Glasgow Centre for Population Health Podcast
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GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Experience shapes the brain across the lifecourse; epigenetics, biological embedding and cumulative change (audio)
April 21, 2015 23:00 - 56 minutes - 105 MBIn Lecture 6, the final lecture of Seminar Series 2014-2015, Professor Bruce S. McEwen delivers a talk on how experience shapes the brain across the lifecourse; epigenetics, biological embedding and cumulative change. Professor McEwen is a neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University, New York. He studies the brain and in this lecture, discusses how the social environment affects the brain and through the brain, affects the rest of the body, health and disease through the lifecourse. He also...
GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Re-imaging justice for women (audio)
March 16, 2015 23:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBThe fifth lecture of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series is delivered by Linda de Caesteker, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Linda talks about justice for women and in particular, the Commission for Women Offenders that she was part of. One of the recommendations of the Commission was to establish Community Justice Centres, along with Linda, colleagues from Tomorrow's Women, the Community Justice Centre in Glasgow, discuss their experiences of working in and also using t...
GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Land reform as an engine of economic progress (audio)
February 16, 2015 23:00 - 59 minutes - 111 MBLecture 4 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series is delivered by Andy Whightman, self employed writer and researcher from Edinburgh. In the Seminar, Andy discusses land, society and economy, the importance of land not just as an economic resource but how it fits in with our sense of place and the impact of how we regulate land - it's ownership, it's use - has on places and on people. This is a story from the financial crash to the hills of the highlands.
GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Lecture 3. Economics of Dignity (audio)
January 21, 2015 23:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBIn Lecture 3 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series, Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy AUT University, Auckland New Zealand, delivers a presentation on the Economics of Dignity. The dignity discussed concerns those people who are care givers and in particular, children and the question of children's agency. Professor Waring relates this to the new provisions in Scotland for carers and young carers and poses questions about their dignity.
GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Lecture 2. Nature, nurture and society (audio)
December 10, 2014 23:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBIn Lecture 2 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series, Byron Vincent, writer and performer, delivers a talk on Nature, Nurture and Society. He first talks about his experience of growing up on sink estates and how environment often shapes behaviour and discuses what can be done about that. In the second part he talks about his diagnoses of Bipolar disorder and Post Traumatic Stress disorder, his experience within the mental health system and changes that could be made for the better.
GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Nourishing the City: The Rise of the Urban Food Question (Audio)
April 28, 2014 23:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBKevin Morgan, Professor of Governance at Cardiff University delivers this lecture on Urban Food Policy. He looks at the rise of the city as a new player in the food policy debate taking the experiences of London, New York, Toronto and distills some of the lessons learned for cities in UK.
GCPH - Go Well 8th Annual Event
April 09, 2014 23:00 - 18 minutes - 21.2 MBNicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister, talks about the work of the Go Well project
GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Does austerity harm health? (Audio)
February 18, 2014 23:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBIn this lecture, Dr. Reeve, post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University, puts forward the case that austerity does harm health but that is a choice we make and we can change how our governments respond to the recession and recessions in the future.
GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Healthy Cognitive Ageing (Audio)
January 14, 2014 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBProfessor Ian Deary, Director of The Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at Edinburgh University, presents this lecture on healthy cognitive ageing and principally, the research he has carried out on the Lothian birth cohorts of 1921 and 1936.
GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Who are the real insane? (audio)
December 04, 2013 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBDr Manie Sher a Director from the Tavistock Institution of Human Relations in London presents this lecture on 'Who are the real insane? Our perceptions of disordered thinking and behaviour as defences against imagination'. The Tavistock Institute is concerned with a broad range of issues through activities involving research, organisational and change consultancy primarily in the Public Sector. With a background as a pyscho-analyst, Dr Sher brings these perspectives to bear on the work he do...
GCPH Seminar 1, Series 2013-2014 - Reflecting on Money, Love & Virtue (Audio)
November 05, 2013 23:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBThe first of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) 2013-14 Seminars; Maria Pereira reflects on Money, Love and Virtue.
GCPH Seminar Six (Audio) - Medical Humanities and the 'Fifth Wave' in Public Health: Parallel Tracks?
April 22, 2013 23:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBIn the final lecture of the 2012/2013 series of lectures provided by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), Professor Jane Macnaughton, Medical Humanities, University of Durham, discusses the links between Medical Humanities and the idea of the Fifth Wave in Public Health.
