Public Health Disrupted

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

UCL’s community of staff and students are playing a leading role in responding to the challenges set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs are an urgent call for action by all countries in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. 

Join us for the Unlocking the SDGs: A Blueprint for the Future podcast. We bring together experts from across UCL and beyond to explore the SDGs. Co-hosted by Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction), the podcast explores a new theme each episode – from climate to Covid.

Unlocking the SDGs: A blueprint for the future

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 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.

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 Podcast Season Three

We’re tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges. This podcast series explores some of the most memorable stories from UCL Research.

Every Thursday between May and July, Dr Rosie Anderson invites you to take a deep dive into the UCL research that has changed the world around us. Each week we explore a different area of study, giving us a taste of the breadth and depth of the work being done at UCL.

Where research transforms lives

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?

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

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

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

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

“The fundamental relationship that must come in is humanity to the rest of nature.”

Would it be such a radical change to flip on its head the idea of improving the overall health of the public to prop up the economy? Redefining the idea of prosperity in the 21st Century and the balance between human wellbeing and economics are among the topics discussed by our guests: two leading thinkers in the field of innovative economics and its relationship with public health.

Together, Professor Mariana Mazzucato and renegade economist Kate Raworth tackle the topic of taking a mission-oriented approach to improving the health of the public. From redefining what prosperity looks like in a modern world, to how active a role the government should have in defining health innovation policy, and everything in between.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/mission-oriented-public-health-show-notes

Public Health Disrupted – the new Podcast from UCL Health of the Public

Season 2 – Mission-oriented Public Health with Prof Mariana Mazzucato and Kate Raworth

Benedetto De Martino talks to Selina and Caswell about decision making, why we make choices that are bad for us, and the importance of having a hobby - plus a banjo makes an appearance.

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

Date of episode recording: 2022-03-15
Duration: 00:41:30
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Dr Benedetto De Martino
Producer: Patrick Robinson

Brain Stories - Episode 7: Benedetto De Martino on decision making

For this podcast we are visited by Noriko Cable (UCL), Kate Bennett (Liverpool), Sherry Hamby (University of the South), and Kristen Krause (Rutgers). The podcast is hosted by Jennifer McGowan (UCL). 
This podcast covers: 1. How would you define resilience in adulthood?, 2. What are the benefits of resilience in adulthood?, 3. What challenges do adults face in building resilience?, 4. What resources are required in order for older adults to maintain their resilience?

Date of episode recording: 2021-11-13
Duration: 01:15:01
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Jennifer McGowan
Guests: Noriko Cable (UCL); Kate Bennett (Liverpool); Sherry Hamby (University of the South); Kristen Krause 
Producer: Jennifer McGowan

Resilience Research Group: Resilience in adulthood and older age

In this contributed interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Chris Holmes. Chris is Professor of Biostatistics at the departments of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is also the Director for the Health Programme at the Alan Turing Institute. 

We discussed a recent presentation given at the department on Bayesian predictive inference and his involvement with statistical modelling to support the UK government’s COVID response. 

UCL seminar recording: https://youtu.be/Y9S4n42n0cY 
Martingale posterior distributions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15671 Interoperability of statistical models in pandemic preparedness: principles and reality: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13730 
Chris Holmes’ group website: https://www.chrisholmeslab.com

Date of episode recording: 2022-02-14
Duration: 00:24:19
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Brieuc Lehmann
Guests: Chris Holmes
Producer: Nathan Green

Bayesian Predictive Inference

Join hosts Xand and Rochelle for Episode 2 ‘Singing the praises of communities with Dr Daisy Fancourt and Eric Whitacre. “Every single person feels part of something larger than themselves.” Communities are vital for a functioning society, but in an ever-changing world, has the concept of what ‘community’ means evolved into something new? Can virtual choirs really help with regulating emotions and coping with stress in the same way that singing live in a room full of people could? And is social prescribing of arts through linked support services the answer? Grammy-award winning composer Eric Whitacre, and associate professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at UCL Dr Daisy Fancourt, seek to answer these questions and more, from studying the social factors on health such as loneliness and isolation, to how singing can help regulate emotions and cope with stress, and the physiological benefits that belonging to a community can bring.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/public-health-disrupted

Date of episode recording: 2022-01-25
Duration: 00:34:37
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Xand Van Tulleken; Rochelle Burgess
Guests: Daisy Fancourt; Eric Whitacre 
Producer: Annabelle Buckland

Season 2 - Singing the praises of communities with Dr Daisy Fancourt and Eric Whitacre

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 Outreach Officer, Kemi Hassan, alongside Matthew Springett and Fiona MacDonald of Matt + Fiona, a social enterprise that gets young people involved in the development of their built environment and empowers them to have their say. 

