This workshop organised by the Oxford Q-Step Centre* (OQC) brought together key speakers from Oxford and beyond to discuss gender differences in examinations in the context of courses that include quantitative methods. Both undergraduate degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, as well as History and Politics have a gender discrepancy in finals results. However, the reasons for these differences are not well understood. Could they be due to entry requirements, a lack of course work, biased ways of examining or possibly a greater emphasis on quantitative methods?

This workshop organised by the Oxford Q-Step Centre* (OQC) brought together key speakers from Oxford and beyond to discuss gender differences in examinations in the context of courses that include quantitative methods. Both undergraduate degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, as well as History and Politics have a gender discrepancy in finals results. However, the reasons for these differences are not well understood. Could they be due to entry requirements, a lack of course work, biased ways of examining or possibly a greater emphasis on quantitative methods?

Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial assistance are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and human rights. They also highlight the urgent need for more systematic and robust legal and economic thinking about sovereign finance and human rights.

How can Gaullism and the French Popular Front be incorporated into the narrative of French constitutional history?

At this event on 11 November 2014 Nicolas Roussellier (Sciences Po, Paris) talked about France's transition from parliamentary to presidential democracy from the Third to the Fifth Republic, and in particular highlighted the contributions of the Popular Front government and Charles de Gaulle's Free French Government to this transition.

Conference in honour of the political philosopher David Miller.

Panel 1

Chair: Ashwini Vasanthakumar 

Jonathan Quong: Miller’s Crossing 

Anna Stilz: On Self-Determination

Panel 2

Chair: Cécile Fabre 

Avia Pasternak: Mobs, Firms and Nations – a Critique of David Miller’s Account of Collective Responsibility 

Alan Patten: Public Good Fairness

Panel 3

Chair: Simon Caney 

We were very lucky to have two of the biggest experts in the country for this talk, whose work has attracted a lot of attention in academic and media outlets over the last months.  Dr Stephen Fisher (University of Oxford) has done pre-election forecasting at electionsetc.com and was part of the team for the BBC/ITN/SKY exit poll and BBC results based prediction.

This event, part of the Justice and Democracy beyond the Nation-State: Lessons From and For Europe seminar series, aimed to bring together people interested in legal and political philosophy with those interested in Europe for a discussion about where these two areas meet.

Speaker: Professor Philippe Van Parijs (Visiting Professor, Oxford)