Public Health Disrupted

The human spaces and urban landscapes that we build worldwide have a huge impact on our daily lives, our societies, and our planet. In this podcast, we’re taking on the big question: how can we build better?

Welcome to this monthly podcast series from The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, presented by Dean of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and Professor in Urban Studies at UCL, Christoph Lindner.

Each episode will bring together multi-disciplinary perspectives and radical thinking from some of the world's leading experts at The Bartlett. Together, we can open up new ideas and spark innovative solutions for some of the world's most important challenges – and build a better future for everyone.

Building Better: The Bartlett Podcast - Season 1

UCL's award-winning campaign, Disruptive Thinking Since 1826 and hashtag #MadeAtUCL, has been phenomenal in its scope with hoardings at UCL East in London, graphics and animations on our website; a festival, podcast series, and involvement of the wider public to vote for their favourite breakthrough UCL research.

This year, we continue to feature more UCL breakthrough stories through Season Two of the podcast! This time, we are also sharing stories from our community, our pioneering researchers, staff, students and alumni who have or are achieving great things that impact society and help change the world for the better.

Listen to a new episode every first Monday of the month.

Find season two here: soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/madeatucl-podcasts-season-2

Catch up on season one here: soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/madeatucl-podcasts-season-2

For more information, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts

#MadeAtUCL Podcasts Season 2

In this series, guests from across UCL and beyond share their innovative solutions and ideas for addressing societal challenges, discussing topics from a cross-disciplinary perspective and inspiring and encouraging us to think differently about issues of local, national and global concern.

Disruptive Voices from UCL Grand Challenges

UCL’s Generation One is a collective of people committed to a new era of positive climate action. By turning science and ideas into action we are working towards creating a positive, fair and progressive future. For us and for the generations to come.  

Join our podcast hosts who are all world leading climate experts from University College London, Matt Winning, Helen Czerski and Mark Maslin for our six-episode series, which will tackle the biggest challenges facing the climate crisis, together with expert guests and questions from the public.  

Each week on the podcast we’ll be discussing a crucial climate topic, from electric cars, to fashion, to finance and we’ll have a look back at the climate news of the week.  

For more information on UCL’s Generation One and to access the transcripts: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change  

We would love hear your thoughts, to get involved in the #UCLGenerationOne podcast, email us at podcasts@ucl.ac.uk or find us on Twitter using #UCLGenerationOne

Generation One: The Climate Podcast

Join hosts Xand and Rochelle for Episode 4 of Public Health Disrupted, the brand new podcast from UCL Health of the Public.

In this month’s episode, we speak to Sir Keir Starmer – Leader of the Labour Party and former human rights lawyer – and Professor Dame Hazel Genn - Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Vice-Provost International & Advancement - to explore the intersections of law and public health, and how law and legal services can help to mitigate health inequalities.

The coronavirus pandemic, and the wider governmental and societal response, have brought health inequalities into sharp focus. There is growing evidence of bi-directional links between law and health. Social and economic problems with a legal dimension can exacerbate or create ill health, and conversely, ill health can create legal problems. By promoting greater integration of health and legal services, we can have a real impact on the health of the public, and build a healthy future for all.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/public-health-disrupted

Public Health Disrupted - How is law good for your health?

In this series, guests from across UCL and beyond share their innovative solutions and ideas for addressing societal challenges, discussing topics from a cross-disciplinary perspective and inspiring and encouraging us to think differently about issues of local, national and global concern.
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In Episode 1, we speak to two academics from the Faculty of Laws, Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin and Professor Philippe Sands QC, about Democracy and Place. In this episode, we explore the role of international courts in shaping national identities and the role of individuals in the making and breaking of international law. Our guests also discuss how we can deliver justice at a ‘place-based’ level, drawing comparisons between Britain and France, and consider the relationship between politics and law. 

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/disruptive-voices-episode-1-democracy-and-place

More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/disruptive-voices

Music: Dancing on the Sidewalk by David Szesztay (social media license)

Disruptive Voices - Place and Democracy

Black Key Étude Op. 10, No. 5 - Frédéric Chopin (1810 –1849)

Pianist: Ryo Fukaura, UCL medical student, playing the piece from memory, in the Peter Samuel Hall at the Royal Free Hospital.

soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/ryo-fukaura-piano

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at http://ucl.ac.uk.

