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Grandmothers and ‘intensive parenting’
March 30, 2023 15:40 - 19 minutes - 15.7 MB“My grandchildren are so busy with all their extra classes that I seem to spend most our time together acting as a taxi service.” “When the children come to stay I’m constantly worried about keeping them safe.” “ I’d love to have fun with them, but my daughter expects me to supervise their homework and test them on their spelling.” Are today’s grandmothers too protective and anxious? Benedetta Cappelini, Professor of Marketing at the University of Durham, certainly thinks so. She talks to S...
Grandmothers and ‘intensive parenting’
March 28, 2023 18:23 - 19 minutes - 15.7 MB“My grandchildren are so busy with all their extra classes that I seem to spend most our time together acting as a taxi service.” “When the children come to stay I’m constantly worried about keeping them safe.” “ I’d love to have fun with them, but my daughter expects me to supervise their homework and test them on their spelling.” Are today’s grandmothers too protective and anxious? Benedetta Cappelini, Professor of Marketing at the University of Durham, certainly thinks so. She talks to S...
How to be a (nearly) perfect grandmother
February 20, 2023 14:02 - 26 minutes - 60.4 MBWhat are grandmothers for? That’s what Sally Feldman wondered when she first learned that her daughter was pregnant. As a former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour she was familiar with so many aspects of female experiences. But faced with the prospect of a grandchild, she realised she was clueless. So now she’s writing a book of advice for new grandmothers. This podcast is a conversation with four grandmothers. Their discussion is a taster of the forthcoming book, featuring some of the joy...
NHS: A cold Covid winter ahead?
October 03, 2021 11:54 - 11 minutes - 7.3 MBWith Covid rates remaining stubbornly high and a huge pent-up demand for hospital care, the UK's National Health Service faces a tough winter. Intensive care wards are the canary in the mine, reports Rachael Jolley. Mark Toshner: We can make beds, but what we can't make are specialised staff to run those beds. The accident and emergency department needs a very specific skill set. And once you run out of their capacity, you don't really have anywhere to turn. The winter is going to be tough....
COVID-19 and the geopolitics of health
April 20, 2021 10:57 - 26 minutes - 43.1 MBIt's not about individual countries. It's not about individual regions. It's not even about blocks. This doesn't work unless we vaccinate everybody. But is geopolitics getting in the way of good public health policy as we strive to overcome COVID-19? In this podcast, Rachael Jolley, former editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship and research fellow at the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield considers how geopolitics is affecting government decisions around vac...
Beyond the Virtual Exhibition
April 06, 2021 15:20 - 19 minutes - 34.9 MBCautiously, museums across the world are opening their doors. But there's one place where, even during the pandemic, you always get to be up close - the virtual museum. In the digital environment, the museum can take on a new role, less a place of authority, more an agora of ideas. But we have to think outside the box to solve curatorial issues in the digital space. Zara Karschay takes us on a tour...... . To see each and every brushstroke. To handle priceless objects. A place where figure...
Nawal el Saadawi – writer and activist
March 23, 2021 11:27 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBThe death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Right Organisation for Pod Academy. We reproduce it here. Typically, and at 80 years old, she had stopped off at the Occupy encampment around St Paul's Cathedral on her way from the airport, before coming on to the conference. Note: there is also an Italian translation of this podcast, by Federica di Lascio, below. N...
Journalism in the pandemic: challenges and innovation
February 22, 2021 15:01 - 17 minutes - 10.1 MBJournalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. In this, the third part of our series on Journalism in the Pandemic, Rachael Jolley, former editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship and research fellow at the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield considers how Covid 19 has influenced the future of journalism. Rachael Jolley: Welcome to Pod Academy and our third podcast in this series on journalism ...
The dangerous business of journalism in the pandemic
February 03, 2021 12:19 - 13 minutes - 20.8 MBAuthoritarian restrictions on the press, attacks on journalists in the streets and more accusations of 'fake news' - it's like a war zone out there. Rachael Jolley looks at the dangers of reporting during the Covid -19 pandemic. Jolley (@londoninsider) has developed a series of podcasts for Pod Academy on News in the Pandemic, this is the second in the series. William Horsley: They say that the first casualty of war is truth, but pandemic is in the same category Jean-Paul Marthoz: Today ...
Local journalism in the pandemic
January 19, 2021 15:05 - 32 minutes - 25.3 MBLocal newspapers have been in decline for years, but the decline has been massively exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Can a new type of hyper-local journalism be the answer for local news and local democracy? And how will it be funded? Rachael Jolley (@londoninsider), research fellow @sheffjournalism and former Editor-in-Chief of Index on Censorship, has developed a series of podcasts for Pod Academy on News in the Pandemic. This one, on local journalism, is the first in the series. Intr...
