Professor Joanne Greenhalgh delivers first Faculty Inaugural Lecture

The Faculty was delighted to host Professor Greenhalgh’s lecture celebrating her impressive, interdisciplinary research career.

For the 2024-25 academic year, the Faculty of Social Sciences has launched its Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series. The lectures in this series are delivered by academic colleagues who have been promoted to or appointed at the rank of Professor in the faculty since January 2020.

Professor Greenhalgh (left) being introduced by head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy, Professor Karen Throsby (right). Photograph © Victor De Jesus.

The series launched on Thursday 3rd October 2024 and saw the School of Sociology and Social Policy’s Professor Joanne Greenhalgh deliver her inaugural lecture, “So, you’re a Methodologist?”: Doing interdisciplinary, theory driven health and social research, to an audience of colleagues past and present, postgraduate researchers, family, and friends.

Audience applause at Professor Greenhalgh's lecture. Photograph © Victor De Jesus.

Professor Greenhalgh’s lecture blended the professional and intellectual with the personal. It charted her journey from a Bachelors student of Psychology, through to her joining the School of Sociology and Social Policy, while simultaneously reflecting on what it means to be a methodologist.

The faculty would like to thank Professor Greenhalgh for her brilliant lecture and for kicking-off the Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series.

Photographs of the reception after Professor Greenhalgh's lecture © Victor De Jesus.

The second Faculty of Social Sciences Inaugural Lecture will be delivered by The School of Law’s Professor Henry Yeomans on ‘Alcohol Regulation, Historical Change and the Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous’.

It will take place on Wednesday 23 October at 16:00 in the Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28). For full details and to register for this lecture, please see the website’s event listing.