We host regular lectures with speakers from around the world covering diverse disciplines, as well as experts from within our Department for Health and Department of Social & Policy Sciences.
Please note: Some details may change. Please check this page regularly for updates.
Upcoming seminars
We will share details of any upcoming seminars on this page.
Past seminars
A lecture by visiting fellow Professor Heikki Hiilamo
- Host: Professor Heikki Hiilamo, University of Helskini (Finland)
- Date: Thursday 6 March 2025
Heikki Hiilamo is a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Helsinki and Research Professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. His current research interests include the economy of wellbeing, poverty, inequality, welfare state research and tobacco control. Professor Hiilamo has joined the University of Bath as a new Visiting Fellow with the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) where he will be for three months from January to March 2025.
Kids Online – Where Commercial & Digital Determinants of Health Intersect: Objective research from Aotearoa
- Host: Professor Louise Signal, University of Otago (New Zealand)
- Date: Thursday 28 November 2024
The online world affords children many benefits while simultaneously exposing them to harm, including marketing for tobacco, e-cigarettes, alcohol, junk food and gambling. Yet globally there is a dearth of objective research on children’s real-time online experiences.
Professor Signal presented the methods and initial data from Kids Online Aotearoa, an objective study of the nature and extent of children’s online world. A strategic sample of 156 12-year-olds from schools in the Wellington region of Aotearoa (New Zealand), used Zoom video conferencing software to record their online world for four days. The findings indicated an urgent need for national regulation of the online world to protect the rights of children and ensure their health and wellbeing.