Lecture Recordings
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Below are a selection of lectures in audio format.
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Each lecture took place on Lancaster University campus (unless otherwise stated) before the Continuing Learning Group audience.
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To enjoy a lecture recording, just click the play button in the band below the lecture description. Lecture recordings can take a while to load so please be patient.
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We hope you enjoy the lectures.
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Please Note: This page currently holds a small selection of our lecture recordings, which will grow as we import more. However, our full archive of over 100 lecture recordings can be accessed by clicking this icon:
Dr Brian Hodgson's Lunchtime Lectures for the CLG
Having learned of the sad loss recently of Dr Brian Hodgson, we were asked by a group member if we could bring together the recordings of Brian's lectures for the CLG and make them available. Here they are.
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Brian was a valued member of our group, carrying out multiple roles with great flair. Teacher, learner and above all, friend.
A talented man with much knowledge to impart, from his hands-on demonstration of the method of measuring Gothic arches in the grounds of the beautiful Furness Abbey, to his discussion of the designs and innovations of Thomas Chippendale, Brian never failed to inspire us to live our lives with the desire for knowledge at the forefront.
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We will miss his contribution to the group.
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Enjoy the lectures below, recorded at intervals over the last 10 years.
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Sue Black on Identifying Perpetrators
Professor Dame Sue Black's research examines how we can identify individual perpetrators of crime from images of their hands. This presentation considers the anatomy of the human hand and how this can be translated to develop a tool aimed to assist investigation into a variety of crimes but particularly indecent assault of children.
Rory Daly on The Changing Face of Graduate Recruitment
Rory leads a team of dedicated, innovative and friendly careers professionals at Lancaster University, working with colleagues across the School to support students so they have the graduate outcomes they desire and the experience and skills to succeed now, and throughout their working life, in an ever changing labour market.
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In this presentation Rory discusses the huge changes which have taken place in graduate recruitment in recent years.
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Chris Marlow on Boys Who Dance
In this talk Chris explores the often problematic experiences of young male dancers aged 11-18 from across the NW of England and asks, how far have we moved on since the days of Billy Elliot and what will it take to counter effeminophobia and homophobia?
Howard Feather on Social Worlds
Dr Howard Feather teaches Sociology and Social Worlds with the Open University, a course about how we handle the relations between the different social worlds we pass thorough on a daily basis - those of home, work, education, finance, shopping, health, bodily conduct etc.
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In this talk Howard focuses on aspects of the above whilst widening this out to also examine the idea of translation or movement between different social worlds. He focuses on the transitions we make between formal and informal contexts and the relations between these e.g. work and peer relations.
Sarah Ludford on Non-violent Communication
As we get older we sometimes need help doing things we could easily manage before. We live in a society that values independence and so it can be hard to ask for help, and yet our natural state as human beings is to want to help each other.
In this lecture Sarah Ludford, of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, Albuquerque, USA, explores how to ask for what you need without feeling bad about it.’
Michelle Swainson on Healthy Ageing
In this lecture Dr Michelle Swainson, who lectures on physiology, discusses health, later life and important considerations we might take into account to age well.
Fe Mukwamba-Sendall on Home Educating
Dr Fe Mukwamba-Sendall's interest in (elective) home-education grew from personal interest, through home-educating her children. She became a home-education advocate and Chair of the EHE charity Education Otherwise. Fe is also a registered independent social worker and associate lecturer in Criminology. In this fascinating lecture Fe explores her journey towards gaining her doctorate and provides a overview of both her research and perennially interesting subject home-education.
Shameem Sampath on Knee Surgery 1
In this talk, Dr Shameem Sampath FRCS MCh(Orth), Knee Surgeon with Bluespot Knee Clinic and Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University discusses how to improve outcomes for patients following knee surgery using augmented reality technology.
Shameem graduated from Medical School at the University of The West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica in 1980. After his early post graduate surgical training in the United Kingdom, he completed his Specialist Orthopaedic Training in Oxford, Harvard and Liverpool. He has been a Registered Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon in England since 1996 and has been specializing in computer aided knee surgery since 2005.
Lancaster University Edible Campus on Creating an Eco Hub
In this session members of Lancaster University and the Students Union visited us to discuss the fabulous Eco-Hub Project which is successfully growing healthy food on campus.
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As a collaborative initiative of Lancaster University and Lancaster University Students’ Union, Green Lancaster creates environmental change on campus by encouraging sustainable behaviours and providing opportunities to make positive environmental choices.
