Research Seminars

Arne Vögler - This Seminar will give an introduction into the working principles of internal combustion engines. Differences between two and four stroke spark and compression ignition engines will be outlined and the processes inside the combustion chamber will be explained.

Dr Mary Macleod - Small scale excavations were carried out on Machair Bharabhais between 1979 and 2001, by Trevor Cowie, and Mary MacLeod. These are finally being brought together for analysis and publication.

Dr Katharine Ross - The Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia supports numerous seabirds and a rich marine ecosystem. This island once supported a major whaling industry and had strong ties with the Outer Hebrides.

Donald Macritchie - The Lessons of a Startup, Greenspace Live. The function of Greenspace Live Ltd is to take products developed in the research programme to market. The company is in start-up mode and ready to face the challenges of such a new venture.

A look at how four Campbell poetesses from the late 16th to mid-18th centuries deviated from the expected norms regarding their behaviour and loyalties.

Dr Edward Graham - Clouds and Climate Change. "I will start the talk with an introduction to clouds, how they form, and I will overview some of their properties. Then, I will examine the importance of clouds in climate research and why they may be regarded as the 'the joker in the pack' with respect to climate warming projections.

SUSPLAN (PLANning for SUStainability) is a project initiated in 2008 under the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme, and is sponsored by the Directorate General Transport and Energy (DG-TREN). SUSPLAN seeks to bring awareness to and solutions for the coming environmental and energy challenges facing the European community.

This talk will describe a series of studies that examine the quality of patients’ self referral help seeking decisions. Study 1 considered the nature of patients’ effective and ineffectively made help seeking decisions and established pertinent definitional parameters of this behaviour.