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Welcome to We are the University, a podcast which opens a window on to the people that make Cambridge University unique.
Students, archivists, professors, alumni: all have a story to share

We Are The University Podcast

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Developing The Leader Within You - John Maxwell - Audiobook Full

In the 14th Hinsley Memorial lecture – an annual lecture given at St John’s on international relations - Timothy Garton-Ash examines the competing interests vying for control of the internet

International Relations: The Struggle for Power Over the Internet in a Post-American World

In frog spawn in a pond, each egg is able to turn itself into a tadpole and eventually a frog, with no help or guidance from a parent frog or from anything else in the pond. The single egg will have no resemblance in any respect to what it will turn into. We now begin to understand how this extraordinary transformation takes place. Eggs of frogs and other animals have another remarkable property. If a single cell from adult skin is transplanted into an egg, the skin cell will be made to go backwards in development to become an embryo cell from which another adult can be formed (repeating the process of normal development). In this way it is now possible to replace aged or diseased cells of an adult with rejuvenated cells from their skin. This is opening the possibility of cell replacement in humans.

Biography
John Gurdon was judged at school to be wholly unsuited to science having come bottom in a class of 250 in Biology. However, he was able to take up science at Oxford University, where he also did a PhD. His work led to the concept that an egg has the ability to rejuvenate the nucleus of an adult cell, and hence to the current prospect of replacing aged and diseased cells in humans with new cells derived from other body cells such as skin. In mid career he moved to Cambridge where he still works in the University. He is an Honorary Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, and of Magdalene and Churchill Colleges in Cambridge. He served as Master of Magdalene from 1995-2002. He has received a number of awards including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society (2003), the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2009), and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (2012). 

Reprogramming Animal Development - Professor Sir John Gurdon

Every day your immune system is busy protecting you from the thousands of germs around you that can make you sick. It does its job so efficiently that you don’t even notice that it is at work. Micro-organisms are present in your gut and interact with your body during periods of health and disease. When the immune system hits the wrong target, however, it can unleash a torrent of disorders, including inflammatory diseases, cancer, and autoimmune disease. Come along and be enlightened by our experts in the field.

Panelists: Dr Eoin McKinney (Autoimmunity - Dept of Medicine), Dr Maike De La Roche (Immunity - CRUK), Dr Sam Forster (Microbiota - Sanger Institute). Chaired by Prof Clare Bryant (Innate Immunity - Dept of Vet Medicine).

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

"THINGS HAPPEN FOR YOU, NOT TO YOU.” 

As you know my biggest goal is to serve you. I really dedicate every day to trying to help as many people as I can.

When I get on a stage I try to speak to each individual person in the crowd. I try to reach out to every member of the audience and truly help them. I want them to take action, and leave with the tools they need to change their life. 

I’ve been fortunate enough to become friends with an amazing speaker that is of the same mindset - Ed Mylett. If you haven’t heard of Ed before, you’ve been missing out.

“People respond to what they feel, not what they hear and see.”

Ed started out with the dream of playing professional baseball. But like so many of us, an injury changed his course in life. 

Instead, his first job out of college was helping boys at a foster home who came from abused families. It’s here he found is life mission: to serve.

He saw in the eyes of these boys that they just wanted what everyone wants - to be loved and appreciated. This ended up taking him down the road of servitude later in life.

Today, Ed is one of the premier business leaders, peak performance experts, and motivational speakers in the world. He has a passion for mentoring and coaching others on what it takes to become a champion in all areas of life. 

He has shared the stage and has very close personal relationships with other business legends such as Tony Robbins, John Maxwell, Phil Knight and many others.

Hear his insights on life, public speaking, and so much more on Episode 586.

“The most important gift we can give someone is to be present”


Some Questions I Ask:

You wanted to be a professional baseball player, right? (10:45)

Where are you from originally? (12:30)

How to we permanently alter what we think we’re worth? (23:38)

When did you realize things were really taking off? (32:43)

How did you learn to persuade people so effectively? (35:53)

How does someone believe in themselves? (38:28)

How did you develop belief and confidence when you were failing? (40:34)

Was there a time when you didn’t feel like you were a good person? (43:40)

What would you say is your greatest asset? (46:19)

How did you learn to present with passion and persuasion? (49:24)

What have kids taught you about life? (55:19)

What’s a question you wish more people would ask you? (59:29)


In This Episode You Will Learn:

How Ed learned to serve (13:00)

Ways people sabotage themselves (21:23)

How to associate and raise levels even with people who aren’t around you (26:35)

Who you really learn from (27:22)

The trouble Ed got in with police by trying to look rich (29:14)

The biggest addiction today (40:07)

The three types of speakers (50:52)

The #1 thing speakers struggle with (53:07)

The School of Greatness

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The Keys to Persuasion and Powerful Self - Confidence with Ed Mylett

“IF I WERE AFRAID OF STEREOTYPES, I WOULD NEVER BE WHERE I AM TODAY.”

I know that transformation and change is one of the hardest (and scariest) things you can go.

