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David Bruce is a former Director of the Scottish Film Council and of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He initially worked as a musician and documentary film- maker following a spell in theatre and film in London. He now lives

Professor Martin Hendry “Listening to Einstein’s Universe: the dawn and exciting future of gravitational astronomy”  Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of the cosmos predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago and produced by some of the

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I’ve lived outside America for 50 years, mainly in Scotland, but also England and Egypt. My American frame of reference is the 1960s when I grew up in Peoria, Illinois. Baseball, Vietnam, moon shots, civil rights. I’ve travelled back to

Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the World Burns Federation, of the English Association and of the

Eric was born in Coatbridge during the Second World War. He won a scholarship to Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth at sixteen, was streamed as an Engineer Officer, volunteered for submarines and thirty-seven years later retired as Commodore in charge

Simon is the founder of LEAP Scotland and a committee member of LEAP UK (The Law Enforcement Action Partnership) a global organization of police officers and other enforcement agencies, officials in our criminal justice system  and many others campaigning for

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