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Students at University College come from all sorts of backgrounds, and from across the UK and the world. They have about 370 undergraduates and in excess of 200 graduate students, from over 50 countries. Their students are taught and guided in their work by dedicated tutors who engage in world-class research in their fields. University college has a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence, openness, informality, diversity and strong welfare and student support systems.

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Title	Description	People	Date
Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture 2019	Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture 2019, given by Lisa Nandy MP for Wigan	Lisa Nandy	17 May, 2019
10th Annual Access Lecture 2019	Professor Alison Wolf speaks on the title 'Should class trump gender? Rethinking access in an unequal age'.	Alison Wolf	27 February, 2019
Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture 2018	Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture 2018, given by Paul Mason, journalist and author of 'Post-Capitalism: A Guide to our Future' (2015).	Paul Mason	2 March, 2018
9th Annual Access Lecture 2018	What does the evidence on widening participation tell us?	Anna Vignoles	20 February, 2018
8th Annual Access Lecture 2017	Who should and who shouldn’t come up to Oxford as an Undergraduate	Danny Dorling	2 June, 2017
Really taking control: Can democracy defeat populism and what happens if it doesn't?	University College Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture 2017	Marc Stears	22 March, 2017
7th Annual Access Lecture 2016	What does widening participation mean? An Historical Perspective.	Peter Mandler	15 February, 2016
Standing for the Whole - 2015 University College Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture	Arnie Graf of the Industrial Areas Foundation, gives the 2015 Clement Atlee Memorial Lecture.	Arnie Graf	27 October, 2015
Why was the Beveridge report so popular?	William of Durahm Lecture.	Ben Jackson	22 June, 2015
Beveridge, the Webbs and the coming of the Welfare State.	William of Durham Lecture.	Michael Ward	22 June, 2015
Scottish Referendum	Panel discussion on the Scottish Referendum.	Calum Miller, David Torrancem, Adam Ramsay, Ben Jackson, Gerry Hasan	28 April, 2015
6th Annual Univ Access Lecture: Can we solve the independent school problem?	Anthony Seldon gives the 6th Annual Access lecture entitles Can we solve the independent school problem? On 27th January 2015.	Anthony Seldon	2 February, 2015
The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone	The 2014 Univ Access Lecture took place on Tuesday 17th June in Merton college. Professor Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discussed “The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone”.	Daphne Koller, Ivor Crewe	29 July, 2014
The Future of International Aid	On 28 February, renowned aid expert Richard Manning delivered a GEG Special Lecture on the future of multilateral aid.	Richard Manning	2 July, 2014
Anxiety: A clinical psychologist’s very short introduction	A clinical psychologist’s very short introduction to anxiety.	Daniel Freeman	14 May, 2014
Why is Britain so Badly Governed	Sir Ivor Crewe, Master of University College, Oxford gives the Durham Club Lecture 2013 on 29th October 2013.	Sir Ivor Crewe	6 November, 2013
From Attlee to Miliband: Can Labour and Unions Face the Future?	This year's University College Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture will be given by Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC.	Frances O'Grady	30 April, 2013
The Challenge of Fair Access to Selective Universities: which approaches seem successful, and the way forward	Professor Ebdon, Director of the Office for Access (OFFA) gives the 2013 Access in University College. The lecture is on the challenge of fair access to selective universities.	Les Ebdon	2 April, 2013
Civil Conflict in the Current Era: New Patterns or Same Old?	Global Economic Governance Seminar, 9 November 2012. Has there been, as many have argued, a precipitous decline in civil conflicts during the past decade?	Anke Hoeffler, Monica Duffy Toft, Richard Caplan	13 November, 2012
2012 Access Lecture	Sir Martin Harris delivers the 2012 Univ Access Lecture entitled 'Reflections on seven years as Head of OFFA'.	Sir Martin Harris	22 May, 2012
Ironing The Ocean - exploring the ocean iron and carbon cycles aboard the RRS discovery in the south atlantic	Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences and fellow of University College, gives a talk on his research on iron content in the atlantic ocean and its necessity for life in the ocean.	Gideon Henderson	1 June, 2011
Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Economy	Former Chilean Minister of Finance and Fellow of the Center for International Development at Harvard, Andres Velasco, delivered a lecture on the subject 'Fiscal policy in natural resource intensive countries: some theory and the experience of Chile.'.	Andrés Velasco	10 May, 2011
