Life Solved

Can you imagine living at the foot of a volcano, or in the path of extreme storms? Plenty of communities around the world live with the potential of a natural disaster taking place on home turf. That’s why early warning systems and robust research can make the difference between life and death.

In this episode of Life Solved, Dr Carmen Solana shares her experiences of researching hurricanes and lava flow, and interpreting the data to work hand in hands with communities at threat.

We hear how natural disasters can impact the lives and livelihoods of entire communities, and how she’s making a difference to policy through community engagement, collaboration and real-world research.

Having grown up on a small island, Dr Solana knows first hand the importance of an effective emergency response in such communities and she explains her work in Dominica in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Points of Interest:

Dr Carmen Solana at the University of Portsmouth

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/carmen-solana(f919de85-8f82-4407-81c5-d727187f7dfd).html

Hurricane Maria

https://edition.cnn.com/specials/weather/hurricane-maria

Impacts of Hurricane Maria – a story map

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=1e00e4e583e64e81abfeda587973b97f

How Dominica is working to become the world’s first ‘hurricane proof country’

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dominica-on-track-to-be-worlds-first-climate-resilient-nation

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Ever wondered what it’s like inside the mind of a burglar? Professor Claire Nee from the University of Portsmouth explains how she’s been watching crime in action to demystify the criminal mind.

Professor Nee’s research watches offenders re-enact their crimes in a virtual reality environment to learn about the unconscious processes behind their choices. The idea is that burglars are ‘experts’ in what they do, and by making observations of them at work, we can pre-empt behaviour and help prevent future crimes.

Find out about the moral codes the team observed, and hear how they’re using their research to work with insurance and PR companies to help raise our awareness and keep homes and businesses safe.

You can find out more about the Department of Psychology here –

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/organisational-structure/our-academic-structure/faculty-of-science-and-health/department-of-psychology

Professor Claire Nee at the University of Portsmouth –

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/claire-nee

Using simulated environments to understand criminal decision-making - published in “Property Crime: Criminological and Psychological Perspectives” - https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/using-simulated-environments-to-understand-offender-decision-making(5a8aa6ef-d6f7-4870-b05c-0c1e1688aa00).html

https://www.routledge.com/Property-Crime-Criminological-and-Psychological-Perspectives-1st-Edition/Burrell-Tonkin/p/book/9781138632479

Using virtual reality in criminological research - https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40163-014-0010-5

Tips to secure your home against thieves - https://www.churchill.com/home-insurance/magazine/home-burglary

https://www.churchill.com/home-insurance/tips/home-security-tips-video

How to prevent a burglary - https://crimestoppers-uk.org/keeping-safe/home-property-safety/burglary

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In the case of major incidents such as terrorism, other crimes or an accident, emergency services rush to respond and save lives. But in this episode of Life Solved, we find out how the stress and pace of high-risk scenarios can influence the behaviour and memories of witnesses to such incidents.

Professor Becky Milne and her colleagues at the University of Portsmouth know this kind of witness experience, and the way in which interviews are conducted, can make a big difference to the evidence gathered. That’s essential in preventing further crime and seeking justice.

Becky applies her innovative research working with emergency responders, from paramedics to police investigators, to call-handling in control rooms. She explains how the important psychological insights gathered from incidents such as the 2017 London Bridge Terror Attack have led her to develop a more effective evidence-gathering system, hand in hand with forces.

Professor Becky Milne –

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/becky-milne(0f17f52d-9921-45f6-95fb-ddefa065cb4a).html

Interviewing witnesses on the front line - https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/projects/promoting-justice-professionalising-frontline-policing-with-an-evidencebased-structured-interview-protocol(cea8e2b4-202a-4518-8bb7-cc7017e9335f).html

Centre for forensic interviewing - https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/centre-of-forensic-interviewing

 Emotional Intelligence in police interviews - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/77048632.pdf

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Your shopping habits, buying choices and the clothes you wear be impacting human rights, the environment and our supplies of finite resources.

The fashion industry cannot continue to operate the way it currently does.

In this episode of Life Solved, Dr Elaine Igoe shares stories from her innovative fashion design, community and sustainable production projects at the University of Portsmouth. April is host to Fashion Revolution Week, a global initiative that sees industries and academia unite to share knowledge and address critical problems in fashion.

