Past events

Group of Birmingham alumni returning to campus

Were you one of our thousands of alumni and friends of the University who attended an event in the UK or overseas over the past year?

To find out more about our past events and to see if we caught you on camera, visit our Flickr site for a full selection of photo galleries. You can catch up on some of our online events with the videos below.

To find out what we've got planned over the next few months, visit our current events pages.

Bringing Birmingham to you - sunny with a slight chance of catastrophe

How can forces we can’t see - solar winds, geomagnetic storms, ionospheric shifts - disrupt our daily lives? Professor Sean Elvidge offers an insight into his fascinating work on space weather forecasting and explores how invisible phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere can have very real consequences for life on Earth.

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Bringing Birmingham to you - breakthroughs in cancer research

From discovering six of the genes that predispose someone to bowel cancer, to pioneering the diagnosis and treatment of children’s cancers, Birmingham has a long history of making vital breakthroughs. It has always been a place that finds answers to make a real difference to people’s lives; and our researchers are close to further life changing solutions that could make a difference to patients in years, not decades. Join Professors Pam Kearns, Andrew Beggs and Colin Watts as they discuss ground-breaking research taking place at the University of Birmingham.