The Official School of Economics and Finance Podcast

Continuing our Student Series, we bring you another podcast for you to enjoy. In this episode, we caught up with Victoria Adubia Twum, a current student studying for an MSc Mental Health Economics to hear about her experiences at Queen Mary University. As you will hear, it was a busy day at the Graduate Centre, which is home to the School of Economics and Finance!

Another podcast from the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University as part of our series focusing on mental health and mental health economics, where we chat with academic experts in the field. In this episode, we are joined by Dr Christoph Kronenberg, deputy head of the junior research group EACH at the health economics research centre ‘Competent in competition and health’ (CINCH) and our conversation explored how he became involved in this field and his current research.

In this episode, we welcomed Dr Mark Freestone, Reader in Mental Health and Director of Education at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health at Queen Mary University and more recently Co-Programme Director of the MSc in Mental Health Economics that launches this September.

Dr Freestone has also consulted on forensic mental health issues for NHS England and the London Violence Reduction Programme and films and television shows such as the BBC America drama series Killing Eve and Channel 4 prison drama Screw.

Audio recorded on Zoom.

Our guest in this episode is psychiatrist and author, Denise Razzouk, professor and researcher on Mental Health Economics at Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this episode we discuss her work on the economic impact of mental disorders, the challenges of how to measure this and ultimately implications for public health policy and resource allocation.

Audio recorded via Zoom.

As part of our new series focusing on mental health and mental health economics, we chat with academic experts in the field.

Our guest this episode is Scott Cunningham, professor of economics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Among his areas of interest are mental health, sex work, abortion, and drug policy.

The audio was recorded using Zoom.

We are delighted to be back with our podcast for 2022, with a new series focusing on mental health and mental health economics, where we chat with several experts in the field. To kick off our first episode, we caught up with Dr Francesca Cornaglia, co-programme director for the school’s new MSc Mental Health Economics programme, starting in September.

Recorded over Zoom, all the usual background technology beeps are apparent! We've made a note to switch off all gadgets next time!

More information on the programme or to contact Francesca Cornaglia directly can be found at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sef/postgrad-study/mhe-hub/

As  part of a special careers podcast series ‘Experience Matters', you can  hear from a range of employers of Queen Mary students, and previous  Queen Mary interns about what it takes to secure an internship in the  competitive London Market and why an Internship is still vital on your  CV when you graduate.

In this episode, alumna Giulia Papi joins us to talk about her time at Queen Mary University, her experience as an intern and how she is planning her future.

As a reminder to our listeners, this was recorded during lockdown of June 2021.

As part of a special careers podcast series ‘Experience Matters', you can hear from a range of employers of Queen Mary students, and previous Queen Mary interns about what it takes to secure an internship in the competitive London Market and why an Internship is still vital on your CV when you graduate.

In this episode, Priyanka Balakrishnan, a graduating student from the School of Economics and Finance, talks to Godman Usman, founder of GenMoney and his mission to deliver new approaches to talking and learning about money for young people.

As a reminder to our listeners, this was recorded during lockdown of June 2021.