Waiting for the world to begin again: a letter from a plague
April 09, 2020 16:04 - 9 minutes - 9.03 MBPod Academy's Chair, Chris Creegan, reflects on Covid-19 and HIV.
James Bruce: an 18th century Scotsman’s journey to Abyssinia
February 18, 2020 17:16 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBA Scottish Laird becomes Lord of the Bedchamber in the Abyssinian/Ethiopian court and finds the source of the Nile. Like many of his wealthy contemporaries in the 18th and 19th centuries, Lord James Bruce of Kinnaird made the grand tour of Europe (see the companion blog to this podcast). Unlike many of them he also ventured further afield. For three years, from 1769 to 1772, the six-foot four Scottish laird with vivid red hair, travelled to Abyssinia, the old Ethiopian Empire comprising the...
Adventures in Abyssinia – Introducing James Bruce of Kinneard
January 21, 2020 12:14 - 10 minutes - 9.6 MBTake a look at The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johan Zoffany. What do you see? A group of Georgian Grand Tourist poseurs. But one figure, towers above the rest, stands apart, on the far right of the painting. It is James Bruce of Kinneard, the real Indiana Jones. James Bruce is introduced in this blog, and in the accompanying short podcast by our producer, Antonia Dalivalle. Antonia explores the story of Bruce's travels in Abyssinia/Ethiopia in her longer podcast The Real Indiana Jones - co...
Masculinity
December 03, 2019 15:20 - 46 minutes - 43 MBWhat does it mean to be a 'good man'? With so much talk about toxic masculinity, there is, perhaps. a pre-supposition that there is no good masculinity. This lecture by Dr Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University, is based on her forthcoming book, What do Men Want? It is part of the IF Project's 2019 lecture series, Thinking Between the Lines: truth, lies and fiction in an age of populism. Nina Power points to the resentment men feel towards women (and women's re...
Left Populism
November 18, 2019 20:23 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBThis lecture on Left populism is part of the IF Project’s lecture series, Thinking between the Lines: Truth, Lies and Fiction in an age of populism. Dr Marina Prentoulis, Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at University of East Anglia and a member of Syriza, explores the differences between Left and Right Wing populism. She recognises that Left and Right populism are often seen as two sides of the same coin, and points to What is Popul...
Hannah Arendt – Truth and Politics
November 12, 2019 12:10 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MB"No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one, as far as I. know, has ever counted truthfulness among the political virtues. Lies have always been regarded as necessary and justifiable tools not only of the politician's or the demagogue's but also of the statesman's trade. Why is that so? And what does it mean for the nature and the dignity of the political realm, on one side, and for the nature and the dignity of truth and truthfulnes...
Making things up: what does it mean to ‘make things up’ in literature?
October 15, 2019 14:11 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBWho is allowed to make things up? What does fiction writing have to do with life? Is a novel a document? This is the second lecture in the If Project series, Thinking Between the Lines: truth, lies and fiction in an age of populism. Dr Katie da Cunha Lewin (@kdc_lewin) explores what it means to 'make things up' in literature, especially looking at writing by women. “I don’t have to go anywhere, I don’t have to imagine anything. It’s in the living room with me. – Sheila Heti The quote ab...
Nervous States
October 08, 2019 10:30 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB"We need to get away from the idea that knowledge, expertise and truth are obvious and given." This first lecture in the IF Project lecture series 2019, Thinking Between the Lines: Truth, lies and fiction in an age of populism is given by Professor Will Davies of Goldsmith's, University of London. Professor Davies's powerpoint can be found here. What does it mean to know the world? Why can't we agree on what is true anymore? Why do many people no longer trust experts? Professor Davies s...
Divided Kingdom
December 12, 2018 14:29 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBPat Thane, Research Professor at King's College, London and Professor Emerita, University of London, explores the social and political history of Britain over the past 100+ years with Pod Academy's Lee Millam, as they discuss her latest book, Divided Kingdom. This podcast is a tour de force as Professor Thane takes us from the founding of the Labour Party in 1900 in response to low wages and poor working conditions, through 2 world wars and the arrival of globalisation with its attendant pre...
