What's on at Brookes

Coffee with Cops

Thames Valley Police are holding a 'Coffee with Cops' event at the University. Please do come along for a coffee and a chat.

This event is for: Everyone

Secondary Teacher Training Open Evening

If you are thinking about training to become a secondary school teacher come along to our Open Evening and see what is involved

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught

University Postgraduate Fair

University-wide postgraduate recruitment fair

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

Swindon College Open Evening

Open eventing at Swindon College, one of Oxford Brookes University's partner colleges. An opportunity for prospective students to find out more about studying a Brookes degree at Swindon College

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

Mapping the national public and community services landscape by Dr Richard Huggins

The Seminar Series has been established for leaders and senior practitioners in organisations commissioning and providing community and public services. Don't miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with senior colleagues, policy makers and academics at the forefront of strategy, practice and thinking, and providing new solutions to current professional challenges.

This event is for: Everyone

English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

City of Disappearances: Losing oneself in the modern and post-modern metropolis with speaker Professor Michael Sheringham, University of Oxford

This event is for: Everyone

Impact Conference 2012

The national conference for student volunteering and social action

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Staff - research / Staff - support / Current students - undergraduate / Current students - postgraduate taught / Current students - postgraduate research

Postgraduate Law Open Day

Come to our stunning location at Headington Hill Hall to learn more about the GDL and LPC at Oxford Brookes. There will be a series of talks, campus tours and the opportunity to chat to tutors and students over tea and coffee

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Current students - undergraduate

Research Cluster in Aesthetics, Emotions and Arts Based Approaches to Inquiry

A Visual inquiry into changing narratives of diversity, equality, transition and change In this workshop participants will be introduced to visual inquiry as a methodology for investigating the complex meanings they bring to equality and diversity work and how they engage with change and transition in these in their organisational roles.

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Staff - research / Academic community / Ticket only

Hospitality & Tourism Professionals' Networking Evening

Oxford School of Hospitality Management is hosting a networking evening for hospitality & tourism professionals at the beautiful Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (at 6.30pm on 16th February)

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Current students - undergraduate / Current students - postgraduate taught / Business community / Alumni / Invite only

English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman with speakers Professor Janet Beer, Oxford Brookes University and Professor Avril Horner, Kingston University

This event is for: Everyone

Seminar: ‘Can the use of video enhance the feedback experience for students and staff?’ Dr Anne Crook

The seminar will explore the challenges of feedback provision and will provide an overview of the rationale for experimenting with video feedback. Details of the pilot study’s methodology and research questions will be provided, along with a brief analysis of the quantitative and qualitative student and staff data collected. The team’s experience of using video feedback will also be discussed in the context of institutional support and sustainability issues.

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Staff - research / Staff - support / Current students - postgraduate research

Interacting or Interfering? The role of the adult in early learning

A seminar from the Education partnership series. Speaker: Julie Fisher, visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University.

This event is for: Everyone

Hayden White's Lecture on 'The Practical Past': Towards an Ethics of Historical Discourse

'The Practical Past' is a concept or a figure invented by Michael Oakeshott (in his book of essays, On History), and it refers to that aspect of the past to which we advert in order to answer the question: 'what should I (we) do?' In other words, 'practical' is meant in Kant's sense of 'ethical,' as in his Critique of Practical Reason.

This event is for: Everyone

Adult Nursing Open Day in Swindon

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

audiograft

Listen carefully! Oxford's annual festival of Experimental Composition and Sound Art returns with performances, installations, exhibitions and more is about to arrive...

This event is for: Everyone

Misunderstanding Contemporary Higher Education:some category mistakes

Professor Sir David Watson Misunderstanding Contemporary Higher Education:some category mistakes Starting with Gilbert Ryle’s time-honoured formulation of the “category mistake” (“where is the university?”)

