Talks related to sustainability and the environment

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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User Duncan Mackay.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

What and Where I Record

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User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

User Ms Tania Branigan.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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User Rosemary Fricker.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Meeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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User Peter Pilbeam.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

User Professor Frances Spalding.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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User Olwen Williams.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

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User Esme Ashe-Jepson.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

User Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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User Morgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Are Revolutions Justified?

User Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

The Genetic Revolutions

User Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

User Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

CNHS Seasonal Social

Ticketed Event

User Annual Social Gathering.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 18:30-20:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar - Air pollution and health in the 21st Century

User Dr Gary Fuller, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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User Morag Hunter.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

The Health of the Cam

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User Stephen Tomkins.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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User Paul Krusic.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

A Biodiverse City

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User Guy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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User Liam Saddington.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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User Will Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

People Power for Nature

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User Pete Exley, RSPB.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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User Mark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

House MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Seminar – Precision approaches to improving obesity prevention in Queensland, Australia

User Dr Oliver Canfell, University of Queensland.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar – Independent and Joint Effects of Multiple Pollutants and their Interactions with Meteorological Variables on Stroke Hospitalization

User Lei Li, Huazhong University of Science, China.

Wednesday 27 September 2023, 12:30-13:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Do boutique cohort studies have a role in diabetes epidemiology?

User Professor Timothy Davis, University of Western Australia.

Tuesday 12 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar - Diet-gut microbiome interaction for type 2 diabetes

User Ju-Sheng Zheng, Westlake University, China.

Thursday 06 July 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar – UPF: a need for clarification to enhance public health policies

User Dr Zoé Colombet, University of Liverpool.

Monday 15 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Agent based Modelling for Urban Health Impact Assessment

User Tabea Sonnenschein, University of Utrecht.

Friday 12 May 2023, 09:00-10:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

Saturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

Friday 14 April 2023, 18:00-19:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 14 April 2023, 13:00-18:00

Cool as a caterpillar

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User Esme Ashe-Jepson.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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User Kevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Thursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

House MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Seminar – Physical Activity research: strengthening ties between Brazil and the United Kingdom

User Dr Samuel Dumith, Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil.

Monday 20 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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User Tatiana Bebchuk.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Obesity Prevention: The role of evidence in the policy cycle

User Dr Tazeem Bhatia, Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care.

Monday 13 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

User Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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User Jonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Thursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

User Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Are we alone in the Universe?

User Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

House MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Seminar - Diabetes No More: lessons from the DiRECT trial and beyond - Professor Mike Lean

User Professor Mike Lean, University of Glasgow.

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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User Joshua Pike.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

In Search of Wild Tulips

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User Brett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Via Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

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User Mike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

User Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CNHS Seasonal Social

User Social Gathering 🍾.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Insects in Flight

User John Brackenbury.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar - Realising the health potential through sustainable built environment designs

User Dr Ronita Bardhan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Operation Turtle Dove

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User Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

The Nature of Cambridge

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User Contributing Authors.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

User Mark Welch, Natural History Museum.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Moving beyond one-size-fits-all: Exploring patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour across the lifespan

User Dr Gregore Mielke, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Natural History from Above

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User Harriet Allen, President CNHS.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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User Georgie Bray, RSPB.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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User Monica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

User Stefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar - Using time use and trajectory data to unpack the interrelated geographies of food, care, and household labor

User Dr Michael Widener, University of Toronto.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition

User Dr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

Thursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Fenland Flora

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User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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User Martin Davies.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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User Rebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Lower Wood

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User Duncan Mackay.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Peatbogs

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User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

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User Arik Kershenbaum.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

The Fenland Flora

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User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Friday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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User Ann Miles.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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User Daniel Field.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Audience Choice

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challenges

User Dr Katie Harron, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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User Ellie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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User CNHS Members.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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User April Bagwill.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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User Gwenda Kyd, Author.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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User Dr Steve Boreham.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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User Dr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Trees for Streets

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User Simeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

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User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

User Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

User Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference

User Professor Judith Green, University of Exeter..

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery

User Dr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia..

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Blood Sculptures

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Health as an asset: estimating the causal effects of health conditions and health behaviours on social and economic outcomes using Mendelian randomization

This seminar will be broadcast live online, please register in advance for this meeting: https://mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcu6vqTwoHdNAY3h7JqDyxMYglX6JTQuT

User Dr Laura Howe, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol.

Tuesday 15 September 2020, 11:00-12:00

Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?

User Dr Claire Meek, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK..

Monday 22 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminar - The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project)

User Dr Elissavet Valanou, European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens..

