Past events

Caroline Churchill (who works under her professional name of ‘Caro C’) will talk about The BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1958 to the late 1990s), a somewhat obscure department of the BBC that provided sound and music for TV and radio...

Liquid crystals are self-organising fluids that are perhaps best known for their use in displays (LCDs). Much of the research in the area over the past 30 years has been focused on achieving faster switching and more complex images in flat panel TVs. However, such technology is now mature...

Visual literacy - the ability to construct meaning from visual images - is a cornerstone of art history and of medical practice.  This is particularly prominent in the case of the specialty of dermatology where diagnosis is often dependent on the “power of the glance”...

Humans have messed up six of the world’s seven continents.  At the height of the Cold war, in 1961, 12 powerful nations signed a major treaty: the Antarctic Treaty...

The notion of Industry 4.0 is permeating all aspects of the global economy, creating a narrative rooted in more intensive automation of work and globalisation...

The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has proved to be game-changing...

From Cemeteries and sewers, to theatres; St Pancras Station in London, to the “windy city”. Mike Higginbottom’s lecture programme offers a diverse, informative and entertaining look at social and architectural history...

Sarah has been studying dark matter and dark energy for the last 20 years, but when her children started school she began to think about our own planet in the next 20 years and beyond...

Jim accidently started studying Romanian while taking a degree in French at Manchester in 1970. He first visited the country in 1972 and spent a year there as a British Council scholar studying Philology...