Date: 27th October 2015
Locn: Coventry University, Engineering and Computing Building, CV1 5GB
Time: 18.30 for 19.00
Attendance is free, but please register: http://www.theiet.org/events/local/217543.cfm
On the 27th of October, Baroness Susan Greenfield visits Coventry to give a presentation on “How might the Digital World be Changing the Human Mind“. The talk has been organised by the IET Coventry and Warwickshire Network in conjunction with BCS Coventry.
Baroness Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford and she was Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh from 1998 to 2010.
Baroness Greenfield co-founded Neuro-bio in 2013 where she is Chief Scientific Officer. She introduced the concept of “mind change”, an umbrella term comparable to climate change, encompassing the diverse issues involved in the impact of the 21st century environment on the brain.