University College: Recent Episodes
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Professor Alison Wolf speaks on the title 'Should class trump gender? Rethinking access in an unequal age'.
Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture 2018, given by Paul Mason, journalist and author of 'Post-Capitalism: A Guide to our Future' (2015).
Who should and who shouldn’t come up to Oxford as an Undergraduate Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. Previously he was a Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield, and has worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand. He is also a member of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster. Danny’s work concerns issues of inequality and injustice, wealth and poverty, housing, health, employment, and education. Much of Danny’s work is available at www.dannydorling.org via open access. His most recent books include Geography: Ideas in Profile; A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier; People and Places: A 21st Century Atlas of the UK; Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists; Inequality and the 1%, and All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster.
Arnie Graf of the Industrial Areas Foundation, gives the 2015 Clement Atlee Memorial Lecture. He was introduced by Marc Stears, Tutorial Fellow in Politics; Professor of Political Theory at University College.
Anthony Seldon gives the 6th Annual Access lecture entitles Can we solve the independent school problem? On 27th January 2015.
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”.
Sir Ivor Crewe, Master of University College, Oxford gives the Durham Club Lecture 2013 on 29th October 2013.
This year's University College Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture will be given by Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC. Frances O'Grady has been an active trade unionist and campaigner all her working life. In 1994 Frances was appointed as TUC Campaigns Officer and ran campaigns for equal rights for part-timers and against low pay. In 1997, she was appointed to head up the New Unionism campaign and launched the TUC's Organising Academy. In January 2013 Frances became the General Secretary of the TUC, the first woman ever to hold this post. Fair pay remains a core ambition - she was on the Resolution Foundation's Commission on Living Standards, and has been a member of the Low Pay and the High Pay Commissions. Frances is a strong believer in protecting the public service ethos, opposes privatisation and leads the TUC campaign to save the NHS.
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.
Sir Martin Harris delivers the 2012 Univ Access Lecture entitled 'Reflections on seven years as Head of OFFA'.
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.
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.