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Mythbusting Chornobyl with Professor Mike Wood, University of Salford
Multi-award-winning scientist, Professor Mike Wood, has spent the last two decades studying radiation and its environmental impacts.Journey with him through the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, exploring the abandoned landscape that acts as his natural laboratory. Along the way, you will learn about the accident, the people and the wildlife of Chornobyl, uncovering the ‘truths’ within the myriad of myths that surround the world’s worst nuclear accident...
28 Nov 2025
"Strength and Conditioning – from Sports Performance to Spaceflight" with Professor Paul Comfort
Strength training has obvious benefits in terms of enhancing sports performance, however, many people overlook how the basic strength training principles can be appropriately applied in a variety of other populations. During this lecture, Paul discusses some of the key principles of strength training and explore how they can be appropriately applied in a variety of settings and populations including enhancing athletic performance, restoration of performance after injury, minimising loss of muscle mass and function in astronauts and older individuals. A
5 Sept 2025
“In The End, It’s All About People" Professor Katherine Yates - From marine biologist to spatial planner
The world faces a global environmental crisis. Indeed, it has been facing a global environmental crisis for decades, one that even as a small child Professor Yates was aware of, and which inspired her desire to be a scientist in order to “save the planet”.The decimation of our oceans led Katherine to focus on marine spatial planning, protected areas and the associated science policy interface.
Her work, which touches on many disciplines, has always embraced the multifaceted complexity of real-life conservation planning decisions.
But, whilst she is passionate about improving marine management and sincerely hopes her work has contributed to that, this inaugural professorial lecture will not focus on her research achievements per say.
Rather, it will be about how the research she has undertook and the people she’s met along the way have changed her, and as a result changed the work she will go on to do in the future.Following her journey from a “fish hugging” biodiversity conservationist to an equity focused spatial planner, Professor Yates will reflect on the broader lessons learned about conservation, research, and academia.
This lecture will also be about not being a “normal” academic, the strength that can be found in embracing diversity, the importance of open-mindedness, and the fundamental necessity of equity.
This lecture will suggest that in the end, be it conservation, research, or indeed life, it’s all about people.
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