- -: TEDxGranta -- Julie Barnes -- Health, Technology and Social Responsibility
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Founder of Somaxa Ltd and CEO of new molecular diagnostics business Abcodia Ltd, Julie Barnes has over 25 years' experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. In this talk, Julie shows how advances in technology will put us in charge of our own health, enabling us to understand an...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Rowan Harvey -- 21st Century Suffragettes
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Social Anthropologist Rowan Harvey is Policy and Advocacy Officer for the international development charity Plan International (UK) who became a governor of the LSE aged just 26. Rowan's talk aimed to recruit the audience as 21st century suffragettes, stressing the vital importance to society, an...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Donna Lynas -- The Role of Artists in Wider Society
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Donna Lynas is the Director of Wysing Arts Centre. Wysing operates as an R&D centre for the arts, bringing artists together in structured ways to look at ideas. Donna's talk illustrates the Wysing approach, and presents a number of projects that it has generated, including the communal building f...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Anne Miller -- Give Creativity a Chance ... When You Need Change
April 26, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Anne Miller is one of the world's most prolific female inventors, and author of How to Get your Ideas Adopted (and Change the World). In this talk, Anne explores her ideas on change and our need to address looming crises from a perspective of innovation and creativity. Can we create the change w...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Sarah Outen -- How I let go and went rowing
May 4, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Sarah is a world-breaking ocean rower. In August 2009 she became the first woman and youngest person to single-handedly row the Indian Ocean, and the youngest woman to solo any ocean, raising over £30,000 for arthritis charities. Sarah's talk vividly describes the highs and lows of taking on su...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Ann Cotton --Camfed: Promoting Girls' Education
May 5, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ann Cotton is founder and Executive Director of Camfed International, a charity which has improved the school environment for over a million children in 2,295 communities in Sub-saharan Africa. Their work fights poverty and HIV/AIDS by investing in education for girls and women. Ann's talk was ...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- John Wroe -- Street Child World Cup
May 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)John is Executive Director of Cambridge-based charity Momentum Arts and prime mover in the Street Child World Cup in Durban, recognised as 'one of the best ideas to come out of Cambridge in the last 800 years.' John's very powerful talk explains how the Street Child World Cup 2010 came to be, an...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Jennifer Rubin -- Measuring Serious Crime
May 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Jennifer Rubin is Director of the Communities, Safety and Justice Programme at RAND Europe. Jennifer's talk explores the hidden nature of the scale of serious and organised crime (e.g. drug and human trafficking), and suggests how methods used in natural sciences could help to address these issue...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Nicky Webb -- Extraordinary public art
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Nicky Webb is the co-founder of creative producers Artichoke, who have been responsible for some of the most ambitious and inspiring arts events of the past few years, including The Sultan's Elephant and Antony Gormley's One & Other. Nicky's talk describes the role, challenges and delights of st...
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