Lecture Programme for Schools and Colleges
It may also be possible to arrange for specialist speakers tov visit your school or college. If you would like to discuss your requirements or book a specialist speaker please contact us.
School of Engineering, Design and Technology
Student Ambassadors and the EDT Kit Car
The School of Engineering, Design and Technology has an excellent team of enthusiastic staff and student ambassadors who can deliver hands-on design and build projects at the University and in local schools and colleges. In addition the School of Engineering, Design and Technology yellow sports car, built by Mechanical and Automotive Engineering students, is available to visit schools and colleges.
Sample titles from the School of Engineering, Design and Technology Lecture Programme
- Mobile Communications - What is 3G?
- Civil Engineers for Beginners
- Vehicle Safety
- Cleaning up in Industrial Design
- Great Inventions and the Geography of the Fifth Kondratieff - The World of Innovation and Enterprise
- Where will you be in 5 years time? - Career Choices and Planning
- Iteration - Chaos in Order, or Order in Chaos?
- Vehicle Safety Seminar (This half-day seminar is aimed at Y12 students studying Physics.)
School of Life Sciences
Sample titles from the Biomedical Sciences Lecture Programme
- Understanding and killing the cancer cell
- Understanding our genetic blueprint
- DNA cloning
- Hospitals: a common source of death and disease
- Hair today gone tomorrow
- Killer kebabs, dodgy doners, and criminal cream cakes: delicious but deadly
- What can we do with sperm? What can we not do with sperm?
- Bald Man-eating lions
- Genes that cause disease
- Antibodies: Smallpox to multiple sclerosis
- Life in the Sun: Skin Cancer
Sample titles from the Pharmacy Lecture Programme
- Creepy crawly cells
- Scientists can become millionaires too!
- The secret life of the brain
