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How can poetry explore and share academic research with the public? Rebekah King speaks with David Cain and researchers at the University of Cambridge about their participation in the Creative Encounters Words programme. Listen to researchers Dr Catherine Merrick (Senior Lecturer Pathology, Biological Sciences), accompanying music by Jonathan Windsor, Anne Thomas (Newnham College & Plant Sciences)...

Rory Cellan-Jones talks to leading economists Diane Coyle, Jacques Crémer and Jean Tirole, about why productivity growth has slowed in spite of immense technological progress and what policy can do about it. This episode unravels the impact of digitalisation on economic growth and its implications for policy. Leading economists discuss the productivity puzzle, why regulating Big Tech is so difficu...

How should we be expecting to live as we start to adapt to the changing climate? In our race to resilience, are there limitations to what we shoud expect to see on our supermarket shelves, escalated by the Ukraine war and cost of living crisis? And what real progress have we made since COP26? To help build momentum after the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, University of Cambridge Professo...

Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1 - Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2 - Fourth Interview (7...

Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1 - Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2 - Fourth Interview (7...

Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1 - Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2 - Fourth Interview (7...

Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. **Please note due to technical problems, the audio quality of this interview is very poor** The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 M...

Rory Cellan-Jones talks to expert guests Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge) and Victor Gay (IAST) about how lessons from history can inform policymaking today. In this episode, Lucy Delap and Victor Gay discuss examples from history where lessons can be learned for today’s policymaking. They look at what the recession in the 1970s can tell us about government response to the current cost-of-livi...

How can our built environment adapt to the impacts of climate change? What needs to be done to decarbonise the industry to future-proof our urban, rural and coastal environments and what can new development look like in our race to resilience? In the final episode of our 4-part mini-series - Science, Policy and Climate Resilience - Host Emily So is joined by Chris Wise, an award winning designer a...

How can people and businesses learn to adapt and live with climate change? What behaviours should be adopted, what conversations should be had and actions taken at a global, national and local level? In the third episode of our mini-series - Science, Policy & Climate Resilience - Host Emily So, Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Cambridge, is joined by Professor Dame Julia King,...

This podcast looks at the psychological quirks of humankind, what effects our bad decisions have on the society we live in, and how policy might best steer us towards better outcomes. Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Dr Bence Bago - Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and Professor Dame Theresa Marteau – the Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the Universit...

This episode looks at what we expect from our leaders, how that's changed over time, and whether democratic leaders are particularly prone to disappointing us. This episode is hosted by Rory Cellan-Jones, and features experts Dr Roberto Foa, Assistant Professor in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Zachary Garfield, Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study...

For our new 4-part mini-series - Science, Policy and Climate Resilience - Host Rob Doubleday is joined by our new Co-Host Emily So, Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Cambridge. Season 6 is focusing on the race to resilience global climate campaign and how to accelerate climate priorities after COP26. In this second episode we're discussing how to finance climate actions and res...

This is an interview with the thirty-third entrant in the Eminent Scholars Archive. John Spencer was Lecturer and Professor in Law at Selwyn College from 1973 to 2013. He is Hon QC, CBE, and was Faculty Chairman 1995-97. The interview was recorded online from Professor Spencer’s home in Norfolk. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of th...

This is an interview with the thirty-third entrant in the Eminent Scholars Archive. John Spencer was Lecturer and Professor in Law at Selwyn College from 1973 to 2013. He is Hon QC, CBE, and was Faculty Chairman 1995-97. The interview was recorded online from Professor Spencer’s home in Norfolk. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of th...

This is an interview with the thirty-third entrant in the Eminent Scholars Archive. John Spencer was Lecturer and Professor in Law at Selwyn College from 1973 to 2013. He is Hon QC, CBE, and was Faculty Chairman 1995-97. The interview was recorded online from Professor Spencer’s home in Norfolk. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of th...

Professor Sir John Laws was interviewed by Lesley Dingle on 15 June 2017, at the Goodhart Lodge. This recording supports the entry in the Eminent Scholars Archive at: https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive/professor-sir-john-laws For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive

Professor Cheryl Saunders is Laureate Professor Emeritus at Melbourne Law School, and Founding Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne and was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2005-2006. Professor Saunders was interviewed on 12 September 2016, in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at h...

Professor Tony Smith was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2015-2016. Professor Smith was interviewed for the first time on 19 January 2016 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive

Professor Tony Smith was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2015-2016. Professor Smith was interviewed for the second time on 20 July 2016 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive

Between February and March 2017 Professor Baker was interviewed three times in the Faculty to record his reminiscences as a legal historian. His scholarship of the history of the common law spans nearly half a century at UCL and Cambridge, and culminated in the Downing Chair, and a knighthood. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this...

Between February and March 2017 Professor Baker was interviewed three times in the Faculty to record his reminiscences as a legal historian. His scholarship of the history of the common law spans nearly half a century at UCL and Cambridge, and culminated in the Downing Chair, and a knighthood. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this...

Between February and March 2017 Professor Baker was interviewed three times in the Faculty to record his reminiscences as a legal historian. His scholarship of the history of the common law spans nearly half a century at UCL and Cambridge, and culminated in the Downing Chair, and a knighthood. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this...

Professor Harold Hongju Koh was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2018-2019. Professor Koh was interviewed on 28 May 2019 in his room in Christ's College. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/

Mr David Yale was interviewed by Mrs Lesley Dingle on 26 November 2019, in his home in Porthmadog, Snowdonia. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/