We also hear from Leila Choukroune, Professor of International Law, on human rights in fashion supply chains. Dr Matthew Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics, highlights some exciting new business models and market opportunities emerging within the circular economy. And Rory Miles from the Centre for Enzyme Innovation tells us how new technology might help break down unrecyclable waste materials left over from years of fast-fashion.

Points of Interest

Join the Fashion Revolution – what is fashion revolution week? – 19th – 15th April

https://www.fashionrevolution.org

https://twitter.com/fash_rev

#fashionrevolutionweek

Dr Elaine Igoe -

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/elaine-igoe(614b1456-3559-4095-b881-a487094f42da).html

Teaching upcycling of clothes: design-led upcycling

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/commoning-situated-knowledge-coteachingandlearning-the-designled-upcycling-of-waste-clothing(f458b05d-de0a-4045-802e-c27a3338384a).html

Professor Leila Choukroune

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/leila-choukroune(7525fbb4-42ef-4ecd-ab43-28ae4f930bc6).html

Dr Matthew Anderson - https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/matthew-anderson(59631060-d00d-4d08-8f7a-d38c55b539c8)/publications.html

Rapanui operates on an open source digital platform called Teemill, where you can make and sell T-shirts online –

https://rapanuiclothing.com/

https://teemill.com

Rory Miles – https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/rory-miles(b31b73b7-90cc-4894-a09f-105557680135).html

Engineering plastic-eating Enzymes at the University of Portsmouth –

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Death and bereavement are natural life experiences, but how is our approach to education and communication letting young people down?

In this episode of Life Solved from the University of Portsmouth, Dr Sukhbinder Hamilton shares her latest research findings on how higher education students are reluctant to seek support for grief.

She challenges often unconscious taboo messaging in the way we relate and communicate with bereaved individuals and asks how we can better serve people at every stage of development – and every corner of society.

Sukh draws on her personal grief and experiences working in primary schools to propose how we can normalise experiences of bereavement and lift the taboo. It’s her hope that by sharing vital tools and communication, children can develop emotional literacy over important life events from a young age, minimising the negative impacts upon education and opportunity later in life.

Points of Interest

Dr Sukh Hamilton - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/sukhbinder-hamilton

How children learn to talk about loss -

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/young-people-voice-loss-narratives-and-the-development-of-emotional-literacies(eed7768d-e1cb-439c-bcb7-0974f1bc7117).html

How to support bereaved children and young people - https://www.childbereavementuk.org/supporting-bereaved-children-and-young-people

NHS how to support children in grief -

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/children-and-young-adults/advice-for-parents/children-and-bereavement/

Grief and bereavement in young adults – help

https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/feelings-and-symptoms/grief-and-loss/

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Throughout history, vulnerable young people suffering with trauma have been dismissed as 'beyond help' or simply too badly behaved by the institutions charged with their care.

In this episode of Life Solved from the University of Portsmouth, we hear how this bias is still denying many the ongoing support needed to overcome childhood disadvantage. Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten explains how her research into history and present day case notes for vulnerable children has revealed where institutions are failing young people, particularly when it comes to meeting the needs of different cultures. She also explains how different local organisations are coming together to address this.

Dr Sims-Schouten also explains how the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted and exacerbated deficits in existing support services, and tells us about her work to tackle some of these problems in partnership with government, councils, charities and other researchers in the field.

Points of Interest:

Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten, Associate Professor in Childhood Studies - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/wendy-sims-schouten

The MICE hub - http://micehub.port.ac.uk

Safeguarding and Mental Health Support in Contemporary Childhood - https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/safeguarding-and-mental-health-support-in-contemporary-childhood-how-the-deservingundeserving-paradigm-from-the-past-overshadows-the-present(acd32761-5b4f-4aec-8dc6-add1e9791ac9).html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31177068/

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Wellcome Trust Funding – Mental Health in Childhood Outline - https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/directories/research-bursaries-people-weve-funded

“Children and young people living in families where the experiences of the previous lockdown may have been particularly difficult and challenging will require additional and targeted support with their mental health and wellbeing, especially in light of a new more restricted lockdown”

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-pms-announcement-of-national-lockdown/

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Murals, music, comic books and theatre: could art be the gateway to saving lives and tackling world problems?

Find out how a University of Portsmouth collaboration is using art as the conduit for vital public health messaging around the world.

