"Meta-research: in quest of reproducible and useful evidence"

Join John Ioannidis as he discusses how empirical studies on research practices (research on research) can offer a bird's eye view of the strengths, weaknesses, and points where improvement is feasible across different scientific disciplines. Research practices include but are not limited to data and code sharing, registration, collaborative work and team science, replication and reproducibility checks, and optimization of study design and statistical methods.

The Wolfson Haldane Lecture is given by a speaker of international standing in the field of science. It is named after J. S. and J. B. S. Haldane, who carried out a number of pioneering experiments in the house that formerly stood on the College site. Past speakers include Sir Martin Evans, Professor V. S. Ramachandran and Sir Iain Chalmers.

Direct YouTube event link: https://youtu.be/ZEHykKc0XcE

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The International and Multidisciplinary Conference "Utopia and Migration" aims to contribute to the analysis of the borders imagination in the context of international migrations in the 21st century. It will raise the more specific question of how contemporary literature deals with the current issues related to borders from the perspective of utopia. What are these other ways that utopia traces to denounce and overcome discursive, media and state strategies aimed at making invisible, spoiling or stigmatising migrants, and thus strengthening borders? What alternatives to current border experiences can be explored through fiction? In what forms do they take place in the literary text? Which borders are targeted, those of the dream continent or the left one? How do these imaginative practices shed light on, or challenge, the relationship of contemporary societies to human mobility, to hospitality? The Conference invites the literary scientific field to a discussion with the Social Sciences in order to adequately address an issue whose study can contribute to rethinking the definitions of utopia, and in particular utopia as a literary genre, and to enriching migration studies.


A more detailed description is available on Fabula.

I completed a BSc degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College London and my medical degrees (BMBS, BMedSci and MRes) from the University of Nottingham. I then spent few years working in junior doctor posts before coming to Oxford to start a DPhil in Clinical Medicine. My DPhil studies focused on vaccine development against arthropod-borne viruses supported by Innovate UK funding. I was awarded highly prestigious NDM Graduate Student Prize 2020 (Overall Prize Winner) for my overall performance during my DPhil at the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) and a NIHR Oxford BRC Grant to support my research as a Postdoctoral Fellow. 

In 2022, I was awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship to start my independent research on vaccine development against emerging arboviruses. In 2022-2023, I have been awarded MRC HIC-VAC and MRC IAA grants to develop serological assays against typhoid and paratyphoid fever and the MLSTF grant to develop a vaccine against Chagas disease. 

I am currently a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG), a JRF Fellow at Wolfson College, a Lecturer in Medicine at Somerville College, and a doctor in Acute Internal Medicine in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.