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Cabot Conversations: Why climate justice matters for all
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Storyteller and writer, Zakiya Mackenzie and Climate Justice Researcher Dr Alix Dietzel discuss "Why climate justice matters for all". Artis...
Cabot Conversations: Climate Emergency
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cabot Institute for the Environment experts Dame Julia Slingo and Professor Dann Mitchell discuss "What is the Climate Emergency?" while art...
Research Frontiers - Workers and their rights
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does the law always protect workers from their employers? Our host Ruby Lott-Lavigna is joined by Professor Alan Bogg, a professor of Labour Law at th...
Research Frontiers - Understanding Urbanisation
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode focuses on the environment, specifically understanding urbanisation. Our host Ruby Lott-Lavigna is joined by Dr Felix Agyemang, Research ...
Research Frontiers - The psychology of education
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mental health and educational psychology often go hand in hand, but our understanding is often rudimentary. In this second episode host Ruby Lott-Lavi...
Research Frontiers - The Future of Work
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future of work look like? And how do we make it sustainable, yet progressive? In this fascinating first episode, host Ruby Lott-Lavigna ...
Guantánamo Bay - Closing the door?
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To wrap up this extraordinary series, we look at the prospects for closing Guantánamo, the need for mechanisms that hold States accountable for their...
Guantánamo Bay - Does torture work?
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we mark the shameful 20th anniversary of Guantánamo Bay, the third episode in this series asks if torture works. We hear, first hand, from Mohamed...
Guantánamo Bay - Being a Guantánamo Lawyer
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what representing someone detained in a facility synonymous with secrecy and deception would be like? In the second episode of ...
Guantánamo Bay - A Prisoner's Story
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off this extraordinary series, we hear first-hand from Mohamedou Ould Slahi who exposed the use of torture at Guantánamo, smuggling out facts...
Community tech and sociodigital futures
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is community tech, and why do communities care about it? We discuss examples of community tech we’ve seen through our research to explore how c...
CO2 conversion for a circular carbon economy
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A circular carbon economy – where carbon released from the Earth is captured and repurposed – is a promising concept, and CO2 conversion to sustai...
Is CRISPR-Cas12a the future in fast and accurate pathogen detection?
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR-Cas12a), discovered a few years ago, is a method that detects even small levels of p...
From Waste to Wattage: Using Plant Gum in Rechargeable Batteries
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plant-based solutions for energy storage are gaining traction in the pursuit of greener technologies. Dr Jun Young Cheong from the University of Glasg...
Building responsible leadership for the future
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While many leaders and businesses are attempting to put the pandemic behind them and focus on the ‘new normal’, have we thought deeply enough abou...
Big data analytics and management forecasting behaviour
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Big Data' has appeared more and more throughout boardrooms and executive suites, in order to determine how organisations extract value from...
Mastering liquid crystal phase technologies for terahertz communication
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liquid crystal-based technologies could revolutionise the control of terahertz radiation — key to the future of high-bandwidth communications. Dr Ma...
Corneal confocal microscopy as a novel biomarker of neurodegeneration
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pain isn't nice, but there are times when it’s necessary - If you don’t feel the pain you should, you’re at risk of doing yourself greater ...
Future horizons and trans-disciplinary thinking in synthetic biology
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Synthetic biology, as showcased by Stephen Freeland's work at UMBC, redefines biological systems for groundbreaking applications in biotechnology...
Amino acids and the changing face of the 𝛼-cell in diabetes
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Until relatively recently, diabetes was a terminal condition. Today, over 1 in 10 people are living with it, which says something about the success of...
Electrohypersensitivity and Wifi in Schools
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the 1920s to now, technology has transformed radically; from the Spirit of St Louis to super-sonic stealth bombers, from the discovery of insulin...
Public employees’ job satisfaction and motivation amid COVID-19
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In times of crisis, the public workforce faces unprecedented changes, redefining their roles and environments. The COVID-19 pandemic was no exception,...
Telehealth effectiveness and efficacy for indigenous peoples
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Digital devices have changed the information landscape in many ways, be it through podcasts such as this, or accessing medical care. Today, any illnes...
What does it mean to be a responsible business in a post-pandemic world?
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic disrupted leaders on every level. It forced them to re-examine their assumptions about their organisation’s purpose and place in societ...
Health, happiness and humanitarian disasters: Resilience and wellbeing during crises
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modern life can feel like one of constant crisis, through exposure on social media feeds, local news or even your personal life. Recovering from the p...
How data science can transform Lebanon’s public sector
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While data science can transform public sector policy-making, places like Lebanon lack the data infrastructure and governance rules needed to support ...
Informal learning experiences with big data visualisation
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us first experience the concept of learning in formal school settings, but how do we learn in non-formal settings like museums and zoos? This ...
Open Access at a mission-led university press
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Julia Mortimer, Journals Director and Head of Open Access at Bristol Unive...
Robotics and autonomy: From space robots to applications in daily life
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robots play an important part in our everyday lives. Non-autonomous systems can be found in industry, surgical theatres, and even our homes, and more ...
Medical advice and patients with mental health conditions: Legal rights in Singapore
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Communication and consent are key in doctor-patient relationships. Doctors need to know what’s expected of them, and patients have the right to rece...
Who gets left behind in the race for renewables?
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Richard Kemp speaks with Ed Atkins, author of A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation R...
Leadership through crisis: Can one person do it all?
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2020, various crises have disrupted leaders on every level and have led to the emergence of some new and welcome leadership styles. In this epis...
A holistic model of health inequalities in the regions of the Czech Republic
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the spatial factors influencing health inequalities within a socio-economically homogeneous country?Dana Hübelová, Alice Kozumplíková, an...
Transformational change through public policy
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Oscar Berglund and Elizabeth A. Koebele, Co-Editors of the Policy & Politics journal, talk to Jess Miles about the latest special...
A Noteworthy Aid? The learning benefits of a social annotation tool
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can social annotation transform traditional reading into a collaborative learning experience?Damijana Keržič and Vida Zorko from the University ...
Philosophical-Policy & Legal Design
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When decisions need to be made in politics, business or daily life, it's worth giving all due care to The Problem to be solved, and The Action to...
Publishing to address society’s greatest social challenges
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alison Shaw, Chief Executive of Bristol University Press, talks about 25 years of publishing with a purpose to mark the end of the Pr...
Flipons: DNA flips the way a cell works
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the risks versus rewards when challenging norms and pushing new boundaries in the quest for scientific discovery? Dr Alan Herbert, President...
Developing AI for an anti-fascist future
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, about what artif...
Science, AI, and securing a sustainable future
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Brunnhuber is a medical director, chief medical officer and professor in Germany, and takes an evolutionary, human-centric approach to econom...
How can torture be tackled more effectively?
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Malcolm Evans, former Chair of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of To...
The Material Limit of Chemical Substance
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the sciences naturally evoke complex philosophical questions, the philosophy of science itself remains a relatively new discipline. José Anto...
Can we use chemiluminescence to probe the immune system activity?
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oxygen is activated quantum-mechanically in the body to act against bacterial infections. Professor Robert C Allen shows that the antibacterial action...
Language resonance, recombination and imitation
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Language – be it spoken, written, or signed – is a fundamental part of how we interact with the world and each other. It’s also an important dev...
How does oxygen kill bacteria in the body?
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The key to understanding oxygen activation is the conversion of this molecule into a reactive singlet species within neutrophil cells in the blood. Th...
Upholding academic integrity in Higher Education
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plagiarism, cheating, and falsification are just some examples of unethical academic conduct among students in Higher Education, and ones which show n...
Fuzzy Logic, Natural Language and Common-sense Reasoning in ‘The Genesis Of Logic’
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After an illustrious career collaborating with universities and research centres, Enric Trillas remains set on working towards a new experimental scie...
Behavioural economics and financial incentives
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For better or worse, money makes the world go around. Without it, you may find yourself stuck in place, or worse - left behind.Following on from our p...
Virtual simulations of extreme climate
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In regions like East and Southeast Asia, where urbanisation has skyrocketed, the interplay between human settlement and natural disaster vulnerability...
Immunology and innovation: Peter Doherty’s life in science
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Peter Doherty has certainly had an impressive and illustrious career as an immunologist. In 1996, he and his colleague Rolf M Zinkernagel we...
Wearable Tech for People with Dementia | The Enterprise Sessions with Zeke Steer
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you make wearable technologies comfortable and unobtrusive for people who need them? Professor Michele Barbour talks to Dr Zeke Steer about how...
Careers in STEM: Women’s experiences with microaggressions
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Women in STEM careers in Lebanon experience gendered microaggressions at work, including microinsults and microinvalidation.Dr Yasmeen Makarem and Dr ...
