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13th May 13
What...and/or..who is science education for?
Dr Alun Morgan, Graduate School of Education University of Exeter
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8th Apr 13
Beetle Wings and Folding Things
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4th Mar 13
You are what your mother ate: a new perspective on the complexities of nature nurture interaction, through the lens of epigenetics
Chair: John Bryant
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4th Feb 13
Testing the waters: understanding microbial pollution at the beach
The Delivering Healthy Water Team
Chair: Steve
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7th Jan 13
Natural Photonics
Roy Sambles, FRS, Professor of Physics, University of Exeter
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7th Jan 13
Natural Photonics: colours beyond pigments
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3rd Dec 12
Science for sale or free for all: The Internet and Open Access and their impact.
Alma Swan, Key Perspectives ltd.
Chair: Kris
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5th Nov 12
Stars, planets and the possibilities of life
Fred Pont , Exeter University, Astrophysics
Chair: Alison
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1st Oct 12
A brief history of flaked stone technology (followed by a demonstration of flint knapping)
Bruce Bradley, Professor , Exeter University, Archeology
Chair: Cliff
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17th Sep 12
Synthetic biology: biomachines fit for purpose?
Chair: Steve
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3rd Sep 12
Psychology of change: Influencing responses to climate change and peak oil?
Annie Mitchell, , Peninsula Medical School
Chair: Ginny
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2nd Jul 12
Uncharted waters - seeking sustainability in Devon's sea fisheries
Dominic Flint, Sustainable Fisheries Officer, Devon Wildlife Trust
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14th May 12
What happens when the oil runs out?
Chris Rhodes
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1st May 12
Overpopulation - why it matters and what we should do about it.
Pip Hayes, trustee, Population matters
Chair: Ginny
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2nd Apr 12
Camplyobacter - Are happy chickens safer chickens?
Tom Humphrey , Professor, University of Liverpool
Chair: Steve
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7th Mar 12
Science and Faith: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
Prof John Spicer, Professor of Marine Biology, University of Plymouth, Note: at St. Michael’s Church (Mount Dinham, Dinham Road, Exeter)- time: 7.30pm
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5th Mar 12
How much should we do to keep our pets alive?
Dr Chris Eiermann, Companion Care veterinary surgery
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10th Feb 12
Ethical Issues in Agriculture: Genetically Modified Crops and the Organic Movement
Professor Paul Thompson , Professor of Philosophy and of Zoology , University of Toronto. This event is at the Amory building, Streatham campus in Room C501 at 2.30pm
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6th Feb 12
Titanium – an alchemist’s dream
Dr David Rochester, Consultant for the TiO2 industry
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5th Dec 11
Predictive Genetic Testing
Peter Turnpenny, Professor of Clinical Genetics, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
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21st Nov 11
Diagnosing autistic spectrum disorders: Dilemmas for parents
Ginny Russell, Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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7th Nov 11
Global Imaging, Indigenous People, and Sustainability
Chris Lavers, Lecturer in Remote Sensing, Plymouth Royal Naval College
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3rd Oct 11
Beyond the Ark or still in the dark: The role of modern zoos.
Kirstin Pullen, Paignton Zoo
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4th Jul 11
The calculating brain
Chris Code, Professor of Psychology, University of Exeter
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6th Jun 11
CANCELLED- to be rescheduled
Nicole Baur, Centre for Medical History
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9th May 11
Talking Balls - A study of sports projectile trajectories
Colin White, University of Portsmouth
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4th Apr 11
Biofuels - or bio fools?
Janet Cotter, Greenpeace research unit
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7th Mar 11
The light fantastic – lasers for science, industry and medicine
Colin Webb
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7th Feb 11
Has the first 500 year old already been born?
Herbert Mc Gregor
Chair: Kris Frank
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6th Dec 10
Film show and discussion about nuclear power
This cafe is at Byrne House, St Germans Road, (which is off Pensylvania Road), at 7.30pm. All welcome.
Chair: John Yates
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1st Nov 10
The politics of patents
Steve Hughes, Co director ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society
Chair: John Bryant
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4th Oct 10
What can you do to reduce your risk of dementia?
