Public Lecture Series

Autumn 2008 Public Lecture Programme

Lectures take place at North Holmes Campus, Canterbury, Broadstairs Campus, Medway Campus and Salomons Campus, near Tunbridge Wells.

Lectures start at 6pm, except where stated otherwise. Admission free.

Wednesday 22 October

Powell Lecture Theatre, North Holmes Campus

Nick Burton Memorial Lecture
‘Trust and other naiveties: Documentary in the digital era’
Professor Brian Winston, the first Lincoln Chair of Communications at the University of Lincoln and Internationally renowned academic and broadcaster


Tuesday 11 November

Old Sessions House, North Holmes Campus

The credit crunch society and the National Minimum Wage: looking at the future for pay regulation
Professor Janet Druker, Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor, Canterbury Christ Church University


Thursday 13 November

Old Sessions House, North Holmes Campus

World class skills: the challenges and opportunities of the national skills agenda

David Lammy MP, Minister of State for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.


Tuesday 25 November

Medway Campus

Leadership, status and money
The Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Assistant Curate in a Church of England Parish of Battersea and former Chief Nursing Officer in the Department of Health

Thursday 27 November

Broadstairs Campus

'East Kent and the Western Front in
World War 1'

Professor Nick Bosanquet, Professor of Health Policy, Imperial College, London


Tuesday 2 December

Powell Lecture Theatre, North Holmes Campus

Now fully booked!

SMASHER! The 14 billion volt Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Dr David Cockerill of the Particle Physics Department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot.


Wednesday 10 December

Old Sessions House, North Holmes Campus

Annual Becket Lecture

‘Henry II, Thomas Becket and the building of Dover Castle’

Professor John Gillingham, Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics.