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Professor Sharon Abrahams, Personal Chair in Neuropsychology, delivers her inaugural lecture entitled Mind Matters in Motor Neurone Disease. In this lecture, Prof. Abrahams discusses her work with people living with a degenerative disease a
Professor Andrew Morris, Chair of Medicine, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, Medicine in the Information Age. Recorded on 22 June 2015 at the University of Edinburgh's Chancellor's Building.
Professor Martin Chick, Chair of Economic History, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, "The Times They Are A-Changin': Time, Economics and a Political Economy of Britain since 1945". This lecture considers the changing use made of the
Professor Paolo Quattrone, Chair in Accounting Governance & Social Innovation, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, "Accounting, Governance and Social Innovation: Establishing the Links". In this lecture, Professor Quattrone will present
Professor Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, delivers his inaugural lecture, entitled What's Interesting? On the Ascendency of an Evaluative Term. This lecture will consider the rise of 'interesting' as a critical category, and exa
Professor Chris Speed, Chair in Design Informatics, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, The Random Lift and Other Algorithmic Stories. This talk draws connections between a series of projects that explores the emerging conditions of li
Professor Nicola McEwen, Personal Chair of Territorial Politics, delivers her inaugural lecture entitled, "Independence and Interdependence: The Dynamics of Scottish Self-Government". The Scottish independence referendum may have resulted i
Professor Richard Freeman, Personal Chair of Social Science and Public Policy, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, Doing Politics. How does politics happen? When we do politics, what are we doing? In this lecture, Professor Freeman wil
Professor Richard Harrison, Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, delivers his inaugural lecture, entitled The Owl of Minerva: Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Critic of Institutions. Based on his research in entrepreneurship and leader
Professor Ailsa Henderson, Professor of Political Science and Head of Politics & International Relations, delivers her inaugural lecture entitled, The Imagined Electorate: Values, Perceived Boundaries and the Regional Rehabilitation of Polit
Professor Malcolm Macleod Personal, Chair in Neurology and Translational Neuroscience, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, "Rigour Mortis: How Bad Research is Killing Science".Recorded on 26 May 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's Cha
Professor Fiona Mackay, Personal Chair in Politics, delivers he inaugural lecture entitled, "Nested Newness" and the Gendered Limits of Institutional Change. This lecture suggests that we need to pay more attention to examining and theorizi
Professor Bettelou Los, Forbes Chair of English Language, delivers her inaugural lecture entitled Changing English.No language ever stays the same, and no part of it is immune. Changes affect not only sounds and vocabulary, but also grammar,
Professor John M Davis, Professor of Childhood Inclusion, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled Including Children in Scotland: Concepts, Structures, Relationships and the Common Weal.With the referendum to be held in 2014 in Scotland ther
Professor Nikolas Gisborne, Chair of Linguistics, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, What’s Grammar For? If you listen to how people talk about grammar in the press you could be forgiven for thinking that it is little more than an aes
Professor Grant Jarvie, Chair of Sport, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, Sport: More Than Just a Game. This lecture will comment upon Scotland's contribution to the world of sport then argue that sport is more than just a game and c
Professor Clifford Leen, Honorary Professor and Consultant Physician Infectious Diseases, presents his inaugural lecture titled "Progress in Antiviral Treatment".Recorded on Monday 7 April 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's Chancellor’s B
Susan McVie, Professor of Quantitative Criminology, presents her inaugural lecture titled "Painting by Numbers: The Changing Landscape of Crime in Scotland". In this lecture, Professor McVie considers the dramatic change in patterns of crim
Professor Michael O'Boyle, Director of Institute for Computing Systems Architecture, delivers his inaugural lecture, "Return of the silver bullet or avoiding groundhog day? Auto-parallelisation reloaded". Professor O'Boyle will explore why
Professor Michèle Belot, Professor of Economics, delivers her inaugural lecture, "Diseases of Affluence: On the Relationship Between Economics and Health". This lecture will ask, why are Western societies so rich and at the same time so sic
Professor Philipp Kircher, Professor in Economics, delivers his inaugural lecture, "In Search of the Perfect Match - Understanding Labour (and Marriage) Markets". Economists have long acknowledged that it takes time to find the right partne
Professor James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, "Ben Jonson’s Road North"In July 1618, the poet and playwright Ben Jonson embarked on an enterprise that had been at least a year in the p
Professor Graham Crow, Professor of Sociology and Methodology, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, "Community Research: A Field Full of Methods".In this lecture Professor Crow considers the field of community research as one in which a
Professor Fiona McLachlan, Personal Chair in Architectural Practice, presents her inaugural lecture entitled "Practice, Practice, Practise: Illustrated in Colour". This lecture will focus on two recent research projects on colour in architec
Professor Nanette Mutrie, Chair in Physical Activity for Health, presents her inaugural lecture entitled "Encouraging People to 'Sit Lessand Walk More': The Story so far and Future Plans".Professor Mutrie explains why 'sit less and walk
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