In our final episode of this series, Cassidy and Cerys reflect on some of their favourite interviews. They share updates from guests and discuss the ground-breaking research that has really surprised or changed them in the course of making the podcast.

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…s2-ep11-resolution

This month's episode is about awareness and the activism it can lead to. Join us as we talk to three members of the UCL community who are making meaningful change to combat the problems they have been confronted by. Cassidy spoke with Hope Oloye, a PhD student whose programme Thinking Black is breaking down barriers to higher education, Virginie Le Masson, a geographer working with women across the world to understand the impacts of climate change through a feminist lens, and Emilia Molimpakis, a neuroscientist and entrepreneur who is revolutionising mental health care.

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…eness-and-activism

Music Credits:

Basketliner by Bitters
Sorry Linus by Limoncello
The Onyx by Glass Obelisk

This month we are exploring recovery. As Cassidy has been busy finishing her dissertation, join Cerys as they learn how to recover through stories about long Covid community led research, transformative technology in the NHS, and a memorial garden built by students in the Institute of Education.

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep9-recovery

In this month’s episode of #MadeAtUCL we’re growing. Join us as we explore three unique perspectives on growth and how it can be both a positive and negative concept. We chat with Dr Michelle Heys and Dr Simbarashe Chimhuya and hear about their technical solution to newborn healthcare, with Dr Philip Pogge Von Strandmann about how we can reduce the growing levels of co2 in the atmosphere, and lastly with Dr Seb Coxon to learn how beards of medieval Germany can help us understand masculinity today.

Find out more and listen to the transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep8-growth

In this month's episode of #MadeAtUCL, join us as we explore closeness and how proximity has changed over the past year. From designing new spaces that help us feel close from afar, to how researchers learnt about smartphones by living with their users, to how sounds of the rainforests thousands of miles way can help connect us to nature.

To find our more and access the transcript click here: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…ep7-getting-closer

In this episode, #MadeAtUCL goes to Mars! We hear about the incredible UCL work that is helping to send a Rover (and maybe one day even a person) to the Red Planet as well as what we might find when we get there. 

UCL graduates Cassidy (Host-in-Residence) and Cerys (Series Producer) take you from Earth to Mars.

Guests:

Act 1 - Prof Andrew Coates, Deputy Director (Solar System), at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) talks about the Rosalind Rover that launches to Mars in September 2022 

Act 2 - Prof Ian Crawford, Honorary Senior Research Fellow Dept of Physics & Astronomy, at UCL's Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences talks about possible life on Mars 

Act 3 - Dr Iya Whiteley, a Space Psychologist and the Director of the Centre for Space Medicine at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) on what it takes to be chosen as an astronaut to go to Mars 

In this episode we’re exploring the value of freedom, from the people who found it in the bleakest of circumstances to the ways in which we restrict our own freedom (and the freedom of others) without even realising it. 

Presented and edited by two UCL graduates, Cassidy and Cerys.

Guests:

• Professor Virginia Mantouvalou shares her work on labour laws and explains how our legal system is creating situations that exploit vulnerable people. 
• Dr Sarah J Young describes the experiences of Russian prisoners at Shlissel’burg and the memoirs she used to write her new book. 
• Dr Saheli Datta Burton tells us why we should be sceptical about our smart gadgets.

Save the planet, save lives, save money! Presented and edited by two UCL graduates, Cassidy and Cerys, will take you on a journey from patient to planet.

In this episode we're talking about saving the planet with Professor Mark Maslin, a climate change expert and author of "How to Save the Planet: the Facts". Mr Manish Chand, Associate Professor in Surgery, joins us to discuss how he's using the latest technology to make surgery smarter and less invasive to save lives. We also talk to Dr Dexter Penn, creator of an app that can help identify vulnerable people at risk of being financially abused.

Join Cassidy for April’s podcast which talks about Pain: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Imagine not feeling pain... Or never having to fear visiting the dentist... or being able to communicate pain. Hear about:

- The FAAH-OUT gene discovery and how the latest research is helping people with chronic pain conditions with Dr James Cox (Senior Lecturer and Deputy Graduate Tutor working in the Molecular Nociception Group at the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research)

- Clinical trials in dentistry that may allow for some procedures to be performed without drills or anaesthetic with Prof Anne Young (Professor of Biomaterials at UCL Eastman Dental Institute)

- A novel way of using pictures to communicate pain with Dr Deborah Padfield (a visual artist, Senior Lecturer in Arts & Health Humanities at St George's, University of London and Lecturer (Teaching) at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL).

This month's theme is VOICE. We're finding out how people are regaining their voice after their voice boxes are removed; how a group of LGBTQ + refugees in Brazil are using film to tell their stories; and how health students and advocates are sharing the impact of their work through poetry.

ACT 1 - from 02.28
Prof Evangelos Himonides,
Professor of Technology, Education, and Music, UCL Institute of Education
www.shoutatcancer.org/

ACT 2 - from 11.22
Dieter Deswarte, Senior Teaching Fellow in Ethnographic and Documentary Film, UCL Department of Anthropology
yarrowfilms.co.uk/2020/07/31/hazte-sentir/

ACT 3 - from 20.32
Sarah Wong, Student, UCL Medicine
Jamie Hale, Student, UCL Arts & Humanities
Anna Vignola, Student, Yale School of Medicine

Presented by Cassidy Martin and edited by Cerys Bradley