Best of Bristol Lecturers

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Best of Bristol 2020

Prof Fred Manby, Quantum mechanics: by the people, for the people
Dr Keir Williams, Disability, Innovation, and Cultures: Lovely Cats Made of Care Bears' Leggings
Dr Julie Dickson, My top 5 favourite 'bits' of veterinary anatomy
Dr Hermes Gadelha, The great sperm race: how maths is changing our understanding of fertility
Prof Andy Radford, Changing the song of the sea
Dr Nadia Aghtaie, The intangibility and invisibility of liberty crimes in private and public spheres
Dr Michael Malay, Radical Hope?

Dr Alix Dietzel, How Just is the Global Response to Climate Change?
Dr Jamie Lawson, Over the rainbow: a brief (social) history of queer resistance
Dr Mark Schenk, Folding the Future: How Origami is Transforming Engineering
Tricha Passes, Café Cosmopolitanism in a Pre Starbucks Age: Paris Internationalism pre WW1
Dr Thomas Jordan, Can Mathematics Improve Your Baking?
Prof Emma Robinson, Are drugs of abuse the solution to treating depression?
Dr Gervas Huxley, Alexander Hamilton and the development of the American single market
Prof Chris Willmore, What is a Sustainable Future?
Dr Bex Lyons, Medieval Romance: Unexpected Journeys and Meetings
Dr David Bernhard, Security Online: Defence Against the Dark Arts

Dr Steven Proud, The demise of the lecture?
Dr Jan Wozniak, Shakespeare? You can forget about it mate
Prof Walther Schwarzacher, How does ice form? (It’s cooler than you think)
Dr Gareth Griffith, Out of the Echo Chamber: Listening to the voices of the past
Dr Torsten Michel, Monsters, Maniacs, or ordinary people? Explaining perpetrator behaviour in cases of mass violence
Dr Duncan Boa and Dr Chris Snider, Design: the universal language of the world
Dr Tristan Cogan, How are we still alive?
Dr Rachel Cowie, Don't kiss and tell: the secrets of oral disease
Dr Mary Benton, Hot and dangerous: the tropical history of Bristol

Prof Keith Stanton, Reforming Banking Culture
Dr Nicolas Wu, God Doesn't Play Dice with the Digital World
Dr Jonathan Floyd, Who Gets all the Pies and Jobs, and Houses, etc.
Prof Mike Kendall & Dr Dimitris Karamitros, Earthquakes - a Triggered Debate Between Engineering and Geology
Dr Lynne Walling, The Art and Beauty of Pure Mathematics
Dr Stephen Cheeke, The Wonderful & Frightening World of W.B. Yeats
Prof Havi Carel, Should I Fear my Death?
Dr Nicola Taylor, How Liaison Psychiatry Can Change the World
Prof Nigel Savery, Protect & Survive - DNA Repair and the Cancer Genome

Dr James Norman, How to change the world in three simple steps - a guide to extreme(ly creative) sustainability
Dr Matthew Avison, Fighting antibiotic resistance: we're all in it together
Dr Jakob Vinther & Professor Mike Benton, Knowing the impossible: the colour of dinosaurs
Dr Ian Wei, The Idea of the University – the University in Crisis?
Dr Pete Falconer, What makes a good film? Exploring film criticism and evaluation
Dr Merle Patchett, Damaged Landscapes of the Anthropocene: the cost of living in the modern world
Dr Lucy Berthoud, The best-selling show: Is there life on Mars?
Dr Genevieve Liveley, A cyborg genealogy: science fiction in the classics
Liz Gaze, Cadavers to computers: the changing face of Medical Anatomy teaching
Andrew Grist, Veterinary Public Health and your Sunday Roast - the role of vets in the production of safe meat
Dr Debbie Watson, Product design and research with children: supporting children in care

Prof Alan Champneys, Linearity breeds contempt
Dr Emma Hornby, Inside the music of Hildegard von Bingen
Dr Matthew Avison, No more drugs for Superbugs - the end of the antibiotic age?
Dr Tilo Burghardt, Pixels, patterns, phenotypes - computers for fingerprinting life
Dr Edmund Cannon, What is new in the pension 'crisis' and can economics help?

Dr Fred Manby, Quantum chemistry, or why we don't fall through the floor
Prof. John Hannay, Buckling, bores (tidal), and bows (rain) - some physics of sudden change
Prof Andy Levy, Medical Innovation and the Philosopher's stone - why you don't have to get old
Gervas Huxley, The balance between teaching and research
Prof Jutta Weldes, "Dressing up and Queening it": Queen Elizabeth II, Dress, and British Public Diplomacy
Prof Graeme Henderson, Drugs of abuse - what do they do to the brain?

Prof James Ladyman, Philosophy - Why Bother?
Prof Ronald Hutton, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Gods, Witches and Stonehenge
Dr Seiriol Morgan, What A Dead Existentialist Probably Thought About How Not To Live
Gervas Huxley, The Robbins Report Revisited
Prof Nick Lieven, Aircraft, oil and cigarettes: will it all end in disaster?
Dr Stephen James, Literature and Repetition
Dr Emma Hornby, Silence Is More Eloquent Than Words: Exploring The Space Between The Notes In Gregorian Chant (With live examples from the Bristol Uni Music Department Schola Cantorum)
Prof Julian Rivers, Bad Laws and Hard Cases: from war criminals to wage slaves