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John Carruthers was and still is an outdoor enthusiast and this drew him to civil engineering as a career which offered more outdoor opportunities than most. He graduated from Glasgow University in 1965 and as a means of delaying the

PROFESSOR GORDON LOWE A medical graduate of St Andrews University, Gordon worked in the University Department of Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, from 1975 to 2009. He was Professor of Vascular Medicine from 1993; and Chair of the Scottish Clinical Guidelines

“The Silk Route” 10th January 2023 At the first meeting of 2023 Peter Ireland gave a talk entitled “The Silk Route”. Peter was a teacher of Classics at McLaren High School, Callander.  He is also passionate traveller, and he described

Alex Reedijk grew up in New Zealand, starting as a stagehand for New Zealand Opera. He is now General Director of Scottish Opera and comes with a wealth of experience in opera and festivals across the world, including Executive Director

Donal Wall, Reader in Infectious Diseases at the University of Glasgow, gave a fascinating talk on the Human Microbiome – the multiplicity of micro-organisms living in and on our bodies, which have a profound impact on our health and wellbeing.

Eoghan MacGuire, who previously worked for CNN and NBC News, is the Lead Editor at Bellingcat.  He explained that Bellingcat is a collective of citizen journalists and its HQ is based in the Netherlands.  The non-profit company was founded by

Dr Donal Wall Donal hails from Galway in the West of Ireland and undertook his undergraduate degree at the National University of Ireland, Galway in Science. He then carried out a PhD in infectious disease at University College Dublin studying

– The Biology of Ageing Colin Selman who is Professor of Biogerontology at the University of Glasgow gave a fascinating talk on the subject of the biology of ageing. He noted that, while much of the research on ageing has

The Future of Glasgow  ‘It’s time to admit that Glasgow is a dump – but we can reboot it.’ declared Philip Rodney, formerly a lawyer and latterly a feature columnist of the Times, in a recent headline (Times: 19th March

“Bellingcat and the rise of open source journalism” Eoghan MacGuire is Lead Editor at Bellingcat. He previously worked for CNN and NBC News Bellingcat is an independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social