Lionel started as a Journalist in Cromer. Then ten years as a Headmaster (Principal) of a big Comprehensive High School in Cardiff. Lionel is now a popular TV and Radio presenter (most notably Fortean TV in the nineties for Channel 4) and celebrity guest on chat shows, as well as a fully ordained Anglican Priest. He’s a qualified weight–training instructor and a Dan Grade martial arts instructor.
Continue ReadingJustin Lewis is Professor of Communication and Head of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and a Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research. He has written widely about media, culture and politics. His books, since 2000, include Constructing Public Opinion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), Citizens or Consumers: What the media tell us about political participation (Open University Press, 2005), Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the War in Iraq (Peter Lang, 2005), Climate Change and the Media (Peter Lang 2009) and The world of 24 hour news (Peter Lang 2010). He has also written books on media audiences, cultural policy and media and race.
Continue ReadingJonathan Shepherd is Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Head of Department 1991-2003) and Vice Dean at Cardiff University. His research, spanning the social and medical sciences, has provided many new insights – particularly the great extent to which assault resulting in NHS treatment is not reported to the police and the substantial mental health impact on victims in terms of posttraumatic disorder and other conditions.
Continue ReadingAndy is a third generation entrepreneur and innovator. He’s worked as a gold miner, lifeboat crew, sea kayak coach, organisation development consultant and business director. Inspired by social and environmental justice and armed with a combination of instinct and conviction, he founded TYF in 1986 is currently spending much time on co-developing the Do Lectures.
Continue ReadingAnnouncing - Professor B. S. Sathyaprakash In 1916 Einstein predicted that dynamical mass distribution generates ripples in the very fabric of spacetime that propagates outwards at the speed of light. For over two decades B.S. Sathyaprakash (Sathya for his family and friends) has engaged in research to detect these ripples called gravitational waves, from cataclysmic cosmic events such as exploding stars, colliding black holes and the big bang. His personal goal is to observe and understand black holes and gravity using gravitational radiation. He is the head of the gravitational physics group at Cardiff University - a centre for modelling astronomical sources of gravitational radiation, discovering algorithms to search for this radiation and analyzing data from gravitational-wave detectors using massive computer clusters.
Continue ReadingWe're looking for a student intern from our sponsors, Cardiff University.
Continue ReadingWe are really pleased to have Cardiff University on board as our primary sponsor for our next event as we think they are a perfect match for TEDxCardiff. Our event is all about inspiring people though interesting and innovative talks as well as enhancing Cardiff's reputation, two things that the University is also very passionate about.
Continue ReadingThe talks from TEDxCardiff 2011 are now available to watch online. Our thanks this time go out to Brian from Crimzn who has battled against all sorts of audio problems to edit the talks together for you to enjoy. It's been a real joy watching these again, enjoying the brilliant, brilliant speakers who all generously gave their time to speak to us.
Continue ReadingWell, we don't know about you guys, but we thought that was fun! Apart from the bits where it was really hard work and stressful. But they were sort of fun too! ;-) TEDxCardiff is over for another year, and Claire and I are really pleased with how it went. The speakers were all brilliant, the volunteers were amazing, and the crowd were receptive and engaged.
Continue ReadingIf you weren't one of the lucky 100 to get a ticket in that frantic 59 minutes of phone calls to the Wales Millennium Centre then fear not! You can tune in live on the day via our live webstream, courtesy of our sponsors Sequence.
Continue ReadingWell, with tickets available in less than 24 hours, here's some info you may find useful if you're planning to join us on the 9th April.
Continue ReadingWe have an extra bonus event to announce, which will take place before TEDxCardiff starts. Certainly worth turning up early!
Saturday Lunch Hour Storytelling
With
TIM RALPHS
“The Allure of Lying”
As the curtain rises on the latest TEDxCardiff event, Beyond The Border is delighted to present performance storyteller Tim Ralphs and ‘The Allure of Lying’. Tim is a wordsmith and narrative artisan who will weave tradition folk tales with modern myths in this compelling collection, specially concocted to lead into the TEDx Cardiff Lectures. In “The Allure of Lying” he will take you on a journey charting the first falsehood told on the internet, the Devil’s favourite Facebook games and a museum curator’s trouble in disposing of corpses. Leading you laughing and enchanted by equal turns, the only question left unanswered will be whether anything you’ve heard is true!
Saturday 9th April – 12.00pm.
Presented by Beyond The Border Wales International Storytelling Festival
Continue ReadingThose of you that follow us on Twitter, or on Facebook will already know that we plan to hold the next TEDxCardiff on the Saturday 9th April 2011 at the Wales Millennium Centre.
Before we start planning in earnest, please let us know what you would like to see at the next TEDxCardiff.
Also, several have already expressed an interest in being involved, and the event couldn’t happen without the help of volunteers. We’re changing the way we work with volunteers, and will be putting together small, tight teams to run specific parts of the event. If you are interested in volunteering then please enter your details in this form.
Or, just drop us a line to info-at-TEDxCardiff-dot-co-uk if you would like to get in touch.
You can sign up to our mailing list to be kept up to date via email.
You can also see the Facebook event here.
Cheers!
Neil and Claire
p.s. Image by Rob May.
Continue ReadingWith huge thanks to Multistream, you’ll be able to watch the live stream of the whole event online. Just click here for more details.
Continue ReadingSome of you may remember that speaker DK is looking to discover what inspires people from the age of 1-100. He’s missing a few age groups, particular on the “more mature” end of the spectrum. Or maybe you have children who would be interested in telling him what inspires them?
If you can help him out, please click here.
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Lionel started as a Journalist in Cromer. Then ten years as a Headmaster (Principal) of a big Comprehensive High School in Cardiff. Lionel is now a popular TV and Radio presenter (most notably Fortean TV in the nineties for Channel 4) and celebrity guest on chat shows, as well as a fully ordained Anglican Priest. He’s a qualified weight–training instructor and a Dan Grade martial arts instructor.
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Justin Lewis is Professor of Communication and Head of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and a Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research. He has written widely about media, culture and politics. His books, since 2000, include Constructing Public Opinion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), Citizens or Consumers: What the media tell us about political participation (Open University Press, 2005), Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the War in Iraq (Peter Lang, 2005), Climate Change and the Media (Peter Lang 2009) and The world of 24 hour news (Peter Lang 2010). He has also written books on media audiences, cultural policy and media and race.
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Jonathan Shepherd is Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Head of Department 1991-2003) and Vice Dean at Cardiff University. His research, spanning the social and medical sciences, has provided many new insights – particularly the great extent to which assault resulting in NHS treatment is not reported to the police and the substantial mental health impact on victims in terms of posttraumatic disorder and other conditions.
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Andy is a third generation entrepreneur and innovator. He’s worked as a gold miner, lifeboat crew, sea kayak coach, organisation development consultant and business director. Inspired by social and environmental justice and armed with a combination of instinct and conviction, he founded TYF in 1986 is currently spending much time on co-developing the Do Lectures.
Continue ReadingWe’re proud to announce that TEDxCardiff sold out this morning in a record 20 minutes. We can’t quite believe it! Thanks to all of you for your support and help in promoting the event. We just wish we were able to have a larger event to accomodate all of you. There will be a live stream online for those of you who couldn’t get a ticket.
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Lionel started as a Journalist in Cromer. Then ten years as a Headmaster (Principal) of a big Comprehensive High School in Cardiff. Lionel is now a popular TV and Radio presenter (most notably Fortean TV in the nineties for Channel 4) and celebrity guest on chat shows, as well as a fully ordained Anglican Priest. He’s a qualified weight–training instructor and a Dan Grade martial arts instructor.
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