Inaugural lectures
Past Inaugural Lectures - 2012 / 2013
- Professor Tracy Bhamra, Loughborough Design School
Designing the Future
Wednesday 15 May, 2013 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building)
- Professor Richard Giulianotti, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Playing a New Global Game?
Wednesday 17 April, 2013 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Bucur Mircea Novac, School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Pulsed Power: The most powerful pack a punch solution
Wednesday 20 March, 2013 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03 (Wolfson Building) - Professor Ruth Kinna, Department of Politics, History and International Relations
"Self seekers, Madmen and Poets"
Wednesday 27th February, 2013 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Tarek Hassan, School of Civil and Building Engineering
Construction Informatics: From simple tools to smart buildings
Wednesday 6th February, 2013 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03 (Wolfson Building) - Professor Ilan Oshri, School of Business and Economics
Global sourcing or sourcing the globe?
Wednesday 16th January, 2013 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Ray Dawson, Department of Computer Science
Being Right is Not Good Enough – Why knowledge management initiatives fail
Wednesday 5th December, 2012 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Stewart Robinson, School of Business and Economics
Simple Models for a Complex World
Wednesday 14th November, 2012 at 5pm, light refreshments served from 4.30pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Shahin Rahimifard, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
How can we 'manufacture' a sustainable future for 9 billion people?
Wednesday 24th October, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03 (Wolfson Building) - Professor Richard Stobart, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
What is the future for Diesel's engine?
Wednesday 3rd October, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03 (Wolfson Building) - Professor Andy West, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Intelligent and Integrated Systems: why I love engineering and sport and physics and …
Wednesday 20th June, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03 (Wolfson Building) - Professor Huaizhong Zhao, School of Mathematics
Stochastic (Partial) Differential Equations and Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Wednesday 30th May, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03 (Wolfson Building) - Professor Clive Edwards, School of the Arts
The chair: just somewhere to sit?
Wednesday 18th April, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Elizabeth Stokoe, Department of Social Sciences
The Systematics of Social Interaction
Wednesday 21st March, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Alistair Milne, School of Business and Economics
Risk Appetite and Risk Aggregation: Do banks understand what they are doing?
Wednesday 29th February, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Barry Sharp, Department of Chemistry
From Laboratory to Clinic - Analytical Chemistry in Action
Wednesday 8th February, 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Graham Matthews, Department of Information Science
'Why do you always keep your records in the basement?’ Library preservation and disaster management
Wednesday 18th January 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB 014, Stewart Mason Building
Past Inaugural Lectures - 2011
The following Inaugural Lectures took place in 2011
- Professor Moya Lloyd, Politics, History and International Relations Department
Political Theory and its ‘others’
Wednesday 7th December, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Professor Jonathon Chambers, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department
Signal Processing Based Solutions to the Machine Cocktail Party Problem
Wednesday 16th November, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03, Wolfson Building - Professor Jeremy Coupland, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Making light work for us
Wednesday 26th October, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03, Wolfson Building - Professor Tony Croft, Mathematics Education Centre
Making it all add up! The changing landscape of mathematics support in higher education
Wednesday 5th October, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 (Stewart Mason Building) - Professor Paul Thomas, Department of Chemistry
Scents and sensing-ability
Wednesday 8th June, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Professor Weeratunge Malalasekera, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
How can Combustion and Radiation Modelling help Our Changing Planet?
Wednesday 25th May, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03, Wolfson Building - Professor Laurie Cohen, School of Business and Economics
Imagining careers
Wednesday 11th May, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Professor Mike Jackson,Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
From Textile Lace to Turbine Blades: Why is Mechatronics Important?
Wednesday 23rd March, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre T.0.03, Wolfson Building - Professor Barry Bogin, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Human Life History Evolution: Déjà vu All Over Again
Wednesday 2nd March, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Professor Philip Stern, School of Business and Economics
Myths, reality and the importance of brands
Wednesday 9th February, 2011 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building
Past Inaugural Lectures - 2010
The following Inaugural Lectures took place in 2010.
- Creating an inquiry culture in mathematics learning and teaching
Professor Barbara Jaworski, Mathematics Education Centre
Wednesday 20th January at 5.00pm
CC.0.11 - James France Building - How to Predict Landslides
Professor Neil Dixon, Civil and Building Engineering
Wednesday 10th February at 5.00pm
T.0.03 - Wolfson Building - Lakes and global environmental change
Professor John Anderson, Geography
Wednesday 3rd March at 5.00pm
SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Improving operations management via operational research
Professor Jiyin Liu, Business School
Wednesday 24th March at 5.00pm
SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Bustin' in on my dreams - making me see things I don't wanna see
Professor Alastair Gale, Computer Science
Wednesday 21st April at 5.00pm
SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Art Matters
Professor Marsha Meskimmon, School of Art and Design
Wednesday 12th May at 5.00pm
CC.0.11 - James France Building - How far can we go with the internal combustion engine?
Professor Colin Garner, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Wednesday 2nd June at 5.30pm
T.0.03 - Wolfson Building - Jam Tomorrow – a view of Computational Intelligence
Professor Chris Hinde, Department of Computer Science
Wednesday 23rd June at 5.00pm
SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building - Plasma Medicine – from electrically triggered sparks to new healthcare therapies
Professor Michael Kong, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Wednesday 27th October, 2010 at 5pm
T.0.03 - Wolfson Building - Fluxon cloning, superconducting brains and new approaches to electronics
Professor Feo Kusmartsev, Department of Physics
Wednesday 17th November, 2010 at 5pm
T.0.03 - Wolfson Building - Mutually Contradictory Spaces: Negotiating Virtual Spaces of Consumption
Professor Angus Laing, School of Business and Economics
Wednesday 8th December, 2010 at 5pm
SMB.0.14 - Stewart Mason Building
Past Inaugural Lectures - 2009
The following Inaugural Lectures took place in 2009.
- Spinning around polymers
Professor Sanjay Rastogi, Department of Materials
February 25, 2009 - How Does Work Cause Stress?
Professor Kevin Daniels, Business School
March 18, 2009 - Life, the Universe and Everything
Professor Steve Fletcher, Department of Chemistry
April 22, 2009
- The Role of Technology and Innovation in Sport
Professor Mike Caine, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
May 20, 2009
» Watch a video of the lecture - The Evolution of the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Project through a Gendered Lens
Professor Barbara Bagilhole, Department of Social Sciences
June 17, 2009 - Zero CO2 Transportation
Professor Rob Thring, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
September 30, 2009 - Surface Waves
Professor Chris Linton, School of Mathematics
November 11, 2009 - The uses of intentionality and other psychological concepts in conversation
Professor Derek Edwards, Department of Social Sciences
November 25, 2009