UCL Lunch Hour Lectures (videos of March 2017)

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41:49 How can 21st century research on autism empower London’s teachers? - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Dr Joseph Mintz, UCL Institute of Education, Thursday 16th March 2017 #ucllhl
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39:53 Swearing as a second language - "bad language" and language learners - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Dr Geraldine Horan, UCL Department of German, Thursday 9th March 2017 #ucllhl
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36:31 Adventures in the 7th Dimension - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture  Speaker: Dr Jason Lotay, UCL Dept of Mathematics - Thurs 2nd March 2017 #ucllhl
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42:21 Heads you Win: Tails you Lose - The Leadership Gamble - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Prof Kathryn Riley, UCL Institute of Education, Tuesday 14th March 2017 #ucllhl
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41:55 Women Against Pit Closures: Women in the miners’ strike of 1984-5 - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures Speaker: Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, UCL History, Tuesday 7th March 2017 #ucllhl
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39:58 Knowledge and law: "landscape" in the context of wind energy - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Prof Maria Lee, UCL Laws, Tuesday 28th February 2017 #ucllhl
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37:17 Cooling babies to protect the brain - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Professor Nicola Robertson, Institute for Women's Health, Thursday 23rd Feb 2017 #ucllhl
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38:57 The Battle Within: mobilising our immune system to fight cancer - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Dr Sergio Quezada, UCL Cancer Institute, Tuesday 21st February 2017, #ucllhl
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UCL Lunch Hour Lectures (videos of the past month)

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39:28 The youth of our middling rich: how egalitarian were UCL’s founders? - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Mr Colin Penman, UCL Special Collections, Thursday 9th February 2017 #ucllhl
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 Can we ever have a crime free world? - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Professor Kate Bowers, UCL Department of Security and Crime Science Tuesday 7th February 2017 #ucllhl
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40:29 Planetary Economics: getting to a stable climate with a healthy economy - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Professor Michael Grubb, Institute for Sustainable Resources, Thursday 2nd February 2017 #ucllhl
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41:07 The Global Reach of EU Law - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures Speaker: Professor Joanne Scott, UCL Faculty of Laws, Tues 31 Jan 2017 #ucllhl
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38:40 Tackling the challenge of elder abuse in dementia cases - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Dr Claudia Cooper, Thursday 26th January 2017, #ucllhl
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40:40 Following birds along the pathway to invasion - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Prof Tim Blackburn, UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Tuesday 24th January 2017 #ucllhl
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41:48 Cosmic archaeology - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures Speaker: Dr Amelie Saintonge, UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy , Thursday 19th January 2017, #ucllhl
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41:08 The Neurobiology of Beauty - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Prof Semir Zeki, Faculty of Brain Sciences, Tuesday 17th January 2017 #ucllhl
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The end of mass incarceration?: The moral purpose of prison - Dr Jeffrey Howard

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年12月12日
Speaker - Dr Jeffrey Howard, UCL Political Science - Thursday 8th December 2016 #ucllhl
The United Kingdom has doubled its prison population, twice, in the past 65 years. By outlining a philosophical account of the moral purpose of prisons, Dr. Jeffrey Howard will explain how we can transform our criminal justice system to make it fairer, cheaper, and better at preventing crime.

Game of clones: why it matters if our friends are the same as us - Dr Katherine Woolf - UCL LHL

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年12月12日
Speaker: Dr Katherine Woolf, UCL Medical School - Tuesday 6th December 2016 #ucllhl
Do you find yourself making friends with people like you? Dr Katherine Woolf draws on her sometimes controversial research into doctors’ and medical students’ learning and performance to explore why this happens, and what impact it has on our success and failure. Discover how you can challenge the status quo to help create a fairer, more integrated, more successful society.

Migrants and healthcare: educating tomorrow's doctors for a global challenge (Dr Anita Berlin)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年12月20日
The relationship between migrants and the NHS is long, complex and, as recently seen, highly political. This lecture considers the role of doctors in the care of vulnerable migrants, within and outside of the NHS, and the role of medical schools in preparing doctors for their duty to these individuals.

Imagine a world with no slums - Dr Priti Parikh - UCL LHL

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年12月1日
Speaker: Dr Priti Parikh, UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering - Thursday 24th November 2016 #ucllhl
How can we make our cities slum free? Dr Priti Parikh will discuss innovative approaches where engineering solutions are used to improve the living conditions of slums dwellers and have resulted in them being integrated into the city fabric. This talk will also explore socio-economic issues such as gender, land tenure, public partnership models and the business case for slum upgrading.
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Are we waking up the sleeping Arctic Ocean? (Dr Michael Tsamados)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年12月20日
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at more than twice the global average rate. As the sea ice cover retreats, there is a radiation imbalance and a modification of the Arctic Ocean circulation, and as the atmosphere and ocean come into direct contact, exchanges of heat and momentum will potentially be transformed. Dr Michel Tsamados will discuss the implications for the Arctic climate system and beyond.

Cancer evolution through space and time - Prof Charles Swanton - UCL LHL

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年12月1日
Speaker: Professor Charles Swanton, UCL Cancer Institute - Tuesday 22nd November 2016 #ucllhl
While it has long been appreciated that no two tumours are identical, recent work suggests that even two regions of the same tumour can be remarkably distinct, which likely contributes to treatment failure and drug resistance. Professor Charles Swanton will explore the extent of intra-tumour heterogeneity in different types of cancer and its clinical implications.

