Best of Bristol Lecturers

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Best of Bristol 2020

  • Prof Fred ManbyQuantum 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?

Best of Bristol 2019

  • Dr Alix DietzelHow Just is the Global Response to Climate Change?
  • Dr Jamie LawsonOver the rainbow: a brief (social) history of queer resistance
  • Dr Mark SchenkFolding the Future: How Origami is Transforming Engineering
  • Tricha PassesCafé Cosmopolitanism in a Pre Starbucks Age: Paris Internationalism pre WW1
  • Dr Thomas JordanCan Mathematics Improve Your Baking?
  • Prof Emma RobinsonAre drugs of abuse the solution to treating depression?
  • Dr Gervas HuxleyAlexander Hamilton and the development of the American single market
  • Prof Chris WillmoreWhat is a Sustainable Future?
  • Dr Bex LyonsMedieval Romance: Unexpected Journeys and Meetings
  • Dr David BernhardSecurity Online: Defence Against the Dark Arts

Best of Bristol 2017

  • Dr Steven ProudThe demise of the lecture?
  • Dr Jan WozniakShakespeare? You can forget about it mate
  • Prof Walther SchwarzacherHow does ice form? (It’s cooler than you think)
  • Dr Gareth GriffithOut of the Echo Chamber: Listening to the voices of the past
  • Dr Torsten MichelMonsters, Maniacs, or ordinary people? Explaining perpetrator behaviour in cases of mass violence
  • Dr Duncan Boa and Dr Chris SniderDesign: the universal language of the world
  • Dr Tristan CoganHow are we still alive?
  • Dr Rachel CowieDon't kiss and tell: the secrets of oral disease
  • Dr Mary BentonHot and dangerous: the tropical history of Bristol

Best of Bristol 2016

  • Prof Keith StantonReforming Banking Culture
  • Dr Nicolas WuGod Doesn't Play Dice with the Digital World
  • Dr Jonathan FloydWho Gets all the Pies and Jobs, and Houses, etc.
  • Prof Mike Kendall & Dr Dimitris KaramitrosEarthquakes - a Triggered Debate Between Engineering and Geology
  • Dr Lynne WallingThe Art and Beauty of Pure Mathematics
  • Dr Stephen CheekeThe Wonderful & Frightening World of W.B. Yeats
  • Prof Havi CarelShould I Fear my Death?
  • Dr Nicola TaylorHow Liaison Psychiatry Can Change the World
  • Prof Nigel SaveryProtect & Survive - DNA Repair and the Cancer Genome

Best of Bristol 2015

  • Dr James NormanHow to change the world in three simple steps - a guide to extreme(ly creative) sustainability
  • Dr Matthew AvisonFighting antibiotic resistance: we're all in it together
  • Dr Jakob Vinther & Professor Mike BentonKnowing the impossible: the colour of dinosaurs
  • Dr Ian WeiThe Idea of the University – the University in Crisis?
  • Dr Pete FalconerWhat makes a good film? Exploring film criticism and evaluation
  • Dr Merle PatchettDamaged 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 LiveleyA cyborg genealogy: science fiction in the classics
  • Liz Gaze, Cadavers to computers: the changing face of Medical Anatomy teaching
  • Andrew GristVeterinary 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

Best of Bristol 2013

  • Prof Alan ChampneysLinearity breeds contempt
  • Dr Emma HornbyInside the music of Hildegard von Bingen
  • Dr Matthew AvisonNo more drugs for Superbugs - the end of the antibiotic age?
  • Dr Tilo BurghardtPixels, patterns, phenotypes - computers for fingerprinting life
  • Dr Edmund CannonWhat is new in the pension 'crisis' and can economics help?

Best of Bristol 2012

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

Best of Bristol 2011

  • Prof James LadymanPhilosophy - Why Bother?
  • Prof Ronald HuttonThe 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 HuxleyThe Robbins Report Revisited
  • Prof Nick LievenAircraft, oil and cigarettes: will it all end in disaster?
  • Dr Stephen JamesLiterature and Repetition
  • Dr Emma HornbySilence 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 RiversBad Laws and Hard Cases: from war criminals to wage slaves