Ryo Fukaura: Chopin - Black Key Étude Op. 10, No. 5

Does public space have a future?

This month, host Christoph speaks to Dr Maria Kamargianni, Associate Professor of Transport and Energy in the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources and Head of MaaSLab, Dr Lucy Natarajan, Lecturer (teaching) from the Bartlett School of Planning, and Dr Leah Lovett, artist and Research Fellow at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis to explore how the creation and use of public space is changing.

The past year has dramatically shifted how we access public space. From COVID-19 restrictions to concerns around how we police and regulate public spaces, this episode explores public space as a contested space, and what’s at stake for the future use, meaning and function of public spaces in the city.

Access transcript: www. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-space-and-city

Building Better - Space and the City

Join Cassidy for April’s #MadeAtUCL podcast which talks about Pain: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Imagine not feeling pain... Or never having to fear visiting the dentist... Or being able to communicate pain... Hear about:

-	The FAAH-OUT gene discovery and how the latest research is helping people with chronic pain conditions with Dr James Cox (Senior Lecturer and Deputy Graduate Tutor working in the Molecular Nociception Group at the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research)

-	Clinical trials in dentistry that may allow for some procedures to be performed without drills or anaesthetic with Prof Anne Young (Professor of Biomaterials at UCL Eastman Dental Institute)

-	A novel way of using pictures to communicate pain with Dr Deborah Padfield (a visual artist, Senior Lecturer in Arts & Health Humanities at St George's, University of London and Lecturer (Teaching) at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL)https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pain 

For transcript and show notes, visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep3-pain-good-bad-and-ugly

#MadeAtUCL - Pain: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

In this series, guests from across UCL and beyond share their innovative solutions and ideas for addressing societal challenges, discussing topics from a cross-disciplinary perspective and inspiring and encouraging us to think differently about issues of local, national, and global concern. 
 
In this week’s episode, Professor Rose Luckin (UCL Institute of Education) and Nimmi Patel (TechUK) discuss what AI developments could mean for the future of work in the UK and globally, and how we need to redefine our understanding of good work to harness AI’s potential for positive change.
 
Transcript: hhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/disruptive-voices-episode-2-ai-and-future-work
 
Music: Dancing on the Sidewalk by David Szesztay (social media license)

Related UCL podcasts the 'Future of Work':
- Coronavirus: The Whole Story - What does the future of work look like? https://bit.ly/2Q6mxzt
- eWorkLife - https://www.eworklife.co.uk/podcast/

Disruptive Voices - AI and the Future of Work

This month, we're talking about slowness and what it means in the context of a city or a space.

To help us think about slowness, host Christoph speaks to Pedro Gil, an architect and Senior Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Dr Elsa Arcaute, Associate Professor in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).

Listen to hear their thoughts on slowness as a privilege, vicarious slowness, involuntary slowness, and speed as a form of power in Episode 4 of Building Better.

Access transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-after-crisis-should-london-slow-down

Building Better - After the crisis, should London slow down?

Save the planet, save lives, save money! Presented and edited by two UCL graduates, Cassidy and Cerys, will take you on a journey from patient to planet.

In this episode we're talking about saving the planet with Professor Mark Maslin, a climate change expert and author of "How to Save the Planet: the Facts". Mr Manish Chand, Associate Professor in Surgery, joins us to discuss how he's using the latest technology to make surgery smarter and less invasive to save lives. We also talk to Dr Dexter Penn, creator of an app that can help identify vulnerable people at risk of being financially abused.

Show Notes and Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep4-save-us

#MadeAtUCL Podcasts - Save Us

Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, simplified version with original cadenza - Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)

Pianist: Ryo Fukaura, UCL medical student, playing the piece from memory, in the Peter Samuel Hall at the Royal Free Hospital.

soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/ryo-fukaura-piano

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at http://ucl.ac.uk.

Ryo Fukaura: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2

In this episode, we speak to Professor Sophia Psarra (The Bartlett School of Architecture) to discuss how the architecture of parliament buildings across Europe influences the nature of political debates and contributes to shaping national identities. 

