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.
2024/25 lectures
We will update lecture titles when they're available; please check this page regularly as details may change.
June
Progress, Peril, & Polarisation: Mechanisms of Mobilisation in the Digital Age
- Host: Professor Laura Smith
- Date: Wednesday, 12 June 2024
- Time: 4.15 - 5.15 pm (BST)
- Location: 10 West, Room 2.47
People and groups use networked digital technologies to communicate with - and influence - each other. Whilst these technologies can be useful for social change and political engagement, their use also carries risks – and a plethora of social, political, and psychological harms can result. Indeed, phenomena such as online polarisation, radicalisation, and mobilisation are intricately connected – to each other and to the affordances of digital networked devices.
This talk examines risks and threats that arise from digital communication, and the opportunities for anticipating and mitigating harms and encouraging political engagement. It highlights how human psychology and behaviour interact with the affordances of digital communication technologies – and how this can produce both progress, and peril.
From Movement Coordination to Institutional Coordination
- Host: Professor Cassie Wilson
- Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2024
- Time: 6 - 7 pm (BST)
- Location: University Hall
In this lecture, Cassie will discuss her journey from research in human movement coordination and its associated variability, to her role in senior leadership as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Student Experience). The lecture will consider some of the similarities between the two very different elements of her role and the transition between them.
September
Sugar, Dice, and all things Precise
- Host: Professor Javier Gonzalez
- Date: Wednesday, 18 September 2024
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- Host: Professor Lizzi Milligan
- Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2024
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October
Thinking about politics in the polycrisis
- Host: Professor Peter Allen
- Date: Wednesday, 2 October 2024
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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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