What's on at Brookes

The role of hostels and night shelters in supporting homeless drug users: road show

This event is for: Public

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

International Fascination of Plants Day

Join Oxford Brookes' Plant Cell Biology team at the Botanic Garden in Oxford.

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

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

Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor

The John Wesley Lecture will be given by Isabel Rivers, Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London and Co-Director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies

This event is for: Academic community

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

Pedagogy Research Centre Seminar: 'Curriculum Reform at the University of Hong Kong - Assessing Employability Skills'

Curriculum reform involves changes in educational system, program structures and objectives, leading to changes in approaches to teaching and students’ learning outcomes. This seminar/workshop will show how assessment is transforming in Hong Kong higher education and the topic of assessing employability will be explored.

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

Excellence through meaningful mathematics

A Primary partnerships schools conference with keynote speaker Lynne McClure, Project director of NRICH

This event is for: Invite only

Understanding Dementia

A study day open to professionals, students and carers in Health Care and Social Work and anyone interested in finding out more about Dementia

This event is for: Everyone

The Royal Touch in England, 1680-85: The Rise of Scepticism, the Orthodox Response, and the Duke of Monmouth Affair

Lecture by Dr Stephen Brogan (Birkbeck University of London)

This event is for: Academic community

Open Day June 2012

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

This event is for: Prospective students - undergraduate

PGCE Teacher Training Open Day

The PGCE Open Day is for anyone who is thinking of becoming a teacher and wants to find out more about our PGCE Primary and Secondary / Post compulsory teacher training courses.

This event is for: 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

Performance Poetry in Oxford

This evening will feature five of Oxford’s best performance poets, an open mic session, and a guest headlining act

This event is for: Everyone

Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History Annual Colloquium

The subject for this year's colloquium will be 'Perspectives on Secularisation' with speakers including Professor JCD Clark, University of Kansas and Professor Callum Brown of Dundee University

This event is for: Academic community

Public Lecture Giving Children Voice: Empowering Pedagogy

A celebratory public lecture marking the retirement of Simon Catling, Professor of Primary Education.

This event is for: Everyone

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

Brookes Learning and Teaching Conference & Exhibition 2012

The annual, university-wide conference and exhibition focusing on teaching and learning ideas and innovations. This year's theme is Student 2012. All welcome.

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

University Postgraduate Fair (rescheduled for Wednesday 4 July)

University-wide postgraduate recruitment fair - rescheduled for Wednesday 4 July

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

Postgraduate Law Open Day

Come and visit us at our beautiful and historic setting in Headington Hill Hall and learn more about how our GDL and LPC courses help postgraduates gain the professional qualifications needed to become lawyers and barristers. There will be talks from academic staff on both courses, a current student sharing their experiences of studying with us, campus tours and the opportunity to chat to tutors over tea and coffee.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught

University Postgraduate Fair (rescheduled from 27 June)

University-wide postgraduate recruitment fair

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

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

Building Networks in Addiction Studies (BNAS) E-Conference

This event is for: Current students - postgraduate research

Eco-Evo-Devo Postgraduate Summer School

The summer school will provide postgraduate students with the opportunity to explore key questions and experimental approaches in ecological evolutionary developmental biology with leading scientists in this field.

This event is for: Prospective students - postgraduate taught / Prospective students - postgraduate research / Current students - undergraduate / Current students - postgraduate taught / Current students - postgraduate research / Academic community / Business community / Alumni

5th International Systems Radiation Biology Workshop

This event is for: Current students - postgraduate research

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

Oxford and Manchester Methodist Studies Seminar: Manchester

The theme of the seminar is the Ejection of 1662, Samuel Wesley and Methodism

This event is for: Academic community