Inaugural Professorial Lectures

Professor David Murdoch's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Wednesday, 26 February 2014.

Professor David Gerrard's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 1 April 2014.

Professor Mark Hampton's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Wednesday, 26 March 2014.

Professor Chris Charles' Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Wednesday, 12 February 2014.

Professor Gary Hooper's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Wednesday, 19 February 2014.

Professor Margreet Vissers' Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Wednesday, 5 March 2014.

Professor Julian Eaton-Rye's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 10 December 2013.

Professor Rachel Spronken-Smith, Dean of the Graduate Research School, delivers her Inaugural Professorial Lecture: “Educating Undergraduates for Uncertain Futures”. 3 December 2013

Professor Rachel Spronken-Smith's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 3rd of December 2013. Rachel discusses the value of engaging undergraduate students in research. She explores the graduate attributes that are developed in this way, and other ways of reinforcing this learning, such as reflective and evaluative practice.

Professor Parry Guilford's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 29 October 2013.

Professor Richard Jackson of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture: “The discursive construction of social practice, or, how stories make our world”. 22 October 2013

Professor Wayne Gillett's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 8 October 2013.

Professor Dirk De Ridder's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 24 September 2013.

Professor Anthony Robins' Inaugural Public Lecture covered his passions for memory, for teaching and for education in the wider context. He explains how memory works, and the way the brain retrieves information; he discusses his work with robotics clubs in intermediate schools, and his work in developing new programming courses for the secondary school curriculum. 17 September 2013

Professor Elaine Reese delivered her Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the 3rd of September 2013. Elaine's research focuses on the importance of rich reminiscing between parent and their children - its importance for the development of language, vocabulary, memory, elf-concept and well-being in children, adolescents and young adults.

Professor Alison Rich's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 27 August 2013.

Professor Jon Water's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 6th of August 2013. Jon talks about genetics and how DNA can be used to map extinction and recolonization - for plants as well as animals. He talks about populations of freshwater galaxiids that have been separated by geological events, and about prehistoric sealions and penguins that became extinct with human colonisation, and how new populations have then taken the place of those prehistoric species.

ProfessorDavid Wharton's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 23rd of July 2013. David talks about the importance of nematodes, and his particular research interests in how nematodes cope with the stress of extreme cold in Antarctica.

Professor Russell Frew's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 2nd of July 2013. Russell talks about using stable isotope ratios as "fingerprints" to trace points of origin. This research technique has practical applications in food traceability, biosecurity and forensics. Russell is currently based at the IAEA.

"Free radicals spark the fires of inflammation", Professor Tony Kettle's IPL, Wednesday 13 March 2013