Institute for Science, Innovation and Society
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 13 years ago -The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) researches and informs key contemporary and emerging issues and processes of social, scientific, and technological change. We combine the highest standards of scholarship and relevance to pursue and disseminate timely research in the UK and worldwide. We collaborate with leading thinkers around the world and welcome them to Oxford as visiting researchers. We nurture early career researchers through research fellowships in our various programmes. InSIS is based at Oxford University's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, one of the world's largest and most vibrant centres for teaching and research in the field. As an interdisciplinary institute, InSIS welcomes the participation of researchers from all departments of the University of Oxford in its research programmes and outreach activities.
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Episodes
Neurosociety part 5: what is it with the brain these days? Closing discussion
March 10, 2011 15:44 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBSteve Woolgar and Paul Woulters give the final talk for the Neuroociety conference.
Neurosociety part 3: The Social value of neurological reflexivity: decisions, and habits
March 10, 2011 15:41 - 20 minutes - 19 MBJonathan Rowson (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) gives a talk for the Neurosociety conference.
Neurosociety part 2: Who do you think you are? Managing Personhood in a Neurobiological Age
March 10, 2011 15:39 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBNikolas Rose (BIOS Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science) gives a keynote speech for the Neurosociety conference.
Neurosociety part 4: Constucting and reading neuroimages
March 10, 2011 15:37 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBKelly Joyce and Patricia Pisters give talks for the Neurosociety conference on the subject of reading neuroimages, MRI scans and how they are perceived and interpreted in films and popular culture. Chaired by Paul Martin.
Neurosociety part 1: Welcome and Opening Remarks
March 10, 2011 15:33 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBSteve Woolgar and Tanja Schneider (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) give the opening address for the Neurosociety conference.
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 6: Resilience and adaptation in complex city systems
December 15, 2010 18:33 - 43 minutes - 49.6 MBJames Simmie (Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University) develops an evolutionary economics approach to adaptation and change in urban economies. Abstract: In this lecture, James Simmie develops one of the evolutionary economics approaches to understanding adaptation and change in the economic trajectories of urban economies. Neo-classical equilibrist versions of resilience and adaptation are rejected in favour of an evolutionary perspective. He argues in particular for an explanation...
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 2: Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean
December 15, 2010 18:16 - 45 minutes - 52.2 MBDavid Howard (Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. Abstract: Recent urban policy initiatives in the Caribbean have shifted from producing material infrastructural change to a greater emphasis on confronting 'civil disorder' via new forms of policing and surveillance. Just as development policy witnessed a 'c...
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 3: Global migration and the future of le droit à la ville
December 15, 2010 18:06 - 49 minutes - 57.1 MBMichael Keith (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford) interrogates how we think about urban change and normative theory in cities experiencing high levels of international migration. Abstract: The modern city has conventionally received and integrated new arrivals, but the scale of international migration in the 21st century challenges the ethical and social settlement of the metropolis. As cities increasingly mediate global networks and flows of information, capital a...
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 1: New business models for low-carbon cities
November 16, 2010 11:38 - 52 minutes - 59.8 MBMark Hinnells (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) explores the impact of policy measures to deliver a low-carbon economy on the development of new business models for low-carbon cities. Abstract: This research explores the impact of policy measures to deliver a low carbon economy (both near term and more extensive policy change) on the development of new business models for low carbon cities. Buildings account for around 47% of UK Carbon emissions (including both residen...
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 4: Sustainable urban development to 2050 - complex transitions in the built environment of cities
November 16, 2010 11:36 - 42 minutes - 48.1 MBTim Dixon (Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University) looks at 'critical success factors' that need to be in place for cities to be more sustainable by 2050. Abstract: The majority of the world's population now live in cities. This poses great challenges, but also great opportunities in terms of tackling climate change, resource depletion and environmental degradation. Policy agendas have increasingly focused on how to develop and maintain 'integrated sustainable...
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 5: The paralyzed frog, water supply services and sustainable cities
November 16, 2010 11:34 - 41 minutes - 47.2 MBRob Hope (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) gives a talk on institutional innovations and new financial models for sustainable water as part of a seminar series on the Future of Cities. Abstract: Any notion of a sustainable city is premised on a secure water supply for human, productive and ecosystem demands. With global urban residents now out-numbering rural dwellers, urban water delivery systems are creaking and leaking under decades of under-investment, new co...