GCPH Lecture 5 - How the effects of traumatic stress are transmitted to the next generation
March 05, 2013 23:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBProfessor Rachel Yahuda delivers a presentation on epigenetics and the effects of stress on the next generation.
GCPH Lecture 3: Dr Joe Ravetz (Audio) - An exploration of synergistic thinking in public health , integrated health care, healthy cities
January 22, 2013 23:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBPublic health faces many challenges today and this will intensify in the future across many different areas – cost, technology, lifestyles, expectations etc. In this lecture, Dr Joe Ravetz proposes that we need new ways of thinking to deal with these challenges.
GCPH Seminar Series 9: Dr. David Reilly - Audio - Human healing in the age of science: the art of the healing shift
December 03, 2012 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBWhat of healing? In this lecture Dr David Reilly described his exploration of what might emerge from our efforts to improve health and wellbeing when we shift our focus from external interventions towards life's innate drive to restore equilibrium and wholeness. His approach was born of necessity over twenty years ago when he was working with patients who were not responding to conventional techniques. Since then he has been learning how to help people access their own potential and e...
GCPH Seminar Series 9: Akala - Audio - Hip Hop Shakespeare
November 19, 2012 23:00 - 42 minutes - 78.3 MBFounded by MOBO award-winner Akala in 2009, The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company is a musical theatre production social enterprise which offers young people a different view of the arts and ultimately of themselves. Working in a variety of settings including schools, prisons and community venues, engaging in music and literature, the Hip Hop Shakespeare company strives to inspire and enable young people to better meet their potential, express themselves and highlight their creative talent. Cent...
GCPH Seminar Series 8: Dr Sandro Galea - Audio - Thinking in systems, looking for the causes of population health
April 30, 2012 23:00 - 57 minutes - 65.9 MBIdentifying biologic and behavioural causes of disease has been one of the central concerns of epidemiology for the past half century. This has led to the development of increasingly sophisticated conceptual and analytic approaches focused on the isolation of single causes of disease states. However, the growing recognition that (a) factors at multiple levels, including biologic, behavioural, and group levels may influence health and disease, and (b) that the interrelation among these factor...
GCPH Seminar Series 8: Manfred Helrigl - Audio - Self organisation and civil engagement: co-operation, culture and politics for a more sustainable society - learning from Vorarlberg, Austria
March 26, 2012 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBVorarlberg in Austria has 20 years of experience in experimenting with different ways and methods of promoting a more sustainable society. Out of this experience has emerged the idea of a 'learning institution' embedded in a tight-knit network of co-operating institutions. In this lecture Manfred Helrigl outlined a 'philosophy of self-organization' and illustrated its impact through practical examples. Manfred suggested that we need to rethink familiar leadership-strategies and revitalize...
GCPH Seminar Series 8: Professor Jonathan Seckl - Audio - Developmental programming - how your parents' environment before you were born impacts on your and your children's risk of disease
February 14, 2012 23:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBWe all blame our genes for many of our features, behaviours and illnesses. Recent studies suggest that the environment before birth is also a major influence on the risk of ill-health across the lifespan and perhaps into a further generation. This process, called ‘developmental programming’, has been studied intensively in recent years and is beginning to reveal a process called epigenetics which underpins growth, behaviour and health risks. In this seminar, Prof Seckl will discuss these is...
GCPH Seminar Series 8: Antony Morgan - Audio - Thinking and acting differently: An asset model for public health
January 24, 2012 23:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBVery few people argue with the need to address the social determinants of health and much effort has already been made at national and international level to reduce persistent health inequities between and within countries. However, global health inequities continue to widen, as the effectiveness and quality of programmes vary considerably, sometimes resulting in the reverse of expected outcomes. Local political issues and cultural conflicts clearly play a part in these situations. However, ...
GCPH Seminar Series 8: Seminar 2 - Giving a voice to Afghan Civil Society - INSPIRE Project
December 07, 2011 23:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBSince 2010 the University of Strathclyde, the University of Herat and the NGO PeaceWaves International Network have been collaborating on two projects funded by the British Council. One of these collaborative projects is under the scheme called INSPIRE International Strategic Partnership and started in January 2011. The focus of this project is to run (across three years) two training courses for Afghan practitioners in Person Centred/Experiential Skills plus a final advanced input. The cour...
