Monday 28th June - Edge Talks
This year's festival begins on 28th June at 5.30pm with ‘Edge Talks’, the University’s own TED Talk inspired spin-off. This series of 10-minute talks will be delivered by a variety of inspirational speakers on a topic of their choice under the theme of Renewal. The talks will cover topics currently being researched at Edge Hill from how British highstreets can recover to how self-driving cars are learning to make decisions.
Wednesday 30th June - The Untold (animal) Stories of COVID-19
Wednesday’s event, The Untold Stories of COVID-19 will look at how we heal our fraught relationship with nature with ideas coming from three experts on the environment and human-animal interactions.
Thursday 1st July - Recovery and Renewal: The Future of Primary Care Research
Thursday’s Recovery and Renewal: The future of Primary Care Research event will focus on new health research and asks which topics should be a priority in light of the crisis. Leading the event will be Dr Greg Irving who is both a GP and an Edge Hill university academic.
Friday 2nd June - Turning Disaster into Opportunity
The final event on Friday 2nd June Turning Disaster into Opportunity will analyse the positive environmental impacts of the pandemic including improved air quality and asks how we can maintain this progress in the rush to ‘get back to normal’. Edge Hill’s Professor Paul Aplin will discuss whether we are letting an opportunity for dramatic change slip through our fingers.
All are welcome at the events and whether coming to the University in person or joining the discussion online everyone at Edge Hill is excited to see members of the public and the global Edge Hill Community at the festival.
While some events require registration, all of the events are free and are hosted at the University’s campus or can be accessed online, full details of all the events and how to sign up are on the Festival of Ideas webpage.
The festival draws on academic strands within the University’s three Research Institutes; The Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE); The Institute for Social Responsibility (ISR); and The Health Research Institute (HRI) with additional support from the Data Science Research Centre (DSRC) and The Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS).