The Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies hosts the Inaugural Lecture series throughout the academic year in celebration of our newly appointed Professors. The lectures are free to attend, and are open to all University of Lincoln staff, students and the general public.
Coming up in the LIAS Inaugural Lecture Series


Throughout his career, Simon has been interested in the ways in which we use representational artefacts such as budgets, plans, strategies, models and policies, to bring the ‘there and then’ into the ‘here and now’ to better orchestrate and enhance our collective performance. Simon will look back on this work to draw out the costs and benefits of working within such a representational economy, paying particular attention to the key role of academic freedom as a vital check and balance on the processes described
Details will be made available as soon as they are confirmed.
The date, venue and ticket information for Professor Jamie Wood’s upcoming inaugural lecture will be confirmed soon.
Details will be made available as soon as they are confirmed.
Past Lectures in the the LIAS Inaugural Lecture Series

We are still preparing the recording of Professor Karen Harrison’s Inaugural Lecture. In the meantime, you can view the Panopto Live Stream recording via the link here.



















Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series 2018/19

Professor
Mark Macklin
The Rivers of Humankind
10th July 2019

Professor
Steve Armstrong
Re-thinking Management Education: From cognition, to action, to learning
8th May 2019

Professor
Jonathan Whitehead
FAT in the 21st Century – Too much of a good thing
10th April 2019

Professor
Marc Hanheide
Robots in the Wild – Myths and Progress in Human-Centred Robot Autonomy
13th March 2019

Professor
Simon Pearson
The Future of British Agriculture
13th February 2019

Professor
Edward Hanna
Climate Change and Extreme Weather from the UK to Greenland: Some thoughts and surprises
24th January 2019

Professor
Carenza Lewis
Publicly Engaged Research in Action: Two millennia of discovery through archaeology with and within contemporary communities
22nd November 2018

Professor
Ananda Breed
Kubabarira (Shared Suffering), Justice and Grassroots Performance Associations in Rwanda
17th October 2018

Professor
Antonella De Angeli
interAction: Design of Information and Communication Technology for Civic Engagement
4th July 2018

Professor
Stefanos Kollias
Deep Learning and Modelling for Detection of Subtle Events in Signals and Data
13th June 2018

Professor
Libby John
The Root of the Matter: Plants & the Planet
16th May 2018

Professor
Philippa Hoskin
Outlaws, Outsiders & the Outspoken: Recognising Voices in Medieval Records
25th April 2018

Professor
Toby Wilkinson
Voices from the Past: Ancient Egyptians in their Own Words
22nd November 2018