Podcasts
What was I thinking?! – being an academic in the age of impact
The context for this talk is offered by one of the defining debates in cultural policy studies, namely the one around the tension between a desire to be useful to those who administer the arts and culture and the aspiration to preserve the cultural policy scholar’s critical distance from the object of analysis, intellectual autonomy and the freedom to critique.
6 May 2026
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Impact and Knowledge Exchange in an Evolving Research Environment
The aim of the panel session was to reflect on research impact and knowledge exchange from different angles, from user perspectives and wide public debates, through institutional contexts and the interfaces with different funding bodies, and to international experiences.
6 May 2026
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Approaches to facilitating research impact
Whilst research has always had impact, research impact is still a relatively new concept in REF terms.
6 May 2026
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Competing for excellence: Perverse and constructive effects of evaluation machines in academia
6 May 2026
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In metrics we trust? Impact, indicators & the prospects for social science over the next five years
Citations, journal impact factors, H-indices, even tweets and Facebook likes – there are no end of quantitative measures that can now be used to assess the quality and wider impacts of research.
6 May 2026
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Hope for Oxford: British Pakistani and Bangladeshi aspirations as intergenerational, relational and collective
In this special edition of the Oxford Education Deanery podcast, Dr Stephanie Nowack is joined by Mitu Khan and Sadaf Yasir to explore how hope towards higher education is collective, intergenerational, and relational.
30 April 2026
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Episode 5 – Leon Feinstein
A few months into his new role as Director of our Department, we speak with Leon about his career to date and his thoughts on how politics and research interact.
23 April 2026
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The role of songs in languages learning
Singing songs with young learners is a classroom technique beloved by many teachers, especially languages teachers.
17 April 2026
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Playful Pedagogies: Critical thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning
In this special extended edition of the Oxford Education Deanery podcast, Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek joins Dr Faidra Faitaki and Jasen Booton to explore how playful pedagogies can transform education.
17 April 2026
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Raised by Relatives – Kinship Carers from Black and Asian Communities
More than one in five of the 120,000 kinship children in England live with minority ethnic kinship carers.
17 April 2026
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Bullying or Counter Connecting – Two inclusive definitions for schools
About 40% of children and young people are exposed to bullying, but this rate has been reported to be as high as 69% for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
17 April 2026
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