The 7th TEDxyouth@manchester promised to be our best yet. We have five remarkable speakers who will share their ideas on Leadership, Feminist Economics, Identity, Climate Change and Resilience. We also have student perspectives on Global Partnerships, Mental Health and Scientific discovery.
Student performances are always a special feature of our conferences and this year will be no exception with world-class musicians from The Fallibroome Academy and Chetham's School of Music adding a unique element to our programme.
Speakers
Speakers may not be confirmed. Check event website for more information.
Alastair Campbell
Journalist, author and former political strategist
Alastair Campbell is a writer, communicator and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. Still active in politics and campaigns in Britain and overseas, he now splits his time between writing, speaking, charities and consultancy. He has written eleven books in the past eight years, including six volumes of diaries, three novels, a personal memoir on depression and the pursuit of happiness, and most recently Winners and How They Succeed, a Number 1 best-selling analysis of what it takes to win in politics, business and sport.Alice Bows-larkin
Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy
Alice Bows-Larkin is a Professor in Climate Science & Energy Policy as part of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and based within the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering. Alice trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Leeds, did her PhD in climate modelling at Imperial College, then worked in science communication. She returned to academia in 2003 joining the interdisciplinary Tyndall Centre to research conflicts between climate change and aviation. In 2008 she was appointed as a lecturer to direct projects on international transport and food supply scenarios within a climate change context. Alice is now Director of Tyndall Manchester, heads up the food@manchester cross University research area and is the lead Manchester investigator on a large consortium project funded by the EPSRC entitled 'Shipping in Changing Climates'. She has also recently been awarded a large EPSRC consortium project on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus.Katrine Marcal
Journalist and author
Columnist for Swedish paper Aftonbladet. Author of Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? Policy wonk. Feminist. Likes to bake.Matt Dickinson
Filmmaker, Mountaineer and Author
Matt Dickinson is a film-maker and writer who is best known for his award winning novels and his documentary work for National Geographic Television, Discovery Channel and the BBC. Dickinson was one of the climbers caught in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. In 2003 he was the co-writer and director of Cloud Cuckoo Land—an independent British movie.[1] He was educated at Hemel Hempstead School up to the age of sixteen and Gresham's School in Norfolk where he did his A levels. He joined the BBC in 1984, training as a researcher and production manager and working on programmes as diverse as Wogan and Ever Decreasing Circles. Dickinson left in 1988 to pursue a freelance career as a production-director. Specialising in adventure documentaries, Matt Dickinson's credits include ITV's Voyager, BBC1's Classic Adventure and several hour-long films such as Channel 4's Encounters, Equinox and ITV's Network First. His programmes have been broadcast in more than thirty-five countries and have wonSophie Coulombeau
Lecturer at Cardiff University, blogger and author
By day, teaching Romantic literature at Cardiff University and writing my first monograph,Romantic Onomastics: Naming and Identity in Britain 1770-1814. See here for my research page. http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/contactsandpeople/profiles/coulombeau_sophie.html By night, crafting fiction and culinary treats. I wrote a novel a couple of years ago. It looks likethis. Philip Pullman liked it. The second one’s on the way. I’m repped by Euan Thorneycroft at A.M.Heath. I was a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2014-2015, and I’m pretty interested in public engagement. So there’s stuff up here about that too. I blog about: writing fiction; eighteenth-century literature and culture; being an Early Career Researcher in the UK; arts funding; the odd modern novel; and food.Organizing team
