Inaugural Lectures 2025
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PROFESSOR ZIYAAD DANGOR Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences Lecture title: "Safeguarding the Future: Protecting Young Lives from Disease and Death" Date: 29 July 2025 In 2022, 4.9 million children under five died, mostly from treatable conditions, with Sub-Saharan Africa bearing the highest burden. Research and effective interventions, such as vaccines, diagnostics and public health strategies, are crucial to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3.2, which aims to end preventable child deaths by 2030. |
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PROFESSOR DEEPAK KAR School of Physics, Faculty of Science. Lecture title: “Novel dark matter searches at the large hadron collider at CERN” Date: 23 July 2025 In this presentation, we pedagogically introduced the models, showed the current experimental results, and discussed the ongoing work in this area. |
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PROFESSOR ELITON CHIVANDI Department of Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences Lecture title: “Reimagining Livestock Farming: integrating research interventions and one health for a resilient” Date: 21 July 2025 Professor Chivandi discussed the livestock farming that supports 12 of the 17 SDGs but faces challenges from resource competition, disease outbreaks, climate change and sustainability concerns.. |
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PROFESSOR YUSUF ISA School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment Lecture title: "Changing Wheels: Lessons from Fossil Fuels in the Pursuit of Sustainable Energy" Date: 04 June 2025 The lecture drew lessons from over a century’s reliance on coal, oil, and gas. The achievements and challenges of fossil-based systems are highlighted while focusing on building reliable and realistic alternatives. Policy shifts as well as energy access were discussed. |
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PROFESSOR HELEN DUH School of Business Sciences, Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management Lecture title: "Early-Life Experiences and Later-Life Money Attitudes, Shopping, And Consumption Orientations: Are There Well-Being Consequences" Date: 27 May 2025 Addressing one of the shortcomings in consumer research that explains consumer behaviour at a given point in time in isolation of the influence of events experienced in early-life or childhood, a life-course approach is advocated to study consumer behaviour. |
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