Beyond Boundaries

What role can therapy and counselling play in improving our lives?

Tamsin and Swathi hear from Liga Sparite, a counsellor, a tutor on the University of Aberdeen’s postgraduate counselling programme, and an Aberdeen alumna. Liga shares her own transformative journey, and explains how person-centred counselling can help both counsellor and client to more fully understand and empathise with themselves and others.

Learn more about studying at the University of Aberdeen, and find a prospectus here.

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Beyond Boundaries is produced for the University of Aberdeen by Bespoken Media.

Aberdeen's archaeologists are racing to uncover secrets from a mysterious Pictish fort, before they are lost forever to climate change.

Coastal erosion and rising sea levels mean parts of the clifftop site in Morayshire is increasingly at risk of falling into the sea.

Tamsin and Swathi meet Prof Gordon Noble, part of the team leading the Northern Picts project dig at Burghead.

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Travelling overseas for cut-price dental work - gleaming white veneers and 'reality TV'-style overlays - is increasingly common.

However, hundreds of UK dentists have reported treated patients with serious complications after they've returned home from receiving cosmetic dentistry.

In this edition of Beyond Bourdaries, the head of Aberdeen's Institute for Dentistry Prof Khaled Khalaf shares his thoughts on risks and considerations of so called 'Turkey teeth' with Tamsin and Swathi .

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Have you ever wondered why immigration is such a contentious issue when it's discussed in the news or on social media?

Part of Dr Nour Halabi's work at Aberdeen is to help students understand how to think critically about what they read, hear and watch.

Nour is an interdisciplinary fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and the author of Radical Hospitality. She explores the role and impact of the media in our everyday lives – particularly when it comes to conversations about immigration and refugees.

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The world's combined healthcare systems contribute 5% of emitted greenhouse gases.

If global healthcare was a country, it would rank as the world's fifth biggest greenhouse gas emitter.

In this episode, Tamsin and Swathi hear what is being done at Aberdeen and elsewhere to improve this situation - with Dr Laura McCrimmon, a junior doctor and expert on sustainable healthcare.

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When you shop for new clothes, do you ever think about the working conditions of people in the garment factories where they are made?

Muhammed Azizul Islam - who goes by Aziz - is a professor in Aberdeen's Business School.

He grew up around garment factories in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, and now works on finding ways to make things more equitable for workers. His specialism is in Sustainability Accounting.

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There is so much we still don't understand about life under the waves - yet the race is well underway to install infrastructure and machines to harness offshore wind and tidal energy.

Professor Beth Scott has spent her entire life studying (and playing in) the sea, and has an important role advising on the ecological impact of offshore energy installations.

Where better to study marine ecology than with Beth in the world-famous port city of Aberdeen, on the North Sea's rugged and windswept coast?

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Aberdeen, Europe's energy capital, is at the forefront of developing sustainable energy

systems to help fight climate change.

Studying here will put you at the heart of a network of real-world projects including

water electrolysis to generate hydrogen energy, using AI to make energy systems

more efficient, and so much more.

Senior lecture in engineering Dr Alfonso Martinez-Felipe tells Tamsin and Swathi about the

opportunities presented by the push for net zero - not just for engineers, but

across subjects and disciplines.

Learn more about studying at the University of Aberdeen, and find a prospectus here.

Protein supplements, performance shakes, isotonic powders... there are so many expensive things you can buy to support your gym routine.

But do any of them actually do anything useful?

This episode is for regular gym-goers and high-performance athletes alike, as we go beyond boundaries of sport and nutrition with Dr Derek Ball, until recently the Head of Sports Science at the University of Aberdeen.

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You might think artificial intelligence - or AI - is a relatively modern concept, but the science goes back to World War 2, and a remarkable British mathematician Alan Turing.

Who better to introduce us to the history of AI, than Aberdeen's Interdisciplinary Director for Data and AI, Georgios Leontidis.

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