This episode launches a mini-series inspired by COP26 and is co-hosted with Prof Andy Miah and Marta Strzelecka, who works within our sustainability team. Today, we speak to Michael Brown, our Director of Strategic Partnerships who has been spearheading many of our COP26 collaborations and who talks passionately about how much Salford does in this area and how we've been working towards sustainability for a number of years.

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Today, we speak to Professor Will Swan about sustainability, energy, and where we're taking the world through seeking research led green solutions. Will has been spearheading our Energy House 2.0, a remarkable new facility at the University of Salford, bringing unparalleled capabilities to simulated climate conditions that help us understand how we can achieve better energy solutions for everyone. We also ask Prof Swan what he wants from policy makers, as we move towards COP26.

There are many pathways into research and, in this episode, Research Assistant Robyn McCarthy from the School of Health and Society, speaks passionately about how working with a pioneering multidisciplinary public health research team examining Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders demands sensitivity to participant lives, openness, agility, patience, and a real commitment to public wellness. 

This week, we talk to Prof Joe Sweeney, the new Dean of Science, Engineering and Environment, about how to maintain momentum in research for the long term. One of the gems from this conversation is Joe's insight into the importance of changing direction as a researcher, when everything isn't going to plan. 

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Presented by Prof Andy Miah

This week, we hear from Dr Hurley, who is based in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology and is Salford University's outgoing Director of the Doctoral School. We speak about the importance of failure in the research process and how our personal narrative around our research shapes its direction.

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This episode features Dr Scott Thurston from the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology and it's a really fascinating insight into how arts schools have pioneered practice as research, bringing more creative pursuits into our research culture. 

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How do the media affect how we think, behave, and make sense of the world? Dr Sharon Coen is a psychologist from the School of Health and Society and, in this episode, we learn about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected political activism, the importance of media psychology to help us understand societal change, and how the challenge of communicating climate science is critical to ensure.

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In this episode, Prof Vadera discusses the history of computer science at Salford University and his role in developing research projects that are intimately connected to the lives of small and medium sized enterprises and what we need to ensure that the future of computing stays focused on what people value.

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Presented by Professor Andy Miah

#RePod is the University of Salford's research podcast and our episodes cover the entire breadth of our research activity. Find out about the lives of the researchers behind the research and how many ways there are to make it into a research career.

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Dr Sarah Withers is part of the Biomedical Research Centre in the School of Science, Engineering and Environment and has the unique role of also working with the Salford Royal Hospital to develop the science behind understanding obesity. 

Find out how Dr Withers' clinical research, in partnership with the Blackpool Foundation Trust, is developing a greater understanding of how cardiac surgery impacts patients with obesity and how our work in biomedical research is leading to collaborations across the science and health schools at Salford University.

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