Throughout the episode, we discuss Design Unlimited, an exciting outreach project for London state schools with a focus on KS3 students in years 7 – 9 and find out more about how The Bartlett is working in partnership to create a new generation of designers and architects who feel empowered to build a better world. 

For more information and to access the transcript, visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-making-space-young-people-design 

Catch up on previous episodes here: soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/building-better-the-bartlett 

Date of episode recording: 2022-03-17
Duration: 34:06
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Christoph Lindner
Guests: Kemi Hassan, Matthew Springett, Fiona MacDonald 
Producer: Cerys Bradley

Building Better - Season 2 - Making Space For Young People In Design

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 resilience? 
4. What challenges do researchers face in exploring or building community resilience? 
5. What resources are required in order for a community to be deemed resilience? 

For more information and to access the transcript: https://resiliencerg.wixsite.com/resilienceresearch

Date of episode recording: 2022-01-24
Duration: 00:41:52
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Jennifer McGowan
Guests: Sherry Hamby
Producer: Jennifer McGowan

Resilience Research Group: Community Resilience

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 of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Aman Saleem
Producer: Patrick Robinson

Brain Stories - Episode 8: Aman Saleem on Visual Input to Spatial Memories

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 the benefits and downfalls of plant based diets, the popularity of superfoods and whether seaweed can become a staple in our diets, and discuss how we can eat our way to a better plant. 

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

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Date of episode recording: 07/04/22
Duration: 30:23
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Helen Czerski, Mark Maslin
Guests: Prof Tim Lang, Tim Van Berkel, Dr Carole Dalin
Producer: Adam Batstone

Season 2: Can we eat our way to a better planet?

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 and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/unlocking-sdgs-blueprint-future-episode-0

Date of episode recording: 2022-04-25
Duration: 00:11:40
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, Dr Priti Parikh
Guests: Dr Kate Roll
Producer: Front Ear Podcasts

Introducing the SDGs

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 Health Organisation has addressed some of the SDGs, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we might respond to the SDGs.

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/unlocking-sdgs-blueprint-future-episode-1-part-1

Date of episode recording: 2022-04-25
Duration: 00:23:03
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Professor Monica Lakhanpaul; Dr Priti Parikh
Guests: Professor Anthony Costello; Dr Rochelle Burgess
Producer: Front Ear Podcasts

Part 1: Achieving the SDGs in a Covid-19 world

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 advocate of the SDGs. She shares how the SDGs are perceived in South Africa, concentrating on areas of education and research.

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/unlocking-sdgs-blueprint-future-episode-1-part-2 

Date of episode recording: 2022-04-25
Duration: 00:30:43
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Professor Monica Lakhanpaul; Dr Priti Parikh
Guests: Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng
Producer: Front Ear Podcasts

Part 2: Achieving the SDGs in a Covid-19 world - In conversation with Mamokgethi Phakeng

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 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.

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

Date of episode recording: 03/2022
Duration: 0:54
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Cerys Bradley, Chanju Mwanza, Ariana Razavi, Taqwa Sadiq, Molly Rasbash, Katie Davies, Maria Bunyon
Producer: Cerys Bradley

#MadeAtUCL Season Three Trailer

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 to much needed policy changes. Listen now to hear about how and why women are more negatively impacted by climate change, as well as what we can do about it. 

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

Date of episode recording: 21/04/2022 
Duration: 28:20 
Language of episode: English 
Presenter: Mark Maslin, Helen Czerski
Guests: Dr Virginie Le Masson, Mathilde Rainard 
Producer: Adam Batstone

Season 2: Are women more at risk from climate change?