Policy on Higher Education Admissions	Bahram Bekhradnia, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, gives a talk at University College about the Social, Class, Ethnic and Gendered divisions within Higher Education Admissions, particularly Oxford's Admissions Policies.	Bahram Bekhradnia	11 February, 2011
Governing Climate Change After Copenhagen	Ngaire Woods chairs a panel discussion looking into the political, economic and environmental consequences of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference last year.	Ngaire Woods, Sir David King, Cameron Hepburn	12 April, 2010
Laurence Whitehead; Haiti after the Earthquake	Laurence Whitehead talks about the extent of the damage done in Haiti by the earthquake of last year and how the people of Haiti are coping with living after the disaster.	Laurence Whitehead	9 April, 2010
John Mitchell; NGO's and humanitarian aid	John Mitchell talks about the NGOs and humanitarian organisations work and how they have been working to help Haiti after the earthquake disaster.	John Mitchell	9 April, 2010
Paul Sherlock; Oxfam's response to the Haitian Earthquake	Paul Sherlock gives his presentation for the event; 'The International Community's Response to Haiti'.	Paul Sherlock	9 April, 2010
Ngaire Woods, introduction to the International Community's Response to Haiti	Ngaire Woods talks about the international community's humanitarian response to the Haitian Earthquake. Part of a series of presentations entitled 'The International Community's Response to Haiti'.	Ngaire Woods	9 April, 2010
The International Community's Response to Haiti	Series of presentations looking at the international community's humanitarian response to the Haitian earthquake.	Ngaire Woods, John Mitchell, Paul Sherlock, Laurence Whitehead	9 April, 2010
The UN's role in Overcoming Development Challenges	Special Lecture given by former Prime Minister of New Zealand and now Administrator of the United Nations Development Program the Rt Hon. Helen Clark. She is introduced by Director of the Global Economic Governance Program, Professor Ngaire Woods.	Helen Clark, Ngaire Woods	11 March, 2010
Globalisation and the Financial Crisis - Summary	Final part of the podcast series, summarising what was discussed in the series, including what globalisation is, what caused the current financial crisis, what it means for developing countries and what can governments do to ensure it doesn't happen again	Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward, Jeni Whalen	17 December, 2009
What does the Financial Crisis mean for Developing Countries?	Where does the credit crunch leave developing countries? In this podcast, Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward and Jeni Wharton discuss the impact of the current financial crisis on the developing world and the G20's responsibility towards developing countries.	Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward, Jeni Whalen	17 December, 2009
Credit Crunch Global recession why/when/what?	Ngaire Woods, Jeni Wharton and Christina Ward discuss why institutions are pushing toward greater financial regulations in order to prevent another global recession.	Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward, Jeni Whalen	17 December, 2009
History of Key Institutions IMF/World Bank/G8/G20 - What Why When?	Ngaire Woods, Jeni Whalen and Christina Ward discuss some of the key institutions and groups who are responding to the financial crisis.	Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward, Jeni Whalen	17 December, 2009
Global Governance and Regulation - why?	In this podcast, Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward and Jeni Whalen discuss the causes of the current recession and asks why governments, financial regulators and banks failed to act responsibly and how we can act now to prevent the next financial crisis.	Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward, Jeni Whalen	17 December, 2009
Globalisation and the effect on economies	Second part of the Globalisation and the financial crisis series. Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward and Jeni Whalen discuss what Globalisation is and how governments around the world have adapted to it.	Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward, Jeni Whalen	17 December, 2009
Introduction to globalisation and the current financial crisis	Ngaire Woods introduces the podcast series on globalisation and is place in the current financial crisis - outlining some of the questions they will be discussing.	Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward, Jeni Whalen	17 December, 2009
The post-crisis politics of financial reform: business as usual or new global order?	Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of European Socialist Party and former Prime Minister of Denmark talks about the politics of current efforts to regulate the financial sector.	Poul Nyrup Rasmussen	5 November, 2009

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