• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Friday 13 October 2017

• 17:00 - Book launch: 'Post Truth: The War on Truth and How to Fight Back'
  Matthew D'Ancona (Journalist)

Friday 20 October 2017

• 17:00 - What happened to academic knowledge during the Brexit debate?
  Stephen Booth (Open Europe), Dr Brigid Fowler (Hansard Society), Lindsay Mackie (New Weather Institute)

Friday 27 October 2017

• 17:00 - What role should academics play in public knowledge creation: should they be advocates and policymakers?
  Ceri Thomas (University of Oxford), Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government), Ruth Mayne (Oxfam)

Friday 3 November 2017

• 17:00 - Setting research agendas: where does the power lie?
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE), Jon Harle (INASP), Hannah Burd (The Behavioural Insights Team, UK Cabinet Office)

Friday 10 November 2017

• 17:00 - What contentious issues are easily manipulated in public discourse?
  George Gabriel (Citizens UK), Dr Michele Leiby ( College of Wooster, Ohio), Dr Matthew Krain (College of Wooster, Ohio)

Friday 17 November 2017

• 17:00 - How is opinion shaped by new and old media?
  Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford), Ilan Manor (University of Oxford), Robert Gorwa (Oxford Internet Institute)

Friday 24 November 2017

• 17:00 - Designing a ‘Turning the Dial’ research project
  TBA