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RPSG past speakers
| Speaker | Year | Topic Area | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| (No name) | 2017 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Connect with maths (talk and workshops for school age) |
| Adams, Carol | 2014 | Business | Responsibility in Business |
| Afshar, Haleh | 2005 | Religion,Islam | Women's Rights and Islam-Can things change? |
| Aitken, Jonathan | 2016 | Politics, Religion | Reforming our Prisons-Purposes and Practicalities |
| Angiolini, Elish | 2008 | Law | Scots Law' What's Special about us? |
| Ansari, Ali | 2015 | Modern History | Iran and the British Question |
| Archer, Janet | 2015 | Arts Admin | Unlocking Potential, Embracing Ambition |
| Armstrong, Karen | 2013 | Religion, Philosophy | Compassion |
| Ashcroft, Brain | 2005 | Economics | New Wealth for an old Nation? |
| Atiyah, Michael | 2005 | Mathematics | Einstein and the Nature of Space |
| Barker, John | 2018 | Physics and Astronomy | The Exploration of Space: the Austerity Years |
| Barker, John | 2010 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | The smile on the face of the Quantum |
| Barker, John | 2016 | Members' Talks | Through the Webbit Hole: a Guide to royalphil.org |
| Barr, Leslie | 2002 | The RPSG | The Society and Nobel Laureates |
| Barrow, John | 1999 | Physics, Cosmology | Life in the Universe |
| Black, James | 2002 | Pharmacology | A Brief History of Drug Invention |
| Black, Sue | 2009 | Forensic Anthropology | Forensic Anthropology in the Modern World |
| Blackburn, Simon. | 2004 | Philosophy | Fictions, Inventions and Ethics |
| Blakemore, Colin | 2013 | Neuroscience | Vision Impossible |
| Bond, Michael | 2005 | Psychiatry | Forty Years in Pain |
| Bone,Ian | 2013 | Neurology | Charles Dickens and the Art of Medical Observation |
| Boulton, Geoffrey | 2007 | Geology | What is happening to Planet Earth? |
| Bown, Lalage | 2008 | Education/Feminism | Women, Words and the World |
| Brindley, Lynne | 2010 | Librarianship | The Role of National Libraries in the 21st Century |
| Broadie, Alexander | 2013/2017 | Philosophy | David Hume/Public Intellectuals |
| Brown, Callum | 2001 | Scottish Church History | The Death of European Christian Culture |
| Bruford, Mike | 2019 | Genetics/ Biodiversity | Why Genetic Biodiversity matters |
| Bruzzi, Stella | 2017 | Film | The Law in Media Entertainment |
| Burdon, Roy | 2010 | Visual Arts | Culture Fusion: Arts/Science/Arts |
| Burland, John | 2004 | Engineering | Propping up the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| Burn, John | 2012 | Genetics | Twins, Genes and Stem Cells:in search of self |
| Burnell, Jocelyn Bell | 2007 | Astronomy | What's going on in the Universe? |
| Burns, Harry | 2018 | Public Health | Wellbeing-What is it and what causes it? |
| Burton, Michael | 2008 | Cognitive Psychology | Face Recognition: surveillance, security, perception |
| Butt, John | 2005 | Music | Does Classical Music still exist? |
| Caddy,Brian | 2006 | Forensics | Forensic Science-Servant of the Legal Process |
| Cairncross, Frances | 2000 | Economics | The Death of Distance |
| Cairns Smith, Graham | 2004 | Medicine | Portrait of a truly Primitive Gene |
| Calder, Muffy | 2013 | Computing | Computational Thinking |
| Calderwood, Catherine | 2016 | Public Health | The Philosophy of Realistic Medicine |
| Calman, Kenneth | 1999/2015 | Public Health | Risk and its Communication/Happiness |
| Campbell, Steve | 2015 | Members' Talks | Photography |
| Campbell,Gordon | 2011 | Religion | The King James Bible-Language and Literature |
| Cannadine, David | 2012 | History | the British Monarchy becoming constitutional |
| Card,Nick | 2014 | Archaeology | Excavations at Neolithic site Brodgar Orkney |
| Chakrabati,Shami | 2012 | Human Rights | Common Values in the Human Rights Act |
| Cogdell, Richard | 2009 | Botany | What we can learn from Photosynthesis? |
