UCL Minds

Where research transforms how we protect cultural heritage

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hear about UCL Professor Eleanor Robson’s research on the ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq and how it enabled cultural heritage organisations, news me...

Imagining the home of the future

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Season 2 - How should we tackle climate disasters?

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Public Health Disrupted S2 Ep.3 The Elephant in the Planning Room with Michelle Ogundehin and Matthew Carmona Interior and external environments affe...

Where research transforms COVID-19 treatment

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professors Mervyn Singer and Becky Shipley explain how they got a mechanical breathing support machine from idea to reality in a month, and helped pro...

Movable Type Season 1 - Environmental Humanities: Anthropocene Unconscious

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the first of a two-part episode on the Environmental Humanities, host Roxana talks with Prof. Mark Bould about climate change subtexts, Sharknado, ...

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

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Where research transforms climate change mitigation

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hear how UCL economics researchers and campaigning journalists put keeping fossil fuels in the ground and divestment on the climate crisis agenda. Gu...

Season 2 - Can apps help solve the climate crisis?

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ch...

#MadeAtUCL Season 3 - Data Moves

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, T...

Where research transforms access to children's social care records

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How UCL research led by care experienced people has restored children’s voices to official records of their time in care. Guests: Elizabeth Shephe...

Season 2 - Why are bees and wasps important?

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Where research transforms cancer treatment

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 lit...

Where research transforms HIV treatment and prevention

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Alison Rodger and activist Bruce Richman explain how people living with HIV came together with scientists to fight stigma and prove that Und...

Covid-19 and gender equality

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Date of lecture: Tuesday 26 April 2022 About the lecture: The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unexpected disruption to Western countries and studies sug...

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

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

#MadeAtUCL Season Three Trailer

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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-ho...

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

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) are...

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

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construc...

Introducing the SDGs

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) cha...

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

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aman talks to Caswell and Steve about his journey from metallurgical engineering to multi-brain region neuroscience, how this has informed his rodent ...

Resilience Research Group: Community Resilience

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

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

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join hosts Xand and Rochelle for Episode 2 ‘Singing the praises of communities with Dr Daisy Fancourt and Eric Whitacre. “Every single person feel...

Bayesian Predictive Inference

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this contributed interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Chris Holmes. Chris is Professor of Biostatis...

Resilience Research Group: Resilience in adulthood and older age

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this podcast we are visited by Noriko Cable (UCL), Kate Bennett (Liverpool), Sherry Hamby (University of the South), and Kristen Krause (Rutgers)....

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

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Moveable Type Series 1 - LGBTQ+ History Month Part 2: queer histories of contestation

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the second of a two-part feature recorded for LGBTQ+ History Month, presenter Roxie talks to Juliet Jacques, writer, journalist and author of Trans...

City of Women

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a live recording of UCL's event City of Women: creating an interactive map of London’s remarkable women. The event was part of UCL...

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

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“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 ide...

Resilience Research Group: Family Resilience

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this podcast we are visited by Nicole Creasey (University of Amsterdam), Professor Jay Mancini (Virgina Tech), and Dr Gretchen Pianka (Resilience ...

Building Better - Season 2 - Bright Lights, Big City

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re looking towards the light in episode four. We wanted to understand more about the thought processes behind lighting spaces and the considerati...

Moveable Type Series 1 – LGBTQ+ History Month Part 1: flatness, normativity, and trans mental health

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the first of a two-part feature celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month, our presenter Roxana speaks to Dr Noreen Masud, BBC New Generation Thinker and Le...

TOURISM IN IRAQ - A Conversation with Ali al-Makhzomy

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Nahrein Network speaks to Mr Ali al-Makhzomy, founder of Bilweekend tour company in Iraq, which caters to local tourists. Mr al-Makhzomy was award...

Uncertainty quantification in weather forecasting and doing a PhD in Statistics at UCL

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL Clair Barnes, a recent PhD student, talks to Dr Terry Soo about her research into ...

Feminism And Citizenship

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a recording of UCL's "More than the right to vote: feminism and citizenship" event, held on 17 February. The panel includes: Professor...

