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Past live streams

Athena Lecture 2025: Overcoming challenges in the pandemic

Dame Kate Bingham, Managing Partner, SV Health Investors, and former Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, explores the lasting impact of women's leadership and resilience during the pandemic.

Athena Lecture 2025: Overcoming challenges in the pandemic

Athena Lecture 2025: Overcoming challenges in the pandemic

Dame Kate Bingham, Managing Partner, SV Health Investors

Dame Kate Bingham, Managing Partner, SV Health Investors, and former Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, explores the lasting impact of women's leadership and resilience during the pandemic.

Frontiers in Natural Sciences 2025

Frontiers in Natural Sciences 2025

Professor Sir John Pendry, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics

Explore groundbreaking innovations in electromagnetism with Sir John Pendry for the Dean's Annual Lecture from the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Learn how metamaterials—revolutionary materials with novel electromagnetic properties—can redefine imaging, communication, energy technologies, and even concepts like invisibility.

A lecture from the Institute of Global Health Innovation

2025 and beyond: Outlooks for Science and Global Co-operatio

Julia Gillard, Chair of Wellcome and the 27th Prime Minister of Australia

Julia Gillard, Chair of Wellcome and the 27th Prime Minister of Australia, will canvas the outlook for science and politics in 2025 and beyond in this special lecture from the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London.

10 Years of Design Engineering

Special Lecture with Professor Carlos Moreno

Professor Carlos Moreno, Founder of the 15-minute city concept

Join Professor Carlos Moreno, founder of the 15-minute city concept, as he delivers a special lecture at Imperial College London as part of the 10th Anniversary Celebrations for the Dyson School of Design Engineering.

Vaccine development in a pandemic

Sir Ernst Chain Lecture 2024

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford, discusses the realities of developing a vaccine during a pandemic that affected every aspect of work and life for the annual Sir Ernst Chain Lecture from the Department of Life Sciences.