David Llewellyn, Peninsula Medical School
Chair: Cliff Rush
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1st Aug 10
Summer Break- Back in October
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5th Jul 10
Is the future nuclear?
Chair: David Pedder
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7th Jun 10
Leadership- and how to be good at it
Kim Peters, Research fellow, School of Psychology, Exeter University
Chair: Ginny Russell
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3rd May 10
Nanotechnology
David Santillo , Greenpeace Research Unit
Chair: Steve Hughes
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5th Apr 10
What does it mean to be a modern man?
Jessica Salvatore, Research fellow, School of Psychology
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7th Mar 10
TBC
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1st Mar 10
Climate change and its implications for us
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7th Feb 10
Scientific controversy
Iain Lang, Research Fellow, Peninsula Medical School
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1st Feb 10
Putting the Flesh on the Bones - Techniques used in Archaeology
Stephen Reed, Archaeologist, Devon County Council Historic Environment Service
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7th Dec 09
Is there life beyond earth?
Lewis Dartnell, Talk and discussion celebrating International year of Astronomy 2009
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2nd Nov 09
The Suicidal Animal: Science and the Nature of Self-destruction
Ed Ramsden, Centre for Medical History
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20th Oct 09
What drives the scientific agenda?
free discussion group, 1pm-2.30pm Byrne House, St Germans Road, University of Exeter, The Learning Revolution festival
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13th Oct 09
Representation of science in the media
free discussion group, 1pm-2.30pm Byrne House, St Germans Road, University of Exeter, The Learning Revolution festival
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6th Oct 09
The function of science in society
free discussion group , 1pm-2.30pm Byrne House, St Germans Road, University of Exeter, The Learning Revolution festival
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5th Oct 09
The Art of Future Memory
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5th Oct 09
De-Placing Future Memory Art Exhibition Opening & Music Performance
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Streatham Campus, 6:00pm.Free
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6th Jul 09
Is there a purpose in nature - ancient and modern perspectives
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1st Jun 09
Designer Babies? The future of prenatal genetic testing
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23rd May 09
Floating laboratories sometimes rock
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11th May 09
Changes in ideas about childhood disability
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6th Apr 09
Science as Politics
Barry Barnes, Co director, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society
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11th Mar 09
On board with Darwin: an exploration of the work of the Exmouth artist Conrad Martens
Steve Hughes, Professor of plant genomics, University of Exeter
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2nd Mar 09
Do genes make us fat?
Tim Frayling, Professor of Human Genetics, Peninsula Medical School
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2nd Feb 09
Darwin Anniversary Cafe: Modern Living and Evolution
Timothy Clack, Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Oxford
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1st Dec 08
The Mathematics of Climate Change
Tim Jupp, School of Engineering, Computing & Mathematics, University of Exeter
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3rd Nov 08
Physics and the Philosophy of Science
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6th Oct 08
Consciousness
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1st Aug 08
We are taking our summer break in August and September
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7th Jul 08
Nuclear power: A green means of producing electricity.
Peter Higginson, Technical and safety support manager, British Energy
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2nd Jun 08
TB, Cattle and Badgers
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12th May 08
Volcanoes, Friend or Foe
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7th Apr 08
Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education: is it working?
Chrissie Rogers, University of Keele
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3rd Mar 08
Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened
Chris Turney, University of Exeter
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4th Feb 08
I'm Sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that - AI and Robots
Darren Smithson
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3rd Dec 07
What is organic food and is it a good thing?
Matt Reed, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire
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5th Nov 07
DNA Database and the erosion of civil liberties in the UK
Jamie Stevens, Biosciences, University of Exeter
Jeremy Wickham, St James Solicitors
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1st Oct 07
Love and money, the pitfalls.
Carole Burgoyne, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter
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3rd Sep 07
Your DNA, your choice
Terry Vrijenhoek
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2nd Jul 07
Food Allergies: Fact or Fiction?
