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01–14 August 2022

The RSE summer events programme, Curious, is back

Upcoming Events

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1 Aug
14 Aug 2022
Outdoor activityFree

Curious Edinburgh – self guided walking tours

Mon 1 August 2022 Showcasing Edinburgh’s fascinating and important scientific heritage as well as main social and cultural developments which shape the city of Edinburgh
1 Aug
14 Aug 2022
Outdoor activityFree

Coastal knowledge map competition

Mon 1 August 2022 The RSE Young Academy of Scotland is inviting you to make a pin on our map of Scottish coast, telling us about your coastal experiences, through pictures, stories or artworks.
Mon 1 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

Road to net zero – Heating our homes through local heat networks

11:00am
Mon 1 August 2022 Professor Janette Webb This talk will consider what can be done now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from homes and to ensure we have more resilient housing.
Mon 1 Aug 2022
Outdoor activityFree

Maps of Edinburgh landscapes through time

1:00pm
Mon 1 August 2022 Dr Roger Scrutton FRSE Edinburgh has many different landscapes that have accrued through time: We will imagine and discuss these landscapes from Calton Hill
Mon 1 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

Towards a realistic utopia for dying in Scotland

3:00pm
Mon 1 August 2022 Professor Liz Grant FRSE; Professor Scott Murray FRSE We will chat about a radically different but realistic vision for Scotland, where death is an essential bookend to life.
Tue 2 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

What exactly is sustainable produce?

11:00am
Tue 2 August 2022 Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne FRSE; Professor Derek Stewart; James Withers; Tomas Gormley What sustainable produce is and the benefits of using it.
Tue 2 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

Caring for young minds

1:00pm
Tue 2 August 2022 Professor Stella Chan FRSE A discussion on young people’s mental health and how to apply research knowledge to understand and support young people.
Wed 3 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

The linguistic landscape of Scots in the 21st century

1:00pm
Wed 3 August 2022 Professor Jennifer Smith FRSE; Professor Jeremy Smith FRSE In the changing socio-political landscape of Scotland, debates on the Scots language have come to the fore. But what exactly is Scots?
Wed 3 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Anatomy of a Notebook: Charles Lyell’s words on vanished worlds

3:00pm
Wed 3 August 2022 Professor Kathryn Rudy FRSE; Professor Charles W J Withers FRSE; Pamela McIntyre; Claire Hutchison. A discussion of Lyell’s notebooks in context; including the work required to preserve them for the future.
Wed 3 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Return to Brownsbank

6:30pm
Wed 3 August 2022 Professor Robert Crawford FRSE; James Robertson FRSE; Carolyn Scott; Andy Sim; Steven Gellatly. 25 years after he spent two years there, author James Robertson returns to Brownsbank Cottage, the final home of Hugh MacDiarmid.
Thu 4 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

The poetry of science

11:00am
Thu 4 August 2022 Professor John Gillies FRSE; Dr Sam Illingworth Science poems can communicate important scientific research that is being done daily all across the world.
Thu 4 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Space junk, biomaterials, and green computers

2:00pm
Thu 4 August 2022 Ines Foidl; Dr Anna Lisa Varri; Professor Andy Lawrence FRSE; Dr Tyler Shendruk; Dr Antonin Portelli Learn about three critical environmental challenges and how we can address them – with science!
Thu 4 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

Knitting for money, knitting from home

4:00pm
Thu 4 August 2022 Professor Faye Hammill FRSE; Professor Lynn Abrams FRSE; Dr Roslyn Chapman Working from home has never been a lifestyle choice for women working in the textile sector.
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Outdoor activityFree

Maps of Edinburgh landscapes through time

10:30am
Fri 5 August 2022 Dr Roger Scrutton FRSE Edinburgh has many different landscapes that have accrued through time: We will imagine and discuss these landscapes from Calton Hill
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Social prescribing for mental health

11:00am
Fri 5 August 2022 Professor Stella Chan FRSE The increasing use of arts, literature and culture to improve the public’s mental health.
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

Screening – Is it good for your health?

