Professorial Public 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.
Forthcoming events
16th May 2012. Professor Chris Bartholomew: The Molecular Basis of Leukaemia
Time: 17.30 - 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre, Govan Mbeki Health Building
This event is hosted by the School of Health and Life Sciences.
Previous lectures
19 January 2011. 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 2011. Professor Brian Stewart: Broadband Wireless Communications...Problems?...What Problems?
Time: 17.30 – 19.154 May 2011. 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 2011. 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
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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.
12th October 2011. Professor Bruce Wood: Design: What is it Good For?
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre
This event is hosted by the School of Engineering and Built Environment. For further information please visit:
16th November 2011. Professor Iain Cameron:Reflections on the Impact of a Decade of Applied Safety Research
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre
This event is hosted by the School of Engineering and Built Environment. For further information please visit:
Prof Bruce Wood
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15th December 2011. Professorial Veronica James: 21st Century Mixed Economy of Health: Who cares, who pays?
Time: 17.30 - 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre
This event is hosted by the School of Health and Life Sciences.
18th January 2012. Prof John Wilson: Third Ways and Big Societies – Public Service Roads to Nowhere?
Time: 17.30 - 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre
This event is hosted by the Glasgow School for Business and Society
15th February 2012. Professor Douglas Greenhalgh: Lessons in Life from Photons, Fires and Engines
This lecture reflects on significant lessons learnt from 4 decades of research dating from the early days of the laser, through the challenges of measuring the temperature and properties of practical flames leading to the engineering of much cleaner engines.
Time: 17.30 - 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre
This event is hosted by the School of Engineering and Built Environment.
18th April 2012. Professor Don Mclinchey: What Everyone Should Know about Particulate Solids
Time: 17.30 - 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre, Govan Mbeki Health Building
This event is hosted by the School of Engineering and Built Environment.