About
The lecture series was established in 1979, and named after Donald Denman, the founder of Land Economy. It has hosted over 20 leading academics from around the world, speaking on topics across the built and natural environment, economics and planning. Speakers have included Patsy Healey OBE FBA, Kym Anderson, David Pearce OBE, Sir Kenneth Alexander FRSE, and David Harvey FBA.
Sponsorship
The Denman Lecture series is kindly supported by Mills & Reeve .
Past Lectures
1979 J.F. Garner
Environmental impact statements in the United States and Britain 
1980 J. Marquand
Measuring the effects and costs of regional incentives policy
1981 J.D. Steward
The dilemma of central-local relation
1982 J.P.W.B Mc Auslan
Law, market and plan in the 1980’s
1983 J. Kay
The future of local government finance
1984 K. Alexander
Rural renewal experience in the Highlands and Islands
1985 D. Harvey
Money. Time, space and the city
1986 E. Lampard
The City in History
1987 D.W. Pearce
Economic values and the natural environment
1988 M. Grant
Forty years of planning control: the case for the defence
1989 L.S. Burns
Home ownership: For better or worse, for richer or poorer
1990 A. Evans
Rabbit hutches on postage stamps: economics, planning and development in the 1990’s
1991B. Millan
European integration and the future of the regions
1992 K. Anderson
Agricultural policies, land use and the environment
1993 D. R. Mandelker
Environmental policy: the next generation
1994 J. Banham
The future of English Local Government
1995 P. Healey
Collaborative strategy making for urban regions
1996 P. Hall
The people – where will they go?
1997 F. Reynolds
Environment and economy in the new millennium
1998 D.W. Bromley
Transitions to a new political economy: law and economics reconsidered
2014 F. Reynolds
2015 F. Bourguignon
The Globalization of Inequality
2016 D. Pitt-Watson
How the Financial System Fails Us, and How to Fix it
2017 A. Veneables
Urbanisation in Africa – the challenge of building cities that work
2018 P. Munro-Faure
2019 Dame H. Morrissey
Beyond Political Correctness - addressing the true diversity challenge