Structural racism and health inequity
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Health problems are not just health problems ; they embody politics, social status, history, money and more. Where there is inequality in those underp...
Therapeutic plasma exchange, neurodegeneration, and reverse ageing
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plasmapheresis, the exchange of infected plasma with fresh plasma from blood, is normally used at the far end of the treatment regimen in cases where ...
Next-gen Probiotics for Gut Health | The Enterprise Sessions with Jenny Bailey
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can spin-outs leverage end user feedback to refine products and validate markets? Find out as Professor Michele Barbour talks to Dr Jenny Bailey, ...
Reshaping the future of AI education in radiology
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the field of radiology, making faster and more precise diagnoses possible. However, most radiologists ...
Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a society, we have come to rely on smartphones to do far more than make a telephone call. However, concern is growing over the potential negative c...
How can data science support model management? A reverse stress test illustration using the STAMP€ IT platform
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Financial stress testing generally involves a team of modellers working closely together, applying complex mathematical models to large and granular d...
Networking Across Disciplines: From Computer Science to the Creative Arts | The Enterprise Sessions with Kirsten Cater
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can the UK address its technology skills gap? Professor Michele Barbour speaks with Kirsten Cater, Professor of Computer Science at the University...
Can a free-to-choose medicine pathway improve patient treatment?
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The process of obtaining FDA approval for a new drug costs an estimated $1.8 billion and can take up to 15 years. What’s more, only a small percenta...
Scam Alert! Raising Employee Awareness of CEO Fraud Attacks
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CEO impersonation scams are on the rise. So, how can employees be made alert to such a scam? Margit Scholl, Professor of Business and Administrative ...
German SMEs and the “home office”: Narrative-driven games to raise security awareness
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, as in Germany, many employees still want to work remotely at least one or two days a week despite offices reopening. However, many S...
New hope in the quest for a novel add-on therapy for uncontrolled hypertension
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elevated blood pressure, called hypertension, is the leading risk factor for death and disability worldwide. However, many patients find it is not p...
Increasing Security Awareness in German Small and Medium-Sized Businesses with “Awareness Lab SME (ALARM) Information Security”
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recent cybersecurity reports show that the security of firms’ online presences is under ever-greater threat from cyberattack. Small and medium-sized...
Awareness Lab SME (ALARM) Information Security Training
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recent research emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of information security teams, combining creative perspectives with technical expertise. The G...
New Horizons in Quantum Computing | The Enterprise Sessions with Anthony Laing
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How are novel quantum technologies being applied to meet market demands? Find out as Professor Michele Barbour speaks to Anthony Laing, Professor of P...
Security sensitization and awareness for SMEs
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are growing concerned over business interruptions and cyberattacks, especially in Germany. There is a nota...
Challenges and solutions for a sustainable mobility: a journey with CNR-STEMS and Politecnico di Torino
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Transport sector sustainability is an important, topical issue that requires prompt and challenging solutions to accomplish the ambitious Greenhouses ...
Green baize gladiators: Bridge as a mindsport for all
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Electronic sports, or esports, have evolved the concept of ‘sport’, especially around the mental acuity needed to play. Professor Samantha Punch f...
Strictly Mum Dancing: Pregnancy, motherhood and professional dance
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professional dance takes a mastery of physicality and form - on top of the business stresses and social demands. So what are dancers to make of mother...
Viroscope: Honing virus detection for the global plant trade
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The destruction of plant crops from the propagation of plant pathogens, such as viruses, is a serious threat to global food security and human perpetu...
Compassion and self-care in the care sector
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Care, by itself, brings thoughts of warmth, compassion, and doing right by the people who need your help. As an employment Sector, it sees life or dea...
Hydrogen as a Renewable Aerospace Fuel | The Enterprise Sessions with Neha Chandarana
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of hydrogen as a renewable fuel source? Professor Michele Barbour talks with Dr Neha Chandarana, a Lecturer in Bio-based and Sustai...
Motivating climate action through cultural impact
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weight lifter David Katoatau has already lost his home in Kiribati to coastal erosion, and faces the loss of his whole country to rising sea levels....
Tiny Titans of Life: Unravelling nature's small wonders with an enormous Impact
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cyclic glycine proline, or cGP, is a very small molecule, but one with a profound impact on the body and mind, such as on the ageing brain and healt...
Fed is Best for neonatal health and nutrition
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Active risks to children's health come in many shapes and sizes. While misinformation and bad advice won't turn up in a blood test, it can h...