Can false memory evidence sway a trial?

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Date of lecture: Tuesday 8 February 2022 About the lecture: In the light of famous recent trials and allegations in the US and UK, the question of ho...

Resilience Research Group: Resilience in Childhood and Adolescence - Part 2

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the seventh podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Dr Chris Wekerle (M...

The space tourism race could be one giant leap for air pollution

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Date: Tuesday 1 February 2022, 1-2pm About the lecture: As we make major sacrifices to limit our environmental damage to the planet, the billionaire ...

Building Better - Season 2 - Blocked By Design

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode three, we're exploring accessibility within the built environment. We want to know: why aren't we more aware, more conscious, more active i...

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Date: Tuesday 18 January 2022 About the lecture: Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are entrepreneurs who embezzle and cops who...

S1 E6 Studying children’s interactions from an interdisciplinary perspective

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Digital communication technologies can transform interactions for children with severe speech and physical impairments and their social partners. In t...

S1 E5 The social life of programmers

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Computer applications dominate contemporary social life, but who are the programmers who build these applications and what cultural values do they sha...

S1 E4 Collaborating to ensure buildings and cities are relevant to local communities

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Dr Alejandra Albuerne. Alejandra is an architectural engineer who has worked in Spain and the UK. In 2016 she comple...

S1 E3 Towards meaningful interdisciplinary working in digital health research

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Digital health interventions are rapidly growing and offer unique advantages compared with face-to-face interventions, including their ability to deli...

S1 E2 Building relationships for interdisciplinary and collaborative research

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We often take for granted that collaborative research is dependent on relationships, which can mean that we understate the skill and intention require...

S1 E1 Introducing Together We Create

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode introduces the Together We Create series which explores the collaborative social research being undertaken by Early Career Researchers at...

Moveable Type Season 1 – Style and Translation

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this first episode of 2022, host Roxana Toloza Chacon talks to Emma Cavell, Daniel Lewis, Joshua Lok, and Jake Wiseman, four PhD students from the ...

Statistical Developments in the Calculation of Value of Information

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this contributed interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL recorded for the Royal Statistical Society Conference 2021, we speak w...

Building Better - Season 2 - Are Buildings Gendered?

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of season two, host Christoph speaks with two researchers at The Bartlett to think about buildings and how we can see society’...

Moveable Type Season 1 – Ambience

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do texts reflect their surrounding environment? How thin really is the boundary between word and the world, and what creative possibilities emerge...

Life Cycle Assessment as a decision making tool for low carbon solutions

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Date of lecture: Thursday 9 December 2021 About the lecture: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology for quantifying the environmental impacts as...

Gender and Climate change: why are women at more risk from global heating?

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Date of lecture: Tuesday 7 December 2021 About the lecture: Priti Parikh will be discussing how women bear the burden of lack of infrastructure and ho...

Towards Inclusion: Interventions to address Intellectual Disability Stigma

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Date of Lecture: Thursday 2 December 2021 About the lecture: In this talk Professor Scior will share national and international work on Intellectual D...

AI and Research

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Professor Rose Luckin (UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL IOE) speaks to Professor Jack Stilgoe (UCL Department of Science & Technology Stud...

What is the carbon footprint of your clothes?

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

About the lecture: Teresa Domenech Aparisi will use evidence to assess the carbon footprint of fashion, address why fast fashion is problematic and id...

AI and Future Skills

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Professor Rose Luckin (UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL IOE) explores “Future Skills” with Dr Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge)...

Must cutting CO2 cost more for those with less?

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the final episode of series one of Generation One, this week host Matt Winning is chatting about finance and tackling the question: Mu...

Health and Climate Change: How can tackling Climate Change improve your health?

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Date: 23 November 2021 About the lecture: Marina Romanello will give an overview of the work of the Lancet Countdown on tracking the impacts of climat...

#MadeAtUCL Podcasts - Resolution

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In our final episode of this series, Cassidy and Cerys reflect on some of their favourite interviews. They share updates from guests and discuss the g...

