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Wednesday 30 September 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - Improving the quality of research applications involving animals
Dr Chris Barkus (University of Oxford), James Bussell (University of Oxford)
10:00 - Oxford University Innovation presents - An Introduction to Undertaking Expert Witness Consultancy from Bond Solon
The session is open to researchers from all departments but is intended for PIs (or non-PI researchers who have already been approached about undertaking expert witness consulting).
Nick Deal (Bond Solon)
11:00 - Seizing the opportunity to raise hydrocarbon taxation
Daniel Hardy (St Antony's College, Oxford)
12:00 - Shortlisted Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Translators Reading and Discussing Their Translations
TBA
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
13:00 - Saving Lives with SEREN
Professor Anna Schuh (Associate Professor for Molecular Diagnostics & Head of BRC/NHS Translational Molecular Diagnostic Centre, Oxford), Dr Clara Chamba (Muhimbili University for Health and Allied Sciences)
Innovation Conversations: Celebrating the Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards 2020
14:00 - scRNA-seq and scSLAM-seq reveal the complexity and heterogeneity of infection processes
This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYod-qhrj8pE9Oz9DvgeZ_P1ldfVNhCMD1K
Dr Emmanuel Saliba (Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Germany)
Kennedy Institute Seminars
16:00 - Book Launch, Elizabeth Frazer, Shakespeare and the Political Way
Registration required via link below. Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins, to allow for a prompt start at 4pm.
Alan Finlayson (UEA), Deana Rankin (RHUL), Will Poole (University of Oxford)
16:00 - How not to let a global pandemic derail a just, green transition. An online panel discussion among investors, activists, scientists and entrepreneurs
Charmian Love (Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK; Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship), Kaya Axelsson (Net Zero Policy Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford; former Vice-President of the Oxford Student Union), Leandro Baumgarten (Lead Scientist (Brazil), The Nature Conservancy), Catherine Bryan (Trustee and former CEO, Synchronicity Earth), Arunma Oteh (former Treasurer of the World Bank; Executive-in-Residence at Saïd Business School), Cameron Hepburn (Director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment), EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity), Laurence Wainwright (MSc Course Director at the Smith School)
19:00 - Award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize
TBA
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 1 October 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - Mind & Behaviour Research Group, Behavioural Measurements Series: Measurement of Aspirations
Tanguy Bernard (International Food Policy Research Institute)
CSAE Special Seminars
14:00 - Surviving a crisis: Resilience, adaptation, and transformation in higher education after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Emma Sabzalieva (York University, Canada)
15:00 - Can social impact survive the crisis?
Booking not required. Watch live on: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-answers/can-social-impact-survive-crisis
Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Marc Ventresca (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Shivani Garg Patel (Skoll Foundation), Zhao Meng (NTU Singapore), François Bonnici (Schwab Foundation)
Leadership in extraordinary times

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