Events

Over the course of the academic year we hold a wide range of lectures, seminars and other events. Many are open to all members of Oxford University, and some are open to members of the public. 

Our main event series are:

Departmental Colloquia (current programme)

Research Unit seminars (current programme)

Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures

To find out more about the background to each series, head here.

11 Oct
Professor Jane Barlow

A Better Start – Comparison of profile data with national

Thursday 11 October
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 Colloquium series
11 Oct
barak ariel

Body-worn cameras and policing

Thursday 11 October
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series
18 Oct
deborah ghate

Applying insights and principles from implementation science in the real world

Thursday 18 October
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series
25 Oct
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Violet Butler: Relating Social Research to Social Action: a lifetime's work

Thursday 25 October
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 Colloquium series
25 Oct
karen devries

Preventing violence against women, children and adolescents: reflections, lessons learned and questions for the field

Thursday 25 October
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series
8 Nov
kathrin komp

Startups as social risks in Finland

Thursday 8 November
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 Colloquium series
8 Nov
fiona williams

Where next for Social Policy? Reflections in an age of social discord

Thursday 8 November
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Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2018
15 Nov
ben barr

Health inequalities through the best of times and the worst of times. What makes a difference?

Thursday 15 November
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series
22 Nov
chris bonnell

Results from the INCLUSIVE trial of a whole-school health intervention: outcomes, mediators and processes

Thursday 22 November
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series
29 Nov
rhian daniel

Advances in methods for identifying causal effects from observational data

Thursday 29 November
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series
1 Feb
roger goodman

Social Policy, Interdisciplinary Area Studies and Oxford University: lessons from the study of Japan

Thursday 1 February, 5:00pm
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series
1 Feb
Anita Schrader McMillan

Impact of investment in Early Parenting on Social Capital: Emerging lessons from A Better Start

Thursday 1 February
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Hilary Term 2018 Departmental Colloquium series
25 Jan
jane gingrich

Deindustrialisation, state responses and social democracy

Thursday 25 January, 5:00pm
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series
18 Jan
jonathan wolff

Political philosophy and social policy: the concept of poverty

Thursday 18 January, 5:00pm
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series
18 Jan
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The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an “Emerging Markets” Welfare State Regime

Thursday 18 January
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Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
An event in our Hilary Term 2018 Departmental Colloquium series
18 Dec
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Hilary Term event programmes online now

Monday 18 December 2017
Browse through our events programme to see what's on at DSPI in January - March 2018.
30 Nov
policy design

External validity and policy adaptation: from impact evaluation to policy design

Thursday 30 November 2017
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Violet Butler Room
CEBI Seminar with Dr. Martin Williams - Michaelmas Term Week 8
23 Nov
urban green

Improving mental health through the regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods: a natural experiment

Thursday 23 November 2017
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Violet Butler Room
CEBI Seminar with Dr. James White - Michaelmas Term Week 7
23 Nov
breadcrumbs

Material deprivation and intra-household allocation of resources across Europe

Thursday 23 November 2017
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Violet Butler Room
Dr Tania Burchardt gives the last of our Michaelmas Term colloquia
16 Nov
rainbow

Queery-ing policy studies: using insights from LGBT service users to advance our understanding

Thursday 16 November 2017
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Violet Butler Room
Dr Peter Matthews gives the third of our Michaelmas Term colloquia
9 Nov
school pencil

Randomised controlled trials in schools: blunt instrument or better by design?

Thursday 9 November 2017
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Violet Butler Room
CEBI Seminar with Professor Neil Humphrey - Michaelmas Term Week 5
2 Nov
crime

A randomised controlled trial of residential change and criminal recidivism

Thursday 2 November 2017
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Violet Butler Room
CEBI Seminar with Dr David Kirk - Michaelmas Term Week 4
26 Oct
David Spiegelhalter - image by Churchill College, Cambridge

Why should we have trust in numbers?

Thursday 26 October, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
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Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
The 2017 Sidney Ball Lecture
26 Oct
citizens

Gritty Citizens? Exploring the Logic and Limits of Resilience in Social Policy During Times of Socio-Material Insecurity

Thursday 26 October 2017
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Violet Butler Room
Dr Matthew Donoghue gives the second of our Michaelmas Departmental Colloquia
19 Oct
health

Delivering and evaluating e-mental health for young people at scale

Thursday 19 October 2017
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Violet Butler Room
CEBI Seminar with Professor Sally Merry - Michaelmas Term Week 2
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