2022 Lectures

7thDecember2022

Changing the Lens on Mental Health
Alastair Campbell

30thNovember2022

Left Behind: How poor places can get trapped, and how they can catch up - The Bowman Lecture in association with the University of Glasgow
Professor Sir Paul Collier

23rdNovember2022

General Practice at the Deep End
Professor Graham Watt

10thNovember2022

The Nature of Justice
Baroness Helena Kennedy KC

26thOctober2022

Making a materials difference to Green Energy (batteries included)
Professor Saiful Islam

12thOctober2022

The impact of brain injury on vision: what does this teach us about how our minds see?
Professor Gordon Dutton

28thSeptember2022

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
William Dalrymple

6thApril2022

Why high blood pressure is the world’s number 1 killer
Prof Rhian Touyz

30thMarch2022

British Academy Lecture: Fair work for our future?
Professor Patricia Findlay

23rdMarch2022

Scotland can prosper post-pandemic - the proof is in the Highlands
Prof Lorne Crerar

9thMarch2022

Diversity and its Reversals: reflections on half a century of change
Prof Sally Mapstone FRSE

23rdFebruary2022

The Thoughts the Civilized Keep: How to Reclaim Human Intelligence in an Age of Machine Thinking
Professor Shannon Vallor

9thFebruary2022

An enduring art - Opera in Scotland
Alex Reedijk

26thJanuary2022
Adam Smith Lecture

The health and wealth of nations: pitfalls and opportunities in the economic recovery from the pandemic
Prof Anton Muscatelli

12thJanuary2022

What would Lister do in a post-pandemic world?
Professor Iain McInnes

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