Inaugural Lectures

25 February 2026
Professor Ben Wall (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
Fuelling the in vivo human; principles, pontification and pragmatism.

28 January 2026
Professor Gesche Huebner (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
From flying sausages to environment and human health

17 December 2025
Professor Richard Oram (Clinical and Biomedical Sciences)
A Journey from Individual Extremes to Predicting and Treating Type 1 Diabetes Before It Starts

26 November 2025
Professor Rachel Freathy (Clinical and Biomedical Sciences)
Genes, Growth and Generosity: A Career of Curiosity and Collaboration

17 November 2025
Professor Antonieta Medina-Lara (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
The Accidental Economist: A Journey Across Borders and Unexpected Turns

22 October 2025
Professor Sarah Richardson (Clinical and Biomedical Sciences)
Small Things Matter: Lessons from the human pancreas for Type 1 diabetes

24 September 2025
Professor Sam Vine (Public Health and Sport Sciences)
The science of rising to the occasion 

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