More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/case-studies/2021/feb/parliament-buildings-architecture-power-accountability-and-democracy-europe 

Music: Dancing on the Sidewalk by David Szesztay (social media license)
 
Find out more about UCL's research and engagement in Europe on our portal, European Voices: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-voices/

Disruptive Voices - Parliament Buildings

In this month's episode, we want to know: how will we heat our homes in the future?

And who better to answer this question than two researchers from the UCL Energy Institute, a world-leading initiative, delivering learning, research, and policy support on the challenges of Climate Change and energy security.

Join host Christoph in conversation with Dr Jenny Crawley, Research Fellow in Energy and Buildings, and Dr Jez Wingfield, Senior Technician in Physical Building Performance to learn about the different possibilities for a more sustainable future in the UK and what barriers lie in the way. 

Access transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-how-will-we-heat-our-homes

Building Better: The Bartlett Podcast

Building Better - How should we heat our homes?

In Episode 4, we speak to Ayşe Lisa Allison, a PhD Student working with the Plastic Waste Innovation Hub. We explore some of the barriers to environmentally friendly action, and examine the links between behavioural science and design, focusing on biodegradable and compostable packaging and labelling. We also discuss the issue of disposable healthcare items, exploring some of the trade-offs when it comes to health and the environment.

Transcript and more info on https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/disruptive-voices

Disruptive Voices - Behaviour and Plastic Waste

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. 

Each episode focuses on one of the may ways climate change and health are related, with an interview with an expert in the field. 

More information and transcript can be found at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2021/sep/podcast-episode-mental-health-and-climate-change

Episode 1: Mental Health and Climate Change

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 info on: www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/disruptive-voices 

Music: Dancing on the Sidewalk by David Szesztay (social media license)

Disruptive Voices - Climate, Disasters and Health

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 lastly with Dr Seb Coxon to learn how beards of medieval Germany can help us understand masculinity today.

Find out more and listen to the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep8-growth

#MadeAtUCL Podcasts - Growth

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 Covid and resilience are related?
4. How can we support people’s resilience over Covid?

As Covid is a popular discussion at the moment, we have broken this topic down into several recordings in order to most effectively cover all viewpoints on the topic. We will release one new podcast a month, including how Covid is related to individual-level, and community-level resilience.

This podcast was recorded in June of 2021, and so references are made to the current Covid crisis.

Resilience Research Group: Resilience & COVID - Part 2

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 the programme, and what he is up to now.  

Joining us are Alex Rainbow, Carbon Neutral Cornwall Assessment Specialist at Cornwall Council. Leanne Wilson, Policy and Economy Adviser at North of Tyne Combined Authority. And Peter Lefort, Impact and Partnership Development Officer at University of Exeter, but was previously at Cornwall Council.

Together Towards Net Zero - Graduating the Programme

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-voices-celebrating-old-age?in=uclsound/sets/disruptive-voices-from-ucl

Dancing on the Sidewalk

Disruptive Voices - Celebrating old age

In our fourth episode Selina & Caswell talk to Professor Nick Fox about the importance of research into Alzheimer’s disease and the progress being made towards better diagnosis and treatment.

Find out more and access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast

Brain Stories - Episode 4: Nick Fox on the Importance of Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease

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. AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Visiting Professor at the African Centre for Cities and Goldsmiths, University of London.

For more information and to access the transcripts: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/publications/2021/oct/black-urbanisms-podcast-series

Black Urbanisms - Episode 1: Blackness and the Urban

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 along the way and anything they might have done differently. 

Joining us are Katherine Welch, Deputy Director of Partnerships at UCL Public Policy and Grace Abel, Programme Manager at the Local Government Association. We are also joined by Dr Kris De Meyer and Dr Lucy Hubble-Rose who were the expert facilitators of the programme and are part of UCL’s Climate Action Unit.

Together Towards Net Zero: The LGA and UCL Partnership - Creating the Programme

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 13 years of experience working as a doctor and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Cinapsis SmartReferrals is an NHSX-approved platform that makes it easy for clinicians to communicate and share information to make smarter patient referrals. Currently used by 16 NHS Trusts across the UK, Cinapsis' secure platform gives GPs, paramedics, optometrists and NHS 111 operators immediate access to specialist advice, resulting in more efficient triage, faster decision-making and fewer unnecessary referrals.

