Oxford Policy Pod

Oxford Policy Pod

19 episodes

A bi-weekly policy podcast based out of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The Oxford Policy Pod explores pressing policy issues around the globe and is produced by students reading for a Master of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. The podcast explores contemporary policy challenges that policymakers face all over the world, and taps into the rich diversity of policy experience and insights of the student body and faculty. The podcast is supported by the staff of the Blavatnik School of Government. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the students, speakers and featured guests only. They do not represent the views or position of featured organisations, or the Blavatnik School of Government and the University of Oxford. To keep up with the latest on our episodes, follow us on Instagram @OxfordPolicyPod_ and Twitter @OxfordPolicyPod.

Podcasts

Gargi Sharma Goel on Economic Policy, India, and her Journey at Oxford

Published: Aug. 19, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 2 seconds

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Tony Abbott on Service, Politics, Democracy, and Australia

Published: Aug. 8, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 36 seconds

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Anushka Jadhav and Rafaela Viana on the 2024 Education World Forum and Education Policy

Published: July 12, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 21 seconds

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Navigating the Unthinkable: Manal Fouani on UNDP's Mission in Ukraine During the Russian Invasion

Published: July 8, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 52 seconds

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A Life in International Law: a Conversation with Dapo Akande

Published: June 19, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 37 seconds

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Anindita Sita Dewi shares her MPP journey and welcomes the 2024/25 Class

Published: June 19, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Policy Matters: Getting results for Edo State with His Excellency Governor Obaseki

Published: June 7, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 9 seconds

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Lord Christopher Patten on Oxford and Higher Education, Hong Kong and China, and the Future of Conservatism

Published: June 3, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 21 seconds

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Building State Capacity: Ukraines National Agency on Corruption Prevention

Published: May 16, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 38 seconds

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Damien Shannon on Universities, Education, and Equity

Published: April 23, 2024, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 36 seconds

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The Morality of Capitalism

Published: April 22, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds

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George Brandis on Liberalism, Australia, Security, and Geopolitics

Published: April 20, 2024, 1 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 53 seconds

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Bob Carr on Politics, Foreign Affairs, Love, and Grief

Published: April 19, 2024, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 10 seconds

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What it's like to be a woman in politics

Published: March 8, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 20 seconds

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Oleksandra Matviichuk: Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights defender

Published: March 4, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds

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Lord Michael Heseltine on a Century of British Politics, Leadership, Foreign Affairs, and Gardening

Published: Feb. 22, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 49 seconds

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Kaya Axelsson on net-zero policy

Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 21 seconds

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Women Saving Women: How to Keep Up the Fight Against Gender Violence in Mexico

Published: Feb. 8, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes

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Mriya Aid: a trailblazing NGO helping Ukraine demine its land

Published: Jan. 28, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 39 seconds

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Grace Fox on the Seminole Nation and Indigeneity, American History, and Finding Purpose and Happiness

Published: Jan. 24, 2024, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 46 seconds

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Dr. Paul Monk on Democracy, the Classical World, Geopolitics, and Finding One's Purpose

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 11 seconds

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Ema Grajcarova on Slovakia, mental wellbeing, gender policy, and reflections on the MPP

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 3 seconds

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Shuab Gamote: An Unconventional Educational Journey

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds

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Unlocking the social value of employment through Social Employment

Published: Sept. 21, 2023, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 4 seconds

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The Government Outcomes Lab: Researching new models of collaboration for better social outcomes

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 12:10 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 57 seconds

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How to employ 300,000 youth - the story of South Africa's Presidential Employment Stimulus

Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 2:15 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 4 seconds

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Policy in Action: A Conversation with UK Council Members

Published: Aug. 11, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 16 seconds

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Policy in Action: The UAE civil service

Published: Aug. 4, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds

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Driving Change in Governance: A Conversation with Dean Ngaire Woods

Published: July 20, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 36 seconds

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Unleashing the power of AI: governments as consumers and regulators

Published: June 25, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 13 seconds

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Exploring Liberia's Upcoming Election

Published: June 9, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 33 seconds

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Making change: lessons from post-apartheid South Africa

Published: May 27, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 58 seconds

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Financing nature conservation

Published: April 4, 2023, 9 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds

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Successful developmentfor realfrom practitioner's eye

Published: March 20, 2023, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds

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Vaticans policy work in thinking and on the ground

Published: March 7, 2023, 6:10 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 30 seconds

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Ukraine 1 year: Memory, forgetting and social media in modern warfare

Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 12:58 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 27 seconds

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Colombian President Ivan Duque - Would you have done anything differently?

Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 7:13 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 40 seconds

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Getting real about measuring environmental impact

Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds

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Reaching your citizens as a minister

Published: Jan. 16, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 16 seconds

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Health, climate and COPs - Debrief COP27 Part II

Published: Dec. 16, 2022, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 52 seconds

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What happened at COP27? Part I

Published: Dec. 16, 2022, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds

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Season 5

Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds

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Season 5 Trailer

Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds

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How China Exercises Soft Power

Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 2:45 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 8 seconds

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Education in the Post-COVID world

Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 54 seconds

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Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals

Published: July 14, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 30 seconds

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Ten Months On: Afghanistan in the Aftermath

Published: June 22, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 14 seconds

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Latin American Elections 2022

Published: May 28, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds

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A Just Energy Transition for Africa

Published: May 9, 2022, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 20 seconds

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Earth Month Series: Responding to Climate Displacement

Published: April 11, 2022, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 16 seconds

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Earth Month Series: Climate Change and National Security

Published: April 4, 2022, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 27 seconds

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International Women's Month: Closing the Economic Gender Gap

Published: March 29, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 34 seconds

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Why are cities facing a housing affordability crisis?

Published: March 21, 2022, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Russias War on Ukraine: Perspectives from a War Historian

Published: March 15, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 52 seconds

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Season 4

Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds

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Season 4 Trailer

Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds

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Unpacking the Crisis in Syria: the Role of the International Community and Humanitarian Organizations

Published: July 7, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 6 seconds

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Africa Rising from the Pandemic: Building Forward Better

Published: May 26, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 52 seconds

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Regulating Big Tech: Policies for the Digital Age

Published: March 29, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 23 seconds

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Gender inequalities and COVID-19: an International Women's Day special

Published: March 8, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds

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What is happening in Myanmar?

Published: March 2, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 19 seconds

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Who decides? Free speech in the age of social media

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds

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The Paris Climate Agreement under the Biden era

Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 56 seconds

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The ethics of vaccine distribution

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds

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Season 3

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds

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A new chapter in Venezuelas agony

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 54 seconds

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Prison reform, what is it good for?

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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What happened in Lebanon?

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds

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Crisis in Education

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 9 seconds

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Make America Vote Again!

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 55 seconds

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Season 2

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

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South Africa's Covid Response, What went wrong?

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds

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The politics of policymaking with Dame Helen Ghosh

Published: June 2, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 53 seconds

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Government in a time of Coronavirus

Published: May 8, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 30 seconds

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Constitutionally speaking with Kate ORegan

Published: April 3, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds

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Holding Governments Accountable

Published: March 17, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds

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A counter to populism

Published: March 6, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 5 seconds

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A post-Brexit future

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds

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