Lincoln Leads
The Lincoln Leads Seminar Series is a MCR Academic Team project staged during Hilary terms at Lincoln College, Oxford. Each series features 18 to 24 speakers across six to eight seminars, with each panel comprising of a Fellow, an Alumnus/a, and a Graduate student of the College. During each seminar, the speakers respond to a topical question relating to their academic, professional or personal experience, before opening the conversation to the audience for questions and debate. The series showcases the exciting and diverse expertise the College can bring together through its affiliates, and makes it accessible to non-specialist audiences from Oxford and beyond. The series provides a valuable opportunity for graduate members of the MCR to present their ideas and arguments alongside prominent Fellows and Alumni of the College and for attendees to engage in stimulating exchanges. Each seminar is preceded by a wine reception, allowing audience members a further opportunity to engage with speakers and discuss the evening’s topic with fellow attendees. For more information on past iterations of the series, check out our website, Facebook page, and Instagram page.
Lord Florey
The Lord Florey Talk is a termly opportunity for an MCR member to present an academic talk to their peers.
The talk is named after Lord Howard Florey, an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey who carried out the first ever clinical trials in 1941 of penicillin at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a postmaster from Wolvercote near Oxford. It was Florey and Chain who actually made a useful and effective drug out of penicillin, after the task had been abandoned as too difficult. Florey's discoveries, along with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain, are estimated to have saved over 82 million lives, and he is consequently regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest figures. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said, "In terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia". The MCR Lecture series has been in existence since Michaelmas 1979, and the first MCR lecture was proposed to be given Prof Quentin Bell in MT 1979. |
Lord Florey was a Lincoln Fellow between 1935 and 1948, during which time he received the Nobel Prize. The MCR, which was established in 1958, and its constitution was reputedly the first in Oxford, was funded partly from the quincentenary fund and partly as a result of a donation from Mrs Mary Lasker. She was an American who wanted to commemorate the medical discoveries of Lord Florey. The Lord Florey Talk was named in his honour.
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