| Intro : Cortex Just Keeps the Rest of the Brain Warm |
We talk through what listeners can expect from future episodes of CortexCast. |
Alex von Klemperer, Paula Kaanders, Samuel Picard |
31 May, 2019 |
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| The BMJ's open data campaign |
Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of The BMJ, gives a talk for the EBHC podcast series |
Fiona Godlee |
13 May, 2019 |
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| Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others. |
Carl Heneghan |
9 April, 2019 |
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| Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research? |
For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative researcher's methodological toolkit. |
Cassandra Phoenix |
8 April, 2019 |
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| Size matters a tous les temps, a tous les peuples |
Dr. Martyn Sene is Deputy CEO of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), here, he gives an introduction to the importance of measurement and metrology (the science of measurement). |
Martyn Sene |
3 April, 2019 |
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| The role of network meta-analysis in the evaluation of antidepressants for depression |
Andrea Cipriani is NIHR Research Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford. |
Andrea Cipriani |
26 March, 2019 |
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| Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems |
Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis. |
Carl Heneghan |
6 February, 2019 |
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| Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future |
Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary. |
Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
28 January, 2019 |
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| Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials |
Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. |
David Torgerson |
7 January, 2019 |
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| The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it |
Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Mike Kelly |
12 December, 2018 |
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| How imperfect can a study be? |
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'. |
Alan Silman |
5 December, 2018 |
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| Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco control and her particular interests lie in evidence synthes |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
6 November, 2018 |
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| Can antibiotics make you pregnant? |
Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
29 October, 2018 |
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| History of evidence synthesis |
Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Mike Clarke |
29 October, 2018 |
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| Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Carl Heneghan |
10 October, 2018 |
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| The jugglers and the black cat |
There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client. |
Kerina Jones |
31 July, 2018 |
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| How do you grow rice faster? |
3 billion people depend on rice for survival & owing to predicted population increases, land that provided enough rice to feed 27 people in 2010 will need to support 43 by 2050. In this week's podcast episode we ask: how do you grow rice faster? |
Jane Langdale |
11 July, 2018 |
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| Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain |
In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be necessary, even in surgical trials. |
Karolina Wartolowska |
2 July, 2018 |
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| The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data |
Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. |
Carol Lefebvre |
26 June, 2018 |
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| Is there a faster way to diagnose Tuberculosis? |
Tuberculosis is still one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, with 1.4 million people dying from TB in 2015. If your doctor suspects you have the disease it can take up to 6 weeks to get a diagnosis! |
Philip Fowler |
26 June, 2018 |
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| Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality |
Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure. |
Annalise Weckesser |
22 June, 2018 |
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| How do you teach a robot social cues? |
As robots are increasingly deployed in settings requiring social interaction we asked the Big Question: How do you teach a robot social cues? To find out we visited Shimon Whiteson, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science |
Shimon Whiteson |
19 June, 2018 |
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| Can you stop Alzheimer’s before it even starts? |
Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time. In this podcast episode we ask: Can you stop Alzheimer's before it even starts? |
Jennifer Lawson |
31 May, 2018 |
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| What is antimatter? |
What is antimatter? Antimatter was one of the most exciting physics discoveries of the 20th century, and has since been picked up by fiction writers such as Dan Brown. But what exactly is it? |
Donal Hill |
17 May, 2018 |
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| Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics? |
Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health economics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare? |
Muir Gray, Lucy Abel |
16 May, 2018 |
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| Can you cure HIV? |
HIV isn’t a death sentence anymore. People can live long lives with the virus in their body, as long as they have the right combination of drugs. But some researchers want to take the fight against HIV and AIDS even further... |
John Frater |
2 May, 2018 |
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| What do water striders have in common with Game of Thrones? |
On this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Question’s podcast we visited Dr Jennifer Perry, evolutionary biologist and entomologist to ask: What do water striders have in common with Game of Thrones? Listen here to find out…. |