| Cohen, Philp | 2013 | Pharmacology | New Drugs in the 21stC |
| Conway-Morris, Simon | 2007 | Evolution | How Evolution dances to the Song of Creation |
| Cowan, Ted | 2003 | History | 5/11 and the Fallout from 1603 |
| Craig, Carol | 2006 | Psychology | Negativity in Scotland's Culture and Consciousness |
| Crane, Tim | 2006 | Neuroscience | Can Science explain Consciousness? |
| Crawford, Dorothy | 2010 | Medicine General | Microbes and us |
| Crowe, Victoria | 2011 | Visual Arts | Inspiration and Process: the Creative Journey |
| Cubie, Andrew | 2004 | Education | Academic Rigour or Social Policy |
| Curtice, John | 2014 | Politics | Is Scotland set to Separate? |
| Cushieri, Alfred | 2010 | Medicine General | Operating from Images |
| Deary, Ian | 2014 | Aging | Heathy Cognitive Aging |
| Deech, Ruth | 2002 | Public Health | The Future of Fertility |
| Dominiczak, Anna | 2009 | Genetics/Cardiology | Genes, Proteins and Patients |
| Eaves, Laurence | 2015 | Physics | Graphene |
| Elliot, Alison | 2006 | Religion | Moderation in a World of Extremes |
| Esakovitz, Leonard | 2012 | Visual Arts | Why take Photographs? |
| Esakowitz, Leonard | 2012 | Members' Talks | Why take photographs? |
| Evans, Martin | 2009 | Medicine General | Mice, Men and Medicine |
| Ewing, Winifred | 1999 | Politics | A Suitable Job for a Woman |
| Fells, Ian | 2002 | Energy | The Future of Renewable Energy |
| Ferguson ,Niall | 2010 | History | The 1970s in Historical Perspective |
| Finkel, Irving | 2016 | Ancient History | The Ark before Noah |
| Foster, Russell | 2016 | Neuroscience | A New Understanding of the Eye |
| Fraser, Mary | 2016 | Members' Talks | Controversies over the Great War Separation Allowance: Views of the Police |
| Frith, Chris | 2011 | Psychology | What is Consciousness for? |
| Fry, Michael | 2007 | History | State of the Union: how 1707 led to 2007 |
| Fyfe, Maria | 2016 | Members' Talks | Mary Barbour |
| Galbraith, Roderick | 2001 | Aeronautics | Two Centuries of Flight |
| Gallagher, Jamie | 2014 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Indestructible Energy |
| Garrod, Simon | 2009 | Psychology | The New Science of Social Interaction |
| Gilmore,Ian | 2015 | Addiction | Alcohol:Coping with our Favourite drug |
| Glover, Anne | 2010 | Global Warming | Is Manmade Climate Change our Greatest Challenge? |
| Gorman. Daniel | 2014 | Members' Talks | James Clerk Maxwell |
| Grady, Monica | 2017 | Cosmology | Landing on a Comet |
| Graham, Elizabeth | 2012 | Archaeology | The Maya: their Calendar and Apocalypse to come |
| Grant, Robert | 2000 | Literature | Fiction and Meaning |
| Gray, Muir | 2014 | Public Health | The Third Healthcare Revolution |
| Grayling, A.C. | 2007 | Philosophy | Defending the Enlightenment |
| Greenan, Lily | 2016 | Women's Rights | Violence against Women in Scotland |
| Greenfield, Susan | 2000 | Neuroscience | The Private Life of the Brain |
| Greig, David | 2014 | Theatre | Theatre and Anthropology |
| Haldane, John | 1999 | Philosophy | Philosophy in this Century and the Last |
| Hall, Wendy | 2008 | Computing | Towards a Science of the World Wide Web |
| Hampton,Kay | 2003 | Public Health | A Fairer Future |
| Hanlon, Philip | 2007 | Public Health | Threats to Public Health in the 21st Century |
| Haugh, Joanne | 2016 | Global Warming | Climate Change |
| Hellawell, Keith | 2004 | Addiction | Drugs in Society |
| Hendry, Martin | 2009 | Physics | Cosmology:Why are we here? |
| Hennessey, Peter | 2018 | Politics, History | Writing the History of One's own Time |
| Hobbs, Angela | 2015 | Philosophy | Philosophy and the Good Life |
| Holloway, James | 2013 | Visual Arts | Portrait of a Nation: Scotland's Portrait Gallery |
| Holloway, Richard | 2001 | Religion ,Philosophy | The Wound of Religion |
| Hough, Jim | 2003 | Physics | Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe |
| Humes, Walter | 2009 | Education | Education, Citizenship and Democracy |
