St Edmund Hall

St Edmund Hall is a friendly, informal college with a strong sense of community; an excellent place for academic and social life. We admit about 115 undergraduates every year, evenly divided between sciences and arts, who bring a wide range of intellectual, sporting and other interests. We take a keen interest in students’ careers: our Bridge to Business programme, funded by the generosity of a former student, is particularly popular. We also have a strong commitment to graduate students and graduate study. Graduate students form an increasing proportion of the Hall and represent a diverse population of students from across the world studying a wide range of subjects. With our roots in the early 13th century, we are the only medieval academic Hall to have survived. St Edmund Hall formally became a college on being granted a Royal Charter in 1957. Our architecture is a happy blend of ancient and modern. The library was the medieval church of St Peter-in-the-East, a large and beautiful building; much of the front quadrangle is 16th- and 17th-century; the remainder of our buildings are modern. Our graduates include Terry Jones (of Monty Python), John Wells (co-founder of Private Eye), Anna Botting (Sky News journalist) and Dr Michael Nazir-Ali (former Bishop of Rochester).

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Title	Description	People	Date
A Conversation about Bipolar Disorder and Creative Process: Lucy Newlyn and Richard Lawes	A Conversation about Bipolar Disorder and Creative Process: Lucy Newlyn and Richard Lawes. This followed the publication, earlier this year, of Lucy's 15-year memoir, Diary of a Bipolar Explorer.	Lucy Newlyn, Richard Lawes, Will Donaldson	30 May, 2018
Empire of Things: A New History of Humans and Their Stuff	Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) sketches the history of consumption to the present day, and examines the historical dynamics that have shaped our material lifestyles.	Frank Trentmann	4 December, 2017
UK National Debt: A Historical Perspective	The UK national debt is currently the highest it's ever been, and a lot larger than many other countries. This talk takes a look behind the figures, and asks why it is important, whether we should be worried, and looks at the reasons for its growth.	Martin Slater	7 April, 2017
Ending Poverty?	Linda Yueh (Fellow by Special Election in Economics) talks about ending poverty.	Linda Yueh	3 April, 2017
Was There History in the Middle Ages?	Did medieval writers think they were writing history? This talk takes a closer look at the various forms of ‘history’ during this period. Emily A. Winkler is (John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History).	Emily A Winkler	3 April, 2017
What Does Philosophy Have to Do with Neuroscience?	When you examine the brain, you can learn a lot and see chemical interactions, but you cannot find anything about the first-person nature of things we experience as humans, such as colours and pain.	Paul Skokowski	3 April, 2017
Advanced LIGO: the New Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy	Why has the recent detection of gravitational waves been one of the most important discoveries in modern times for astrophysics? And what are the implications of the new Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave detector for future discoveries about black holes?	Philipp Podsiadlowski	3 April, 2017
Lithium-ion Batteries and Beyond	Batteries are one of the most efficient ways to store energy, and there has been a massive increase recently in the use of lithium-ion batteries, particularly in electric cars.	Mauro Pasta	3 April, 2017
‘Boom, ratatata, hui-hui-sss-ttt, woouum’ - Children’s Views of World War II	How do people remember the past? Alex Lloyd (Lecturer, German Language and Literature) looks at essays written by children in Germany after the Second World War–examining the words and tone; the political framing; and the challenges for translating them.	Alex Lloyd	3 April, 2017
Banned Books: Hus and Luther in the Teddy Hall Library	This talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth century but first printed in 1558 together with letters of recommendation from Martin Luther.	Henrike Lähnemann	3 April, 2017
Merchants’ Marks in Medieval English Books	Merchants’ marks were used initially as a tool of commerce, on consignments of goods, in the Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century, however, they became more like a coat of arms for people who didn’t have one – a form of professional identity.	Thomas Kittel	3 April, 2017
Extreme Clocks: Physics with Pulsars	An introduction to pulsars: objects that have more mass than the sun but are only around 20km in diameter, possessing an extremely high rotational stability and a very strong magnetic field.	Aris Karastergiou	3 April, 2017
Pancreatic Islet Transplantation for Type 1 Diabetes – Bench to Bedside	Paul Johnson (Professor of Paediatric Surgery) gives a talk on a new treatement for Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease where the patient’s body has attacked its own insulin-producing cells.	Paul Johnson	3 April, 2017
NextBASS: Observing Cosmic Microwave Background Foregrounds	Jaz Hill-Valler (DPhil student, Experimental Radio Cosmology) gives an introduction to the work of radio astronomers by postgraduate student Jaz, who works with the Experimental Radio Cosmology group and Department of Astrophyics.	Jaz Hill-Valler	3 April, 2017
The Politics of Student Mobility: what do international student statistics tell us about the democratic development of their home countries?	Can you view studying abroad as an apprenticeship in democracy? Maia Chankseliani discusses her work, which focusses on former Soviet Union countries, linking student mobility with the level of democratic development in the student’s home country.	Maia Chankseliani	3 April, 2017