Peter Duncan: How Putin reacts... - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年11月22日
Speaker: Dr Peter Duncan, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Thursday 3rd November 2016, #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
How Putin reacts: ideology, power, wealth and security in Russian foreign policy
Dr Peter Duncan will argue that the deterioration of relations between Russia and NATO since Putin’s annexation of Crimea cannot be considered the prelude to a new Cold War between two global blocs. And, rather than pursuing world communism, Putin’s aims are to strengthen his power and protect the wealth of himself and his allies.
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The 2016 US presidential election: a post-mortem - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年11月22日
Speaker: Dr Nick Witham, UCL Institute of the Americas, Tuesday 15th November 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
Dr Nick Witham will provide an accessible and insightful overview of the historic and controversial 2016 US presidential election campaign. This talk will include a review of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns, a breakdown of the electoral returns, and a discussion of the likely path that will be followed by Barack Obama’s successor in the White House.
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Paying the penalty: the sporting prison - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年11月11日
Speaker: Dr Nick Piercey, UCL Dutch, Thursday 3rd November 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
How do sporting cultures help shape the world around us? And how do the stories historians tell about them shape the present and future? This talk will examine how the history of early Dutch football can be intimately linked to discourses of values that aimed to construct more disciplined, useful and docile citizens.
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Hospitality and hostility: the role of established refugees in a crisis - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年11月4日
Speaker: Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, UCL Geography, Tuesday 1st November 2016 #ucllhl
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It is often assumed that refugees passively wait to receive assistance provided by the UN, host states and international organisations, but established refugees are also often active providers of assistance – they share food, shelter and increasingly cramped spaces with newly displaced people. Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh will examine the nature and implications of what she calls ‘refugee-refugee humanitarianism’.
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Sebastien Ourselin--Navigating the brain: software programming for surgical planning - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年10月31日
Speaker: Professor Sebastien Ourselin, UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, Thursday 27th October 2016 #ucllhl
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Epilepsy affects around 500,000 people in the UK, and one-third of individuals with focal epilepsy continue to have seizures despite optimal medical management. Professor Sebastien Ourselin will discuss his work developing the surgical navigation platform, EpiNavTM, which aims to increase the number of patients suitable for curative treatments.
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The lifelong benefits of reading for pleasure - Dr Alice Sullivan - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年10月31日
Speaker: Professor Alice Sullivan, UCL Institute of Education
- Tuesday 25th October 2016 #ucllhl
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Drawing on a nationally representative longitudinal study of more than 17,000 people born in Britain in 1970 (the 1970 British Cohort Study), Professor Alice Sullivan will explore the positive influence of reading for pleasure on learning during the teenage years and into mid-life.
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Barking up the right tree: how do we understand what words mean? - Dr Jenni Rodd - UCL LHL

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年10月31日
Speaker: Dr Jenni Rodd, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences
- Tuesday 18th October 2016 #ucllhl
If you look up just about any word in a dictionary you will usually see a long list of possible definitions, yet it takes no apparent effort to figure out the intended definition of a word when it is used in everyday life. Dr Jenni Rodd will talk about the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to make rapid ‘best guesses’ about a word’s meaning.
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Performing matter: greatest hits and new findings - Dr Zoe Laughlin - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年10月18日
Speaker: Dr Zoe Laughlin, UCL Institute of Making - Tuesday 11th October 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
Materials ‘perform’, and ‘stuff’ is constantly getting up to ‘things’ all the time, just to exist and make up the world of objects. Experience some of the most wondrous matter on Earth during Dr Zoe Laughlin’s demo-led exploration of materials, as you witness the inanimate becoming animate and material science performing.
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Does social science tell the truth? - Prof David Shanks - UCL Lunch Hour...

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures   2016年10月20日
Speaker: Professor David Shanks, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences - Thursday 13th October 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
There is now abundant evidence that only around half of all published findings in the social sciences are true, and research even suggests that some entire bodies of work are based on non-existent effects. Join Professor David Shanks as he discusses a range of remedies that could make social science research more credible and robust.
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Cannabis: pleasure, madness and medicine (Valerie Curran - 8 Dec 2015)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2015年12月22日
Speaker: Professor Valerie Curran, UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit
Cannabis has been used throughout history for medicinal as well as pleasurable effects. Its 100 unique ingredients vary widely in different types of cannabis, posing a range of questions in terms of medicalisation and legalisation. This lecture will look at its effects, but also its potential.

The handmaiden's emissions: international shipping in changing climates (Tristan Smit - 26 Jan 2016)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年2月1日
Speaker: Dr Tristan Smith
UCL Bartlett School of Environment Energy and Resources
International shipping is the system that enables globalisation. The way it quietly and efficiently executes its role has led to its labelling as 'the handmaiden of world trade'. But this enabler of export-led economic growth is also heavily dependent on fossil fuels, which have significant and growing environmental impacts.

The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Prof Sir Michael Marmot - 19 Jan 2016)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年1月26日
Speaker: Prof Sir Michael Marmot
UCL Institute of Health Equity
There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries, and these health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health only goes so far. Professor Sir Michael Marmot looks at evidence from around the world to show how we can reduce the health gap.