George McGill graduated with honours in Botany from Glasgow University, and as the title of his talk suggests, has spent his career in the field of rot and home preservation. He has worked in technical/scientific and managerial capacities with various
Brian Taylor is a writer, broadcaster, lecturer, event chair, raconteur and after-dinner speaker. He is a columnist for the Herald, also presenting a Podcast for them. In addition, he is a frequent broadcaster, mainly on politics and current affairs. Brian’s
Chris McInerny is a Reader at the University of Glasgow, where he researches cell division and its relevance to cancer. He has a long term interest in natural history, particularly birds, mammals, butterflies, Odonata and plants, especially orchids. In this
BRIGADIER (RET’D) C S GRANT OBE Born in April 1948, Charles Grant was commissioned into the Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) in 1968. Various appointments as a major included that of company commander at Sandhurst and Chief of Staff
Alison Phipps UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow and Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies. She was De Carle Distinguished Visiting Professor at Otago University, Aotearoa New Zealand 2019-2020, Thinker in
Dermot H. Kennedy Mb, FRCP [Glasg], DRCOG CV# Formerly consultant in Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Glasgow. Dermot was born, educated and graduated in medicine in Glasgow. Rapidly aspiring to a career in Infectious diseases he became a lecturer, then in
Alicia Herbert OBE Alicia Herbert is the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Director of Education, Gender and Equalities and the UK’s Special Envoy for Gender Equality. Previously Alicia worked in academia, the World Bank and represented the UK government
Professor Frank Dunn CBE, DL, DSc, MPhil, FRCP (Glasg, Edin, Lond) Professor Dunn is a retired Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Professor at the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health at the University of Glasgow. He graduated in Medicine from the
I have recently retired from farming a 700 acre hill and upland farm near Portpatrick having taken over the farm aged 17 on the death of my father. My son Andrew is now the 4th generation to farm this land.
Richard has been on the academic staff at Glasgow University since 1975, where he is currently the Hooker Professor of Botany. Throughout his career Richard has carried out research trying to understand all the molecular details of how photosynthetic organisms
