Welcome to the Metrics and Models homepage!
Welcome to the Metrics and Models homepage!
Hi! We are a group of health and social data scientists located at the University of Oxford. This is a website dedicated to our lab’s seminar series, which is open to all.
Note: We are in the process of moving our events from OxTalks to OxEvents. Please see our current schedule at the bottom of this page for now.
Frequency and Timing: Every other Thursday at 14:00 UTC.
Open to Everyone! Importantly, this seminar series is open to everyone. We’ve tried to schedule it at a time of day that’s hopefully roughly equitable to people in the Americas and Asia all the same. It is not just limited to academics: attendees are welcome from all (e.g., private, public, third) sectors!
Focus: We have a focus on the metrics and models used across health and social data science. This is a very broad church.
Place: The seminar series will be held online for now. In the future, we are hoping to host the talks in a hybrid fashion, where\when we are able to invite speakers to talk in person.
Registration: To register, send a blank email or otherwise to metrics_and_models-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk (replace the ‘ [at] ‘ with ‘@’); this is preferred, as you’ll automatically get added to all forthcoming talks upon reply. See our maillist page here to subscribe to the list directly if you have an Oxford SSO. Alternatively, click here to access a form to register, and we will (~weekly) add new registrants from that onto the maillist.
Interested in Presenting?: If you’re interested in presenting something to this seminar series, we have a form here!
Off-weeks: We’ll be meeting as a local ‘lab’ in the off-weeks. Details are here. These will feature informal presentations for feedback, general updates, and discussions re: potential collaboration/opportunities. If you’re interested in coming along to these offline meetings (or just want to chat), please get in touch with us at metrics_and_models_mgmt [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk.
Who: In alphabetical order, we are Charlie, Anda, Daniel, Jiani, Luc, Mark, Ridhi, and Xiaowen. Our organisational team are part of the Demographic Science Unit, Engineering Science, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Sociology.
Previous Talks: Details on previous talks can be found here.
Forthcoming Talks: Please find below the details of some forthcoming talks held as part of the Metrics and Models seminar series:
| Speaker | Date | Title | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lai Wei | 14:00 BST, 28th May, 2026 | Using AI Predictions to Augment Rather Than Replacing Surveys | More details |
| Jakub Bijak | 14:00 BST, 11th June, 2026 | Models as Theory-Building Machines? Insights from Agent-Based Simulations of Human Migration | More details |
| Eric Schneider | 14:00 BST, 25th June, 2026 | Transport and the Transmission of Plague across Settlements in Early Modern England | More details |
| Jacob Walker | 14:00 BST, 6th August, 2026 | TBC | More details |
| Per Engzell | 14:00 BST, 20th August, 2026 | The Paper Factory | More details |