Dr Athena Akrami 

Dr Athena Akrami joined the faculty at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, in October 2018. She obtained her BA in Biomedical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology) and her PhD in Computational Neuroscience from International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste), with Alessandro Treves.  She was a postdoctoral fellow at SISSA where she worked with Mathew Diamond, and then at Princeton University where she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow and worked with Carlos Brody on Parametric Working Memory. 

After contracting COVID-19 in March 2020, Athena developed long COVID and was integral in uniting long COVID sufferers and conducting research that has been key for the understanding and treatment of long covid symptoms.

Dr Susan McGrath 

Dr Susan McGrath is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work at the Institute of Education.  Her research focus on young people’s decision-making shows how teachers, parents, schools and employers influence education and career choices.  In the wider UCL community, Susan is better known for her work as project lead of the IOE Gardens, including Sarah’s Garden and the Bar Terrace. The gardens make a significant contribution to the UCL Biodiversity Plan and, in keeping with the IOE’s global status, operate as an outdoor classroom with a distinctly international flavour.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep9-recovery

Our Names Engraved by Duck Lake

#MadeatUCLPodcasts - Recovery

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 Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Prof Ola Uduku is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/transcript-black-urbanisms-meet-black-city

Black Urbanisms - Episode 2: Black Urbanisms meet the Black City

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

Episode 3: Overheating in Buildings

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 Neveu Kringelbach is Associate Professor of African Anthropology at UCL.

You can find out more and access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/transcript-black-urbanisms-unsettling-and-collectives-run

Black Urbanisms - Episode 3: Black Urbanisms, Unsettling and Collectives on the Run

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 response?
2.	How might Covid have impacted resilience?
3.	What evidence do we have that Covid and resilience are related?
4.	How can we support a communities resilience over Covid?

As Covid is a popular discussion at the moment, we have broken this topic down into several recordings in order to most effectively cover all viewpoints on the topic. We will release one new podcast a month, including how Covid is related to individual-level, and community-level resilience.

This podcast was recorded in August of 2021, and so references are made to the current Covid crisis.

Resilience Research Group: Resilience and COVID - Part 3

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 Wilbard Kombe’s talk on the urban transformations being driven by an inadequately regulated market/real estate sector. 

Dr Wilbard Kombe is Professor of Urban Land Management and Director of the Institute of Human Settlements Studies at Ardhi University. 

Dr Evance Mwathunga is the Head of Geography and Earth Sciences Department at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/transcript-black-urbanisms-and-theorising-africa

Black Urbanisms - Episode 4: Black Urbanisms and Theorising from Africa

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

Episode 4: A brief history of UN Climate Conferences (COPs)

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.  

For more information on #UCLGenerationOne and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/generation-one

To learn more about how far we can go with electric batteries, and pledge to help: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/stories/how-far-can-we-go-electric-batteries

We will see you next week for a live from COP26 episode.

Generation One 

How far can we go with electric batteries?

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 the world to understand the impacts of climate change through a feminist lens, and Emilia Molimpakis, a neuroscientist and entrepreneur who is revolutionising mental health care. 


For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep10-awareness-and-activism 

Music Credits: 

Basketliner by Bitters 
Sorry Linus by Limoncello  
The Onyx by Glass Obelisk

#MadeAt UCL Podcasts - Awareness And Activism

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 challenges of our age: global poverty, population growth, environmental degradation and global security. COP26 in Glasgow is almost upon us and Prof. Maslin shows us how we can save our Planet from climate change while improving everyone’s lives.

This event is part of UCL’s climate campaign ‘Generation One’.  Together we are the new generation taking responsibility for climate action and turning science into actionable ideas. 
Join our new era of climate action at ucl.ac.uk/generation-one

How To Save Our Planet

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 far, melting ice caps, to sinking islands, to the amount of coffee at the conference... 

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcast

To get involved and pledge your action visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/generation-one 

We’ll see you next week as we discuss what happens after COP26.

Behind the scenes at COP26

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 future of Camden. 

Using the learnings from the New York High Line, they discuss the impact this famous park has had on the city and people of New York, and ask whether tourism, gentrification and investment can or will benefit the local community.

UCL Future Cities Live Finale: From New York to Camden The High Line Effect

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, Emily Bradfield and Deborah Padfield.  

