Focus on York
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Every term members of staff from the University of York showcase their research at events through our five public engagement channels.
Summer 2018
- Lucy Sackville - The business of faith: Inquisition and crime in the Middle Ages
- Anna Strhan - Public faith and the everyday ethics of urban life
- Laurence Wilson and Pegine Walrad - The microscopic world in 3D
- Paul Wakeling and Vanita Sundaram - Education and social justice: Investigating gender-based violence and social mobility
Spring 2018
- Dimitar Kazakov - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Back to the future
- Jim Austin - Building a better computer
- Peter Bull - The art of the medieval minstrel
- Sam Wetherell - Only Disconnect: Central heating and the strange afterlife of social democracy
- Tom Baldwin - Humanising animals for medical research - the ethical debates
- Stephen Holland - Ethics in public health research and practice
- Tony Ward - Measuring ability in generic skills - should we and can we?
- Andy Hunt - Creative engineering
- Avtar Matharu - From brown to green chemistry: Sustainability, waste and the circular economy
- Paul Johnson - One nation? Sexual orientation discrimination and the geography of the UK
- Silvia Falcetta - Religious marriage of same-sex couples in England and Wales
- Victoria Robinson - The secret life of a feminist academic: Heterosexuality, masculinity, shoes and the everyday
- George Younge - Danelaw stories: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Conquest
Autumn 2017
- Tom Stoneham - Dreams without dreaming: A new therapeutic model
- Dorothea Debus - Emotions, self-regulation and mental wellbeing
- Judith Buchanan - Silent Shakespeare
- James Walvin - Sugar: The world corrupted from slavery to obesity
- Cristina Figueredo - Mystery Plays: The wagons return to York
- Emily Bell - A brief history of celebrity: Or, what does 'Dickensian' mean?
- Peter Morrall - Madness: Ideas about insanity
- Vicki Blud - Insults, invective and the unspeakable: Transgressive speech in the Middle Ages
- Hannah Greig - As seen on screen: From The Duchess to Poldark, the role of the historical advisor
- Kathryn Arnold - Sex, stress and food: Impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on wildlife
- Jonathan Bradshaw - Want
- Chris Renwick and Alan Maynard - Ignorance and Disease
- Roy Sainsbury and Nicholas Pleace - Idleness and Squalor
- Liz Prettejohn - Modern painters, old masters: The art of imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War
Summer 2017
- Duncan Petrie - Sex and the swinging sixties: A history of British cinema
- Kate Stephenson -The life and works of Angela Brazil
- Alistair Boxall - Understanding York’s environment
- Rafe McGregor - Should we really be ourselves?
- Various York researchers - Falling Walls Lab York
Spring 2017
Autumn 2016
- Kieron Gibson - Fusion Energy – promises, progress and prospects
- Rafe McGregor - Moral illusions: What are they and why should we care?
- Richard Wilkinson - Penthouse and Pavement: Inequality in the 21st Century
- Alice Bennett - Howling at the moon: Werewolves in western culture
- Gregory Currie - Painting and photographs
- Peter Lamarque - The beauty of ruins
- David Efird - Experiencing art
- Andrew Ward - Are there standards in art criticism?
- Chris Thomas - Surviving the Anthropocene: A story of biological gains as well as losses
- Nisha Kapoor - Unmaking citizens: Racial exclusions and the privilege of a passport
- Callum Roberts - Protecting ocean life in an era of rapid global change
- Karen Parkhill - The importance of talking to you about complex environmental issues
- Matthew Townend - Blizzards of steel: Viking poetry and the battles of Fulford and Stamford Bridge
- Sarah Brown - Milner-White and all that: The restoration of York Minster's windows
- Tim Spiller - Physics Review: 25th Anniversary Celebration
- David Jenkins - Nuclear physics out of the lab
- Richard Keesing - Newton and Universal Gravitation: The story of the apple
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