GCPH Seminar Series 8: Seminar 2 - Giving a voice to Afghan Civil Society - DelPHE Project
December 07, 2011 23:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBSince 2010 the University of Strathclyde, the University of Herat and the NGO PeaceWaves International Network have been collaborating on two projects funded by the British Council. The first, under the scheme called DelPHE and started in September 2010, is a three year collaborative research project titled Afghan Civil Society's opinion and suggestions regarding women's empowerment and children's education in their country. 15 young Afghan researchers have been trained on quantitative and q...
GCPH Seminar Series 8: Professor Guy Standing - The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
November 21, 2011 23:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBA growing number of people, including millions from Britain, have been entering a global precariat, part of an emerging class structure shaped by globalisation. In this lecture, drawing on his new book, The Precariat: A New Dangerous Class, Professor Standing examined the labour market dynamics that underpin the growth of the precariat and set out the nucleus of a new 'politics of paradise' that is beginning to take shape outside the political mainstream.
GCPH Seminar Series 7: Professor Peter Gianaros Audio - Mapping the mind under pressure: Can brain imaging research tell us anything new about stress and physical health?
May 09, 2011 23:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBSeminar Series 7 concluded on Tuesday 10 May 2011 at St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow. Everyone faces stressful experiences. They are facts of life. Not everyone handles stressful experiences in quite the same way, however. And not all stressful experiences are the same. Some are brief. Others are chronic. Some are psychological. Others are physical. Some make us grow and give us an opportunity to flourish. Others make us flounder and undermine our wellbeing. The different ways in which s...
GCPH Seminar Series 7: Dr. Timo Hamalainen Audio - Silent transformation of well-being
April 12, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBThe fifth seminar in Series 7 took place on Wednesday 13 April 2011 at the Trades Hall of Glasgow. Public policy debates in industrialized societies tend to evolve around two instrumental subsystems: the economy and the welfare state. The ultimate goal of these subsystems - the well-being of citizens - receives very little attention. It seems as if policy makers assume that they understand it so well that it needs no special reflection. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The determinant...
Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum 11
March 30, 2011 23:00 - 3 hours - 187 MBThe 11th Healthier Future Forum took place on Thursday 31 March 2011 at Glasgow Science Centre. Taking the focus of 'a resilient Glasgow', this event presented indicators of progress and drew upon newly developed conceptual models to improve understanding about Glasgow's health. Delegates were encouraged to think about Glasgow's past, its present and its future and what might be the key components of a more resilient city.
GCPH Seminar Series 7: Anthony Hodgson Audio - Is Resilience Enough?
March 07, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThe fourth seminar in Series 7 took place on Tuesday 8 March 2011 at the Lighthouse, Glasgow. It has become all too evident in recent months that the world, as well as local society, is being subjected to an increasing pace of shocks. These range from natural events, such as earthquakes, eruptions, super-storms and large scale flooding, to societal shocks including financial crises, budget cuts and unrest with outworn regimes and politics. At the local level we see escalating fuel and food p...
GCPH Seminar Series 7: Professor Phil Hanlon - The True, the Good and the Beautiful
February 07, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBThe third seminar of Series 7 took place on Tuesday 8 February 2011 at the City Halls in Glasgow. It was Plato who first observed that human beings naturally integrate the true, the good and the beautiful. We still observe this in our own lives when we are allowed to do so. Yet, the true (as manifested in the ideologies of scientism and economism) has been elevated in our work and professional lives to a position where 'evidence' and 'cost effectiveness' trumps all other considerations. The...
GCPH Seminar Series 7: Hazel Henderson - Transforming Finance: Recognising the Global Financial System as a Commons
January 18, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 81.2 MBThe first Seminar Series event of 2011 took place on Wednesday 19 January at the Teacher Building, Glasgow. Hazel Henderson spoke live from Florida via webcast. At the seminar Hazel discussed the implications of recognising global finance as a commons for re-structuring our current global casinos. She explored how to restore the purpose of finance as serving the real economies of the world, as well as the principles that should guide finance in the service of people and planet and outline...
GCPH Seminar Series 7: Professor Max Boisot - The City as a Complex Adaptive System: Lessons from the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
November 17, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBThe first seminar in this Series took place on Thursday 18 November 2010 at the Lighthouse. The ATLAS Collaboration will conduct experiments at the very edge of science, using one of four detectors located on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The Collaboration consists of over 3000 scientist working in over 174 research institutes and universities located in 38 countries around the globe. In such a complex and spatially extended network (what we would today call a complex adaptive sy...
