Upcoming Events

Talking to machines – virtual workshop

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May schedule

Friday 3rd May 3.30-4.30pm (UK)
Presentation Title: TBC
Ben Lira Luttges (University of Pennsylvania)
Friday 10th May 3.00-4.00pm (UK)
Presentation Title: TBC
Apostolos Filippas (Fordham University)

Delivering Health Innovation in Resource-Constrained Settings: Medical Breakthroughs into Development Outcomes

From cutting-edge vaccine trials to behavioural insights for public health and global policy debates — don’t miss this event featuring leading researchers from the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, King’s College London, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

Date: Monday, 23^rd June 2025, from 1pm.
Location: Manor Road Building, Oxford, OX1 3UQ.
Speakers: Niccolò Francesco Meriggi, Mehreen Datoo, Katy Kuhrt, Alice Beardmore-Gray, Ray Duch, Stefan Dercon, David Kinder CBE, Dan Hogan
More info: https://economics.web.ox.ac.uk/research-jamboree-2025

Large Language Models workshop

Wednesday, 25^th June
Carlos III University – Madrid, Spain

Livia Schubiger (D-GESS, ETH Zurich) & Raymond Duch (University of Oxford) are organizing an EPSA Madrid 2025 pre-conference that will assemble researchers working with Large Language Models (LLMs). The focus will be on the application of LLMs to research being conducted in the social sciences.

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Workshop on the 2024 U.S. Presential Election Polling

Date: Monday, 25^th November 2024
Time: 9.30am – 5pm
Location: Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford (UK)

The post-election workshop is an opportunity to critically assess the various data collection and modeling strategies employed for pre-election estimates of the vote share of the major U.S. presidential candidates over the course of the campaign. Leading pollsters from academia and industry will critically assess the state of pre-election polling in the aftermath of the 2024 Presidential Elections.