Emily Bradfield is an independent arts consultant who supports people to reimagine evaluation, and manage projects creatively. She's also charity director of Arts and Minds, which is an arts and mental health charity working across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Emily holds a PhD in creative ageing from the University of Darby. She is passionate about bridging the gap between research and practice, advocating arts for social change and weaving creativity throughout research, evaluation and practice. 

Deborah Padfield is a visual artist and senior lecturer in Arts and Health Humanities at St. George's, University of London, and a teaching lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art here at UCL. She collaborates with both clinicians and academics and her research explores the potential of photographic images, co-created with people who have pain, to facilitate a patient-clinician communication, so new ways of communicating about pain. Her latest book is Encountering Pain: hearing, seeing, speaking, edited with J. M. Zakrzewska. It can be accessed here: uclpress.co.uk/Pain

The presenter is Lorna Collins. The podcast is produced by Grand Challenges and published by UCL Minds. The editing is by Nina Quach, and the music is by Tim Moor.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/creative-lives-episode-6-lifelong-learning

Creative Lives: Lifelong learning

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 deforestation to adaptation, loss and mitigation. We get into who was left out of COP, the impacts on the Small Island Alliance and the problem of western countries causing damage and expecting others to fix it.  

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcast

To get involved and pledge your action visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/generation-one

UCL Generation One

Post COP26: Where are we now?

In this contributed series from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Tom Fearn about how UCL is acknowledging and addressing its historical links with the eugenics movement, and in particular the roles of the prominent statisticians and eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/transcript-episode-1

The History of Statistics and Eugenics at UCL with Professor Tom Fearn

Dr Harry Kennard chats to UCL academics from the Institute of Sustainable Resources, Lilia Couto and Professors Jim Watson and Michael Grub, about the experience of attending COP26 and the implications of the Glasgow Climate Pact.

To find out more and access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2021/oct/podcast-episode-reflections-cop26

Episode 5: Reflections on COP26

Ballade No. 1, Op.23 - Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Pianist: Ryo Fukaura, UCL medical student, playing the piece from memory, in the Peter Samuel Hall at the Royal Free Hospital.

soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/ryo-fukaura-piano

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at http://ucl.ac.uk.

Ryo Fukaura: Chopin Ballade No. 1, Op.23

About the UCL East Lunch Hour Lecture:
Dr Qasim Rafiq will explore the challenges and opportunities of manufacturing advanced personalised therapies, and the impact these regenerative, curative treatments will have on the treating previous unmet clinical need. Dr Rafiq will discuss what advanced therapies are, how they will revolutionise healthcare and the challenges involved in manufacturing these novel therapeutics at a scale and cost that meets patient needs.
About the speaker:
Dr Qasim Rafiq is an Associate Professor in Cell and Gene Therapy Bioprocess Engineering. He is Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Chartered Scientist (CSci), a  Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and was recognised as one of the top 20 influential and inspirational individuals in Advanced Medicine for 2020 by The Medicine Maker listed amongst Nobel Laureates, multi-national CEOs and leading scientists.

How do we manufacture personalised medicines?

This week we’re talking trees, from Kew Gardens to Dame Judi Dench’s back garden. Join hosts Matt Winning and Mark Maslin as they chat to Prof Mat Disney about measuring trees, and to Craig Bennett, CEO of Wildlife Trusts about the importance of biodiversity, and how the UK is ‘beaver ready’. 

Listen now to hear about a NASA app that allows you to measure trees around you and assess how much carbon they can hold. We also chat about the UK climate, how wildlife is on a decline and what needs to be done now to undo the damage.  

For more information on Generation One and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcast  

To download the NASA app and pledge to weigh your local trees: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/stories/trees-matter-just-how-much

Trees matter. But just how much?

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Jamie Woodcock (Open University) and Dr Zeynep Engin (UCL computer science) to discuss disenfranchisement by AI in the world of work. We cover topics like algorithmic management and the biases that can be exacerbated by AI driven technologies – and discuss broader inequities AI can highlight and make worse. We also consider positive uses of AI in work and discuss what actions can be taken to steer technology development and use in work to increase fairness for us all.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/working-well-ai

AI and Disenfranchisement at Work

In our fifth episode Selina and Steve chat to Professor Tamar Makin about her fascinating research on brain plasticity, artificial limbs and the potential for human augmentation.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast

Date of episode recording: 2021-11-24
Duration: 00:34:20
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Tamar Makin
Producer: Suzie McCarthy

Brain Stories - Episode 5: Tamar Makin on Brain Plasticity

In this episode, Professor Nick Tyler (Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, UCL Engineering) shares his vision of how cities are built, evolve, and how this process might include more creativity and humanity. Using perspectives from academia and the arts, Professor Tyler paints a picture of cities that puts people at the centre.

