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This week we are talking COP26: what happened, what it means and where we go from here. Join our hosts Helen Czerski and Mark Maslin in conversation with Prof Kate Jones, Dr Priti Parikh and Ryan Phillip from the St Kitts and Nevis delegation, and they are discussing the COP agreement, what was missed, the big wins and the big misses. Helen and our guests cover the main takeaways from COP from def...

Creative Lives is a podcast which opens provocative conversations, experimenting with big ideas and local practices. We bring together researchers, experts by experience, artists and performers, approaching issues around community, learning, communication, healthcare, welfare, age and the life course. The possibilities of creativity are endless. Our theme today is “Lifelong learning”, with guests,...

For our live finale event, we hosted a fascinating debate with Christoph Lindner, Dean of The Bartlett and editor of Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park; Simon Pitkeathley, CEO of Camden Town Unlimited and the Camden Highline; and Jodie Eastwood, CEO of London’s Knowledge Quarter, who explore how the New York ‘High Line effect’ might shape the fu...

We’re back for the second episode of Generation One: The Climate Podcast and this week we’re behind the scenes at COP26 in Glasgow. Our hosts Matt Winning and Mark Maslin recorded on the run, live from COP to catch guests in the hubbub of the main areas of the conference. Tune in to experience a slice of COP from a whole host of guests and hear them chat about everything from the wins at COP so fa...

Date: 26 October 2021 Speaker: Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science at UCL Geography Department About the UCL lunch hour lecture: Climate change is the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. Everyone agrees we must keep global warming to under 2˚C, and under 1.5˚C if possible. But how can we do this while dealing with the other great challenge...

This month's episode is about awareness and the activism it can lead to. Join us as we talk to three members of the UCL community who are making meaningful change to combat the problems they have been confronted by. Cassidy spoke with Hope Oloye, a PhD student whose programme Thinking Black is breaking down barriers to higher education, Virginie Le Masson, a geographer working with women across th...

Welcome to Generation One: The Climate Podcast. In our first episode, our hosts are discussing energy infrastructure, electric storage and and addressing the question: How far can we go with electric batteries? This week we are joined by Nick Hughes, from the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, to chat energy infrastructure, electric cars, and what needs to change for an electric future. Fo...

Dr Harry Kennard looks back at the history of the UN climate conferences and what's at stake at COP26 in Glasgow. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2021/oct/podcast-episode-brief-history-un-climate-conferences-cops

In this final episode of UCL Urban Laboratory’s podcast series, we continue to put Prof AbdouMaliq Simone’s work on ‘Blackness and the Urban’ in conversation with scholars who also presented during the ‘At the frontiers of the urban’ conference. Here we probe the relationship between Black urbanisms and land governance in African cities with Dr Evance Mwathanga, alongside excerpts from Prof Wilbar...

This is the fifth podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Professor Jo Boyden (Oxford), Professor Jay Mancini (Virgina Tech), Dr Rebecca Graber (Brighton), and Dennis Relojo-Howell (PsychReg). The podcast is hosted by Dr Jennifer McGowan (UCL). This podcast covers: 1. How might community-level resilience relate to Covid respons...

Previously in this podcast we examined Prof AbdouMaliq Simone’s talk on ‘Blackness and the Urban’, and used it to think through the racialised city. In this episode, we unpack another key aspect of Simone’s talk: his articulation of Blackness as a form of unsettling. We are joined by the social anthropologist Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, whose work takes us to Francophone West Africa. Dr. Hélène N...

Dr Harry Kennard talks to UCL's Giorgos Petrou about why buildings overheat, what that means for our health, and what can done to improve things. View the transcript and find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2021/oct/podcast-episode-overheating-buildings

In this episode we address Prof Simone’s notion of the “hallucination of Whiteness”, revisit Dr Lioba Hirsh’s response on the coloniality and antiblack entanglements of Western global health, and are joined by Prof Ola Uduku who helps us consider these recordings in relation to her own research as Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. Dr Lioba Hirsch is a Research Fel...

