Past Events - The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Neil McLennan, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen

Wilfred Owen’s Edinburgh Enlightenment

Tuesday 15 August 2017

From late June to November in 1917, the soldier-poet Wilfred Owen recovered from shell shock at Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh. For the last ten years, Neil McLennan has been researching Owen’s time in Edinburgh to better understand his experience and the influence the city had on him.

The Global Cancer Burden: Necessity is the Mother of Prevention

Monday 10 July 2017

The number of new cancer cases worldwide is escalating. This lecture discussed the global cancer burden and the interplay between environmental and genetic risk factors in the causation of human cancer.

What Keeps You Sharp?

Tuesday 4 July 2017

At Castle Douglas Town Hall Dr Alan Gow explored the questions “How do our thinking skills change as we age?” and “Do our lifestyles affect those changes?”. The audience heard what other people think about their thinking skills, saw how their beliefs matched those of the general public, and how all that matches current evidence.

Living an Ethical Life

Thursday 25 May 2017

Professor Peter Singer, one of the world's leading moral philosophers, explored what it means to live ethically in the 21st Century. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE - now at the George Square Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh

NEW Drugs from OLD Pathways – Teaching Nature New Tricks

Monday 22 May 2017

In this Sir James Black Prize Lecture, Professor Thomas Simpson looked at how engineering metabolic pathways in microorganisms can provide new antibiotics and other bioactive natural products.

Start-up Science Masterclasses for S1 & S2 Students: University of Aberdeen

Saturday 20 May 2017

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen held Start-Up Science Masterclasses for S1 and S2 students. At these sessions, students got up to all sorts of science and technology mischief whilst broadening their knowledge and experience.

Start-up Science Masterclasses for S1 & S2 Students: Queen Margaret University

Saturday 20 May 2017

Researchers at the Queen Margaret University held Start-Up Science Masterclasses for S1 and S2 students. At these sessions, students got up to all sorts of science and technology mischief whilst broadening their knowledge and experience.

Start-up Science Masterclasses for S1 & S2 Students: St Andrews University

Saturday 20 May 2017

Researchers at the St Andrews University held Start-Up Science Masterclasses for S1 and S2 students. At these sessions, students got up to all sorts of science and technology mischief whilst broadening their knowledge and experience.

Start-up Science Masterclasses for S1 & S2 Students: University of Dundee

Saturday 13 May 2017

Researchers at the University of Dundee will host Start-Up Science Masterclasses for S1 and S2 students. At these sessions, students will get up to all sorts of science and technology mischief whilst broadening their knowledge and experience.

Start-up Science Masterclasses for S1 & S2 Students: UHI Orkney

Saturday 13 May 2017

Researchers at the Orkney College will host Start-Up Science Masterclasses for S1 and S2 students. At these sessions, students will get up to all sorts of science and technology mischief whilst broadening their knowledge and experience.

Start-up Science Masterclasses for S1 & S2 Students: UHI Inverness

Saturday 13 May 2017

Researchers at the UHI Inverness Campus will host Start-Up Science Masterclasses for S1 and S2 students. At these sessions, students will get up to all sorts of science and technology mischief whilst broadening their knowledge and experience.

My hands are tied but my tongue is free: Swords with songs and Kinmont Willie

Thursday 11 May 2017

This talk is linked to the ‘Swords in the Stories’ exhibition at Dumfries Museum and will focus on the story behind a recently discovered sword—allegedly belonging to ‘Kinmont’ Willie Armstrong—that inspired the Ballad of Kinmont Willie.

Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King

Wednesday 10 May 2017

The Royal Society of Edinburgh Gifford Discussion Forum is part of this year's University of Edinburgh Gifford Lecture Series delivered by Professor Jeffrey Stout.

From the Infinite to the Infinitesimal: Birth of a Higgs Boson

Monday 24 April 2017

As we enter a new era in fundamental science, the talk explored how understanding infinitesimal scalar fields could change our view of the infinite Universe.

Modelling Beyond Standard Model Physics

Thursday 13 April 2017

This knowledge exchange event was centred around the methodological challenges, philosophical implications and experimental prospects in the search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).

ITMAT in Edinburgh

Friday 17 March 2017

For the first time, the Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics meeting was held in Europe at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Conference Centre. The theme of the meeting was ‘Big Data and the Development of New Medicines’.

How can we learn to live with floods? Challenges for science and management (Discussion Forum)

Wednesday 15 March 2017

In the winter of 2015/16, the UK reported the highest 24-hour rainfall ever recorded. This meeting explored the science underpinning flood risk management and the actions being undertaken to better manage flood risk and reduce the impact of floods.

How can we learn to live with floods? Challenges for science and management (Conference)

Wednesday 15 March 2017

In the winter of 2015/16, the UK reported the highest 24-hour rainfall ever recorded. This meeting explored the science underpinning flood risk management and the actions being undertaken to better manage flood risk and reduce the impact of floods.

Delivering the Nations Flagships

Monday 6 March 2017

When HMS Queen Elizabeth enters Portsmouth harbour in 2017, she will be the largest war ship commissioned into the Royal Navy. With her sister ship HMS Prince of Wales, these two new Aircraft Carriers represent significant new naval and air military capability.

Policy Making in Uncertain Environments

Monday 6 February 2017

Evidence-based medicine is one of the triumphs of recent decades that has saved innumerable lives and resulted in more cost-effective practice. Is this the right approach for other areas of policy?

Beat the January Blues

Thursday 19 January 2017

After the holidays, when everyone had gone back to work with that 'January feeling', Beat the January Blues was organised to put a spring back in the step...

Direct Carbon Fuel Cells: A Highly Effective Means of Converting Carbon into Electricity

Monday 12 December 2016

Unfortunately, this event had to be cancelled due to illness

MacCormick European Lecture 2016

Wednesday 30 November 2016

Irina Bokova examined the unprecedented increase of attacks against cultural heritage and diversity in conflicts today, including industrial looting of cultural goods and archaeological sites - the war crime of cultural cleansing.

Building Stars, Planets and the Ingredients for Life in Space – Sweet Results from ALMA

Monday 28 November 2016

One of the most exciting developments in astronomy is the discovery of thousands of planets around stars other than our Sun. But how do these exo-planets form, and why are they so different from those in our own solar system?

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