Susanna Dart on Gendered Agricultural Knowledge in Nepal
Global food systems are under stress as the climate changes, labour patterns shift and consumer taste evolves. The role of smallholder farmers are critical as they are estimated to produce over 70% of the food that is consumed by people. In Nepal, where most food is produced by smallholders, over 90% of women farm and their importance continues to grow as more and more Nepali men seek employment abroad.
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In this lecture Susanna Dart explored the role of women in Nepali agriculture and the ways in which formal and informal agricultural knowledge hold gendered dimensions and how this could apply to global food supplies.
Gill Baynes on Christmas Mythology
Our good friend and Steering Group member, Gill returns with a very different kind of talk this time around.
This talk, centred around an interest of Gill's rather than her usual professional area of expertise, considers the mythology associated with Christmas in various parts of the world from Austria to Wales.
It demonstrates that many of the characters in the various tales are far from benevolent but to be feared by children.
The origin of some of the the tales stretching back to pre-Christian times.
Corrina Peniston-Bird on Lancaster and the First World War...
On Wednesday 7th November 2018, ahead of the events to mark the end of the First World War, Dr Corrine Peniston-Bird visited the CLG to present her lecture 'Reflecting the Regional: Lancashire and the First World War'.
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Corinna explains...
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'Over the past five years, a team of historians from Lancaster's History Department have been exploring the local impact of the First World War in the North West. That research challenges some of the emphases and omissions of the ways in which the war has been remembered in its centenary, including 'Over by Christmas', the gendering of the Home Front and the emphasis on death over survival. This talk I start with the Lancaster: Streets of Mourning project to explore how its methodology and findings can take us on a journey of discovery and greater understanding of the impact of the war.
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Peter Reilly on Land Value Taxation...
In this lecture Peter Reilly, former graduate from Lancaster University and retired teacher of economics, politics and business studies speaks on the subject of tackling income and wealth inequality.
Why is the gap between the rich and poor growing? Is it inevitable in the capitalist system? How far are current government policies responsible? How far can Labour Party policies significantly reduce inequalities without adversely affecting incentives?
Peter shows how economic growth inevitably leads to a redistribution of wealth because economic growth leads to increased land values, and the majority of the land is owned by a small minority of the population. (70% of England is owned by just 1% of the population). Policies to promote growth increase demand for the limited supply of land, driving up its price and benefiting landowners at the expense of others. Public investment in infrastructure, services and amenities actually drives up land prices. Where the taxpayer sews, the landowners reap.
Until this is addressed, wealth inequality is bound to grow. Peter Reilly, who has studied property taxes puts the case for a system of land value taxation to regain these land values for the public purse.
Ryan Evans on Sean O' Casey...
When you think of great Irish writers, who comes to mind? Oscar Wilde? John Millington Synge? William Butler Yeats? Samuel Beckett? What about Sean O'Casey, who saved the Irish national theatre from collapse, who was the inspiration of Samuell Beckett, and whom W.B. Yeats defended so valiantly from the stage? In this lecture, Ryan discusses the life of Sean O'Casey and his brilliant, and often controversial, drama.
Chris Coates and Dave Barrett on Senior Cohousing...
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Can co-housing for older people offer a convivial and sustainable life-style for older people in the 21st Century?
Chris is a time-served carpenter who now works as project manager on community based construction projects. He was part of the management team for the ground-breaking Cohousing project at Halton and has previously worked on projects for the Ecology Building society and Welfare State International.
Dave plans, along with his wife, to become resident in the new Halton Senior Cohousing development when it comes to fruition.
In this talk, we hear of the possibilities that cohousing can open to older people and hear about another successful cohousing project in London which has led the way.
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Amy Gadoud on Dying Matters- A Doctors Point of View...
Amy’s clinical and research interests are in ensuring good palliative care to all who need it. She especially focuses on palliative care for people with conditions other than cancer such as serious heart and chest diseases. As part of dying matters week she opens a conversation with the public about death and dying in order to breakdown some of the taboos in society about this topic.
Janet Ross on John Ross...
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2018 is the 200 years Anniversary of the first British Scientific Expedition to the Arctic. Led by Captain John Ross, a forgotten hero of Victorian exploration. The expedition had the wrong equipment, an unsuitable crew and no clear leader, but led to many exciting discoveries including the location of the magnetic north pole and strategies for survival in the most inhospitable climate imaginable. In this lecture, Steering Group member Janet takes us all on an exploration into the life and times of this fascinating explorer.