This month we are exploring recovery. As Cassidy has been busy finishing her dissertation, join Cerys as they learn how to recover through stories about long Covid community led research, transformative technology in the NHS, and a memorial garden built by students in the Institute of Education. With thanks to our guest speakers: Dr Owain Rhys Hughes is the founder and CEO of Cinapsis. He has over...

In this final episode for the series, we sit down with the organisers of the programme, UCL and the Local Government Association. We will be going behind the scenes to explore the highs and lows of the partnership and how they developed an idea into an innovative network of officers and academics. It will cover how the partnership came about, the challenges and opportunities, what they have learnt...

In this first episode we revisit excerpts of Prof AbdouMaliq Simone’s 2019 talk from the conference ‘At the frontiers of the urban’ that considered the multiplicities of Black Urbanisms as a series of refrains, calls and responses, parallel but complicit investigations and makings. Our aim here is to interpret some of his insights and transpose them to urban research in various cities. Prof. Abdou...

In this episode, Dr Mine Orlu (UCL School of Pharmacy) shares her positive perspective on ageing, and explains the need for a cultural change in ageing research and policy. She also shares some learning from actively involving participants in her own research and the outputs they have co-created. You can find out more and access the transcript here: https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/disruptive-voice...

In this episode, we’ll be discussing how the partnerships are feeling about graduating the programme and the next steps for their projects. As discussed in the last episode, with COP26 being hosted this year our partnerships have had to start thinking about the future of their projects and how their good work will be continued. We will also be catching up with one partner who moved roles during th...

This is the fourth podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Dr Dayna Fullerton (Sydney), Lisa Zhang (UCL), and Dr Sabina Kleitman (Sydney). The podcast is hosted by Dr Jennifer McGowan (UCL). This podcast covers: 1. How does resilience relate to Covid? 2. How might Covid have impacted resilience? 3. What evidence do we have that...

In this month’s episode of #MadeAtUCL we’re growing. Join us as we explore three unique perspectives on growth and how it can be both a positive and negative concept. We chat with Dr Michelle Heys and Dr Simbarashe Chimhuya and hear about their technical solution to newborn healthcare, with Dr Philip Pogge Von Strandmann about how we can reduce the growing levels of co2 in the atmosphere, and last...

In the run up to COP26, Dr Harry Kennard discusses the co-benefits of climate mitigation actions for health with academics and scientists from UCL and beyond. In episode 2 Dr Harry Kennard talks to UCL's Lauren Ferguson about inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure in the UK. You can find our more information and access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2021/sep/podcas...

In this episode, we speak to Dr Marina Romanello and Professor Ilan Kelman, about climate change as a health disaster. We discuss how to better measure the impact of climate change on health, and crucially, how to protect the most vulnerable from its negative effects. Our guests also propose alternative framings to achieve the best health and prosperity for all in the future. Transcript and more i...

In this ninth episode, we cover Kazakhstan – the biggest land-locked country in the world. MA students at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Tom King and Kristina Tsabala, talk about the current, historical, and cultural affairs of the Central Asian giant while sampling some Kazakh pelmeni (dumplings). Hosts: Kristina Tsabala and Tom King Editor: Eleanor Evans Research a...

This is the third podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Professor Jo Boyden (Oxford), Professor Shaul Kimhi (Telhai, Israel). The podcast is hosted by Dr Jennifer McGowan (UCL). This podcast covers: 1. How might resilience affect Covid response? 2. How might Covid have impacted resilience? 3. What evidence do we have that Cov...

This is the second podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Jay Mancini (Virginia Tech), Sabina Kleitman (Sydney), Heather Prime (York, Toronto), Jolien van Breen (Leiden, Netherlands), Kenneth Packenham (Brisbane, Australia) Kristen Krause (CHIBPS, New Jersey), Mark Zimmerman (Michegan), Rebecca Graber (Brighton), Alan Jones (F...