Programme
| Date | Time | Location | Detail | Audience | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March | 9.30 am to 12.30 pm | Great Hall | Hands-on activities (see examples on our about page), State of the art research posters, knit-a-neurone, charity exhibits, healthy living exhibits | All ages (school groups) | |
| 12.30 pm to 3.30 pm | Great Hall | Hands-on activities (see examples on our about page), State of the art research posters, knit-a-neurone, charity exhibits, healthy living exhibits | All ages (school groups) | Book the afternoon session | |
| 19 March | 9.30 am to 6 pm | Great Hall | Hands-on activities (see examples on our about page), State of the art research posters, knit-a-neurone, charity exhibits, healthy living exhibits | All (school and public) |
No Booking is Required for Entry. However tickets for the research talks must be booked in advance. See below. |
| Date | Time | Location | Theme | Detail | Audience | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March | 9.30 am to 10.30 am | Reception Rooms | Neuroscience and society |
Professor Neil Scolding: How Stem Cell Research Might Advance the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Professor Paul Howard-Jones: Neuroscience and Education: Brains, Games and Learning
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Secondary school |
By school invite only.
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| 10.30 am to 11.30 pm | Drugs and addiction |
Professor Graeme Henderson: Legal Highs Doctor Meryem Grabski: How tobacco withdrawal influences cognition |
Secondary school | By school invite only. | ||
| 11.30 am to 12.30 pm | The social brain |
Doctor Angela Rowe: Why break-ups make you reach for the ice cream Doctor Nina Kazanina: The listening brain |
Secondary school | By school invite only. | ||
| 1 pm to 2 pm | Memory and dementia |
Professor Liz Coulthard: Making and maintaining memories Doctor Briony Wood (CRIC): Alzheimer's disease, unravelling the mystery |
Secondary schools / Members of the public | Book now | ||
| 2 pm to 3 pm | Movement and Movement Disorders |
Doctor Nadia Cerminara: The Cerebellum: the Cindarella of the brain Doctor Alan Whone: Mending brains with Parkinson's disease |
Secondary schools / Members of the public | Book now | ||
| 19 March | 9.30 am to 10.30 am | Reception Rooms | Alzheimer's disease |
Professor Seth Love: Brain banking and dementia research Professor Kei Cho: A smart challenge of dementia - New conceptual understanding of Alzheimer's disease |
Secondary school / Public | Book now |
| 10.30 am to 11.30 am | Perceiving and recognising others |
Professor Clea Warburton: I know that face! How the brain recognises familiar stimuli Doctor Nick Scott Samuel: Camouflage |
Book now | |||
| 11.30am to 12.30 pm | Mental health |
Doctor Evie Stergiakouli: Genes, environment and mental health in childhood Doctor Emma Robinson: Using animals to understand mental health |
Book now | |||
| 1 pm to 2 pm | Animal Cognition & Stress and Disease |
Dr Suzanne Held: Studying Animal Cognition Professor Stafford Lightman: The importance of rhythm for stress and the brain |
Book now | |||
| 2 pm to 3 pm | Neuro-technology |
Doctor Ulrich Bartsch: Laser-guided dreams Doctor Kathreena Kurian: What's new in brain tumour research |
Book now |
| Date | Time | Location | Detail | Audience | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March | 9.30 am to 6 pm | Old council chamber | Brain art and Sci-art exhbition of UoB images to music on main screen Display of competition entries from local schools | All (school and public) | No |
| 19 March | 9.30 am to 6 pm |
| Date | Time | Location | Theme | Audience | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March | 10 am | Room 1.5 |
At-Bristol show |
This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Yes |
| 11 am | Room 1.5 |
This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Yes | ||
| 1 pm | Room 1.5 |
This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Yes | ||
| 2 pm | Room 1.5 |
This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Yes | ||
| 19 March | 10 am | Room 1.5 | At-Bristol show | This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Book now |
| 11 am | Room 1.5 | This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Book now | ||
| 1 pm | Room 1.5 | This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Book now | ||
| 2 pm | Room 1.5 | This event is for primary school children, aged 7-12 years only. | Book now |
| Date | Time | Location | Detail | Audience | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March | 6 pm to 8 pm | Victoria Rooms |
Professor Bruce Hood "The domesticated brain: how the changing social environment turned us into children" This is a public talk delivered by Professor Bruce Hood, Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society in the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK) and the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He has written three books for the general public, “SuperSense” (HarperOne, 2009) about the natural origins of supernatural beliefs which has been published in 12 countries, “The Self Illusion” (Constable & Robinson 2012) about the fallacy that we are coherent, integrated individuals but rather a constructed narrative largely influenced by those around us and “The Domesticated Brain”(Pelican, 2014) an evolutionary account for the rise in pro-sociality and lengthening of human childhood. Professor Hood has appeared in a number of TV science documentaries and in 2011 I delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures which were broadcast on the BBC to over 4 million viewers. You can see the lectures as well as behind-the-scenes at the Ri Channel. He is also the founder of the world’s largest expert speaker database Speakezee.org which I launched in 2015 and continues to grow at a rapid pace. |
Secondary school / public | Book now |