St Cross College Shorts

May 05 2021 23 ep. 15 mins 1.2k

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These brief podcasts open into the intellectual worlds of the diverse Fellowship of St Cross College Oxford, and are for everyone.

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Stanley Ulijaszek discusses the impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown on Physical and Mental Health during COVID-19

May 05 2021 8 mins

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 and the Development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Mar 25 2021 9 mins

Andrew Pollard discusses the development of the COVID-19 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine with Stanley Ulijaszek

Matthew Snape on running COVID-19 vaccine trials

Mar 16 2021 16 mins

Matthew Snape discusses the running COVID-19 vaccine trials with Stanley Ulijaszek

Dan Hicks discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums with Stanley Ulijaszek

Feb 18 2021 21 mins

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.

Julian Savulescu and ethical issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic

Feb 16 2021 18 mins

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

Achillefs Kapanidis on developing a new rapid test for COVID-19

Feb 04 2021 20 mins

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

Michael Parker and the COVID-19 response

Jan 31 2021 15 mins

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.

Rana Mitter and the implications of COVID-19 for China

Jan 31 2021 19 mins

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?

An van Camp in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek at the Young Rembrandt exhibition

Dec 16 2020 19 mins

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.

David Beeson

Nov 13 2020 12 mins

David Beeson, Professor in Molecular Neurosciences, talks with Stanley Ulijaszek