Rewley House Research Seminars
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The multi-disciplinary research seminars are held once a term at Rewley House, and are designed to highlight current and future research initiatives in the Department for Continuing Education.

Impact

What is the impact we create? How is it measured, justified, used? Three speakers from a social, historical and professional background examine what i...
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Danger

Speakers for our seminar on the theme of Danger have Medical and Humanities backgrounds, and will consider the following: experimentation to diminish ...
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Truth

The presentations invite us to consider what truth means to people in different circumstances, and how definitions of truth can affect decision-making...
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Patterns

Three speakers share their insights into pattern exploration and, in some cases, exploitation, in their fields of finance, mathematics and climate cha...
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Future

The presentations focus on the impact of the concept of future in changing debate, and how, in specific instances, concerns about the future affect be...
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Gender

Gender relations shape our everyday interactions at work, on the street and in the home. Our speakers cover a wide range of topics, from historical, l...
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Decay

The presentations focus on the importance of disappearance as much as appearance, presence as well as absence, and growth in the guise of degeneration...
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Ethics

Ethical decisions, and often dilemma, lie at the heart of all research methodologies and practice. Marianne Talbot, course director in Philosophy, cha...
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Revolution

Revolutionary concepts continually shape and uproot research agendas, and occasionally researchers themselves. This seminar examined the many ways rev...
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Risk

The inaugural research seminar invited three speakers to consider how the concept and experience of 'risk' influenced their current research. Professo...
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