MERI Symposium – Professor Reza Saatchi Professorial Lecture
Tuesday 22nd May 6pm-8pm, Stoddart 7140 Lecture Theatre
Refreshments to be served at 18:00 outside of the lecture theatre. The lecture will begin at 18:30 prompt followed by wine and canapés.
‘Medical Engineering: Non-Invasive Solutions to Aid Diagnosis, Monitoring and Assessment’
The convergence of engineering sciences and the medical field has led to an extensive range of modern medical devices and technologies in recent years. However engineering innovations in the medical field go back many centuries. For example a wood and leather prosthetic toe found in a tomb near the ancient city of Thebes dates back to about 3000 years ago… read more
Reza Saatchi is a professor of Electronics (Medical Engineering). He is based both at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute and the Department of Engineering and Mathematics. He has over 25 years of experience in medical electronics research having supervised 20 PhDs to completion as the main supervisor and published 150 referred research articles.
Professorial Lecture: Professor Dave Morley
Tuesday 15th May 6pm-8pm, Heart of the Campus Lecture Theatre
Refreshments to be served at 18:00 outside of the lecture theatre. The lecture will begin at 18:30 prompt followed by wine and canapés.
‘Transcendentalist perspectives on children’s participation in sport and physical activity’
In the mid 19th Century the philosopher, Henry Thoreau, wandered the wilderness of America in search of the basic tenets of life in an era of domineering intellectualism and religious ideals. The ensuing transcendentalist perspective that he offered challenged the very notions of ‘being’ and gave a glimpse of life, as he believed, in its purest form. Dave Morley will draw upon his decades of involvement in children’s sport and physical activity to reflect upon the core notions surrounding how we appropriately develop children in order for them to flourish and how confusion can often occur when we lose sight of this transcendatlist perspective. Read more