| Fellowship / Events for Fellows / Coffee Meetings |
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| Programme of Discussions |
| Coffee is available in the Fellows' Room on Tuesday mornings at 10.30am. |
| Once a month, between October 2009 and March 2010, this will take the form of a discussion in the East Wellcome Room. These are informal and friendly occasions, open to Fellows and, if you are able to attend, you will be made most welcome. Below is the programme for the coming season: |
| 2010 - 2011 Programme |
12 October 2010
Innovative computer-based personal support for older people with dementia and their carers
Dr Norman Alm
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2 November 2010
The earliest farmers in Britain
Roger James Mercer |
7 December 2010
Aspects of Medical Education, a personal view
Professor J F Lamb |
11 January 2011
The purpose of Heraldry in the 21st Century
Elizabeth A Roads |
1 February 2011
Building the Bell Rock Lighthouse
Professor Roland A Paxton |
1 March 2011
Law and Ethics
Dr Murdo Macdonald |
| 2009-2010 Programme |
13 October 2009
Recognising a Masterpiece.
Michael Clarke |
3 November 2009
Synchotrons and Free Electron Lasers, what Earthly use are they?
Professor Robert Donovan |
8 December 2009
The President, Lord Wilson of Tillyorn |
12 January 2010
Runs on homozygosity, population history and disease.
Dr James Wilson |
2 February 2010
Events, adaptability and survival, the case of the European Union.
Sir David Edward |
9 March 2010
Are we destroying Edinburgh?
Professor Charles McKean
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| 2008-2009 Programme |
14 October 2008
Telford at the Frontiers of Technology
Professor Roland Paxton |
4 November 2008
The Role of the Banker in Society Today
Ewan Brown |
2 December 2008
Democracy Ancient and Modern
Professor John Richardson
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6 January 2009
Forgotten pioneers, the case of Robert Chambers
Professor Bruce Proudfoot |
3 February 2009
Tackling Scotland's Health Inequalities - a major challenge for the next decade
Professor John Coggins |
3 March 2009
Reconstructing Historical Sites; Fact or Fiction?
Dr Barbara E Crawford |
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| 2007-2008 Programme |
9 October 2007
Illness and Disease: The Butterflies of History.
Professor David E M Taylor |
6 November 2007
Entanglement in Copenhagen – The trouble with Quantum Mechanics and the Flight from Reality
Dr Malcolm Fluendy |
4 December 2007
A Business Unworthy of a Woman? The female performer as celebrity and political agitator on the nineteenth-century British stage
Professor Janet B I McDonald. |
8 January 2008
Are you being served? The Civil Service in a changing world.
Sir Russell Hillhouse. |
5 February 2008
The place of the victim and the victim’s family in criminal proceedings.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Cameron of Lochbroom. |
4th March 2008
Science and conservation: their influence on livestock farming in Scotland.
Dr James Irvine |
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| 2006-2007 Programme |
10 October 2006
The Interface between science and art
Professor Roy H Burdon. |
7 November 2006
The Crusades from the Muslim side
Professor Carole Hillenbrand |
5 December 2006
Nuclear Waste – Personal Experience
Professor John R Greening |
9 January 2007
The Economics of Climate Change
Sir Alan Peacock |
6 February 2007
The Unicorn – a curious evolution
Professor John E Dale |
6 March 2007
Prematurity and Postmaturity in Scientific Research
Professor Alastair C Wardlaw
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| The 2005-2006 Programme was as follows |
11 October 2005
A Mathematician Looks at Music
Professor John M Howie. |
1 November 2005
The Delicate Interface between Scientists and Politicians
Dr Tam Dalyell |
6 December 2005
Visual Art Provision Scotland; How Best can we Provide the Visual Arts in Scotland?
Sir Timothy Clifford |
| 10 January 2006
Reflections on Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship 1783-2003
Dr Charles D Waterston
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7 February 2006
Parasitic Wasps: Does Taxonomy Matter and Where Should it be Done?
Dr Mark Shaw |
7 March 2006
The Royal Society of Edinburgh - Past and Present International Connections
Professor Rona MacKie |
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| The 2004-2005 Programme was as follows |
12 October 2004
Intelligence, Government and the Media
Janet Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh
2 November 2004
Thwarting and Origin of Speech
Professor Eric A Salzen
7 December 2004
How we Think
Sir Michael Atiyah
11 January 2005
The Ups and Downs of Natural Populations
Professor Jonathan A Sherratt
1 February 2005
Why Educate?
Professor Sally A Brown
1 March 2005
Geological Hazards
Mr John H Hull
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| The 2003-2004 Programme was as follows : |
7 October 2003
The Euro in a United Europe
Sir John Shaw, CBE
4 November 2003
Imperialism Ancient and Modern
Professor John S Richardson
2 December 2003
Human Organs for Sale
Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig
13 January 2004
Fungi - What if they Went on Strike?
Professor Roy Watling
3 February 2004
Pilgrims, Nomads and Tourists : The Changing Landscape of Faith
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, President
2 March 2004
Don't Count your Chickens...
Professor J S Beck |
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| The 2002-2003 programme was as follows : |
8 October 2002
The Transfusion of Skills
Jean Jones, Historian of Science
5 November 2002
What Use is an Ombudsman?
Sir William Reid
3 December 2002
Unesco and the UK
Dr John M Francis, Chairman, UK National Commission for UNESCO
14 January 2003
Freedom of Information - How Free?
Sir William Fraser
4 February 2003
Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters: Community Relations First and Foremost.
Professor Yasir Suleiman, Director of the Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of Islam and the Middle East
4 March 2003
Benin and the Restoration of Cultural Property
Professor Frank Willett |
| Last updatated
6 July, 2010 |
