Events

4th December 2019: 5:00pm   Registration Required

In this book talk, Professor Sonia Contera will talk about how Nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology.

2nd December 2019: 5:00pm   Registration Required

We are entering the fourth revolution of healthcare.

12th November 2019: 5:00pm   Registration Required

Migration is present at the dawn of human history - the phenomena of hunting and gathering, seeking seasonal pasture and nomadism being as old as human social organisation itself.

28th October 2019: 5:00pm   Registration Required

Geographers have long been interested in the spaces brought into being by the internet. In the early days of the Web, digital technologies were seen as tools that could bring a heterotopic cyberspace into being: a place beyond space de-tethered from the material world.

18th October 2019: 5:00pm   Registration Required

Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a main stable of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and mis-used in political campaigns and whether it is relevant to regulate political candidates’ access to data.

15th October 2019: 5:00pm   Registration Required

The persistence of poverty - in rich and poor countries alike - is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. But what is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe?

14th October 2019: 5:00pm   Registration Required

In this book talk the Author, Carl Benedikt Frey, will discuss how the Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but how few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. Now that we are in the midst of another technological revolution, how can the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present?

7th October 2019: 5:30pm   Registration Required

We cannot end poverty without ending energy poverty. Ever since the world’s first power plants whirred to life in 1882, we have seen how electricity is the lynchpin for development in all of its forms.

7th October 2019: 12:15pm   Registration Required

Zoonoses are increasingly recognised as an important burden on global public health in the 21st century. High-resolution, long-term field studies are critical for assessing both the baseline and future risk scenarios in a world of rapid changes.