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| LT1 |
Hicks Building |
THURSDAY | 12 MAY 2016 |
| Catherine Annabel |
Inspiration for Life | Welcome | |
| 17:00 | Professor Allan Pacey |
Reproductive & Developmental Medicine | The voices of young people living with cancer |
| 17:30 | Professor Shearer West | Deputy Vice-Chancellor/ History | Selfiehood |
| 18:00 | Professor Claire McGourlay |
Law |
Unmaking a murderer |
| 18:30 | Dr Jenny Freeman |
Leeds Institute of Health Sciences | How (not) to present data and results |
| 19:00 | Dr Marek Szablewski |
Department of Physics, University of Durham | Broadcasting to the enemy: Super’s tale of survival and resistance from the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 |
| 19:30 | Philippa Fibert | ScHARR | Making life easier for kids with ADHD – the STAR Project |
| 20:00 | Sanna Raninen | Music | Harmonious marriage: Music-making in fifteenth-century wedding chests |
| 20:30 | Professor Dominique Heymann and Dr Hannah Brown | Clinical Oncology | Bad to the bone: Osteosarcoma and how we can help to fight it |
| 21:00 | Dr Mike Weir |
Physics & Astronomy |
Giant microscopes: the big science of very small stuff |
| 21:30 | Andy Tattersall |
ScHARR | How to be a digital academic |
| 22:00 | Professor Alistair Goldman |
Molecular Biology & Biotechnology | Sex: Can it help us fight cancer? |
| 22:30 | Professor Matthew Gilbert |
Civil Engineering | How far is a bridge too far? |
| 23:00 | Dr Andrew Heath |
History | Using history to make sense of the American Presidential race |
| 23:30 | Chella Quint |
It’s not you. I just need space (interplanetary letters of love and rejection) | |
| FRIDAY | 13 MAY 2016 | ||
| 0:00 | Dr Aneurin Kennerley |
Psychology | Wookiees can be Jedi Masters too |
| 0:30 | Dr Matt Mears |
Physics & Astronomy | Science fiction? Double feature? |
| 1:00 | Dr Nate Adams |
Molecular Biology & Biotechnology | My favourite fireballs, and how to make them at home |
| 1:30 | Dr Robyn Orfitelli |
English Language & Linguistics | Language myth busting |
| 2:00 | Dr Ed Daw |
Physics & Astronomy | The blues of physics |
| 2:30 | Professor Patrick Fairclough |
Mechanical Engineering | Posh birds: Colour in nature |
| 3:00 | Dr Matthew Malek |
Physics & Astronomy | A long time ago, in a galaxy far away |
| 3:30 | Catherine Annabel |
French | Mad travellers |
| 4:00 | Dr Kate Shaw | Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics | Working around the clock, looking back in time: Exploration and discovery with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider |
| 4:30 | Dr Jonathan Aitken |
Automatic Control & Systems Engineering | Taking robotics into fields |
| 5:00 | Dr Ashley Cadby |
Physics & Astronomy | Measuring the effects of cuddling in guillemots |
| 5:30 | Dr Caroline Ardrey |
French | Poets and pop idols: Literary lyrics and music-making in modern French culture |
| 6:00 | Dr Chris Nelson |
Mathematics & Statistics | The world’s local star |
| 6:30 | Professor Gwilym Pryce |
Urban Studies & Planning | The false economy of welfare cuts |
| 7:00 | Dr Casey Strine |
Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies | Can the Bible help us solve the migration crisis? |
| 7:30 | Sarah Browne |
Mathematics & Statistics | Unsolved problems in mathematics |
| 8:00 | Val Derbyshire |
English | “You’ve been reading too many idiotic trashy books!” Why read Harlequin Mills & Boon romances? |
| 8:30 | Dr Scott Eldridge |
Journalism | Iconoclasts and irritants: Journalism’s new troublemakers |
| 9:00 | Professor Simon Goodwin |
Physics & Astronomy | Is the Earth ‘just right’ for life? |
| 9:30 | Professor Richard Jones |
Physics & Astronomy | Does science really make the economy grow? |
| 10:00 | Dr Chris Jones |
Psychology | Nothing to wear? |
| 10:30 | Dr Glyn Williams |
Urban Studies & Planning | Building inclusive cities? India’s urban development challenge |
| 11:00 | Professor David Mowbray and Dr Marieke Navin |
Physics & Astronomy/ Discovery Centre, Jodrell Bank | Loud sound! |
| 12:00 | Dr Christine Sprigg |
Institute of Work Psychology, Management School | Workplace bullies, cyberbullies and scary monsters |
| 12:30 | Dr Nishat Awan |
Architecture | Stories of migration from the edge of Europe |
| 13:00 | Professor Wyn Morgan |
Pro-Vice Chancellor for Learning & Teaching | Why do food prices matter? |
| 13:30 | Ryan Bramley |
English | Born(e) of Coal: Filmmaking and the engaged curriculum |
| 14:00 | Dr Cormac Behan |
Law | Prisoners’ rights are human rights? |
| 14:30 | Professor Donal Bradley |
Division of Mathematical, Physical & Life Sciences, University of Oxford | Shaping polymer optical properties at the molecular level |
| 15:00 | Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon | Mechanical Engineering | What the frack! #EthicalEngineeringStudents |
| 15:30 | Dr Susan Cartwright |
Physics & Astronomy | The next galactic supernova |
| 16:00 | Dr Meredith Warren |
English/Sheffield Institute of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies | Tastes that transform: Eating food from other realms |
| 16:30 | Professor Tony Ryan |
Chemistry | A sustainable model for intensive agriculture.
Or: How to offend everybody: organically farmed, genetically modified crops, fertilised by human excrement. |
| 17.00 | Catherine Annabel | Inspiration for Life | Closing words |
Inspiration for Life 