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-where-research-transforms-hiv-treatment-and-prevention

Discover how UCL research is making an impact at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ref

Where research transforms HIV treatment and prevention

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 Samuele Massarut, CRO Aviano, Italy
Professor Jayant Vaidya, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, UCL

Access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/ucl-ref-podcast/ep2-where-research-transforms-cancer-treatment

Discover how UCL research is making an impact at www.ucl.ac.uk/ref

Where research transforms cancer treatment

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/ucl-ref-podcast/ep3-where-research-transforms-access-childrens-social-care-records

Discover how UCL research is making an impact at www.ucl.ac.uk/ref

Where research transforms access to children's social care records

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.  

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

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Date of episode recording: 21/04/2022 
Duration: 00:30:13 
Language of episode: English 
Presenter: Helen Czerski 
Guests: Dr Tim Newbold, Dr Seirian Sumner 
Producer: Adam Batstone

Season 2: Why are bees and wasps important?

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 and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/
 
For more information on each case study check out the REF hub: www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/research-excellence-framework-2021

#MadeAtUCL Season 3 - Data Moves

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 they could have.  

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcasts-videos/generation-one-climate-podcast 

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Date of episode recording: 07/04/2022 
Duration: 00:29:02 
Language of episode: English 
Presenter: Mark Maslin 
Guests: Chris Tan, Ed Caldecott  
Producer: Adam Batstone

Season 2 - Can apps help solve the climate crisis?

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 hospital patient who used UCL-Ventura CPAP

Access the transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/ucl-ref-podcast/ep-5-where-research-transforms-covid-19-treatment

Discover how UCL research is making an impact at www.ucl.ac.uk/ref

Where research transforms COVID-19 treatment

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/impact/ref-hub/where-research-transforms-lives-podcast

Where research transforms climate change mitigation

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 access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcasts-videos/generation-one-climate-podcast

Date of episode recording: 21/04/2022
Duration: 00:29:56
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Helen Czerski
Guests: RIchard Jackson, Dr Tim Norman
Producer: Adam Batstone

Season 2: How do we make London as bike friendly as Amsterdam?

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 good night’s sleep can have on our mood and happiness. But what is the solution; and what changes should be made to improve the overall health of the public?

Award winning expert in all things interior design, Michelle Ogundehin, and experienced architect, planner and professor of urban design, Matthew Carmona, seek to explore the avenues towards a healthier environment, bringing a higher quality of life. Whether it’s the promotion of wellbeing in new developments, shifting mindsets towards adaptable spaces over bigger spaces, or thinking about improving and not moving, Michelle and Matthew delve into their considerable research to share their thoughts on this episode.

Read full show notes here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/elephant-planning-room-show-notes

Season 2 - The Elephant in the Planning Room with Michelle Ogundehin and Matthew Carmona

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-videos/generation-one-podcast/climate-podcast-how-should-we-tackle-climate-disasters 

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Date of episode recording: 28/04/2022 
Duration: 00:29:53
Language of episode: English 
Presenter: Mark Maslin
Guests: Ilan Kellman, Lisa Vanhala 
Producer: Adam Batstone

Season 2: How should we tackle climate disasters?

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 World Service


Read more here: https://bit.ly/UCLREF2021_heritage

Date of episode recording: 05/2022
Duration: 00:36:38
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Rosie Anderson
Guests: Eleanor Robson
Editor: Patrick Robinson

Where research transforms how we protect cultural heritage

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 Fellow at UCL's Department of Science and Technology Studies
Dr Ben Littlefield, Public Engagement Manager at UCL Engagement

Imagining the home of the future

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-at-ucl/podcasts

#MadeAtUCL Season 3 - Navigating The Arts

Professor Jessica Ringrose and Dr Kaitlyn Regehr on how sexism in London’s advertising landscape creates hostile environments for women, and how creativity and activism have challenged businesses and policy makers to address that injustice.

Guests
Professor Jessica Ringrose, Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity, IoE
Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Associate Professor, Digital Humanities
Naomi Peter, Co-Founder, Anthill
Amelia Jenkinson, CEO, School of Sexuality Education

Access the case study and transcript here: https://bit.ly/UCLREF_2021_London

Read more here: https://ucl.ac.uk/ref

Where research transforms the women we see

What is environmental humanities? How are scholars reconsidering our approach to the natural world, and where can you go to learn more? In the second of a two-part episode on the environmental humanities, host Roxana talks to Kate Rigby, Christine Okoth and Peter Riley – three academics who approach environmental concepts from very different perspectives in their work. 

