Research Seminars – Faculty of Science and Health
Research seminars
Seminars run by the Faculty of Science and Health are open to all our postgraduate students and academic staff, and some are also open to members of the public and other institutions.
See our full timetable for spring 2022 below, or jump to the school or department you're most interested in to find out more.
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School of Biological Sciences
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 February 2022 | 2.00pm | ABMG Seminar: Academic Drug Discovery - The Long Game | Prof. Steve Wood, University of Portsmouth | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link |
| 24 March 2022 | 2.00pm | ABMG Seminar: Cryo-EM studies of molecular chaperones | TBC | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link |
| 24 March 2022 | 3.00pm | ABMG Facilities visit: Walkround of the CEI | TBC | PGR students and staff |
Location coming soon |
| 31 March 2022 | 4.00pm | Coastal Marine Biodiversity and Fishery Management | Dr Mark Tupper/Dr Mark Hendy | All welcome |
Attendees: register here |
| 28 April 2022 | 10.00am | GREAT lecture: Turning the Tide on Plastic Pollution | Prof. John McGeehan | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this link |
| 28 April 2022 | 2.00pm | ABMG Seminar: A Tale of Two Enzymes | Dr Binuraj Menon | All welcome |
Online and in-person. Attendees: follow this link or attend St Michael's Building, Room 0.32 |
| 25 May 2022 | 1.00pm | ABMG Seminar: Structural basis of meiotic chromosome synapsis by the synaptonemal complex | Dr Owen Davies, University of Edinburgh | All welcome |
Online and in-person. Attendees: follow this link or attend St Michael's Building, Room 0.32 |
Dental Academy
School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 February 2022 | 5.00pm | Gold in the Yukon: Directdating of hydrothermal Cu-Au systems using calcite U-Pb dating | Dr. Catherine Mottram | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 17 February 2022 | 5.00pm | The Isle of Wight Iguanodontian dinosaurs. Two centuries of taxonomic turmoil | Dr. Jeremy Lockwood | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 24 February 2022 | 5.00pm | Clumped isotopes: From Earth surface temperatures to upper crustal processes. | Prof. Paul Dennis | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 3 March 2022 | 5.00pm | Pollen in ecosystems past and present | Dr. Adele Julier | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 10 March 2022 | 5.00pm | Santorini volcanism and sea level change | Dr. Sabine Wulf | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 24 March 2022 | 5.00pm | Atoms to Planets: Nanoscale insights into planetary scale problems | Dr. Lee White | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 31 March 2022 | 4.00pm | Coastal Marine Biodiversity and Fishery Management | Dr Mark Tupper/Dr Mark Hendy | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 31 March 2022 | 5.00pm | Understanding what environmental factors facilitate the spread of invasive vegetation in freshwater ecosystems | Dr. Zarah Pattison | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 21 April 2022 | 5.00pm | Fostering transdisciplinary and sustainable marine management in the UK | Prof. Steve Fletcher, Dr. Jonathan Potts and Dr. Victoria Leslie | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
| 5 May 2022 | 5.00pm | Trend in the levels of atmospheric particles and warming over Europe | Dr. Olusegun Fawole | All welcome |
Open to everyone: register via this link |
School of Health and Care Professions
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 February 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Critiquing resilience as an individual trait: implications for health and social care | Annabel Tremlett | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 11 February 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Statisical Significance, P values and Confidence Intervals consideration for Clinical Studies | Kandala Ngianga | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 18 February 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Nurse identity | Mike Collins | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 4 March 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Medically 'othering' the ageing woman in literature and culture | Sara Zadrony | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 11 March 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Care relationships in social interventions: a critical realist analysis | Gail Mann | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 18 March 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Obesity and bone health: role of physical activity | Raymond Lee | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 25 March 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Quality of life in parents and caregivers of children receiving speech and language therapy | Keira White | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 1 April 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Inside Out Health Project - What is the experience of HIV healthcare while in English prisons? An exploration of men's experiences | Felicity Young | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
| 8 April 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | The impact of the pandemic on motor neuron disease | Nikki Jarrett (& Helen Brewah) | All welcome |
Attendees: follow this Zoom link |
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Department of Psychology
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 February 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Unlocking Creative Potential: Reappraising Emotional Events Facilitates Creativity for Conventional Thinkers | Dr. Chris Bauman, UCI Paul Merage, School Of Business | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link for the online seminar or visit King Henry Building, Room 1.05 for face to face seminar |
| 23 February 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Social norms and the development of prosociality and punishment across societies | Dr. Bailey House, University Of York | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link |
| 2 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | The Teachers as Researchers program: a citizen science project to address educational challenges | Dr. Ignacio Atal and Murillo Pagnotta, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link |
| 16 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Developmental and Socio-Contextual Influences on Children’s Eyewitness Testimony | Dr. Lindsay Malloy, Ontario Tech University | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link for the online seminar or visit King Henry Building, Room 1.05 for face to face seminar |
| 23 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | TBC | Dr Erica Hepper, University of Surrey | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link |
| 30 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Curiosity and Memory in adolescents and children | Dr Matthias Gruber (University of Cardiff) and Yana Fandakova (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students: follow this Zoom link |
School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2022 | 9.00am - 10.00am | Turning up the heat on cardiovascular disease | Dr Kate Thomas | All welcome |
Attendees follow this link |
| 25 March 2022 | 3.00pm - 4.00pm | Caring for the carers: how to develop and support sport psychology professionals | Dr Alessandro Quartiroli, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
Looking for more seminars?
All our faculties run seminars open to academics and students within the University and in the global research community.