25 Best Oxford University Podcasts
A list of the most popular Oxford University podcasts on Podyssey Podcasts.
25 Best Oxford University Podcasts
1. History of Art
History of Art at the University of Oxford draws on a long and deep tradition of teaching and studying the subject. The core academic staff of the History of Art Department work on subjects from medieval European architecture to modern Chinese art. ...Show More
2. Psychiatry
Psychiatry is a medical discipline seeking to understand and treat mental illness. These podcasts provide an introduction to core topics in psychiatry, and to research undertaken in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry. This series is relev...Show More
Latest Episode
3. Criminology
This series is host to episodes created by the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford which is part of the Faculty of Law, within the Social Sciences Division. The series reflects this department's world-leading research and teaching by p...Show More
4. Critical Reasoning for Beginners
Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or...Show More
Latest Episode
Further reading and more... (Slides)
0:00 | Apr 16th, 2012
So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here... Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-n...Show More
5. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Lecture series on Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. The first part of the series focuses on some of the most important writings on art and beauty in the Western philosophical tradition, covering Plato, Aristotle, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. Th...Show More
Latest Episode
6. The Secrets of Mathematics
A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing range of applications from medicine to economics and beyond....Show More
Latest Episode
7. Approaching Shakespeare
Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims...Show More
Most Recommended Episode
46:00 | Nov 2nd, 2010
1 RECOMMENDATION
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth? Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 U...Show More
8. Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics host a morning of Theoretical Physics roughly three times a year on a Saturday morning. The mornings consist of three talks pitched to explain an area of our research to an audience familia...Show More
Latest Episode
9. General Philosophy
A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise of the 8-week General Philosophy course, delivered to first year undergraduates. These lectures aim to provide a tho...Show More
Latest Episode
General Philosophy Lecture 8 (Slides)
0:00 | Dec 1st, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 8. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
10. Oxford Sparks Big Questions
'Will my bacon sandwich kill me?', 'Is vaping better than smoking?', 'How do you become an astronaut?' - just some of the Big Questions we ask some of the brightest minds behind Oxford science. Join us in each podcast as we explore a different area o...Show More
Latest Episode
11. John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. The series began in 1950 and are given once a year.
Latest Episode
12. Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early mo...Show More
Latest Episode
13. Anthropology
Podcasts from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The School is renowned for its contributions to anthropological theory, its commitment to long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and its association with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the anthr...Show More
Latest Episode
14. Philosophy for Beginners
Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. This series of five in...Show More
Latest Episode
Further reading and more... (Slides)
0:00 | Apr 16th, 2012
So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here... Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-n...Show More
15. The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. It includes the principal University library - the Bodleian Library - which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years; as well as ...Show More
16. Great Writers Inspire
17. TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities is a major new initiative that seeks to build on this heritage and to stimulate and suppo...Show More
Latest Episode
18. Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life
Check out our animations about the cutting-edge research taking place at the University of Oxford. From a quick look around the LHC and an underwater adventure to explore the insides of a volcano, to finding out what makes us tick and how we're devel...Show More
Latest Episode
19. Poetry with Simon Armitage
Poet, playwright and novelist, Simon Armitage was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 2015. This series features his public engagements. Series image credit Paul Wolfgang Webster.
Latest Episode
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
1:06:46 | May 17th, 2019
Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet.
20. In Our Spare Time
A 45-minute podcast in which a panel of Oxford students and young researchers join hosts Aled Walker and Alice Harberd to discuss their academic and intellectual passions. Each episode will have a different theme, ranging from Marxism to Medieval So...Show More
Latest Episode
21. The Isaiah Berlin Lecture
The Isaiah Berlin Lecture (Annual lecture in the History of Ideas) is held at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Latest Episode
22. The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)
Bryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.
Latest Episode
Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire
41:04 | Sep 13th, 2008
Bryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.
23. Faculty of Classics
Podcasts from the Faculty of Classics.
Latest Episode
24. Interviews with Philosophers
A selection of short interviews with Oxford philosophers (part of the series of 'Interviews with Oxonians').
Latest Episode
31:56 | Sep 12th, 2008
Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, explores the definition and origin of metaphysics, and then discusses some of the enduring metaphysical questions.
25. Ruskin School of Art
This is a series of podcast from the Ruskin School of Art. The Ruskin, as it is known, is the Fine Art Department of the University of Oxford. In an intimate and dynamic environment, the school gathers together cutting edge contemporary artists and ...Show More
Latest Episode
Graduate Open Day at the Ruskin
19:01 | Nov 27th, 2013
A short talk from Anthony Gardener, Director of Graduate Studies at the Ruskin School of Art about the Graduate programme at the Ruskin.