Discourse: Christmas Lecturer 2025 (Theatre)

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Join us in the Ri Theatre for a chance to hear from Maggie Aderin-Pocok, our eagerly awaited 2025 Christmas Lecturer, who will deliver our prestigious annual November Discourse.

Dame Margaret Aderin-Pocock is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and has been the chancellor of the University of Leicester since 1 March 2023.

Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television programme The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020 she was awarded the Institute of Physics William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize for her public engagement in physics.

She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and she served as the president of the British Science Association from 2021 to 2022.

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