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Research in conversation

Research in conversation is a series of interviews with researchers across Oxford University. Each interviewee raises a question arising from their research, which the next interview follows up on, approaching from a different discipline. Together, these linked interviews form 'chains' that collectively, and from many different perspectives, ask big questions like what it is to be human, how to live a healthy life and our changing relationship with information.
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Connecting research and policy

Interviews between Oxford researchers and academics, exploring how their research and expertise has informed policymaking.

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Who can tell us the truth about love?

We interview academics in the fields of evolutionary anthropology, zoology and English literature to find out more about the elusive subject of love.

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How to live a happy life

Five Oxford academics approach this question from backgrounds of philosophy, practical ethics, psychology, psychiatry and Buddhist studies.

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Our place in the world

Talking to researchers in Economics, Journalism, Ethics and Geography and the Environment to understand more about how we document, perceive and operate in our place in the world today.

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Randomness and Order

Academics in the fields of quantum physics, music, probability and medieval history discuss what randomness means in their different disciplines.

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Healthy body, healthy mind

Oxford's medical researchers explain their work into understanding more about our relationship with sleep, learning, healthy eating and addiction.

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Acquiring Language

How do we acquire language? Perspectives from experimental psychology, education, computational linguistics and English language 

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Unequal World

We follow a 15-year study of the lives of children, and discuss with an Oxford philosopher why some people find inequality more problematic than others. 

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Entrepreneurial academics

Featuring the work of three Oxford academics who've used their studies to solve real world problems in the business, government and medical communities. 

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Ada Lovelace

Genius, pioneer, visionary: 200 years after her birth, a Byronist, a mathematician and a historian discuss Ada Lovelace – the legacy and the woman – from the perspective of their different disciplines.

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Making sense of the numbers

Researchers trying to change the world using numbers in fields as diverse as mathematical modelling, zoology and robotics.

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Being human

An anthropologist who heads up an interdisciplinary team looking at human ritual contrasts with a philosopher and theologian on the extent to which religion short-circuits our intuitive moral faculty.

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Manuscript to megabyte

A series which asks how our relationship with information has changed from ancient documents to modern microchips, talking to researchers in the Faculty of Classics, the Ruskin School of Art and the Internet Institute.

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