The Real Cost of IVF
July 25, 2018 21:37 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBWhat is the real cost of IVF? As Louise Brown the world’s first “test tube” baby celebrates her 40th birthday – this seminar organised by the Progress Educational Trust explores not just the economic cost, but also the emotional and psychological costs. Worldwide there have been 60 million live births as a result of IVF, but it is still the case that over 60% of IVF cycles don't work. Does receiving fertility treatment confer any benefit to patients, even if there is no baby to take home ...
Putting our genome to work
June 21, 2018 11:09 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBThis podcast is drawn from a Progress Educational Trust (PET) event called Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the UK Post-Brexit Chair: Sarah Norcross, Director of PET Speakers: Dr Eliot Forster, Chair of MedCity Dr Edward HockingsFounding Director of Ethics and Genetics Dr Athena Matakidou, Head of Clinical Genomics at AstraZeneca's Centre for Genomics Research, and Consultant in Medical Oncology at Cambridge University Hospitals Dr Jayne Spink, Chief Exec...
The Alt-Right – a journey into mainstream politics?
May 11, 2018 16:23 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBMaxwell Ward talks to Dr Lawrence Rosenthal, chair of the Berkeley Centre for Right-Wing Studies, about the Alt-Right’s unlikely journey into the mainstream of US politics and their more recent struggles. What are their ambitions? What do they really think of Donald Trump? And where do they go from here? But the first thing Maxwell wanted to know… who and what are the Alt-Right? Dr Lawrence Rosenthal: The Alt-Right represents what has long been called in the USA the fringe of American polit...
Beauty and the Beast
December 21, 2017 18:01 - 7 minutes - 6.81 MBHello, this is Pod Academy. Of late, there has been much talk of sexism, in particular sexual harassment, behind the scenes in the film industry. But what about the films themselves? Pod Academy’s Tatiana Prorokova took a look at the hit movie Beauty and the Beast. One of the highest grossing films this year, it has taken over $1bn worldwide. The recent adaptation of the famous Disney cartoon – Beauty and the Beast – is the film that through a children's story raises the profound quest...
Arts policy – a new approach
November 02, 2017 13:29 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBA radical vision for arts policy should be at the heart of any progressive government argue Professor Rod Stoneman and Adam Stoneman. Note: This is not a transcript of the podcast interview with Rod and Adam, but rather the text of a paper by them on arts policy. Restoring financial support for the arts would hardly amount to a radical transformative vision for the arts. The major proposals in a recent document from the Labour party, for example, were entirely defensive: ‘reinstate arts fu...
The ethics of space exploration
September 28, 2017 19:02 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBWhen you use a SatNav, or check a modern weather forecast, you're using technology made possible by space exploration. Emerging space industries include tourism, and some tentative plans to mine asteroids, or the Moon, for rare materials. Space now has its lawyers, its policymakers, and even its ethicists. Robert Seddon went to King's College, London, to meet Tony Milligan, a moral philosopher who has worked extensively on the ethics of space exploration. Robert Seddon: So, how did that be...
Journalism – the first draft of history?
July 10, 2017 19:44 - 57 minutes - 53 MBJournalism has been called 'the first draft of history', and as a first draft it may be written over, forgotten, ignored. In this podcast, journalist Martin Bright (@martinbright) considers one tiny strand of the story of the Iraq war. It illustrates truth and fake news, things that are very much on our minds at the moment. It is taken from a lecture Martin gave for IF, the free university in London, in its series 'Thinking Without Borders' in 2017. Martin Bright: Let's begin with the ru...
“Kill all Normies”: the rise of the alt-right
June 29, 2017 15:41 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBFollowing the election of Donald Trump, the alt-right has come to play a significant role in American political discourse. They are an upstart political movement that rejects traditional conservatism and championed Trump and his opposition to political correctness. But how did a movement rooted in online and video game culture come to be so influential? Angela Nagle (@angnagle) is an Irish writer and academic who has written extensively on the rise of anti-feminism and the revitalised culture...
Murder by women in eighteenth century London and Paris
May 27, 2017 18:47 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBWe appear fascinated with the phenomenon of the woman who kills. In the last year alone in the UK, both ITV and channel 4 have launched popular documentary series chronicling the shocking lives and crimes of women who commit murder. But what is it about the murderess that renders her so interesting? To social historian Dr Anna Jenkin (@acjenkin), it is her ability to offer unique insight into the gender dynamics, and broader cultural climate, of the society in which she lives. Anna's PhD thes...
Trump: the first 100 days
April 29, 2017 12:00 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MBWhat is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? "C minus overall," says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Trump said he was going to shake up Washington, and he has, but on the legislative front he has done little of what he promised in his first 100 days. Alex Burd (@alexburd) t...
