A Celebration of Women’s Action
20 February

As part of the University’s official International Women’s Day celebration, composer and performer Louise Jordan will be performing on Friday 8 March at 6pm.

Louise Jordan writes songs about real-life inspirational women from the past. Her project ‘No Petticoats Here’ toured 2016 -2018 sharing the stories of extraordinary women who lived during the First World War. Louise’s latest project ‘The Hard Way’ will tour throughout 2019 telling the remarkable story of Hannah Mitchell who grew up in poverty on a remote hilltop farm in the Derbyshire moorlands and who escaped domestic drudgery to become a campaigner, speaker, writer, suffragette, councillor and finally a Manchester city magistrate.

The performance, organised in collaboration with the Women and Gender Studies Research Group,  is free but places must be booked here.

‘World’s First Cyborg’ to present at University seminar
13 February

Professor Kevin Warwick is the guest speaker for the next Healthcare Technologies Seminar (“Neural Implants for Therapy and Enhancement”) on 27 February from 3 to 5pm in St Andrew’s Court (room 4.09).

As well as publishing over 500 research papers, Kevin’s experiments into implant technology led to him being featured as the cover story on the US magazine, ‘Wired’. His research has involved being a self-experimenter and he is frequently referred to as the world’s first cyborg.

Alongside Kevin, Professor Peter Kyberd, Head of the University’s School of Energy and Electronic Engineering, will also give a talk.

Read more here.

Inaugural lecture about the evolution of facial expression
04 February

The inaugural lecture by Bridget Waller, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, is taking place on Wednesday 27 February from 6pm in the Portland Building.

Human facial expressions developed from a shared evolutionary history with many other animals.  In her inaugural lecture, Professor Waller will summarise her research combining studies of anatomy, behaviour and mind to help understand the meaning of our complex and subtle facial communication.

Admission is free, but please book a place here.

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