This event is for: Everyone

Recruiting, Training and Retaining the Best Teachers

Andy Jones, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Institute of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, Vice Chair UCET will lead the Oxford Education debate on 'Recruiting, training and retaining the best teachers'

This event is for: Everyone

Chancellors in Conversation

A unique opportunity to hear the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, Shami Chakrabarti and the University of Oxford's Chancellor, Lord Patten, discuss topical issues. This promises to be an interesting and lively debate where there will be an opportunity for the audience to pose questions.

This event is for: Everyone

English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

Reading Barmaids with speaker Dr Katherine Mullin, University of Leeds

This event is for: Everyone

Learning with Technology

A FREE learning technology event, exhibition and Teachmeet for Oxfordshire and the surrounding area

This event is for: Everyone

Social Care demographics and the real pressure points by Professor Keith Moultrie

DESCRIPTION The Seminar Series has been established for leaders and senior practitioners in organisations commissioning and providing community and public services. Don't miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with senior colleagues, policy makers and academics at the forefront of strategy, practice and thinking, and providing new solutions to current professional challenges.

This event is for: Everyone

Fairtrade Fashion: Weaving the Fabric of Society

A panel discussion questioning the issues surrounding Fairtrade Fashion in society. The event forms part of the Ethical Fashion Symposium (9th-11th March) organised by the O3 Gallery, in association with Oxford Fashion Week.

From Hogarth to Hackgate: Does British Journalism have an attitude problem?

Samira Ahmed is a British television and radio presenter known for her 11 year period as a newsreader and reporter on Channel 4 News. Samira was educated at Wimbledon High School and studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Becoming a BBC news trainee in 1990, Samira was a BBC journalist between 1994 to 1997 working as a presenter on BBC World and BBC News 24. She became the BBC's Los Angeles correspondent and covered the OJ Simpson trial, before working as a political correspondent in Berlin for Deutsche Welle TV. She joined Channel 4 News in April 2000 and became a presenter in July 2002. In June 2011 Samira left Channel 4, and went freelance. She presented The World Tonight on Radio Four.

This event is for: Everyone

Primary Teacher Education (Work Based) Open Evening

Are you a teaching assistant and would like to work towards becoming a fully qualified teacher?

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate / Academic community

English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

Fighting Father Time: Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Modern Adolescence with speaker Dr Pam Thurschwell, University of Sussex

This event is for: Everyone

Brookes Science Bazaar - 'Our World in Motion'

This event is for: Public

Henry VIII, Jupiter and the REF: Building Research Relationships

This event is for: Everyone

Postgraduate Law Open Evening

Come to our stunning location at Headington Hill Hall to learn more about the GDL and LPC at Oxford Brookes. There will be a series of talks, campus tours and the opportunity to chat to tutors and students over tea and coffee

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Current students - undergraduate

Talking Blues

Professor Paul Oliver will be talking to us about his first hand field work interviewing blues singers, from the very famous who recorded extensively, to singers known only in their local community from the rural south to the urban north. The audience will have the pleasure to listen to some of Professor Oliver’s original recordings with the blues.

This event is for: Everyone

First Annual Hamdi Lecture with Mr George Alagiah

This year Oxford Brookes University will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its Masters degree course in Development and Emergency Practice. To mark the occasion we will be holding the inaugural Hamdi Lecture, named after Professor Nabeel Hamdi , who originated the course that focuses on the practical challenges of working in humanitarian aid.

This event is for: Everyone

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders' in Europe, 1400-1800

A conference designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the 'social margins'. It is not designed to be all-encompassing in terms of the groups considered. Instead, it is structured around key themes: health, family life, the law and work.

This event is for: Academic community

English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

Romantic Scotland: South Britain's Paradox with speaker Professor Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow

This event is for: Everyone

Solihull College Adult and HE Open Day

Open day at Solihull College, one of Oxford Brookes University's partner colleges. An opportunity to find out more about studying a Brookes degree at Solihull College.

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

Business School Postgraduate Open Evening

This Open Evening provides you with information about the many different Postgraduate programmes available at Oxford Brookes University Business School.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

Thinking ahead - moving away from the noun-centric approach to MFL

This course enables delegates to reflect upon the nature of the traditional noun-centric approach to MFL, where the teacher introduces from the front and then sets a series of tasks. This course aims to look at ways to hand more responsibility for the direction of learning over to the pupils and also how to generate further spontaneous use of Target Language.

