Diss and That

Diss and That

By Angus MitchellEducation
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Diss and That episodes

  • Diss and That: Impartiality and Artificial Intelligence in TV

    On this episode, I speak with Harvey Church, who did his degree in Broadcast and Communications Engineering at Birmingham City University with an attachment at the BBC.

    The title of his dissertation is ‘Can you automatically generate statistics for the political and gender representation in a TV Programme?'.


    35 min
  • Diss and That: An interview with the Queen of the Amazons

    On This week of Diss and That I'm joined by Hippolyta - the legendary Queen of the Amazons as featured in Homer’s Iliad and epic tales of Hercules and Theseus….


    Well.. I'm not… but its the next best thing.


    Sophie Dibben studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin and has a rather unique dissertation. Sophie mocked up an interview with the Warrior Queen to wade through the male view of the Amazons and why the myth and reality is so intertwined.


    The title of her dissertation…


    'The Amazons; constructed by Greco-Roman men to be

    sexualised and killed'



    42 min
  • Diss and That: Understanding Deep Space Galaxies

    On this week of Diss and That my old flat mate Anna Thomas tries to teach me all about the properties of Deep Space Galaxies….. 

    Anna is currently studying her PhD in Astro Physics at UCL but on this episode we discussed her masters that she studied at Cardiff. 

    the title of her dissertation was: Deriving the Intrinsic Properties of Gravitationally Lensed Submillimeter Galaxies.


    39 min
  • Diss and That: The Rhetoric of Donald Trump 2016-2020

    This week on Diss and That I'm joined by Ollie Lewis from Edinburgh University.

    Ollie has recently made the news being a spokesperson for students affected by marking boycotts as part of ongoing industrial action. His dissertation may not be marked until November. We’ll talk about all that and why Ollie has hit the headlines..But what he wasn't asked about during his appearance on the Today programme is What his dissertation was all about.. That's where I come in.

    Ollie studied Politics at Edinburgh and the title of his dissertation is: “Our country’s in deep trouble”: Status threat as a component in the election campaign discourse of Donald Trump.


    37 min
  • Diss and That: Status threat as a component in the election campaign discourse of Donald Trump.
    This week I'm joined by Ollie Lewis from Edinburgh University. Ollie has recently made the news being a spokesperson for students affected by marking boycotts as part of ongoing industrial action. We’ll talk about all that and why Ollie has hit the headlines, but the main reason he's on the podcast is to discuss the topic of his dissertation...Not the news surrounding it. Ollie studied Politics at Edinburgh and the title of his dissertation is:
    “Our country’s in deep trouble”: Status threat as a component in the election campaign discourse of Donald Trump.
    37 min
  • Diss and That Ep.10 'Women and Veiling in Ancient Greece'

    In this episode, Angus is joined by acclaimed author and academic Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. They discuss Lloyd's Ph.D. thesis that was complete in 2000 titled 'Women and Veiling in Ancient Greece'. Lloyd also discusses the jump from a Ph.D. thesis to his career in teaching and writing professionally. 

    54 min

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Diss and That is a podcast series where Angus talks to students past and present all about their dissertations. It doesn't seem right that you put hours of your life into such interesting topics for…