Jennifer Perry |
17 April, 2018 |
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| The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis? |
Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine. |
Alexander Bird |
11 April, 2018 |
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| How does the brain identify voices? |
In this episode of The Big Questions podcast we joined the experiment to ask: How does he brain identify voices? To find out we interviewed MRI Physicist Stuart Clare and Neuro Scientist Holly Bridge at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative for Neuroimaging |
Stuart Clare, Holly Bridge |
9 April, 2018 |
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| How do you mend a broken heart? |
In this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast we visited Cardiovascular Biologist, Nicola Smart, from the department of physiology, anatomy and genetics to ask: How do you mend a broken heart? |
Nicola Smart |
23 March, 2018 |
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| How do you become an astronaut? |
Millions dream of being an astronaut, but how many of us have what it takes? In this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Question's podcast, we visit Merritt Moore, quantum physicist from The University of Oxford, to ask: How do you become an astronaut? |
Merritt Moore |
13 March, 2018 |
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| How did Mary Somerville get on the Scottish 10 Pound note? |
In this episode of the Big Questions podcast we are asking: How did Mary Somerville get on the Scottish 10 Pound note? |
Brigitte Stenhouse |
13 March, 2018 |
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| Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference? |
A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen. |
Trish Greenhalgh |
2 March, 2018 |
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| Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research |
Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research. |
Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers |
5 February, 2018 |
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| Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests |
Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories. |
Phil Turner |
30 January, 2018 |
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| How do you measure a Mars quake? |
In this episode of the Big Questions podcast, we visited Dr Neil Bowles, Jane Hurley and Tristram Warren from the Atmospheric Oceanic & Planetary Physics Department to ask the question: how do you measure a Mars quake? |
Neil Bowles, Jane Hurley, Tristram Warren |
29 January, 2018 |
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| Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business? |
Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Katherine Pollard |
24 January, 2018 |
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| The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based |
Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals. Here he gives a talk on improving healthcare systems. |
Muir Gray |
19 January, 2018 |
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| What happens after a storm? |
In our latest episode of the Big Questions podcast we visited Dr Peter Walton, a geography teacher turned fellow of the Environmental Change Institute, at the University of Oxford, to ask: What happens after a storm? |
Peter Walton |
10 January, 2018 |
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| Is vaping better than smoking? |
As many of you set your new year’s resolution to quit smoking and start vaping, we thought we’d ask the question: Is vaping better than smoking? And could it help you quit? |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
9 January, 2018 |
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| How do you survive the office Christmas party? |
‘Tis the season to be merry, so it’s time for the annual Christmas party. For some employers it can be more fraught than fun! In this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast we ask: how do you survive the office Christmas party? |
Robin Dunbar |
9 January, 2018 |
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| Research behind... Understanding Misunderstanding |
A podcast about a song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford |
Abigail Williams |
9 January, 2018 |
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| Research Behind... The Great Vape Debate |
A podcast about a song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
9 January, 2018 |
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| Research Behind... Stomach is the Monarch |
The research behind a song about how Victorians saw the conversation between the gut and mood, featuring an interview with researcher Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown at the University of Oxford |
Emilie Taylor-Brown |
9 January, 2018 |
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| Research Behind... Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See |
The research behind a song about mapping the internet and how it links to our physical world, based on research by Prof Mark Graham at the University of Oxford. |
Mark Graham |
8 January, 2018 |
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| Research Behind... Mars Quakes |
The research behind a song about the quest to hear Marsquakes based on research by Dr Neil Bowles at the University of Oxford. |
Neil Bowles |
8 January, 2018 |
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| Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly |
Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit. |
Jonathan Cook |
6 December, 2017 |
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| How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research |
Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine. |
Paul Aveyard |
28 November, 2017 |
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| Where have all the cicada’s gone? |
In this episode for the Big Questions podcast we went to the New Forest and met up with Professor Alex Rogers, from the department of Computer Sciences from the University of Oxford, to ask: Where have all the cicada’s gone? |
Alex Rogers |
27 November, 2017 |
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| And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic? |
Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course. |
Andrew Booth |
24 November, 2017 |
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| Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis |
Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
John MacArtney |
15 November, 2017 |
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| How do you run a marathon with two kids? |
Last month Jessica attempted to break a world record for pushing a double buggy, with two children inside, while running a marathon! |
Jessica Bruce |
8 November, 2017 |
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| A little known law of numbers |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series, |
Jeffrey Aronson |
20 October, 2017 |
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| Marsquakes |
A song about the quest to hear Marsquakes based on research by Dr Neil Bowles at the University of Oxford |
Neil Bowles |
16 October, 2017 |
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| Understanding Misunderstanding |
A song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford |
Abigail Williams |
16 October, 2017 |
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| The Great Vape Debate |
A song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research, from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
16 October, 2017 |
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| Stomach is the Monarch |
A song about how Victorians saw the conversation between the gut and mood, based on research by Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown at the University of Oxford |
Emilie Taylor-Brown |
16 October, 2017 |
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| Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See |
A song about mapping the internet and how it links to our physical world, based on research by Prof Mark Graham at the University of Oxford. |
Mark Graham |
16 October, 2017 |
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| Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World |
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health |
Carl Heneghan |
13 October, 2017 |
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| How fast is Greenland moving? |
Greenland has some many fascinating facts like it’s the world's largest island, it belongs to Denmark, it actually isn’t that green but mostly covered in ice. But did you know that Greenland is actually on the move? |
Ian Hewitt |
31 August, 2017 |
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| Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help |
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research. |
Shaun Treweek |
10 July, 2017 |
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| Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities |
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods. |
Felicity Bishop |
10 July, 2017 |
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| Should I take a selfie with a wild animal? |
Travel companies around the world profit from some of the cruellest types of wildlife tourist attractions on earth. |
Tom Moorhouse |
2 June, 2017 |
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| What does Hollywood get right and wrong when science is in the storyline? |
What does hollywood get right? |
Neil Ashton, Colin Wilson, Eleanor Stride, Jason Nurse, Ingmar Posner |
2 June, 2017 |
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| How open should open data be? |
Open data impacts everybody. Through it we can access healthcare services, understand our governments better and, of course, travel to places more easily. But, how open should open data be? |
Sir Nigel Shadbolt |
2 June, 2017 |
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| What happened to the first soviet scientist to solve a fundamental problem in mathematics? |
New episode for the Oxford Sparks Big questions series. |
Christopher Hollings |
8 May, 2017 |
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| Statistical methods used to map malaria and other infectious diseases |
Ewan Cameron and Sam Bhatt from the Nuffield Department of Population Health discuss statistical methods used to map malaria and other infectious diseases. |
Ewan Cameron, Sam Bhatt |
28 April, 2017 |
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| Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto |
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. |
Carl Heneghan |
12 April, 2017 |
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| Wye speling matturs |
Jeffrey Aronson presents a light-hearted talk on spelling in systematic reviewing. Jeff is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at the Oxford University Department for Primary Health Care. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
29 March, 2017 |
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| How do you teach a machine to a drive a car? |
Autonomous cars have been a staple of science fiction for years featuring in films like Minority Report and I Robot. But how far away are we really from enjoying a hassle-free driving journey? To find out the answer we visited Dr Ingmar Posner, Associate |
Ingmar Posner |
28 March, 2017 |
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| Will supersonic transport ever make a comeback? |
The Concord is seen as an iconic aircraft and a technological breakthrough – so why can we only see them in museums? In our episode of The Big Questions podcast series we visited Dr Neil Ashton from the E-Research Centre at the University of Oxford to ask |
Neil Ashton |
13 March, 2017 |
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| How do you turn an orange into a grapefruit? |
Flavouring. It’s a global industry and here in Oxford a group of scientists are getting a ‘taste’ of the action by making natural flavours by manipulating enzymes. |
Alize Pennec |
27 February, 2017 |
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| Earthquakes, can we make smarter buildings? |
Major earthquakes across the world have damaged or destroyed numerous buildings, bridges, and other structures. But is there a way of monitoring the building structures to see if it is at risk of falling after an earthquake has struck? |
Orfeas Kypris |
9 February, 2017 |
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| Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis |
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
27 January, 2017 |