| Hutton, Will | 2018 | Public Affairs | The Enlightenment under Siege |
| Ingold, Tim | 2018 | Sociology | On Building a University for the Common Good |
| Inns, Tom | 2016 | Design, Education | Design Thinking in 21st Century |
| Ion, Sue | 2011 | Energy | 21stC Energy: Challenges and Food for Thought |
| Jaspars, Marcel | 2016 | Pharmacology | Extreme Drug Discovery |
| Jebb, Susan | 2017 | Nutrition | Improving the Nation's Diet |
| Jeffrey, Kate | 2018 | Neuroscience | Illuminating Memory: optogenetics and the new science of the mind |
| Jeffreys, Alec | 2008 | Forensics | DNA Fingerprinting and Beyond |
| Jones, Steve | 2009 | Evolution | Why Darwin was right and the Creationists are wrong |
| Kennedy, Dermot | 2013 | Members' Talks | Lister, Glasgow and antisepsis: confluences that changed the world |
| Kirkwood, Tom | 2016 | Aging | What Price Immortality? |
| Langair, Malcolm | 2000 | Particle Physics | Maxwell, Planck and the discovery of Quanta |
| Law, Stephen | 2007 | Psychology | The War for Children's Minds |
| Leask, Nigel | 2017 | Literature | Thomas Pennants Scottish Tours 1760-72 |
| Leather, Suzi | 2005 | Ethics | Test Tube Babies and Embryo Research |
| Lebrecht,Norman, | 2001 | Music | The Meaning of Mahler |
| Little, Alan | 2013 | World Affairs | Europe in an Age of Fear |
| Long, Philip | 2014 | Visual Arts | V &A Dundee |
| Lorimer, David | 2007 | Philosophy | The Frontiers of Science. Consciousness and Spirituality |
| Macdonald, Finlay | 2003 | Religion | The Moderator's Tale |
| Macdonald, Jim | 2013 | Ecology | Low Carbon Living |
| Macdonald, Murdo | 2008 | Visual Arts | Scotland's Art From Prehistory to the Present |
| Macdonald.Ken | 2017 | Law | Freedom in a dangerous World |
| Macgregor, Jimmie | 2000 | Entertainment | An Arctic Journey |
| MacMillan, Duncan | 2001 | Art/Philosophy | Two Centuries of Art and Philosophy in Scotland |
| MacMillan, James | 2005 | Music | Music: the most spiritual of the Arts |
| Macniven, Duncan | 2013 | History | Scotland's People--1855-2011 |
| MacSween,Roderick | 2003/2010 | General Medicine | The Future of Medical Care |
| Manning, Aubrey | 2007 | Zoology | The Animals and Ourselves |
| Maslen,Rob | 2011 | Literature | Fantasy from The Front: Mervyn Peake |
| Mavor, Ronald | 2000 | Arts General | Time and the Arts |
| Maxwell, Jeff | 2005 | GM crops | Old Crops: Parameters of Acceptance and Rejection |
| McAnemey, Billy | 2006 | Geography | Africa: What does the Future hold? |
| McCluskey, Karen | 2014 | Psychology/Public Health | Medics against Violence |
| McCluskey, Lord | 2005 | Law | Whose Law? Religious and Legal Rights |
| McColl, Jim | 2017 | Business | Renewal and Regeneration of Businesses |
| McConnell, Bridget | 2002 | Arts Administration | Scotland's Cultural Future |
| McConnell, Jack | 2010 | Politics | Impact of Devolution on Scotland's Place in the World |
| McCulloch, Diarmaid | 2017 | Religion/History | The Reformation Half a Millennium Later |
| McDonald, Jan | 2010 | Theatre History | Women Performers in 19thC British Theatre |
| McDonald, Sheena | 2006 | Media | Sack the Clown; Governance, Media and the Law |
| McDonald, Stuart | 2011 | History | Procurement of Cadavers by Anatomists In 19thC |
| McFadden, Jean | 2016 | Glasgow Local Govt | Glasgow's Miles Better? A personal view |
| McGrath, Alistair | 2006 | Religion | The Twilight of Atheism? |
| McInnes ,Colin | 2008/2015 | Engineering | Engineering, Energy and the Environment/Energy Transmissions-past and Present |
| McKeganey, Neil | 2008 | Addiction | Welcome to Scotland, Drug Capital of Europe |
| McKellar, Quintin | 2003 | Ethics | The Future of Animal Welfare |
| McKinnon, Donald | 2000 | World Affairs | Forth and Clyde Canal--A Nation Divided |
| McKinnon, Jim | 2010 | Geography | From Skara Brae to sustainable Communities |
| McLean, Colin | 2006 | Economics | The Strange Behaviour of Investors |