Today, Dr Cressida Bowyer and Dr Louis Netter explain the mission of ACT Nairobi: Action Against Covid Transmission, a project created to share health and wellbeing information through community art projects in the midst of the global pandemic.

Hear how the team worked with community champions – from educators to religious leaders and artists – to express the importance of hand washing and wearing face masks whilst learning about the challenges facing a settlement in Nairobi.

They also share how their innovative interdisciplinary approach could be implemented to tackle problems such as plastic and air pollution from within the communities hit hardest by these global issues.

Points of Interest

Find out more about ACT Nairobi here - https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-projects/act-nairobi

And watch some of their creative outputs on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZtlOyqClKo-6GREa5m1HOQ

Creative Partner: Mukuru Youth Initiative: http://www.mukuruyi.org/muyi/

Dr Cressida Bowyer - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/cressida-bowyer

Dr Louis Netter - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/louis-netter

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What do you call the academic study of fandom? Comic book and cult TV fans are known for their inventive collective nouns, but what about the academics that are studying their behaviour?

In this episode of Life Solved, Professor Lincoln Geraghty introduces us to the Aca-fans: the academics who are researching the (often positive) social impact of fandom on communities and individuals. This new breed of researcher builds a bridge between fan communities and academia.

Professor Geragthy has been studying the subcultures that arise from forums, conventions, criticism and social networks around a subject. He says that far from the nerdy stereotype, the professional nature of some fan communities provides a nuanced contribution to society, through the formation of support networks, reflection upon modern history and contribution current cultural debates.

Points of Interest

Professor Lincoln Geraghty - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/lincoln-geraghty

Pokemon Go and fandom - https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/popular-culture/what-pokemon-go-and-its-online-community-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown-show-us-about-fandom

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonchandler/2020/06/02/coronavirus-boosts-pokmon-go-spending-by-70-as-gamers-play-inside/?sh=40ef14501994

Pokemon Go - https://pokemongolive.com/en/

What is an aca-fan? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1469540515623608

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Acafan

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How do unconscious language choices in media reporting contribute to the social inequality of women? And how does the language of online Incel – or involuntary celibate - groups leave participants more likely to engage in hate speech towards women?

In this episode of Life Solved, Dr Alessia Tranchese explains how she has examined the linguistics of different media to uncover the hidden violent and misogynistic narratives in our society. She’s also been volunteering with crisis centres and activists to understand the impact of pervasive linguistic inequalities upon social justice for those who have experienced rape and sexual violence.

Dr Tranchese and her team are raising questions about how big media and the law can participate in a progressive language to promote a safer, more just world for women.

Find out about her work at the University of Portsmouth in today’s episode.

Points of Interest:

Decoding the Language of Violence against women -https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/decoding-the-language-of-violence-against-women(815c4ff8-f751-42f6-a8e2-4a255147de0c).html

Investigating Extreme Incel Misogyny online - https://bcuassets.blob.core.windows.net/docs/Tranchese.pdf

The Me Too Movement

https://metoomvmt.org

The Jimmy Savile Enquiry-

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/25/jimmy-savile-report-key-points-janet-smith-inquiry-bbc

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Dr Alessia Tranchese - https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/alessia-tranchese(3e349e11-c452-483f-b46a-8671595419ed).html

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In this episode of Life Solved from the University of Portsmouth, we hear how the work of Professor Gordon Blunn and his team is revolutionising the way artificial limbs and joint replacements are integrated with the human body.

Using 3D printing technology, Professor Blunn explains how this smart design can tackle the challenges of worn, ill-fitting or uncomfortable prostheses.

His work with young people suffering from bone cancer has helped him understand why it’s so important to find long-lasting implants that create a comfortable and adaptable solution for our changing bodies.

Hear about this truly life-changing innovation in this episode of Life Solved from the University of Portsmouth.

Points of Interest:

Follow our latest research- https://www.port.ac.uk/research

Professor Gordon Blunn – https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/gordon-blunn

https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/bjj/author-feature/author-feature-gordon-blunn-february-2017

Blood glue https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-development-of-a-novel-autologous-blood-glue-aiming-to-improve-osseointegration-in-the-boneimplant-interface(19f424e2-3efa-49a0-b178-dbe38146ffaa).html

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