Public Engagement
- Public Engagement Strategy
- About the P.E. Unit
- Toolkits for engagement
- Upcoming events and opportunities
- Provost's Awards for Public Engagement
- Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures
- Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Spring 2011
- Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Summer 2011
- Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Autumn 2011
- Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Spring 2012
- Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Summer 2012
- Bright Club Gallery
- Symposium
- Provost's Awards for Public Engagement
- Funding
- Research & Evaluation
- Current and past projects
- Contemporary Projects Programme
- Contact Us
- UCL Public Engagement Symposium - Thursday 14 June 2012
- If you're a student with a public engagement idea, why not STEP OUT?
- What do UCL researchers really do?
- Are you a postgraduate student from the School of Life and Medical Sciences? Do you want to develop your public engagement skills? If so, Train and Engage is for you!
Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Spring 2012
Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures are a great way to find out what UCL's early-career researchers are up to. In just one lunch-hour, two speakers from across UCL will give a short talk about the area of study that they love.
Time: Friday lunchtimes from 20 January - 23 March 2012, 13:10 - 13:55
Place: Mully's, UCL Lewis's Building, Gower Street (map)
Nearest tube: Euston Square
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20 January 2012
Optical illusions, mental illness and a unifying theory of the brain?
Harriet Brown, UCL Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
When and where are we happiest?
George MacKerron, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
27 January 2012
Body clocks in constant darkness
Andrew Beale, UCL Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Talk of the City: Our Tweets, Our Community Happiness
Daniele Quercia, UCL Department of Computer Science
3 February 2012
This is not graffiti
Sabina Andron, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
A red traffic light on aging eyes
Ioannis Kokkinopoulos, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
10 February 2012
The wind-lens: a less disruptive wind turbine?
Alessio Balleri, UCL Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
The problem with searching for new things at the Large Hadron Collider
Stephen Bieniek, UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy
17 February 2012
New York City: Cultural autopsy and collage art
Rona Cran, UCL Department of English
Second speaker to be confirmed...
24 February 2012
Dutch Football between 1910 and 1920: values, power and finance
Nicholas Piercey, Department of Dutch, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society
How safe is car travel for children in wheelchairs?
Dinos Visvikis, UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
2 March 2012
The play’s the thing: taking the drama out of translating for the theatre
Geraldine Brodie, UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies
Guilty silence: Is the presumption of innocence being undermined in the police station?
Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, UCL Laws
9 March 2012
Swipe I like - the like button in real life
Moritz Behrens, UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
Being resilient to human error: Don’t end up with pie on your face!
Dominic Furniss, UCL Interaction Centre
16 March 2012
The life of Francis Crick: a lesson in bridging disciplines
Christine Aicardi, UCL Science and Technology Studies
After the earthquake: a proposal for rebuilding historic villages
Bernadette Devilat, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
23 March 2012
Shedding light on body clocks and brains
Helen Moore, UCL Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Talking to the soul: the mystical experience in Sufi poetry and music
Sara Vaghefian, Department of French, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society
Any questions? Email Hilary Jackson at hilary.jackson@ucl.ac.uk or call her on 020 7679 2489.
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