What Next for Social Policy
Professor Fiona Williams explores how contemporary social movements – especially those around gender, race, migration, disability, austerity and the e...
Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures
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The Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures were established after the First World War in memory of Sidney Ball who was a philosophy fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Sidney Ball was both a political radical and 'an energetic university reformer' concerned that contemporary social and economic problems should be studied at Oxford.
Why should we have trust in numbers? Making evidence more reliable, and empowering people to check it
Professor David Spiegelhalter, , Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences...
Britain, Europe and Social Policy
For the 2016 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture, Professor Colin Crouch, Vice-President for Social Sciences, gives a talk on European social policies.
Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action - Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2013
The 2013 lecture 'Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action' delivered by Baroness Lister of Burtersett on 4th of December 2013 in the Nissan L...
The Reform of the Welfare State and the Dynamics of People's Lives - Sydney Ball Memorial Lecture 2012
The 2012 lecture 'The Reform of the Welfare State and the Dynamics of People's Lives' delivered by Professor John Hills (London School of Economics) o...
Evidence-based Interventions in Juvenile Justice: Concepts, Research, Practice, and Frontiers
Professor Mark Lipsey (Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt University) delivers the 2011 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture.
Life Chances and Early Childhood Investments
2010 Sidney Ball memorial Lecture given by Professor Gøsta Esping-Andersen at St Antony's College.
Early Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment
Professor Greg Duncan discusses the connections between poverty and child development, and suggests social policy strategies to improve the welfare of...