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: Steve Wing "Southern ocean ecosystems"
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Professor Steve Wing's research explores the interconnectedness of ocean ecosystems - the physical and chemical processes and how they impact on the food webs, how spatial factors impact on population resilience and so on. This work has been applied with considerable success in the Fiordland area where marine reserves have led to stronger populations across the ecosystem.
IPL: Phil Seddon "Re-introduction Biology: restoring species in a changing world"
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Professor Phil Seddon discusses the pros and cons of re-introducing species that have become extinct; the possibilities of reviving populations by translocation; the need to re-aquaint ourselves with the wildlife on our doorstep, in an increasingly urbanised world.
IPL: Phil Bishop "The survival of the Earth depends on frogs".
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Professor Phil Bishop talks about his lifelong fascination with amphibians in general and frogs in particular. He discusses the importance of frogs as an indicator species for the wellbeing of our environment, and delivers lessons in acoustic identification - as each species of frog has a unique sound. The inaugural professorial lecture was delivered on May the 5th 2015.
IPL: Reshaping the Baton: The enduring relevance of intellectual history
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Professor Takashi Shogimen of the Department of History & Art History delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture: “Reshaping the Baton: The enduring relevance of intellectual history”. 21 April 2015
IPL: Gut Instincts - the gastrointestinal tract in health and disease
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Professor Richard Gearry's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Wednesday, 25 February 2015.
IPL: Prevention and cure: the fight against cardiovascular disease
Friday, 10 October 2014
Professor Michael Williams' Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 24 June 2014.
IPL: Steve Higgins "Assembling a plant ecology"
Monday, 22 September 2014
Professor Steve Higgins delivered his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the 3rd of June 2014. Steve talked about the challenges of forecasting ecological developments, due to the many and varied factors that come into play. Humboldt's descriptive empirical work is contrasted with MacArthur's theoretical work, and the usefulness of modeling, in spite of its contingencies and complexities, is outlined.
IPL: Blair Blakie "Ultra-Cool Quantum Physics"
Monday, 22 September 2014
Professor Blair Blakie's Inaugural Professorial Lecture was delivered on the 6th of May 2014. Blair talked about ultra-cold atoms, superfluids and superconductors, how useful quantum physics can be to explain other complex and unpredictable systems in nature, and techniques for cooling atoms down to a billionth of a kelvin above absolute zero. Seriously cool...
IPL: Jamin Halberstadt "The 'shipping news- adventures with morphs and averages"
Monday, 15 September 2014
Professor Halberstadt discusses the way that morphing faces makes them more attractive. he discusses te idea of fluency, or the ease of processing for the brain that makes something more appealing to us, simply because it s easier to figure out. Professor Halberstadt gave his Inaugural Professorial Lecture in the 19th of November 2013
IPL: Craig Rodger- Zombie Satellites, Killer Electrons and AARDDVARK Radio and Space Physics
Monday, 15 September 2014
Professor Craig Rodger delivers his IPL in energetic style - outlining the nature of radiation belts and his research into solar wind, the ionisation of the ozone. The lecture was delivered on the 18th of March
IPL: Slow Scholarship and Deliberate Spaces for Thinking and Learning
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Professor Tony Harland, Head of the Higher Education Development Centre, delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture: “Slow Scholarship and Deliberate Spaces for Thinking and Learning”. 2 September 2014
IPL: Is the present the key to the past? Lessons from Antarctica and the Southern Alps
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Professor Sean Fitzsimons of the Department of Geography delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture: “Is the present the key to the past? Lessons from Antarctica and the Southern Alps”. 8 July 2014
IPL: Beyond malaria: fever in the tropics
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Professor John Crump's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 27 May 2014.
IPL: Sex Matters to the Heart
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Professor Alison Heather's Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Tuesday, 20 May 2014.
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