Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 13: The Spirit of UCL
Professor Malcolm Grant sets the scene for the new academic year by reflecting on the challenges facing universities and how UCL is uniquely placed to engage with the major issues of our times.
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 12: Why Psychiatry has to be Social
To mark World Mental Health Day – 10 October. Professor Bebbington explores the idea that psychiatry has an essentially social component because the phenomenon it seeks to explain have inherently social attributes. Psychiatric symptoms relate to our internal experience of external reality, and therefore comprise elements of both the internal and external world. A full account of psychiatric disorder must invoke the interaction of biological and social factors, acknowledging that the balance between these factors will vary between individuals.
Professor Paul Bebbington
Department of Mental Health Sciences
15 October 2009
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 11: The New Biology of Ageing
To mark Age Concern Week. Research into ageing has been rejuvenated by the discovery that genetic alterations extend the lifespan of laboratory animals. These mutations keep animals healthy for longer and protect them from many of the diseases of ageing. Professor Partridge will look at how this and other discoveries have led to a new wave of research directed at understanding how these changes can increase healthy lifespan in humans.
Prof Linda Partridge
UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 10: Seeing the invisible: Observing the dark side of the universe
To celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the telescope and World Space Week. Dr Bridle will describe in pictures ‘gravitational lensing’, the bending of light by gravity, which is predicted by Einstein’s General Relativity. The mysterious dark components that constitute most of the universe do not emit or absorb light, but they do exert a gravitational attraction, and gravitational lensing is one of the most promising methods for finding out more about them. Dr Bridle will review the current observations and upcoming surveys.
Dr Sarah Bridle
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Cosmology@UCL
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 9: Why the courts are as important as hospitals to the nation's health
Professor Genn will focus on the critical ways in which courts support society and the economy and on how they have directly improved standards of medicine practice and healthcare. She will also discuss new evidence about the link between access to justice and health and consider whether much of what turns up in doctors’ surgeries (including requests for anti-depressants) are in fact the results of an inability to access the courts.
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 8: The Power of Lagerlöf
Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Selma Lagerlöf – the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature – 10 December. Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her novels inspired epoch-making early films, when she turned 80 she was one of the most widely translated Swedish authors ever, and her work continues to attract new readers today. This lecture gives a flavour of the range of her writing, looks at the explanations for her success and tests the findings of more text-focused scholarship.
Dr Helena Forsås-Scott
Department of Scandinavian Studies
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 7: Tales of vampires and the undead
To celebrate Halloween. This lecture will look at tales of vampires and the undead with special reference to Central and Eastern Europe and some orthodox funeral customs used to placate and hopefully prevent their return as revenants to the world of the living. Participants are advised to bring garlic!
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 6: Recession and the public health – what is the evidence?
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