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2013 Inaugural Professorial Lectures

ProfessorLecture Details
Professor Robin Gauld
Director of Centre for Health Systems
Department of Preventive & Social Medicine

From why to how well: Questions about New Zealand's health system

Tuesday 12 March, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Angela McCarthy
Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
Department of History and Art History

Destination New Zealand: The Scottish and Irish Experience

Tuesday 19 March, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Alex Miller
Department of Philosophy

The Art of Philosophical Synthesis

Tuesday 9 April, 5.30pm
Archway 2 Lecture Theatre

Professor Michael Albert
Department of Computer Science

How to shuffle badly

Tuesday 16 April, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor John Broughton
Director of Ngai Tahu Māori Health Research Unit
Department of Preventive & Social Medicine

A Bro-fessor in the Whare

Tuesday 30 April, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Steve Dawson
Department of Marine Science

Using science to save dolphins, and whaling without a harpoon

Tuesday 7 May, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor John Crump
Department of Preventive & Social Medicine


Lecture postponed until 2014

Professor Rob McGee
Department of Preventive & Social Medicine

“At best a neutralitie” – how might we measure well-being?

Tuesday 21 May, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Ian Jamieson
Department of Zoology

The art and science of managing threatened species

Thursday 6 June, 5.30 pm
Burns 2 Lecture Theatre

Professor Susan Dovey
Department of General Practice and Rural Health

Cuckoo Explores the Nest

Tuesday 11 June, 5.30pm
Burns 2 Lecture Theatre

Professor Russell Frew
Department of Chemistry

Stable isotope deltas: using natures tiny signatures to make connections in food anf forensics

Tuesday 2 July, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor David Wharton
Department of Zoology

A World of Worms

Tuesday 23 July, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Jon Waters
Department of Zoology

Discovering prehistoric New Zealand

Tuesday 6 August, 5.30 pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Sarah Hook
School of Pharmacy

Why vaccines are good and how we can make them better

Tuesday 13 August, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Sylvie Chetty
Centre for Entrepreneurship
Otago Business School

No entrepreneur is an island

Tuesday 20 August, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Alison Rich
Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences

Prognosis from Patterns

Tuesday 27 August, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Elaine Reese
Department of Psychology

Tell Me a Story

Tuesday 3 September, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Melissa Baucus
Centre for Entrepreneurship
Otago Business School

Is there ethics in entrepreneurship?

Tuesday 10 September, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Antony Robins
Department of Computer Science

Teaching, learning and the music of memory

Tuesday 17 September, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Dirk De Ridder
Neurological Foundation Chair in Neurosurgery
Department of Surgical Sciences

To dream is to cure phantoms

Tuesday 24 September, 5:30pm
College of Education Auditorium

Professor Andre Everett
Department of Management

The World Is the Most Interesting Place I Know: An Academic Journey of Perambulations and Peregrinations

Tuesday 1 October, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Wayne Gillett
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Department of Women's and Children's Health

The 3 P'S of QUEEN MARY – a celebration of 75 years

Tuesday 8 October, 5:30pm
Barnett Lecture Theatre, First Floor, Dunedin Hospital

Professor Liz Franz
Department of Psychology

The Hands:  A window to the Brain

Tuesday 15 October, 5.30pm
Burns 2 Lecture Theatre

Professor Richard Jackson
National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

The discursive construction of social practice, or, how stories make our world

Tuesday 22 October, 5.30pm
Burns 2 Lecture Theatre

Professor Parry Guilford
Department of Biochemistry

Cancer: the problem and the promise

Tuesday 29 October, 5:30pm
Burns 2 Lecture Theatre

Professor Etienne Nel
Department of Geography


Lecture postponed until Tuesday 25 February 2014

Professor Jae Jung Song
Department of English and Linguistics

Lecture postponed until 2014

Professor Jamin Halberstadt
Department of Psychology

The shipping news: Adventures with morphs and averages

Tuesday 19 November, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Rachel Spronken-Smith
Dean, Graduate Research School

Educating Undergraduates for Uncertain Futures

Tuesday 3 December, 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

Professor Julian Eaton-Rye
Department of Biochemistry

Photosystem II: how plants use sunlight to give us oxygen, food and fuel

Tuesday 10 December, 5:30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

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