From the
TEDxGrantham desk.
Updates from the organising team: speaker reveals, behind-the-scenes notes, and longer-form pieces on ideas worth spreading.
The quiet algorithms deciding South Kesteven
An NHS algorithm predicts appointment no-shows and influences which slots are offered to patients. Similar automated systems now determine South Kesteven residents' access to jobs, care, and council services — yet residents have no way to know if algorithms shaped their outcomes.
By TEDx Grantham Team
What restoring the Grantham Canal actually takes
When railways ended commerce, farms sustained the canal for agricultural water supply—an economic accident that left Jessop's 1790s infrastructure intact enough to restore.
By TEDx Grantham Team
High-value engineering rooted in a market town
A market town in Lincolnshire is home to the world's leading supplier of slip rings for offshore wind; family ownership and long staff tenure have kept the technical expertise in one place for fifty years.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Lincolnshire's farm robots and the jobs question
Lincolnshire produces one-eighth of England's food, one in four jobs are in the food chain, and robots are already in the fields—but thin rural labour markets convert automation displacement into unemployment faster than in cities, and local planning has no data on how many roles will contract.
By TEDx Grantham Team
What Grantham's relief road teaches about building big
A 400-metre bridge designed to slide across a live railway line was found to lack adequate accounting for wind loading, a gap that passed through mandatory independent checking and later cost £10–20 million to rectify.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Who gets left out when care goes online
Lincolnshire routes adult social care through an online-only directory despite higher digital exclusion among older residents; many who are offline cite distrust or access barriers, not skills, as the reason.
By TEDx Grantham Team