Disruptive Voices - People and Cities

This is the sixth podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Dr Gretchen Pianka (Resilience University), Eleanor Parrott (UCL), Lindad Turck (Primary School teacher), Prof Orit Nuttman-Shwartz (Sapir College, Israel). The podcast is hosted by Dr Seonaid Anderson (Neurodiverse). 

This podcast covers: Why is resilience in children and adolescents important? Can all young people be resilient to adverse circumstances? What factors might impact a child’s ability to be resilient? Is resilience in young people measurable? If so, how should this be measured? 

This podcast was recorded in July of 2021, and so references are made to the current Covid crisis.

Date of episode recording: 2021-07-19
Duration: 01:02:59
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Dr Seonaid Anderson (Neurodiverse)
Guests: Dr Gretchen Pianka (Resilience University); Eleanor Parrott (UCL); Lindad Turck (Primary School teacher); Prof Orit Nuttman-Shwartz (Sapir College, Israel)
Producer: Jennifer McGowan

Resilience Research Group: Resilience in Childhood and Adolescence - Part 1

Date: Tuesday 16 November 2021
About the lecture:
The existential threat to humanity from Climate Change requires action at a scale and speed that can seem almost impossible, transitioning systems that have operated for decades on fossil fuels to a completely new paradigm. Aidan O’Sullivan will talk about how Artificial Intelligence is a natural ally and catalyst for this change and the fundamental characteristics of AI as a software technology are ideally suited to enable the scale and speed of action that we need to mitigate a climate disaster. Kate Jones will then look at whether AI can be useful for understanding climate change impacts and solutions and Geoff Mulgan will then discuss the potential of AI to combat climate change – but also and why we need radically different ways of organising data for the full benefits to be achieved and why AI needs to be combined with human collective intelligence.

About the speakers:
Kate Jones, Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity at Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, UCL
Sir Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy & Social Innovation at University College London
Aidan O’Sullivan, Associate Professor in Energy and AI at UCL Energy Institute and Turing Fellow at Alan Turing Institute

This event is part of UCL’s climate campaign ‘Generation One’.  Together we are the new generation taking responsibility for climate action and turning science into actionable ideas. Join our new era of climate action at ucl.ac.uk/generation-one

AI - Climate Change friend or foe?

Is online space real space? Does it, should it and can it work in the same way and follow the same rules? This is a big question that couldn’t possibly be answered in one episode, so we thought we’d be a bit more specific and ask, what does, or should, an online classroom look like? 

Alongside two innovative educators from The Bartlett School of Architecture, host Christoph explores their personal experiences of teaching during the pandemic and ideas around how we might reinvent what a classroom looks like in the future. Join Elizabeth Dow, an Associate Professor and Senior Departmental Tutor who leads the Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies BSc and Alvaro Lopez-Rodriguez, a lecturer (teaching) and researcher in digital manufacturing and augmented reality for a reflective discussion on the possibilities - and limitations - of online teaching. 

Find season two here: https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/building-better-season-2 
Catch up on season one here: https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/building-better-the-bartlett 

For more information, visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/building-better-bartlett-podcast 

Date of episode recording: 2021-12-01
Duration: 00:32:06
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Christoph Lindner
Guests: Elizabeth Dow, Alvaro Lopez-Rodriguez
Producer: Cerys Bradley

Building Better Season 2 - Please Switch On Your Cameras

Does the earth have to be a fashion victim? This week host Mark Maslin chats with Juliet Russell, Head of Sustainability at Stella McCartney and Max Bittner, CEO of Vestiaire Collective about all things fashion.  

 We’re discussing the fashion industry, from greenwashing to fast fashion and how you can shop more consciously. Join Juliet Russell and Max Bittner as they discuss the current problems in the industry and what needs to change.   

For more information on Generation One and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcast

BCC Generaton One

Does the earth have to be a fashion victim?

