Lane Lecture
Ronald Lane became the first ever Professor of Occupational Health when he was appointed to a chair in Manchester University in 1945. This was the first chair in this discipline and the first university department of occupational health.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Professor Andrew Curran |
Delivering occupational health research in government: An important front line service? |
| 2023 | Professor Ira Madan |
Convergent Junctions – how the clinical, political, and cultural landscape has changed Occupational Health practice in recent decades and why Occupational Health research is more important than ever. |
| 2022 | Professor Nicola Cherry |
Have workplace studies had their day? |
| 2021 | Dr Lesley Rushton Emeritus Reader of Occupational Epidemiology and Chair of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) |
Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? |
| 2020 | Professor Cath Noakes School of Civil Engineering University of Leeds |
Droplets of Aerosols – the complex physics of respiratory disease transmission |
| 2019 | Dr Jenny Hoyle Consultant Respiratory Physician North Manchester General Hospital |
30 years of SWORD: forging the links between research and practice to produce impact (PDF) |
| 2018 | Professor John Cherrie Principal Scientist, Institute of Occupational Medicine Professor of Human Health, Heriot-Watt University |
The exposome and work |
| 2017 | Professor Raymond Agius Emeritus Professor of Occupational Medicine, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester |
From patients to prevention – a journey through occupational and environmental medicine. |
| 2016 | Professor David Fishwick Chief Medical Officer and Co-Director of the Centre for Workplace Health, HSL |
The lungs at work: from cotton mills to composites? |
| 2015 | Professor Keith Palmer Professor of Occupational Medicine, University of Southampton and Consultant Occupational Physician |
Health risks and benefits of extended working life: is retirement good for you? |
| 2014 | Professor Neil Pearce Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Getting occupational health back on the policy agenda. |
| 2013 | Professor Paul Cullinan Professor in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London Honorary Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London |
Occupational asthma: too much of a bad thing. |
| 2012 | Professor Richard Wakeford Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester |
Risks from exposure to ionising radiation – the contribution of occupational studies. |
| 2011 | Professor Tarani Chandola Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Manchester |
Work and stress in post-recession Britain. |
| 2010 | Dr Jos Verbeek Senior Researcher at Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Associate Professor at Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, University of Amsterdam |
Evidence for the effectiveness of occupational health interventions: help or hindrance for practitioners? |
| 2009 | Professor Jon Ayres Professor of Environmental and Respiratory Medicine, University of Birmingham |
Environments and health – complexity meets pragmatism. |
| 2008 | Professor Sir Anthony J Newman Taylor Deputy Principal, National Heart and Lung Institute |
Causation attribution and compensation: the development of industrial injuries benefit in the UK. |
| 2007 | Professor Dame Carol Black Government Director for Health and Work and Professor of Rheumatology at UCL Medical School |
Health, work and well-being: the challenge of translating theory into practice. |
| 2006 | Professor Sherwood Burge Consultant Respiratory Physician, Department of Lung Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital |
What is occupational asthma? |
| 2005 | Professor Julian Peto London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Asbestos related cancer deaths in the UK – the past, present and future. |
| 2004 | Professor Bert Brunekreef Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht |
Health effects of traffic-related air pollution. |
| 2003 | Professor TC Aw Professor of Occupational Medicine, Kent Institute of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury |
Occupational diseases: dilemmas in attributing causation. |
| 2002 | Professor Paul W Brandt-Rauf Professor of Public Health and Director of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York |
Molecular epidemiology: the case of vinyl chloride. |
| 2001 | Professor David Coggon Epidemiologist and Honorary Consultant Physician, MRC Environmental Unit, Southampton General Hospital |
Occupational health research in the UK – where next? |
| 2000 | Professor Corbett McDonald Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Brompton Hospital, London |
Asbestos fibre type and carcinogenicity. |
| 1999 | Professor Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London Medical School |
Psychosocial factors and work. |
| 1998 | Professor Anthony Seaton Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aberdeen. |
Hunting for demons: asthma and the wider environment. |
| 1997 | Professor James H Vincent Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Minnesota |
Occupational hygiene science and its application in occupational health policy: at home and abroad. |
| 1996 | Professor Sir Colin Berry The London Hospital Medical College |
Small risks and “the robots of dawn”. |
| 1995 | Miss Jenny Bacon Director-General of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) |
Occupational health: the next 50 years. |
| 1994 | Professor Robert Lauwery The Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels |
Critical effect levels of lead on the kidney in adult male workers and the general population. |
| 1993 | Professor Roger J Berry Director of the Westlakes Research Institute |
Childhood cancer and parental occupational radiation exposure – a paradox within an enigma. |
| 1992 | Professor Richard SF Schilling Emeritus Professor of Occupational Health, London University |
The role of universities in occupational health. |
