Past lectures
'From Head Girl, to Nurse, and now and Professor, Who would have thought it? Well Certainly Not Me! by Professor Abigail Moriarty
19 October 2023, 6pm, Murray Lecture Theatre
Professor Abigail Moriarty, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching)
Professor Abigail Moriarty's inaugural lecture will criticially explore the themes of how behavioural values of care, compassion and professionalism can be translated throughout a vocational career, whether applied to patients, students or colleagues. Along with the weight of 'imposter phenomenon' and overcoming the challenges of self-belief'.
'Critical Images and the Critique of Images: Reflections of (Hi)stories, Photographies, Institutions', by Professor Alexandra Moschovi
Thursday 25 May 2023, 6pm, Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre.
Professor Alexandra Moschovi, Professor of Photography/Curating.
Photography is everywhere, as visual communication and a means of expression, as high and popular art, as documentation and play, as social practice and vehicle for critical citizenry and civic engagement.
Drawing on a research journey that transverses the areas of photography, art history, digital media, and museum/curating studies, Professor Moschovi will explore cross-sections of photography’s changing technologies and shifting currencies, its discursive and institutional battles while stressing the need for transnational and more inclusive (hi)stories of photographies.
'Bringing People to Radio: Stories of Participation and Research', by Professor Caroline Mitchell
Tuesday 7 March 2023, 6pm, Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre.
Professor Caroline Mitchell, Professor of Radio and Participation.
Radio is an enduring and resilient medium which has responded to many industry and societal challenges over the past century.
Professor Mitchell’s lecture will map over 40 years of research and practice relating to understanding women and radio, community radio and new forms of sound mapping, archiving and activism. She will discuss approaches and methods that bring previously marginalised and minoritized voices to radio, audio and podcasting.
'Applications in Artificial Intelligence: To Trust or Not To Trust, That is the Question?' by Professor John Murray
Wednesday 15 February 2023
Professor John Murray, Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Exploring the developments of AI in industry, exploring challenges and issues and successes of AI systems. Professor Murray will discuss the latest development in AI and Robotics, how this impacts the world in which we live and the challenges that face applications of AI and Robotics. This lecture will look at the big questions which surround the use of AI from ethics to models of trust, to data manipulation and the morals which govern the use of AI and Robotics in society.
'Challenging judgments and perceptions of bariatric surgery through partnership working' by Professor Yitka Graham
Thursday 9 February 2023, 6pm, Prospect 007 Lecture Theatre.
Professor Yitka Graham, Professor of Health Services Research.
Bariatric surgery is the most effective method of weight loss for people living with obesity, however, it is not widely accepted or understood.
Professor Graham will discuss her innovative partnerships working across NHS, patients, local government, and commercial organisations, which are improving patient care, supporting the healthcare workforce, and meeting the challenges faced by people who have undergone bariatric surgery.
'Nothing is so practical as a good theory' by Professor John Fulton
Wednesday 2 November 2022, 6pm, Murray Lecture Theatre.
Professor John Fulton, Professor of Social Inclusion.
There are several approaches to the relationship of theory and practice. This presentation will specifically focus on the ways in which theories can be applied to practice. Professor Fulton drawing from his career in health care and education will illustrate the ways in which, theory when applied to practice, can explain, illuminate, and transform practice.
'Risks and crises in tourism and hospitality' by Professor Nicholas Pappas
Wednesday 19 October 2022, 6pm, Prospect 009 Lecture Theatre.
Professor Nicholas Pappas, Professor of Tourism Development and Crisis Management.
In this lecture, Professor Nicholas Pappas, Professor of Tourism Development and Crisis Management in the Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism will provide an overview of his career in Tourism and his achievements to date.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday 19 October 2022 at 6-7pm, Prospect 009 Lecture Theatre, Sir Tom Cowie Campus, Sunderland, SR6 0DD.
Registration and refreshments from 5:30pm in Prospect Building.
‘Using technology to maintain our future’ by Professor David Baglee
Wednesday 21 September 2022.
Professor David Baglee, Head of School of Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
In this lecture, Professor David Baglee, Professor of Advanced Maintenance and Head of School of Engineering, Faculty of Technology, will introduce a snapshot of his career and will discuss how technology has changed during these years to support 'smarter' maintenance management utilising industry 4 tools and techniques.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday 21 September, 6-7pm, Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre, Prospect Building, Sir Tom Cowie Campus, Sunderland, SR6 0DD.
Registration and refreshments from 5:30pm in Prospect Building.
