Dr Amy Frost investigates all of the architectural wonders that William Beckford spent his life constructing in this detailed biography.

Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME) President Baroness Masham of Ilton, who is also the Founder and President of the Spinal Injuries Association, and Dr Elizabeth White, Head of Research & Development at the College of Occupational Therapists deliver the BIME lecture.

The lecture focused on Professor Griffin's research about young people's everyday lives and what is important to them. She argued that young people are usually most concerned with fitting in, with where they belong in psychological and social terms - and with having fun. However, young people in affluent western societies are the target of substantial marketing campaigns that take full advantage of this in their advertising, branding and marketing of a range of products.

Western countries need to put far more effort into understanding China and other rising powers, argues Professor Peter Nolan in a public lecture hosted by the Humanities & Social Sciences Graduate School.

Professor Nolan (from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge) reviews the spectacular achievements of global business over the last thirty years.

Professor Rob Price delivers his inaugural lecture on his research in the field of aerosol science.

Leading architectural historian Dr Simon Thurley looks at the growing role of the state in the cultural life of the nation in the 40th Anniversary Gerald Walter's Memorial Lecture

Particle Physicist Dr Glenn Patrick talks about the Large Hadron Collider. Based at CERN, in Geneva, the collider is the largest scientific machine in the world. It started operation in the summer of 2008 and aims to produce colossal amounts of data, which thousands of scientists around the world will analyse to further our understanding of the universe.

Dr David Horsell of the University of Exeter explores graphene, nature's thinnest material.

Dr Glenn Patrick of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford looks at how particle physics has developed following Rutherford's discovery and what developments we might expect.

In his Inaugural lecture Professor Yiannis Gabriel from the School of Management critiques our desire to look for a story in every image.