Rewley House Lecture Series - Oxford Lifelong Learning

Free public lectures at Oxford University

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The Rewley House Lecture Series is an opportunity to experience the extraordinarily diverse research interests of academics from across and beyond Oxford Lifelong Learning, and to participate in multidisciplinary debate.

Lectures are free and open to all.

TRINITY TERM 2026 LECTURE

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Schrödinger’s Trucker: Presence and Absence in Mobile Freight Work

Thursday 16 June 2026, 5.30pm (17:30 BST)

This free lecture from Dr Debbie Hopkins uses ‘Schrödinger’s Trucker’ as a metaphor to describe the ways through which mobile workers are simultaneously present and absent in discourse, policy and practice.

This event has now taken place and a recording will be added here soon.

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