Focus on York

Professor Dave Smith giving a lecture at Bettys

Every term members of staff from the University of York showcase their research at events through our five public engagement channels.

Lucy Sackville - The business of faith: Inquisition and crime in the Middle Ages
Anna Strhan - Public faith and the everyday ethics of urban life
Laurence Wilson and Pegine Walrad - The microscopic world in 3D
Paul Wakeling and Vanita Sundaram - Education and social justice: Investigating gender-based violence and social mobility

Dimitar Kazakov - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Back to the future
Jim Austin - Building a better computer
Peter Bull - The art of the medieval minstrel
Sam Wetherell - Only Disconnect: Central heating and the strange afterlife of social democracy
Tom Baldwin - Humanising animals for medical research - the ethical debates
Stephen Holland - Ethics in public health research and practice
Tony Ward - Measuring ability in generic skills - should we and can we?
Andy Hunt - Creative engineering
Avtar Matharu - From brown to green chemistry: Sustainability, waste and the circular economy
Paul Johnson - One nation? Sexual orientation discrimination and the geography of the UK
Silvia Falcetta - Religious marriage of same-sex couples in England and Wales
Victoria Robinson - The secret life of a feminist academic: Heterosexuality, masculinity, shoes and the everyday
George Younge - Danelaw stories: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Conquest

Tom Stoneham - Dreams without dreaming: A new therapeutic model
Dorothea Debus - Emotions, self-regulation and mental wellbeing
Judith Buchanan - Silent Shakespeare
James Walvin - Sugar: The world corrupted from slavery to obesity
Cristina Figueredo - Mystery Plays: The wagons return to York
Emily Bell - A brief history of celebrity: Or, what does 'Dickensian' mean?
Peter Morrall - Madness: Ideas about insanity
Vicki Blud - Insults, invective and the unspeakable: Transgressive speech in the Middle Ages
Hannah Greig - As seen on screen: From The Duchess to Poldark, the role of the historical advisor
Kathryn Arnold - Sex, stress and food: Impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on wildlife
Jonathan Bradshaw - Want
Chris Renwick and Alan Maynard - Ignorance and Disease
Roy Sainsbury and Nicholas Pleace - Idleness and Squalor
Liz Prettejohn - Modern painters, old masters: The art of imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War

Gareth Millington - On Henri Lefebvre's "revolutionary citizenship": Urban protest and the challenges of the post-political
Daryl Stump and Rob Marchant - What on earth does the past of Eastern Africa tell us about future sustainability?
Paul Johnson - Going to Strasbourg: Oral history accounts of sexual orientation discrimination and the European Court of Human Rights
Rafe McGregor - What is fiction (good) for?
Roberta Marin - Cairo the city victorious
Gareth Gaskell - Language learning in your sleep

Kieron Gibson - Fusion Energy – promises, progress and prospects
Rafe McGregor - Moral illusions: What are they and why should we care?
Richard Wilkinson - Penthouse and Pavement: Inequality in the 21st Century
Alice Bennett - Howling at the moon: Werewolves in western culture
Gregory Currie - Painting and photographs
Peter Lamarque - The beauty of ruins
David Efird - Experiencing art
Andrew Ward - Are there standards in art criticism?
Chris Thomas - Surviving the Anthropocene: A story of biological gains as well as losses
Nisha Kapoor - Unmaking citizens: Racial exclusions and the privilege of a passport
Callum Roberts - Protecting ocean life in an era of rapid global change
Karen Parkhill - The importance of talking to you about complex environmental issues
Matthew Townend - Blizzards of steel: Viking poetry and the battles of Fulford and Stamford Bridge
Sarah Brown - Milner-White and all that: The restoration of York Minster's windows
Tim Spiller - Physics Review: 25th Anniversary Celebration
David Jenkins - Nuclear physics out of the lab
Richard Keesing - Newton and Universal Gravitation: The story of the apple