Staying to Work in the UK - Visa Information and Advice

Find out everything you need to know about visas for working in the UK after your studies.

We will be covering the Graduate Route details (allowing graduates to stay in the UK for 2 years or 3 years if you're undertaking a PhD).

Details on the Skilled worker visa (for those hoping to stay longer term and secure permanent roles)

information on other visa types specific to individual situations will also be included.

Careers Adviser Abby Evans, will be joined by expert advisers from the Oxford Student Immigration office.

Andreas Malm: Climate Politics when its too late

This lecture and Q&A session will discuss emerging strategies for managing so-called overshoot, or the breaching of the 1.5– and quite possibly also 2–degree targets. Political ruling classes have largely accepted such global warming as fait accompli. So what are we supposed to do when temperatures exceed these critical thresholds? Three potential strategies are on offer: adaptation to cope with the disasters, carbon dioxide removal to bring the CO2 concentrations back down, and solar geo-engineering to shave off the peak of the heat.

Andreas Malm: On Eco-Sabotage

In How to Blow Up a Pipeline? (2020) Andreas Malm argues that economic sabotage is an effective form of climate activism that is woefully under-utilised in contemporary climate movements. This seminar, which will take the form of a moderated discussion with Malm himself, aims to build on this work, and critically asses the moral dimensions of ecotage, asking questions like: Who is liable to having their property sabotaged? When is ecotage too risky? Who, if anyone, has a duty to do ecotage? How should governments respond to ecotage?

Regression and Resistance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan

Shaharzad Akbar in conversation with Shazia Choudhry.
The strongest civil resistance to the drastic attacks on human rights and women’s rights in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021 comes from the Afghan women’s rights communities, internally and in exile. Shaharzad and Shazia will reflect on the struggle for women’s rights over the past two decades and the dilemmas for Afghan activists now.

Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia

Despite the market transformation in E. Asia's financial systems, regulators continue to employ hard paternalist approaches to their stock markets that are viewed as counterproductive to their development. Focusing on the Chinese stock market, this talk argues that the persistence of hard paternalistic regulatory practices can be explained by a regulatory vision – a common analytical framework to order complex uncertain environments that serve as regulatory first principles – centered on an irrational investor.

‘Burning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya’

There is a discernible trend of secondary school students collectively attacking their schools with arson in Kenya. In her new book Burning Ambition, our seminar presenter Elizabeth Cooper makes the case that students deploy arson as moral punishment for perceived injustices and arson proves an effective tactic in their politics from below.
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