Bolton School Senior Girls
Arts and Sciences Enrichment Lectures
Bolton School Girls’ Division regularly hosts Arts and Sciences Enrichment Lectures. These evening events are free and open to the public. Refreshments are available from 6.30pm and parking is available in the Girls’ Division Quad (signposted on the night). You can subscribe here to receive reminder emails about forthcoming enrichment lectures.
If you would like more information, or to book a place for one of our talks, please contact our coordinators for academic enrichment:
Arts: Mrs J Hone (jhone@boltonschool.org)
Sciences: Mr B Ickringill (bickringill@boltonschool.org)
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2021/22 Lectures:
Our Perspectives Lectures, given by former pupils, remained virtual but open to the public. You can catch up on the events here:
Insights on Architecture from Alumni
Perspectives on Healthcare Careers
Alumnae Offer Creative Industries Perspective
Old Girls Talk Careers in Sport
We also ran the inaugural Platt Fisher Lecture which was open to the general public:
2020/21 Lectures:
As a result of Covid, no lectures took place in this academic year. However, the Girls' Division did host, virtually, an interesting selection of Perspectives talks featuring former pupils. Like the Arts and Science lectures, these too were open to the general public.
A Female Perspective on Ambition and Leadership - Sally-Anne Huang
Follow the links below to read recaps of previous Enrichment Evenings, or visit the Gallery to view photos from these events.
2019/20 Lectures:
- Richard A Shirres MSc (App.EnvSc), MICE, C Eng., ‘The United Nations: Working to Save the Biosphere and Our Future’
- Hallie Rubenhold, historian and author, ‘The Five; The Untold Lives of The Women Killed by Jack the Ripper’
- Professor Alice Roberts, anthropologist, ‘Tamed: Three Species That Changed the World’
- Raynor Winn, ‘The Salt Path’
- Miranda Krestovnikoff, history and wildlife presenter, ‘The Sea Around Me’
- Poetry Festival featuring UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage
- Dr Phylomena Badsey, ‘Women in World War One’ - cancelled due to Covid-19
- Professor Jackie Akhavan, ‘Explosives: The Past, Present and Future’ - cancelled due to Covid-19
2018/19 Lectures:
- Dr Jack Heal, science communicator, ‘Do Scientists Dream of Synthetic Sheep?’
- Dr Joyce Tyldesley, Egyptologist and Old Girl, ‘Nefertiti’s Face: The Creation of an Icon’
- Jo Fairley, leading entrepreneur, ‘The Rollercoaster Story of Green & Black’s and Lessons Learned Along the Way’
- Sophie Cartwright, barrister, ‘A Career in Law’
- Dr Emily Grossman, science communicator, ‘Too Sensitive for Science? Emotion, The Secret Asset in Your Career’
- Tim Bouverie, political journalist and author, ‘Appeasing Hitler’
- Dr Pete Edwards, Durham University Physics Department, ‘The Dark Side of the Universe’
- Poetry Festival featuring poet Liz Berry
2017/18 Lectures:
- John Pugh, former MP, ‘Life at Westminster’
- Isobel Garner, ‘Engineering the Building Blocks of Life’
- Antigone, Actors of Dionysus
- An evening with Tomasz Schafernaker, Meteorologist & BBC Weather Presenter
- Dr Peter Vardy, ‘Sexual Ethics’
- Dr Michael Scott, ‘Sicily - An Island for Everyone’
- The Royal Society of Statistics William Guy Lecture: Jeff Ralph, ‘Society and Teenagers: How statistics reveal the changes in young people’s lives through the last century’
- Dr Suzie Imber, ‘Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes?’
- The Poetry Festival: A Celebration of Creative Writing featuring poet Simon Armitage
2016/17 Lectures:
- Dr Laura Waters, ‘Alternatives to Animal Testing’
- Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, ‘Leadership Lessons from the Tudors’
- Dr Melanie Windridge, ‘In Search of the Northern Lights’
- An evening with poet Lemn Sissay
- In Conversation with Dame Evelyn Glennie
- Professor Jeff Forshaw, ‘Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos’
- Dr Heather Williams, ‘Seeing Inside: Imagining the Structure and Function of the Human Body’
- Michael Howard, ‘The Poetry of Art and the Art of Poetry’