Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE

Recent Speaker

July 13, 2011

11.30am - 1.30pm

"A Dementia Free Future: Fantasy or Reality"

Baroness Greenfield has been Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology since 1996 at Oxford where she continues to head a multi-disciplinary research group.   She is also Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind.

She was awarded a CBE in 2000 and granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001.  Susan has written a number of books disseminating science to academic as well as non-academic sectors, exploring topics including the basis of consciousness and human nature. 

Her latest book, ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, is an exploration of what it means to be human in a world of rapid change and, by drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, looks at how we can promote our own individuality.