Change is the only way that you can truly grow. As a person, in relationships, and even in business.

The best way to transform is to constantly focus on doing better than you previously did.

As you push yourself further and further, a little more each time, you’ll become much more confident in yourself and your abilities.

To help with understanding more about transforming yourself, trusting yourself, and believing in yourself, I brought on one of best people I could think of: Shaun T.


Shaun T is a world-renowned health and fitness expert, TV host, motivator and creator of the best-selling fitness programs INSANITY, HIP HOP ABS, CIZE, and many more.

He has hosted several primetime TV series, danced with Mariah Carey, and choreographed for the NCAA Final Four Halftime Show and the movie Bring It On: All or Nothing.

He's also an entrepreneur, author, new dad, and total transformation coach. 

I hadn't met Shaun before we came together to record a podcast, but now I consider him a brother. His energy, honesty, huge heart, and way of caring about people is amazing. He has also created extraordinary results for so many people (and himself) and is committed to being the best version of himself.

If you want to learn the mindset and steps you need to take in order to believe in yourself and create a transformation that create your best life, you can’t miss this episode.

Learn the lessons Shaun T has learned through his own transformation and what you need to do to better yourself, on Episode 611.


Some Questions I Ask:

What’s your secret in the closet? (6:44)

Did you talk about being abused before a year and a half ago? (10:00)

How long did you play football for? (17:02)

You gained 50 pounds your first year in college? (21:52)

When did you realize you wanted to take dancin and hip hop workouts mainstream? (25:40)

What’s been the biggest challenge of these transformational programs? (27:46)

When did you really learn to not let your feelings control your actions? (30:40)

What do most people not understand about where confidence comes from?(36:48)

If you could transform people overnight, would you, or would you make them work for it? (40:20)


In This Episode You Will Learn:

Shaun T’s biggest secret he’s held on to for the longest (7:29)

When he realized he would be transforming the world (13:56)

Shaun T’s college career in Track (20:36)

How he compartmentalizes things he’s frustrated with (29:46)

How he stays motivating, knowing he’s at the top of his game (32:34)

Shaun’s super power (38:53)

How to overcome mental obstacles (44:06)

Plus much, much more

Shaun T: Trust and Believe in Your Own Transformation

Will the future of work be one in which jobs become ever more precarious and robots take over or can we regulate to make the gig economy and artificial intelligence work in our favour? With Magdalena Soffia, former UN consultant and researcher in Sociology at the University of Cambridge, Dr Alex Wood, a sociologist of work and employment at the University of Oxford, Dr Hatice Gunes, associate professor in the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, and Laetitia Vitaud, HR specialist and writer on the future of work.

20 Oct - THE FUTURE OF WORK

What does gender equality mean in practice? Is feminism a threat to men or a collective liberation from social stereotypes? A panel discussion will look at the links between equality at work and equality at home and how the move towards gender equality connects to wider issues of social equality. With Jude Browne, Jessica and Peter Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, economist Victoria Bateman, sociologist Manali Desai, film, TV and theatre director Topher Campbell and Duncan Fisher from the Family Initiative. Chaired by psychologist Magdalena Zawisza.

24 Oct - BRIDGING THE GENDER DIVIDE

The University Library is delighted to have been given the archive of the satirical TV programme Spitting Image. The first latex puppet to arrive is Margaret Thatcher. In this podcast, by Made For Your Podcasts, Spitting Image creator explains why the archive is coming home, and Mrs Thatcher speaks form beyond the grave...

Spitting Image archive comes to Cambridge University Library

Pediatrician Michelle Brei discusses why you should limit sugar intake in your diet, where sugars are hiding, and strategies to cut back on your sugar intake.

How Much Sugar Is Too Much Sugar?

Has parliament taken back control and if so, are MPs about to shed their traditional party loyalties to prevent a no-deal Brexit? Listen to David Howarth, Professor of Law and Public Policy and former Cambridge MP, and Simon Deakin, Professor of Law, discuss what’s likely to happen in the Brexit negotiations in both the short and longer term.

A Center for Business Research Podcast: January 28th 2019

Brexit and its consequences for the UK economy and political systems

Welcome to We are the University. A podcast about the people who make Cambridge University unique.

In this episode we meet James Biddulph, the headmaster of the University of Cambridge Primary School. https://www.cam.ac.uk/primaryschool 

We talk about the school’s character and vision, how a trip to Nepal helped him realise that he wanted to teach as a career and we find out how he inspires the team of teachers that work with him.

www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/biddulph/ 

More than just an outstanding Ofsted rating sets the University of Cambridge Primary School apart: it places research at its heart, informing education practice and furthering research at Cambridge’s Faculty of Education and elsewhere. 

Visitors walking through one of the ‘learning streets’ that run through the core of the University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS) soon notice something unusual. It’s not the fact that they end up back where they started – the school’s Polo-mint-shaped structure is just one of its radical features – but the startling lack of doors: classrooms open up invitingly on each side of the street, with snatches of lessons, storytelling or music audible within. 