They discuss the difficulties of thinking about the future, postcolonial approaches to ecocriticism and the political problems of 'pure' nature. Kate Rigby is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities at University of Cologne, where she directs the centre for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities. A well established figure in the environmental humanities, her most recent monograph, Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization (2020) reconsiders the ecopoetic legacies of British Romanticism through a decolonial lens. Christine Okoth is Lecturer in Literature and Cultures of the Black Atlantic at King’s College London. Having recently completed a position as Research Fellow in the English Department at the University of Warwick, she is currently writing a book about ecology, extraction, and contemporary literature. Peter Riley is Associate Professor in Poetry and Poetics at Durham University. His recent book, Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger (2022), won the Ideas Prize for non-fiction. He is currently editing Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass for the Oxford World's Classics series (forthcoming 2022), and his academic research examines nineteenth through twentieth century poetry in relation to labour history, Marxism, and archival studies.

Date of episode recording: 2022-04-18
Duration: 00:46:14
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon
Guests: Kate Rigby, Christine Okoth, Peter Riley
Producer: Damian Walsh; Assistant Producer: Anna De Vivo; Editor: Daniel Lewis

Moveable Type Season 1 – Environmental Humanities: Roundtable

How Professor Jess Deighton’s landmark study of school pupils’ mental wellbeing uncovered a growing crisis in young women’s mental health, and how her research has helped young people’s voices shape the HeadStart project’s support for them.

Guests

- Professor Jessica Deighton, Child Mental Health and Wellbeing, UCL and the Anna Freud Centre
- Sarah Reeves, Mental Health and Coproduction Lead, Newham HeadStart
- Libby, young woman from Newham

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Where research transforms children's mental health

Hear how Dr Michael Veale and colleagues across Europe built a privacy-friendly COVID tracking app, and how he worked with Parliamentarians to put citizens’ privacy rights on the agenda during the pandemic.

Host and Producer
Dr Rosie Anderson, Research Fellow, Public Health Policy team, UCL

Guests
-Dr Michael Veale, Associate Professor in Digital Rights and Regulation, UCL Faculty of Laws
-Lord Tim Clement-Jones, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Digital in the House of Lords
-Natasha Lomas, Senior Reporter at Techcrunch

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/ucl-ref-podcast/ep-9-where-research-transforms-covid-and-privacy

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Where research transforms Covid and privacy

Director of the UNESCO Office for Iraq, Louise Haxthausen, speaks about the rebuilding of Mosul and national and international efforts to revive its spirit of co-existence, learning and education. 

Louise Haxthausen also speaks about the importance of a $50m contribution from the Government of the UAE to rebuild the destroyed al Nuri Mosque complex and the Hadba Minerat, and the role of intangible heritage as an essential part of reconstruction.

Date of episode recording: 2018-07-09
Duration: 00:13:07
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Mehiyar Kathem
Guests: Louise Haxthausen
Producer: Mehiyar Kathem

An Interview with Louise Haxthausen

Conversations with the speakers from the 2022 UCL Neuroscience Symposium.

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

Date of episode recording: 2022-06-22
Duration: 00:35:39
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Selina Wray; Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming
Guests: UCL Neuroscience Symposium speakers
Producer: Patrick Robinson

Brain Stories – Episode 9: UCL Neuroscience Symposium

For this podcast we are visited by Kate Bennett (Liverpool), Jenny Liu (University of Western) and Steph Cahill (Manchester) to discuss the topic 'Measures of resilience'. The podcast is hosted by Jennifer McGowan (UCL). 

This podcast covers: 1. Why do we aim to measure resilience? 2. Why are there so many measures of resilience? 3. What should be included in a good measure of resilience? 4. What about alternative measures? 5. What resilience measures do you use? 

For more information and to access the transcript: resiliencerg.wixsite.com/resilienceresearch

Date of episode recording: 2022-03-28
Duration: 00:43:52
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Jennifer McGowan
Guests: Steph Cahill; Jenny Liu; Kate Bennett
Producer: Jennifer McGowan

Resilience Research Group: Measures of Resilience

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 

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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

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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?

Liebesträume No.3 - 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.

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Ryo Fukaura: Liszt- Liebesträume No. 3

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).

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Public Health Disrupted - People and Power

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