Workshops and Lectures

Internet Dating

Date: Tuesday 5 June 2007.
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
Venue: The Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 5HD.
Website: http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2007/06/05/293
Booking: 02079424040 or tickets@danacentre.org.uk

Create a profile, upload a picture, write a witty yet lovable blurb and you're away – thousands of potential dates waiting for you... But how do people communicate without body language? And how do you write the perfect profile?

Harry Witchel is joined by journalist and author Jennifer Cox as he explores the world of internet dating.

'The use of Antipsychotic Medication and Sudden Cardiac Death: the Formulation of a Life Saving Guideline'

Date: Wednesday 25 April 2007.
Time: 2:00 PM.
Venue: Callington Hospital, Marmalade Lane, Bristlington, Bristol, BS4 5BJ.

As part of the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust conference on Cardiotoxic Effects: the Cardiotoixic Effects of Antipsychotic Medication, I will be delivering a formal lecture for Consultants, Registrars and Advanced Nurses.

Advanced Night-School on the Science of Pleasure.

This advanced course involves a mixture of lecturing on the brain, reliving some classic scientific experiments, and working with therapy based techniques for practical tips on increasing one’s experience of pleasure. It contained advanced material and is attended primarily by persons on my previous courses and lectures.

The BA Festival of Science (Exeter) - "X-change with Quentin Cooper".

5 September 2006.
This is an entertaining sequence of interviews for a live audience, hosted by BBC Radio 4 presenter Quentin Cooper, and it is meant to be "The Best of the Festival".
Contact: Quentin Cooper.

National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - "The Physiology of Big Brother: Stress, Arousal and Lying".

A lecture to ~50 gifted 17-year-olds at a science summer school.

The Dana Centre Speed Dating for Gay and Lesbians.

A two-hour event with a 30 minute lecture on body language and 60 minutes of speed dating for gay and lesbian members of the general public.

Watershed (Bristol) Tunnel Vision Series - "How to really detect lies told on television".

Part of art and science collaboration (SciArt) programme.

London Science Museum and Dana Centre for the Brain - "The Body Language of Love".

14 Feb 2006 and again 22 Feb 2006.
A lecture followed by a speed dating session for the attendees. After presenting a lecture on romantic body language, the 30 men and 30 women who attended each night took part in a speed dating session.

Oxford University (Modern Art Oxford, with the Department of Astrophysics) - "Body language and detecting lying – art and science: a response to Jem Finer's sculpture 'the Centre of the Universe'".

This lecture was part of a series of lectures celebrating the completion of Jem Finer's year as artist in residence at Oxford University's Astrophysics Department. Each lecture brought in an expert of a diverging discipline to give their response to Finer's work.

Birmingham Future - "The Truth about Body Language".

With Dr. Andrew Bass and Paul Clusker of BassClusker Consulting Birmingham futures is the organisation for young business professionals (esp. accountants and lawyers) in Birmingham (it is the part of Birmingham Forward for professionals under 35). We demonstrated as part of its personal skills development series. In this 90-minute event we presented our contrarian view about Body Language as presented by the "Comic Book" body language books. We base our interpretation upon the original research. A variety of personal development exercises were included.