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- Free lectures, prestigious speakers: The History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care
- Professor Nancy Cartwright and Professor Mike Kelly will each give a lecture as part of The History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care course. Both talks are free and there is no need to book.
- Talk explores translation of evidence into policy and practice in health care
- Professor Susan Michie will speak at Kellogg College, Thursday 6th June, 5.30-6.30 pm.
- New Generation Thinkers: Jonathan Healey
- A round-up of Dr Jonathan Healey's more recent BBC interviews on a range of local and social history.
- Free lecture: 'People power or pester power? Multiple sclerosis, YouTube, and the liberation procedure'
- Braden O'Neil's presentation will be repeated on Thursday 16 May 2013, due to the popularity of his 30 January event.
- Free Public Lecture: Learning and Work in Medieval England
- Join us 23rd May at Rewley House for a free public lecture, given as part of national Adult Learners' Week by Medieval historian Dr Elizabeth Gemmill.
- Posthumous award accepted by student's daughter
- On the evening of Wednesday 27 March 2013, Oriane Cannac attended the Continuing Education Department's Annual Award Ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre, to receive a framed Postgraduate Certificate in Evidence Based Health Care, which was awarded posthumously to her father, Dr Christian Cannac.
- Swift Conservation in Oxfordshire
- Dr Jocelyne Hughes is working with support from the Cherwell District Council Swift Project to encourage swift populations to visit and nest at the Department's facilities in Wellington Square.
- Brunsfield Foundation supports scholarship for Master's in International Human Rights Law
- Students and graduates from the University of Oxford's Master's in International Human Rights Law engage in a range of Human Rights activities worldwide, including working in refugee camps, defending detainees in Guantanamo and at the International Criminal Court, designing a human rights-based curriculum for disabled primary school students in Uganda, as well as engaging in human rights work in Afghanistan's Helmand province and in Burma.
- New: The F H Pasby Prize
- A generous new prize aims to offer encouragement to Creative Writing Master's students.
- EvidenceLive - Forging New Directions in Evidence-Based Medicine
- EvidenceLive, the world's leading evidence-based medicine conference, was held in Oxford 25-26 March at the Examination Schools with 400 delegates from all over the world - researchers and clinical practitioners - in attendance.
- Revisiting the Rite: Centenary of The Rite of Spring Conference
- This interdisciplinary, international one-day conference on 29 May 2013 examines the cross-fertilizations between ballet and design in the creation of the original production as well its critical reception and global legacies up to the current 2013 centenary productions.
- Ethics the focus of Theology Summer School
- Ethics - a highly relevant topic at a time when the behaviour of politicians, bankers, journalists and many others has come under public scrutiny.
- Fall of diversity in UK's financial services is 'damaging'
- A new report, co-authored by Professor Jonathan Michie, reveals a fall in the diversity of the financial services sector is potentially both damaging the resilience of the financial system and reducing effective competition for consumers.
- Master's in Literature and Arts students produce volume of essays
- Students on the Department's Master's in Literature and Arts programme have produced a free volume of interdisciplinary essays as part of their work on the course.
- Rare Roman basket, shoe in waterlogged pit at Marcham
- The Iron-Age settlement and Romano-British temple site at Marcham in Oxfordshire has been the subject of extensive research excavations from 2001-2011 as a collaborative project between the University's Department for Continuing Education and the Institute of Archaeology.
- Human Rights Research Grant
- Dr Nazila Ghanea, University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, is Principal Investigator on a major two-year project examining the domestic effects of international human rights treaty ratification. Nazila is working with colleagues from UCL, Georgetown and Qatar University on the research. The project runs from November 2012 to October 2014.
- Charitable Trust Established for Human Rights Law
- An alumnus from the Department's Master's course in International Human Rights Law has donated an initial $50,000 to set up a charitable trust for the benefit of the course. Income from the Morris Charitable Trust will go to the benefit of students on the Master's course.
- Scholarship Aids Urban Sustainability in India
- Mr Sandip Kumar, founder and principal architect of a New Delhi design consultancy services firm, is the recipient of a full scholarship to study on the Oxford University Master's in Sustainable Urban Development. The scholarship is awarded to an outstanding candidate from India who is able to present a consistent record of excellence both academically and professionally. Mr Kumar joined the third cohort of students on the Master's programme last term.
- Pi Day Live: Interactive online event with Marcus du Sautoy
- On 14 March at 1.59pm GMT, Professor Marcus du Sautoy will host Pi Day Live, an interactive exploration of the number which has fascinated mathematicians throughout the ages. We need your help to rediscover pi using ancient and intriguing techniques in this online event that is open to all.
- Visiting Fellow: urban geography, climate change and Jamaican education
- Dr. Kevon Rhiney joins us for Hilary Term from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, as a Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Fellow. He will be focusing on the fields of urban geography and sustainable urban planning.
- In Memoriam: Diana Wood
- Dr Diana Wood, formerly Departmental Lecturer in Local History and course director of the Undergraduate Diploma in English Local History, died suddenly in July 2012 aged 71. She was a distinguished scholar and teacher of medieval history and will be remembered by many OUDCE local history students. Dr Adrienne Rosen, Lecturer in Local and Social History, remembers her.
- The proof is in the publication
- Alumni and current students on the Master's in Creative Writing have a bumper crop of forthcoming book publications and agent acquisitions to announce.
- Free lecture: 'People power or pester power? Multiple sclerosis, YouTube, and the liberation procedure'
- Venoplasty - dubbed the 'liberation procedure' - is a controversial possible treatment for MS, based on a disputed theory called 'chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency', or CCSVI. This presentation will explore patients' use of social media to share health experiences, focusing on a study of videos of MS patients undergoing the 'liberation procedure'.
- Bronze Age discovery in east Oxford
- A 4,000-year-old Bronze Age arrowhead was one of many exciting discoveries made during our East Oxford Community Archaeology dig at Minchery Farm near Blackbird Leys this past October and November.
- A new phase for the Marcham Community Archaeology Project
- The project has been awarded Heritage Lottery Funding which will allow volunteers from Marcham and the surrounding villages to carry out post-excavation analysis of material and records for the next three years, providing an opportunity to take part in a major research project, to experience what happens when an excavation finishes, and how it results in publication.
- Welcome to our new University Lecturers
- This autumn the Department welcomes five new University Lecturers: in Literature and Creative Writing, English Local and Social History, 18th Century to Early 20th Century British History, and Political Economy
- New Book: Country House Technology
- The importance of the country house as a pioneer of 'taste' has long been a popular subject for art and architectural historians - but its role as a pioneer of new technology has received less attention.
- New fiction meets old-world publishing
- For Louise Ihringer, winner of this year's Creative Writing Competition, the publication process has taken a step backward in time.
- Education 'As you like it'
- Our new bespoke summer schools have a decidedly international flavour.
- And the winners are
- Teaching, innovation, and outreach: the Department's staff, students and projects have been honoured in recent weeks.
- Portrait of a Certificate
- Who's applied for our new Certificate of Higher Education? The 'CertHE' launches this autumn and both the quality and number of students we will welcome on the course is high.
- Improving quality, reducing cost in learning
- JISC, the UK's leading authority on information and digital technologies for education and research, has produced a video highlighting the Department's success in harnessing the potential of technology to improve the quality of provision in learning, while reducing costs, via our 'Cascade' project.