Café Scientifique | Public Engagement with Research

Café Scientifique

Join us at one of our monthly Café events, normally held at Aberdeen Art Gallery, where we hear from a different researcher each month on a range of exciting topics. Cafe's include topics from research across the whole university - recent talks include Dolphin Social Behaviours, Prehistoric Carved Stone Balls and The Orkney and Shetland cancer gene.

View our upcoming events below.

You can also listen to our Cafe Connect podcasts which bring the latest research from across the University to you in a 30 minute discussion.

Listen to our podcasts here .

A Pictish Power Centre at Rhynie and Tap o' Noth: Recent Progress

Date: Tuesday 11th February
Time: 7pm
Venue: Aberdeen Art Gallery

Join Professor Gordon Noble for an update on his ground breaking research on Pictish society in the North East.

The landscape of the North East of Scotland is home to unique archaeology and to date the University’s work, led by Professor Noble, has had spectacular success in uncovering major and undocumented Pictish Royal centres at Rhynie and Tap o’Noth. The archaeology has involved everything from traditional excavations to scaling sea cliffs!

Join us for this chance to hear from Gordon about the latest interpretation of these sites.

*This event is now fully booked*

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Time, place and pictures: how do we improve the care of stroke patients?

Date: Wednesday 19th March
Time: 7pm
Venue: Aberdeen Art Gallery

Join us for a Café Sci celebrating British Science week and featuring Professor Mary Joan Macleod who will be talking to us about stroke care. Specifically looking at how routinely collected hospital information can be used to help improve stroke care, how cancer and stroke interact, how well Scotland manages to ensure equal care for all stroke patients regardless of where they live in Scotland, and what the difficulties are as well as how new imaging techniques developed in Aberdeen might help to improve stroke care.

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Musical Traditions of Scotland’s Northern Sailors

Date: Wednesday 23rd April
Time: 7pm
Venue: Aberdeen Art Gallery

Join us for our April Café Sci where we will be joined by Dr Frances Wilkins for a fascinating audio-visual exploration of the music that emerged from the seventeenth century in the wake of the Scottish whaling and fishing industries and the Hudson’s Bay Company.
The talk will be accompanied by live renditions of instrumental music and songs and archive recordings from these times.

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Using virtual reality in eyewitness memory research

Date: Wednesday 18th June
Time: 7pm
Venue: Aberdeen Art Gallery

Eyewitness memory research typically involves participants viewing a mock-crime event (e.g. a bank robbery) on a computer screen and later reporting on what they remember from the event. While videos can effectively depict complex events, the controlled laboratory environment often feels disconnected from real-world experiences. Virtual reality overcomes some of these limitations: it takes participants directly in the environment and thus increases the sense of presence. In this talk Dr Eva Rubinova will share some of the work conducted in her lab over the past year using virtual reality stimuli portraying interpersonal conflicts consistent with early stages of domestic abuse. The talk will focus on the impact of emotion on memory and assessing methods which facilitate detailed memory recall.

*Bookings open soon*