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RPSG past speakers
Speaker | Year | Topic Area | Lecture Title |
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(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 |