Lecture: Science

19thMarch2025
Muffy Calder

A day in the life of a computational modeller
Professor Dame Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow

19thFebruary2025
Sarah Hart

A mathematical journey through literature
Professor Sarah Hart

5thFebruary2025

Earth and ecological sciences: natural justice
Professor Lorna Dawson, James Hutton Institute

22ndJanuary2025

Locusts, plagues and other disasters: why we’re made to survive adversity
Professor Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow

8thJanuary2025

A human modified biosphere and its Anthropocene fossil signature
Professor Mark Williams, University of Leicester

13thNovember2024

The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere
Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, University of Cambridge

30thOctober2024
Marika Taylor
Kelvin Lecture

From black holes to quantum computers
Professor Marika Taylor, University of Birmingham

20thMarch2024

The exquisite machine: the new science of the heart
Professor Sian Harding

6thMarch2024

Towards a public bioethics
Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley

10thJanuary2024

Back to the beginning of time; exploring the mysteries of star and galaxy formation with the James Webb Space Telescope
Dr David Rosario

13thDecember2023
Kelvin Lecture

Does God play dice? – Kelvin Lecture
Professor Miles Padgett

1stNovember2023

Changing Places: Migration and Climate Change
Professor Neil Adger

18thOctober2023

The Great Auk: greed, death and regret
Professor Tim Birkhead

5thApril2023

From beast machines to dreamachines
Professor Anil Seth

26thOctober2022

Making a materials difference to Green Energy (batteries included)
Professor Saiful Islam

12thOctober2022

The impact of brain injury on vision: what does this teach us about how our minds see?
Professor Gordon Dutton

23rdFebruary2022

The Thoughts the Civilized Keep: How to Reclaim Human Intelligence in an Age of Machine Thinking
Professor Shannon Vallor

8thDecember2021

The making, keeping and losing of memory
Prof. Richard Morris

1stDecember2021

The Gendered Brain: Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or are we asking the wrong question?
Professor Gina Rippon

1stSeptember2021

Bestriding the world stage like a Colossus? Or “Doomed, we’re all Doomed!”
Baroness Young

28thJuly2021

The climate emergency in Scotland – what can we do about it?
Pete Smith

17thMarch2021

Is vitamin D the ‘sunshine superstar’ or is it all media hype?
Professor Susan Lanham-New

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