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Rewley House Research Seminars
by Oxford University
The multi-disciplinary research seminars are held once a term at Rewley House, and are designed to highlight current and future research initiatives in the Department for Continuing Education.
Episodes
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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. We were delighted to welcome as speakers Peter Hinton (DPhil student at the Department for Continuing Education), Dr Christine Jackson (Associate Professor in History…
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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. We are delighted to welcome as speakers Gorgi Krlev...
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Danger
Speakers for our seminar on the theme of Danger have Medical and Humanities backgrounds, and will consider the following: experimentation to diminish danger; the risks of ignoring danger, danger to the self and the ideal. This series of multi-disciplinary research seminars is designed to…
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Truth
The presentations invite us to consider what truth means to people in different circumstances, and how definitions of truth can affect decision-making, from literary risks to clinical trials. Four speakers illustrate their engagement with the concept of Truth with talks drawn from their recent...
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Patterns
Three speakers share their insights into pattern exploration and, in some cases, exploitation, in their fields of finance, mathematics and climate change.
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Future
The presentations focus on the impact of the concept of future in changing debate, and how, in specific instances, concerns about the future affect behaviours in the present. We were delighted to hear from Jill Hind (currently a DPhil student in Archaeology) and David Howard (UL in Sustainable...
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Gender
Gender relations shape our everyday interactions at work, on the street and in the home. Our speakers cover a wide range of topics, from historical, legal and therapeutic perspectives. The seminar is chaired by Professor Linda Scott, the DP World Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the...
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Decay
The presentations focus on the importance of disappearance as much as appearance, presence as well as absence, and growth in the guise of degeneration, arguing from difference perspectives for the importance of malaise or corrosion as a subject of study.
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Ethics
Ethical decisions, and often dilemma, lie at the heart of all research methodologies and practice. Marianne Talbot, course director in Philosophy, chaired three presentations from across the disciplines. The three presentations challenge us, as well as the researchers themselves, to consider the...
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Revolution
Revolutionary concepts continually shape and uproot research agendas, and occasionally researchers themselves. This seminar examined the many ways revolution impacts on research. Kerry Lock explores the role of new ecological thinking in the way we understand and try to conserve the biophysical...
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Risk
The inaugural research seminar invited three speakers to consider how the concept and experience of 'risk' influenced their current research. Professor Jonathan Michie assessed the role of uncertainty in the current global economy and explored how that influences our economic behaviour today…
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The multi-disciplinary research seminars are held once a term at Rewley House, and are designed to highlight current and future research initiatives in the Department for Continuing Education.
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