| Catherine Annabel | Inspiration for Life | Introduction and welcome | |
| 17:00:00 | Professor John Flint | Town & Regional Planning | Victoria Henshaw – a tribute |
| 17:30:00 | Dr Nate Adams | Molecular Biology & Biotechnology | Throwing spanners at nanobots |
| 18:00:00 | Dr Victoria Williamson | Music | Music for wellbeing: possibilities and promise |
| 18:30:00 | Professor Paul White | Geography | Global population growth – the good news and the bad news |
| 19:00:00 | Professor Rowland Atkinson | Town & Regional Planning | Ecology of sound: the sonic order of urban space |
| 19:30:00 | Morag Rose | Town & Regional Planning | Loitering with intent: psychogeography the Mancunian Way |
| 20:00:00 | Professor Claire McGourlay | Law | Legal aid – what legal aid? |
| 20:30:00 | Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson | French | Post-traumatic landscapes |
| 21:00:00 | Professor Davide Costanzo | Physics & Astronomy | Anatomy of the ATLAS particle detector |
| 21:30:00 | Dr Tim Shephard | Music | Machiavellian sounds: how to rule a Renaissance state with music |
| 22:00:00 | Dr Catherine Fletcher | History | The insider’s guide to Wolf Hall |
| 22:30:00 | Professor Lee Thompson | Physics & Astronomy | The neutrino hunters: catching the impossible |
| 23:00:00 | Dr Matt Mears | Physics & Astronomy | Ad-lib physics: five key concepts from five different boxes |
| 23:30:00 | Sarah Browne | Mathematics & Statistics | Coding – an easy example regarding ISBN (International Standard Book Numbers) |
| 00:00:00 | Dr Andrew Parnell | Physics & Astronomy | Illuminating the natural world, structural colour and the physics behind it |
| 00:30:00 | Chella Quint | Development Education Centre South Yorkshire | #periodpositive |
| 01:00:00 | Professor Allan Pacey | School of Medicine and Biomedical Science | The ins and outs of sperm donation |
| 01:30:00 | Professor Tony Ryan | Chemistry | 3000 years of condoms – a material history |
| 02:00:00 | Dr Ed Daw | Physics & Astronomy | The blues of Physics |
| 02:30:00 | Dr Drew Tarmey | Manchester Medical School | Star Trek science in the NHS today |
| 03:00:00 | Dr Ana Morales Garcia | Physics & Astronomy | Mexican scientific |
| 03:30:00 | Dr James Mullaney | Physics & Astronomy | A universal future |
| 04:00:00 | Dr Anna Topakas | Management School | How to become a successful leader at work |
| 04:30:00 | Dr Rhoda Hawkins | Physics & Astronomy | “What is life?” |
| 05:00:00 | Dr Glyn Williams | Town & Regional Planning | India’s city visions – building a dynamic and inclusive urban future? |
| 05:30:00 | Professor Alistair Warren | Biomedical Sciences | Whips and lashes – just a pain in the neck? |
| 06:00:00 | Dr Ashley Cadby & Dr Katherine Inskip | Physics & Astronomy | Clash of the optics |
| 06:30:00 | Professor Peter Bath | Information School | A problem shared…? Online sharing among people with a life-threatening illness |
| 07:00:00 | Dr Jane Hodson | English | What bad novels can tell us about dialect |
| 07:30:00 | Dr Susan Cartwright | Physics & Astronomy | Einstein and the photon |
| 08:00:00 | Dr Paul Mitchener | Mathematics & Statistics | The Golden Ratio |
| 08:30:00 | Dr Tom Goodfellow and Bobby Nisha | Town & Regional Planning | Urban design adventures in Istanbul: reflections from a student field class |
| 09:00:00 | Dr Susan Molyneux-Hodgson | Sociological Studies | What should we do about nuclear waste? |
| 09:30:00 | Dr Richard Steadman-Jones | English | “If you have ever kept an owl as a pet…”: reading the Ladybird Nature books fifty years on |
| 10:00:00 | Professor Rod Nicolson | Psychology | The joy of positive learning |
| 10:30:00 | Dr Katie Edwards | Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies | God, what a brat! |
| 11:00:00 | Professor David Mowbray & Dr Marieke Navin | Physics & Astronomy/Manchester Museum of Science & Industry | The fantastic world of light |
| 12:00:00 | Dr Marek Szablewski | University of Durham | Joker – and his escape from Auschwitz |
| 12:30:00 | Dr Penelope Ottewell | Clinical Oncology | Live longer, healthier and happier: The impact of cancer research |
| 13:00:00 | Dr Eran Elhaik | Animal & Plant Sciences | Deciphering the geographical origin of a complex language using Geographical Population Structure (GPS) |
| 13:30:00 | Professor Heather Campbell | Town & Regional Planning | Planning … to change the world for the better |
| 14:00:00 | Professor Donal Bradley | Imperial College, London | Molecular metamaterials: using polymer conformation to define photonic nanostructures |
| 14:30:00 | Professor Tony Prescott | Psychology | Disappearing up your own singularity: observations on our future life with AI and robotic technologies |
| 15:00:00 | Dr Jenny Freeman | University of Leeds | Holding our politicians to account: key questions to ask when presented with data. |
| 15:30:00 | Dr Amber Regis | English | “Some thrill of pity”: editing other people’s lives |
| 16:00:00 | Dr Paul Graham Raven | Town & Regional Planning | What lies beneath? The role of utopianism in science fiction and urban planning |
| 16:30:00 | Professor Richard Jones | Physics & Astronomy | Making life |
| Close | Catherine Annabel | Inspiration for Life |
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My talk on post-traumatic landscapes – part of 24-Hour Inspire at the University of Sheffield
The 2015 24 Hour Inspire starts at 5.00 pm on Thursday 16 April, and ends at 5.00 pm on Friday 17 April – in between, audiences can enjoy lectures on everything from photons to psychogeography, with speakers from across the University and beyond.
This year’s event is dedicated not only to Tim Richardson but to Dr Victoria Henshaw, who was a lecturer in the department of Town & Regional Planning until her death from cancer last autumn. Many of her colleagues are participating in this year’s event, and our opening speaker will be presenting a tribute to her.
Proceeds from the 24 Hour Inspire will go to our partner charities Rotherham Hospice and Impact Young Heroes – funds will be raised via the sale of tickets (£2 for a single lecture, £7 for the full 24), books and refreshments, and from cash donations on the day. You can also donate through our BT MyDonate fundraising page, which is live now, and will be open for some time after the event.
The programme for the event can be found on the charity’s blog and we will keep everyone informed about any updates and changes to the programme through the blog and website as well as through Facebook and Twitter.
Come and join us – for one lecture or several, or even the full 24! Help us to celebrate living, giving and learning.