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Join Cerys and our student hosts as they discuss how we navigate the arts. This month we’re covering the prevalence of eating disorders in musicians, how an art installation in Rye, Sussex is helping fight climate change, and the fascinating neuroscience behind how we combine emotions and logic to interact with spaces. For more interaction and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-a...

Hear about UCL Professor Eleanor Robson’s research on the ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq and how it enabled cultural heritage organisations, news media and policymakers to understand the site's importance as the world’s first imperial capital. Guests Professor Eleanor Robson, Department of History, UCL Louise Haxthausen, UNESCO Representative to the European Union Maryam Maruf, Journalist, BBC Wor...

Date of lecture: 28 April 2022 About the Lecture: This lunch hour lecture brings together the diverse voices who helped to create the story behind the Tomorrow's Home exhibition. The speakers will reflect on the provocations raised, the lessons learnt and the questions still unanswered. About the speakers: Mine Orlu, Associate Professor at UCL School of Pharmacy Cian O’Donovan, Senior Research Fel...

It is the final episode of season two! Hosts Mark and Helen are wrapping up this season with a conversation on disaster, mitigation and climate change. Dr Ilan Kelman and Prof Lisa Vanhala are sitting down with Mark to discuss defining natural disasters and what can be done to mitigate climate change. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcasts-...

Public Health Disrupted S2 Ep.3 The Elephant in the Planning Room with Michelle Ogundehin and Matthew Carmona Interior and external environments affect our health and wellbeing in ways that we are only now beginning to truly understand: from the impact of the urban spaces that are fundamentally unhealthy due to air pollution and noise, to acknowledging the changes that colour, daylight, mess and a...

Professors Mervyn Singer and Becky Shipley explain how they got a mechanical breathing support machine from idea to reality in a month, and helped protect the NHS during the first COVID surge. GUESTS Mervyn Singer, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL Becky Shipley, Professor of Health Care Engineering, UCL Dr Neil McGuire, former Director of Medical Devices, MHRA Hiten “Rup” Ruparelia, COVID...

In the first of a two-part episode on the Environmental Humanities, host Roxana talks with Prof. Mark Bould about climate change subtexts, Sharknado, and the utopian potential of speculative fiction. Mark Bould is Professor of Film and Literature at UWE Bristol and author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (Verso, 2021). In 2016 he was awarded the SFRA Pilgrim Lifetime Ac...

This week we're tackling the question: how do we make London as bike friendly as Amsterdam? Host Helen Czerski is joined by Richard Jackson, Director of Sustainability at UCL and Will Norman, Walking and Cycling Commissioner for London and TFL. They are discussing cycling in London, plans for making it even safer, and the impact of electric scooters on our streets. For more information and to acce...

Hear how UCL economics researchers and campaigning journalists put keeping fossil fuels in the ground and divestment on the climate crisis agenda. Guests: • Prof Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and the UK Energy Research Centre • Dr Christophe McGlade, Head of the Energy Supply Unit, IEA • Damian Carrington, Environment Editor, The Guardian Read more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk...

This week we are looking at apps and technology, and whether they can help us fight the climate crisis. Listen now to hear host Mark Maslin chat to Chris Tan, Co-Founder of Marble app and UCL master's student, and Ed Caldecott, co-founder of TrainHugger. Mark and his guests are discussing how apps can be vital tools for consumers, the fight to keep them accessible for all and the long-term impact...

Welcome back to series three of Made at UCL! Cerys Bradley is our producer-turned-host this year alongside six new UCL student hosts. Join Cerys, Taqwa Sadiq, Chanju Mwanza and Katie Davies for this months episode: Data Moves. We’re looking at the impact of data, the absence of data and how data can be utilised across three of our incredible REF case studies. For more information on Made At UCL an...

How UCL research led by care experienced people has restored children’s voices to official records of their time in care. Guests: Elizabeth Shepherd, Professor of Archives and Records Management in the Department of Information Studies at UCL John-george Nicholson, care experienced adult and co-researcher David Holmes, CEO of Family Action Access the transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/u...

Why are bees and wasps so important? Join host Helen Czerski this week as she dives into why insects are so critical to our ecosystem, how the climate crisis is impacting them and what the long term impact will be. Helen is joined by Dr Tim Newbold and Dr Seirian Sumner from UCL Division of Biosciences as they debate why wasps are as important as bees, and why and how we need to protect them both....

Professor Alison Rodger and activist Bruce Richman explain how people living with HIV came together with scientists to fight stigma and prove that Undetectable Equals Untransmittable. Guests: Bruce Richman, Founder and Director, Prevention Access Campaign Professor Alison Rodger, Institute of Global Health, UCL Access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/ucl-ref-podcast/ep1-wh...

Professor Jayant Vaidya explains how, as a young surgeon in Mumbai, he set out to invent a new radiotherapy device to make his patients’ lives a little easier, and wound up discovering new things about how the body heals and transforming breast cancer surgery around the world. Guests: Marcelle Bernstein, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 Dr Sandeep Nayak, Fortis Hospital, Bangalore, India Dr Sa...

Date of lecture: Tuesday 26 April 2022 About the lecture: The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unexpected disruption to Western countries and studies suggest this has affected women more adversely than men. This is because they were over-represented in the most affected sectors of the economy and women, especially mothers, took a bigger share of housework and childcare responsibilities following schoo...

Welcome back to episode two of Generation One: The Climate Podcast. Mark’s here this week with two brilliant guests, Dr Virginie Le Masson, from the UCL Institute of Gender and Disaster, and Mathilde Rainard, master's student at the University of Leeds and UNFCCC Consultant. This week we’re talking about gender and how it intersects into the climate crisis, from tackling single-use period products...

Welcome back to season three of #MadeAtUCL. We're mixing things up this season with six new student hosts joining Cerys Bradley our producer-turned-host from last season! We will be continuing to share stories from our community, bringing to life the research and work being done at UCL UCL's award-winning campaign, Disruptive Thinking Since 1826 and hashtag #MadeAtUCL, has been phenomenal in its s...

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) are joined by Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng in South Africa to talk about how the UN Sustainable Development Goals can be adapted and achieved throughout Africa. Professor Phakeng is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town and is a huge advoca...

Co-hosts Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) delve into the impact that the pandemic has had on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Joining them are Professor Anthony Costello and Dr Rochelle Burgess (both UCL Institute for Global Health), who offers their perspective on how the World H...

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) chat to Dr Kate Roll (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) about sustainable development. Dr Roll explores what the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) really mean, where they come from, and why they exist at all. For more information an...

Welcome back to season two of Generation One: The Climate Podcast! We're back with hosts Helen Czerski and Mark Maslin and this episode we're tackling plant based diets. Helen is joined by Tim Van Berkel, Co-Founder of Cornish Seaweed Company, Prof Tim Lang, emeritus professor at London City University and Dr Carole Dalin from UCL's Institute of Sustainable Resources. Listen now as they get in to...

Aman talks to Caswell and Steve about his journey from metallurgical engineering to multi-brain region neuroscience, how this has informed his rodent VR based studies of visual navigation, and what brains taste like. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast Date of episode recording: 2022-04-13 Duration: 00:43:13 Language...

For this podcast we are visited by Sherry Hamby (University of the South) who talks to us about her community research group. The podcast is hosted by Jennifer McGowan (UCL). This podcast covers: 1. What is the relationship between individual and community resilience? 2. What cultural and socio-economic conditions needs to be considered in community resilience? 3. Is the Predictably a mechanism of...

So far in this series, we’ve talked a lot about the limitations of space and how to make the built environment better, fairer, and more accessible to everyone and much of that conversation has centred around getting more voices involved in the design process, opening up architecture to a more diverse community. Join host Christoph for episode five in conversation with The Bartlett's Senior Outreac...