| McLennan, Andrew | 2009 | Sociology | Inside Barlinnie: the first 24 Hours |
| McMillan, Nigel | 2003 | Diagnostics | The latest Developments in Medical Scanning |
| Menzies, Kirsty | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow |
| Midgley, Mary | 2004 | Philosophy | Visions and Values: Western Global Ecology |
| Millar, Keith | 2018 | History | Franklin's Arctic Expedition 1845 |
| Mitchell, William | 2015 | Members' Talks | Making of the Baton for the Commonwealth Games |
| Mithen, Steven | 2006 | Music | The Origins of Music and Language |
| Monaghan, Pat | 2013 | Members' Talks | An insight into the life and legacy of Alexander Wilson, Ornithologist |
| Morgan, Edwin | 2000 | Literature | Some Philosophical thoughts on Burns |
| Morris, Andrew | 2014 | Public Health | Health Science Research in Scotland |
| Morris, Jane | 2018 | Psychiatry | Psychotherapy in Scotland today |
| Neilson, June | 2012 | Members' Talks | The Antonine Wall: a wall too far? |
| Newlands, George | 2008 | Theology/Ethics | Faith, Hospitality and Human Rights |
| NicDaeid, Niamh | 2016 | Forensic Science | Does Forensic Science have a Future? |
| Nielsen, June | 2012 | History | The Antonine Wall: a Wall too far? |
| Nurse, Paul | 2018 | Genetics | Great Ideas in Biology |
| O'Donovan, Michael | 2019 | Genetics | Genes and Mental Illness |
| O'Hagan, Angela | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow |
| O'Neill, Mark | 2006 | Visual Arts | Kelvingrove in the 21st Century |
| O'Neill,Onora | 2012 | Philosophy | Do we need to rethink Press Freedom? |
| Ogg, Derek | 2004 | Law | Just Law |
| Oppenheimer, Peter | 2000 | Economics | What Price Progress? |
| Palmer,Tim | 2018 | Meteorology | Predicting the Weather |
| Patten, Chris | 2013 | World Affairs | Collapsing Certainties:changing World order |
| Paul, Douglas | 2019 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Nanotechnology |
| Pennington, Hugh | 2001 | Public Health | A Century of Food Poisoning |
| Peterson, John | 2000 | Politics/World Affairs | The US Presidential Election |
| Philbrick, Dick | 2012 | Business/ Economics | Employee Ownership |
| Philbrick, Dick | 2012 | Members' Talks | Employee ownership: path to prosperity and antidote to alienation? |
| Phipps, Alison | 2019 | World Affairs/Education | Refugee Integration Through Languages and the Arts |
| Pirmohamed, Munir | 2017 | Genetics | Personalised Medicine> Can NHS afford it? |
| Pollock, Allyson | 2008 | Public Health | The NHS and the Divergence of England and Scotland |
| Purser, John | 2011 | Musicology | Scotland's Landscape as Music |
| Radcliffe-Richards, Janet | 2002 | Women's Rights | The Future of Feminism |
| Rampton, Richard | 2001 | Law | Holocaust Denial: The Trial of the Century |
| Reedie, Craig | 2008 | Sports Administration | Civic Advantages of International Sporting Events |
| Rees, Martin | 2013 | Cosmology | Life in the Cosmos: Planets, Galaxies and the Universe |
| Reid, George | 2011 | Politics | Getting to 'YES' |
| Reid, Harry | 2010 | Religion | Why we should be grateful to Luther Calvin and Knox |
| Reid, Heather | 2003 | Meteorology | Weather Forecasting in the 21st Century |
| Reilly, David | 2006 | General Medicine | Healing in a Post-Industrial Age |
| Reilly, Patrick | 2007 | Literature | Decoding the Da Vinci Code |
| Richardson, Louise | 2011 | Terrorism/World Affairs | Understanding Terrorism |
| Rifkind, Malcolm, | 1999 | Politics | Blessed are the Peacemakers |
| Roaf, Sue | 2009 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Three degrees of climate change |
| Roberts, Carolyn | 2018 | Environment | Managing our Water Environment |
| Robertson, Ian | 2009 | Music | Operatic Medicine? Doctors in Opera |
| Roderick A McD Galbraith | 2011 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What nature did and did not give aerospace |
| Rogers, Paul | 2017 | Politics/Public Affairs | Lost Cause? The War on Terror |
