Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Public Lectures
The following public lectures are part of the University of Huddersfield's Diamond Jubilee celebrations:
Huddersfield Campus
- 18 January: ‘Iron in the Soul’ - Diamond Jubilee Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Professor Susan Kilcoyne
Canalside West Lecture Theatre (CWS/01) 6:00pm
Organised by The School of Applied Sciences
- 15 February: ‘Public Transport in the UK: A return to the Public Sector?’ - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture
This lecture will also consider, by ways of contrast, how the market for air transport services has developed as a consequence of privatisation and deregulation.
Presented by Professor Colin Bamford
Canalside West Lecture Theatre (CWS/01) 6:30pm
Organised by The School of Applied Sciences
- 22 February: 'A matter of atoms' - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture and official opening of the MIAMI lab
Professor Stephen Donnelly
Organised by The School of Computing and Engineering
- 28 February: ‘A New Life of Edward III’ - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture
By Professor Mark Ormrod (University of York)
Organised by The School of Music, Humanities and Media
- 12 March: ‘Treasure Hunts in English Literature’ - Diamond Jubilee Professorial Lecture
Professor Rainer Emig - Chair of English Literature and Culture at Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany.
George Buckley Theatre, 5:00pm
Organised by The School of Music, Humanities and Media
- 13 March: Annual Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Lecture - Diamond Jubilee Lecture
Speaker: Terry Hodgkinson
Business School Lecture Theatre
Organised by The Business School
- 13 March: ‘Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose? Youth, unemployment and the future’ - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture
Professor MacDonald will draw upon nearly 30 years of research with ‘socially excluded’ young people to consider how things ‘now, in 2012, are the same or different to ‘then’ in 1981.
Robert MacDonald, Professor of Sociology, Teesside University
Canalside West Lecture Theatre (CWS/10), 6:15pm
Organised by The School of Education and Professional Development
- 14 March: ‘Replacing Mammals with Mimics for Pharmaceutical Testing’ - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture
Dr Laura Waters
Canalside West Lecture Theatre (CWS/01) 6:00pm
Organised by The School of Applied Sciences
- 27 March: ‘Vocational Education’ - Bases of it standing and clarification of key concepts - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture
This presentation seeks to address two fundamental issues for vocational education.
Dr Stephen Billett, Professor of Adult and Vocational Education
Lockside Building, Room LS1/09
Organised by The School of Education and Professional Development
- 18 April: 'Frank Field' - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture
Organised by The School of Human and Health Sciences
- 25 April: Professor Stuart Toddington - Diamond Jubilee Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Business School Lecture Theatre, 6:00pm
Organised by The Business School
- 1 May: '60 Years in 60 Minutes' - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture and formal opening of 'The Diamond Jubilee Lecture Theatre'
Professor Keith Laybourn reflects on the 60 year’s of her majesty’s reign.
Professor Keith Laybourn
6pm, The Firth Street Lecture Theatre
Free, ticket-only event
To book tickets, please email lecture.request@hud.ac.uk
- 12 June: Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes - Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture
Professor Hugh Lauder
Organised by The School of Education and Professional Development
- 20 June: Particle Accelerators in Science, Medicine and Energy Production - Diamond Jubilee Lecture
6.00pm - 8.30pm
Canalside West Lecture Theatre (room CWS/10)
Organised by The School of Applied Sciences
- 20 June: 'Destined to flow'- Rakesh Mishra - Diamond Jubilee Inaugural Professorial Lecture
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Business School Lecture Theatre, BS1/01
- 4 October: Professor David Bamford - Diamond Jubilee Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Business School Lecture Theatre, 6:00pm
Organised by The Business School
- 7 November: Professor Paul Scott - Diamond Jubilee Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Organised by The School of Computing and Engineering
- 6 December: Professor Len Tiu Wright - Diamond Jubilee Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Business School Lecture Theatre, 6:00pm
Organised by The Business School
