Professor Henry Yeomans delivers second Faculty Inaugural Lecture

The Faculty was delighted to host Professor Yeomans' lecture celebrating his impressive research career.

On 23 October 2024, the Faculty of Social Sciences continued its Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series for the 2024-25 academic year. 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.

Prof. Yeomans delivering his lecture.

The second lecture in the series was delivered by Professor Henry Yeomans from the School of Law. Professor Yeomans is a historical criminologist who specialises in the study of alcohol regulation.

Head of the School of Law, Professor Louise Ellison, introducing Professor Yeomans' lecture.

Professor Yeomans delivered his lecture, ‘Alcohol Regulation, Historical Change and the Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous’, to a theatre of colleagues, postgraduate researchers, and students.

Audience applause at Professor Yeomans' lecture. Photography © Victor De Jesus.

As well as celebtaring his research career and achievements, the lecture elucidated the historic and contemporary messiness of alcohol regulation in England and Wales. 

Professor Yeomans and colleagues. 

The third Faculty of Social Sciences Inaugural Lecture will be delivered by The School of Education’s Professor Diane Pecorari on Thursday 14 November at 17:00 in William Bragg Building, LT (2.37). As with all of the events in this series, the lecture will be followed by a wine reception. 

If you are not a colleague or postgraduate in the Faculty of Social Sciences and would like to be added to the mailing list for this series, please email Dr Izzy Jenkinson (Faculty Events Coordinator) at I.K.S.Jenkinson@leeds.ac.uk.