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South Africa

User Dr Catherine Draper, MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young people

User Dr Wendy Wills, Professor of Food and Public Health, Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care..

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

TO BE ADJOURNED - AGM

AGM WILL BE ADJOURNED

User AGM.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-19:00

The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS).

User Dr Rachel Kelly, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA..

Thursday 23 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Seminar – Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life

User Dr Alessandra Prioreschi, Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

Thursday 16 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes

User Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

User Free Public Exhibition.

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods

User Dr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London..

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CANCELLED - A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!

CANCELLED

User Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

User Paul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport Planning

User Dr Andy Hong, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford..

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes

User Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

User Mal Faloon.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

User Sophia Upton.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

User Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

User S.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester..

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Lines in nature and the landscape

User Martin Davies.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Harrold-Odell Country Park

User Richard Dowsett.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

User James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

User Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

User Nicholas Stacey, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science & SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

User Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

User Members' Event.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Members' enthusiasms

User Rod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The short Arctic summer

User Robert Burton.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar - Community engagement to prevent and control of diabetes in Bangladesh - Dr Ed Fottrell

User Dr Ed Fottrell, Director, UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases..

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

NO TALK

User .

House (no venue).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

An astronomer in Antarctica

User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Politics, policy and the absence of evidence: decision making about speed restrictions in Edinburgh and Belfast.

User Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge..

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

User Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

Transforming Healthcare through Prevention - Ageing Well on a national scale: achieving the balance between fitness and frailty

Register for free for this talk at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforming-healthcare-through-prevention-ageing-well-on-national-scale-tickets-74871840691

User Professor Martin Vernon, MA, FRCP : NHS England National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care, Chair of the NHS England Hospital to Home Programme Board.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 18:00-19:15

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewhere

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Bob Jarman.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Nutritional Psychiatry: recent advances in evidence for diet and nutrition for mental and brain health

User Professor Felice N Jacka, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University, Australia..

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

(Re-)discovering Moths

User Annette Shelford.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Cambridge's Natural History - what do we know after three years of NatHistCam?

User Mark Hill.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Meet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

User Duncan Mackay.

Saturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Overview of Road Safety Globally

User Dr Kavi Bhalla, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences of the Biological Sciences Division & Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago..

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar – Responding to Revolution; Utilising new methods to explore the relationship between transport, health and urban design

User Dr Jason Thompson, University of Melbourne, Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub..

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

Saturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

User Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

Saturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Abigail Burns.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

User Dr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge..

Thursday 21 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Parasitic plants

User Helen Moore.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Hyde Park: a history through trees

User Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar room 2, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, CB2 0SP.

Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discovery

User Dr Diana Cousminer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

User Chris Heron.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Venom

User Leah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Real life investigations of Sustainability Conundrums: Drawing together Human Behaviour and Living Lab approaches

User Dr Amy Munro-Faure, Living Laboratory for Sustainability, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Visions

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

User Anastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

International comparative analysis of housing and Land Use Planning

User Dr Sónia Alves, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Discovering lichens

User Mark Powell.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Spatial differences in the returns to education: sorting, agglomeration and pressures of demand

User Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, London School of Economics and Political Science..

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Wildlife photography

User Joshua Harris, CU Nature Society.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Negative Value Property

User Professor Bruce Huber, Notre Dame Law School, USA..

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Social Networks for Health Behaviour Change

User Dr Ruth Hunter, Queen’s University Belfast..

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Getting to know British reptiles

User Terry Moore.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Assessing the factors influencing the land acquisition and site selection

User Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei..

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar room 11, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge, CB2 0SP United Kingdom.

CIPH Seminar – Improving access to primary care – evidence from a cluster feasibility trial using a realist perspective

User Dr John Ford, NIHR Doctoral Fellow in Public Health, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – The nexus between food literacy, food security and disadvantage

User Professor Danielle Gallegos, Queensland University of Technology..

Monday 05 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Winton Symposium on Machines

User See event homepage for list of speakers.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 09:45-17:30

The macroeconomic consequences of stranded fossil fuel assets

User Dr Jean-Francois Mercure, Radboud University, Netherlands..

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Sam Buckton.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Urbanization and Land Use Policy in China

User Professor Yuzhe Wu, Zhejiang University, China.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar – Can we promote physical activity at the population level? Findings from a community-based cluster randomised trial and a sport fandom-based app study

User Dr Masamitsu Kamada, University of Tokyo.

