This week, we’re looking at knowledge, skills and jobs in a future London. How has the pandemic affected education, and what lessons can we take from it in the future? How can we continue to attract and retain talent in an era of virtual working, and how will increasing digitisation augment learning and social justice?

Join special guests Prof Allison Littlejohn (Professor and Director of the UCL Knowledge Lab, IOE), Lalage Clay (Director of Education and Talent at London & Partners) and Diana Beech (CEO at London Higher) as they discuss the opportunities and advantages that London has to offer for students, residents and employers, its history and influence… and its indefinable magic.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/ucl-future-cities/s1-ep5-transcript

Future Cities - Learning and working in a future London

Creative Lives podcast 5,”Intergenerational cohesion: Generations, culture, and identity”, presented by Lorna Collins, with guests Michelle Kindleysides and Charlotte Faircloth. 

Charlotte Faircloth is Associate Professor in the Social Research Institute at University College London. From sociological and anthropological perspectives, her work has focussed on parenting, gender and reproduction using qualitative and cross-cultural methodologies. This research has explored infant feeding, couple relationships, intergenerational relations and, recently, the impact of coronavirus on family life.
 
Michelle Kindleysides is Head of Health & Wellbeing at Beamish Museum, a large Open Air Museum in County Durham.  Her role is to develop and facilitate a unique programme of group activities and events at the Museum to help support the health and wellbeing of people living with a range of health needs in the community.  The team began with supporting people living with dementia, both in the community and living in residential homes, and has been diversifying its programmes for the past 8 years.

You can find out more and view the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/creative-lives-episode-5-intergenerational-cohesion

Creative Lives: Intergenerational cohesion: Generations, culture, and identity

This episode is a recording of UCL's "More than the right to vote: feminism and citizenship" event, held on 17 February. The panel includes: Professor Sasha Roseneil (chair), UCL Pro-Provost (Equality & Inclusion) (Chair) Dr Victoria Showunmi, UCL IOE Professor Joyce Harper, UCL Institute for Women's Health Professor Ann Phoenix, UCL IOE Event information: Despite the long struggle for women’s suffrage, which was finally won in Britain on equal terms to men in 1928, the right to vote did not grant women fully equal access to political decision-making. Although there have been significant changes over the past four decades, women remain under-represented in politics throughout the world. Moreover, political citizenship is just one dimension of citizenship. Feminist scholars have argued for an understanding of citizenship as multi-dimensional, encompassing not just the terrain of politics, but also economic citizenship, social citizenship, intimate, sexual and bodily citizenship, and religious and cultural citizenship. 

In this panel, academics from across UCL discuss the unfinished business of securing full membership and belonging of society and its institutions for all women. The panel aimed to shine a light on the research of feminist scholars, open up understandings of the multi-dimensional aspects of citizenship, and provide a space to discuss the continued consequences of women’s exclusion to full membership and belonging of society and its institutions.  Panellists each gave a short talk, followed by cross panel discussion, with an audience Q&A. This podcast is brought to you by UCL Public Policy, UCL Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality and RIGE Comms, as part of UCL's #StandWithHope campaign, which aims to generate reflection on the history of the women’s suffrage movement in the UK, as well as generate debate and encourage UCL’s communities to share their stories and views on the inequalities that remain and what needs to change to create a truly equal society today. Join the conversation using #StandwithHope. 

To access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/more-right-vote-feminism-and-citizenship

Date of episode recording: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z
Duration: 01:00:13
Language of episode: English 
Presenter: Professor Sasha Roseneil 
Guests: Dr Victoria Showunmi, UCL IOE; Professor Joyce Harper, UCL Institute for Women's Health; Professor Ann Phoenix, UCL IOE
Producer: Evie Calder

Feminism And Citizenship

Neste novo episódio falamos dos desafios do ensino superior. Que alternativas as universidades têm para garantir um maior acesso e qualidade? Mostramos como as pesquisas desenvolvidas pelo nosso convidado, Tristan McCowan, apresentam diferentes modelos e alternativas contemporâneas ao ensino superior. Algumas delas estão dentro das universidades tradicionais, outras com estruturas não convencionais que estão trabalhando contra a corrente para responder aos problemas que o presente e o futuro nos colocam.

Tristan McCowan é professor de Educação Internacional no Instituto de Educação da University College de Londres. Seu trabalho centra-se nas áreas de acesso e qualidade do ensino superior, universidades alternativas e inovadoras, educação para a cidadania e direitos humanos. Abrange uma vasta gama de contextos, particularmente na América Latina e na África Subsaariana. Tristan é inglês, fala português e é autor de vários artigos e livros sobre o ensino superior, educação indígena, educação para a cidadania, e educação como um direito humano.

Gostou do Eduquê? Conte para a gente!
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Eduquê in English:
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Eduquê #16 - Tristan McCowan - Que tipos de universidade podemos e queremos ter?

