This page contains recordings of pre-2017 Inaugural Professorial Lectures (IPLs).
The University of Otago YouTube channel has more recent IPLs available in full HD resolution.
266 audio and video podcasts found.

IPL: Using science to save dolphins, and whaling without a harpoon
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Professor Steve Dawson's inaugural professorial lecture was delivered on the 7th of May. He spoke about his work on Hector's dolphins, and how this research very quickly became conservation research and the small population numbers became apparent.

IPL: A Bro-fessor in the Whare
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Professor John Broughton's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 30 April 2013.

IPL: Stress, earthquakes and the brain
Saturday, 27 April 2013
"Stress, earthquakes and the brain" Professor Richard Porter's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Department of Psychological Medicine,University of Otago, Christchurch.

IPL: DNA and disease - following a common thread
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
"DNA and disease - following a common thread", Professor Martin Kennedy's IPL

IPL: Molecular assemblies and cell suicide - avenues for new anti-cancer compounds
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
"Molecular assemblies and cell suicide - avenues for new anti-cancer compounds" Professor Catherine Day's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Professor Mercer: Robert and Marjorie Webster Chair in Viral Pathogenesis, Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

IPL: Michael Albert "How to shuffle badly"
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Professor Michael Albert explains complex permutation work in terms of card shuffles, good and bad. He demonstrates these kinds of good or bad shuffles, explaining how these deliver good or bad randomisation of a deck of cards. This is Professor Albert's inaugural professorial lecture, delivered on the 16th of April 2013.

IPL: Gout - a disease of New Zealand
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Professor Lisa Stamp's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Wednesday, 10 April 2013.

IPL: “The Art of Philosophical Synthesis”
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Professor Alex Miller of the Department of Philosophy, delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture: “The Art of Philosophical Sythesis” 9 April 2013

IPL: From why to how well: Questions about New Zealand's health system
Friday, 5 April 2013
"From why to how well: Questions about New Zealand's health system" Professor Robin Gauld's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Professor Gauld: Director of the Centre for Health Systems, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine

IPL: The battle in the gut
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
"The battle in the gut", Professor Andrew Day's IPL, Wednesday 27 March 2013

IPL: Professor Angela McCarthy - Destination New Zealand: The Scottish and Irish Experience
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Angela McCarthy is Associate Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies and Professor of Scottish and Irish History in the Department of History and Art History where she teaches Scottish history and Irish and Scottish migration. She presents her inaugural professorial lecture. 19 March 2013

IPL: Surgical waiting lists: are patients getting a fair go?
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
"Surgical waiting lists: are patients getting a fair go?" Professor Jean-Claude Theis' Inaugural Professorial Lecture, 27 November 2012. Professor Theis:, Department of Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine

IPL: Social Understanding: Development across the human lifespan and in dogs
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Professor Ted Ruffman of the department of Psychology explores the theory of mind, how emotional recognition declines in older adults and the implications of this; and whether dogs are really empathetic. This Inaugural Professorial Lecture was delivered on August 14th 2012
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