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Current students - postgraduate taught / Current students - postgraduate research / Academic community

Children and young people's needs and rights: community challenges, community solutions? by Helen Marshall

The Seminar Series has been established for leaders and senior practitioners in organisations commissioning and providing community and public services. Don't miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with senior colleagues, policy makers and academics at the forefront of strategy, practice and thinking, and providing new solutions to current professional challenges.

This event is for: Everyone

Postgraduate Law Open Day

Come to our stunning location at Headington Hill Hall to learn more about the GDL and LPC at Oxford Brookes. There will be a series of talks, campus tours and the opportunity to chat to tutors and students over tea and coffee

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Current students - undergraduate

University Postgraduate Fair

University-wide postgraduate recruitment fair

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research / Current students - undergraduate / Current students - postgraduate taught

Operating Department Practice Open Day, Swindon

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

Adult Nursing Open Day, Swindon

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

Gestures of the Hand in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis with speaker Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, London Shakespeare Centre and King's College, London

This event is for: Everyone

How to Change the World!

Melody Hossani ‘06, Businesswomen, Social Entrepreneur and star of BBC 1’s ‘The Apprentice’ will be talking about the founding of her social enterprise InspirEngage International and its’ work and how we can create impact in whatever our chosen field to be able to change the world!

This event is for: Everyone

International Law and International Relations: Towards Transnationalism and Transdisciplinarity

The relationship between law and politics has fascinated Professor Noortmann ever since he was a student. Through his work with and within non-governmental organisations in the fields of environment, development and humanitarian aid, his lecture will discuss the gap between the rules and the realities of transnational co-operation.

This event is for: Everyone

Business School Postgraduate Open Morning

This Open Morning provides you with information about the Oxford Brookes MBA as well as the many different Postgraduate programmes available at Oxford Brookes University Business School.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

Economic Uncertainty: Leadership Teams Rediscover Market Analysis

Companies’ leadership teams are striving to understand changing market dynamics, recognising that revenue streams are under threat. New propositions are required that are relevant to customers' changing values, which also fend off embattled rivals. As a result, many leadership terms are turning to core marketing analyses and strategic marketing tools. Today, it is most likely the CEO, COO and CFO utilising these tools. This lecture provides an insight into the emerging strategizing process for market-led risk assessment, identifying opportunities, strategic trade-offs and planning. Lyndon Simkin is Professor of Strategic Marketing at Oxford Brookes University. Previously he was at Warwick Business School, as FT MBA Director and then Director of the MSc in Marketing & Strategy. Lyndon is a consultant to many blue chip corporations, a recognised High Court expert witness in cases of marketing and business planning litigation, as well as the author of numerous books for practitioners and students.

This event is for: Everyone

Developments in social finance and investment models by Tim Jones and Casey Lord

The Seminar Series has been established for leaders and senior practitioners in organisations commissioning and providing community and public services. Don't miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with senior colleagues, policy makers and academics at the forefront of strategy, practice and thinking, and providing new solutions to current professional challenges.

This event is for: Everyone

Postgraduate Law Open Day

Come to our stunning location at Headington Hill Hall to learn more about the GDL and LPC at Oxford Brookes. There will be a series of talks, campus tours and the opportunity to chat to tutors and students over tea and coffee

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Current students - undergraduate

Business School Postgraduate Open Evening

This Open Evening provides you with information about the Professional Development Programmes available at Oxford Brookes University Business School.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

Movement Prints

This talk will discuss work with the Movement Science Group at Oxford Brookes University evaluating factors affecting optimal human performance in health and disease – from investigating how the brain and muscles enable us to move, through developing tools to measure movement in the real world, to exploring how movement through exercise can benefit health, wellbeing and quality of life for all.