Lights, Camera, Immuno-action! Research on cancer immunotherapy and its implications for the clinic	Melissa Bedard explains the body’s lack of an immune response to cancer cells through an analogy with spy movies.	Melissa Bedard	3 April, 2017
St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2017: Introduction	A quick overview of the event, presented by Dr Linda Yueh.	Linda Yueh	3 April, 2017
Ian Hislop - Editor, Private Eye, in conversation with Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor, New Statesman	In a change from the usual format the 2017 Geddes Lecture features Ian Hislop in conversation with Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman. Held on 3rd March 2017.	Ian Hislop, Helen Lewis	13 March, 2017
Extracts from Shakespeare, read by Roland Oliver (actor): Richard II Act V, Scene 5; Macbeth Act II, Scene 1; Henry IV Part 2, Act IV, Scene 3	Roland (an actor and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) concludes the ‘Shakespeare and the Brain’ event by reading relevant extracts from three of Shakespeare’s plays.	Roland Oliver	12 December, 2016
The Hunter Heartbeat Method – Kelly Hunter (actor, director and educator)	Kelly gives an outline of some of her work using sensory drama games, using Shakespeare’s works, to interact and play with children with autism.	Kelly Hunter	12 December, 2016
Shakespeare’s Memory – Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (Director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience, University of Leicester)	Rodrigo’s talk references the writing of Jorge Luis Borges, particularly his short stories 'Shakespeare’s Memory' and 'Funes the Memorious', which deal with memory.	Rodrigo Quian Quiroga	12 December, 2016
Shakespeare as Observer and Psychologist – Professor Paul Matthews (Fellow by Special Election, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford; Edmond and Lily Safra Chair and Head of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)	Paul focuses on some of the questions that Shakespeare was asking about the mind, and how the same sorts of issues are approached now by neuroscientists.	Paul Matthews	12 December, 2016
Shakespeare, Mind and World – Dr Tom MacFaul (Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	Tom discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at the transformative power of thought and the idea in some of Shakespeare’s works that the mind is free to create its own world.	Tom MacFaul	12 December, 2016
Making a Mockery of Democracy	Comedian Al Murray, St Edmund Hall, 1987, talks about standing against Nigel Farage as a political candidate for Thanet South in the guise of his 'Pub Landlord' comedy persona.	Al Murray	28 June, 2016
Breaking into the Boys' Club: Why British Politics Needs More Women	With Westminister lobby journalism dominated by men, Anushka Asthana sheds light on what it takes for a woman to succeed in modern journalism.	Anushka Asthana	8 March, 2016
St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Introduction	A brief overview of the event	Keith Gull	12 June, 2015
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	Julianne Williams	11 June, 2015
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.	Richard Walker	11 June, 2015
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.	Trent Taylor	11 June, 2015
The stimulated brain	How non-invasive brain stimulation techniques might work, and how we have started to use them in stroke survivors.	Charlotte Stagg	11 June, 2015
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.	Mariana Rossi	11 June, 2015
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.	Ines Rombach	11 June, 2015
The Eternity Puzzle	How mathematicians think about the puzzle that Christopher Monckton launched in 1999.	Oliver Riordan	11 June, 2015
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?	Ilona Mostipan	11 June, 2015
Shakespeare's Animals	Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare's language.	Tom MacFaul	11 June, 2015
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, it	How we need to characterize materials at atomic level in order to understand their macroscopic behaviour.	Sergio Lozano-Perez	11 June, 2015
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.	Alex Lloyd	11 June, 2015
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?	Dominik Karos	11 June, 2015
A digital database of the correspondence of Catherine the Great of Russia	Demonstrating the pilot and explaining the significance of this digital database.	Andrew Kahn	11 June, 2015
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.	Heidi Johansen-Berg	11 June, 2015
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.	Keith Gull	11 June, 2015
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.	Claire Edwards	11 June, 2015
Climate Change and the fall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt	Is Climate Change responsible for the downfall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt	Michael Dee	11 June, 2015
Earth’s earliest super predators	Anomalocaridids: their ecology & their diversity.	Allison Daley	11 June, 2015
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	Philip Chadwick	11 June, 2015
Trade Unions and North Africa's Arab Spring	What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011?	Dina Bishara	11 June, 2015
What can dinosaurs tell us about evolution?	Fossil records tell us a lot about evolution around the time of dinosaurs	Roger Benson	11 June, 2015
Lost in Translation? Experiencing the body on stage and screen	How audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen.	Alexandra Greenfield, Vanessa Lee	11 June, 2015
Colouring-in for Adults	How flow cytometry can help investigations into immune-mediated diseases.	Hussein Al-Mossowi	11 June, 2015