Friday 19 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Chris Preston.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

The Long Run Demand for Energy Services and Energy Transitions

User Dr Roger Fouquet, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

A trip to the Galapagos islands

User Paul Hoxey.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

GIS-ANN scenario building model of alternative futures. A contribution for a spatial decision support system

User Dr Paulo Morgado Sousa, University of Lisbon.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Old specimens, new tricks? The Cambridge University Herbarium: what a million dead plants can tell us about the world today

Opening Autumn Lecture

User Lauren Gardiner.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Walking on sunshine: What is the evidence for the effects of walking on mental health?

User Dr Paul Kelly, University of Edinburgh, UK..

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar by Chris Holmes, Shift Design

User Chris Holmes, Shift Design.

Tuesday 24 July 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Evidence for healthy and equitable population food policies

User Dr Kathryn Backholer, Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University, Australia..

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Coslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

GSI Seminar - Using stories in energy research: Snapshots of three approaches

User Dr Rosie Robison, Dr Chris Foulds, Dr Mel Rohse (Global Sustainability Institute).

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0SP.

Seminar – Using fiscal policies to improve the food supply and demand

User Associate Professor Shu Wen Ng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Debating Nature's Value Conference

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 09:30-19:00

House Helmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

User Matthew McFeeley and Hannah Brown, claimant lawyer at Richard Buxton Environment and Public Law Firm.

Tuesday 10 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

Saturday 07 April 2018, 10:00-17:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

Friday 06 April 2018, 13:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?

Preceded by the AGM, 18:00 to 18:30.

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 22 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Breckland, birds and conservation

User Robert Hawkes.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

CANCELLED: The Impact of New Technology on Transport Planning

User Paul Campion, Transport Systems Catapult..

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathers

User Associate Professor Kaberi Dasgupta, McGill University and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Animal Migration

User Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The importance of seed testing

User Pam Butler.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

CANCELLED: The Loxbridge Triangle: Integrating the East-West Arch into the London Mega-region

User Professor Michael Neuman, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, University of Westminster..

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Migration in Science

User Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

CANCELLED: The rise and fall of the Shopping Mall: dialogues on the relationship of commerce and city

User Fernando Garrefa, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil..

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

The Partition of India and Migration

User Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

“This object has been temporarily removed”

User Leah Fitzpatrick.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Prices of peers: identifying endogenous price effects between real assets

User Dr Nikodem Szumilo, The London School of Economics and Political Science..

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?

User Professor Paul Cairney, Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling..

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Disease Migration

User Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Smuts, bunts and ergots

User Sandra Chapman.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Planning for sustainable urbanisation in China: a community perspective

User Professor Cecilia Wong, Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester..

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Refugees and Migration

User Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Exhibiting Ice Age Cambridge

User Douglas Palmer.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Bank credit rating changes, capital structure adjustments and lending

User Professor Claudia Girardone, Essex Business School, University of Essex.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

User Duncan Catchpole, founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Art and Migration

User Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Can tax reforms reduce inequality?

User Ahmad Seyf, Department of Management and Human Resources at Regent’s University, London..

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Tackling obesity in England: a policy journey

User Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist Public Health England.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immigration and Freedom

User Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Fire, tractors and health in the Amazon: a cost-benefit analysis of fire policy

User Thiago Morello, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil..

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Pathways to healthy urban living

User Professor Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal, The Barcelona Institute for Global Health..

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Black and British Migration

User Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Seminar – Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling study

User Evi Seferidi, Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

The supermarket food environment and the promotion of healthier purchasing behaviour

User Dr Adrian Cameron, Senior Research Fellow at the Deakin University Global Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE)..

Thursday 04 January 2018, 12:00-13:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

User Louise Bacon.

Thursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

CSER Public Lectures

Meat, Monkeys, and Mosquitoes: A One Health Perspective on Emerging Diseases

User Dr Laura H. Kahn, Princeton University.

House Winstanley L.T., Trinity College.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:45

Institutional and Private Capital Flows into International Farmland

User Carl Atkin, Terravost Limited.

Cabinet of Natural History

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian

User Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 27 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Amphibian conservation and midwife toads in Cambridge

User Steven Allain.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

The Great Recession, unemployment and pensions: the case of Spanish regions

User Patricia Peinado, University of the Basque Country.

