Mrs Claire MacLeod

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Research at Oxford applies high standards of integrity, transparency and responsibility. Across the UK and internationally, research is also subject to careful monitoring and increasingly principled evaluation. While standards exist for responsible research practice, equivalent evidence-informed expectations have not been articulated in relation to KEEI activities. The Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact 2021-24 (RKEEI) project has undertaken research through documentary analysis, literature reviews, interviews and workshops bringing together KEEI professionals, senior leadership and researchers at all career stages to conceptualise RKEEI practice and co-create a framework to support responsible KEEI practices. s, literature reviews, interviews and workshops bringing together KEEI professionals, senior leadership and researchers at all career stages to conceptualise RKEEI practice and co-create a framework to support responsible KEEI practices.

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<jats:p>This paper offers an overview of the 1950s American quiz show scandal that revolved around the ‘rigging’ of CBS and NBC programs The $64,000 Question and Twenty-One during an unprecedented transformation and rapid growth of the postwar American media landscape.</jats:p>

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Few flowers can claim to have more of an influence on human history than the Tulip. They are best remembered as the object of inflated expectation during the Dutch ‘Tulipmania’ in the early 17th century. This famous financial bubble, which was largely driven by wealthy investors, saw the price of tulip bulbs climb to extraordinary heights in the 1630s. Even after prices tanked in 1637, the tulip remained an elite commodity. As interest in cultivating exotic and distinguished gardens increased throughout the seventeenth century, the tulip took on new meanings as a symbol of personal distinction and connoisseurship.

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I recently began a project exploring the life of Elisabeth Blochmann (1892-1972), an education scholar who taught German literature at the University of Oxford from 1933 to 1952. Blochmann is often remembered today for her life-long correspondence with Martin Heidegger but little is known about her own life and accomplishments (at least amongst English-speaking academics). In an effort to uncover her legacy, I have carried out archival work at Lady Margaret Hall, the Bodleian Library Special Collections, and in the Taylorean Library Fiedler Collection. This research has allowed me to build an intellectual portrait of a lost scholar.