This is Lancaster. Global research tales from the North of England.

From the benefits of getting out of the house and into nature, to his thoughts on the place of poetry in response to tyranny, Professors Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge of Lancaster University’s Wordsworth Centre share the lessons they have learned from William Wordsworth - a poet they both came to appreciate ...despite some early hesitation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Seeing people die without the best in pain relief and care, drove Professor Nancy Preston to seek ways of improving end-of-life experiences for the dying and their families. Talking to her colleague Professor Sheila Payne, the pair discuss their pioneering work which sets out to improve the way we die - making it as pain-free as possible and taking the best possible care of those that are left beh...

Next time you reach for a sugary snack, you might want to think about Professor Sunram-Lea’s work examining the impact of sugar highs on the human brain. Her work exploded the myth that sugar improves human performance and instead exposed a more troubling connection between human cognition and the blood sugar roller-coaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Families at the sharp edge - in this episode social scientist and former social worker Professor Karen Broadhurst of Lancaster University describes how she stepped into academia to 'change the world' for women and children in the justice system. 'When we take a child out of a family and a community what kind of a scar does that leave?' Professor Broadhurst and her colleagues are making the case fo...