Academic-in-Residence Programme

How is artificial intelligence changing the way we understand, model and predict a changing climate? Questions like this lie at the heart of Wellington’s Academic in Residence programme. Designed to extend the impact of the College’s Fireside Talks, the programme gives pupils the opportunity not only to hear from leading thinkers, but to spend sustained time with them: questioning ideas, exploring their research in greater depth and discovering how the same big questions look very different [...]

Wellington College was delighted to welcome Professor David Herd of the University of St Andrews as Academic in Residence for an intellectually rich and deeply moving two-day visit. A leading scholar of contemporary literature and human rights, Professor Herd’s work explores refugee experience, immigration detention, and the power of storytelling as a force for social justice. He is co-founder of the Refugee Tales project and author of Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World. [...]

This week, Wellington was privileged to host Baroness Susan Greenfield, renowned neuroscientist, author, and founder of Neuro-Bio Ltd, as our Academic in Residence. She shared her expertise with the entire school community, students, staff, parents and OWs, through an extraordinary programme of talks and workshops, ranging from busting popular brain myths to exploring the very frontiers of neuroscience research. The residency opened with a captivating Fireside Talk on “Being Human in the Age of AI.” Baroness [...]