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Is it a good idea to do a PhD while being a parent, or to become a parent while doing a PhD? In this month's episode, we escalate the question of how to balance PhD life and personal life by hearing experiences of parenting while being a doctoral student.

About the guests:

Miho Zlazli is a doctoral student at the Department of Linguistics at SOAS:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miho_Zlazli

Dr Claudia Prieto Piastro completed her PhD at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at King's College London: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/claudia-prieto-piastro(80c6c32c-67b8-48cb-bab2-8b543cd0d96a).html

Find out more about her work as a food anthropologist and her cooking lessons:

https://piastrokitchen.com/

https://www.facebook.com/PiastroMexicanKitchen/

The Dust of Cairo

Urban echoes wants to share the voices of London that are often drowned out by the hustle and bustle of the big city. By sharing honest, intimate and uncensored portraits of London’s souls, this podcast aims at discovering, and connecting the life bubbles shaping our big and sometimes anonymous cosmopolis.

In this first episode, an anonymous speaker walks us through East London and shares what has been lost, or found back from a missed Egypt in his daily life in London.

Songs:

Kokoroko – Abusay Junction/We Out Here

Hamzam Namira /Dari Ya Alby

Kadim al-Saher / Ahebini

PhD students are increasingly encouraged to disseminate their research to the wider public, but it can be tricky to know where to begin and how to do so effectively. In this month's episode, we talk about why public engagement is important, and explore different avenues to communicate with audiences beyond academia.

About the guests:

Alexandra Bulat is completing her PhD at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/politics-and-sociology-research-students-folder/alexandra-bulat

Carl Truedsson is a PhD candidate in Human Geography & Urban Studies at the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment: http://www.lse.ac.uk/geography-and-environment/people/phd-students/carl-truedsson

A podcast on consent. Straightforward, right? With more and more cases of harassment and rape going public, the conversation seems to have found a wider platform. How come that harassments of different kinds are still the norm in most societies? What leads to survivors being blamed? What different and intersecting power dynamics are at play? These are only some of the questions we will be asking in this podcast. We aim to stir this conversation in a direction that takes radical approaches examining gendered, sexualised and racialised interactions.

Please comment below to let us know your opinion, and email us for any inquiries.

More than 1 billion people are estimated to be migrants, living either inside or outside their country of birth. Since an influx of Syrian refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, the question of dealing with migrants and asylum seekers has dominated Western headlines. Although net migration in Europe has declined, anti-migration rhetoric persists and has provoked political instability in countries such as Germany and Spain. What’s more, US President, Donald Trump, has drawn ire for his ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards irregular immigration. This podcast explores why migration remains such a hot-button issue, and the work of the London International Development Centre Migration Leadership Team (MLT), which has been formed by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council. The speakers are Professor Kavita Datta, Professor of Development Geography at Queen Mary University of London and co-Investigator on the MLT, and Jenny Allsopp, Postdoctoral Fellow on the MLT.

This podcast is a dramatisation based on the account of a 21-year old woman called Almaz. In 2014, Almaz was living in a women's refuge in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she was recovering from her ordeal working as a domestic maid in Saudi Arabia and told us her story.

Almaz represents the story of thousands of African and Asian migrant workers trapped in abusive and exploitative situations across the Gulf. The true story of one woman reveals the experience that far too many domestic workers endure, depicting the systematic lack of protection for workers throughout the recruitment and migration cycle. Almaz amplifies the hundreds of stories silenced and the experiences of countless workers made invisible.

Comic: positivenegatives.org/comics-animati…2/almaz-story/

Written and produced by Caroline Bolster and Miia Laine

Almaz voiced by Hanisha Solomon

Music by Joe Smith

A SOAS Radio & PositiveNegatives Production.

This episode is a companion piece to the previous podcast where we interviewed Wonde Nevens and Gavin Price. In this episode Verity, Wonde and Gavin speak to Dr. Stuart Murray, from Bond University, Australia. The three guests discuss Stuart’s new book which represents five years of work around the area and paradigms connected to sports diplomacy. Wonde and Gavin ask Stuart how his book connects to the current sport diplomacy and governance issues that have played out in 2018.

More information on Wonde and Gavin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wonde-nevens-23549097/

https://twitter.com/GavinMPrice

https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff121848.php

Stuart Murray

https://twitter.com/StuarMurray

https://www.routledge.com/Sports-Diplomacy-Origins-Theory-and-Practice/Murray/p/book/9780815356905

​For information on SOAS sport and governance:

www.soas.ac.uk/sport-diplomacy-and-governance/

For information on the next event at SOAS around the 2019 Japan Rugby World Cup:

https://www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/events/jrc-sport-symposia-series/20sep2018-countdown-to-kickoff-japans-rugby-history-one-year-out-from-the-2019-rugby-world-cup.html

In this episode, we interviewed Maryka Holtzhausen, a Vitality Netball Super League player from South Africa. A netball fanatic, Maryka, has just finished her first season at the Severn Stars franchise and has 98 caps for South Africa, playing in three Commonwealth Games and two Netball World Cups.

Maryka speaks to SOAS teaching fellow Verity Postlethwaite about her career inside and outside of netball, especially, experiences living and playing elite netball globally.

More information on Maryka and Severn Stars:

https://twitter.com/marykaholtz

https://www.severnstars.co.uk/

​For information on SOAS sport and governance:

www.soas.ac.uk/sport-diplomacy-and-governance/

Why is it important to talk about mental health as PhD students? In this month’s episode of The Impostors, we discuss this question from a UK and cross-cultural perspective, reflecting on the mental health challenges many of us face in the pursuit of a doctorate, and also sharing advice on how to help ourselves and others.

About the guests:

Liana Chase is completing her PhD at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff132223.php

Laura Hamilton is a PhD student based at UCL’s Department of Social Sciences and the Thomas Coram Research Unit: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura_Hamilton8

In this episode of The Impostors we look back to the different rites of passage we have to go through as PhD students; from the first year upgrade, to the submission of the thesis, to the viva. Are rites of passage useful to think about, or are these just bureaucratic formalities? And how do we get ourselves through it all? Here is some great advice from people that have been (almost!) through it all.

About the guests:

Dr Rebecca Bradshaw completed her PhD in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS last year, and will be graduating this summer. For more about her research and current adventures: http://chicons.academia.edu/RebeccaBradshaw

Thomas van der Molen has just submitted his thesis in Anthropology at SOAS, and is awaiting to have his viva: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff89875.php