St Cross College Shorts: Recent Episodes
Oxford University
These brief podcasts open into the intellectual worlds of the diverse Fellowship of St Cross College Oxford, and are for everyone.
Stanley and his team at the Unit for BioCultural Variation and Obesity, University of Oxford, undertook an England-wide survey of the impacts of COVID-19 lockdown during the summer of 2020 on physical activity, food and eating, and mental health. This podcast considers the results and policy implications of this research.
Andrew Pollard discusses the development of the COVID-19 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine with Stanley Ulijaszek
Dan Hicks, British archaeologist and anthropologist discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums with Stanley Ulijaszek Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford University.
St Cross College Fellow Julian Savulescu, Uehiru Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek about ethics and the COVID-19 pandemic. St Cross College Fellow Julian Savulescu, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Uehiru Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek about the ethical principles that are important in determining possible responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
St Cross Fellow Achillefs Kapanidis talks with Stanley Ulijaszek about how his research group developed a new rapid test for SARS CoV2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Achillefs Kapanidis and his research group developed a new rapid test for the coronavirus responsible for it. In this podcast, he talks with Stanley Ulijaszek about the challenges involved in this work and the opportunities presented by it.
St Cross College Fellow Michael Parker is Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and of the Ethox Centre, all at the University of Oxford. He is a member of SAGE, the UK Government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, and he talks here with Stanley Ulijaszek about his COVID-19 work as part of this group.
St Cross College Fellow Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, in a conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek about China and the COVID-19 pandemic. Ranging across public health, politics, history, diplomacy and the future. How do you think COVID-19 will change China and its relationship with the world?
As part of the St Cross College Shorts podcast series, Fellow and Ashmolean Museum Curator An van Camp discusses the Young Rembrandt exhibition with Stanley Ulijaszek, in October 2020.
Adriana X Jacobs, Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek
Cristina Martinez, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Neurosciences in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek
Professor of Development Economics Christopher Adam in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek
Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity Andrew Pollard in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek