THE Connect

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Katie Atkinson, associate pro vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research. They discuss the centre's ambitious mission to tackle the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, exploring...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Sheffield, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Mohamed Pourkashanian, director of the Energy Innovation Centre at the University of Sheffield, Luke Ervine, head of sustainability at Virgin Atlantic, and Steve Gillard, regional sustainability director at Boeing. They discuss the far-reaching benefits of sustainab...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with Queen's University Belfast, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Iain Styles, a professor in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. Iain is also the director of the Centre of Intelligent Sustainable Computing. They discuss the challenges of integrating AI into healthca...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the National University of Singapore, host Sreethu Sajeev speaks with Koh Lian Pin, associate vice-president and chief sustainability scientist at the National University of Singapore. They discuss how sustainability education can be used to foster innovative solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges – upskill...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Sheffield, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Tim Chico, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Sheffield. They discuss the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub, exploring the ways the hub uses cutting-edge research to develop digital technologies for disease diagnosis and treatment.

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Tara Shears, a professor of physics and frontier lead for particle physics, Monica D’Onofrio, professor of physics and head of research, and Christos Touramanis, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Liverpool. They discuss the university...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with Queen's University Belfast, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Richard English, a professor of politics and director of the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. They discuss how universities can contribute to analytical discussions on terrorism, replacing fear-driven narratives with res...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Sheffield, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Dan Blackburn, a senior lecturer in neuroscience, Heidi Christensen, professor in computer science, and Caitlin Illingworth, a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Sheffield. They discuss their work on CognoSpeak, an online tool harnessing AI to analyse spe...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with Queen's University Belfast, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with John Barry, a professor of green political economy and director of the Queen’s Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action. They discuss the ideologies that underpin green politics, the way it challenges capitalist growth models and the importance of radic...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Karl Coleman, dean of physical sciences, Gabriella Pizzuto, a Royal Academy of Engineering research fellow and lecturer in robotics and chemistry automation, and Alessandro Troisi, a professor of chemistry at the University of Liverpool. They discuss the university'...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Alistair Lawrence speaks with Shampa Das, professor of antimicrobial therapeutics, Reecha Sofat, Breckenridge chair of clinical pharmacology, and Paul O’Neill, professor of chemistry at the University of Liverpool. They discuss the university's Therapeutics Innovation Frontier, a platform des...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Aedín Cassidy, chair in nutrition and preventive medicine and director of interdisciplinary research at the Institute for Global Food Security, and Mark Emmerson, professor of biodiversity. Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded £60 million of joint funding to e...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with Queen's University Belfast, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Mark Lawler, associate pro vice-chancellor and professor of digital health, and Philip Dunne, reader in molecular pathology at the Patrick G. Johnston Centre for Cancer Research. They discuss the growing availability of data in the healthcare sector and explore how t...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Santo Tomas, host Gitanjali Goswami speaks with Moises Norman Garcia and Maria Rosario Virginia Cobar, who are both professors and researchers in the university’s Department of Biological Sciences and the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education. Elfritzon Peralta, programme coordinator at the Organ...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Joost Vossebeld, head of particle physics, Eva Vilella Figueras, UKRI Future Leader Fellow in the Department of Physics, and Graziano Venanzoni, Leverhulme International Professor of Physics. They discuss the unique expertise and infrastructure that the University o...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Larry Barham, professor in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, Nicola George, research technical professional at the University of Liverpool's Professor Elizabeth Slater Archaeological Research Laboratories, and Per...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Alison Holmes, David Price Evans chair in global health and infectious diseases, William Hope, Dame Sally Davies chair of antimicrobial resistance research, and Ishwar Singh, reader in pharmacology and therapeutics. They discuss the global challenge posed by antimic...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Megha Nataraj, PhD Scholar in the Department of Physiotherapy, Smita Nayak, additional professor in the Department of Humanities and Management, and Dr B. Unnikrishnan, dean and professor of Community Medicine at Kasturba Medical College. They discuss...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Amanda Cahill-Ripley and Azadeh Chalabi, both senior lecturers at the university's School of Law and Social Justice. They discuss how the the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals provide a blueprint for a sustainable future for humanity, and why a healthy critique of...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Lincoln, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Kate Strudwick, dean of teaching and learning, Dave Pritchard, assistant director of the Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching, Tracey Laing, head of organisational development, and Rosie Damarell, people engagement and wellbeing manager at the university. They dis...

In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Andy Cooper, a materials chemist and director of the Materials Innovation Factory, and Anna Slater, university research fellow and senior lecturer, about how close collaboration with industry can help universities solve the world’s most pressing problems.