Inaugural Lectures
All new professors in ScHARR, whether they have been internally promoted or appointed externally, are given the opportunity to give an inaugural lecture. The School's Inaugural Lecture series provides an opportunity to celebrate these achievements with each lecture representing a significant milestone in an academic's career.
The normal format is for a lecture of about 45 minutes followed by a celebratory wine reception.
Details of the whole of ScHARR's inaugural lecture series to date can be found via a PDF download in the 'Downloads' box.
Upcoming Lectures
Professor Nick Payne - "Public Health: The Science and Art..."
Professor Nick Payne, Honorary Professor, will deliver his lecture on Wednesday 27th November 2013 at 5:15pm (followed by a wine reception).
Classically, public health is described as the study and practice of how to improve the overall health populations rather than individuals. The field pays special attention to the social context of disease and health, and focuses on improving health through society-wide measures like education (e.g. on the benefits of physical activity); engineering (e.g. safer water supply and waste disposal); or enforcement (e.g. food safety legislation).
An over-arching definition of public health was coined by Sir Donald Acheson in 1988 as: "The Science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and prompting, protecting and improving health through the organised efforts of society". While the emphasis here is on action and intervention, much important activity in public health research and practice has been descriptive and analytical. In recent years, however, more attention has been given to how best to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions, and to provide guidance about which should and should not be adopted.
During his lecture, Professor Payne will first discuss the challenges in attempting to develop public health interventions in the first place. He will argue that the process of public health intervention development needs to be improved, and will draw comparisons with the process of developing and introducing clinical treatments such as pharmaceutical products and surgical procedures.
Secondly, he will describe how inequalities in the provision and uptake of health services can be researched, and how there is an important link between clinical interventions, their delivery and availability, and their overall effectiveness in wider public health terms. He will suggest that the distinction usually made between clinical and public health interventions may not always be as clear cut as it might seem at first.
Attendance to the lecture is free, but we should be grateful if you would register yourself at the below link:
www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/research/events/payneform
Previous Lectures
Professor Steven Julious - Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Professor Steven Julious, Professor of Medical Statistics, delivered an Inaugural Lecture on the subject "Statistics in Clinical Research - past, present (and perhaps) future". In this lecture Professor Julious looked back on his career and discussed how statistics has evolved during this time. He also committed a statistical sin of extrapolating beyond the range of his data and made some predictions for the future of statistics in clinical research.
A copy of Professor Julious's presentation can be downloaded from the right-hand side of this page.
Professor Fiona Lecky - Wednesday 12th June 2013
Professor Fiona Lecky, Professor of Emergency Medicine, delivered an Inaugural Lecture on the subject "How to improve trauma care through research". In this lecture Professor Lecky highlighted the challenges inherent in attempting to improve civilian trauma care, including the "occult" nature of lethal injury after blunt trauma, both in terms of the physiological response to the major threats of haemorrhage and brain injury in the clinical findings present on examination of the patient.
A copy of Professor Lecky's presentation can be downloaded from the right-hand side of this page.