Surrey Inaugurals Lecture Series
Our Inaugural Lectures provide an exciting opportunity to officially recognise and celebrate our recently appointed professors; offering a platform to share their research, engage in conversation and inspire a broad audience of fellow colleagues, family, friends and the public.
These lectures are open to everyone and are free to attend. If you have any specific questions relating to the series, please email our Events team at events@surrey.ac.uk.
Upcoming events
We don’t currently have any upcoming events. Check back soon for further announcements.
Past lectures of the series
Philip Jackson, Professor in Machine Audition in the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, delivers his inaugural lecture where he discusses how we engineer sound spatially.
Professor David Faux delivers his inaugural lecture, where discusses the link between humans and cement paste.
Professor Alessandro Torrielli, from the School of Mathematics and Physics, delivers his inaugural lecture, where he discusses 'What is a Quantum Integrable System?'
Professor Jo Blanden gives her inaugural lecture and discusses social mobility and investment in children.
Recognizing Motherhood as a Critical Stage of Leadership Development - Professor Emily Ma explores the bright side of motherhood in which the coping process can enhance women's knowledge, skills, and capacity while strengthening women's mindset, willpower, and overall emotional intelligence. All such skills and capacities are highly transferrable in the workplace, particularly for management and leadership roles.
Molecular modelling in Drug Design and Energy - Brendan Howlin, Professor of Computational Chemistry looks at how drug design is based on a very simple theory called the lock and key mechanism and explores how we can go from this to designing drugs to alleviate the effects of ageing.
Forms of Authority - Kenneth Ehrenberg, Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy, compares legal authority to other areas of practical authority we encounter in our daily lives in his inaugural lecture.
The joint effect of occupational mobility and personality on job satisfaction during job change’ Professor Zhou’s research highlights the importance of taking into account both situational and dispositional factors for understanding the long-term impact of career change on subjective well-being