Host: Professor Claire Halpin

Venue: MSI Large Lecture Theatre, SLS

Biography:

Volker Haucke studied biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin and at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel (1989-1994) as a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In 1997, he was awarded a PhD ("summa cum laude") in biochemistry by the University of Basel (Biozentrum) for his work in the laboratory of Gottfried Schatz on the mitochondrial protein import machinery. From 1997 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group Pietro De Camilli at Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) funded by long-term fellowships from the Human Frontier Science Programme Organization (HFSP) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Since 2000 he led an independent research group funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Centre for Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Göttingen. In 2003, he became chair of the Department of Membrane Biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin.

About the lecture series:

Adam Neville was the Principal of the University of Dundee from 1978-1987. This lecture series was set up in recognition of Adam Neville’s key role in ensuring the survival of the Department of Biochemistry in the late 1970s at a time when its financial position was extremely precarious. This is one of SLS’s most prestigious named lectures.

In this presentation, Calum MacGillivray will discuss findings from a recent review of reviews and subsequent systematic review of the international literature related to primary-secondary transitions, educational outcomes, engagement and motivation. 

He will also spend time discussing methodology and conceptualisations with reflections that should be helpful for those who plan to conduct their own systematic reviews of the literature or who are generally methodologically interested. You can read the published protocol on OSF Registries website.

Calum MacGillivray is a second year PhD student in Education at the University of Dundee. His three-year ESRC funded PhD project focuses on primary-secondary school transitions experiences, educational attainment, and associated factors. This will involve longitudinal analysis of the nationally representative Growing Up in Scotland Dataset. He also organises and chairs the TCELT research seminar series. 

Find out more on his Discovery Profile. 

Email: [email protected]