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| What can a power ballad can teach us about the sex life of a fruit flies? |
Music provides the soundtrack to our lives. The highs, the lows and the heartache. So why wouldn’t it be the same for a fruit fly? On this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast, we mix music with sex education of fruit flies! |
Stuart Wigby, Sally Le Page, Eleanor Bath |
27 January, 2017 |
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| Resuscitating poor quality research |
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. |
Carl Heneghan |
17 January, 2017 |
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| How do we stop our social media obsession from making us a target for crime? |
How vulnerable are we to crime by the statuses we post on our social accounts? |
Jason Nurse |
17 January, 2017 |
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| How do you make scientific equipment space proof? |
Since the 1960’s man has been sending missions to Mars. Some successes, some failures. This hasn’t stopped scientists trying to explore this incredible red planet. |
Colin Wilson |
21 December, 2016 |
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| What would life be like if Parasitoid Wasps didn’t exist? |
Our Festive episode of our Oxford Sparks podcast follows the traditional Christmas story of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. |
Christopher Jeffs |
14 December, 2016 |
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| Can bubbles help cure cancer? |
On this episode, can bubbles cure cancer? |
Eleanor Stride |
2 December, 2016 |
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| Are exhausts causing dementia? |
Many people are exposed to exhaust emissions every day in different ways. But what are the harmful effects of these fumes when we breathe them in? Could we see difficulties in other areas of our bodies? What is it doing to our brains? |
Imad Ahmed |
21 November, 2016 |
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| Trials and Tribulations in Africa |
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Merlin Willcox |
15 November, 2016 |
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| How do you make a reliable weather forecast? |
Latest episode from Oxford Sparks, this episode on how to predict the weather. |
Hannah Christensen |
4 November, 2016 |
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| Better evidence for better health care |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. |
Carl Heneghan |
31 October, 2016 |
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| Is my bacon sandwich really going to kill me? |
Statistician Dr Jennifer Rogers discusses the numbers linked to processed meat and bowel cancer. |
Jennifer Rogers |
25 October, 2016 |
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| The Canary in the Coal Mine: could seabirds be the warning signs for our oceans? |
Dr Annette Fayet tells us about the Manx Shearwater; a little seabird that makes a huge journey. |
Annette Fayet |
28 September, 2016 |
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| Going Viral |
Viruses have been a threat to humanity for as long as we have existed. As we make progress in the fight against them, can we also learn to use their tricks to our own advantage |
Natalie Doig, Sandy Douglas, Peter Magill, Mary Warrell, Carinne Piekema |
23 September, 2016 |
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| 'Light' Part 3 - How does sunlight damage DNA? |
Once we've received our genetic make-up from our parents our genomes are stable, right? What causes mutations in our DNA as we live and grow, and how do our cells repair damage? |
Catherine Green |
3 August, 2016 |
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| 'Light' Part 2 - Harnessing a single photon |
What's the use of just one photon, the smallest bit of light? And what does it take to study it? |
Joelle Boutari |
27 July, 2016 |
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| 'Light' Part 1 - Connecting to the internet through your lights |
Can we receive information through our lighting? |
Dominic O'Brien |
25 July, 2016 |
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| 'Senses' Part 3 - Seeing across the galaxy |
How can you spot what's happening in space billions of light years away from right here on Earth? |
Garret Cotter |
8 July, 2016 |
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| Overview of the OPDC Cohort day |
Short video highlighting the key research that was being discussed during the OPDC Cohorts day |
Richard Wade-Martins, Michele Hu, Tom Barber, Claudio Ruffman, Fahd Baig |
5 July, 2016 |
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| What Should the Cohort Studies Delivery for YOU |
Dr Michele Hu discusses what Clinicians would like before asking the cohort members what they would like. |
Michele Hu |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Introduction to the OPDC Cohort Day 2016 |
Dr Michele Hu gives a brief introduction to the Cohort members, outlining the programme for the day. |
Michele Hu |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Drug and Target Discovery in Parkinson's Disease |
Prof. Richard Wade-Martins discusses how you pick promising new drugs targets for Parkinson's |
Richard Wade-Martins |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Alph-Synuclein - What's it all about? |
Dr Claudio Ruffman discusses his research into the protein, Alpha-Synuclein, which is crucial in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's |
Claudio Ruffman |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Does Sleep Matter in Parkinson's |
Dr Tom Barber discusses his research |
Tom Barber |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Personality and Impulsivity in Parkinson's |
Dr Fahd Baig discusses his latest research in personality disorders and impulsivity with those affected with Parkinson's |
Fahd Baig |
5 July, 2016 |
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| 'Senses' Part 2 - Getting a feel for surgery |
How do you train surgeons to do complex surgeries? How do you measure a trainee's progress? How can you accurately simulate the look and feel of surgery? |
Patrick Garfjeld Roberts |
29 June, 2016 |
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| 'Senses' Part 1 - When the senses collide |
Can sounds change how things taste? How can we alter our experiences by taking advantage of how our senses mingle? |
Charles Spence |
27 June, 2016 |
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