The Research Expo is a biennial event at St Edmund Hall, designed to showcase the breadth of research carried out at the College, by both academics and students. This series includes an overview video introducing the event, and then a set of short ‘Teddy Talks’ on a wide range of topics from gravitational waves to medieval history, all aimed at a non-specialist audience. The speakers are academics or postgraduate students at St Edmund Hall (also known as ‘Teddy Hall’), one of the colleges of the University of Oxford.
The UK national debt is currently the highest it's ever been, and a lot larger than many other countries. This talk takes a look behind the figures, a...
Linda Yueh (Fellow by Special Election in Economics) talks about ending poverty. The UN has a Sustainable Development Goal to eradicate extreme povert...
Did medieval writers think they were writing history? This talk takes a closer look at the various forms of ‘history’ during this period. Emily A. Win...
When you examine the brain, you can learn a lot and see chemical interactions, but you cannot find anything about the first-person nature of things we...
Why has the recent detection of gravitational waves been one of the most important discoveries in modern times for astrophysics? And what are the impl...
Batteries are one of the most efficient ways to store energy, and there has been a massive increase recently in the use of lithium-ion batteries, part...
How do people remember the past? Alex Lloyd (Lecturer, German Language and Literature) looks at essays written by children in Germany after the Second...
This talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth...
Merchants’ marks were used initially as a tool of commerce, on consignments of goods, in the Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century, however, they beca...
An introduction to pulsars: objects that have more mass than the sun but are only around 20km in diameter, possessing an extremely high rotational sta...