Scholars in Spotlight

Scholars in Spotlight

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Scholars in Spotlight episodes

  • Lost Voices of our Realities - Part Two - GBF

    Alex Pheby is a British author and academic. His second novel, Playthings, was described as “the best neuro-novel ever written" in Literary Review.
    We talked about the importance of fiction and its impact in world. The variable subjective realities and what are some ways we can have enriching experience of self.
    Books:
    Mordew
    Playthings
    Lucia

    25 min
  • Lost Voices of our Realities - Part One - GBF

    Alex Pheby is a British author and academic. His second novel, Playthings, was described as “the best neuro-novel ever written" in Literary Review.
    We talked about the importance of fiction and its impact in world. The variable subjective realities and what are some ways we can have enriching experience of self.
    Books:
    Mordew
    Playthings
    Lucia

    33 min
  • Food, Life and Sustainability

    In this podcast Seb Alex shared his views on what he has found useful to be a way of living when it comes to eating food and his journey into being a Vegan. We also talked about industrialisation of life forms as lifeless products.

    Seb Alex is an Animal Rights activism & vegan educator - In this podcast we talked about the food we eat and one of the views on sustainability of our species and what we consider others.

    Img credit: markhensonart.com 

    1 hr 7 min
  • The Pearls of Our Sanity


    Simon Ruffell graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Sheffield before specialising in psychiatry. He has an interest in transcultural psychiatry, working overseas in Northern Uganda. He has a special interest in psychedelic research, namely ayahuasca and has spent the last three years conducting research into the use of ayahuasca in a traditional, shamanistic setting in the Peruvian Amazon.

    IMG Credit: Mark Henson 

    1 hr 17 min
  • Circle of History and Legacy of Empires

    Michael's work examines a number of topics in Ottoman history from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, with a general interest in Ottoman relations and interactions with the wider world.

    Photo Credit: Leslie MacDonald Gill, Cable & Wireless Great Circle Map, 1946

    43 min
  • Solving Inequality in UK - On Creating Systems Based on Intentions of Equality and Growth

    Özlem has shared with us the research project  showing the effects of gender inequality, wages, wealth concentration and fiscal policy on macroeconomic performance in the UK.

    We talked about the important of including ecological aspects of our planet in policy making and how to rethink of investing in social infrastructural so that topics of sensitive nature can be resolved and that could lead towards the growth without disparity for particular groups.

    These findings will also be presented at an international conference on 14 October 5.00 pm at Greenwich.

    A_Policy_Mix_for_Equitable_Sustainable_Development_in_the_UK 2019

    image-credit: RSA| Michael Sandel
    41 min
  • Greenwich - The Story of Voyage and Discovery

    Book: Mathematics at the Meridian: The History of Mathematics at Greenwich
    We talked about the time itself and the rich heritage of greenwich and its connection with the stars through royal observatory. Historical realities of gender and race in past at our institutes in the era of great expanse. Using Math as an industrialised tool to homogenize perspectives and intelligence in future generations.

    57 min
  • Mathematics - The Poetry of Science

    We talked about the connection between purity and abstraction. How mathematics can help brain by providing tools for navigating the spirals of life.  Can mathematics be helpful when discussing freewill. 

    57 min
  • Frontier of Psychedelic Renaissance - Research & DMT

    You can check out his research publication Click here:
    Book - DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule

    David is a leading researcher on psychology of exceptional human experience and looks into the nature of altering human consciousness.
    His work cover the parapsychology and mysteries of psychedelic plants.


    We talked about the importance of psychedelic research and its impacts. Stories of apparent inter-species interaction and what we might find if we honestly look inside the mind of a life-form which originated from the heart of a dying star. 

    1 hr 29 min

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