This event is for: Everyone

Law Open Day

Come to our stunning location at Headington Hill Hall to learn more about the GDL and LPC at Oxford Brookes. There will be a series of talks, campus tours and the opportunity to chat to tutors and students over tea and coffee

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Current students - undergraduate

Open Day June 2012

A university-wide open day for prospective undergraduate students for 2013 entry.

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

Solihull College Adults Open Evening

Open Evening at Swindon College, one of Oxford Brookes University's partner colleges. An opportunity for potential adult learners find out about getting a Brookes University qualification at Solihull College.

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate / Prospective students - postgraduate taught

ASKe Plagiarism Event 2012: Institutional Policies and Procedures for Managing Student Plagiarism

This one day event will explore current issues and strategies for managing student plagiarism in higher education. It will focus on developing institutional approaches, policies and practice. There will be opportunities to discuss current concerns, share good practice and consider valuable developments.

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Staff - research / Academic community

Early Intervention: working with families and community budgets by Katy Burch

The Seminar Series has been established for leaders and senior practitioners in organisations commissioning and providing community and public services. Don't miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with senior colleagues, policy makers and academics at the forefront of strategy, practice and thinking, and providing new solutions to current professional challenges.

Software Engineering in the 21st Century

Rapid changes in technology are leading to new ways to engineer software. However, many of the problems of earlier decades are starting to re-emerge as problems in new areas, such as the design of mobile applications and sociotechnical systems. This lecture reviews progress so far, the role of empirical research methods and the design of usable systems. Rachel asks how we can make sure that people’s requirements are at the forefront of system design.

This event is for: Everyone

Business School Postgraduate Open Morning

This Open Morning provides you with information about the many different Postgraduate programmes available at Oxford Brookes University Business School.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

Operating Department Practice Open Day, Swindon

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

Adult Nursing Open Day in Swindon

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

A new KS4: Active language learning for engagement and independence

This module helps colleagues to motivate and engage able pupils in the classroom who may be compelled by their schools into taking a language at KS4 but who have little interest in and who see little value of languages.

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Current students - postgraduate taught / Current students - postgraduate research / Academic community

University Postgraduate Fair

University-wide postgraduate recruitment fair

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

ASKe one day Feedback Event 2012: 'New Perspectives on Feedback'

Feedback continues to disappoint students in higher education and this seems likely to intensify with the new fees regime. This one day event aims to support those grappling with this problem by bringing together expertise in research, innovative approaches and the student voice in order to generate debate, analysis and ideas to take away.

This event is for: Staff - teaching / Staff - research / Staff - support / Academic community

Undertaking a PhD in substance misuse: a one-day national symposium

This event is for: Academic community

Community leadership: new solutions, effective models by Matthew Taylor

The Seminar Series has been established for leaders and senior practitioners in organisations commissioning and providing community and public services. Don't miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with senior colleagues, policy makers and academics at the forefront of strategy, practice and thinking, and providing new solutions to current professional challenges.

Business School Postgraduate Open Morning

This Open Morning provides you with information about the many different Postgraduate programmes available at Oxford Brookes University Business School.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

Postgraduate Law Open Day

Come to our stunning location at Headington Hill Hall to learn more about the GDL and LPC at Oxford Brookes. There will be a series of talks, campus tours and the opportunity to chat to tutors and students over tea and coffee

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Current students - undergraduate

Business School Postgraduate Open Evening

This Open Evening provides you with information about the many different Postgraduate programmes available at Oxford Brookes University Business School.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research

Religion, Education and Critical Realism: an inter-disciplinary dialogue

The inaugural conference for the International Association for Religion, Education and Critical Realism brings together academics, researchers and classroom practitioners to engage in dialogue at the interface of Religion, Education and Critical Realism. It is hoped to foster an exchange of ideas and methods, leading to the development of theory, research and practice. Selected papers will also be published in an edited volume to further inspire and support the ongoing dialogue.

This event is for: Everyone

Open Day October 2012

A university-wide open day for prospective undergraduate students for 2013 entry.

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

Open Day November 2012

A university-wide open day for prospective undergraduate students for 2013 entry.

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate