After 2 years we are back 28th February 2022 6:30pm The Park Tavern
The art and practice of science busking
That is the use of street performance techniques to engage transient audiences everywhere.
5 top tips for quality sleep.
Dr Sian Rowsell PhD will share easily-applicable ‘life hacks’ to help you: enjoy better health, reduce workplace (or driving to work) accidents, improve your ability to learn, your decision-making and your productivity. Why is it so important to pay attention to the quality and quantity of our sleep? Dr Ron Chervin – Professor of …
How technology can help use time more effectively
Rachael talks about the software that can stop appointment ping pong and procrastination.
How to design almost anything
Tom’s day job involves designing easy to use and fun Web based applications. This talk includes examples of everything from bicycles to computer programs and includes tips you can use in everyday life.
Mental Wellbeing, Trauma and the Road to Recovery
Unnatural cycles: impact on human and planetary health
Talk based on the publication ‘Unnatural cycles: impact on human and planetary health’, by Gibson and Stewart, 2022.
Future Medicines – what have we learned from mRNA vaccines?
Future Medicines – what have we learned from mRNA vaccines? The Covid vaccines are estimated to have saved 20 million lives since the start of the pandemic. Two of these vaccines used a revolutionary biological approach to generating a medicine rapidly and flexibly (mRNA), and a revolutionary innovation in delivering these medicines safely and effectively …
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The Future of Manufacturing and the 4th Industrial Revolution
Digital Twins, Smart Technology and Artificial Intelligence are just some of the key technologies that support the data-centric fourth Industrial Revolution. This talk will seek to demystify some of these concepts with real case studies from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and close with an overview of the skills required for the manufacturing engineer of …
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Why the Green Road Begins in the Brown Earth
A talk on the important role that obscure but critical metals such as rare-earth elements, lithium and cobalt play in our modern high-tech society, for electric vehicles, wind turbines and beyond. There is little doubt that the increased electrification of transportation and energy systems will be a pivotal part of our society’s response, to the …