Division of Cancer Seminar – Thurs 12 November 2026
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Online masterclass with Professor Jonathan Jeffers “How to build something somebody wants” Thurs 19 November 2026
In this masterclass, you will bring your nascent idea and develop it through dialogue and constructive challenge to a level where the strengths and weakness become clear and an action plan to address the weakness can be defined.
The masterclass will be delivered by Jonathan Jeffers who has worked in various roles for Finsbury (acquired by J&J), Embody Orthopaedic (license deal with Zimmer Biomet), Additive Instruments (acquired by Smith & Nephew) and OSSTEC (raised circa £5m equity investment).
Please sign up for the masterclass via Eventbrite.
Imperial Fungal Science Network/Seminar Series – Thurs 19 November 2026
Join us for our next speaker programme in the Imperial Fungal Science Network/Seminar Series on Thursday, 19 November 2026. We are delighted to showcase research by Early Career Researchers across the three Network themes.
The Imperial Fungal Science Network is a hub for the mycology community, providing a leadership, advocacy and communications platform for mycologists and a developmental framework for future leaders in fungal research.
Meet Flagship Pioneering: Summer Fellowship 2027 Information Session – Wed 4 November 2026
Meet Flagship Pioneering: Summer Fellowship 2027 Information Session
Join Flagship Pioneering on Wednesday 4 November 2026, 6:30–8:30pm at The Impact Hub in Euston for an evening on scientific innovation, entrepreneurship, and company creation followed by a drinks reception and pizza. Register to attend here.
Flagship Pioneering is a scientific venture creation company based in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a growing presence in the UK through our London office. We create entirely new companies from ideas developed by our own scientists, and have founded more than 130, including Moderna, Generate Biomedicines, Inari, Indigo Agriculture and Lila Sciences.
Our Summer Fellowship 2027 is a paid, in-person, three-month programme in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in which PhD students and postdocs are embedded within company-creation teams. We welcome applicants from biology, chemistry, biomedical sciences, plant sciences, computer science, engineering, AI and related fields.
Next week, Dr Brad Coleman, Director of Fellowship & Talent Development, former fellows and colleagues from our UK team are hosting an event in Euston to meet prospective applicants.
When: Wednesday, 4th November, 18:30-20:30
Where: The Impact Hub, 1 Triton Square, NW1 3DX
Register: https://events.flagshippioneering.com/fellowshipinfosessionsuk
Early Career Forum – EPSRC Future Communications Systems Team
EPSRC – Future Communication Systems are delighted to announce the launch of an Early Career Forum. Information on this opportunity can be found via EPSRC Future Communication Systems Early Career Forum EoI – UKRI
EPSRC is seeking applications from Early Career Researchers (ECR’s) to join our Early Career Forum (ECF) for the Future Communications Systems Theme.
The ECF will act as an informal advisory stream to EPSRC. Members will be advocates for EPSRC within the community and provide a broad perspective on the needs and views of the Future Communications Systems community, offering opinion across the breadth of the Theme’s remit.
The Future Communications Systems Theme considers it important that the Forum shapes its own agenda and activities, suggesting items of discussion and providing relevant insight and feedback to EPSRC from the community they represent.
EPSRC are looking to recruit between 25-30 members in this exercise, welcoming applications from candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds with appropriate representation across research areas.
This opportunity is for an early career researcher, post-doctorate holding a PhD (or equivalent), based at a UK Higher Education Institution, or employed by a relevant business or organisation with an understanding of the processes required to deliver world class research activities in Future Communications Systems, and/or the commercialisation of such research. In addition, this call is open to industrialists and individuals working in the third sector and government organisations whose work is relevant to Future Communications Systems.
Application is by ‘Expression of Interest’ submitted via Citizen Space. This also includes a brief statement of support from the applicant’s host institution (employer).
Individuals interested in applying for this opportunity who are unsure of their eligibility and would like further information on this opportunity should contact EPSRC Future Communications Systems Theme (future.communications@epsrc.ukri.org). EPSRC – Future Communication Systems – More Information about the Theme
How to Build Something Somebody Wants (19 Nov 2026)
In this masterclass, you will bring your nascent idea and develop it through dialogue and constructive challenge to a level where the strengths and weakness become clear and an action plan to address the weakness can be defined.
The class will be delivered by Jonathan Jeffers who has worked in various roles for Finsbury (acquired by J&J), Embody Orthopaedic (license deal with Zimmer Biomet), Additive Instruments (acquired by Smith & Nephew) and OSSTEC (raised circa £5m equity investment).
Date: 19th November
Time: 12pm – 1.30pm
Responsible AI Seminar Series | November – December 2026
RESPONSIBLE AI SEMINAR SERIES
Tuesday, 10 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“AI Governance for Organisations”
Dr Achim Rosemann, University of Cambridge
The seminar examines key components of organisational AI governance to help leaders and decision-makers implement responsible AI strategies within companies, universities, charities, and other organisations. Designed as an interactive session, the seminar will invite participants to work in small groups to explore the adoption of an AI system in an organisational setting of their choice.
