2025 Lectures

10thDecember2025
David Walsh

Rotten Politics and Early Death: Health inequalities in Scotland and the UK
Dr David Walsh

26thNovember2025
Martin Sixsmith

Putin, Trump and the New Cold War
Martin Sixsmith

12thNovember2025

Psychopathology of the Self: Implications for philosophy
Prof Femi Oyebode

29thOctober2025

Magnetism and the Brain: Pollution, particles and Alzheimer's disease
Professor Barbara Maher

15thOctober2025
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Adam Smith Lecture

Growth: A reckoning
Dr Daniel Susskind

1stOctober2025

How lessons from frogs help mend a broken heart
Professor Sir Jim Smith

19thMarch2025
Muffy Calder

A day in the life of a computational modeller – does your system do what you want?
Professor Dame Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow

5thMarch2025
Lindsay Paterson

What has happened to the democratic intellect? The neglect of knowledge in Scottish educational policy
Professor Lindsay Paterson

19thFebruary2025
Sarah Hart

A mathematical journey through literature
Professor Sarah Hart

5thFebruary2025

Natural Justice
Professor Lorna Dawson, James Hutton Institute

22ndJanuary2025

Locusts, plagues and other disasters: why we’re made to survive adversity
Professor Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow

8thJanuary2025

Snowball Earth - the Scottish Evidence
David Webster

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