Autumn 2011

5 Oct – Humanitarian Protection in the New Middle East
Dr George Wilkes, Director, Project on Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace, University of Edinburgh
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12 Oct – Capturing Wave and Tidal Power on the Crown Estates
John Robertson, Wave and tidal development manager, The Crown Estate Scotland
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19 Oct – Well-being in modern society
Dr Sandra Carlisle, Research Fellow, Centre for Population & Health Sciences, University of Glasgow
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26 Oct – The future of Public Health: in search of transformational change
Professor Phil Hanlon, Director, Centre for Population & Health Sciences, University of Glasgow
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2 Nov – Considering Calman and The Scotland Bill
Eberhard Bort, The Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh
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9 Nov – The world’s forests and their future
Dr Genevieve Patenaude, Department of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
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16 Nov – Palestine Youth: a dialogue in Edinburgh
Judith Sischy, Former Director of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools
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23 Nov – Assuring quality for people with dementia and their carers
Jan Killeen, Public Policy Director, Alzheimer Scotland and member Mental Welfare Commission
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30 Nov – What do they know? Recent developments in human genetics
Professor Nick Hastie, Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital
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7 Dec – A Trek to visit 4 projects in South Africa’s Eastern Cape
Barbara Darcy (MJ&P member), Charity organiser and fund-raiser