Latest Nottingham university Podcast Episodes

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Zinc and Sulfur - Periodic Table of Videos

Periodic Table of Videos - August 26, 2014 13:53 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 110 ratings
Zinc and Sulfur combine in spectacular fashion to create Zinc Sulfide. Like these sort of reactions? Check our "reactions only" playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... More chemistry at http://www.periodicvideos.com/

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Copper Sulfate (slow motion) - Periodic Table of Videos

Periodic Table of Videos - August 26, 2014 13:52 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 110 ratings
Copper Sulfate and Ammonia at high speed - watch the colour change and precipitation. More chemistry in slow motion: http://bit.ly/chemslomo Featuring Professor Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham.

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The Professor in Russia - Periodic Table of Videos

Periodic Table of Videos - August 26, 2014 13:51 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 110 ratings
Professor Poliakoff and Ruthenium - discovered by Karl Claus and named after Russia. More Christmas stuff at http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/... The Professor thanks the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan for its help.

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Holey Experiment - Periodic Table of Videos

Periodic Table of Videos - August 26, 2014 13:50 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 110 ratings
Fiery experiments, rocket launches and a messy fumehood... All about Trimethylaluminium. Featuring Professor Simon Woodward.

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Oscillating Reaction - Periodic Table of Videos

Periodic Table of Videos - August 26, 2014 13:49 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 110 ratings
Example of a Belousov--Zhabotinsky reaction (or BZ reaction). Featuring Professor Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham. And the hands of Dr Samantha Tang!

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Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Somatisation

Psychiatric videos for teaching - August 20, 2013 14:28 - 17 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this film, you see a GP talking to a patient who has repeatedly presented to the surgery for abdominal problems for which no organic cause has been found. The GP asks the patients at length about her symptoms. The information is already in the GP notes, but the GP knows that if the patient is ...

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Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Anxiety

Psychiatric videos for teaching - August 20, 2013 14:27 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this film, the GP is seeing a patient who has presented several times before with complaints of palpitations and shortness of breath. The patient describes the onset of her problems, which was a panic attack. She has then gone on to develop agoraphobia. The problem has affected a number of ar...

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Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Depression

Psychiatric videos for teaching - July 26, 2013 13:17 - 14 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this film, the GP is seeing a patient who has a depressive disorder. The patient describes symptoms including low mood, tearfulness, reduced energy, reduced motivation, early morning wakening, loss of appetite, weight loss, poor concentration, reduced enjoyment and reduced interest in self-car...

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Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Psychosis

Psychiatric videos for teaching - July 26, 2013 13:15 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this film, an on-call psychiatrist is assessing a young man who has been referred urgently by his GP. The psychiatrist takes a history in which she elicits persecutory delusions, third person auditory hallucinations, running commentary, thought insertion, and somatic hallucinations. She then m...

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Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Self-Harm

Psychiatric videos for teaching - July 05, 2013 15:11 - 11 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this film, you see a psychiatrist who works in the liaison psychiatry department seeing a patient who has recently been treated in the emergency department for wrist lacerations. The lacerations were self-inflicted after a relationship ended. The patient describes an emotional response to the...

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Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Mania

Psychiatric videos for teaching - July 05, 2013 15:10 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this film, a psychiatrist assesses a man who has been referred by his GP. The patient demonstrates flight of ideas, pressure of speech, disinhibition, punning, grandiose delusions, and second person auditory hallucinations. His presentation is consistent with mania.

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'Comfort Women' - symposium highlights human rights violation

History - April 16, 2013 13:37 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★ - 6 ratings
PhD student Sachi Tsukamoto, from The University of Nottingham, has organised a symposium on 'comfort women' -- the women and girls forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. She hopes it will highlight the issue of human rights violations against women.

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'Comfort Women' - Japanese student explains why she studies the issue

History - April 16, 2013 13:36 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★ - 6 ratings
PhD Student Sachi Tsukamoto, from The University of Nottingham, explains why she decided to learn more about the plight of 'Comfort Women' -- the women and girls forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War.

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Lord Mandelson speaks at the University

Political dignitaries - March 28, 2013 11:01 - 8 minutes - Video
The government is acting out of necessity in cutting funding to higher education, Lord Mandelson told a conference at The University of Nottingham.

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Restoring trust

Political dignitaries - March 28, 2013 11:00 - 12 minutes - Video
Shadow Business Secretary, the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke was at the University recently to speak in the Centre for British Politics seminar series. In this video you'll get a flavour of his views on engaging the public and parliamentary reform.

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Does democracy work?