About the Lecture:

This lecture is about the author's practical introduction to critical realism, which won the International Association of Critical Realism annual book prize. The book is based on an annual course conducted at IOE since 2007. The book is a clear time-saving introduction for postgraduate students, researchers, supervisors and lecturers. After decades of conducting sociological research, the author was concerned about gaps and contradictions in the main paradigms. These are addressed in the first chapters, with ways in which critical realism helps to resolve them. Interactions between structure and agency, and whether research can be value-free are then addressed. Two frameworks that greatly help with data analysis, the four planes of social being and four stages of transformative change, are explained, with a final chapter on how critical realism informs effective research. The critical realist concepts are illustrated with examples about health, but they apply to any discipline.

About the Speaker:

Priscilla Alderson
Emerita Professor at IOE - Social Research Institute

Since 1991, Priscilla Alderson has worked at the Social Science Research Unit, now in the Social Research Institute UCL. Her research covers many aspects of health and education, ethics, childhood and children’s rights, and is reported in over 300 publications. In 2014, she started leading the UCL critical realism postdoctoral course, founded by Roy Bhaskar in 2007. Her latest research, published in a series of open access journal papers, is detailed on the UCL website about children’s consent to heart surgery.

A practical introduction to critical realism

Nancy Karmali-Belmonte and Farzana Akther respond to our ECTs' questions, and remind us that looking after wellbeing and being a good teacher are two sides of the same coin.

"It is up to the induction tutors, I think, to set the school culture so that those more challenging feedback conversations are couched in a framework of support and everyone moving forward and growing."

Mark and Elaine hear Nancy and Farzana discuss the importance of Induction Tutors, and the important role of ensuring ECTs find their advocates in the staffroom and are able to build their supportive communities.

They discuss building a culture that is open and filled with a willingness to share advice and listen – which includes listening to ECTs and knowing what they need.

Full show notes, transcript and links: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/jan/fostering-strong-professional-relationships-find-your-staffroom-friends

ECF Staffroom speaks to Early Career Teachers, mentors and participants at all levels of the UCL Early Career Teacher Development programme.

Fostering strong professional relationships: Find your staffroom friends

Award-winning filmmaker, Steve McQueen, joins Paul Gilroy for a conversation on the motivation for his 'Small Axe' film series. McQueen addresses making something that is Black and beautiful in depicting justice and freedom, and how art can give recognition to Black British lives by shoring up “who we are, where we came from and what we contributed to this country”.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-steve-mcqueen

This conversation was recorded on 26th October 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Steve McQueen, Academy Award-winning filmmaker and artist; creator and director of 'Small Axe'
Image: Photo by John Russo
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

SPRC In conversation with Steve McQueen

Introducing 'Public Health Disrupted' – the brand new Podcast from UCL Health of the Public. 

Presented by Doctor, writer and TV Presenter Xand Van Tulleken and community health psychologist, UCL lecturer and self-proclaimed hippie, Dr Rochelle Burgess.

This podcast is about public health, but more importantly, it’s about the systems that need disrupting to make public health better. In each episode, we’ll be challenging the status quo of this field, asking what needs to change, and why and how can we get there. Each month we’ll be joined by activists, scholars, artists, comedians and industry professionals to offer perspectives from the UCL community and beyond. 

We’re calling this podcast Public Health Disrupted because that’s exactly what we want to do. We are going to be breaking down disciplinary, sectoral and geographic boundaries to really understand the diverse and complex issues impacting our health. Issues as complex as structural racism and as broad as the role of tech in public health. 

New episodes will be made available monthly via the UCL Soundcloud. 

Find the transcript and more information on https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/introducing-public-health-disrupted-brand-new-podcast-ucl-health-public

If there’s a question you’d like us and our guests to answer, email us at healthofpublic@ucl.ac.uk or tweet @UCLHealthPublic.

Public Health Disrupted - Trailer

Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have dominated the headlines in 2020 and taught us multiple things about people and organisations.  The research appears to be more heavily, if not completely, focused on responses to Covid as opposed to the equally important matters of social justice and racial equality brought to the forefront by the BLM movement.  However, there are important leadership lessons to be learned from both crises that can impact the future of organizations.  We will explore five of these lessons focusing on what we have learned at a societal, organisational, and individual level.

Date: Tuesday 27 October 2020
Speakers: Dr Zachary Walker , Associate Professor , UCL Institute of Education

Free to attend, live stream or watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7vFbAmvRA&t=11s 
More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl 
Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLMinds #MadeAtUCL

Lunch Hour Lecture: Leading Through Crisis  5 Things We Have Learned About Organizations & People

In this week’s episode, we’re discussing home-schooling & play, home-working, parenting - and how to juggle them all. With the latest announcement that schools won’t be reopening until at least the 8th March, we speak to three UCL experts to explore how home-schooling is affecting children and parents, and some practical tips and tricks for listeners.

UCL experts:
- Dr Sandra Leaton Gray, Institute of Education
- Prof Lorraine Sherr, Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
- Prof John Potter, Institute of Education

WHO Parenting Advice in the time of COVID-19: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/healthy-parenting

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-37

If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.

Coronavirus: The Whole Story - How can we juggle parenting, home schooling and play?

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