Previous Lectures
A number of guest lectures are recorded or lecture slides made available. Below are recent lecture slides from the current academic year 2011/12 as well as previous events.
2011/12
15th June 2012 - "The real reasons why the Coalition is cutting the welfare state so hard: an optimistic approach" by Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent. To view the full lecture please click here (youtube link).
2 December 2011 - "Effects of NHS reform on Socio-economic equity in health" by Dr Richard Cookson, Director, Health Strategy Forum, Centre for Health Economics, University of York. To view the slides please click here.
25 November 2011 - "Work, Worklessness and the Political Economy of Health" - Inaugural Lecture by Professor Clare Bambra, Acting Director, Wolfson Research Institute and Professor of Public Health Policy, Department of Geography. To hear the lecture in full please follow this link.
4 November 2011 - "Disabled People and Employment Activation: Confronting Industrialised Virtues or Challenging Refractory Minds and Bodies" - by Professor Alan Roulstone. To view the slides please click here and to hear the lecture in full follow this link.
28 October 2011 - "Wolfson Annual Lecture 2011 - "Connecting Communities: Resilience, Resistance and Well-Being" by Professor Gareth Williams, Director, Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit. To view the slides please click here and to hear the lecture in full follow this link.
23 September 2011 - "The baby and the bathwater - maintaining progress on regional health and wellbeing in the face of public health reorganisation" by Professor Eugene Milne, Deputy Regional Director of Public Health (North East). To view the slides please click here and to hear the lecture in full follow this link.
2010/11
16 June 2011 - "Challenges for Global Health - from diseases to health systems" by Professor Marcel Tanner, Director, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. To view slides please click here and to hear the lecture in full place follow this link.
15 April 2011 - "Evaluating the effects on health and behaviour of natural experiments" by Professor Sally Macintyre, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow and MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network. To view slides please click here.
08 April 2011 - 'Judging nudging: choice architecture and social norming in health related behaviour change' by Professor Mike Kelly, Director of the Centre for Public Health Excellence, NICE. To view slides please click here.
08 March 2011 - 'A Fairer Society for a Healthier Future' by Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Centrel London. To watch the lecture please follow this link.
04 February 2011 - "Turning the World Upside Down - the search for global health in the 21st century" by Lord Nigel Crisp. To view please click here.
01 November 2010 - Wolfson Annual Lecture 2010 - "The Collision of Science and Culture: C. P. Snow revisited" by Sir Mark Walport. To view please click here.
27 October 2010 - "Design and methodological challenges in evaluating complex social interventions aimed at improving community health" by Professor David Dunt, University of Melbourne. To listen and view please click here.
01 October 2010 - "Acknowledging and addressing the uncertainties about the effects of clinical treatments" by Sir Iain Chalmers. To view please click here.
3 March 2010 - "The Spirit level; why more equal societies are better for everyone" by Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology. To view please click here.
2009/10
12 November 2009 - Wolfson Annual Lecture 2009 - The role of the ESRC in an Economic Recession by Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council. Click here.
30 March 2009 - Tackling Health Inequalities in England, Scotland and Wales: A comparative perspective by Chris Tudor-Smith, Welsh Assembly Government, Kay Barton, Scottish Government, Martin Gibbs, Department of Health, England and Professor Tim Blackman, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University. Click here.
2008/09
09 December 2008 - "Systematically Reducing Health Inequalities" by Professor Chris Bentley, Department of Health. To listen please click here, to view follow this link.
22 October 2008 - Wolfson Annual Lecture - "R&D for Health & Social Care: The development of NIHR" by Professor Sally Davies, Director General for Research & Development, Department of Health. Please click here.