In this episode, host Professor Rose Luckin (UCL IOE) discusses how UK businesses - small and large, and across different regions - can engage with AI and attract tech talent, with guests Vimla Appadoo, Head of Experience at Culture Shift, and Dana Elman-Vishkin, Innovation Delivery Manager at Digital Catapult.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/working-well-ai

AI across sector and scale

UCL Chamber Music Club Concert  
Recorded live on 15 March 2012

Frederick Delius (1862-1934) - Lullaby for a Modern Baby (1923)

Bronwen Evans – violin      
Roger Beeson – piano 

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music

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Delius - Lullaby for a Modern Baby

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Arabesque No.1 in E major (c.1891)

Piano - Ryo Fukaura

Listen to more from UCL's Chamber Music Club here: 
https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/ucl-chamber-music-club

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Debussy: Arabesque No.1 in E major (Ryo Fukaura, University College London)

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

In our first episode, hosts Xand and Rochelle are joined by Dominique Palmer - dedicated climate activist, organiser within the UK Student Climate Network and one of Forbes 100 Top UK Environmentalists and Prof Paul Ekins OBE, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, to explore how the climate is disrupting public health.

Tackling climate change can improve our health, not only through reducing the risks of heatwaves, extreme weather events and poor air quality, but through the mitigation and adaptation strategies we use, bringing benefits for climate, the economy and health.

The effects of the climate crisis are already being felt today, and future projections highlight a devastating risk to the health of the public. Could tackling climate change be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century, helping us to address inequalities and racism, strengthen the economy and promote global health?

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

New episodes will be made available monthly via the UCL Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast. Find the transcript and more information on the UCL Health of the Public website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/public-health-disrupted

Public Health Disrupted - What does climate change have to do with public health?

Join hosts Xand and Rochelle for Episode 2 of Public Health Disrupted, the brand new podcast from UCL Health of the Public.

In this month’s episode, we speak to award-winning comedian and author Laura Lexx and London-based Scottish comedian and UCL academic Dr Matt Winning, to explore how comedy and humour can be used to improve health for all.

Laughter is good for your health - a good laugh can reduce stress. It can also be used as a tool to reduce the stigma of people discussing issues or raise the profile of topics to improve the health of the public.

In this episode, Laura and Matt discuss their personal experiences of using comedy to address serious topics including mental health, infertility and climate change in their stand-up shows. Both comedians have created a space in the world of comedy to talk about public health issues, but what about the other way around? Is there space for comedy in public health?

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

New episodes will be made available monthly via the UCL Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast. Find the transcript and more information on the UCL Health of the Public website.

Stand-up for public health: how can comedy improve our health?

Touch. The sensation, the loss of it and gaining it back. Finding ways to keep in touch with those that need it most. Making the most of digital technologies and language to communicate - find out more in the very first episode of Season 2!

ACT 1 - from 01.25 - 09.00
Prof Carey Jewitt, UCL Institute of Education
Lili Golmohammadi, doctoral researcher at the UCL Institute of Education

ACT 2 - from 09.00 - 17.50
Alessia Qiu, second-year UCL BSc Natural Sciences student

ACT 3 - from 17.50 - 23.37
Dr Helge Wurdemann, UCL Mechanical Engineering

Presented by Cassidy Martin and edited by Cerys Bradley
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts

#MadeAtUCL Podcasts - Touch

For our first episode, host Christoph is joined by Lo Marshall, urban geographer and Research Fellow at the UCL Urban Laboratory and Bartlett School of Architecture and Dr Grant Mills, Associate Professor in the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, to explore space and how communities create it.
 
We wanted to know how spaces can be designed to best serve the people who need them, and what happens when spaces are designed to shut people out or divide them.
 
In this episode, Lo and Grant discuss their work around redesigning spaces and understanding the communities that live in them, from late-night drag venues to state of the art modern hospitals.
 
Access the transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-taking-space

Building Better - Taking up space

Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31 - Frédéric Chopin (1810 –1849)

Pianist: Ryo Fukaura, UCL medical student, playing the piece from memory, in the Peter Samuel Hall at the Royal Free Hospital.

