Returning artifacts to African nations. Professor Malcolm McLeod and his talk will be  ‘Restitution – should museum artefacts be returned to their countries of origin - examples from Ghana’  Professor Malcolm McLeod read history and then social anthropology at Oxford.  He then spent three and a half years doing research in Asante (Ghana) and teaching… Read more

‘Improving oral healthcare in Malawi – ‘The MalDent Project’   a Scotland Malawi partnership’    by Prof Jeremy Bagg SummaryThe lecture will outline The MalDent Project, a Scottish Government-funded (£1.6m) collaboration between the University of Glasgow (UofG) and Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), which has established Malawi’s first dental degree programme. A new Dental School building is currently… Read more

Title : Rediscovering America. Speaker : John Deffenbaugh. He grew up in Peoria, Illinois, but has lived outside America for 50 years. He has travelled back to the US frequently and these travels have reinforced how much America has changed – it’s no longer the America that he once knew. He therefore wanted to rediscover America, so… Read more

Electrical Power Systems in Scotland: Past, Present and Future by Prof Campbell Booth Summary: Scotland’s electrical power system has evolved from early hydroelectric schemes and coal‑fired stations into one of the world’s most renewables‑rich power systems. This talk will outline the journey - from pioneering early developments to the modern energy system dominated by renewables… Read more

Prof Neil Metcalf  ‘Rewilding: How should we go about restoring nature? ‘  Talk Summary:    Nature restoration is currently a hotly debated topic that highlights the potential conflicts between conservation, agriculture, rural economies, tourism and land use. Is the current enthusiasm for planting trees justified, or can it do more harm than good? Should beavers, pine martens and… Read more

Title:  ‘ Improving Brain Health in Scotland’  by Prof. Terry Quinn Talk Summary:   Improving brain health is a key objective within the Scottish Government’s health strategy and to further this objective the Scottish Government has established  ‘The Brain Health ARC (Alliance for Research Challenges)’ with the ambition of using research to improve brain health in Scotland. Prof… Read more

Title: 'Developing new technologies for improved satellite connections’ by Dr Ross Donaldson Talk Summary: This talk outlines Scotland's leadership in the creation of the world’s most secure and advanced satellite networks, exploring groundbreaking research in quantum communications—technology that could make global connections faster, safer, and ready for the quantum internet. From Heriot-Watt University's Hub Optical Ground… Read more

As our planned speaker has had to go to Abu Dhabi on short notice, we have a change of topic and speaker for the talk on Friday Title : ‘Rocket Research at the University of Glasgow’ by Prof. Patrick Harkness Summary: This year will see the return of humans to lunar orbit and, perhaps, the first… Read more

The 2025 AGM will be held at the start of the June General Meeting Read more