Mark Jackson, Centre for Medical History
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4th Jun 07
From creation to inheritance. How reproduction changed its meaning
Staffan Mueller Wille
Hans Jorg Rheinberger
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7th May 07
Cures from the ends of the earth: Thermostable enzymes and the pharmaceutical industry
Jenny Littlechild, Centre for Biocatalysis
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2nd Apr 07
Wind wave & wood : Renewable energy in the South West
Keith Gillanders, Regen South West
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5th Mar 07
Uncertainty in weather forecasting
Ken Mylne, Met Office
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5th Feb 07
Global warming and acid oceans - should we care about the effects of CO2 on Earth?
Kelvin Boot, Director, National Marine Aquarium
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4th Dec 06
Climate change and coral reefs
Pete Mumby, University of Exeter
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6th Nov 06
Live fast, die young: The galaxy's most massive stars
Tim Harries, University of Exeter
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2nd Oct 06
The beauty of would healing
Paul Davies, Insense
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3rd Jul 06
Genes, Greens and Global vaccines
Julian Ma, St George's Hospital Medical School, London
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5th Jun 06
Why are Animals often People too?
Sasha Dall, Lecturer in Mathematical Ecology, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter in Cornwall
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25th May 06
Conflict Resolution and the Musicalisation of Communication
Professor Hroar Klempe, Dean of the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim
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8th May 06
Science, Spin and Sales - The Uses and Abuses of Science Communication
Professor John Bryant, Chair, Christians in Science, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter
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3rd Apr 06
Super Bugs and Sexy Bugs
Dr Marina Morgan, Microbiologist, Exeter Nuffield Hospital
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14th Mar 06
Science in the Dock - Art in the Stocks
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13th Mar 06
Genes and Gene Patenting: Is it Fair?
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6th Mar 06
Complementary Medicine: Does it Work?
Professor Edzard Ernst, Director of Complimentary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School
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6th Feb 06
Is Love War? The Battle of the Sexes in Animals
Dr Tom Tregenza, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter in Cornwall
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5th Dec 05
The Neurology of Free Will
Dr Chris Nunn, Author of the recently published 'De La Mettrie's Ghost: The Story of Decisions'
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7th Nov 05
The Colour of Birds
Dr Roger Avery, RSPB
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5th Oct 05
The First Billion Years of History: Seeing Galaxies Close to the Dawn of Time
Dr Andrew Bunker, School of Physics, University of Exeter
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28th Sep 05
How Nurture Turns on Nature
Matt Ridley
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4th Jul 05
Children are fit and active - fact or fiction?
Neil Armstrong, University of Exeter
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20th Jun 05
GM Cotton in India Workshop
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6th Jun 05
Einstein and Relativity
Nick Anderson, Richard Huish College
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9th May 05
Antartica :A base for space exploration
Mark McCaughrean, University of Exeter
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4th Apr 05
Designer babies
Sheila Dziobon, Centre for Legal Practice
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4th Mar 05
Quantum Mechanics and reality
Dr John Shepherd
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7th Feb 05
Social Psychology and the (pr)axis of evil
Alex Haslam, University of Exeter
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6th Dec 04
A-Scent of Man : the Chemistry of Smell
Malcolm Heggie, University of Sussex
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5th Nov 04
Why Steven Hawking is wrong
Hilary Lawson, TVF
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4th Oct 04
MMR, Science and Fiction
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7th Sep 04
Assisted Reproduction: where next?
Professor Lord Robert Winston
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6th Sep 04
Stem Cells - a future medical miracle cure?
Stephen Minger
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2nd Aug 04
To clone or not to clone?
John Bryant, University of Exeter
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7th Jun 04
Behavioural Strategies in animals
Lisa Leaver, University of Exeter
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10th May 04
Star Formation and Life Beyond Earth
Tim Naylor, Physics, University of Exeter
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5th Apr 04
Light and colour on the wing
Pete Vukusic, Physics, University of Exeter
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1st Mar 04
Genetics, Fantasy or Reality?
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2nd Feb 04
Global Warming and Climate Change
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8th Dec 03
Genes, Evolution and Psychology
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3rd Nov 03
The Science of Eden
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6th Oct 03
Seeing through Illusions
Richard Gregory, Professor of Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
