Sluckin lectures
The Sluckin Lecture is an annual event at the University of Leicester to commemorate Professor Wladyslaw Sluckin (1919–1985), one of the original members of the University of Leicester’s Department of Psychology and Head of Department from 1973 until his retirement in 1984. He was Editor of the British Journal of Psychology from 1967 to 1973. He had a lasting influence on generations of students and colleagues and remains an inspiration to the School of Psychology and to British psychology in general.
The first Sluckin Lecture was delivered in 1991 by Professor Patrick Bateson, FRS, of King’s College, Cambridge.
Previous lectures
2022 - 2013
2022
- Cancelled (Covid-19)
2021
- Cancelled (Covid-19)
2020
- Cancelled (Covid-19)
2019 - Professor Mike Burton, University of York
- Face Perception: Recognising Friends and Checking Passports
2018 - Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, University College
- London Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Social Brain Development
2017 - Michael W. Eysenck, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Cognitive Neuroscience: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
2016 - Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge
- The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism
2015 - Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Leeds University
- A Pathway to Impact: Figure Skating Judging, Sex Education, and Beyond
2014 - Professor David Shanks, University College London
- The Replication Crisis in Psychology
2013 - Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
- Developmental Dyslexia and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Distinct Syndromes or Part of Normal Variation?
2012 - 2002
2012 - Andrew R. Mayes, University of Manchester
- Memory, Brain and Genes – and Some Educational Recommendations
2011 - Nicholas J. Mackintosh, University of Cambridge
- Sex differences in intelligence?
2010 - Sir Michael Rutter, Kings College London
- Testing Causal Inferences: Naturalistic Studies, ‘Natural Experiments’, Planned Experiments and Animal Models
2009 - Trevor W. Robbins, University of Cambridge
- From Impulsivity to Compulsivity
2008 - Anthony Dickinson, University of Cambridge
- Mental Time Travel by Animals
2007 - Aubrey Manning, University of Edinburgh
- The Animals and Ourselves
2005 - Rufus Johnstone, University of Cambridge
- The Evolution of Personality: An Adaptive View of Individual Differences in Behaviour
2004 - Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council
- Whither Psychology: Wither Psychology?
2003 - Nick Chater, University of Warwick
- Simplicity as a Fundamental Cognitive Principle
2002 - Adrian Furnham, University College London
- Music While You Work
2001 - 1991
2001 - John Sloboda, University of Keele
- Engaging with Music: Emotion, Motivation and Action
2000 - Jeffrey Gray, Institute of Psychiatry
- The Repair of Brain Damage and Cognitive Functioning Using Conditionally Immortalised Neural Stem Cells
1999 - Richard Gregory, University of Bristol
- Reflections on Mirrors
1998 - Jan B. Deregowski, University of Aberdeen
- The Perceptual Bounds of Artistic Portrayal
1996 - Robert Hinde, St Johns College, Cambridge
- Violence and War
1995 - Patrick Rabbitt, University of Manchester
- Models for the Ageing Mind
1994 - Margaret Boden, University of Sussex
- Minds and Machines: Forty Years On
1993 - Kacper Miklaszewski, Institute for Research in Music Education, Poland
- Learning Music: Psychological Research in Poland and Eastern Europe
1992 - Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh
- Infant Communicative Behaviour
1991 - Patrick Bateson, King’s College, Cambridge
- Early Learning in Animals