Event Archive

2014

August

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  Land Reform in Review Symposium

  22 August 2014, 16:00 - 18:00

  This symposium will consider matters across the wide spectrum of practice areas that land law reform touches on, including matters as diverse as succession law and planning law.

July

• Seminar: The Dynamics of Social Practice

  23 July 2014, 16:00 - 18:00

  The Centre for Transport Research and the Department of Sociology are pleased to announce a joint seminar on The Dynamics of Social Practice to be given by Prof. Elizabeth Shove of Lancaster University & the DEMAND Research Centre.

June

• Dr Mark Beecroft to present "Great Aberdonian" lecture on Colonel William Sykes

  03 June 2014, 19:30 - 21:00

  Great Aberdonians: Colonel William Sykes (1857-72), Soldier, Scientist, East India Company Chairman and MP for Aberdeen

May

• Learning from Disruption: Unlocking low carbon travel

  28 May 2014, 13:00 - 14:00

  A presentation from Prof Jillian Anable and Dr Thomas Budd as part of the Centre for Transport Research seminar series

• Workshop: Classical and Bayesian approaches to the modelling of geochronologies

  22 May 2014, 09:30 - 16:30

  One-day workshop hosted by the School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, under the strategic theme of 'The North'

April

• An introduction to London's underground railways and land use

  23 April 2014, 13:00 - 14:00

  As part of the Centre for Transport Research (CTR) Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Nathan Darroch from London Underground. Mr Darroch, who is undertaking a PhD at CTR, will be providing a presentation on work carried out whilst undertaking an MA by research in Railway Studies and Transport...

March

• The Global Technology Outlook

  18 March 2014, 16:30 - 17:30

  We are pleased to present this talk by Dr Peter Waggett on IBM's view of how the IT industry will become even more essential over the next 10 years to our work and play

• CTR Seminar: 'What Transport-Related Energy is for'

  12 March 2014, 13:00 - 14:00

  What Transport-Related Energy is for: Investigating Mobility Practices with Sequence Analysis Techniques The DEMAND Research Centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand) focuses on 'what energy is for', i.e. on the social practices that lead us to consume large (and often increasing) amounts of energy and greenhouse gases emissions. In...

2013

December

• Norse landnam and its environmental impacts in the Vatnahverfi region of southern Greenland - Dr Paul Ledger, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand

  04 December 2013, 16:00 - 17:00

  Northern Archaeology Research Seminar - all welcome

November

• Cypriot Mesopotamian fallow deer over the past 10,000 years - Dr Julie Daujat, CNRS (Paris)/University of Aberdeen

  20 November 2013, 16:00 - 17:00

  Northern Archaeology Research Seminar Series - all welcome