#MadeAtUCL Season 2
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -UCL's award-winning campaign, Disruptive Thinking Since 1826 and hashtag #MadeAtUCL, has been phenomenal in its scope with hoardings at UCL East in London, graphics and animations on our website; a festival, podcast series, and involvement of the wider public to vote for their favourite breakthrough UCL research.
This year, we continue to feature more UCL breakthrough stories through Season Two of the podcast! This time, we are also sharing stories from our community, our pioneering researchers, staff, students and alumni who have or are achieving great things that impact society and help change the world for the better.
Catch up on Season 1 on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482943970 or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5N3f3fffYZcqzJ9IiVxw9W
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Episodes
Resolution
December 14, 2021 08:59 - 34 minutes - 25.7 MBIn our final episode of this series, Cassidy and Cerys reflect on some of their favourite interviews. They share updates from guests and discuss the ground-breaking research that has really surprised or changed them in the course of making the podcast. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…s2-ep11-resolution
Awareness And Activism
December 14, 2021 08:58 - 32 minutes - 22.9 MBThis 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 meaningful change to combat the problems they have been confronted by. Cassidy spoke with Hope Oloye, a PhD student whose programme Thinking Black is breaking down barriers to higher education, Virginie Le Masson, a geographer working with women across the world to understand the impacts of climate change through a feminist lens, and Emilia...
#MadeatUCL podcasts - Recovery
October 05, 2021 12:24 - 30 minutes - 19.9 MBSUMMARY KEYWORDS patients, ucl, garden, people, pandemic, symptoms, athena, susan, sarah, support, long, recover, helping, hospital, students, prolonged recovery, community, recovery, guidelines, plant SPEAKERS Susan McGrath, Athena Akrami, Cerys Bradley, Theme music, Owain Rhys Hughes Cerys Bradley 00:03 Hello and welcome to the ninth episode of series two of Made at UCL: the podcast. This podcast explores the world of UCL through the groundbreaking research and vital community w...
Recovery
October 05, 2021 12:24 - 30 minutes - 19.9 MBThis month we are exploring recovery. As Cassidy has been busy finishing her dissertation, join Cerys as they learn how to recover through stories about long Covid community led research, transformative technology in the NHS, and a memorial garden built by students in the Institute of Education. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep9-recovery
Growth
September 02, 2021 11:05 - 36 minutes - 24.7 MBIn 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 and negative concept. We chat with Dr Michelle Heys and Dr Simbarashe Chimhuya and hear about their technical solution to newborn healthcare, with Dr Philip Pogge Von Strandmann about how we can reduce the growing levels of co2 in the atmosphere, and lastly with Dr Seb Coxon to learn how beards of medieval Germany can help us understand mas...
Getting Closer
August 02, 2021 13:13 - 34 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this month's episode of #MadeAtUCL, join us as we explore closeness and how proximity has changed over the past year. From designing new spaces that help us feel close from afar, to how researchers learnt about smartphones by living with their users, to how sounds of the rainforests thousands of miles way can help connect us to nature. To find our more and access the transcript click here: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…ep7-getting-closer
Mission to Mars
July 01, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 24.7 MBIn this episode, #MadeAtUCL goes to Mars! We hear about the incredible UCL work that is helping to send a Rover (and maybe one day even a person) to the Red Planet as well as what we might find when we get there. Act 1 - Prof Andrew Coates, Deputy Director (Solar System), at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) talks about the Rosalind Rover that launches to Mars in September 2022 Act 2 - Prof Ian Crawford, Honorary Senior Research Fellow Dept of Physics & Astronomy, at...
The Cost of Freedom
June 01, 2021 11:07 - 37 minutes - 27 MBPresented and edited by two UCL (University College London) graduates, Cassidy and Cerys, hear about research #MadeAtUCL on the costs of freedom. In this episode we’re exploring the value of freedom, from the people who found it in the bleakest of circumstances to the ways in which we restrict our own freedom (and the freedom of others) without even realising it. Professor Virginia Mantouvalou shares her work on labour laws and explains how our legal system is creating situations t...
Save Us
May 04, 2021 11:14 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBSave the planet, save lives, save money! Presented and edited by two UCL graduates, Cassidy and Cerys, will take you on a journey from patient to planet. In this episode we're talking about saving the planet with Professor Mark Maslin, a climate change expert and author of "How to Save the Planet: the Facts". Mr Manish Chand, Associate Professor in Surgery, joins us to discuss how he's using the latest technology to make surgery smarter and less invasive to save lives. We also talk...
Pain: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
April 01, 2021 09:24 - 35 minutes - 25.3 MBJoin Cassidy for April’s #MadeAtUCL podcast which talks about Pain: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Imagine not feeling pain... Or never having to fear visiting the dentist... Or being able to communicate pain... Hear about: - The FAAH-OUT gene discovery and how the latest research is helping people with chronic pain conditions with Dr James Cox (Senior Lecturer and Deputy Graduate Tutor working in the Molecular Nociception Group at the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research...
Voice
March 04, 2021 19:23 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBACT 1 - from 02.28 Prof Evangelos Himonides, Professor of Technology, Education, and Music, UCL Institute of Education www.shoutatcancer.org/ ACT 2 - from 11.22 Dieter Deswarte, Senior Teaching Fellow in Ethnographic and Documentary Film, UCL Department of Anthropology yarrowfilms.co.uk/2020/07/31/hazte-sentir/ ACT 3 - from 20.32 Sarah Wong, Student, UCL Medicine Jamie Hale, Student, UCL Arts & Humanities Anna Vignola, Student, Yale School of Medicine www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/feb/y...
Touch
February 17, 2021 17:26 - 25 minutes - 15 MBACT 1 - from 01.25 - 09.00 Prof Carey Jewitt, UCL Institute of Education Lili Golmohammadi, a doctoral researcher at the UCL Institute of Education ACT 2 - from 09.00 - 17.50 Alessia Qiu, second-year UCL BSc Natural Sciences student ACT 3 - from 17.50 - 23.37 Dr Helge Wurdemann, UCL Mechanical Engineering Presented by Cassidy Martin and edited by Cerys Bradley For the transcript and more information visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep1-touch
#MadeAtUCL Season 2 Trailer
February 17, 2021 17:15 - 1 minute - 1.28 MBWelcome to Season 2 of the #MadeAtUCL Podcast. In each episode, we find three diverse stories from the UCL collective, three stories that celebrate the different types of communities connected to UCL, three stories that shine a spotlight on the incredible research and volunteer contributions that helped to make this world a better place. Three stories that, at first, might not seem connected, but they are.