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Education and Democracy in Modern Britain	Professor Peter Mandler gives the 2014 Emden Lecture at St Edmund Hall.	Peter Mandler	10 December, 2014
China's Rise and Structural Transformation in Africa: Ideas and Opportunities - OXCEP Distinguished Speaker Lecture 2014	Professor Justin Yifu Lin (Peking University) discusses the relationships between the economies of China and Africa.	Justin Yifu Lin	18 November, 2014
Adversarial Journalism: seeing it from both sides - Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture	BBC Presenter Evan Davis gives the 2014 Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture speaking on ‘Adversarial Journalism: seeing it from both sides.’	Evan Davis	26 March, 2014
Growth, Transition and Life Satisfaction: China, Eastern Europe and the World - OXCEP Distinguished Speaker Lecture 2013	Professor Richard A. Easterlin gives a the 2013 OXCEP distinguished speaker lecture.	Richard A Easterlin	21 November, 2013
What to expect from the World Economy	Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times, gives a talk for a St Edmund Hall Networking Breakfast. Introduced by David Waring, Senior Managing Director, Evercore.	Lionel Barber, David Waring	7 August, 2013
The "Death" and Reinvention of Scotland	Professor Devine, of the University of Edinburgh, gave the Emden Lecture at St Edmund Hall on 11 June 2013. He is introduced by St Edmund Hall Principal, Professor Keith Gull.	Tom Devine	8 July, 2013
5: The Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China	Professor John Knight (Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) delivers a lecture about social instability in China.	John Knight	5 July, 2013
4: Policies regarding Population Ageing in China	Professor Zhao Yaohui (of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University) speaks about policies for the ageing population in China.	Zhao Yaohui	5 July, 2013
3: Poverty Reduction and Effects of Pro-Poor Policies in Rural China	Professor Li Shi (Director of the China Institute for the Study of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University) lectures on the subject of policies against poverty in China.	Li Shi	5 July, 2013
2: Innovation in China: a Policy Perspective	Professor Xiaolan Fu (Director of the Technology and Management of Development Centre, Department of International Development at the University of Oxford) speaks on the subject of industrial upgrading and technology policies in China.	Xiaolan Fu	5 July, 2013
1: OXCEP CHINA POLICY FORUM - Opening remarks by Prof. John Knight	Professor John Knight, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, opens the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) China Policy Forum on 7 June 2013 at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.	John Knight	5 July, 2013
Ka-Boom! (And Other Made-Up Words)	Comic book writer and novelist Dan Abnett (an alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) talks about how comics are constructed and the rules for storytelling within them.	Dan Abnett	1 July, 2013
On Not Writing	Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee (Honorary Fellow and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) discusses the fantasy that stand-up comedy is spontaneous rather than written, and describes the evolution of stand-up over the last few decades.	Stewart Lee	1 July, 2013
Trust and Free Speech: some reflections.	This Geddes lecture, marking the 30th anniversary of Philip Geddes' death in the Harrods bombing is by the Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes CH, the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Chairman of the BBC Trust.	Chris Patten	28 February, 2013
Taming the Casino Banks	In this podcast the experts discuss whether the 'casino' banks that are considered too big to fail are simply too big, and explain the arguments for and against splitting them up.	Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater, Linda Yueh	15 March, 2010
Bank bonuses, breakups and regulation	In the first podcast of 2010, the experts discuss bank bonuses, proposed break-ups and tighter regulation of the banking and financial sectors.	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater	28 January, 2010
Challenging Macroeconomics	In part 6, our experts examine new models for monetary and fiscal policy, global financial markets and a world economy characterised by global imbalances.	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater	11 August, 2009
UK Budget and Global Recovery Plans	In Part 5, our experts examine the British economy in light of the recent Budget, and assess whether a global recovery may be on the horizon.	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater	4 June, 2009
G20: Solutions to Global Depression?	In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie	31 March, 2009
Credit Crunch Live	Economics students of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford pose questions to a panel of experts about the credit crunch and global recession.	Linda Yueh, Martin Slater, Outi Aarnio, John Knight	25 February, 2009
Bank Bail-outs and Obama's Green New Deal	In this second podcast, Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss President Obama's Green New Deal, banking bail-outs, quantitative easing and whether we can spend our way out of the economic crisis.	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie	28 January, 2009
Global Recession: How Did it Happen?	Linda Yueh talks to Jonathan Michie about the credit crunch and looming global recession, the effect it has had on both banks and businesses, and how a Green New Deal may provide a solution to the crisis.	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie	22 December, 2008

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