What is life? Catching up with Paul Nurse from the Francis Crick Institute
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK is a Nobel Prize winning geneticist and cell biologist whose research is recogni...
From Cuttlefish to Clinic | The Enterprise Sessions with Shelby Temple
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How could a chance discovery in cuttlefish biology help protect our sight? Join Professor Michele Barbour in conversation with Dr Shelby Temple, the C...
CancerStemID: One step closer to predicting cancer risk?
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the exception of a few hereditary cancers, there is currently no accurate method to predict whether someone is going to get cancer. Dr Andrew Te...
Improving diagnosis and recovery for mild traumatic brain injury
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Traumatic brain injury is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States, and 80% of traumatic brain injuries are classified as ‘mild....
Fuzzy Logic: A Fuzzy-based Privacy Recommender System for Political Participation
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the digitalised world, citizens – while having control over their personal information – are increasingly exposing their data, and there are pl...
Social Justice and Bridging Histories | The Enterprise Sessions with Joanna Burch-Brown
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn from our history to make positive changes for the future? Professor Michele Barbour investigates this question with Dr Joanna Burch-...
Towards a new, green Bretton Woods: How and why an upgraded financial system will change the world
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The international monetary system is the unquestioned common ground for all economic activities. Stefan Brunnhuber, trustee of the World Academy of Ar...
Stormwater ponds are important reservoirs for plastic pollution
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much of the plastic we generate in our cities every day ends up in natural water ecosystems? And what are the paths for pollution to enter these s...
Increasing Health Impacts of Summer Heatwaves in Western Sydney
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Western Sydney, Australia extreme temperature days pose serious health and socio-economic threats to its population. Dr Milton Speer and colleagu...
Story Telling Week: Spirited Cross-Examination
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For Story Telling Week 2024, we've revisited some past episodes to see how else stories can help summarise science.Listen to the original episode...
Resilience in Deep Tech | The Enterprise Sessions with Harry Destecroix
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Enterprise Sessions How do you launch a new business without the necessary infrastructure to support it? If you’re Dr Harry Destecro...
Nanosafety: Looking at the toxicology of nanomaterials
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nanomaterials are small particles that can be found everywhere, including in the air we breathe, which can have detrimental effects on health and the ...
Analysing the Analysts: How much do social skills count for success as an equity analyst?
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the face of it, investment management is purely a numbers game. But behind the scenes, equity analysts require a lot of people skills to get an acc...
Accum™ technology in early cancer trials and beyond
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the latest anti-cancer drugs are targeted towards the tiniest molecular differences in cells. But even if you know the genetic make up of a tu...
Tech, health and the digital divide
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mobile devices have become pervasive in reach and constant in attention. What role does that availability have as a cause of, and potential solution t...
Public health strategies reduce smoking-related premature deaths across the US
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of developing lung cancer and other diseases, but how effective are public health strategies? Professor Theodore ...
Lives of Syrian Refugees in Scotland
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While Scotland has been a beacon of hope for many Syrian refugees, resettlement can create a grievous sense of loss and emptiness for many.Associate P...
Firms’ Age, Size, and IPO Performance across Sectors
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does a firms age and size matter in the world of Initial Public Offerings? Smader Siev from Ono Academic College and Mahmoud Qadan from the the Univer...
Public Health messaging and motivations around COVID-19 prevention
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How a member of the public reacts to health crises depends on a lot of differing factors, including perceived risk or resistance to the disease, trust...
Preparing clinicians for myocarditis in paediatric patients
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Myocarditis is the inflammation of the heart wall tissues that can affect the heart’s ability to pump blood, and sometimes cause an irregular or pat...
The Third Culture: How AI is changing science, humanities and our consciousness
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New technologies like Artificial Intelligence bring new perceptions, new practices and new understandings. Stefan Brunnhuber, the head of an initiat...
Fuzzy Logic: Smartifying Logistics with Computational Intelligence
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The distribution of parcels from local distribution centres to customers can be met with hiccups, as customers may be unavailable to receive packages ...
Climate Change reporting by pension funds
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Large pension funds are not just financial giants; they also serve as catalysts for climate action. In Denmark, these pension funds are not only influ...
Orthognathic surgery: Tackling deceptive complexity
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our jaws shape our appearance, communication, diet and more. However, the branch of medicine dedicated to its correction — orthognathic surgery – ...