in resettlement | Education is a central element of resettled families’ lives and providing support to parents and children to learn about and integrate into the education system is essential. | Marwa Belghazi | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 80 | FMR 60 - UK immigration policy: restrictions on asylum seekers' right to study | Changes to immigration legislation in the UK have led to restrictions on many asylum seekers' right to study. | Helen Baron | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 81 | FMR 60 - 'Education is key to life': The the importance of education from the perspective of displaced learners | Students on the University of East London's OLIve course – a preparatory course for university access specifically tailored to refugees and asylum seekers in the UK – share experiences of accessing education as displaced learners. | OLIve course Students, IT trainer, director of the OLIve course | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 82 | FMR 60 - Educating unaccompanied children in US shelters | Educational services provided to unaccompanied children in government-funded shelters in the US must be examined more critically in order to better meet the children’s varied needs – and federal standards for public education. | Kylie Diebold, Kerri Evans, Emily Hornung | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 83 | FMR 60 - Teachers in displacement: learning from Dadaab | Despite the challenges they face, refugee teachers believe in the potential of education to transform the lives of refugee learners and communities. Their voices and needs must inform refugee education provision in order to improve access and outcomes. | Mohamed Duale, Ochan Leomoi, Abdullahi Aden, Okello Oyat | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 84 | FMR 60 - Child labour and school attendance in Turkey | Promoting self-sufficiency for displaced populations can have the unintended consequence of undermining efforts to provide education for all Syrian children. | Ozlem Erden | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 85 | FMR 60 - Inter-sectoral cooperation for Afghan refugee education in Iran | A recent decree in Iran removed a legal barrier to undocumented refugee children attending school but other barriers remain. One non-governmental organisation discusses the successes and challenges of adopting an inter-sectoral approach. | Reem Shammout, Olivier Vandecasteele | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 86 | FMR 60 - Connected learning: the future for higher education? | Higher education institutions in Lebanon should consider how connected learning can improve access to higher education for young refugees and members of the host community. | Hana Addam El-Ghali, Emma Ghosn | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 87 | FMR 60 - Connected learning: a refugee assessment | Connected learning offers the opportunity to expand access to higher education for refugees, benefiting both individuals and communities. | Moise Dushime, Eugenie Manirafasha, Kalenga Mbonyinshuti | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 88 | FMR 60 - The importance of access and accreditation: learning from the Thailand–Myanmar border | The displaced community on the Thailand–Myanmar border has long provided for the basic educational needs of large numbers of children. Providing accredited education, however, remains a struggle. | Mary Purkey, Megan Irving | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 89 | FMR 60 - Adult literacy: an essential component of the CRRF | Literacy needs among the refugee populations of Uganda and Ethiopia are vast, yet although both are CRRF pilot countries – and therefore in theory committed to promoting literacy – functional adult literacy is barely supported at all. | Massimo Lanciotti | 01 Feb 2019 | |
| 90 | Creative Commons | How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: A phylogeographic analysis | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Tetyana Vasylyeva (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) on 24 October 2018 | Tetyana Vasylyeva | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 91 | Creative Commons | Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Kesson Magid (Department of Anthropology, University of Durham) on 7 November 2018 | Kesson Magid | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 92 | Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London) on 14 November 2018 | Abigail Page | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 93 | Creative Commons | Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Dr Gillian Pepper (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle) on 28 November 2018 | Gillian Pepper | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 94 | Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta | David Pratten, the University of Oxford, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 9 November 2018 | David Pratten | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 95 | Creative Commons | Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa | Michelle Pentecosts, King's College London, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 2 November 2018 | Michelle Pentecost | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 96 | Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution | Frederick Keck, Musée du quai Branly, presented this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 26 October 2018 | Frederick Keck | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 97 | 'Don't Bury the Famine Dead': how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998 | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jok Madut Jok, SUNY Upstate Medical University, on 23 November 2018 | Jok Madut Jok | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 98 | Teachers' professional development on summative assessment of practical science: perspectives from Project Calibrate | This seminar will focus on the teacher education aspect of the project. It will outline the approaches being implemented to develop the teachers' knowledge and understanding to implement strategies to teach and assess practical science. | Sibel Erduran, Ann Childs, Alison Cullinane | 28 Jan 2019 | |
| 99 | The Legal Metamorphosis of War | War does not escape the transformations global governance has experienced in the past decades. | Delphine Dogot | 25 Jan 2019 | |
| 100 | What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau | ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo | Teresa Almeida Cravo | 25 Jan 2019 |
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