Rewley House Research Seminars
Oxford University
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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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DEC 3, 2015
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.
87 MIN
AUG 12, 2014
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.
97 MIN
AUG 12, 2014
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.
74 MIN
AUG 12, 2014
Patterns
Three speakers share their insights into pattern exploration and, in some cases, exploitation, in their fields of finance, mathematics and climate change.
42 MIN
APR 7, 2014
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.
100 MIN
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