GCPH Seminar Series 6: Adam Kahane - Power and Love: A theory and practice of social change
May 17, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBAdam Kahane delivered the last seminar from this series. His lecture was based on his assertion that the two methods most frequently employed to solved our toughest social problems - relying on violence and aggression, or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise - are fundamentally flawed and that the seemingly contradictory drives behind these two approaches - power, the desire to achieve one's purpose, and love, the urge to unite with others are actually complimentary.
GCPH Seminar Series 6: David Gustave - Code of the street - how we should re-interpret morality
April 19, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBAt the fifth lecture of this Seminar Series, David Gustave, an Educational Motivator from the children's charity 'Kid's Company' delivered a seminar based on both personal biography and professional experience. He spoke about the needs of young people in the UK today, and how their needs can often be wrongly judged. He spoke about how young people seek the same types of fulfilment that many of us do - something that Kid's Company helps them to understand and work towards.
GCPH Seminar Series 6: Wayne Elliot - Impact of weather on human health - current and future issues
March 29, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBThe fourth lecture of the sixth Seminar Series was delivered by Wayne Elliot, Head of Health forecasting at the Met Office. The presentation given by Wayne was called 'Impact of weather on human health - current and future issues' and was deliverd at the Lighthouse, Glasgow. Those who attended this event heard about the work of the Met Office in relation to people's health and the initiatives they run to support the work of the health service and others involved in health protection and im...
GCPH Seminar Series 6: Professor Tim Jackson - Prosperity without Growth
January 25, 2010 23:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBThis lecture took place at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Economic growth is supposed to deliver rising prosperity: higher incomes increasing wellbeing and leading to prosperity for all. But this conventional formula is failing. Growth has delivered its benefits, at best unequally. Moreover, the ecological and social consequences of unfettered growth are devastating. Climate change threatens long-term wellbeing. Resource scarcities undermine the basis for ...
GCPH Seminar Series 5: - Shakti Maira - 'Nested Realtionships - Beauty, Aesthetics, Art and Happiness.'
April 26, 2009 23:00 - 47 minutes - 59.1 MBOn Monday 27 April, at the CCA Glasgow, Shakti Maira provided his presentation on Nested Realtionships - Beauty, Aesthetics, Art and Happiness.
GCPH Seminar Series 5: Dr Harry Burns - From theory to policy - the implications of recent research findings on health inequality
April 16, 2009 23:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBIn this lecture Dr Burns reflects that recent trends show relative improvements in some Scottish health indices compared to other countries. However, health inequality remains an obstinate challenge in Scotland, with the greatest difficulties found largely in the Clydeside conurbation. The policy implications of this and the findings of recent research on the effects of stress on brain structure are considered.
GCPH Seminar Series 5: - Bert Mulder - 'Taking Care of Yourself Together'
February 23, 2009 23:00 - 57 minutes - 72.2 MBRecent demographic trends suggest that demands on healthcare will increase to such an extent that no matter how efficient healthcare professionals are, they will never be able to provide enough care in light of the ageing population and increasing prevalence of chronic ill-health. This gap between the need for care and the size of the workforce could be bridged by the development of Information Technology (IT). While there are many developments in Scotland (and elsewhere), little work has be...
GCPH Seminar Series 5: -Professor Stuart MacDonald: The Micropolitics of Urban Space
January 12, 2009 23:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBTalking Cities – The Micropolitics of Urban Space From Kevin Macleod to Prince Charles, it seems everyone is talking cities. What makes an eco-town or city? What is sustainable design? Architecture and happiness? Perhaps more importantly, what does inclusiveness, equality and diversity mean in the built environment? Place-making, the new term on the block, is generally agreed to be central to social inclusion, cultural well-being and identity. But what makes a good space? Peop...
GCPH Seminar Series 6: Michael Meaney
December 31, 2008 23:00 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBGlasgow Centre for Population Health Seminar Series 6.
GCPH Seminar Series 5: Maureen O'Hara PhD - We've got the future in our hands: Are we up to it?
December 02, 2008 23:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBWe’ve got the future in our hands: Are we up to it? There is mounting evidence that the demands of everyday life in these complex and uncertain times is presenting humanity with both a threat to survival and also an opportunity for evolutionary transformation. Is humanity being pushed beyond our limits to cope or are we instead on the cusp of a breakthrough in consciousness on a global scale? Is the rising tide of mental anguish—anxiety, depression, suicide, addiction and vio...
GCPH Seminar Series 5: - Prof Avner Offer - 'Should Government try to make us happy?'
