ResearchPod

The government of Malaysia has set a target of making Malaysia a regional hub for startups by 2025. As of 2022, there were approximately 3,000 active startups in Malaysia, a stark increase from around 300 in 2013. However, whilst 30% of Malaysian startups have displayed consistent growth and profitability, about 1,800 startups struggle, with a 60% failure rate, especially within the first three years. The failure is majorly attributed to lack of market need affecting 42% or approximately 756 startups. How can universities provide a more robust route to market and accelerate a culture of research incubation and support for entrepreneurs?

Featuring Ts. Mohd Roydean Osman (Taylors University) and Simon Bond (University of Bristol)
 

Find out more about the 'Open for Business' podcast series. 

Malaysia welcomes far more international students than any other country in SE Asia, yet it is losing talent faster than most with its brightest minds leaving the country to pursue careers overseas. 

With Malaysia’s Higher Education Plan due to expire in 2025, this episode sets the scene for a series of podcasts that will explore how universities could turn the situation around – particularly the role supercomputers, spin outs and a more porous campus could play in reshaping the sector to position the country as an attractive option for students, researchers, workers and business. 


Featuring Prof Evelyn Welch (University of Bristol) and Andrew Sheng.

Find out more about the 'Open for Business' podcast series. 

As the rate of climate events increases, how do businesses respond, adapt and keep their staff safe?

In this episode of Responsible Business: Leading the Way, Professor Veronica Hope Hailey, Dean of the University of Bristol Business School is joined by Sarah Kenny, CEO of BMT to discuss how businesses rise to modern challenges.

Find out more - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/campaigns/responsible-business

The psychological contract has changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, with the balance of power swinging towards the employee.

In this episode, Professor Veronica Hope Hailey and her guest, Jane Cathrall, Executive Director, People Directorate at the Bank of England, discuss how leaders should respond to the new challenges of engaging employees and creating a sense of ‘community’ around work.

Find out more:  https://www.bristol.ac.uk/campaigns/responsible-business/

Cabot Institute for the Environment scientists, Dr Gemma Coxon and Dr Ross Woods, highlight some surprising facts about the water system and how nature based solutions to drought and floods may not serve the purpose we want, especially if implemented without sufficient prior research.

Professor Susan Parnell, who researches the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in African cities, talks to Bristol City Council's Allan Macleod about how the SDGs are implemented in the city of Bristol and what can be learned at the local scale in order to make global progress on the Goals.

Cabot Institute for the Environment's Professor Rich Pancost and Roger Griffith MBE discuss "Power of People in climate action". Rapper and songwriter Consensus share a captivating interpretation of the conversation.

This discussion covers the power of people, words and cultural change in the climate crisis and how community engagement and empowering communities will help us all. 

Cabot Institute for the Environment experts Dr Kate Hendry and Dr Laurence Publicover discuss "the Ocean Floor: An alien commons?" 

Geochemist Dr Kate Hendry and Dr Laurence Publicover, a senior lecturer in English, have been working closely together on ocean floor research. Listen to this fascinating conversation on how their two differing forms of research can come together to help understand more about our ocean floor and it's important relationship to the climate crisis. In this podcast, we gain their expertise on the subject and hear about their research journeys.

Read their collaborative pieces here:

The Invisibility of the Sea – Brigstow Institute (bristol.ac.uk)

Unless we regain our historic awe of the deep ocean, it will be plundered (theconversation.com)

Kate's current project links:

Isotope CYcling in the LABrador Sea (wordpress.com)

BIOPOLE – Biogeochemical processes and ecosystem function in changing polar systems and their global impacts

Laurence's research:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/699622

Shipboard Literary Cultures | SpringerLink

Laurence's up-and-coming play:

https://www.re-versetheatre.com/hamlet-voyage.

Cabot Institute for the Environment experts Professor Dale Southerton and Professor Valeska Ting discuss "a whole systems approach to net zero".

Engineer Dr Valeska Ting and social scientist Professor Dale Southerton are two academics from completely different disciplines, both working on net zero. In this episode they meet each other for the first time to discuss their net zero research problems and learn quite quickly the benefits of interdisciplinary working and how they can work together to solve them.