Political dignitaries - March 28, 2013 11:00 - 6 minutes - Video
In this video Conservative MP Patrick Mercer touches on some of the points he made in a lecture to students. He was speaking in the Centre for British Politics' Seminar Series.

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Blast off for space age building

Political dignitaries - March 28, 2013 10:59 - 3 minutes - Video
In this video see the brand new Nottingham Geospatial Building, a high tech hub where research and business work hand in hand to develop some incredible new technologies. Did we mention it has a railway on the roof?

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Gordon Brown's election pledges

Political dignitaries - March 28, 2013 10:58 - 4 minutes - Video
In this video Prof Paul Heywood breaks down the election pledges Prime Minister Gordon Brown made recently at a special visit to The University of Nottingham.

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Cracking up: an interview with Alastair Campbell

Mind over matter - March 28, 2013 10:49 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this video we meet Tony Blair's former Communications Director Alastair Campbell. Alastair, who wrote widely about his own nervous breakdown, recently visited the University to support the Institute of Mental Health and the vital work they are carrying out.

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Madness and Literature

Mind over matter - March 28, 2013 10:48 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this video highlights from a conference on using literature to better equip doctors and nurses working with people affected by mental illnesses.

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A degree of distinction part 1 - audio

Alumni - March 28, 2013 10:15 - 5 minutes - Video
In this interview acclaimed broadcaster Peter Snow talks about his honorary graduation at The University of Nottingham. He speaks candidly about his reaction to the occasion, his illustrious family and how he went from ancient history and classics to Television news. Parts 2 and 3 are also avai...

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A degree of distinction part 2 - audio

Alumni - March 28, 2013 10:14 - 5 minutes - Video
In this interview acclaimed broadcaster Peter Snow talks about his honorary graduation at The University of Nottingham. In Part 2 he talks about life as a reporter covering such monumental stories as the end of Apartheid, the Falklands War, the Middle East and the Vietnam War… Parts 1 and 3 are...

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A degree of distinction part 3 - audio

Alumni - March 28, 2013 10:13 - 6 minutes - Video
In this interview acclaimed broadcaster Peter Snow talks about his honorary graduation at The University of Nottingham. He also talks about surviving a plane crash in America and rounds off the interview with some radical advice for the University’s graduates. Parts 1 and 2 of this interview ar...

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Dressing for success - audio

Alumni - March 28, 2013 10:12 - 4 minutes - Video
At the age of 91, most people will already have been taking things easy for a number of years. Not so for the man responsible for robing graduates at the University of Nottingham – at 91 he’s just beginning his retirement! In his 27 years service to the University, Arthur Roland Benson (known to...

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Making history - audio

Alumni - March 28, 2013 10:11 - 11 minutes - Video
In this interview we meet the man responsible for the discovery of one of the world's biggest selling painkillers, Ibuprofen. Dr Stewart Adams, a University of Nottingham alumnus, talks about how his original search for a cure for rheumatoid arthritis led to the discovery of Ibuprofen, and how y...

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Honorary Graduates 2012 - Hope Powell CBE

Honorary Graduates - March 18, 2013 15:25 - 6 minutes - Video
Hope Powell received the honorary degree of Master of Arts during the Winter 2012 graduation ceremonies. In this interview with Ms Powell we find out what her thoughts are on the Euro 2013 draw, the FA's 5-year plan for women's football, the Olympics and where women's football stands in the media.

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Study What You Love - Andy Souter (Archaeology Alumnus)

Alumni - November 23, 2012 13:40 - 2 minutes - Video
Andy talks about his experiences of studying Archaeology and how studying an Arts degree can benefit students in their future career. Visit the website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studywithus/studywhatyoulove/ Visit the blog: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/studywhatyoulove/

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Study What You Love - Judith Bannerman (Archaeology Alumna)

Alumni - November 23, 2012 13:39 - 3 minutes - Video
Judith talks about the variety of skills she developed whilst studying Archaeology and the diverse range of opportunities these gave her after she graduated. Visit the website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studywithus/studywhatyoulove/ Visit the blog: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/studywhatyoulove/

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Herbert Hill - US civil rights campaigner and 'FBI informer'

History - November 23, 2012 13:27 - 10 minutes - Video ★★★ - 6 ratings
Research by an American historian at The University of Nottingham could rewrite the history books on the US civil rights movement during the 1960s after revealing that a key racial equality official was also an FBI informer. Herbert Hill was the highly respected national labor secretary of the N...

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Writing the Writer - The Biographer's Story

History - July 17, 2012 10:10 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★ - 6 ratings
Emeritus Professor John Worthen is interviewed by Dr Andrew Harrison, Director of the University of Nottingham's D H Lawrence Research, about his work as a biographer of D H Lawrence.