Urban mammals: what happens in your garden after dark?
6pm 5th September at the Bevy Pub, 50 Hillside, Bevendean, Brighton
Dawn Scott, University of Brighton
Dawn will talk about the behaviour and ecology of urban mammals. She will explain how badgers, foxes and hedgehogs have adapted to our cities, what opportunities and problems can occur and how they interact with us and each other. Dawn would also like to discuss with the audience how we can coexist with urban mammals, minimizing any problems and maximising benefits of living together.
Brains at the Bevy talks are a series of short and enlightening talks from local academics organised by The University of Brighton CUPP programme and hosted by the Bevy Community Pub
Future Brains at the Bevy Talks
26th September
Food allergy: facts and fiction
What exactly is food allergy? Is it increasing? What foods are we allergic to in UK? Are different people allergic to different food in different countries? Are some food allergies more series than others? Come and listen to Professor Dean who has been studying food allergy for 30years
24th October
Sole Searching – Shoes and stories of our modern material culture.
This interactive talk, based around pairs of shoes made of weird, wacky and wonderful waste materials will explore how we think and feel about the materials that make up the things we buy in the modern consumer age.
28th November
How to save our NHS The NHS has been struggling for decades — but was it doomed to fail, or has it been destroyed on purpose? We will zoom through a brief history of the NHS to understand how our health system got to be the way it is today, and what we can do to make it thrive and survive.