Professorial Lectures

Upcoming events

Friday 29 May 2026 at Sighthill Campus. PM - Sport: Professorial Talks by Tom Campbell, Russel Martindale and Susan Brown 

International Women's Day 2026

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School of Health & Social Care 2025
Centre for Biomedicine and Global Health 2025
Centre for mental Health Policy, Practice and Law 2025
School of Applied Sciences 2024
School of Health and Social Care 2023
The Business School 2023
School of Applied Sciences 2023

Past events

6 March 2026 International Women's Day - Celebration of Academic Excellence

  • Dr Suha Jaradat, Professor of Construction (SCEBE)
  • Dr Kirsten MacLeod; Professor of Film (SACI)
  • Dr Nicola Ring, Professor of Nursing (SHSC)
  • Dr Clare Taylor, Professor of Microbiology (SAS)
  • Dr Nathalia Tjandra, Professor of Marketing (TBS)

7 October 2025 Understanding Lives, Shaping Practice

  • Dr Iain Atherton, Professor of Nursing and Data Science, (SHSC)

13 June 2025 A celebration of academic excellence, Centre for Biomedicine and Global Health

  • Dr Claire Garden, Professor of Life Science Education and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching (SAS)
  • Dr Eva Malone, Professor of Bioscience Education and Immunology (SAS)
  • Dr Leonard Nelson, Professor of Human Liver Biological Engineering (SAS)
  • Dr Nicholas Wheelhouse, Professor of Comparative Infectious Disease (SAS)

Wednesday 23 April 2025 A new way of conceptualising mental illness: autonomy, suffering and the need for care

  • Dr Paul Hutton, Professor of Mental Health, (SHSC)

Wednesday 20 November 2024 "Policing, power, and the public"

  • Dr Liz Aston, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SAS)

Wednesday 17 May 2023 "Midwife-led care - to be or not to be? Utopia or Reality"

  • Dr Yvonne Kuipers, Professor of Midwifery (SHSC)

Wednesday 20 April 2023 "Vacations across Nations: European vs. American perspectives on leisure time and work-life balance"

  • Dr Lynn Minnaert, Professor of Tourism and Languages, (TBS)

Wednesday 1 March 2023 "Toxicology: A journey into the valley of death"

  • Professor Gary Hutchison, Dean of the School of Applied Sciences

Thursday 27 February 2020 "Going Viral: Harnessing The Power of Host Defence Peptides"

  • Professor Peter Barlow, Professor of Immunology & Infection, School of Applied Sciences