Blogs and videos from past Science Week events
Videos
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2021
- Dr Philip Hopley and Professor Ian Crawford and panel with Dr Gilly Forrester: Life on Earth and Beyond
- Dr Giulia Zanetti and Professor Adrian Shepherd and panel with Dr Gilly Forrester: The Microcosm
- Dr Katherine Thompson and Dr Emma Meaburn and panel with Dr Gilly Forrester: Nature and Nurture
- Dr Ute Liersch and Dr Simon Green and panel with Dr Gilly Forrester: Mind the Mind
- Dr Gilly Forrester and Dr Natasha Kirkham and panel with Dr Emma Meaburn: Becoming Human
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2019
- Dr Salvadore Tomas: Synthesising life
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2018
- Dr Charlie Underwood: 'The whole tooth: sharks ancient and modern in the sea, desert and lab'
- Dr James Hammond: 'Volcanoes without borders: seismically imaging beneath Paektu/Changbaishan Volcano, North Korea/China'
- Rosalind Franklin Lecture: Professor Eva Nogales: 'Structure and functional interactions in the regulation of human gene expression'
- Dr Lara Maister: 'Do you really know yourself? Investigating the self-representation of the body and mind'
- Professor Naz Derakhshan: 'How can cognitive neuroscience build resilience in breast cancer patients?'
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2017
- Professor Mike Oaksford: 'On the source of human irrationality'
- Rosalind Franklin Lecture: Professor Gaia Scerif: 'Attention, nature and nurture'
- Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann: 'Keeping the Earth habitable'
- Tianchen Hen, PhD student: 'Triggering the radiation of early animals - the Cambrian Explosion'
- Professor Andy Carter: 'Understanding climate change through studying how and when Antarctica became a frozen continent'
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2016
- Dr Peter Grindrod: 'Selecting the landing site for 2018 ExoMars Rover'
- Professor Hilary Downes: 'Lost worlds of the Solar System'
- Dr Louise Alexander: 'Analysing the moon: what can we learn from the Apollo samples?'
- Natasha Almeida, PhD student: 'Looking inside: extraterrestrial material in 3D'
- Inaugural Rosalind Franklin Lecture: Professor Elspeth Garman: 'From chocolate to drug discovery'
- Panel discussion: 'Inspired by science: women tell their stories'
- Professor Nazanin Derakhshan: 'How can adaptive cognitive training improve resilience and mental wellbeing?'
- Dr Adam Tierney: 'The speech/song illusion'
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2015
- Professor Helen Saibil: 'Protein machines in the arms race between man and pathogen'
- Professor Karen Hudson-Edwards: 'Water: precious, polluted, protected'
- Professor Martin Eimer: 'How the brain recognises faces'
- Dr Esha Massand: 'What can babies possibly tell us about Dementia?'
- Katarina Begus: 'The development of human curiosity'
- Dr Caspar Addyman: 'The surprisingly serious science of baby laughter'
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2014
- Dr Atsushi Senju: 'Why is the development of face-to-face communication so important for babies?'
- Dr Iroise Dumontheil: 'Can mindfulness meditation training improve self-regulation in adolescents?'
- Professor David Moss and Professor Paul Barnes: 'Crystallography: the past and the future, always in fashion'
- Professor Hilary Downes: 'What can Asteroids tell us about the Earth?'
- Professor Richard Cooper: 'The hidden complexities of routine behaviour'
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2013
- Dr Phil Hopley: 'Climate change and human evolution'
- Professor Gerald Roberts: 'Earthquakes in Italy: the role of the historical record of earthquakes and geology'
- Dr Richard Hayward: 'Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: unlocking the secrets of Chlamydia, a stealth pathogen'
- Professor Bonnie Wallace: 'Sodium channel structures and cardiovascular and neurological diseases: developing novel pharmaceutical drugs'
Blogs
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2021
- Dr Katherine Thompson: Coughing up a lung, pollutants in our air
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2019
- Dr Salvador Tomas: Synthesising Life
- Dr Iroise Dumontheil: The Adolescent Brain
- Rosalind Franklin Lecture: Professor Emily Rayfield: Engineering a Dinosaur
- Professor Ian Crawford: The new science of astrobiology and the search for life in the universe
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2018
- Dr James Hammond: 'Volcanoes without borders: seismically imaging beneath Paektu/Changbaishan Volcano, North Korea/China'
- Rosalind Franklin Lecture: Professor Eva Nogales: 'Structure and functional interactions in the regulation of human gene expression'
- Dr Lara Maister: 'Do you really know yourself? Investigating the self-representation of the body and mind'
- Professor Naz Derakhshan: 'How can cognitive neuroscience build resilience in breast cancer patients?'
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2017
- Film screening and panel discussion: Resistance: Not All Germs are Created Equal
- 'Antibiotics: victims of their own success' [Blog giving background to Resistance documentary]
- Sophie Downes: 'The interactions between fungi and heritage buildings'
- Professor Mike Oaksford: 'On the source of human irrationality'
- Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann: 'Keeping the Earth habitable and Tianchen Hen, PhD student: Triggering the radiation of early animals - the Cambrian Explosion'
- Professor Andy Carter: 'Understanding climate change through studying how and when Antarctica became a frozen continent'
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2016
- Professor Ian Crawford (U3A Talk): 'The search for life in the Universe'
- Film screening: Life Story: The Race for the Double Helix
- Dr Anthony Roberts: 'Walking molecules: marching to a mechanism for biological movement'
- Dr Peter Grindrod: 'Selecting the landing site for 2018 ExoMars Rover'
- Professor Hilary Downes: 'Lost worlds of the Solar System'
- Dr Louise Alexander: 'Analysing the Moon: what can we learn from the Apollo samples?'
- Natasha Almeida, PhD student: 'Looking inside: extraterrestrial material in 3D'
- Inaugural Rosalind Franklin Lecture: Professor Elspeth Garman: 'From chocolate to drug discovery'
- Dr Maya Topf: 'Computational modelling in structural biology'
- Professor Nazanin Derakhshan: 'How can adaptive cognitive training improve resilience and mental wellbeing?'
- Dr Adam Tierney: 'The speech/song illusion'
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2015
- Dr Tim Smith: 'Attention machine: the science of cinematic perception'
- Professor Helen Saibil: 'Protein machines in the arms race between man and pathogen'
- Professor Martin Eimer: 'How the brain recognises faces'
- Dr Alan Lowe: 'Visualising the inner workings of the living cell'
- Dr Esha Massand: 'What can babies possibly tell us about Dementia?'
- Katarina Begus: 'The development of human curiosity'
- Dr Caspar Addyman: 'The surprisingly serious science of baby laughter'
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2014
- Dr Iroise Dumontheil: 'Can mindfulness meditation training improve self-regulation in adolescents?'
- Dr Vitor Pinheiro: 'Redesigning biology'
- Professor Paul Barnes and Professor David Moss: 'Crystallography: past, present and future'
- Dr Martin Ingrouille: 'The evolutionary secrets of garden flowers'
- Dr Richard Cooper: 'The hidden complexities of routine behaviour'
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2013
- Professor Michael Thomas: 'The latest findings in Autism research'
- Dr Phil Hopley: 'Climate change and human evolution in Africa'
- Dr Richard Hayward: 'Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: unlocking the secrets of Chlamydia, a stealth pathogen'
- Professor Jonathan Smith: 'Making sense of medical genetics'
- Professor Bonnie Wallace: 'Sodium channel structures and cardiovascular and neurological diseases'