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S3E6 Promoting Safe Adolescent Relationships with Rochelle Burgess and Patrizia Pezzoli
In this special episode for Mental Health Awareness Week, host Siobhan Morris is joined by UCL academics Patrizia Pezzoli and Rochelle Burgess to discuss an innovative project focused on promoting…
S3E5 Making Visible Invisible Communities: How youth clubs and local community spaces can support young people’s health and wellbeing
In this episode, host Jade Hunter delves into Grand Challenges-funded project, Visible CoSpace Study - a youth-led, co-produced study aimed at addressing the health inequalities faced by young people…
S3E4 'Anthropolojoy': Professor Joanna Cook on the First Long Term Cross Cultural Study of Joy
In this episode, host Jade Hunter is joined by UCL Professor of Anthropology, Jo Cook, to explore AnthropoloJOY, an ambitious project examining how joy is experienced, expressed and understood across…
S2E7 Co-Designing Solutions: Empowering Students in the Fight Against Body Dysmorphic Disorder
In this episode, Jade Hunter explores a pioneering Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) project focused on early detection and support for university students. Joined by Dr Georgina Krebs, Dr Thomas Kador…
S2E6 Embodying the Social: ‘The Challenge of Urban Violence and Inequalities in the Era of the Exposome'
In this episode, Jade Hunter explores the Grand Challenge-funded project "Embodying the Social: ‘The Challenge of Urban Violence and Inequalities in the Era of the Exposome’ with the project’s…
S3E3 Asylum, Housing, and Community
In this episode, host Ethne James Souch speaks with Professor Mette Louise Berg, Dr Judith Spirig, Faith Nyamakanga, and Nelson Gomez about the lived realities of asylum housing in the UK, and the…
S3E2 Intersectionality at UCL: Lived Experience and Institutional Change
In this episode, host Ethne James Souch is joined by Professor Sara Mole, Noël Caliste, and Dr Sinead Murphy to explore how UCL is fostering inclusion and equity through intersectional initiatives…
S3E1 Shared Screens, Split Realities: Rethinking Online Safety Together
In the first episode of our Inequalities mini-series, host Ethne James Souch is joined by Prof Jessica Ringrose, Dr Marc Tibber, and Sophie Wilson to delve into the complex intersection of social…
S2E5 Youth Voices on Mental Health: Insights from UCL's YouGov Survey
In the fourth episode of our Mental Health & Wellbeing mini-series, host Jade Hunter is joined by UCL's Pro-Vice Provosts for Mental Health & Wellbeing, Professors Essi Viding and Argyris…
S2E4 Active Minds: Exploring the Links Between Student Lifestyles and Mental Health
In the third episode of our Mental Health & Wellbeing mini-series, host Jade Hunter speaks with Dr Flaminia Ronca, Evie Watson, and Katie Sykes about the Active Minds Project at UCL, an…
S2E2 Building Better Minds: Neuroarchitecture and the Future of Inclusive Design
In the second episode of our Mental Health and Wellbeing mini-series, host Jade Hunter sits down with Professor Hugo Spiers, Dr Fiona Zisch, and Isabelle Charval, the trailblazing team behind the…
S2E1 Local Solutions, National Crisis: New Insights on Men’s Mental Health from the North East
In this special episode for Mental Health Awareness Week, host Jade Hunter is joined by Professor John Tomaney, Dr. Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, and James Fildes, founder of Space North East.…
S1E9 Menopause and Me: Juggling Work and Home Life Dr Meena Khatwa
Dr Meena Khatwa and Dr Kelly Dickson delve into the bio-psychosocial impacts of menopause with special guests Lauren Chiren (CEO, Women of a Certain Stage); Sonia Abrams (UCL Head of Events OPVA) and…
S1E8 Data-Empowered Societies
Join us in this special episode as we explore UCL's evolved Grand Challenge: Data-Empowered Societies.In this podcast, you’ll hear from UCL staff about the transformative potential of this Grand…
S1E7 People and Cities
In this episode, Professor Nick Tyler (Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, UCL Engineering) shares his vision of how cities are built, evolve, and how this process might…
S1E6 Celebrating old age
In this episode, Dr Mine Orlu (UCL School of Pharmacy) shares her positive perspective on ageing, and explains the need for a cultural change in ageing research and policy. She also shares some…
S1E5 Climate, Disasters and Health
In this episode, we speak to Dr Marina Romanello and Professor Ilan Kelman, about climate change as a health disaster. We discuss how to better measure the impact of climate change on health, and…
S1E4 Behaviour and Plastic Waste
In Episode 4, we speak to Ayşe Lisa Allison, a PhD Student working with the Plastic Waste Innovation Hub. We explore some of the barriers to environmentally friendly action, and examine the links…
S1E3 Parliament Buildings
In this episode, we speak to Professor Sophia Psarra (The Bartlett School of Architecture) to discuss how the architecture of parliament buildings across Europe influences the nature of political…
S1E2 AI and the Future of Work
In this series, guests from across UCL and beyond share their innovative solutions and ideas for addressing societal challenges, discussing topics from a cross-disciplinary perspective and inspiring…
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