Baroness Susan Greenfield

Welcome to the Baroness Susan Greenfield blog. Professor Greenfield is a neuroscientist based in Oxford whose work in psychology has been focused on uncovering many of the most elusive questions on consciousness and the brain. As a researcher,  Baroness Susan Greenfield has devoted considerable time towards helping people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s though new research that aims to find new mechanisms in the brain that may be linked to these degenerative diseases. 

Watch the video below to catch up on Baroness Greenfield's recent interview about Neuroscience and Ethics for Robots



Visit the Baroness Susan Greenfield RIGB page to learn more about her work. You can also connect with Baroness Susan Greenfield on Twitter. More information about Susan Greenfield conference can be found on their website.

Keynote & after dinner speaking

Welcome to the Baroness Greenfield blog. In this post we will provide an overview of Susan Greenfield's public speaking. Understanding the human mind and how it is evolving, bears relevance to audiences right across the public and private sector - from solving workforce issues, nurturing leadership and inspiring creativity, to understanding the consumers of the future.

Susan Greenfield has delivered captivating keynote talks, lectures and after dinner speeches for organisations across a wide variety of sectors including finance, technology, human resources, media and education.

Most recently, Susan has delivered talks for the following organisations - McKinsey's, Investec, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Corporate, Egon Zehnder International, CoreNet Global, KION Group, Pearlfisher and Newcastle University.

Themes

• The future of the mind
• Consciousness
• The neuroscience of creativity
• Science, policy and politics
• Dementia: current and future prospects
• How the brain works
• Women in science

About Baroness Greenfield

Susan Greenfield CBE, FRCP (Hon) is a research scientist, author and broadcaster based in Oxford. She has held research fellowships in the Department of Physiology Oxford, the College de France Paris, and NYU Medical Center New York.

In 1985 Baroness Greenfield was elected a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology. Since 1996 she has been Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. Her research concentrates on understanding brain functions and disorders, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, as well as the physical basis of consciousness. She has since been awarded 32 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities. In 2000 she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians.

Further international recognition of her work has included the ‘Golden Plate Award’ (2003) from the Academy of Achievement, Washington, the L’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (2003), from the French Government, and the 2010 Australian Medical Research Society Medal.  Find out more about Baroness Greenfield here. You can also follow Baroness Greenfield on her Twitter profile and watch this video below about Empathy: