- Is 42 the Answer? - a talk by Dr John Crocker
Date: 21 May 2013
Venue: 2Q49 Frenchay Campus
Come along to a talk by Dr John Crocker, on behalf of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and the Western Operational Research Discussion Society (WORDS).
- INCOSE: Government Owned Company Operated - What it means for defence procurement
Date: 22 May 2013
Venue: 1N05, Frenchay Campus
INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) are hosting a seminar to discuss the 'Government Owned Company Operated' initiative; specifically, its potential implications for Defence Procurement and those involved in the relevant processes.
- The Newman Minute: the world's first computer specification from 1943
Date: 29 May 2013
Venue: St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
In March 1943, Max Newman of Bletchley Park outlined in a Minute for his Director the device which could be built to attack the German Lorenz cipher. It would require hundreds of valves, rather than being mechanical like the Bombe devices which attacked the Enigma ciphers. This device was built as COLOSSUS, the world's first programmable electronic computer. Thus, this Minute was the world's first computer specification. This talk describes the strategic and intelligence background to the requirement, and the outcome.
- Creative Leadership Project workshop - Leadership and Language
Date: 04 June 2013
Venue: Executive Development Centre, Frenchay Campus
This is a series of three interactive workshops linking research and practice to create new ways of leading in public service organisations. The workshops will draw on three distinct areas of expertise in relation to creative leadership: Language, Innovation and Space. Each Workshop will include a short presentation that will highlight key findings from an existing research project on either language, innovation or space. This will be followed by facilitated round table discussions and the opportunity to network with and learn from the experience of others.
- FBL Inaugural lecture series: Professor Don Webber, Applied Economics in the real world
Date: 06 June 2013
Venue: S Block Street Cafe, Frenchay Campus
In this lecture, Professor Webber offers an alternative perspective on the scope of economics research and underscores the need for economists to produce more realistic and useful research. He will present his own views of academic economists' research boundaries and the difficulty of changing academic mind-sets (especially with respect to methodology). The lecture will offer a pragmatic perspective of economic analysis and explain why he finds economics a compelling subject for research. Professor Webber will highlight some findings from his own applied research that are potentially useful to the real world.
- Health, Ethics and Society Research Seminar
Date: 12 June 2013
Venue: Room 1B23, Glenside Campus
Dr Rona Early, Senior Midwifery Lecturer in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery will give a presenatation entitled: 'Constructing masculinities within the context of pregnancy: A discussion of fathers in pregnancy and their status as maternity service users'.
- Arts, Creative Industries and Education Public Lecture Series - Tom Archer
Date: 13 June 2013
Venue: The Watershed, Waterside 2/3
Tom Archer, former controller of Factual Production for the BBC and visiting professor at the University of the West of England, will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled; 'Is television commissioning killing creativity?' as part of the Arts, Creative Industries and Education Public Lecture Series.
- Creative Leadership Project workshop - Leadership and Innovation
Date: 18 June 2013
Venue: Exhibition and Conference Centre, Frenchay Campus
This is a series of three interactive workshops linking research and practice to create new ways of leading in public service organisations. The workshops will draw on three distinct areas of expertise in relation to creative leadership: Language Innovation Space Each workshop will include a short presentation that will highlight key findings from an existing research project on either language, innovation or space. This will be followed by facilitated round table discussions and the opportunity to network with and learn from the experience of others.
- A pilgrimage, a bye election and women's political education: Bristol suffragists on the eve of war
Date: 20 June 2013
Venue: M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol BS1 4RN
As part of the UWE Regional History Centre and M Shed Seminar Programme 2012-13, June Hannam, Professor Emeritus at UWE, Bristol presents a talk entitled: "A pilgrimage, a bye election and women's political education: Bristol suffragists on the eve of war (or 1912-14)".
- Creative Leadership Project workshop - Leadership and Space
Date: 02 July 2013
Venue: Executive Development Centre, Frenchay Campus
This is a series of three interactive workshops linking research and practice to create new ways of leading in public service organisations. The workshops will draw on three distinct areas of expertise in relation to creative leadership: Language Innovation Space Each workshop will include a short presentation that will highlight key findings from an existing research project on either language, innovation or space. This will be followed by facilitated round table discussions and the opportunity to network with and learn from the experience of others.
- Annual UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference
Date: 11 September - 13 September 2013
Venue: UWE, Bristol
Annual international conference showcasing research from Planning and related disciplines.
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