Friday 29 April 2016

• 14:00 - Mitigating Risks and Vulnerabilities in the Energy-Food-Water Nexus in Developing Countries – Report Launch
  Dr Jeremy Wakeford (Sustainability Institute (Stellenbosch, RSA))
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 9 May 2016

• 17:00 - Australia’s Adaptation to a Drying Climate
  Prof John Langford (University of Melbourne)

Saturday 10 September 2016

• 17:00 - Flood recovery and resilience from the perspectives of children and young people
  Prof Maggie Mort (Lancaster University)

Monday 10 October 2016

• 17:00 - Water Security, Migration, and Infrastructural Conflicts in the Middle East
  Prof Erika Weinthal (Duke University)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 17:00 - Climate extremes, floods and modelling approaches
  Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute)
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 16:00 - Just adding water? The Water Act, sustainable diversion limits and environmental health in the Murray-Darling Basin
  Stefanie Schulte (Policy Manager at the New South Wales Irrigators’ Council)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 17:00 - Water, politics, and the “art of hydro-diplomacy”: how the US government came to care about water across the world.
  Dr Aaron Salzberg ( US Department of State)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 17:00 - W. Mike Edmunds Memorial Lecture: Groundwater and climate resilience
  Prof Alan MacDonald (British Geological Survey, and University of Dundee)
• 17:00 - W. Mike Edmunds Memorial Lecture
  Prof Alan MacDonald (British Geological Survey and University of Dundee)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 17:00 - Flood recovery and resilience from the perspectives of children and young people
  Prof Maggie Mort (Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 17:00 - Global flood risk and adaptation
  Prof Philip Ward (Institute for Environmental Studies)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 25 November 2016

• 14:00 - Impact of shoreline morphological change in West Africa: Ghana DECCMA project.
  Prof Kwasi Appeaning Addo (University of Ghana)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 17:00 - Water, the economy and development: a high-level panel with the World Bank
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford Water Network seminar with Prof Philippe Cullet, SOAS.
  Prof Philippe Cullet (SOAS)
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 30 January 2017

• 17:00 - Beyond technology: the role of innovation in achieving universal access to drinking water
  Peter Harvey (UNICEF)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 3 February 2017

• 13:00 - Adaptation regimes: confronting climate change and environmental crisis in Bangladesh
  Kasia Paprocki is a PhD Candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University. She has worked in Bangladesh for over a decade, where her work has focused on the political economy of development and agrarian change
  Kasia Paprocki (Cornell University)

Monday 13 February 2017

• 16:00 - International development financing: current priorities, policies and practices on water resources, environmental and social issues.
  Prof Stephen Lintner (King’s College London)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 17:00 - From Flint to the Rio Grande: water insecurity in the United States.
  Prof Wendy Jepson (University of Texas A&M)
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 13:00 - Hydrological prediction for drought and flood early warning in sub-Saharan Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Justin Sheffield (University of Southampton)
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 6 March 2017

• 17:00 - The resilience of Britain’s water supplies in an uncertain future
  Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute)
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 13 March 2017

• 13:00 - Evidence-based policy in an age of alternative facts: the life of a chief science advisor in New Zealand
  Prof Ken Hughey (Department of Conservation, New Zealand & Professor of Environmental Management at Lincoln University, Christchurch.)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 12 May 2017

• 13:00 - Fear, disgust and loathing: the emotional qualities of public policies
  Dr Leong Ching (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 13:00 - Stepping out of the ‘water-box’: re-thinking transboundary water cooperation
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 9 October 2017

• 13:00 - Vectors, rasters and voxels: how to simulate evolving digital terrain models of the coast
  Dr Dave Favis-Mortlock (University of Oxford), Dr Andres Payo (British Geological Survey)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 17:00 - Decoupling national water needs for national water supplies: insights and potential for countries in the Jordan Basin
  Dr Michael Gilmont (Environmental Change Institute)
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 17:00 - Limits of predictability: forecasting weather driven natural hazards
  Prof Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 27 October 2017

• 13:00 - Basin Futures: a tool for simplifying basin planning and the assessment of water SDGs using global and local datasets
  Dr Carmel Pollino (CSIRO)
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 30 October 2017

• 17:00 - Estimating the benefits of environmental protection and sustainable water resources infrastructure development on the economic growth of Uganda
  Prof Kenneth M. Strzepek (MIT-KACST Center for Complex Engineering Systems)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - W. Mike Edmunds Memorial Lecture
  Dr Abigail Stone (University of Manchester)
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - NEWS FROM A SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER: THE COMPLEXITY OF FIELD-TO-RIVER CONNECTIVITY IN THE ROTHER CATCHMENT
  Professor John Boardman (University of Oxford), Dr Dave Favis-Mortlock (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 17:00 - Fluvial geomorphology and flood risk management
  Dr Louise Slater (Loughborough University)

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 17:00 - Clearing our thinking about water and health
  Dr Jamie Bartram (Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 16:00 - Beyond inclusion: identifying and addressing the gender dimensions of water projects.
  Speaker: Professor Margreet Zwarteveen (UNESCO-IHE)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 17:00 - Drought: from local to continental scales
  Prof Justin Sheffield (University of Southampton), Dr Anne Van Loon (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 17:00 - Natural flood risk management
  Prof Louise Heathwaite (Lancaster University ), Prof Enda O'Connell (Newcastle University)
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 12 February 2018

• 13:00 - Under and over the aquifer: interdisciplinary exploration of sinkholes in the Yucatan
  Nathalie Richards (King's College London)
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:00 - Performance based contracting in the water sector – managing risks and rewards
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 13:00 - Water quality: from source to tap.
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 13:00 - New methods and challenges in flood and drought research
  Dr Hans de Moel (VU Amsterdam)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 18:00 - Water sensing - knowledge exchange evening
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 18:30 - Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development: What About the People?
  Dr Cathy Baldwin (University of Oxford), Dr Robin King (World Resources Institute), Prof Steve Rayner (University of Oxford), Dr Vlad Mykhnenko (University of Oxford), Dr Bridget Durning (Oxford Brookes University), Ben Cave (Ben Cave Associates & Liverpool University), Prof Prof Marcus Banks (University of Oxford), Prof Michael Keith (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 3 July 2018

• 16:00 - Legal Rights for Rivers: More Power, Less Protection?
  Dr Erin O’Donnell (University of Melbourne Law School)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 17:15 - Irrigation in India: building farms of the future
  Dr Radhika Khosla (Centre for Policy Research, Delhi), Shri Radheshyam Julaniya (Water Resources Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh, India. ), Joop Stoutjesdijk (World Bank), Ranu Sinha (University of Oxford), Dr Simon Dadson (University of Oxford), Dr Robert Hope (University of Oxford), Dr Dustin Garrick (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 17:00 - Closing the gap: informal water markets in Kathmandu
  Jane Zhao (Oxford Water Network seminar with Jane Zhao, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 17:00 - Groundwater replenishment in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from multi-decadal observations - W.M. Edmunds Memorial Lecture.
  Prof Richard Taylor (University College London)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 17:00 - Digital disruption and water management
  This event will be followed by refreshments at Christ Church
  Dr David Lloyd Owen (Envisager)
  Oxford Water Network