This lecture will introduce the Brontë sisters and Jane Eyre, exploring its style, themes, key passages, and debates around Rochester, narration, the supernatural, and the novel’s controversial dedication to Thackeray.
Course Start Month: March
R for Statistical Significance Tests
Learn how to perform several highly useful statistical significance and hypothesis tests in R at this online day school. This includes, but is not limited to, t-tests, A/B, permutation, ANOVA, chi-squared, Fisher’s Exact and Shapiro-Wilk tests.
Write Your Life: An Introduction to Short-Form Memoir and Creative Non-Fiction
Life writing – whether memoir, biography, literary non-fiction, eye-witness accounts, blogs (the list goes on) – can be very powerful when told with brevity. Short-form writing is an end in itself; it also helps us focus on our writerly craft.
Creative Writing: Story Development
A weekend exploring novel and short-story writing: genre, character development, research, plot development, scene-setting, metaphor, narrative voice, first-draft completion. A fun, interactive event for writers with some previous experience.
Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology offers a direct approach to help people create strategies towards wellbeing. Changing our interpretation of the world can help us feel happier, healthier, more positive, and become more resilient. Learn more at this online workshop.
The History of Oxford’s Women
From St Frideswide to Vice Chancellor Irene Tracey, women have always been active in Oxford, even if the University long chose to ignore them. On this walking tour, we’ll uncover the stories of some of Oxford’s most fascinating women.
The Brontës Fiction
This lecture series will explore the lives and works of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë, examining how their remarkable imaginations produced six original, complex, and ground-breaking novels despite their confined lives.
Women and Children During the English Civil Wars
This day school will uncover the neglected roles of women and children during the British Civil Wars (1638–1660). Speakers will address how such people participated in these revolutionary events, and in what ways they looked back on them afterwards.
The Origins of Hominin Tool Making
The oldest known stone tools date back 3.3 million years and pre-date the first appearance of the genus Homo. Join us to explore tool making among our early hominin ancestors from the earliest probable origins to the comparatively advanced Oldowan.
The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo: Ashmolean Tour
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings, sculptures and writings
Meta-analysis
Basic and advanced statistical methods for meta-analysis.
Fish and Amphibian Survey Methods
Part-time over five weeks, this tutor-led training course can be taken from anywhere in the world. It will appeal to students and practitioners who want to improve their ability to conduct fish and amphibian surveys.