Cambridge American History Seminar

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Carl Nightingale: From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History

User Carl Nightingale, University of Buffalo.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 20 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism

User Alex Aylward (University of Leeds).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 20 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Origins of Mediterranean flora

User Harriet Allen.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Culture and Climate Change: experiments in collaboration and engagement

User Professor Joe Smith, Department of Geography, The Open University and Dr. Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Brexit does not mean Brexit

User Dr Yiannis Kitromilides, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Will the Antarctic Go Green Again? Lessons from its Fossil History

User Prof. Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 November 2017, 19:30-21:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital

User Robert Day.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Centre for Environment Energy and Natural resource Governance (C-EENRG) Seminar Series

Saving Africa’s Special Places

User Bruce Liggitt, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Room 2.49.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Winton Symposium on Energy Storage and Distribution

User See event homepage for list of speakers.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 09:45-17:30

Markets caught in the headlights

User Dr Dominik Rehse, Advisor to the Board at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Building your best day: combining compositional analysis and optimisation theory

User Professor Tim Olds, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Plants and their uses (medicinal & otherwise)

User Gwenda Kyd.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

User Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cross-Border Real Estate Investment

User McKay Price, Perella Department of Finance at Lehigh University.

Cambridge University Biological Society

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Of elephants and men

User Caitlin Black and Derek Murphy.

House Castlereagh room - St John's College.

Monday 30 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

A Digital Architecture for Adaptive Cities

User Dr Ian Lewis, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland

User Professor Don Broom, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Environment Energy and Natural resource Governance (C-EENRG) Seminar Series

Explaining climate policy outcomes in the United States and China

User Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher, TUFTS University.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Room 1.25.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Lost forests of Huntingdonshire

User Jason Peters.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

Centre for Environment Energy and Natural resource Governance (C-EENRG) Seminar Series

Conservation for the 21st Century: thinking about land use in the long run - population, food security and urbanisation

User Professor Timothy Swanson, The Graduate Institute, Geneva.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Room 2.49.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Transformative transparency and a deforestation free economy: how supply chain information can improve supply chain governance and sustainability

User Dr Toby Gardner, Stockholm Environment Institute.

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Lifestyle Dynamics Index: Worldwide Results and household economic implications

User Dr Raúl Sanchis, ICEI (Complutense University of Madrid).

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Global trade in food and agriculture and the risk of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries

User Dr Anne Marie Thow, Senior Lecturer in Health Policy at the University of Sydney..

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850

User Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Britain's Hidden Marine Life

User Dr. Frances Dipper.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View

User Professor Antonio Páez, School of Geography and Earth Sciences McMaster University.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Early Life Undernutrition Alters Cardiac Muscle Development Resulting in Reduced Physical Activity Engagement and Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

User David P. Ferguson PhD, RCEP , Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Michigan State University..

Wednesday 02 August 2017, 12:30-13:30

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst)

User Sophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Friday 23 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Evidence and policy in public health: reflections from Public Health England

User Dr Felix Greaves, Deputy Director, Science and Strategic Information, Public Health England..

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

Saturday 17 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

Friday 16 June 2017, 13:00-18:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

2017 PublicHealth@Cambridge Network Showcase

User Peter Jones; Emma Howarth ; Elizabeth Foyster ; Juliet Foster ; Tim Dalgleish ; Sriya Iyer Sriya Iyer ; Hannah Jongsma ; Maria Ttofi; Andres Roman-Urrestarazu 1;Carol Brayne ;Jane Fleming .

House Murray Edwards College (New Hall), Huntingdon Road CB3 0DF.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

House Hardy Building 101, Department of Geography.

The politics creating a mismatch between conservation project win-win logics and local realities in Peru

User Josie Chambers.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Defining “Good” in “Good Energy Policy”: Insights from Theologies and Religions

User Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics).

House Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 12:30-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upscaling Building Semantics to Address Urban Sustainability and Resilience Scenarios

User Professor Yacine Rezgui, Director BRE Institute in Sustainable Engineering, Cardiff University School of Engineering .

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 02 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

House Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, CB2 3AP.

Seminar – Risk scores, risk communication and public health

User Professor Simon Griffin.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Evaluation of US energy programme on clean energy startups

User Dr Laura Diaz Anadon (POLIS, University of Cambridge).

House Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

BHRU Annual Lecture 2017

Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) Annual Lecture - Tackling Childhood Obesity: Are we doing enough?

User Corinna Hawkes, Professor of Food Policy and Director, Centre for Food Policy, City University.

House Howard Lecture Theatre, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 18:00-19:00

House Hardy Building 101, Department of Geography.

Biodiversity Scenarios.org: Science and strategy in IPBES

User Jasper Montana.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

The role of law in energy transitions: lessons from community renewables

User Dr Annalisa Savaresi (Law School, University of Stirling).

House Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

EPRG E&E Seminars Series

The role of law in energy transitions: lessons from community renewables

User Annalisa Savaresi (Law School, University of Stirling) .

House Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Seminar Room SG1.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

User Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network

User Ross Mounce, Brockington group.

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (II) Plasmonics for sustainability: harvesting light energy for new solar applications

User Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB111), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

User Duncan Catchpole, Cambridge Organic Food Co.

Friday 28 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

The obesity epidemic: Discussing the global health crisis

Plant Based Diets, Obesity, and Health Beneftis

User Dr. Catherine Christie, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, United States.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 11:15-11:45

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Travels of a botanist in search of mosses: Unst to Albania, then Cambridge

User Mark Hill.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Sustainability and health – what are the issues

User Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia.

Monday 03 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Seminar – Effects of Macronutrient Distribution on Weight Change and Related Cardiometabolic Profiles in Healthy Non-Obese Chinese: A Randomized, Clinical Trial

User Professor Duo Li, Professor of Nutrition, Department of Food Science & Nutrition, Zhejiang University, China.

Friday 31 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Adventures in the Arctic

User Duncan Mackay.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

What are you worth? Valuing ourselves and our natural environment

User Prof Aled Jones, Global Sustainability Institute.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention

User Professor Amandine Garde, Law & Non-Communicable Diseases, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool..

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

First Footsteps: the Colonisation of Land

User Ken McNamara.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Fast Fashion: Slowing it down

User Kristen Nuttall, Appso-Supro.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Ecological and evolutionary responses of species to climate change

User Jane Hill, Department of Biology University of York.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Regional financialisation and convergence

User Dr Peter Phelps, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Reporting from Extreme Environments

User Lyse Doucet, BBC.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Protecting trees in South Cambridgeshire

User Ian Lorman.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century

User Jonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

The vicious circle of Hoarding, Low investment, and the Great Recession

User Dr Ahmad Seyf, Regent's University London.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Extreme Ageing

User Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

Friday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Chalk, clunch and life on the edge

User Chris Donnelly and Reg Nicholls.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade

User Amy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

CANCELLED Fiscal consolidation, growth and unemployment in OECD Countries

User Dr. Ayşe Kaya, Izmir Katip Çelebi University.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Extreme Politics

User Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems

User David Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

A EXPERIMENT TESTING FOR MORAL LICENSING IN SUPERMARKET SHOPPING

User Dr Luca Panzone, Newcastle University.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

A life-course investigation of influences on physical inactivity stability and change: findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort

User Dr Snehal Pinto Pereira, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health..

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Extremes of the Universe

User Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The cacti of Peru

User Paul Hoxey.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation

User Debbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT).

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Necessity is the Mother of Invention: the Emergence of the Reluctant Entrepreneur in Rural Ethiopia

User Professor Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Extreme Rowing

User Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

A review of 2016: wildlife and more - a personal perspective

User Brian Eversham.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Lessons from plants that don’t stay put: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias

User Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Monetary Sovereignty, Currency Hierarchy and Economic Policy Autonomy

User Professor Daniela Magalhães Prates, University of Campinas.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Dealing with Extremism

User Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The environmental impacts of oil palm: good crop/bad crop?

User Ed Turner.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

When does environmental science get used in policy and practice?

User David Rose, Department of Geography University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

The housing market? What does the future hold?

User David Cowans, Places for People.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

User Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Organisations + Change: Lessons for Sustainability?

User A panel of speakers from different disciplinary perspectives.

Friday 27 January 2017, 14:00-15:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities

User Professor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

New York City's affordable housing plan under Mayor De Blasio and the limits of local initiative in making housing affordable

User Professor Alex Schwartz, the New School.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Failing States, Collapsing Systems

User Nafeez Ahmed, Author, Security Scholar and Journalist.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Book Launch & Talk: Failing States, Collapsing Systems

User Nafeez Ahmed, Visiting Fellow of the Global Sustainability Insititute.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

Extreme Weather

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish

User Dr Marcel den Hoed, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University..

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 12:30-13:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

“Swamped! The trials and tribulations of tropical peatland science”

User Professor Susan Page, Department of Geography, University of Leicester.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 16:15-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Responsible Futures: A twenty-first century university

User Sammi Whitaker, Anglia Ruskin University.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them?

User Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them?

User Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

The Spanish Pension System and Great Recession

User Professor Patricia Peinado.

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

The role of materials science in sustainable development

User Dr Rob Wallach (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

House Winstanley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 18:15-19:15

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Trees, hedges and woodland management

User Simon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Unravelling the ecology of insect invasions : from individuals to communities in Britain and beyond

User Helen Roy, NERC, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology .

