Interviews with Oxonians
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsA series of interviews with world-leading academics conducting research at the University of Oxford. The University has a global reputation for the range and intensity of its research, from the study of the formation of the universe and the development of early civilisations through to high performance computing and the latest breakthroughs in medical science.
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Episodes
Garr Reynolds on Presentations
February 08, 2011 15:48 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBConversation with Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen.
David Smith on Dementia
August 17, 2009 13:03 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBProfessor Smith talks about his research at OPTIMA (Oxford Project To Investigate Memory and Ageing) on dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s and the relation between diet and blood pressure in younger life and dementia in older life.
Peter McDonald on Censorship in South Africa
August 11, 2009 12:27 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBPeter McDonald talks about censorship, its philosophical basis and general history within Apartheid South Africa.
Peter McDonald on Literature
August 11, 2009 12:17 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBSummary: Peter McDonald talks about how he became to be interested in Literature, how he became to be an academic at Oxford and what it is like to study literature at Oxford.
Obama's First 100 Days
May 06, 2009 13:24 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBOrla De Burca interviews Desmond King, Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, on Barack Obama’s first 100 days as President; discussing Obama’s plans to recover America’s Economy and the success so far of his foreign and domestic plans.
7 Keys to the Future
March 12, 2009 16:45 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBVeronica Sartore interviews Ray Hammond about his role as a futurologist and the seven major trends he predicts will affect life throughout the 21st century.
Peter Harrison on Science and Religion
October 22, 2008 17:28 - 22 minutes - 23.1 MBProfessor Peter Harrison discusses the relationship between science and religion, the myths that surround the relationship, and discusses some of the contentious contemporary issues.
Marc Stears on Radical Political Thought
October 22, 2008 17:25 - 28 minutes - 32.5 MBPolitical theorist Dr. Marc Stears talks about the importance of political theory and describes some of the radical political movements of Britain and the United States.
Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire
September 13, 2008 21:03 - 41 minutes - 16.6 MBBryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.
Jennifer Lau on Anxiety and Depression in Children
September 13, 2008 21:02 - 19 minutes - 7.96 MBDr Jennifer Lau discusses her research into the development of anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence.
Gero Miesenboeck on Fruit Flies and Neuroscience
September 13, 2008 21:00 - 27 minutes - 10.5 MBIn this podcast, Professor Gero Miesenboeck begins with a discussion of DNA and neuroscience, and then talks about his experiments on the brain of the fruit fly.
Oliver Taplin on Classics
September 12, 2008 10:22 - 25 minutes - 9.74 MBProfessor Oliver Taplin, an authority on classics and the performance of ancient drama, talks about the subject and his research.
Adrian Moore on Metaphysics
September 12, 2008 10:20 - 31 minutes - 12 MBAdrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, explores the definition and origin of metaphysics, and then discusses some of the enduring metaphysical questions.
Irene Tracey on FMRI and Pain
September 12, 2008 10:19 - 44 minutes - 17.2 MBProfessor Irene Tracey, director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, explains how MRI works and then talks about her research into people’s perception of pain.
Thomas Helleday on Cancer
September 11, 2008 12:01 - 26 minutes - 9.95 MBProfessor Helleday explains what cancer is, the problems of treating it, and the success of his own research in developing new treatments.
John Broome on Rationality
September 10, 2008 15:53 - 45 minutes - 16.9 MBJohn Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, gives an explanation of reason and rationality, and then discusses his understanding of the 'the normative question'.
Nick Bostrom on Global Catastrophic Risk and Simulation Theory
August 31, 2008 13:12 - 25 minutes - 8.82 MBIn this podcast, Professor Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, discusses global catastrophic risks and his earlier work on the simulation theory.
Julian Savulescu on Applied Ethics and Human Enhancement
August 31, 2008 13:11 - 37 minutes - 8.64 MBProfessor Julian Savulescu, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, talks about the current and future issues in applied ethics, particularly of the new biosciences.
Greg Kochanski on Phonetics
August 31, 2008 13:09 - 26 minutes - 9.43 MBDr Greg Kochanski, a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory, talks about how experiments in phonetics are conducted, how we study the history of language, and how speech changes over time.
Andrew Pollard on Vaccines and Immunisation of Children
August 31, 2008 13:06 - 36 minutes - 13.7 MBDr Andrew Pollard, Reader in Paediatric Infection and Immunity, and Consultant in charge of the Oxford Vaccine Group, discusses childhood diseases, his research into vaccinations, and the problems facing childhood immunisation in the UK and abroad.
Roger Crisp on Aristotle's Ethics
August 30, 2008 21:50 - 20 minutes - 4.76 MBRoger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, discusses the ethics of Aristotle.
Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds on Podcasting
August 30, 2008 21:38 - 22 minutes - 8.47 MBNigel Warburton and David Edmonds, the hosts of the highly successful podcasting series 'Philosophy Bites', talk about podcasting.