Episode 10: Imagining a Metric-Free Science

Radical Science

English - August 26, 2016 14:32 - 39 minutes - 45.3 MB - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
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We spoke to Dr Shelly Moram who leads the Functional Nitrides Group at the Department of Materials at Imperial College London about how to disrupt the way we do research and university teaching. We chatted about the metric-driven culture of universities, new ways to open up 'blue sky thinking' in scientific research, the Ivory Tower of Science and how to fight the academic 'brain drain'.