AI across sector and scale

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Professor Rose Luckin (UCL IOE) discusses how UK businesses - small and large, and across different regions - can engage with AI...

Does the earth have to be a fashion victim?

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 B...

Building Better - Season 2 - Please Switch On Your Cameras

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 possi...

AI - Climate Change friend or foe?

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 (R...

Disruptive Voices - People and Cities

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Professor Nick Tyler (Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, UCL Engineering) shares his vision of how cities are...

AI and Disenfranchisement at Work

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Jamie Woodcock (Open University) and Dr Zeynep Engin (UCL computer science) to discuss disenfranchisement by AI ...

Trees matter. But just how much?

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

How do we manufacture personalised medicines?

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

About the UCL East Lunch Hour Lecture: Dr Qasim Rafiq will explore the challenges and opportunities of manufacturing advanced personalised therapies, ...

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

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this contributed series from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Tom Fearn about how UCL is acknowledging and add...

Episode 5: Reflections on COP26

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Harry Kennard chats to UCL academics from the Institute of Sustainable Resources, Lilia Couto and Professors Jim Watson and Michael Grub, about the...

Good work with AI

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss what “good” work means with Rob McCargow (PwC) and Mary Towers (Trades Union Congress), and how AI can impact this - co...

How could fairer finance help us address Climate Change?

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Date: Tuesday 2 November 2021 Speakers: Nadia Ameli, Principal Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR) Ashish Ghadiali, ...

Post COP26: Where are we now?

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Creative Lives: Lifelong learning

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Creative Lives is a podcast which opens provocative conversations, experimenting with big ideas and local practices. We bring together researchers, ex...

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

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For our live finale event, we hosted a fascinating debate with Christoph Lindner, Dean of The Bartlett and editor of Deconstructing the High Line: P...

Behind the scenes at COP26

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 M...

How To Save Our Planet

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Date: 26 October 2021 Speaker: Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science at UCL Geography Department About the UCL lunch hour lecture: Climate c...

#MadeAt UCL Podcasts - Awareness And Activism

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 meani...

How far can we go with electric batteries?

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Generation One: The Climate Podcast. In our first episode, our hosts are discussing energy infrastructure, electric storage and and address...

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

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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’ ...

Resilience Research Group: Resilience and COVID - Part 3

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 (...

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

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Previously in this podcast we examined Prof AbdouMaliq Simone’s talk on ‘Blackness and the Urban’, and used it to think through the racialised c...

Episode 3: Overheating in Buildings

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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. Vie...

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

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we address Prof Simone’s notion of the “hallucination of Whiteness”, revisit Dr Lioba Hirsh’s response on the coloniality and ...

#MadeatUCLPodcasts - Recovery

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This month we are exploring recovery. As Cassidy has been busy finishing her dissertation, join Cerys as they learn how to recover through stories abo...

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

02 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

Black Urbanisms - Episode 1: Blackness and the Urban

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this first episode we revisit excerpts of Prof AbdouMaliq Simone’s 2019 talk from the conference ‘At the frontiers of the urban’ that conside...

Disruptive Voices - Celebrating old age

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 agein...

Together Towards Net Zero - Graduating the Programme

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll be discussing how the partnerships are feeling about graduating the programme and the next steps for their projects. As dis...

Resilience Research Group: Resilience & COVID - Part 2

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 (...

#MadeAtUCL Podcasts - Growth

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Episode 2: Inequalities in Indoor Air Pollution Exposure

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Disruptive Voices - Climate, Disasters and Health

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 measur...

UCL Post-Soviet Press Pod: 10 Mins on Kazakhstan

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this ninth episode, we cover Kazakhstan – the biggest land-locked country in the world. MA students at the UCL School of Slavonic and East Europe...

Resilience Research Group: Resilience & COVID - Part 1

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Professor Jo Boyden (...

Resilience Research Group: What Resilience Is Not

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Jay Mancini (Virgin...

Resilience Research Group: What Is Resilience

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first podcast in the Resilience Research Group's series on 'What is Resilience?'. For this podcast we are visited by Jo Boyden (Oxford), ...