3:00pm
Fri 5 August 2022 Professor Bob Steele FRSE A facilitated discussion about health screening focusing on what screening is, what benefits it can bring and what harm it can cause.
Mon 8 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Engineering approaches in biomedicine

11:30am
Mon 8 August 2022 Professor Adam Stokes; Professor Joe McGeough; Dr Thanasis Tsanas; Professor Tughrul Arslan; Professor Des Smith Discover emerging applications of nanotechnology in healthcare for Parkinson's, stroke management and cataracts.
Mon 8 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

100th anniversary of the discovery of Insulin

6:30pm
Mon 8 August 2022 Professor Mirela Delibegovic FRSE We will be celebrating 100 years since the discovery of insulin, by setting the scene and presenting the controversial story.
Tue 9 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

The curious cleric

11:00am
Tue 9 August 2022 Professor David Worthington University of the Highlands and Islands What was the Scottish Highlands like in the century before the Battle of Culloden?
Tue 9 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Our body is a planet

1:00pm
Tue 9 August 2022 Sam Telford; Léonie Hampton; Professor Neil Gow FRSE; Sarah Campbell Film and discussion exploring the role of fungi in our world and the way these organisms interact with our bodies.
Tue 9 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Mind travelling

4:00pm
Tue 9 August 2022 Professor Penny Fielding FRSE; Dr Miranda Anderson What happens to our minds when we listen to a story or read a book? How about when we watch a play or film?
Tue 9 Aug 2022
Outdoor activityFree

Lives carved in stone

5:00pm
Tue 9 August 2022 Professor Gerard Carruthers FRSE Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard A guided tour around the iconic Greyfriars Kirkyard to learn how graveyards are keepers of the stories that shape society.
Wed 10 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

How to design, build and fly a micro-satellite

11:00am
Wed 10 August 2022 Professor Colin McInnes FRSE; Dr James Beeley; Dr Gilles Bailet; Maura Allan; Thomas Timmons; Christopher Teale. How is a satellite designed and built? This event combines short talks and live laboratory tours of the Mercury micro-satellite project.
Wed 10 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

Environmental footprints in our DNA

3:00pm
Wed 10 August 2022 Professor Roy Burdon FRSE; Daria Tuhtar Environmental pollution is now as severe as climate change and intimately entwined with our genes.
Wed 10 Aug 2022
Outdoor activityFree

Lives carved in stone

5:00pm
Wed 10 August 2022 Professor Gerard Carruthers FRSE Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard A guided tour around the iconic Greyfriars Kirkyard to learn how graveyards are keepers of the stories that shape society.
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Why is multilingualism good for you?

11:00am
Thu 11 August 2022 Professor Jeremy Smith FRSE; Professor Antonella Sorace FRSE A look at why multilingualism is a resource for the wellbeing of individuals and societies
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

To love or to punish? That is the question

1:00pm
Thu 11 August 2022 Professor Niamh Nic Daeid FRSE; Professor Lesley McAra FRSE; Professor Susan McVie FRSE Hear life stories of people involved in crime from childhood to early middle-age and the challenging things they tell us about offender management and delivering justice.
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

Sir Walter Scott and James Skene: An artistic collaboration

4:00pm
Thu 11 August 2022 Dr Paul Barnaby Discover how artist James Skene helped his close friend Sir Walter Scott write his best-selling Waverley Novels.
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Outdoor activityFree

Lives carved in stone

5:00pm
Thu 11 August 2022 Professor Gerard Carruthers FRSE Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard A guided tour around the iconic Greyfriars Kirkyard to learn how graveyards are keepers of the stories that shape society.
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

The curious mind of Ian Rankin

6:30pm
Thu 11 August 2022 Sir Ian Rankin FRSE; Dr Eve Poole Join us to find what makes Ian Rankin curious
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

More than just words

11:00am
Fri 12 August 2022 Dr Mhairi Stewart FRSE; Gary Erskine; Frank Quitely FRSE; Dr Mhairi Towler Join comic artists Frank Quitely FRSE and Gary Erskine, and animator Dr Mhairi Towler to hear how they use visual narratives to communicate.
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Group discussionFree

Minds on Mars

3:00pm
Fri 12 August 2022 Sarah Quinn; David Price; XinRan Liu Mars rovers need minds of their own. How do their minds resemble or differ from ours?
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Talks and discussionsFree

The information machine in your pocket

6:30pm
Fri 12 August 2022 Ian Ritchie FRSE Today, most of us carry the world at our fingertips. Ian Ritchie describes the developments that enabled this ‘information machine.’

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