BVI Seminar Series
BVI Seminars are free hour-long talks focusing on a particular area of vision research usually with an interdisciplinary flavour. They are delivered by national and international speakers from across the world with a broad appeal across the field of vision.
Our seminars and panels usually run on Fridays from 16.00 or at 12:00, term-time and are free to attend. Please keep checking this page, as our schedule is regularly being updated.
Upcoming Seminars
Autumn/ Winter 2026
| Date and time | Speaker |
Title |
Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
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Monday 16 November 12:00 to 13:00 |
Prof Tim Hodgson, University of Lincoln |
Does ontogeny mirror phylogeny in the development of eye movement control in children? | Room G13/14, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TQ |
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Friday 20 November 16:00 to 17:00 |
Sam Matchette | Concealment on the move: behaviour, colouration and the limits of visual attention | Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road |
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Friday 11 December 16:00 to 17:00 |
Speakers: Kane Colston, Caitlin Naylor and Veronika Shkaraburova | BVI Postgraduate session | Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road |
Previous Seminars
Autumn/ Winter 2026
| Date and time | Speaker |
Title |
Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Friday 16 October 12:00 to 13:00 |
Panelists: Professor Marcus Munafò, Professor Iain Gilchrist and Lucy Green |
Panel discussion: What does interdisciplinarity look like in practice? |
Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road |
|
Friday 23 October 16:00 to 17:00 |
George Hancock |
From butterflies to wagon wheels: how pattern and movement influences EMDs and behaviour |
Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road |
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Friday 30 October 16:00 to 17:00 |
Hannah Wakeford |
The Climate and Chemistry of Exoplanets with Hubble and JWST |
Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road |
If you have any suggestions about speakers who you think might be suitable to give a BVI Seminar, please email bvi-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk with further details.