The Raymond Williams Lecture is a prestigious opportunity to reflect on the life and work of Raymond Williams, particularly in the context of adult learning and its transformative potential.
Raymond Williams was one of Wales’ and Europe’s greatest social thinkers, but his work presents as many paradoxes as possible solutions.
Lectures
| 2021 | Useful education – a critique and a celebration
Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University
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| 2018 | The deepest impulse: Adult education, economy, democracy and society
Kirsty Williams AM, Cabinet Secretary for Education
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| 2017 | When a tree falls
Michael Sheen, Actor and Campaigner
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| 2016 | The health gap: The challenge of an unequal world
Sir Michael Marmot, Researcher
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| 2015 | Dangerous times: Learning to manage them
Tom Schuller, Author
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| 2005 | The common good
Alan Tuckett OBE, NIACE
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| 2004 | The challenges of lifelong learning
Jane Davidson, Assembly Member
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| 2003 | Learning risk and social change
Professor Bob Fryer, NHSU
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| 2002 | Title unknown
Sheila Drury, ELWa
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| 2000 | Equality, social justice and the learning agenda
Edwina Hart, Assembly Member
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| 1999 | Community of languages
Cynog Dafis, Assembly Member and Member of Parliament
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| 1998 | The legacy of Raymond Williams to adult education
Professor Bob Fryer, Principal, Northern College and Chair of the Government’s National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
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| 1997 | WI and lifelong learning
Lady Anglesey, Lady Brunner, Rhiannon Bevan, Women’s Institute
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| 1996 | The migrants return – a personal reflection on the importance of Raymond Williams
Michael D Higgins, Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
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| 1995 | Communities, universities and Raymond Williams
Professor Terry Eagleton, Wharton Professor of English Literature, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
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| 1994 | Politics, leaders and the national curriculum
Professor Patrick Parrinder, Department of English, University of Reading
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| 1993 | The novels of Raymond Williams
Professor Graham Martin, The Open University
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| 1992 | Culture, community, nation
Professor Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, The Open University
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| 1991 | Women towards 2000
Bea Campbell, Author and Journalist
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| 1990 | Williams the uncomfortable
Stephen Yeo, Principal, Ruskin College, Oxford
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| 1989 | Raymond Williams and his country
Professor Dai Smith, Professor, University of Wales College Cardiff
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