DPIR to hold two events for Oxford’s Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend 2024
As part of Oxford's Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend 2024 the Department is delighted to announce that we have two events taking place during this year’s weekend.
Meeting Minds runs from Friday, 20 September to Sunday, 22 September and the Departmental events are a panel discussion entitled Advanced Social Science Research Methods in the Age of Big Data and a talk by award-winning DPIR professor Ben Ansell - Why Politics Fails.
DPIR alumni attending the Alumni Weekend can attend these events for free, by emailing DPIR's Events Team to get a discount code (sessions are usually £15 each).
Details of the events are as follows:
- Advanced Social Science Research Methods in the Age of Big Data
Saturday 21 September, 11:00 - 12:00 at the Maths Institute, Woodstock Rd, OX2 6GG
This panel discussion, featuring experts from across the University, will focus on the impact of work that uses advanced social science research methods and why advanced methods are so important in the age of big data and advanced computation.
Speakers: Ben Ansell (Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions); Ridhi Kashyap (Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science); Séverine Toussaert (Associate Professor of Economics); Katerina Tertytchnaya (Associate Professor in Comparative Politics)
- Why Politics Fails (previously sold out – additional tickets just released!)
Saturday 21 September, 14:30 - 15:30 at the Maths Institute, Woodstock Rd, OX2 6GG
Award-winning DPIR professor Ben Ansell will discuss his latest book, Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them, exploring why politics is failing us and how we can build political systems that work for everyone. Professor Ansell will also be doing a book signing after his talk.
Speaker: Ben Ansell (Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions)
Oxford Alumni can book to attend these events via the Meeting Minds website.
