Research Seminars

Ex-Labour Government Cabinet Minister Brian Wilson will be talking in detail about renewable energy and the Western Isles. We expect a lively discussion afterwards. Please note that this seminar will take place in the new lecture room C210, followed by refreshments in the Greenspace Laboratory. NOTE: Audio starts 6 minutes into the video.

Dr Sean Mehan - "Overview and description of a UHI project to refresh and update the largest video-conference network in Europe."

John Macbeth - In this talk, thermal energy storage systems and their applications are introduced with a focus on the research being carried out by Greenspace Research on medium scale systems for domestic use; a 700 litres water based store.

Professor Frank Rennie - OER and distributed education for less developed countries, looking at the creation of open educational resources with a focus on Bhutan

Professor Richard Collacot - Why are suicide rates so high in the north of Scotland? Why is deliberate self-harm so common nowadays? How do we explain culturally determined psychological phenomena relating to the north of Scotland - MacDhui's Grey Man, the Second Sight, the Evil Eye? Is overindulgence in "Stornoway chicken" a mere myth, or reality?

Dr Sally Bell - A well-documented example of disease playing a role in an ecological invasion is the replacement of red squirrels by greys within the UK. This talk will describe how a mathematical model can be used to investigate the influence of "squirrelpox" on the replacement of red squirrels by greys.

Billy Mackinnon - 'A fail-safe guide to new enterprise start up and success' The workshop will examine some of the factors that need to be considered at start and beyond. The content is applicable to both profit and not for profit enterprises.

Dr Gareth Davies - 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.