Gardening is an age-old pastime, but what can it teach primary school students? This week, Kate Johnson and Lucile Leveque talk to some of the children at Moonah Primary who are cooking and gardening their way to a greater understanding of food, biology, sustainability, and so much more in their school garden.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Hosts: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys) and Lucile Leveque (@lucile_leveque)

Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)

Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys) and Meredith Castles (@MeredithCastles)

The Southern Ocean is not bound by any continent, so how do bushfires from Australia influence marine productivity 1000s of kilometres offshore? This week Olly Dove and Mibu Fischer had a chat with Jake Weis about the role of deserts and fire in phytoplankton production.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Olly Dove (@olsdove)

Co-Host: Mibu Fischer (@miburose)

Production: Sarah Lyden

Media & Promotion:  Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics) , Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), (Mibu Fischer @miburose)

“Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day.”

But what if it doesn’t? From flood prevention to water supply in drought conditions, hydrology and hydraulics protect and help us every day, yet most of the engineering work behind them remains under-appreciated or unnoticed.

Join Niamh and Olly as they learn from professional engineer Alice Hines about the ways that water management affects our everyday life and chat about the low numbers of women in engineering.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Dr Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)

Co-host: Olly Dove (@littledove440)

Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)

Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose)

Citizen Science is the new hotness that explores how ‘non-experts’ can research alongside scientists. ‘Big data’ means there is now more data than can humanly (and computationally) be processed by experts alone. 

This week, Niamh and Meredith speak to Criminology lecturer Dr Vicky Nagy about her use of Citizen Science to help process the massive amount of historical crime data, simultaneously increasing student engagement in the data and providing transcription services to the archivists! 

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)
Co-Host: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)
Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)
Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics) & Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)

A future of faster, safer, and smarter medical imaging is being paved by … physicists??

This week, Sophie talks biomedical imaging, ACROBEAT, and pig spines for safer surgery, with physicist Dr Tess Reynolds.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics)
Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)
Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose)

We all know that physical activity is important for a healthy life right? This week, Niamh interviews Associate Professor Verity Cleland about how we can be more physically active and what role our communities play in supporting us to do this. 

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)

Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)

Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics)

In this episode we interview Dr Andrew Ottaway, the founder of Health Volunteers International. Andrew’s charity aims to improve medical education and capacity building to improve quality of health care in African countries. With particular focus on improving maternal health and access to safe deliveries.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)

Production: Sarah Lyden

Media & Promotion: Olivia Holloway (@LivHolloway_), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), (Mibu Fischer @miburose)

In this episode, we chat about ageism with sociologist Dr Peta Cook. Ageism is a type of discrimination based solely on age and has a significant impact on our society. We speak about ageist stereotypes and the consequence this has on physical and mental health.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)

Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)

Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Mibu Fischer (Mibu Fischer @miburose), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Liv Holloway (@LivHolloway_)

The number of people studying higher level maths in Australia is in decline. Why?
This week, Sophie talks to maths teaching specialist Dr Hayden Tronnolone about maths phobia and maths education in Australia.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics)
Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)
Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah)

Kate chats to Dr Penny Jones about her research monitoring air quality, communicating and understanding the intersection of humans and our environment, making decisions about living with fire, and her experience working in STEMM.

Show theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Host: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)
Production: Meredith Castles (@MeredithCastles)
Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose), Kelsey Picard (KelseyOnScience)