Susan Greenfield to present Drever lecture

The acclaimed Professor of Physiology Baroness Susan Greenfield will receive an honorary degree from the University on 11 May. The ceremony will take place at 4.30pm in the Ustinov Room, Bonar Hall, and all University staff are invited to attend in full academic dress.

Baroness Greenfield is the first female Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and a prolific scientist. Currently Fullerian Professor of Physiology at Oxford, she has made an exceptional contribution to the understanding of psychopharmacology, the chemical basis of behaviour.

A drinks reception will take place at Tower Green after the ceremony. Baroness Greenfield will then present the Drever Lecture in the Tower Extension lecture theatre at 6.15pm, to which all staff are invited to attend.

In her lecture, entitled 'The Chemicals of Consciousness', Baroness Greenfield will discuss how consciousness is now attracting the attention of scientists as well as philosophers. She will argue that there is a need to understand consciousness in a way that caters for the diverse range of chemicals operating in the brain, as a means of explaining the mood modifying and consciousness changing effects of drugs.