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March

February

'The inequality of wealth' with Rt Hon Liam Byrne, Prof Barbara Petrongolo & Prof Brian Nolan

19th February 2024: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Wealth inequality has been rising for the last forty years and today the richest 10% of household hold 43% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 50% under a tenth.

'Agent-based modelling in public health: from playground to planet' with Professor Joshua M. Epstein

6th February 2024: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Agent-Based Models (ABMS) are artificial societies of individual software people whose interactions generate large-scale social patterns—of violence, of inequality, and of disease.

January

November

Book talk: 'The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society' with Prof Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

21st November 2023: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organisation in history, and smaller platforms like X serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies.

'Medicine in the 4th Industrial Revolution' with Prof Andrew Morris

13th November 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

With increasing connectivity, advanced analytics, automation, and advanced-manufacturing technology, how can health care embrace this digital revolution?