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

The uneven impact of welfare reform on Britain's older industrial regions

User Professor Christina Beatty, Sheffield Hallam University.

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

'Big Cats and the City: building evidence against out-of-place beasts in India'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

User Nayanika Mathur, British Academy postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral research fellow on the project 'Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and Internet Research'.

House Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Coslett Building (COS 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

The great devolution debate

Please let us know if you plan to attend this event at gsi-info@anglia.ac.uk

User Panel of experts from academia and local government.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

“Prototyping architecture – integrated design practices”

User Michael Pelken - Laing O’Rourke .

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 18 November 2016, 15:00-16:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

A bird's-eye view of the natural world: monitoring forests from aircraft

User David Coomes, reader in Forest Ecology and Conservation.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Greedy genes: the role of appetite in genetic susceptibility to obesity

User Dr Clare Llewellyn, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines

User Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines

User Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

"Within-Bank Transmission of Real Estate Shocks" (with Vicente Cunat and Kathy Yuan)

User Dragana Cvijanovic.

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Evolutionary ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes

User Stephanie Carlson (Berkeley).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing

User Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide.

House Nightingale Room, Peterhouse.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for Steel

Meetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm

User Dr. Andre Cabrera Serrenho, The Use Less Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room.

Friday 11 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB214), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

All paths lead to rain: The social construction of a water crisis in India

User Dr Zareen Bharucha, Anglia Ruskin University.

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Surveying marine biodiversity in the Staffa archipelago

User Nick Owens.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history

User Professor Pat Hudson and Dr Keith Tribe.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Information gaps in conservation science: from data collection to analysis and practices

User Tatsuya Amano, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

The EU after ‘Brexit’: in defence of an ‘ever closer union’

User Dr Yiannis Kitromilides.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Is it too early to stand up? Has the epidemiological evidence for sitting and health changed?

User Dr Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Science Makers: drones for science

User Tom Swinfield - Conservation Scientist at RSPB, Nigel Butcher - Technical Development Officer at RSPB, David Coomes - Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge .

House Makespace Classroom, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX .

Saturday 05 November 2016, 12:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

NatHistCam

User Mark Hill.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Solar Energies

User See event homepage for list of speakers.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 09:30-17:30

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Causes and mechanisms underlying changes in the migratory behaviour of birds

User Aldina Franco, School of Environmental Sciences, University East Anglia.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

What chances for sustainable UK agri-policies after Brexit?

User Professor Janet Dwyer, University of Gloucestershire.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Youth Fitness Assessment and Promotion: Insights from the Evaluation and Dissemination of FITNESSGRAM Programming.

User Dr Greg Welk, Barbara E Forker Professor of Kinesiology at Iowa State University..

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The pursuit of elusive 'win-win' results for forests and people in Peru

User Josephine Chambers, Darwin College.

House The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Pembroke College Talks

Can the UK cook its way to better health?

This talks is open to everyone. To register for a place at the lecture, please visit: https://cookscompany2016.eventbrite.co.uk

User Professor Martin White (MRC Epidemiology Unit, CEDAR).

House Old Library, Pembroke College.

Friday 28 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment

User Dr Keri Wong and Dr Laurie Palmer (Dept. of Psychology).

House Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Surviving the 21st Century

User Martin Rees, Partha Dasgupta, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

"That's OK, this Campaign was never based on science anyway" - twenty years of success and failure of agricultural biotechnology

User Dr Julian Little.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

IPBES between Theory and Practice: How weighted concepts travel

User Alice Vadrot.

House Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

2016 Cambridge-Africa Day

Drinks reception with live music, from 17:00-18:45

User A range of interesting and high profile presentations about collaborations between Cambridge and African researchers and students.

House Emmanuel College, Queen's Building Auditorium.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 09:30-17:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Moving towards a Circular Economy

User Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

House St Paul's Church, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1JP.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Sciencing the Sh*t out of Ape Conservation

User Dr Peter Walsh.

House Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 19:00-20:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden: past, present and future

User Beverley Glover, Director of the Botanic Garden.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Awkward biopolitics: osprey conservation, pesticides and biosecurity on Speyside, 1963-1968

User Ben Garlick, University of Edinburgh.

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Developing more systematic approaches for measuring, connecting and expanding the global conservation area network

User Bob Smith, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar Consumption

User Dr Ben Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick..

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Once you get a taste for it...

