Inaugural Lectures 2025-26 | Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences

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Inaugural Lecture Series 2025-26

Our Inaugural Lecture Series in 2025-26 showcased newly promoted Professors from the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences.听See more details about our Inaugural Lecture Series here .

The lectures below celebrate their careers, highlighting their research achievements, real-world impact, and future directions.

2025-26 Lecture Series

Bridging Worlds: Multidisciplinary Pathways to User-Led Design in Assistive Technology

Professor Maggie Donovan-Hall (School of Health Sciences)

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Eye Movements during Reading as a Window on Language Processing

Professor Denis Drieghe (School of Psychology)

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Down to the deep 鈥� the ocean鈥檚 role in the carbon cycle

Professor Stephanie Henson (School of Ocean and Earth Sciences)

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The Life of a Particle: Sediment Journeys Across Scales and Societies

Professor Julian Leyland (School of Geography and Environmental Science)

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Beyond the blue planet: exploring life in the deep ocean

Professor Jon Copley (School of Ocean and Earth Sciences)

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Rethinking research strategy and partnerships to tackle challenges in Long-Term Conditions

Professor Mari Carmen Portillo (School of Health Sciences)

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Navigating the Geographies of Care: Disability, Support and the Making of Place

Professor Andrew Power (School of Geography and Environmental Science)

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Bean There, Done That: From School Classrooms to Global Food Security

Professor Mark Chapman (School of Biological Sciences)

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Learning the Rules of Life: Using Data to Map, Model and Shape the Cells That Build Us

Professor Owen Rackham (School of Biological Sciences)

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Inaugural Lecture Series 2025-26

2025-26 Lecture Series

Bridging Worlds: Multidisciplinary Pathways to User-Led Design in Assistive Technology

Eye Movements during Reading as a Window on Language Processing

Down to the deep 鈥� the ocean鈥檚 role in the carbon cycle

The Life of a Particle: Sediment Journeys Across Scales and Societies

Beyond the blue planet: exploring life in the deep ocean

Rethinking research strategy and partnerships to tackle challenges in Long-Term Conditions

Navigating the Geographies of Care: Disability, Support and the Making of Place

Bean There, Done That: From School Classrooms to Global Food Security

Learning the Rules of Life: Using Data to Map, Model and Shape the Cells That Build Us