Past lectures
‘Songs of Place and Time’ by Professor Mike Collier
Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Professor Mike Collier, Professor of Visual Art, Art and Design.
As the world went silent in lockdown March 2020, something else happened; for the first time, many people became more aware of the spring sounds of the birds around us.
Reflecting this deep engagement with birdsong, my project ‘Songs of Place and Time’ explores the quasi-symphonic experience of a dawn chorus. Working together with poets, musicians, composers, natural historians and the natural world this project is a collaborative synthesis standing at the meeting point, or even overlap, of various established and emerging fields of research and practice, including Zoomusicology, Ecoacoustics and Biosemiotics.
The collaborative nature of my research process mirrors, in a small way, how I believe we should work together in the world – a world that we share with our ‘other’, more-than-human, partners on the planet. The knowledge exchange in these informal relationships is rich, rhizomatic and hugely stimulating.
For details of the book ‘Songs of Place and Time'
Past lectures
'Transformative Learning and Teaching’ by Professor Catherine Hayes
Monday 18 November 2019
In this lecture Professor Catherine Hayes, Professor of Health Professions, Pedagogy and Scholarhip, Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, Sciences and Wellbeing, provided an insight into the responsibility and impact that transformative learning and teaching have on local, regional, national and global societies.
‘Developments in Anatomy teaching and learning’ by Professor Debs Patten
Monday 27 January 2020
In this lecture Professor Debs Patten, Professor of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, reflected on the developments in anatomy teaching and learning during her career, and how the use of technology in clinical practice is driving the undergraduate curriculum.
Monday 24 February 2020
In this lecture Professor Amal Ali Elkordy, Professor of Pharmaceutics, Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, discussed “The Ladder to Professorship: How important are pharmaceutical formulations.”
Past lectures
'Operations, Strategy and Risk; A Process Journey' by Professor Lawrence Bellamy
Thursday 1 November 2018
In this lecture, Professor Lawrence Bellamy, Academic Dean, Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism, drew from his interdisciplinary practice considering the processes that make the world function. The lecture also took a look at the timeline of selected management process development within organisations and examined how our understanding of these building blocks of business continues to develop, drawing upon learning points from high-profile failures throughout.
Past lectures
'War, Conflict and Sid the Seagull' by Professor Angela Smith
Thursday 23 February 2017
In this lecture, Professor Angela Smith, formerly Faculty of Education & Society (now Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries) mentioned Paddington Bear and how he actually linked these seemingly disparate themes. More recently, her research had expanded into a project with other members of the English team at Sunderland to explore the city's literary and cultural history, and was something that fed into the City of Culture 2021 bid.
The fight against global infectious disease: Is this a battle we can win? by Professor Tim Paget
Thursday 11 May 2017
In this lecture, Professor Tim Paget, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing talked about the global challenge of infection control in an era where poverty, war and political change was on the increase. In particular, what were the issues surrounding the development of a concerted approach by governments, industry and bodies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) to combat infection, also what part could we as individuals play?
Professor Paget also talked about ‘forgotten’ parasitic diseases that ravaged many parts of the world and what additional problems these presented.
Past lectures
'Are we witnessing the death of handwriting? What writing is and how it works?' by Professor Ewan Clayton
Monday 30 November 2015
In his lecture, Professor Ewan Clayton, Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, asked if handwriting would survive the digital transformation of our culture and more fundamentally what is writing and what work does it do for us. Professor Clayton set in context the various crises that surround the order of the written word (in copyright, publishing, the library and handwriting tuition). Drawing on his experience as a consultant to Xerox PARC, Ewan argued that we have under-conceived what writing is: it is irreducibly pluralistic in nature and not to be equated with any one technology. If true this has implications for how we read the future and for how we educate ourselves as literate citizens.
'Learning to be reflective: a Shared Journey' by Professor Maggie Gregson
Thursday 21 January 2016
In her lecture, Professor Maggie Gregson, Faculty of Education and Society, drew upon her thirty years of research in this field. Professor Gregson is particularly interested in two aspects of reflective practice. The first of these is theoretical and is concerned with how we think about teaching and learning. The second is practical and can be found in her commitment to presenting and disseminating collaborative educational research in ways that enable the development of real and sustainable educational improvement through HE-supported, teacher-research. The central philosophy guiding her teaching and research is that Education is a moral practice, which involves the development not only of knowledge, skills, and educational values but also the nurturing of character, virtues and a concern for the common good.