Swing Patrol Winter Ball
Brrrr… It’s cold outside, so come and dance yourself warm at the Swing Patrol Winter Ball! The Winter Ball is our first Swing ball of the Year, and we’re excited to start it off with a bang! A ball for no reason at all other than to have a great dance… come join us! We’ll […]
Everything you know about genetics is wrong
Many of us learn about genetics in school starting with Mendel and his pea plants. We learn that one gene is linked to one trait, and one gene fault causes one disease. But the recent revolution in DNA sequencing is revealing that it’s much more complicated. People are not peas – and even peas are […]
What is the lasting legacy of the Balfour Declaration in the Middle East?
With political tensions in the Middle East at an all time high, the two state solution offered by the international community looks as far away as ever. Join our distinguished panellists in exploring the imprint left by the Balfour Declaration and the direction needed to achieve peace. Speakers: Professor Ghada Karmi – Author and Lecturer […]
Ten years on: The aftermath of the global financial crisis
A decade on from the global financial crisis, the UK remains in the slow lane, with its growth forecast significantly lowered in the most recent budget. Although regulation and supervision of banks has been strengthened to avoid future crises, fundamentally there has been little reform in the financial system, and austerity still rules the lives […]
Positive Psychology and Life Coaching: their potential relationship to the Adlerian Model?
In recent years, Counselling and Therapy have begun to respond to the challenges of traditionally ignoring the encouragement of positive emotions – wellbeing & flourishing – while the pursuit of Positive Psychology has been accused of ignoring the role of negative emotions. The Adlerian model has, of course, always embraced elements of both. The practice […]
Thinking on Sunday: Back to the Future for a Real Democracy
Democracy, like all powerful terms, is a slippery word to get a grip on. What is the essence of democracy? What are the ideals? Brett Hennig will take us on a voyage revealing democracy’s intriguing and complicated history to explore these questions and discover how we got to where we are. This trip will lead […]
Thinking on Sunday: Electromagnetism – May the Force be with You
***EVENT CANCELLED *** THE SPEAKER IS SNOWBOUND IN THE WEST OF UK Dr Peter Ford MBE asks: Is there any other form of intelligent life out there? We spend a lot of money trying to answer this question and our tool to do this is invisible stuff called electromagnetism. It fills the whole of space, indeed is […]
Thinking on Sunday: Is The Universe a Simulation?
This talk from Bill Turner will explain in an easy-to-understand way “The Simulation Argument’ by Nick Bostrom (Oxford University) which is an argument to say that we are probably living in a computer simulation. After trying to convince you that this could well be the case we will look at the metaphysical arguments of space, […]
Thinking on Sunday: Is Physicalism the correct world view?
The GREAT debate: Is Physicalism the correct world view? Ian Buxton will argue that Physicalism, the thesis that nothing other than physical laws are needed to account for everything in the universe, is the only game in town. All physical laws can be discovered by scientific means. Raymond Tallis will challenge this claim – irrespective of whether this is […]