Professorial Inaugural lectures
At Glasgow Caledonian University, we are building on Scotland’s proud history of innovation, intellectual curiosity and creativity to develop areas of international excellence in applied research. We have a strong tradition of conducting research that is economically and socially relevant - applying new knowledge to problems of global significance in areas such as Health, The Environment, Business, Social Justice and Inequality and Engineering.
These Professorial Inaugural lectures aim to showcase the research of our recently appointed or promoted Professors for a non specialist audience.
19 January. Professor Ailsa McKay: Do women count? - Demystifying Gender Budget Analysis
Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre
This event is hosted by the Institute for Society and Social Justice Research and . For further information please visit:
- Women in Scotland’s Economy (WiSE)
- The Scottish Women’s Budget Group (SWBG)
16 March. Professor Brian Stewart: Broadband Wireless Communications...Problems?...What Problems?
Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Location: GCU
4 May. Professor Ann Graham: Anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease and Atherosclerosis: the therapeutic potential of intracellular cholesterol transport proteins
Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Location: GCU
For further information please visit:
- School of Life Sciences
18 May. Professor John Stewart: ‘The Dangerous Age of Childhood’: Child Psychiatry and the Normal Child in the mid-Twentieth Century
Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Location: GCU
For more information please visit:
15 June. Professor David Smith: The ‘Utopianist’ university and lifelong learning revisited: ‘dream, myth and reality’
Please be advised that this lecture has now been postponed and will now take place in early 2012.