User Leah Fitzpatrick.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Estimating conservation status of Grauer’s gorillas

User Andrew Plumptre, Albertine Rift Program, Wildlife Conservation Society.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

LAND LAW, MAPS AND MUDDY BOOTS IN A SPECIAL CORNER OF THE COURTS AND TRIBUNALS SYSTEM

User Judge Elizabeth Cooke, Principal Judge Land Registration Division.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Slugs and snails

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

SO WHAT is the Global Sustainability Institute?

User Meet the team!.

Tuesday 20 September 2016, 16:00-17:30

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Science publishing – behind the scenes at Nature

User Dr Francesca Cesari, Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature.

Monday 19 September 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

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Saturday 11 June 2016, 10:00-17:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge's oldest celebration of citizen science!

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Friday 10 June 2016, 13:00-18:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

The contribution of physical activity to increased life expectancy

User Professor Terence Dwyer, George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford..

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Spending time in a low carbon society: Less stuff, more fun?

User Angela Druckman, University of Surrey.

Friday 22 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Change in the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire over 65 years of intensive recording

Please note earlier time, 6.30 for 7pm

User Mark Hill.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 19:00-21:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Opportunity Peterborough’s Role in the Development of a Sustainable City

User Trevor Gibson, Opportunity Peterborough.

Friday 15 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Pearl mussels: ecology, threats and prospects

User Mike Norbury.

Thursday 14 April 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Evolution and extinction in Western Australian trilobites

User Ken McNamara.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Cambridgeshire butterflies

User Louise Bacon.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Marconi Building (MAR 102), Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford.

Bringing together energy and water: a useful Nexus or just another network?

User Michael Green and Chris Foulds, Global Sustainability Institute.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

Tackling obesity with Big Data – Seminar 16/03/16 – methods & models

User Dr Michelle Morris, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (Organizer).

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Camouflage in Aegean lizards

User Kate Marshall.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Impact Evaluation of Protected Areas: what do we know about impacts, moderators and mechanisms?

User Humanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies, John Hopkins University.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Nigeria: energy past to climate future

User John Ward, Vivid Economics & Norbert Edomah, Global Sustainability Institute.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

The Game Theory of Conflict

User Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User ..

Thursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Hook, line and extinction: can science save albatrosses from fisheries?

User Richard Philips, British Antarctic Survey.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Games Animals Play

User Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Why are slow lorises venomous and will this help or hinder their conservation?

User Anna Nekaris, Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Change agency: working with difference and conflict

User Laurie Michaelis.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Games for the Brain

User Professor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

User Tony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Hot dogs: understanding climate change impacts in a tropical mammal

User Rosie Woodroffe, Institute of Zoology, London.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Sustainability in performing arts: “So shines a good deed in a naughty world”

User James Phillips, Global Sustainability Institute.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

"Losing the New Great Game"

User Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Managing Cherry Hinton Brook: balancing wildlife, recreation and public access

User Sue Wells and Monica Frisch.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Cities and the Anthropocene

User Professor Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:15-18:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Bats and Emerging Infectious Diseases: conflicting priorities between conservation and public health?

User James Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Games in Sports

User Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

Friday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Estimating the global burden of disease attributable to excess sodium within the GBD2010 study

User Dr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge..

Thursday 04 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss

User David Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Reclaiming Sustainability - a talk based on the book ‘Sustainability: a cultural history’, by Ulrich Grober

User Ray Cunningham.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wittgenstein's Games

User Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Science Policy and Expertise

User Rob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

The Game of Crime and Punishment

User Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Biodiversity conservation and the Green Economy: complementary or competing objectives? Can we have both, and what do we need to know?

User Kathy Willis Department of Zoology, Oxford University & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham & Dr Ruth Hunter

Read more at http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-18-january-2016-dr-jennifer-badham-dr-ruth-hunter/

User Dr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter.

Monday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Personal Principles and the Political Game

User Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

International Space Station: Off the Earth, For the Earth

Tea is served from 6pm

User Ravi Margasahayam, NASA.

House Lecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 December 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Optometry Building 102, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Après Paris: Exploring the shadow of COP21

User David Wasdell, Director of the Apollo-Gaia Project.

Monday 14 December 2015, 13:00-15:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

Urban Climate Risks Under Global Warming

User Prof. Johnny Chan, Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong.

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Derek Yach

User Dr Derek Yach, the Vitality Institute..

Thursday 10 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'

This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.

User Prof Robert Putnam (Harvard University) .

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

House MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Professor Larry Frank

User Professor Larry Frank, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia.

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

A Natural History of Cambridge

User Mark Hill.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

User Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

How on Earth? Welcome to a Post-Growth, Not-For-Profit World

User Jennifer Hinton.

