Celebrating the opening of the Teaching and Learning Building through curiosity, inspiration, learning and enrichment.
To celebrate the opening of the Teaching and Learning Building on campus, we are hosting a day of bitesize inspirational talks for all students and staff of the University of Birmingham. Each session is no more than 15 minutes long, and will cover everything from leadership, the Cold War, abortion rights, Shakespeare, head injuries to computer science and much more. #UoBeEnlightened
This event forms part of the Winter Illumination season of the Green Heart Festival.
Running from 13:00 to 19:00 on Wednesday 29 January 2020, you will be able to pick and choose which talks you want to attend, with something for everyone.
Register your free place to attend
UoBe Enlightened Programme
At some points, several talks will take place at the same time in different rooms. As each room has a different capacity, seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The programme for each room is presented below.
Lecture Theatre 1, Teaching and Learning Building. Capacity: 500 seats
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
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| 13:00 |
Professor Sir David Eastwood
Vice-Chancellor |
Why the French Revolution happened and why we should still care |
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| 13:20 |
Joshua Williams
Guild President |
The black experience in society and integration within higher education |
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| 13:40 |
Professor Kathy Armour
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education |
The University of the future |
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Lecture Theatre 2, Teaching and Learning Building. Capacity: 250 seats
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
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| 14:00 |
Dr Amaury Triaud
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Is there life elsewhere? |
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| 14:20 |
Professor Colin Diamond
College of Social Sciences |
Teaching LGBTQ awareness in Birmingham’s primary
schools: What’s all the fuss about? |
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| 14:40 |
Professor Bill Bloss
College of Life and Environmental Sciences |
How clean is our air? |
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| 15:00 |
Professor Stefan Krause
College of Life and Environmental Sciences |
The challenges of facing environmental plastic pollution |
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| 15:20 |
Dr Jennifer Cumming
College of Life and Environmental Sciences |
My Strengths Training for Life (Improving wellbeing and employability for young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless) |
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| 15:40 |
Professor Fiona de Londras
College of Arts and Law |
Ireland's new abortion law: One year on |
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| 16:00 |
Dr Tom Harrison
College of Social Sciences |
Can you teach character? |
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| 16:20 |
Professor Judith Smith
College of Social Sciences |
Crisis? What Crisis? The NHS in the 2020s |
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| 16:40 |
Dr Berny Sebe
College of Arts and Law |
Empires of Emptiness and Sahara and The Steppe |
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| 17:00 |
Dr Niheer Dasandi
College of Social Sciences |
How should governments that give aid respond to human rights violations in recipient countries? |
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| 17:20 |
Dr Anupam Das
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
What makes a problem hard? |
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| 17:40 |
Dr Adam Ledger
College of Arts and Law |
Off campus partnerships: Making theatre in the city |
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| 18:00 |
Trevor Payne
Director of Estates |
The University of Birmingham Capital Master Plan: Our plans for your campus |
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| 18:20 |
Professor Toni Belli
College of Medical and Dental Sciences |
Tackling sport concussion |
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| 18:40 |
Professor Paul Moss
College of Medical and Dental Sciences |
Birmingham at the heart of Cancer Research in 2020 |
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Seminar Room 118, Teaching and Learning Building. Capacity: 30 seats
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
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| 14:00 |
Dr Laura D'Olimpio
College of Social Sciences |
Why we should teach philosophy in schools |
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| 14:20 |
Dr Andrew Lovering
College of Life and Environmental Sciences |
Learning from natural predators of bacteria |
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| 14:40 |
Dr Giuditta Fontana
College of Social Sciences |
From schools in conflict to schools for peace: Education in peace agreements |
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| 15:00 |
Dr Hamish Yeung
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Insights into materials crystallisation: Defying convention - designing the future |
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| 15:20 |
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| 15:40 |
Professor Mike Robinson
College of Arts and Law |
Warming up China's Cold War heritage |
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| 16:00 |
Dr Will Tattersdil
College of Arts and Law |
Understanding dinosaurs with Shakespeare |
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| 16:20 |
Dr Mohan Sridharan
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Explainability in human-robot collaboration |
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| 16:40 |
Professor Michael Dobson
College of Arts and Law |
Shakespeare worldwide |
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| 17:00 |
Dr Bodo Winter
College of Arts and Law |
How gesture changes minds |
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| 17:20 |
Sian Thomas
College of Social Sciences |
Fleeing gender-based violence in the refugee journey |
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| 17:40 |
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
College of Arts and Law |
Who was Hannah Arendt? And why do we need her today? |
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| 18:00 |
Professor Nicholas Crowson
College of Arts and Law |
(Re)constructing the vagrant before 1948 |
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| 18:20 |
Dr Peter Lee
College of Life and Environmental Sciences |
The Civic University: Creating an anchor out of community research |
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| 18:40 |
Dr Alex Conner
College of Medical and Dental Sciences |
Brain swelling |
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Seminar Room 119, Teaching and Learning Building. Capacity: 30 seats
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
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| 14:00 |
Svetlana Solomonova and Steve Merridew
BDP Architects, designers of the teaching and Learning Building |
Making the Teaching and Learning Building |
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| 14:20 |
Dr Courtney Campbell
College of Arts and Law |
Rebellious women and the Brazilian nation |
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| 14:40 |
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| 15:00 |
Dr Ali Mazaheri
College of Life and Environmental Sciences |
What can brain rhythms reveal about our resiliencies and vulnerabilities? |
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| 15:20 |
Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown
College of Medical and Dental Sciences |
Reproductive health |
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| 15:40 |
Dr Jo Parish
College of Medical and Dental Sciences |
Viruses that cause cancer |
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| 16:00 |
Dr Sarah-Jane Fenton
College of Social Sciences |
Evaluating the use of patient experience data to improve the quality of inpatient mental health care – what do we know works in NHS England services? |
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| 16:20 |
Frances Child and Noshaba Anbreen
College of Social Sciences |
Transforming lives: Teacher education at the University of Birmingham |
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| 16:40 |
Dr Timothy Barendt
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Welcome to the (molecular) machine |
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| 17:00 |
Dr Joshua Makepeace
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Bottling sunshine: sustainable energy storage |
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| 17:20 |
Professor Tom Lockwood
College of Arts and Law |
"We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms": Teaching poetry interactively |
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| 17:40 |
Russell Hall
Willmott Dixon Construction |
Around the world in 80 products: A builder's story of turning a virtual reality crystal into reality |
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