Our recently appointed professors from across our six departments will be presenting the story of their route to professor, and the achievements that have brought them to this point. Between them, they will provide insight into the many different ways academics can demonstrate their contributions to academic life across the spectrum of research, teaching, and management and leadership activity.
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2024/25 lectures
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September
Sugar, Dice, and all things Precise
- Host: Professor Javier Gonzalez
- Date: Wednesday, 18 September 2024
- Time: 5.30 - 6.30 pm
- Location: East Building, University of Bath
In this inaugural lecture, Javier will cover his career to date, including where he and his team have studied effects of nutrition and exercise on health and performance. This includes addressing questions such as:
- How do we get fuel from our diet?
- How do we burn different fuels during exercise?
- How can we safely store fuels when they exceed our requirements?
The practical implications of these questions include, manipulating timing of meals around exercise to increase training adaptations, metabolic health effects of restricting sugar intakes and/or total carbohydrate intakes (e.g., ketogenic diets), and altering the types of sugars to improve health and athletic performance.
In addition to studying these questions with a scientific lens, Javier will draw upon some of his experiences from world-tour cycling and how science can be translated into practice.
Language, Education and Global Social Justice
- Host: Professor Lizzi Milligan
- Date: Wednesday 25 September 2024
- Time: TBC
- Location: TBC
October
Thinking about politics in the polycrisis
- Host: Professor Peter Allen
- Date: Wednesday 2 October 2024
- Time: 6.15pm – 7.15pm
- Location: The Chancellor’s Building, Room 2.6
It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by politics. At a time when many of us want to grasp what is going on, it is getting harder to do so. Rather than becoming caught up in the swirl of day-to-day events, Peter Allen suggests that we instead return to the fundamentals and cultivate a set of tools and perspectives to help us interpret what many social scientists refer to as the ‘polycrisis’. In this lecture, which draws on his forthcoming book How to Think About Politics (Oxford University Press, 2025), Allen mixes contemporary political science research with real-life examples to focus on five ideas - power, representation, knowledge, interests, and possibility - that can help us understand current political events in a more productive way. Underlining the importance of these five fundamental political ideas, Allen makes the case that the scope of what politics is and what it can achieve is often greater than we are told.
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- Host: Professor Felia Allum
- Date: Thursday 17 October 2024
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- Host: Professor Jason Hart
- Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024
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November
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- Host: Professor Nathalie Gjersoe
- Date: Wednesday 20 November 2024
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- Host: Professor Leslie Wehner
- Date: Wednesday 27 November 2024
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December
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- Host: Professor Emma Carmel
- Date: Wednesday 11 December 2024
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January 2025
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- Host: Professor Ana Dinerstein
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February 2025
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- Host: Professor Gail Forey
- Date: Thursday, 6 February 2025
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- Host: Professor Sarah Moore
- Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2025
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