Lectures


Audiences


I have given formal lectures to:
  • all age groups, from junior/middle/senior schools, undergraduates and postgraduates, old scholars associations to senior citizens organisations

  • academic and professional bodies of chemists, physicists, astronomers and geologists
  • engineers (mechanical, electrical, civil, aeronautical, telecoms and IT)
  • local government officers, development organisations
  • finance directors, investment bankers
  • public relations officers, catering suppliers, transport managers
  • Government Ministers, Politicians (both houses)
  • six Lord Mayors
  • clinicians. hospital patients, drug companies
  • veterinarians, forensic scientists, industrial chemists
  • science fiction enthusiasts, radio hams
  • horticulturists, agriculturists
  • businessmen (international, city and local)
  • Rotary clubs, Round Tables
  • arts and literary audiences
  • religious leaders
  • school prize winners
  • life sentence prisoners in jail

    • Beagle 2 audience Informal lecture at Charterhouse


    Venues


    The places I have lectured at include:
  • Parliament (Westminster and the Welsh Assembly)
  • the British Embassy Paris (as part of the Entente Cordiale celebrations)
  • the Bank of England
  • the Royal Institution
  • the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • the Mansion House and City Livery Companies
  • Inns of Court, a 15th century banqueting hall
  • the Pump Rooms (Bath)
  • Whitemoor Prison, a witness box in a simulated court
  • museums, hospitals, libraries, factories
  • business premises, hotels
  • science/art/film/cartoon festivals
  • musical theatres, cinemas including an Imax and one in Soho
  • Twickenham rugby stadium
  • church halls, village fetes, marquees, golf clubs
  • a naval vessel, a passenger liner, an aircraft hanger
  • a French restaurant, a working man's club, many pub bars
  • Disneyland Paris
  • taxis, taxi queues (at Cannes railway station), supermarket checkouts, garage forecourts
  • numerous schools, colleges and universities


    • Named / Memorial Lectures


  • Robert Cormack Bequest Lecture, Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Lord Heycourt Lecture, University Aberystwyth
  • Handley Page Lecture, Cranfield University
  • Sir Harrie Massey Lecture, University College London
  • Fisher Lecture, Rothamsted Research
  • McMenemy Seminar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
  • Millennium Lecture, University of Bath
  • Inaugural Lecture Mars Society
  • Royal Geographical Society Christmas Lecture
  • Darwin Memorial Lecture, Shrewsbury
  • Reginald Mitchell Lecture, Stoke
  • Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Lecture, Manchester
  • Cambridge Astronomical Association Christmas Lecture
  • Halley Lecture, St Paul's School


    • Exhibitions


  • The Royal Society Summer Exhibition and Soireé (7 times)
  • Buckingham Palace (Queen's 80th birthday celebrations)
  • Farnborough Air Show (3 times)
  • Paris Air Show
  • National Maritime Museum (The Beagle Voyages, ran for 7 months)
  • The Cartoon Museum (Mars in their Eyes, ran for 3 months)
  • The National Museum of Wales (Space is a funny place, ran for 3 months)
  • Science Museum
  • International Aerospace Congress Bremen (2003)
  • Chelsea Flower Show (with Hadlow College)
  • White Cube Gallery (with Damien Hirst)
  • Astrofest
  • Tomorrow's World
  • SET week Imperial College
  • CBI Conference
  • Beagle Dog Show