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Research Seminar Series - Trinity Term 2006
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held in the Board Room, OUCE, on Tuesdays from 4.30-5.30pm unless indicated otherwise below.
Week 1: Tuesday 25 April 2006
Weather forecasts are for wimps: Why US water resource managers don't use climate forecasts.
Dr Steve Rayner.
Week 2: Tuesday 2 May 2006
Long-term ecological studies: how they help us to understand present-day environmental change.
Dr Richard Bradshaw.
Week 3: Tuesday 9 May 2006
Hurricanes and global warming.
Dr Adam Lea.
Week 4: Tuesday 16 May 2006
Fishing for nature: subjectivity and environment.
Dr Andrea Nightingale.
Week 5: Tuesday 23 May 2006
Channels, cretes and carats - alluvial sedimentology in the Mega Kalahari Basin.
Alexander Shaw, School of Geography, Oxford.
Being care(ful): migrant workers' experiences of working in a London hotel.
Dr Sarah Dyer, School of Geography, Oxford.
Week 6: Tuesday 30 May 2006
New topologies of society, institutions, and space: towards the liquid city?
Dr Stephan Buzar, School of Geography, Oxford.
Probabilistic predictions of climate change.
Dr Ana Lopez, School of Geography, Oxford.
Week 7: Tuesday 6 June 2006
Ethnicity as social capital? Explaining the differential educational achievements of young British Pakistani men and women.
Dr Claire Dwyer.
Week 8: Tuesday 13 June 2006
Super-gentrification in London and New York.
Dr Loretta Lees.
Week 8: Friday 16 June 2006
Processes of globalisation: its impact on global antisemitism.
Dr Charles Small.