Trump: the first hundred days
April 29, 2017 11:37 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MBWhat is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? "C minus overall," says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Trump said he was going to shake up Washington, and he has, but on the legislative front he has done little of what he promised in his first 100 days. Alex Burd talked to Prof...
Lies, damned lies and statistics: Fact-checking, the new journalism
November 15, 2016 15:13 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB"A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on," said Winston Churchill. If that was the case then, how much more valid is it today. The explosion of social media and its ability to circulate and generate misinformaton has completely changed the political landscape. And it has led to a whole new branch of journalism - political fact-checking. This interview was first posted on the New Books Network and was conducted in the heat of the 2016 US Presidential El...
How to interpret visual art
October 12, 2016 11:13 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBWhy and how should we interpret visual art? With a vast historical sweep - from early medieval art on the walls inside the Basilica of San Vitale to Banksy's 2015 stencils of shipwrecked refugees on walls in Calais, by way of Caravaggio, Nevelson and Rothko - author, artist and film maker Gillian McIver looks at various theories of art criticism and helps us understand how to approach visual art. This lecture was part of series on Thinking put on by the IF Project, the free university in Lo...
Schooling and flocking
October 02, 2016 18:38 - 10 minutes - 9.67 MBThey say a fish can fall in love with a bird, but where would they live? However, when it comes to fluid dynamics, birds and fish come from more similar neighbourhoods than you might think. This podcast is about the physics of fish schooling and bird flocking and how these animals use their fluid environment - and each other - to get around. That's schooling and flocking. Dr Hassan Masoud is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno and he recently co-autho...
Digital exposure
September 14, 2016 15:12 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBAlways on our smartphones and other digital devices, we live in an expository society, says Prof Bernard Harcourt. The landscape described in his new book is a dystopia saturated by pleasure. We do not live in a drab Orwellian world, he writes. We live in a beautiful, colourful, stimulating, digital world a rich, bright world full of passion and jouissance–and by means of which we reveal ourselves and make ourselves virtually transparent to surveillance. This is digital exposure, exposing a...
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August 04, 2016 13:05 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBThis is the second in our series on the 2016 US Presidential election, in which Alex Burd talks to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. [ The first podcast, on Donald Trump can be found here.] With the Democrat and Republican conventions now complete and the candidates confirmed, attention turns to the general ...
The rise and rise of Donald Trump
July 18, 2016 12:13 - 20 minutes - 45.8 MB"The American dream is dead. I will bring it back and we will make America great again....." In nine months Donald Trump has stunned the political establishment, brushing aside other contenders to become the Republican nominee in the race for the White House. How has the man made famous for saying 'You're fired' come so close to landing the biggest job in the western world? To find out, Alex Burd went to talk to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Ce...
Thinking and dying in London
June 28, 2016 14:17 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB"We always write - and read - history thought the prism of our contemporary concerns," So why study history? What do we mean by 'history'? This podcast is a lecture by Dr Richard Barnett, which was part of a course on Thinking run by the IF Project, the free university in London. "We always write - and read - history thought the prism of our contemporary concerns," says Dr Barnett. "There is no such thing as an objective reading of history. This doesn't render history completely subjecti...
The Serengeti Rules – The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Matters
May 13, 2016 14:48 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBHow does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules.They explore how life works at vastly different scales. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of rivers and why, on the plains of the Serengeti, 150kg is the number which deter...
Digital breadcrumbs: the data trail we leave behind us
May 03, 2016 19:32 - 14 minutes - 14.1 MBOnce upon a time, in the land of Great Britain, Amanda woke up to the sun shining on a bright Monday morning. Before she got out of bed, she opened the BBC weather app on her phone to check the weather for the day ahead. She had started leaving her trail of digital breadcrumbs....... She took a shower, made some breakfast, brushed her teeth and left the house. Amanda used Facebook to send a message to her friend telling him she was almost at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studie...
Music and Resistance
April 24, 2016 22:05 - 27 minutes - 21.7 MBWhen the gun is replaced by the melody: how does music resist? ‘Even if they don’t have a message, the act of actually playing music itself is resistance,’ says Dr. Sara McGuiness, senior teaching fellow in Music at SOAS. Classical Thai musician Luang Pradit Pairoh fought through the melodies of his songs surrounded by oppression; Ahmed Maher signed petitions to bring down the Morsi government in Egypt whilst at concerts around the country, and the melody of an old Catalonian song travelled...
Class – what is it?
