
Lectures
Audiences
I have given formal lectures to:
- all age groups, from junior/middle/senior schools, undergraduates and postgraduates, old scholars associations to senior citizens organisations
- academic and professional bodies of chemists, physicists, astronomers and geologists
- engineers (mechanical, electrical, civil, aeronautical, telecoms and IT)
- local government officers, development organisations
- finance directors, investment bankers
- public relations officers, catering suppliers, transport managers
- Government Ministers, Politicians (both houses)
- six Lord Mayors
- clinicians. hospital patients, drug companies
- veterinarians, forensic scientists, industrial chemists
- science fiction enthusiasts, radio hams
- horticulturists, agriculturists
- businessmen (international, city and local)
- Rotary clubs, Round Tables
- arts and literary audiences
- religious leaders
- school prize winners
- life sentence prisoners in jail
Venues
The places I have lectured at include:
- Parliament (Westminster and the Welsh Assembly)
- the British Embassy Paris (as part of the Entente Cordiale celebrations)
- the Bank of England
- the Royal Institution
- the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- the Mansion House and City Livery Companies
- Inns of Court, a 15th century banqueting hall
- the Pump Rooms (Bath)
- Whitemoor Prison, a witness box in a simulated court
- museums, hospitals, libraries, factories
- business premises, hotels
- science/art/film/cartoon festivals
- musical theatres, cinemas including an Imax and one in Soho
- Twickenham rugby stadium
- church halls, village fetes, marquees, golf clubs
- a naval vessel, a passenger liner, an aircraft hanger
- a French restaurant, a working man's club, many pub bars
- Disneyland Paris
- taxis, taxi queues (at Cannes railway station), supermarket checkouts, garage forecourts
- numerous schools, colleges and universities
Named / Memorial Lectures
- Robert Cormack Bequest Lecture, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Lord Heycourt Lecture, University Aberystwyth
- Handley Page Lecture, Cranfield University
- Sir Harrie Massey Lecture, University College London
- Fisher Lecture, Rothamsted Research
- McMenemy Seminar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Millennium Lecture, University of Bath
- Inaugural Lecture Mars Society
- Royal Geographical Society Christmas Lecture
- Darwin Memorial Lecture, Shrewsbury
- Reginald Mitchell Lecture, Stoke
- Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Lecture, Manchester
- Cambridge Astronomical Association Christmas Lecture
- Halley Lecture, St Paul's School
Exhibitions
- The Royal Society Summer Exhibition and Soireé (7 times)
- Buckingham Palace (Queen's 80th birthday celebrations)
- Farnborough Air Show (3 times)
- Paris Air Show
- National Maritime Museum (The Beagle Voyages, ran for 7 months)
- The Cartoon Museum (Mars in their Eyes, ran for 3 months)
- The National Museum of Wales (Space is a funny place, ran for 3 months)
- Science Museum
- International Aerospace Congress Bremen (2003)
- Chelsea Flower Show (with Hadlow College)
- White Cube Gallery (with Damien Hirst)
- Astrofest
- Tomorrow's World
- SET week Imperial College
- CBI Conference
- Beagle Dog Show