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"Philae at the comet: a scientific adventure" with Prof Chris Lintott
25 Feb 15 in Videos
On 12th November 2014, after a 10 year journey, the Rosetta spacecraft's lander Philae touched down on the surface of the comet 67P, also known as Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The robotic European Space Agency lander not only took images from the comet’s surface, the first images in history, but obtained data that was sent back to be analysed. This data will be...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/philae-at-the-comet-a-scientific-adventure
"Biodiversity and climate change: what happens when we turn up the heat on nature?" with Dr Nathalie Seddon
12 Mar 15 in Videos
The future of biodiversity conservation is under increasing threat from both climate change and human impact. Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, will look at how rapid growth of climate change affects our ecosystems, how species’ will be forced to adapt to survive, and how we can reduce the effects of climate change on our planet.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/biodiversity-and-climate-change-what-happens-when-we-turn-up-the-heat-on-nature
Book Launch "Inequality" by Sir Tony Atkinson
24 Apr 15 in Videos
Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problem—talk about the 99% and the 1% is entrenched in public debate—but there has been little discussion of what we can do but despair. According to the distinguished economist...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/book-launch-inequality-by-sir-tony-atkinson
"EU climate policy – where are we headed?" with Dr Jos Delbeke
04 Nov 15 in Videos
Many see this December's UN conference in Paris as our last chance to secure a binding multilateral agreement that can prevent dangerous climate change. But after the curtain comes down on international negotiations, and the world's attention turns to the next big news story, the practical work of seeing through political promises begins. The Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA)...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/eu-climate-policy-where-are-we-headed
"Uniformity and stability in global finance" with Christian Thimann
23 Nov 15 in Videos
Christian Thimann's talk, Head of Strategy, Sustainability and Public Affairs at AXA, will focus on recent evolutions in the systemic regulation framework proposed by the G20 and Federation of Small Businesses, taking the insurance sector as an example.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/uniformity-and-stability-in-global-finance
"Mind machines - the promise and problems of cognitive enhancement devices" with Prof Roi Cohen Kadosh and Dr Hannah Maslen
05 Feb 16 in Videos
Cognitive enhancement technologies raised hope in boosting healthy brain functioning, increasing mental capacity, speed, and creativity, through use of electrical and magnetic currents. How do these technologies work? How is the brain affected? And what are the ethical and societal implications of their use? Professor Roi Cohen Kadosh, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and Dr Hannah...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/mind-machines-the-promise-and-problems-of-cognitive-enhancement-devices
"Adult children providing support to their aging parents: mixed motives over the family life course" with Prof Merril Silverstein
26 Feb 16 in Videos
This presentation explores the question of why adult children provide support and care to their older parents. Absent strong bio-evolutionary hypotheses, the effort to understand these motives has largely focused on social explanations, primarily those related to social-affective connections and the norm of reciprocity. Using data from a multi-panel and multi-generational data set, Professor Silverstein presents evidence for long-term reciprocity...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/adult-children-providing-support-to-their-aging-parents-mixed-motives-over-the-family-life-course-with-prof-merril-silverstein
Oxford London Lecture 2016: Vaccines for Ebola: Tackling a Market Failure
11 Mar 16 in Videos
In 2014 the largest ever outbreak of Ebola virus disease took the world by surprise. This infectious disease has one of the highest case fatality rates known to medicine and most of those who become ill die. Over 11,000 people died in West Africa before the outbreak was finally brought under control. The disease dealt a devastating blow to three...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/oxford-london-lecture-2016-vaccines-for-ebola-tackling-a-market-failure
"Thank you for being late: an optimist’s guide to thriving in the age of accelerations" with Thomas L. Friedman
02 Feb 17 in Videos
In this talk Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times Columnist on Foreign Affairs, Globalization and Technology, will talk about how the planet’s three largest forces - the advance of technology, globalisation and climate change - are each driving the other and how these accelerations are fundamentally reshaping the world.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/thank-you-for-being-late-an-optimists-guide-to-thriving-in-the-age-of-accelerations
Priorities for the new UN Secretary-General
02 Feb 17 in Videos
The first Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, famously described his role as ‘the most impossible job in the world’. These words are likely to resonate with António Guterres, who has taken over the reins of the UN during one of the most trying periods it has yet had to confront.
In an event held by the Overseas Development Institute...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/priorities-for-the-new-un-secretary-general
"An age-old problem? Exploring Britain’s new wealth divides" - Panel Discussion
05 Jun 17 in Videos
This event is in partnership with the Resolution Foundation
The accumulation and distribution of wealth across Britain has been a contentious issue since the dawn of economics. But while wealth inequality is traditionally viewed as being between rich and poor, a new divide is also emerging – the wealth gap between generations.
The failure of younger generations to accumulate wealth – through...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/an-age-old-problem-exploring-britains-new-wealth-divides
"Disruptive oil and electricity futures" with Amory Lovins
06 Jun 17 in Videos
Oil suppliers have more unsellable than unburnable oil: they are more at risk from competition than from climate regulation. Electricity suppliers too, face a swarm of disruptors that will transform their business beyond recognition. As these two vast industries merge and as insurgents in both challenge incumbents, almost everything we thought we knew about energy is ripe for rapid and...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/disruptive-oil-and-electricity-futures-with-amory-lovins
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? Computational Propaganda, Algorithms, Automation and Public Life
15 Jun 17 in Videos
The design and implementation of social media platforms has put several advanced democracies into a kind of democratic deficit. First, social algorithms allow fake news stories from untrustworthy sources to spread like wildfire over networks of family and friends. Second, social media algorithms provide very real structure to what political scientists often call “elective affinity” or “selective exposure”. We prefer...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/is-social-media-killing-democracy-computational-propaganda-algorithms-automation-and-public-life
"Children of austerity: impact of the great recession on child poverty in rich countries" with Prof Brian Nolan
08 Nov 17 in Videos
The 2008 financial crisis triggered the first contraction of the world economy in the post-war era. Children and young people, already at a greater risk of poverty than the population as a whole, were among the main victims of the crisis and ensuing austerity in advanced economies, and the countries most severely affected recorded some of the largest increases in...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/children-of-austerity-impact-of-the-great-recession-on-child-poverty-in-rich-countries
"The cost of energy review" with Prof Dieter Helm
30 Nov 17 in Videos
This is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School, the Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy and the Oxford Energy Colloquium
Following on from the release of the Independent review to ensure energy is affordable for households and businesses, led by Professor Dieter Helm CBE, we are delighted that Dieter is coming to give a talk on the review.
Professor...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/the-cost-of-energy-review-with-prof-dieter-helm
"Transforming drug discovery – the pathway to innovation"
02 Feb 18 in Videos
Immense ingenuity and unprecedented levels of funding are available for drug discovery, yet pharmaceutical research and development is failing to produce the medicines society requires. New organisational models of drug discovery are clearly needed, and members of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines will contend that open science approaches represent a promising path forward.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/transforming-drug-discovery-the-pathway-to-innovation
"Putting science at the heart of society and culture" - Panel Discussion
25 May 18 in Videos
This talk is co-hosted by the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, to celebrate their 20th Anniversary
Panel members:
Sarah Harper, Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing (Chair)
Emily Wilson, Editor, New Scientist
Katherine Mathieson, Chief Executive, British Science Association
About the panel
Professor Sarah Harper is the Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, which she founded in 1997, and...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/putting-science-at-the-heart-of-society-and-culture
"Saving labour: automation and its enemies" with Dr Carl Benedikt Frey
05 Mar 19 in Videos
In 2013, Carl Frey and Michael Osborne published a paper titled ‘The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?’ which estimated that 47% of jobs in the US are at risk of automation.
In this talk Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford Martin Citi Fellow of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, will discuss the societal consequences...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/saving-labour-automation-and-its-enemies-with-dr-carl-benedikt-frey
