President's Seminar TT2024 - Sports Medicine

Every term, Wolfson College's President Sir Tim Hitchens hosts a Seminar in which three members of the College of different academic levels (a Governing Body Fellow, a Junior Research Fellow, and a Graduate Student) present on a general theme from the point of view of their own research or field of study.



The theme for Trinity Term 2024 is "Sports Medicine".

The Seminar will be hosted in the Haldane Room in Wolfson College on Monday the 23rd of October 2023 at 18:00 (GMT). Everyone is welcome to join.



Speakers:

Nicole Votruba: "Stronger, smarter, happier: How Exercise can boost your Body, Brain & Mental Health"

Paul Leeson: "Personalised exercise plans for heart health: do they work?"

Tom Brennan: "Spectacle and virtuosity in live performance - A theatre maker's perspective"



The President’s Seminar presents a unique opportunity to bring Wolfson members from different areas and expertise to discuss topics that can be broad and approached diversely by different disciplines. This format, though more informal in nature, provides an auspicious environment for friendly and innovative discussions that may otherwise not occur in more specialised academic environments, seasoning the experience with rich and new ideas, a sense of discovery, as well as an opportunity for different perspectives to collide and conspire together to broaden horizons and provide views that may be different from what one is accustomed to.



In this manner, the President’s Seminar is a space that is both fun and safe that emulates a more informal conversation while also providing the experience, specially to young researchers, of presenting their research and fields of study to a group of peers in a more formal academic setting whilst removing the pressure that a more formal event might entail, and creating an accessible circumstancer for personal development that can contribute to their own professional growth.On this spirit, at the end of the Seminar all presenters and attendees are cordially encouraged to join in the College Hall for informal supper in a reserved table that anyone can join where ideas can be further discussed by everyone over dinner.



The Seminar, originally created by former president Dame Hermione Lee, has been a staple of the Wolfson academic life for several years and has already become a welcomed tradition that follows in style and spirit the egalitarian culture and ethos of Wolfson College.