{"id":1048,"date":"2024-05-06T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:36:51","slug":"valedictory-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/2024\/05\/06\/valedictory-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Valedictory Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/recap.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=b2ebc86b-c095-47be-a11e-b16f00fd0008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1049\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2024\/05\/Poster-Lecture-David-Graham-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2024\/05\/Poster-Lecture-David-Graham-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2024\/05\/Poster-Lecture-David-Graham-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2024\/05\/Poster-Lecture-David-Graham-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2024\/05\/Poster-Lecture-David-Graham-1087x1536.jpg 1087w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2024\/05\/Poster-Lecture-David-Graham.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is to announce I (David Graham) have retired from my position of Professor of Ecosystems Engineering at Newcastle University. However, I am happy to say that I am not fully retiring nor fully leaving Newcastle University. I will be working less, now as an Emeritus Professor, but I am also following a few exciting new roads.<br><br>Henceforth, I will be a Senior Research Fellow (on a research-only contract) at Durham University in the Department of Biology with my close colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAmryrsBpnU-LFHFZTe3OHvRe2iqHN75654\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marcos-quintela-baluja-84b40846\/\">Marcos Quintela Baluja<\/a>, and a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban Environment to expand my long-term collaboration with Prof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=yongguanzhu&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7196455812469276672\">hashtag#YongguanZhu<\/a> and his tremendous team.<br><br>I also will continue my work at the United Nations, including work in <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eSZkkerR\">The Quadripartite Technical Group on Integrated Surveillance on Antimicrobial Use and Resistance<\/a>, and will teach and support students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and IIT, Hyderbad.<br><br>For those who in the Newcastle area, I will be providing a Valedictory address on May 17 at 15:30 UK or if you want you can join online <a href=\"https:\/\/recap.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=b2ebc86b-c095-47be-a11e-b16f00fd0008\">here<\/a>. We have tried to invite anyone who might have interest, but lost many emails and hopefully some will see this message below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is to announce I (David Graham) have retired from my position of Professor of Ecosystems Engineering at Newcastle University. However, I am happy to say that I am not fully retiring nor fully leaving Newcastle University. I will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/2024\/05\/06\/valedictory-lecture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}