Events

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Eggceptional Animals

April 7-8

Crack open the world of animals that lay eggs! From platypuses to frogs, snakes to echidnas, discover the 'egg-ceptional' animals that start life in an egg. This family-friendly event will be held at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Monday and Tuesday 7-8 April. Visitors will be able to get hands-on with touchable museum specimens, play games and make a craft inspired by the egg-laying animals in the museum. Eggceptional Animals is suitable for all ages. Families are invited to drop-in. No booking required.

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Public services in the age of populism: how do we fix the NHS and NHS productivity?

Monday 28 April

In the UK election, one domestic policy issue loomed large above everything else: the NHS. But when finances are tough, NHS improvement will prove a challenge unless we can improve NHS productivity. This seminar, part of St Antony’s Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship series, will go to the heart of one of the biggest domestic policy reforms, and debate where the role of the state should begin and end and where the limitations of the NHS may lie.

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How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding

Thursday 8 May

Over the past 50 years, the Cyril Foster Lecture series has delivered engaging lectures from some of the world's most influential policymakers and academics. This year's lecture will bring together two internationally renowned speakers on peace activism and peacekeeping; Christine Ahn and Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf, US Air Force. Both have decades of experience working in conflict zones, and will share insights from their work, their collaborations and discuss the politics and process of ending wars.