The open-plan design both facilitates and symbolises the school’s role as the first, and still only, University Training School at primary level in the UK (the only secondary UTS is in Birmingham). Sponsored by the University of Cambridge, its role is to provide brilliant and inclusive primary education for its local community, and also to work alongside the University’s Faculty of Education and others to be research informed and research generating. 

Building from the work of the Faculty of Education, the school identified three ‘golden threads’that bind together its curriculum: habits of mind (the resilience and problem-solving skills that help children learn); dialogue (exemplified in the new DIALLS project); and playful inquiry. The aim, looking forward again, is to “empower children to make sense of the complex world in which they live” and nurture “compassionate citizens who want to make a positive contribution to their local and global worlds.”

Releasing the imagination: the University of Cambridge Primary School - James Biddulph

https://www.cam.ac.uk/thiscambridgelife/waheedarian

Having survived the civil war in Afghanistan, Waheed Arian arrived alone in the UK aged 15. He went on to study medicine at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Today he’s using smartphones and volunteer specialists to provide life-saving medical advice to doctors working in areas of conflict.

The doctor using smartphones to save lives in war zones - Waheed Arian

Yale Divinity School Professor John Hare discusses the relationship between philosophy and religion and working for the U.S. government on human rights issues.

Navigating Religion, Philosophy, and Politics

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine podcast hosts, Amelia Hallworth and Kelsie Cassell provide a broad overview of the topics of ecology and evolution and highlight some of the research published in YJBM's December 2018 issue focusing on Ecology and Evolution.

Ecology and Evolution: Episode II

Daphne Martschenko, president of Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club, is determined to make the sport of rowing more accessible. Her mission to pave the way for greater diversity in rowing chimes with her study of the charged concepts of race, socio-economic status, intelligence and genetics.

Read more here: https://medium.com/this-cambridge-life/the-star-rower-whose-research-examines-teachers-perceptions-of-intelligence-59467a7e18e2

The star rower whose research examines teachers’ perceptions of intelligence - Daphne Martschenko

Will advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning put vast swaths of the labor force out of work or into fierce competition for the jobs that remain? Or, as in the past, will new jobs absorb workers displaced by automation? On this episode of the Yale Law Journal Podcast, co-hosts Cody Poplin and Emily Shire interview Professor Cynthia Estlund about her recently published Article, What Should We Do After Work? Automation and Employment Law, which tackles this topic head on. The Article argues that these questions have profound implications for the fortress of rights and benefits that has been constructed on the foundation of the employment relationship, and it charts a path for reforming that body of law in the face of justified anxiety and uncertainty about the future effect of automation on jobs.

Cynthia Estlund on What We Should Do After Work

A characteristic of the Trump presidency is disdain for scientific evidence, historical perspectives, educated opinions and traditional alliances. These attitudes are not Trump’s own and represent longstanding mistrust of elites, experts and foreign ties. The essay questions the purpose of a society that prioritizes its comfort over the very real survival of refugees fleeing war in Syria or poverty in Central America. Americans are exhausted and manipulated, and even great wealth cannot protect them from alienation and perhaps catastrophe. The US could rise again as global leader, but only if the nation takes stock of how far it has fallen.

Trump and Destruction of the American Mind

In this episode, Charis and I speak to Cambridge University alumna, Pat Marsh. When we recorded the interview, we didn’t have any of the studio equipment with us, just a phone, but we thought it would be a crime not to share Pat’s incredible story. 

Pat was the first woman in the UK to hold a gaming licence and in 1979 she brought Space Invaders, the arcade game sensation, to the UK shores. 

Pat has had a distinguished business career, most recently serving as Executive Chairman of Philip-Treacy. Philip Treacy’s hats have adorned the heads of royals and celebrities alike, including Grace Jones, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker, Beyonce and Victoria Beckham.

The woman who brought Space Invaders to the UK - Pat Marsh

In this episode we chat to Duncan Astle, a developmental neuroscientist, who’s based at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Duncan and I talk about his recent study that uses machine learning to identify learning difficulties and why children may struggle at school. We also talk about his work with Pride in STEM and how the current scientific research publishing model needs to change.

AI and the classroom. Using machine learning to identify why children struggle at school

Didier Queloz from the University of Cambridge was jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with James Peebles and Michel Mayor for their pioneering advances in physical cosmology, and the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.

Listen to Professor Queloz talk to journalists at the Science Media Centre in London just a few hours after finding out about the award.

Didier Queloz – 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics – Press Conference

Welcome to We are the University. A podcast about the alumni, staff and students who make Cambridge University unique. 

In this episode we chat to Julian Hargreaves about his life in the music industry discovering talent like So Solid Crew and why he chose to leave the music industry and pursue a career in academia. 

We talk about Julian’s research with British Muslim communities; the issues around anti-Muslim discrimination and hate crimes.

From discovering So Solid Crew to researching hate crimes - Julian Hargreaves

Risk expert Professor David Spiegelhalter and social psychologist Dr Sander van der Linden explore how we can discuss risk sensibly without causing conspiracy theories and mass panic.