Economists at the University of Leicester are tackling head-on issues that are hitting the headlines, bringing a sense of immediacy and relevance to the subject matter. Professor Panicos Demetriades introduces the real-life world of banking to his students.

One of the world's leading scholars of Islam and its relationship with the West will be in Nottingham on March 10 and 11 2008 to deliver this year's Firth Lectures in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at The University of Nottingham.

Cardiff University is to mark St David’s Day, in its 125th anniversary year, with a public lecture delivered by the Secretary of State for Wales.

A leading US academic will visit Queen’s University later this week to provide an insight into the American public’s perceptions of and reactions to their country’s terrorism and counter-terrorism policies.

Mistakes that were made in Iraq and Afghanistan should not ‘obscure our national interest … in supporting movements for democracy’ pleaded the Foreign Secretary, the Rt Hon David Miliband MP on Tuesday 12 February 2008, when he delivered the Aung San Suu Kyi lecture at St Hugh’s College, on ‘The democratic imperative’.

Imagine you are taking an introductory biology course. You're studying for an exam and realize it would be helpful to revisit the professor's explanation of RNA interference. Fortunately for you, a digital recording of the lecture is online, but the 10-minute explanation you want is buried in a 90-minute lecture you don't have time to watch.

The role of Wiltshire’s landscape in inspiring artists through time will be explored in a lunchtime lecture at the University of Bath in Swindon (Tuesday 25 September).

Dr. Thea Tlsty, an expert on cancer at the University of California at San Francisco, will present some of her latest research on the origin and development of cancerous cells in the body.