On Monday 21 February, Malcolm Woollard, Professor of Pre-hospital and Emergency Care from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University, gave a Professorial Lecture about the use of the ‘kiss of life’ and why some experts in 1998 controversially recommended that mouth-to-mouth training be removed from public classes.
Professor Peter White of Coventry University discusses carbon emission reduction, with a focus on the automobile. Topics raised in the lecture include technical innovation, alternative fuels and consumer attitudes towards motoring.
Part of the Coventry University professorial lectures series. To find out about upcoming lectures, please visit: http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/events/lectures/Pages/ProfessorialLecutures.aspx
Prof. Keith Popplewell, Jaguar Cars Professor of Engineering Manufacture and Management. gives a lecture entitled Sharing enterprise knowledge to collaborate - A competitive strategy for SME's. This lecture was part of the Coventry University Professorial lecture series.
Neil Forbes, Professor of International History gives a lecture entitled Defenders of Democracy? (Big business, ideological crisis and war, 1931-1940) as part of the University’s Professorial Lecture Series.
David French is Professor of Health Psychology in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences in Coventry University.
In this talk he discusses the health benefits of helping people to be more active through walking and the way that health psychology interventions can dramatically improve the amount of walking that people do.
Please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/hli to find out more about research into Health and Lifestyle Interventions at Coventry University.
Alan Hunter is Professor of Asian Studies at Coventry University. In this talk he discusses the social, cultural and political impact that the internet has had on China- exploring a number of interesting case studies of web-enabled activism within the People's Republic.
To find out more about Professor Alan Hunter's work you can visit the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University http://www.coventry.ac.uk/peacestudy
In this talk he discusses the growing influence of China in the Automotive Industry and describes some of the barriers that Chinese industry needs to overcome in order to become a global player.
Peter Foyer is a Visiting Professor in the Principles of Engineering Design at Coventry University.
In this lecture he talks about his long and varied career in Engineering Consultancy and Education. Including the work he has been doing on the Trucktrain project.