| Rowan, Sheila | 2016 | Cosmology | Gravitational Waves-a new Astronomy? |
| Sanderson, David | 2013 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | 2013 was the centenary of 'isotope' first appearing in print, in a letter from Glasgow's Frederick Soddy |
| Sanderson,David | 2013 | Chemistry | Science Festival Lecture |
| Sands, Philippe | 2019 | Law/World Affairs | Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity |
| Saxl, Otilla | 2003 | Technology | The Science of the Small: Nanotechnology |
| Scott, Sophie | 2016 | Neuroscience | The Science of Laughter |
| Seldon, Antony | 2017 | Education/Philosophy | Waste of 20thC Academic Philosophy |
| Sharkey, Noel | 2012 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Robots that can help us and hurt us |
| Sharp,Craig | 2004 | Veterinary Science | Animal Athletes: Feats of Animal Physiology |
| Shenkin, Alan | 2012 | Nutrition | Micronutrient Supplements and Disease |
| Sheridan, Tommy | 2002 | Politics | A Century of Socialism |
| Shipton, Zoe | 2015 | Geology/ Engineering | Ethics of Energy Supply in 21stC |
| Shirlaw, Derek | 2016 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Future fuels |
| Skeldon, Ken | 2007 | Cosmology | Debunking the Moon Hoax Theory |
| Smith, Catherine | 2009 | Literature | The Dignity of Man--Robert Burns |
| Smith, John | 2005 | Pharmacology | Scientific Changes for Natural Medicine |
| Smith, Martin | 2005 | Geography | Drifting Continents and the Asian Tsunami |
| Spector, Timothy | 2015 | Genetics | How you can change your Genes |
| Spurway, Neil | 2004 | Theology/Science | Science and Religion in the Third Millennium |
| Stamp, Gavin | 2002 | Visual Arts | Sir Giles Gilbert Scott: Architect of the Century |
| Stewart, Mhairi | 2015 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What have bacteria done for us? |
| Stoddart, Sandy | 2005 | Sculpture | Costume, Drapery and the Decline of the Statue |
| Stott, David | 2014 | Members' Talks | Antikythera Mechanism |
| Strachan, Huw | 2015 | History | Centenary of WW1: Commemoration or Celebration? |
| Stringer, Chris | 2011 | Evolution | The Origin of our Species |
| Susskind, Richard | 2002/17 | Law/Computing Science | Clicks and Mortals/The Future of The Professions |
| Sutherland | 2003 | Philosophy | Ideologies and Values |
| Tallis,Raymond | 2010 | Visual Arts | Aping Mankind; Darwinism, yes : Darwinist, no |
| Taylor, Max | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | How Terrorism can be understood and countered |
| Thomas, Sharon | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow |
| Thorp, Nigel | 2001 | Visual Arts | The Ass and the Coxcomb--Whistler and Ruskin |
| Venables, Jean | 2011 | Global Warming | Water and Climate Change in Food Production |
| Vousden, Karen | 2014 | Oncology | Why is Cancer so rare? |
| Wallace, John | 2008 | Music | Music and Freedom |
| Warren, John | 2013 | Members' Talks | A light shining in dark places: the legacy of Thomas Aikenhead |
| Warwick,Kevin | 2006 | Technology | Hybrid Intelligence. Human and Machine Brains |
| Welsh, Louise | 2018 | Literature | Dystopia And Nostalgia in Apocalypse Fiction |
| Williams, Shirley | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | Politics and Principle |
| Wilmut, Ian | 2004 | Cloning | The Future of Cloning |
| Wilson, Chick | 2011 | Chemistry | Mysterious Case of Misbehaving Molecules |
| Wilson, David | 2014 | World Affairs | China Awakening |
| Wilson, Jim | 2012 | Genetics | Scotland's DNA |
| Winder, Simon | 2011 | History | Germanic Tribes in 16thC Europe |
| Winetrobe, Barry | 2003 | Politics/World Affairs | The Evolution of Devolution |
| Winfield, Alan | 2018 | Robotics/Ethics | The Thinking Robot |
| Withers, Charles | 2013 | Geography | Scotland's Cartographic History |
| Wolpert, Louis | 2009 | Religion | Belief and the Evolution of Religion |
| Yellowlees, Lesley | 2015 | Women in Science | Women in Science |