Event Archive

2019

May

• MayFest 2019: Jack's Brain - Using Artificial Intelligence to Create Music from Live Painted Drawings

  25 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00

  Local award-winning artist Kate Steenhauer draws live on stage in Japanese ink, watch her work unfold on a screen through a projector.

• MayFest 2019: Tales from the Dark Side

  25 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:00

  Understanding How the Human Genome Controls Health & Disease

• MayFest 2019: First, Do No Harm: Addressing Medication-Related Harm in Older Persons

  24 May 2019, 18:30 - 19:30

  Join Professor Phyo Myint and his team to hear about their research and discuss how best to tackle this important issue.

• MayFest2019: Let's Talk About Mouth and Throat Cancer

  24 May 2019, 17:00 - 18:00

  In this event, you will hear from experts in the field about the risk factors, detection and treatment of these devastating cancers. The number of mouth and throat cancers is on the rise in UK and is significantly higher in Scotland compared to England. This is attributed to changes in alcohol...

• MayFest2019: From Where Do We See? Craft Skills and Aesthetics in MRI

  24 May 2019, 17:00 - 18:00

  Join us for the launch of the publication to accompany Beverley Hood's commission for Grampian Hospitals Art Trust. Beverley is investigating the work currently being developed by the IDentIFY research project and its link to Mark-1, the world’s first full body MRI scanner. The talk will be led by Dr Silvia...

• MayFest 2019: Next Time I'm Coming Back as a Man!

  24 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00

  A look at some 'women's problems', current research and how new advances could transform women's lives.

• MayFest 2019: In Sickness and in Health: A History of Hospitals in Aberdeen

  24 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00

  The talk looks at the history and development of hospitals in Aberdeen from the founding of the Infirmary at Woolmanhill in the 1730s.

• MayFest 2019: Healthy Ageing: What Does it Mean to You?

  24 May 2019, 11:30 - 13:00

  What is healthy ageing? What is the best way to age? Come and tell us what you think!

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  Cafe Scientifique - Is exercise bad for our joints?

  22 May 2019, 19:00 - 20:45

  An informal way to engage with the latest topics in science

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  Cafe MED - Live well with arthritis

  20 May 2019, 18:00 - 19:30

  Bringing the public, researchers and clinicians together