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Lunch Hour Lectures
Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at UCL,
in bite sized chunks. Speakers are drawn from across the university, and lectures frequently showcase new research
and recent academic publications.
Lunch Hour Lectures take place 13:15 - 13:55, are free, require
no pre-booking, and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.
All lectures are streamed live online and can be watched by clicking on the
Watch Lunch Hour Lectures online link above. Lectures can also
be watched from 2 weeks after the event either on this website or via our YouTube channel where all lectures will be subtitled.
Alternatively, lectures can also be downloaded from iTunes U and from SoundCloud.
During June 2013, UCL.s free, public, Lunch Hour Lectures will be uprooted from their usual residence at UCL and go on tour to The Museum of London. This summer series of four Lunch Hour Lectures will feature introductions by Museum of London curators, and discuss: the Crystal Palace dinosaurs; the British legacy of slavery; the Black Death; and the hidden community histories of London.
Thursday 28 February 2013
Lunch Hour Lecture: Genomics and Healthcare
13:15 — 13:55
Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness…
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Lunch Hour Lecture: Civil Engineers against the double negative
13:15 — 13:55
Is a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really want our engineers to live their…
Thursday 7 March 2013
Lunch Hour Lecture: Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state
13:15 — 13:55
Scandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal welfare states, is most commonly considered a very peaceful place,…
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Lunch Hour Lecture: Stuff Matters
13:15 — 13:55
Whatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the planet has not altered: there are living things and there is…
Thursday 14 March 2013
Lunch Hour Lecture: Cigarettes: the most successful product ever
13:15 — 13:55
Despite five decades of research into the harms of smoking and numerous successful public health campaigns, many people take up and continue with the habit. Cigarette sales remain high…
Tuesday 4 June 2013
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park
13:15 — 13:55
The famous ‘monsters’ in Crystal Palace have been on display since the park opened in 1854. These are the first life-sized three-dimensional sculptures of dinosaurs and other prehistoric…
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Britain and the legacies of slavery
13:15 — 13:55
Once abolition was secured, Britons were keen to overlook slavery and emphasise the memory of emancipation. But Britain and Britons benefitted in multiple ways from slavery. By focusing…
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Plague Bones: how London’s Black Death became a tropical disease
13:15 — 13:55
At its height the Black Death claimed the lives of 7,000 Londoners every week. The Museum of London excavated a plague cemetery in the 1980s but it was not until 2011 that technology…
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Hidden no longer: community history-making in London
13:15 — 13:55
Over the last fifty years many independent projects have attempted to tell London’s hidden histories. This talk will examine the origins and motivations behind community history-making,…
