Baroness Greenfield networking drinks

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, State Library of Queensland, The Department of the Premier and Cabinet and Eidos will host a networking event with Baroness Susan Greenfield in Brisbane. Baroness Greenfield’s interests include the juncture between the brain, the science of learning, innovation, productivity and wellbeing. Her often controversial thoughts have important implications for the future of of living, learning and earning, and the life-wide services and programs we provide from pre-birth and the first four years of life to the national productivity impact of an innovative and creative workforce.

Baroness Greenfield has become the public face of science for many in the English-speaking world. Host of the BBC documentary series Brain Story, scholar, author and entrepreneur, Baroness Greenfield’s gift for communicating complex scientific issues to non-scientists have made her one of the more influential women of our times.

About the speaker
Baroness Greenfield is Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (the first woman to hold that position) and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team investigating neurodegenerative disorders. In addition she is Director of the Oxford Centre for the Science of the Mind, exploring the physical basis of consciousness.

Her books include “The Human Brain: A Guided Tour” (1997), “The Private Life of the Brain” (2000), and “Tomorrow’s People: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel” (2003) and “‘ID’ - The Quest for Identity” is due to be published in May 2008 by Hodder Publishing. She has spun off four companies from her research, made a diverse contribution to print and broadcast media, and led a Government report on “Women In Science”. She has received 29 Honorary Degrees, Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (2000), a non-political Life Peerage (2001) as well as the Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur (2003). In 2006 she was installed as Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University and voted `Honorary Australian of the Year’. . In 2007 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.