News and Events

News

BBC Ideas thumbnail

Social Sciences and BBC Ideas launch video partnership

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science logo (blue text on white background)

British Academy and Academy of Social Sciences commission Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science team to reveal UK-wide impact of the arts, humanities, and social sciences

Photos of Prof Christiaan Monden, Jacqui Broadhead, and Prof Alis Oancea

Division appoints new Advocates for Research Staff and Impact

Dr Phil Grünewald and Dr Tina Fawcett hold an electric vehicle charging cable

Oxford University to co-lead £8m Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory to help UK reach net-zero

A graphic image of bright, multi coloured irregular segments.

Social Sciences offers new scholarships to care-experienced graduates

Unfocussed photo of green grass covered in rain drops caught in the sunlight

Social scientists join University's delegation to UN biodiversity conference (COP15)

Chris Patten Blavatnik event

New Chair in Global Security named after Vice Chancellor Louise Richardson

Young group of multicultural coworkers and researchers working together on a project in an office using laptops near a window.

PI Support and Development Programme launched

Events

Below is a list of major upcoming events hosted by our departments. There are hundreds of other events each term across the Social Sciences Division, including seminars, workshops and conferences. You can view a full list on Oxford Events. To see a dedicated calendar for each department, please visit the 'Events' section on their individual websites.

Annual Roger Hood Lecture: Professor Shadd Maruna, University of Liverpool

‘Desistance Futures: Making Amends for the Past’

OII 25th Anniversary Public Lecture: danah boyd, Cornell University

‘Dreaming of a Networked World: Reflections on the Political Economy of the Internet’

Guest lecture: United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Jean-Pierre Lacroix

‘The Difficult Journey of Peace: Challenges and Opportunities for Peace Operations in a Fragmented World’