Higher Education Undiscovered Subjects

The Higher Education Undiscovered Subjects is a biennial event that last took place in February and March 2023. The lectures on university subjects not traditionally taught in school are for students in Years 10-12 and always attract an impressive line-up of speakers who are leading academics from UK universities. The lectures are always open to students from our state partner senior schools and we are really pleased that students from West London Free School, Lady Margaret’s, Greenford High School, Cardinal Vaughan and Kensington Aldridge Academy joined us in 2023.

For this year's programme we welcomed:

Dr Chloe Martindale, University of Bristol, Computer Science
Dr Jessica Hope, University of St Andrews, Sustainable Development
Dr Anna Souhami, University of Edinburgh, Criminology
Dr Jos Darling, University of Bath, Engineering
Dr Emilia Terracciano, University of Manchester, History of Art
Dr Chris Holland and Dr Lewis Owen, University of Sheffield, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor Kevin Hiscock, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
Dr Alexander Smith, University of Warwick, Sociology
Professor Barrie Kellam, University of Nottingham, Pharmacy
Dr Angela Lorenz, University of Warwick, Business
Dr Stephanie Piper, University of York, Archaeology
Dr David Bather Woods, University of Warwick, Philosophy
Dr Lucy Floyd, Oxford Brookes University, Law
Dr Sally Street and Dr Trudi Buck, Durham University, Anthropology
Dr Andrew Ainscough, Lancaster University, Creative Writing
Professor Ian McFadzean, King’s College, London, Biomedical Sciences
Dr Gerado Ortega, University of Birmingham, Linguistics
Dr Cillian McBride, Queen’s University, Belfast, Political Theory
Dr Tamsin Ford, University of Cambridge, Psychiatry
Dr Rosalie Allain, University of Oxford, Human Sciences

Aims

To introduce students to subjects which they cannot study at school, but can study at university by means of a lecture given by an academic, followed by Q&A.

Resources

In 2023 there were 20 supervised lectures and in total including organisation around 30 hours of G&L staff time. School facilities.

The event is online and the academics give their time free of charge.

 

 

Pupil Involvement

Over 90 Sixth Formers from state schools attended in 2023.

Frequency

Biennial.

Ongoing.