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GCPH Seminars

IFF has enjoyed a long-standing collaboration with the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, since its establishment in 2004. As part of that collaboration IFF has organised an international seminar series exploring diverse views and perspectives on what might influence the health of a city like Glasgow and how to improve it. The first seminar took place in November 2004 with the philosopher A C Grayling talking on ‘Imagine the Perfect Polis: creating health in the city’.

 

Some 40 seminars have taken place since. For each one a transcript, presentation, audio and – for later seminars – video of the event is available to download – see links to the GCPH website below. Speakers have included a number of members of the IFF Clan such as Aftab Omer, Max Boisot, Maureen O’Hara, Tony Hodgson.

 

The eighth seminar series runs from November 2011.

5 Rachel Yehuda    

How the Effects of Traumatic Stress are Transmitted to the Next Generation
4 James Curran

In an Ideal World Traffic Lights Should Always be Green
3 Joe Ravetz

Public health: exploring complex inter-connected

problems, and creating complex inter-connected solutions
2 David Reilly

Human Healing in the Age of Science:

The Art of the Healing Shift
1 Akala Akala Presents Hip Hop Shakespeare
 

6 Dr. Sandro Galea Thinking in Systems, Looking for the Causes of Population Health
5 Representatives from Vorarlberg, Austria Self Organisation and Civil Engagement: Co-operation, culture and politics for a more sustainable society - Learning from Vorarlberg, Austria
4 Professor Jonathon Seckl Developmental Programming - how your parents' environment before you were born impacts on your and your children's risk of disease
2 Researchers from the University of Herat, Afghanistan and University of Stirling Giving a Voice to Afghan Civil Society
1 Professor Guy Standing The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
 

6 Prof Peter Gianaros Mapping the mind under pressure: Can brain imaging research tell us anything new about stress and physical health?
5 Dr. Timo Hämäläinen Silent transformation of well-being
4 Anthony Hodgson Is Resilience Enough?
3 Prof Phil Hanlon The True the Good and the Beautiful
2 Hazel Henderson Transforming Finance: Recognising the Global Financial System as a Commons
1 Prof Max Boisot The City as a Complex Adaptive System: Lessons from the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC.
 

6 Adam Kahane Power and Love: A theory and practice of social change
5 David Gustave Code of the street - how we should re-interpret morality
4 Wayne Elliot Impact of weather on human health - current and future issues
3 Eleanor Yule Scots Miserablism
2 Prof Tim Jackson Prosperity without growth
1 Dr Michael Meaney Nature and Nurture? The intergenerational transmission of risk for chronic illness
 

6 Shakti Maira Nested Realtionships - Beauty, Aesthetics, Art and Happiness
5 Dr Harry Burns From theory to policy - the implications of recent research findings on health inequalities
4 Prof Bert Mulder Next generation e-health - turning a digital city into a vital society
3 Prof Stuart MacDonald Talking Cities - The Mircropolitics of Urban Space
2 Prof Maureen O'Hara We have the future of the world in our hands - are we up to it
1 Prof Avner Offer The Challenge of Affluence
 

5 Oliver James Selfish Capitalism
4 Prof Liz Gould Positive and negative stress alter brain structure
3 Prof James C Scott Seeing Like a State: why certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
2 Prof Geoffrey Boulton Learning to live with an angry planet: human relations with the Earth in the past and future
1 Prof Bruce Link Health patterns and trends in New York: exploring the idea of fundamental social causes of health status
 

7 Aftab Omer Principles and Practices for Engaging the Other
6 Rajiv Kumar Towards Ethical Economics: An Initial Exploration
5 Dr Jeffrey Wigand PhD Exposing deceit and wrongdoing in the US tobacco industry: lessons learned for health improvement
4 Prof David Hunter The Crisis of Confidence
3 Prof Bruce McEwen Of Molecules and Mind: Stress, the Individual and the Social Environment
2 Prof Irene McAra-McWilliam Creative Communities: design, technology and wellbeing
1 Jerry Sternin Social Change from the Inside Out
 

6 Prof A C Grayling Civic humanism and conversation about the good life
5 Dr Howard Frumkin Urban vision and public health: designing and building wholesome places
4 Dr Ilona Kickbusch The Global Health Challenge: Why We Need Good Governance for Health
3 Prof Jennie Popay Where's the evidence? The contribution of lay knowledge to reducing health inequalities
2 Prof Tom Devine The Transformation of Scotland: 1980 - 2005
1 Prof Andrew Steptoe How Stress Gets Under Your Skin: psychobiological studies of social status, stress and health
 

6 Dr Maureen O'Hara Minding the Future
5 Denys Candy The Art of Engagement
4 Prof Lord Richard Layard Happiness
3 Dr Sholom Glouberman Changing Ideas – Changing Health
2 Prof Alistair Lawrence Animal Farm
1 Prof Anthony Grayling Imagine the Perfect Polis: Creating Health in the City
 
 
Seek playful forms that generate serious results
Seek playful forms that generate serious results