Lane Lecture

Ronald Lane became the first ever Professor of Occupational Health when he was appointed to a chair in Manchester University in 1945. This was the first chair in this discipline and the first university department of occupational health.

The eponymous Lane Lecture and Symposium is an annual event, held in honour of this remarkable man.

Past Lane Lectures

Date	Speaker	Topic
2023	Professor Ira Madan	Convergent Junctions - how the clinical, political, and cultural landscape has changed Occupational Health practice in recent decades and why Occupational Health research is more important than ever. Lecture video PDF of presentation
2022	Professor Nicola Cherry	Have workplace studies had their day? Lecture video PDF of presentation
2021	Dr Lesley Rushton Emeritus Reader of Occupational Epidemiology and Chair of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)	Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? Lecture video PDF of presentation
2020	Professor Cath Noakes School of Civil Engineering University of Leeds	Droplets of Aerosols - the complex physics of respiratory disease transmission Lecture video
2019	Dr Jenny Hoyle Consultant Respiratory Physician North Manchester General Hospital	30 years of SWORD: forging the links between research and practice to produce impact (PDF)
2018	Professor John Cherrie Principal Scientist, Institute of Occupational Medicine Professor of Human Health, Heriot-Watt University	The exposome and work
2017	Professor Raymond Agius Emeritus Professor of Occupational Medicine, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester	From patients to prevention - a journey through occupational and environmental medicine.
2016	Professor David Fishwick Chief Medical Officer and Co-Director of the Centre for Workplace Health, HSL	The lungs at work: from cotton mills to composites?
2015	Professor Keith Palmer Professor of Occupational Medicine, University of Southampton and Consultant Occupational Physician	Health risks and benefits of extended working life: is retirement good for you?
2014	Professor Neil Pearce Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Getting occupational health back on the policy agenda.
2013	Professor Paul Cullinan Professor in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London Honorary Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London	Occupational asthma: too much of a bad thing.
2012	Professor Richard Wakeford Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester	Risks from exposure to ionising radiation - the contribution of occupational studies.
2011	Professor Tarani Chandola Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Manchester	Work and stress in post-recession Britain.
2010	Dr Jos Verbeek Senior Researcher at Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Associate Professor at Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, University of Amsterdam	Evidence for the effectiveness of occupational health interventions: help or hindrance for practitioners?
2009	Professor Jon Ayres Professor of Environmental and Respiratory Medicine, University of Birmingham	Environments and health - complexity meets pragmatism.
2008	Professor Sir Anthony J Newman Taylor Deputy Principal, National Heart and Lung Institute	Causation attribution and compensation: the development of industrial injuries benefit in the UK.
2007	Professor Dame Carol Black Government Director for Health and Work and Professor of Rheumatology at UCL Medical School	Health, work and well-being: the challenge of translating theory into practice.
2006	Professor Sherwood Burge Consultant Respiratory Physician, Department of Lung Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital	What is occupational asthma?
2005	Professor Julian Peto London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Asbestos related cancer deaths in the UK - the past, present and future.
2004	Professor Bert Brunekreef Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht	Health effects of traffic-related air pollution.
2003	Professor TC Aw Professor of Occupational Medicine, Kent Institute of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury	Occupational diseases: dilemmas in attributing causation.
2002	Professor Paul W Brandt-Rauf Professor of Public Health and Director of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York	Molecular epidemiology: the case of vinyl chloride.
2001	Professor David Coggon Epidemiologist and Honorary Consultant Physician, MRC Environmental Unit, Southampton General Hospital	Occupational health research in the UK - where next?
2000	Professor Corbett McDonald Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Brompton Hospital, London	Asbestos fibre type and carcinogenicity.
1999	Professor Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London Medical School	Psychosocial factors and work.
1998	Professor Anthony Seaton Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aberdeen.	Hunting for demons: asthma and the wider environment.
1997	Professor James H Vincent Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Minnesota	Occupational hygiene science and its application in occupational health policy: at home and abroad.
1996	Professor Sir Colin Berry The London Hospital Medical College	Small risks and "the robots of dawn".
1995	Miss Jenny Bacon Director-General of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)	Occupational health: the next 50 years.
1994	Professor Robert Lauwery The Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels	Critical effect levels of lead on the kidney in adult male workers and the general population.
1993	Professor Roger J Berry Director of the Westlakes Research Institute	Childhood cancer and parental occupational radiation exposure - a paradox within an enigma.
1992	Professor Richard SF Schilling Emeritus Professor of Occupational Health, London University	The role of universities in occupational health.