2024 Lectures

11thDecember2024
Picture of John Curtice
Adam Smith Lecture

A Fractured Polity? British Politics after the 2024 Election
Professor Sir John Curtice, University of Strathclyde

27thNovember2024
Image of Lord Sumption

The British Constitution: the last ten years and the next fifty
Lord Sumption

13thNovember2024

The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere
Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, University of Cambridge

30thOctober2024
Marika Taylor
Kelvin Lecture

From black holes to quantum computers
Professor Marika Taylor, University of Birmingham

16thOctober2024

Inequalities in Health - Searching for Inclusion
Professor Graham Watt

2ndOctober2024
Richard Ovenden

Burning the Books: knowledge under attack from Ancient Assyria to the age of AI
Professor Richard Ovenden, University of Oxford

20thMarch2024

The exquisite machine: the new science of the heart
Professor Sian Harding

6thMarch2024

Towards a public bioethics
Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley

21stFebruary2024

All the world's a play
David Edgar

7thFebruary2024

Why we should think about the relationship between climate change and mental health in Scotland
Professor Hester Parr

24thJanuary2024

Everest East Side Story
Stephen Venables

10thJanuary2024

Back to the beginning of time; exploring the mysteries of star and galaxy formation with the James Webb Space Telescope
Dr David Rosario

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