This is an introduction to highlights from Synergies Podcast, brought to you by UCL Grand Challenges and Public Policy, where academics from different disciplines join on a single project.

Wonders of the Cosmos tells the story of a joint UCL project asking whether humanities and physics can identify the wonders of the cosmos.

Presenter - Sue Nelson

Liveable Cities tells the story of UCL engineering and psychology academics working together to define what makes a liveable city.

Presenter - Sue Nelson

Computer Science and anthropology align in a joint UCL project which works with locals in the Congo basin to map their own forest.

Presenter - Sue Nelson

Intensive Emergency Medical Consultant Professor Hugh Montgomery and Climate Systems Dynamics Professor Peter Cox join Natasha Maw to discuss their cross disciplinary work on the Lancet Climate Health Commission report.

Presenter - Natasha Maw

Sue Nelson talks to two UCL academics who joined forces to work on a project studying objects in the Galton Collection for 100 hours.

Synergies is an essential guide to what happens when academics reach out beyond their discipline to answer complex, real world problems, in the same field but with different approaches - to explore the possibilities of an interdisciplinary world.  Synergies is brought to you by UCL Grand Challenges and UCL Public Policy.