THURSDAY | 30 MARCH 2017 | ||
Catherine Annabel | Inspiration for Life | Welcome | |
17:00 | Prof. Vanessa Toulmin | City & Cultural Engagement | Sheffield: city of beer, art and music |
17:30 | Dr Andrew Parnell, Paul Evans & Prof. Richard Jones | Physics & Astronomy | Unweaving the rainbow: colour in art, physics and biology |
18:30 | Prof. Marie Kinsey | Journalism | Fake news: checking it out |
19:00 | Dr Marek Szablewski | University of Durham | The sewers of Warsaw: from British engineering to escape routes from the Nazis |
19:30 | Prof. Wyn Morgan | Vice President for Education | How will Brexit affect your breakfast? |
20:00 | Dr Adam Smith | York St John University | Rise of the machines: robots and fiction |
20:30 | Dr Liz Chesworth | Education | Play – performing beyond the everyday |
21:00 | Dr Paul Collini | Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease | Tuberculosis in the 21st century: the return of consumption? |
21:30 | Joan Upson | Law | Uncommon law: a window on the organic development of English law |
22:00 | Dr Liam Hardy | Physics & Astronomy | It’s getting hot in here: What should we do about climate change? |
22:30 | Dr David Hayes | Law | Law as mythology: embracing the irrationality of the rule of law |
23:00 | Dr Bob Turner & Dr Nic Mullin | Molecular Biology & Biotechnology/ Physics & Astronomy | Life under the microscope |
23:30 | Prof. Allan Pacey | Oncology & Metabolism | Balls of steel: hints and tips for good fertility |
FRIDAY | 31 MARCH 2016 | ||
0:00 | Dr Matthew Malek | Physics & Astronomy | Murder at midnight |
0:30 | Jost Migenda | Physics & Astronomy | Neutrino: from poltergeist to peacekeeper |
1:00 | Dan Jenkinson | Chemistry | How small molecules can make a BIG difference |
1:30 | Dr Vanessa Hearnden | Materials Science & Engineering | Fat or fiction: can the stem cells in our fat cure us? |
2:00 | Dr Ed Daw | Physics & Astronomy | The blues of physics |
2:30 | Dr Chris Sexton | newly retired Director of CICS | Funny Business – the journey to being a stand-up comedian
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3:00 | Dr Aneurin Kennerley | Psychology | Brain fizz: making your mind up! |
3:30 | Laia Pasquina Lemonche | Physics & Astronomy | The invisible but crucial role of physicists in radiotherapy for cancer |
4:00 | Aysha Musa | Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies | Jezebel – the monster behind the myth
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4:30 | Catherine Annabel | French | This new Hades: Manchester as a mythical city |
5:00 | Dr Ines Henriques Cadby | School of Health and Related Research | Charming mathematicians and their pièces de resistance |
5:30 | Dr Adrien Chauvet | Chemistry | Shining light on molecular motions using high power lasers |
6:00 | Dr Chris Blackmore | School of Health and Related Research | How happy are we? |
6:30 | Dr Adam Whitworth | Geography | Going native with employment support research: reflections on my year of national and regional policy making |
7:00 | Dr Cormac Behan | Law | Does prison work? |
7:30 | Dr Claudia Mazzà | Mechanical Engineering | Mind your step! A journey into walking biomechanics |
8:00 | Dr Komarine Romdenh-Romluc | Philosophy | What is art? |
8:30 | Prof. Jackie Labbe | Vice-President and Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Dead Victorian children |
9:00 | Dr Casey Strine | History/ Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies | Seeking refuge in Ancient Israel: better or worse than contemporary Great Britain? |
9:30 | Dr Amber Regis | English | Charlotte Bronte’s face |
10:00 | Dr Kristin Hildenbrand & Prof. Karina Nielsen | Management School | A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way |
11:00 | Dr Nate Adams & Dr Marieke Navin | Molecular Biology & Biotechnology | How small is small? (Primary Schools talk) |
12:00 | Outreach staff & participants | Outreach and Widening Participation Team | Reaching out with outreach – a young person’s perspective |
13:00 | Val Derbyshire | English | Becoming a heroine |
13:30 | Dr Jonathan Aitken | Automatic Controls & Systems Engineering | More robots, more fields |
14:00 | Prof. Ingunn Holen | Oncology & Metabolism | Breast cancer: how research has made a difference |
14:30 | Ryan Bramley | Education | Orgrieve |
15:00 | Dr Kate Shaw | Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste | ICTP Physics Without Frontiers: bringing particle physics to Nepal
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15:30 | Prof. Angela Wright | English | Of mourning and melancholia: the later works of Mary Shelley |
16:00 | Prof.Simon Goodwin | Physics & Astronomy | Is climate change really bad for the earth? |
16:30 | Prof. Tony Ryan | Chemistry | Where necessity is the mother of invention: Zaatari refugee camp |
17.00 | Catherine Annabel | Inspiration for Life | Closing words |