April 17, 2016 18:30 - 30 minutes - 28 MBClass is not only one of the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public, too. But what exactly is a ‘class’? How do sociologists study and measure it, and how does it correspond to everyday understandings of social difference? Is it now dead or dying in today’s globalized and media-saturated world, or is it entering a new phase of significance on the world stage? In this podcast, first...
Cyber sovereignty: The global Domain Name System in China
April 17, 2016 08:19 - 22 minutes - 17.3 MBThe internet has long been seen as a force of global connection, But this notion of a global internet has never been entirely accurate. Language barriers, access limitations, censorship and the human impulse to stay within your own social circles contribute to us staying local. And then there is the larger architecture of the internet. This podcast looks at at how this architecture, specifically the Domain Name System (DNS) has been used and developed in China to localize control there. In...
Autism – police practice needs to change
April 12, 2016 15:14 - 9 minutes - 8.58 MBAutism is a condition that affects about one in a hundred of us. But few people understand or can recognise it. This can have serious implications when people with autism encounter the criminal justice system. Recent research by City University and the University of Bath suggests that most people with autism, and about 75% of their parents, are left very upset after dealings with the police. April is Autism Awareness Month, and Pod Academy's Lee Millam went to talk to Dr Laura Crane of C...
Effundum Spiritum Meum – I Will Pour Out My Spirit
April 04, 2016 20:21 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThis podcast is the second in our series on new concert music. New music can be unfamiliar and challenging - this series, written and presented by composer Arthur Keegan-Bole, is designed to present new music in a non-scary way or at least to explain that composers are making logical music - not trying to make weird, 'difficult' music to confound the listener. The sublime music in this podcast, I will Pour Out My Spirit, ‘Effundum Spiritum Meum’, is a newly composed piece by Benedict Todd ...
Moving from old to new
March 29, 2016 15:26 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBHow did we transition from candles to kerosene? or kerosene to electricity? What and when were the conditions ripe for energy transitions of our past? and what lessons do they have for us in the 21st century as we make a transition from high carbon intensity fossil fuels to renewable energy.. In this podcast Chaitanya Kumar from Sussex University talks to Roger Fouquet from the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics. The podcast was first broadcast on The Shift, a great new on...
‘It’s a war zone now, here’
February 28, 2016 16:23 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThe films of truly outstanding director Spike Lee take a special niche in American cinema. More than that, they especially enrich so-called Black cinema. Lee’s oeuvre includes a great number of films. To mention just some of them: She’s Gotta Have It (1986), Do the Right Thing (1989), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), He Got Game (1998), Love & Basketball (2000), Bamboozled (2000), Red Hook Summer (2012), finally, his recently released Chi-Raq (2015). This podcast is presented and produ...
Otherworldly Politics – how science fiction can help us understand realpolitik
February 16, 2016 15:32 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBScience Fiction can often help us understand realpolitik in the real world. Is Tyrian Lannister a realist or a liberal? What would Mr. Spock have to say about rational choice theory? And what did Stanley Kubrick read to create Dr. Strangelove? Stephen Dyson is the author of Otherworldly Politics: The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica(Johns Hopkins University Press 2015) and associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut...
Prison – Does it work? Can it work?
January 03, 2016 13:41 - 7 minutes - 7.32 MB‘Lock them up and throw away the key!’ is something that is often heard. But does locking someone up for committing a crime really work to punish an individual? What about having them come back into society a changed person, asks presenter and producer Lee Millam in this podcast. Prisons, why do we send people there? Does it work? Should it work? This was the subject of a recent lecture at Gresham College in the City of London. It is one lecture from a series on Law and Lawyers at Gresh...
Nocturne
December 20, 2015 13:30 - 14 minutes - 33.1 MBThis is a podcast about music. A podcast about Nocturne. A podcast of a Nocturne inspired by the BBC's nightly Shipping Forecast. Produced and presented by composer, Arthur Keegan-Bole A K-B: Oh dear, I crashed the pips. In the world of radio, crashing the pips - that is, talking over the six sine tone beeps that mark the hour on BBC radio - is a serious faux pas. So, please, let me start again. Hello you are listening to Nocturne, a podcast about music, its relationship with the night....
Translational medicine bringing a new cure for arthritis
December 13, 2015 19:27 - 10 minutes - 10 MBTranslational medicine is collaborative science that translates work in the laboratory into practical medical treatments - it is sometimes termed 'bench to bedside medicine'. Because it often includes trials on animals it can be controversial. So can animal testing be justified? Scarlett MccGwire put on her wellies and met up with Francis Henson to find out. Dr Frances Henson: I'm Frances Henson, Research Fellow in the Division of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Add...