Previous Inaugural Lectures

Why more wireless? From mobile phones to healthcare, sensors to driverless cars, space communications – and beyond

Professor William Whittow

School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
- 10 June 2026
- 5pm
Ready Student One: Will immersive learning transform Higher Education?

Professor Gary Burnett

School of Design & Creative Arts
- 10 June 2026
- 5pm
Finding Miss Weaver: James Joyce, Harriet Shaw Weaver and other lives

Professor Clare Hutton

School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- 20 May 2026
- 5pm
Connecting living computers, cancer diagnostics and plastic pollution: The making of an interdisciplinary scientist?

Professor Paul Roach

Department of Chemistry
- 20 May 2026
- 5pm
We were promised killer robots. We got ChatGPT. What does that mean for digital trust?

Professor Oli Buckley

Department of Computer Science
- 22 April 2026
- 5pm
Preserving our intellectual heritage: Does open access go far enough?

Professor Jenny Fry

School of Design & Creative Arts
- 22 April 2026
- 5pm
How does communication enhance social change and social justice? Unpacking and redeveloping critical communication research

Professor Thomas Tufte

Institute for Creative Futures
- 11 March 2026
- 5pm
How can the relationship between international economic law and planetary (in)justices be reconceived?

Professor Donatella Alessandrini

Loughborough Law
- 11 March 2026
- 5pm
A disturbance in the forge: manufacturing awakens

Professor Moataz Attallah

Department of Materials
- 11 February 2026
- 5pm
Tales of competition, regulation and market power – and other stories economists tell their children and graduate students

Professor Farasat Bokhari

Business School
- 11 February 2026
- 5pm

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