November 24, 2008 23:00 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBThe determinants of 'happiness' and its distribution both domestically and internationally suggest that a more appropriate target for policy is 'unhappiness', which responds to several forms of public action. But setting happiness as an objective does suggest some policy priorities. These include non-material forms of recognition, taxation of positional goods and support of culture and the arts. Individuals have an intrinsic short-term myopic bias, which is exacerbated by the flow of n...
GCPH Event - What then is to be done
September 09, 2008 23:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBJulian Tudor Hart and David Donnison have been outstanding contributors to the British welfare state and the NHS since its beginning. In this conversation they reflect upon their experience in a period of considerable change in accountability, professionalism, democracy and ask do we still live in a generous society? In the light of all this, what then shall we do?
GCPH Seminar Series 4: - Oliver James - 'Why Selfish Capitalism Causes Increased Mental Illness'
June 03, 2008 23:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBBy placing too high a value on the material aspects of life, English speaking nations put themselves at twice the risk of mental disorder over their mainland European counterparts. This overemphasis on materialism has its roots in the ideologies and policies of the Thatcher administration in the UK and the Reagan administration in the USA. Through placing an over-emphasis on materialism, these perspectives led to people spending less time on meeting fundamental human needs, resulting in inc...
GCPH Seminar Series 4: - Prof Liz Gould - 'Positive and negative stress alter brain structure'
April 21, 2008 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBIndividual differences in response to stressful experiences are a hallmark of the human condition. The same experiences that some people find aversive are considered neutral or rewarding by others. Paradoxically, experiences that are rewarding can also be defined as stressful because they activate stress hormone systems, such as the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. Despite this activation, however, the brain is often buffered against the negative effects of high stress hormones when the ...
GCPH Seminar Series 4: - Prof James C Scott - 'Seeing Like a State: why certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed'
March 09, 2008 23:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBLooking back over the twentieth century we can see many examples of utopian schemes which have inadvertently brought disruption to millions; from compulsory ‘extended family’ villages in Tanzania, collectivisation in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning, the Great Leap Forward in China and agricultural ‘modernization’ in the tropics. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Drawing upon his highly original book of the same title, and his long-ter...
GCPH seminar series 4: - Prof Geoffrey Boulton - 'Learning to live with an angry planet: human relations with the Earth in the past and future'
January 28, 2008 23:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBHumanity has now become as powerful a geological agent in shaping the operation of the planet as the oceans, ice sheets and rivers, to the extent that many believe we have entered a new geological era. What is happening to the planet? How confident are we that we understand the changes, and how should we respond to them if the science is uncertain? These matters have important economic, social and philosophical implications, and present unique political problems (the recent flooding is a sma...
GCU - Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Improving Glasgow's Health: Learning from the Past, Influencing the Future
January 23, 2008 23:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBProfessor Tannahill has recently been appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor to the School of Health & Social Care. Professor Tannahill's appointment will support the School's development in two areas of strategic importance; Research Development and Social Enterprise.
GCPH Seminar Series 4: - Prof Bruce Link - 'Health patterns and trends in New York: exploring the idea of fundamental social causes of health status'
December 10, 2007 23:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBProfessor Bruce Link’s research has focused on how and under what conditions socioeconomic disparities are translated into health inequalities. In this lecture, Professor Link will introduce the fundamental-social-causes concept and present evidence related to its scope and validity by focusing on health patterns and trends in New York. Using data from New York and elsewhere he will argue that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality has persisted for over a centur...
GCPH and Journal of Public Mental Health seminar: - Corey Keyes - 'Promoting positive mental health in a time of inequalities: an ethical dilemma?'
October 10, 2007 23:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBFeaturing renowned speakers Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Corey Keyes, this seminar was held in Glasgow on Thursday 11th October 2007. As part of the Journal of Public Mental Health series of seminars, it explored key issues in public mental health and invited debate about the gap between what we know about population level influences on mental health and current policy responses to psycho-social problems. The series was supported by the National Programme for Improving Mental...
GCPH and Journal of Public Mental Health seminar: - Richard Wilkinson - 'Promoting positive mental health in a time of inequalities: an ethical dilemma?'
October 10, 2007 23:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBFeaturing renowned speakers Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Corey Keyes, this seminar was held in Glasgow on Thursday 11th October 2007. As part of the Journal of Public Mental Health series of seminars, it explored key issues in public mental health and invited debate about the gap between what we know about population level influences on mental health and current policy responses to psycho-social problems. The series was supported by the National Programme for Improving Mental...