St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Teddy Talks
By Oxford University
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Description
St Edmund Hall’s inaugural Research Expo took place on 28 February 2015. It was a celebration of the great diversity of research currently being undertaken at the College, and was an opportunity for students and academics to interact, learn and engage with colleagues across all disciplines. The ‘Teddy Talks’, given by St Edmund Hall academics and postgraduate students, were a key part of the Expo. Aimed at a non-specialist audience and lasting around 12 minutes each, they give a quick introduction into a wide variety of research areas.
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Promoting nutrition through schools in a lower middle income country, Sri Lanka | Investigating how schools may help improve diet, particularly in low- and middle-income countries In recent decades, Sri Lanka has experienced a social, economic, demographic and environmental transition. Currently it suffers a double burden of under- a | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Past and Future Earthquake Hazard in Asia | This lecture illustrates the ways in which the landscape in Central Asia has been influenced by active faults and earthquakes and will examine the hazard faced at the present-day. Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan are lands of high mountains, faults, | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rethinking the American Revolution and the US Founding Myth | The importance of looking at the American colonial period not as the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ but as a British America consisting of twenty-six colonies and provinces. This discussion emphasises the importance of looking at the American colonial period n | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The stimulated brain | How non-invasive brain stimulation techniques might work, and how we have started to use them in stroke survivors. Non-invasive brain stimulation has been around for thousands of years - from the use of electric fish in Ancient Greece to cure headaches, | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Can we predict the structure of matter? | From predicting the properties of nanotechnological devices to the structural stability of small proteins and dynamics of water. Atomistic computer simulations of matter based on solving quantum mechanical equations is an interdisciplinary area that tou | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Current practice in preventing and handling missing data alongside clinical trials: are we doing well? | Reviewing the methodology surrounding missing data in research and statistical analysis, clarifying why it can contribute to misleading results. Missing data is present in almost all research. However, it is also a well-recognised problem in the analysi | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Eternity Puzzle | How mathematicians think about the puzzle that Christopher Monckton launched in 1999. In 1999 Christopher Monckton launched a new type of puzzle, similar to a jigsaw but with 209 plain green plastic pieces with geometric shapes. To attract interest, an | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What debt management strategies do OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries follow? | How do debt managers decide about the maturity of new public debt? Typical debt management objectives include: cost minimization, economic stabilization and tax smoothing, and adjusting to investor preferences. These objectives cannot be all achieved si | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shakespeare's Animals | Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare's language. Only two actual animals definitely appear in Shakespeare’s plays: a naughty dog in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and a hungry bear in The Winter’s Tale. But animals are everywhere in Shakespeare’ | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Looking at atoms to understand mega-structures' structural integritySome components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected to be safely in service for over 20 years. However, | How we need to characterize materials at atomic level in order to understand their macroscopic behaviour. Some components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected to be safely i | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to spot a liar in literature | An introduction to the theory of unreliable narration and outlines two critical approaches: the cognitivist and the rhetorical. Body language experts and polygraph tests can help us to determine when we are being deceived, but how do we know whether the | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Who killed "Dead Meat" Thompson? | Using a scenario from the Hollywood film "Hot Shots", how should a compensation payment have been divided up between all those involved in the circumstances of "Dead Meat" Thompson's death? The circumstances of LT “Dead Meat” Thompson’s (from Hot | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A digital database of the correspondence of Catherine the Great of Russia | Demonstrating the pilot and explaining the significance of this digital database. A prolific letter-writer, Catherine II ruled during the high point of the European Enlightenment, when letters were the essential knowledge-transfer medium in government, | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Watching the Brain Change | Our research uses brain imaging techniques such as MRI, to assess changes in brain activity or brain structure. We then try to use this information to design new interventions to improve healthy ageing or boost recovery from stroke. The brain changes w | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seeing the Invisible in Health and Disease | How our ability to now see the invisible is central to research in biology – from infectious disease to cancer and Alzheimers. The development of the electron microscope in the middle of the last century revolutionised biology and our understanding of | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cancer: why it's bad to the bone | Why is cancer metastasis to bone so devastating, what are the challenges, and what are we trying to do about it. | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Climate Change and the fall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt | Is Climate Change responsible for the downfall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt Recent palaeoenvironmental evidence suggests that northeast Africa and southwest Asia were struck by an intense 'mega-drought' around the year 2200 BC. The event has already been | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Earth’s earliest super predators | Anomalocaridids: their ecology & their diversity. The Cambrian Explosion was a major biodiversification event that saw the rise of nearly all animal phyla in a rapid burst 500 million years ago. The anomalocaridids are iconic members of these primitive | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The ethics of rail travel; or, what George Eliot can teach us about HS2 | An analysis of George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' and how the writer's critique of railroads might inform an ethically sensitive approach to HS2 Whilst no-one would question the economic advantages of a high-speed rail network connecting major cities in the U | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Trade Unions and North Africa's Arab Spring | What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? This talk challenges the predominant assumption in research on trade unions and dem | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What can dinosaurs tell us about evolution? | Fossil records tell us a lot about evolution around the time of dinosaurs | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lost in Translation? Experiencing the body on stage and screen | How audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. This presentation will seek to explore how audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. We will explore the concept of ‘liveness’ and question how the physical presence of an actor a | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Colouring-in for Adults | How flow cytometry can help investigations into immune-mediated diseases. Flow cytometry is a technique which uses flourescent compounds of different colours to label molecules on cells. Using this approach we can investigate the cell populations respon | 11 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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