Swearing as a response to pain – public lecture at Keele University

A Keele University psychologist will discuss his research into swearing as a response to pain at a public lecture next month.
Dr Richard Stephens and his colleagues John Atkins and Andrew Kingston found that swearing can increase pain tolerance. Sixty-four undergraduate volunteers were asked to submerge their hand in a tub of ice water for as [...]

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New Inaugural Lecture Series at Keele, 2009/10

Professor Bulent Gokay, International Relations at Keele University, will give the opening lecture in the University’s programme of Inaugural Lectures for 2009/2010, on Wednesday, 7 October, 2009, in the Westminster Theatre on the Keele University campus. The title of the lecture is “Tectonic Shifts and Systemic Faultlines: A Historical Perspective on the 2008-2009 World Economic [...]

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Michael Mansfield QC to speak at Keele University 25/11/09

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED!
One of Keele University’s most famous alumni is to lift the lid on his high profile legal career at a free public lecture.
Michael Mansfield QC, who studied History and Philosophy at Keele in the early 1960s, has represented clients in some of the most controversial legal cases the [...]

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Management, Uncertainty, pragmatism: the new triumvirate

Professor Mihaela Kelemen, Management at Keele University, will give the last lecture in the University’s programme of Inaugural Lectures for 2008/2009, on Wednesday, 13 May 2009, in the Westminster Theatre on the Keele campus.
The title of the lecture is “Management, uncertainty, pragmatism: the new triumvirate”. Professor Mihaela Kelemen says: “Post bureaucratic organisational interrelations are fraught [...]

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Sentencing by judges or sentencing by numbers?

Controversial new sentencing guidelines and overcrowding in prisons are to come under the spotlight at a public lecture at Keele University this month.
Judge Roger Dutton, who sits as a circuit judge in Cheshire, will give the lecture “Sentencing by judges or sentencing by numbers” on Tuesday, May 26, at 6.30pm in the Westminster Theatre on [...]

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