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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
Evidence-Based Health Care
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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.
Evidence-Based Health Care
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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,
Trust the Evidence

Dr Lisa Schwartz and Dr Steven Woloshin

Professor Carl Heneghan in conversation with Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, and Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, Professors of Medicine, of Community and Family Medicine, and Co-Directors of Medicine and the Media Programs at The Dartmouth Institute.
Trust the Evidence

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, speaks to Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, about the importance of medical statistics.
The Secrets of Mathematics

Statistics: Why the Truth Matters - Tim Harford

Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less", argues that politicians, businesses and even charities have been poisoning the value of statistics and data.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Quantum Geometry, Exclusion Statistics, and the Geometry of "Flux Attachment" in 2D Landau levels

Duncan Haldane talks about Quantum Geometry, Exclusion Statistics, and the Geometry of "Flux Attachment" in 2D Landau levels.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Exchange statistics - Basic concepts

In this talk Jon Magne Leinaas from University of Oslo reviews some of the basic ideas and questions related to the exchange symmetry of identical particles.
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

New Statistics and Prediction

In the first part of their discussion, Joe Silk and John Peacock compare approaches to statistics and how these bear on predictions in cosmology, including Weinberg’s prediction of the cosmological constant.
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

New Approaches to Probability

In the second part of their discussion, Luke Barnes and David Sloan go over the difference between frequentist and bayesian statistics, and how this difference applies to astrophysics and cosmology.
St John's College

The history of the future

The founders lecture 2016, by eminent historian and Honorary Fellow, Professor Sir Brian Harrison, FBA.
Department of Statistics

Bioinformatics at the heart of biology and genomics medicine

The Ninth annual Florence Nightingale Lecture, given by Professor Dame Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. Held on Thursday 21st April 2016.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Evidence-Based Decision Making for Collection Management

A talk delivered by Paul Cavanagh and James Kay at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences

Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focussing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, and (b) using "big data" examples to generate and maintain students' interest.
The Ockham Lecture - The Merton College Physics Lecture

The 17th Ockham Lecture - 'Physics in the World of Ideas: Complexity as Energy'

Given by Professor Yuri Manin, Professor Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany; Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; Principal Researcher, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Andy Field on teaching quantitative methods to social science students

Andy Field (University of Sussex) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Manfred te Grotenhuis on teaching quantitative methods to social science students

Manfred te Grotenhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students.
Uncertainty as part of decision-relevant information

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty Opening Address

Opening Address by Professor Speigelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Cambridge University.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Paul Kellstedt on teaching quantitative methods to political science students

Paul Kellstedt discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students and other social scientists.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

02. Numbering the people: the Census, Vital Registration and Population Registers

Professor David Coleman gives the second lecture on Demographics, where he looks at different ways in which governments and demographers have collected population data.

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