Jeff is a professor of moral philosophy. Here he explains how we can live a life that is personally satisfying as well as morally good.

Read the full interview at: http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/research-in-conversation/how-live-happy-life/professor-jeff-mcmahan

Jeff McMahan for How to Live a Happy Life

Chief Executive of Stonewall, Ruth Hunt, shares her experiences studying English Language and Literature at St. Hilda’s and offers an insight into what it was like to be a LGBT student and President of the Student Union at Oxford.

Hunt first joined Stonewall in 2005 as the Senior Policy Officer leading on research into homophobic bullying in schools. In 2014, she succeeded Ben Summerskill as Chief Executive. In 2015, she was voted the third most influential LGBT person in Britain in the Independent’s Rainbow List.

In this podcast, she discusses her current role at Stonewall and her commitment to transgender equality, as well as reflecting on the recent Olympics at Rio and how LGBT athletes like Tom Daley and Caster Semenya were treated, as well as offering advice to students who are considering Oxford as a LGBT-friendly university.

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Alumni Voices: Ruth Hunt (St. Hilda's, 1998)

It’s a topic of conversation that definitely gets talked about on a daily basis….THE WEATHER

The latest Oxford Sparks podcast, as part of the Big Questions series, ask how do you make a reliable weather forecast?

We visited Dr Hannah Christensen, postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University’s department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, who explains that predicting the weather is more than a weather presenter standing in front of a green screen with a few symbols to predict the weather ahead.

How Do You Make A Reliable Weather Forecast Oxford Sparks Big Questions

Miles Young, newly-installed Warden of New College, shares his experiences studying history as an undergraduate and talks about how he transitioned into a career in PR and advertising. 

Young was the Chairman and CEO of the international advertising, marketing and public relations agency Ogilvy & Mather. He started his career at Lintas and Allen Brady & Marsh, before joining Ogilvy and Mather in 1982 and becoming CEO in 2008. In October 2016 he stepped down from this position and was installed as the Warden at New College, Oxford.

In this podcast, he discusses his time as CEO of one the world’s biggest PR and advertising agencies, why he came back to Oxford to become the Warden of New College, as well as offering advice to prospects and students who are considering a career in advertising.

Alumni Voices

Alumni Voices - Warden of New College, Miles Young (New College, 1973)

Patrick Grant, menswear designer and judge on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, shares his experiences of studying for an Executive MBA at Oxford’s Said Business School, and talks about how he became an award-winning designer.

During his MBA studies, Patrick bought Saville Row bespoke tailor Norton & Sons, quickly turning the business around into a successful company. In 2010, he was awarded the British Fashion Council’s Menswear Designer of the Year award after relaunching E. Tautz & Sons, and was a recipient of the 2015 BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund. He is also Creative Director for Hammond & Co., a diffusion line available at Debenhams.

In this podcast, he discusses his career as a designer and his new social venture, Community Clothing, which aims to help Britain’s ailing manufacturing industry by using spare capacity for a new affordable clothing range, as well as offering advice to prospects and students who are considering a career as an entrepreneur.

Interviewed by Paull Hammond-Davies

Alumni Voices - Menswear Designer, Patrick Grant (New College, 2004)

Professors Clare Mackay and Simon Lovestone reveal details of the world’s biggest and most in-depth studies into dementia on BBC Radio 4’s World at One. Known as the ‘Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study’, they hope the broad range of tests on people in their middle ages will open up paths to early diagnosis and offer clues to effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease before major damage to the brain has been done. 
Based at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, Professor Lovestone and Mackay are part of the new NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, which aims to bring the best science to the complex problems of mental disorders and dementia.

How close are we to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s? Part 1

In a follow-up report on 27 June 2017 for BBC Radio 4’s World at One, Professor Clare Mackay talks about the big data approach, and Professor Simon Lovestone considers what has been the greatest obstacle to progress so far. Is it our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, the drugs, or the clinical trials?

Listen to the second report by Andrew Bomford for BBC Radio 4’s World at One, 27 June 2017

“In a cartoon version you’d imagine that people go all the way through their lives performing at a particular level, and then they just start to decline very gradually when they reach a particular age. This is people who would go on to develop disease. And that very early stage of that, the gradient is very, very shallow, so we need really sensitive measures to be able to pick it up.” Professor Clare Mackay

How Close Are We To Finding A Cure For Alzheimer’s? Part 2

The Hepatitis B vaccine has been added to the childhood national programme joining the 5 vaccines already given to all young babies at 8, 12 and 16 weeks. 

Listen to Professor Andrew Pollard from the Department of Paediatrics talking to Dr Mark Porter on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health about the reasons behind this change.

Inside Health

Why has the Hepatitis B vaccine been added to the childhood national programme?

Let's Slow Down

Tim Harford will be speaking at the University of Oxford's Maths Institute in October 2020.

Tim Harford - October 2020

Richard Ovenden, Head of the Bodleian Library and author of Burning the Books, gives a frank and honest interview about the dangers that digital platforms offer to public officials in their inscrutability. He argues that libraries play an essential role in preserving communications of public officials in all their written forms – regardless of format – and that the future of an open and democratic society is at stake. 

Recorded, socially distanced, in Richard’s office, Oxford, with windows open for ventilation. Background street noise from outside. 

Interviewer, Sarah Whitebloom; producer Ruth Abrahams.

Richard Ovenden Oct2020

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