Tuesday, 17 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“Emerging Questions in AI Welfare”
Geoff Keeling and Winnie Street, Google
This talk will provide the philosophical groundwork for a scientific, philosophical and ultimately democratic inquiry into the potential for AI welfare, addressing key questions that cut across different arguments: what welfare is, how to interpret behavioural evidence of AI welfare, what kinds of entities might qualify as candidate AI welfare subjects, the potential grounds for welfare in AI and the practical ethical challenges that arise from our uncertainty.
Monday, 23 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“In Praise of Local AI Agents”
Dr Juan Pablo Bermúdez, University of Southampton
One of the most intriguing theories in philosophy is the extended mind hypothesis: the view that our minds are so intertwined with parts of our environment that our mind itself extends beyond our skull and into the world. We offload maths to a calculator, memory to our notebooks – and now we offload reasoning and creativity to AI. This talk will explore our relationship with AI through the extended mind lens. Is it possible that our thinking, learning, and creating become so integrated with LLMs that these systems become part of our minds? And if so, what are the practical consequences?
Tuesday, 24 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“Rise of the Intention Economy: How Generative AI Transforms the Attention Economy”
Dr Jonnie Penn, University of Cambridge
This talk identifies and names a new economic model emerging from unprecedented investment in generative and agentic AI–one focused not on capturing attention, but on predicting and shaping human intention instead. Drawing on more than a decade of original research with Dr Yaqub Chaudhary, the talk argues that AI systems are already being used to forecast and intervene in ‘intelligent’ decision-making processes across work, politics, markets and everyday life, with far-reaching consequences for democracy and the institutions behind shared reality.
Tuesday, 1 December | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“Governing AI in an Unequal World”
Dr Rachel Adams, University of Cambridge
The talk will consider what a genuinely global system of AI governance would require if it is to do more than manage the risks created by today’s distribution of technological power. It asks how international cooperation might instead help shape an AI future in which the benefits, capabilities and decision-making power associated with AI are more widely shared, and in which responsible AI is understood not only as a technical or regulatory challenge, but as a question of global justice.
Recruiting Potential Host Supervisors for MBBS CRI Research Experiences – Flexible Funding Attached
Dear potential supervisor,
We are recruiting for the Year 2 MBBS CRI research experiences: 3-week research experiences for groups of four 2nd year medics from 24 May 2027 to 11 June 2027. Many of our fantastic medical students use this opportunity to identify supervisors for summer experiences, iBSc research projects, and future PhDs. Each group comes with £600 of flexible funding, and further information is attached. Please note that primary supervisors should have a PhD.
If you can offer a research experience:
- Reply to this email with the number of groups you can host (each group has 4 students).
- Complete the Qualtrics form by Friday, 30 October 2026.
Example projects from last year include:
- Comparative Analysis of Antiviral Immune Responses in Epithelial and Non-Epithelial Cells of COPD Patients and Healthy Controls
- Functional characterisation of Salmonella genes upregulated in infected macrophage
- Analysing the relationships between elite performance, diet, and bone health
- Development of an AI tool for automated interpretation of QT dispersion from digital 24h 12-leave ECGs
- Analysis of Surgical Field Visibility and Draping in Simulated Operative Settings
If you have any academic queries, please email: ahran.arnold@imperial.ac.uk.
If you have any administrative queries, please email: feo.years1-2@imperial.ac.uk
We look forward to working with you and greatly appreciate your support of the programme.
Best wishes,
Dr Ahran Arnold
CRI Module Lead
Dr Kathryn McGurk
CRI Deputy Module Lead
Ms Sasha Lindsay
Student Conduct & Programme Administrator (MBBS Phase 1)
Lecture: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI – (18 Nov 2026)
Title: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI
Speaker: Professor Michael I Jordan, Director of Research at Inria Paris
Date: Wednesday 18th November, refreshments from 3:30pm, talk from 4:30pm
Location: SAF 16, South Kensington campus
Agenda
15:30 – Refreshments and poster presentations
16:30 – Gabor Lecture
18:00 – Refreshments and research posters
Michael’s talk is highly topical and will focus on how we should all be thinking about AI not just as individual machines designed to imitate human intelligence but as part of a wider system of people, technology, markets and institutions. He will challenge the idea that AI progress is simply about building ever more capable machines but ask how we design AI enabled systems that work effectively for society as a whole, rather than optimising technology in isolation.
Michael is a leading computer scientist and statistician with more than 40 years advancing machine learning, statistics and AI.
This is a timely talk that will be of interest to many so please do register your spot early to avoid disappointment – all welcome!
Full abstract and link to register your place here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/214455/gabor2026/
IGHI Lecture – Global Challenges, Human Solutions with Dr Christos Christou – (11 Nov 2026)
What happens when medicine and politics intersect in humanitarian settings?
Join the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) on Wednesday 11 November for the IGHI Special Lecture “Global Challenges, Human Solutions” with Dr Christos Christou.
We’d love to welcome you in person for the lecture and discussion, followed by refreshments and networking. If you’re unable to join us on campus, you can also attend online.
Dr Christos Christou, surgeon and humanitarian leader, will discuss how medicine, leadership and politics intersect in real humanitarian settings. Dr Christou will share what he has learnt from years of clinical and operational work with Médecins Sans Frontières, and where he sees opportunities academic institutions to contribute to humanitarian medicine.
The Lecture takes place on 11 November 2026, 17:00-19:00, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, or livestreamed.
See event details and register here