185th Session

Meetings in the 185th Session 2017 – 2018

Tuesday 10 October 2017
Lord O’Neill of Gatley
Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester
The need for more and better economic, especially, regional data
Bio for Lord O’Neill

Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Professor Leon Feinstein
Director of Evidence, Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England
Genetics and social class

Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Dr Iain McGilchrist
Psychiatrist and Author, Talisker, Isle of Skye
Brain asymmetry and the weirdness of the West

Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Mr Jon Rouse
Chief Officer, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
The £22 billion question – how can data help Greater Manchester optimise the impact of public services on population health?

Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Dr Chandrika Nath
Acting Director & Scientific Advisor, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
Why Science matters to Parliament

Bio for Dr Chandrika Nath


Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Sir Andrew Dilnot CBE
Warden, Nuffield College, Oxford
Numbers and public policy: why the statistics really do matter

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
After-dinner speaker: Eamonn O’Neal DL
Broadcaster, Journalist and CEO of St Ann’s Hospice
Chronometers tick, cannons boom and any old map will do

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March 2018 Meeting: Sir Andrew Dilnot

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February 2018 Meeting: Dr Nath

Why Science matters to Parliament Members of Parliament frequently have to debate, and take decisions on, complex issues such as: How do we prevent the next pandemic?; Are grammar schools effective?; What will climate change mean for the UK? These are just a few of the questions that arise in Parliament as it conducts

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January 2018 meeting: Jon Rouse

The £22 billion question: how can data help Greater Manchester optimise the impact of public services on population health? Greater Manchester’s health and care system faces many challenges in terms of improving the health and wellbeing of its population, and closing the gap in the disparities that exist between locali

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