Festival of Research 2013

The Annual Festival of Research is the biggest research event of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. This year the Festival is on Tuesday 2nd July 2013 (a full day event) in the Lecture Theatre Block. This is a great opportunity to showcase our excellence in research, and to celebrate our achievement in science. It is to bring everyone together to fire up our enthusiasm, encourage and support our junior researchers and to promote cross-divisional collaborations. All staff and research students are cordially invited to attend.

Keynote speakers for 2013 will be :

Dame Nancy Rothwell
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Council Member and Vice-President of the Royal Society, chair of the Council for Science and Technology, and a non-executive director of AstraZeneca. Her research interests are in inflammatory diseases and the function of inflammatory cytokines.

Dr Christopher Belshaw
Dr Christopher Belshaw is a respected philosopher, whose major concerns are with the theoretical side of applied ethics - questions of the value of death, the nature of a person and so on - and with related questions in aesthetics and metaphysics. He is a very experienced speaker and debater, and has written a number of influential books on philosophy.

All researchers within FHMS are encouraged to participate by submitting an abstract for a poster, as with last year there will be a prize for the best one. The abstracts will also be used to select nominations for the Young Investigator prize (for PhD students and junior postdocs), each of whom will be selected to give an oral presentation on the day.

Please e-mail poster abstracts to Dr Richard Morgan r.morgan@surrey.ac.uk by 10th April (max 300 words).