UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Autumn 2012

Join us each Friday lunchtime for UCL’s Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures. It’s a great way to find out what UCL’s researchers are getting up to, while you eat your lunch!

5 October 2012
Visual dementia: How Alzheimer’s disease can steal your sight, not your memory
Tim Shakespeare, UCL Institute of Neurology
“‘Which side am I?’: Virginia Woolf’s war diaries”
Urvashi Vashist, UCL Department of English Language and Literature

12 October 2012
Creating the brain's network
Katharina Seiferth, UCL Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
The Poverty Trap: what choices do you really have in a developing country?
Raphaelle Bisiaux, UCL Bartlett Development Planning Unit

19 October 2012
Is the patient's number up? Designing devices for safer number entry
Sarah Wiseman, UCL Interaction Centre
A curious 18th century tale of Linnaeus and the mystery grass…
Matthew Paskins, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies

26 October 2012
Will you be my sugar daddy? The father’s role in Fetal Growth
Sara Hillman, UCL Institute for Women’s Health
Novelists and Publishers: A Civil Partnership?
Nick Canty, UCL Department of Information Studies

2 November 2012
How the brain remoulds itself after stroke
Holly Rossiter, UCL Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders
Pygmy hunter gatherers as Citizen Scientists: what tools do they need?
Michalis Vitos, UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

16 November 2012
Hearts and Minds: the dangers of mental stress to your heart’s rhythm
Malcolm Finlay, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science
Power without responsibility? In whose interests should large banks be run?
Andreas Kokkinis, UCL Faculty of Laws

23 November 2012
“My dear lady, why not be a nurse?”: C19th Female British medical missionaries and professional identity
Hilary Ingram, UCL History
The Brain’s Security Guards in Health and Disease
Joseph Jebelli, UCL Department of Neuroinflammation

30 November 2012
When do you want to travel to? Mental time travel and self-projection in autism spectrum disorders
Johanna Finnemann, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Food for everyone?
Corrado Secchi, UCL History

7 December 2012
The wheel of time: The Maya calendar and the end of the world
Christian Egerer, UCL Institute of Archaeology
Have a smaller heart attack
Idris Harding, UCL Hatter Cardiovascular Institute

14 December 2012
Performing Grime Online
Nichola Smalley, UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies
Why is the sky blue? – A discussion of the Raman effect and detecting molecular-level changes in disease
Mark Fields, UCL Engineering Doctorate