Inaugural Lectures
Our Inaugural Lectures are a chance for us to celebrate with our newly appointed professors, as they present their career pathway and research/education passions to a broad audience of staff, students and invited guests.
23 July 2025
Professor Kate Ellacott (Clinical and Biomedical Sciences)
Food, fun, and failure
09 July 2025
Professor Vashti Berry (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
A personal and professional reflection on a career dedicated to prevention and early intervention with children and families
25 June 2025
Professor Phil Evans (Health and Community Sciences)
From GP continuity to COVID-19 and back: reflections on a generalist GP academic career
30 April 2025
Professor Angus Jones (Clinical and Biomedical Sciences)
Type 1 diabetes in adults: misdiagnosed, mistreated and misunderstood
26 March 2025
Professor Gary Abel (Health and Community Sciences)
A successful failure – Flipping marvellous!
29 January 2025
Professor Ed Wilson (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
Giving big pharma a hard time over their prices: doing my bit to keep the NHS afloat
18 December 2024
Professor Ben Wheeler (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
Health and environment through space and place: a health geographer’s journey in 10(ish) maps
25 September 2024
Professor Rupert Payne (Health and Community Sciences)
Pills, primary care and other stuff: the meanderings of a curious clinical pharmacologist
22 May 2024
Professor Wendy Noble (Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
All about tau
24 April 2024
Professor Ruth Garside (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
Whose stories count? Tales from an accidental academic
27 March 2024
Professor Umesh Kadam (Health and Community Sciences)
Seeing the wood from the trees: Cos’è la multimorbilità?
28 February 2024
Professor Alex Harding (Clinical and Biomedical Sciences)
Medical schools and primary care; progress to date and case for a chair
31 January 2024
Professor Richard Holland (Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean, UEMS)
From Homer to Heroin - a Public Health Journey
