Professorial Lectures

Find out about our forthcoming Professorial Lectures. 

To reserve a place at any of the Lectures please contact Suky Sanghera via email s.sanghera@coventry.ac.uk or telephone – 024 7679 5294.

How do I organise a Professorial Lecture?

Download the form below for step-by-step instructions on how to organise your Professorial Lecture.

How to organise a professorial lecture

Complete and return the form to s.sanghera@coventry.ac.uk.

Lecture archive
Lecture title	Lecturer	Title
The Chinese are Coming	Professor Tom Donnelly	Professor of Automotive Business
Learning by Osmosis and from Trucktrain: A Messy Engineering Career	Peter Foyer	Visiting Professor of the Principles of Engineering Design
What can we do about concrete?	Peter Claisse	Professor of Construction Materials
Computer Simulation in Vehicle Dynamics	Mike Blundell	Professor of Vehicle Dynamics and Impact
AIDS is sub-Saharan Africa: 'the thief that comes at night'	Hazel Rose Barrett	Professor of Development Geography
The H:Factor	Andree Woodcock	Director of the Design & Ergonomics Applied Research Group
Nobody's Perfect	Brian Toft	Professor of Patient Safety
The work of Dutton and Swindells: An art of errancy, animals and encounter	Steve Dutton	Professor of Creative Practice
Saving Lives, Saving Time	Tom Quinn	Professor of Cardiac Nursing
From vertical to horizontal and all places in-between	Sarah Whatley	Professor of Dance and Director, Centre for Media Arts and Peformance
Pirate Philosophy	Gary Hall	Professor of Media and Performing Arts
Physics, Metaphysics and the Big Bang	Morteza Abyaneh	Visiting Professor
A Sideways Look at the Mathematics Problem	Duncan Lawson	Professor of Mathematics
The Ghost of Christmas Computer Games Past, Present and Future	Ian Marshall	Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Styling and Design Intuition and analysis in Industrial Design	Mike Tovey	Director for Design
Fuzzy thinking and the consequences	Nigel Steele	Emeritus Professor
Mathematics in Control	Glyn James	Visitor
Exploiting plants for marginal tropical areas: The research challenge	Phil Harris	Professor of Plant Science, Head of International Development
Operational Research: Making Things Better - The mathematics of improvement	Colin Reeves	Emeritus Professor in Operational Research
When conclusions are hypotheses: Artificial Intelligence and cancer research	Raouf Naguib	Professor of Biomedical Computing