House Little Hall Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

User Sebastian Breitenbacher (Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-18:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conservation impacts of a warming climate: changes in Massachusetts since the time of Thoreau (1817-1862)

User Richard Primack, Biology Department, Boston University.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Back to the future? Climate clues from a past warm time interval

Please contact the organiser beforehand to arrange access with BAS reception

User Emilie Capron.

House British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

The Pope and the planet: religion in climate change

User Ian Christie (Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey).

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

User Professor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Glacier Retreat and the Oceans: A view from Patagonia

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

User Dr. Carlos Moffat.

House British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Monday 30 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Audrey de Nazelle

User DrAudreyde Nazelle, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.

Friday 27 November 2015, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Corporate innovation and leadership - reflections from M&S Plan A

Registration is required (see below)

User Mike Barry, Director Plan A, M&S and Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business & Enterprise, Judge Business School.

House Lecture Room 3, Judge Business School.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 18:15-19:30

Sustainability Leadership Laboratories

Innovation for Resilience and/or Social Development

There is a fee payable.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 08:45-21:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature

User Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Role Models: research models to answer policy questions

User Mr. Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, uk) James Woodcock, Centre for Diet and Activity Research.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

The pleasures of fungal forays

User Bill Amos.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Taking a global view: How satellites provide a unique perspective on our changing planet

User Dr David Wilkinson and Dr Alan Belward from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy.

House 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Theatres.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 18:30-19:30

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series

CANCELLED: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series: Sir Anthony Atkinson

User Sir Anthony Atkinson, London School of Economics.

House The Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 18:00-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that don’t stay put

User Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Urban Air Quality: An Increasing Challenge for Public Health

User Professor Frank Kelly, King's College London.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

IfM Seminars

Open Innovation Forum Food & FMCG Pitching Event

User Pitching event .

House Food Matters Live, London.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Understanding the Paris Climate Summit (COP21)

Open to all, but space is limited so please register in advance

User Emily Shuckburgh, Prof. John Pyle, Sir David King, Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Agricultural trials and wildlife

User Bob Jarman.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Unusual questions/ extraordinary answers

User Hands-on exhibition bringing new perspectives to sustainability.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Co-production: an inclusive approach to climate action

User Dr Candice Howarth (Global Sustainability Instititute).

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?

User Sandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Janis Baird & Dr Christina Vogel

User Dr Janis Baird and Dr Christina Vogel, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology, University of Southampton.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Where do ideas about conservation come from? The story of how a beach conversation became REDD+

User Albert Arhin (University of Cambridge).

House Seminar Room.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

User Professor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage

User Robin Pellew.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: disease threats to Tasmanian Devils, frogs, koalas and woylies

User Hamish McCallum, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London .

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method

User Professor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Fitzwilliam College Talks

Discussion: ‘In the Nature of the Non-City: Expanded Infrastructural Networks and the Political Ecology of Planetary Urbanisation’ by Martín Arboleda

User Prof. Bill Adams.

House Seminar Room.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew and the Future of Singapore

User Various speakers.

House Fitzwilliam College Auditorium.

Saturday 31 October 2015, 14:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Clim'art' therapy: where do climate change, the arts and psychotherapy meet?

User Panel Discussion with artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Marina Velez and Zoe Svendsen led by Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

Thursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity

User Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

House MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Prof Atul Singhal

User Professor Atul Singhal, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH).

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere

User Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences.

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Environmental melancholia

User Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

Monday 26 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Room 302, Helmore Building (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Limits to growth - a new generation

User Irma Allen and Roberto Pasqualino (Global Sustainability Institute).

Friday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Non-Native Species: The good, the bad and the ugly

User Helen Roy.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions

User Anthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and University of Dundee.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Dafna Merom

User Dr Dafna Merom.

Monday 19 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions

User Steve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

The history and management of Hayley Wood

User Richard Dowsett.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Winton Symposium on Green Computing

User See event homepage for list of speakers.

Monday 28 September 2015, 09:30-17:30

Zoology Postdoc Summer Seminar Series

Conservation Science

User Lynn Dicks.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 July 2015, 14:30-15:00

House IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

“Standing up” for young children’s health: How sedentary are young children, what factors may influence sedentariness and what can be done to reduce it?

User Prof Tony Okely, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (IERI), University of Wollongong, Australia.

Monday 29 June 2015, 10:30-11:30

British Antarctic Survey

Modelling the bioenergetics and foraging behaviours of albatrosses

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

User Philipp Boersch-Supan and Leah Johnson, University of South Florida.

House British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00