We'll be releasing more recordings with Ryo regularly over the next couple weeks:
soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/ryo-fukaura-piano

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Ryo Fukaura: Chopin - Scherzo No.2

Join hosts Xand and Rochelle for the third instalment of Public Health Disrupted, the brand new podcast from UCL Health of the Public.

In public health, we often refer to 'hard to reach' groups, but are we doing enough to listen to them?

This month, we speak to the co-founders of Five X More, and UCL academic Dr Carol Rivas, to explore the role of discrimination and structural disadvantage in the health inequalities experienced by different marginalised groups in the UK, and the incredible work they are doing to change this. 
Black women in the UK have a fourfold* higher risk of dying in pregnancy in comparison to white women. Our first guests, Five X More co-founders Tinuke and Clo, join us to discuss the action they are taking to address this disparity. Five X More is a grassroots campaign dedicated to supporting mothers and empowering black women to make informed choices and advocate for themselves throughout their pregnancies and after childbirth. The campaign is committed to calling on the government and healthcare workers to change the shocking statistics. 

Our second guest, Dr Carol Rivas, is an associate professor in social policy and programme evaluation at the UCL Institute of Education’s Social Research Institute. Carol tells us more about her work developing practical and theoretical understandings of vulnerability and social interaction to support instrumental changes in policy and practice. Her research focuses on so-called hidden disabilities, their intersection with race, ethnicity and migrant status, and on developing tools that empower the voices of marginalised groups.

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

New episodes will be made available monthly via the UCL Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast. Find the transcript and more information on the UCL Health of the Public website.

* When the campaign started, this number was five times more (MBRRACE 2018 & 2019).

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/public-health-disrupted

Public Health Disrupted - People and Power

UCL's award-winning campaign, Disruptive Thinking Since 1826 and hashtag #MadeAtUCL, has been phenomenal in its scope with hoardings at UCL East in London, graphics and animations on our website; a festival, podcast series, and involvement of the wider public to vote for their favourite breakthrough UCL research.

This year, we continue to feature more UCL breakthrough stories through Season Two of the podcast! This time, we are also sharing stories from our community, our pioneering researchers, staff, students and alumni who have or are achieving great things that impact society and help change the world for the better.

Listen to a new episode every first Monday of the month. 

Find season two here: https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/madeatucl-podcasts-season-2

Catch up on season one here: https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/madeatucl-podcasts-season-2

For more information, visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts

#MadeAtUCL Season 2 Trailer

This month, we want to know how research that explores the past can help us to better understand the present, and maybe even predict the future. 
 
Approaching the past through uniquely innovative methods, host Christoph speaks to three researchers at The Bartlett: Professor Mike Batty, Emeritus Professor of Planning and Chair of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Dr Katherine Curran, Associate Professor at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, and Dr Judy Stephenson, Associate Professor in economics and finance of the built environment at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management about how they study and interrogate the past to help us solve the problems we face today. 
 
From digital data and mapping to the heritage of plastics to the history of labour markets and construction in England, we're trying to answer the question: how can we use the history of materials and the history of people to build a better future?
 
Access transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-looking-backwards-look-forwards

Building Better - Looking backwards to look forwards

This month's #MadeAtUCL theme is VOICE. Join Cassidy as she finds out from UCL (University College London) experts how people are regaining their voice after their voice boxes are removed; how a group of LGBTQ + refugees in Brazil are using film to tell their stories; and how health students and advocates are sharing the impact of their work through poetry.

ACT 1 - from 02.28
Prof Evangelos Himonides, 
Professor of Technology, Education, and Music, UCL Institute of Education
https://www.shoutatcancer.org/

ACT 2 - from 11.22
Dieter Deswarte, Senior Teaching Fellow in Ethnographic and Documentary Film, UCL Department of Anthropology
http://yarrowfilms.co.uk/2020/07/31/hazte-sentir/

ACT 3 - from 20.32
Sarah Wong, Student, UCL Medicine
Jamie Hale, Student, UCL Arts & Humanities
Anna Vignola, Student, Yale School of Medicine
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/feb/yale-ucl-poetry-competition-winners-announced

Presented by Cassidy Martin and edited by Cerys Bradley
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep2-voice

NEW! Join the FREE event on "Discovering the Potential of Your Voice" on Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 17.30 -18.45: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/whats-on/discovering-potential-your-voice

#MadeAtUCL Podcasts - Voice

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