Inaugural Lectures

What is an inaugural lecture?

An inaugural lecture is an occasion of importance in an academic staff member’s career within the University. An inaugural lecture provides our professors the opportunity to showcase their research and their achievements.

All of our inaugural lectures are hybrid. You can choose to join us on campus or online. Please see below our upcoming inaugural lectures for 2023/24.

Professor Maia Angelova

Professor Maia Angelova

Can artificial intelligence make a real difference for our health and wellbeing?

23 October 2024

Professor Helen Wood

Professor Helen Wood

From caring about the ‘ordinary’ to care justice for the creative industries

18 November 2024

Professor Ian Wong

Professor Ian Wong

From Paper Charts to Big Data and beyond

26 November 2024

Professor Ali Bigdeli

Professor Ali Bigdeli

The Power of Servitization: Redefining the Business Models of the Future!

12 February 2025

Professor Damien Foster

Professor Damien Foster

From Magnets to Machines: How a Simple Physics Model Helped Shape the Future of AI

12 March 2025

Professor Rachel Shaw

Professor Rachel Shaw

The Will to Meaning: making sense of life’s challenges

8 April 2025

Professor Shivani Sharma

Professor Shivani Sharma

8 May 2025

Professor Andrew Devitt

Professor Andrew Devitt

5 June 2025

Previous inaugural lectures

Watch our previous lectures below.

Professor Kathy Daniels

1 December 2022 - A university for business, students and the community

Professor Corinne Spickett

26 January 2023 - Oxygen: can't live without it, but stressful to live with it

Professor Andy Lymer

16 February 2023 - Can the research really make a difference?

Professor Aniko Ekart

28 February 2023 - How can we have a good future with artificial intelligence?

Professor Jo Lumsden

9 March 2023 - Be kind: Effective design of software with and for real people

Professor Anna Hine

28 March 2023 - A route to synthetic antibodies (and their replacements)

Professor Stephen Garrett

27 April 2023 - The importance of mathematics in the digital world

Professor Pavel Albores

8 June 2023 - The science and art of disaster management

Professor Simon Lee

18 October 2023 - Astonishing Cases: Restoring the Public Square

Professor Richard Hogg

28 November - Reinventing the laser diode

Professor Afzal Mohammed

5 December - Medicine for children

Professor Nicholas Theodorakopoulos

SME Innovation, theory driven interventions and ancient myths

Professor Abdul Sadka

22 February 2024 - Digital solutions to tackle business and societal challenges

Professor Nicola Logan

11 March 2024 - Unveiling myopia: changing the paradigm from correction to control

Professor Jun Du

24 April 2024 - East, West, which is the best?

Professor Eamonn Maher, 6 June 2024

Rare diseases and Geonomics: past, present and future

Professor Maia Angelova

23 October 2024 - AI-driven precision healthcare

Professor Helen Wood

18 November 2024 - From caring about the ordinary to 'care justice' for the creative industries

Professor Ian Wong

26 November 2024

Professor Ali Bigdeli

12 February 2025

Professor Damien Foster

12 March - From Magnets to Machines: How a Simple Physics Model Helped Shape the Future of AI

For further information, please contact The Events Team.