Here Jane Perryman and Alice Bradbury present data which explores how the Ofsted inspection is experienced and stakeholders’ views on how it could be improved. They discuss the report’s recommendations for change and discuss how this would benefit teachers and schools.

In this special episode hosts Mark Maslin and Simon Chin Yee give us behind the scenes insights and their verdicts on the outcome of COP29.

This COP was mainly about the money and went into extra time, but our hosts unpack it and take a deep dive into the key results with the help of special guests in the studio Priti Parikh, Professor of Infrastructure Engineering and International Development, at UCL’s Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction and Anoushka Jain, a UCL Politics and International Relations student and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition. We even round off this episode with some post COP music therapy! Let the spine tingling music wash over you. It’s a new composition from the collaboration between UCL and the BBC Young Composer project.

UCL teamed up with the BBC Young Composer competition to inspire the winners to create brand new pieces based on UCL’s climate science. Composing for the Climate is a collaboration between UCL and the BBC as part of East Bank – the UK’s newest culture quarter on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park where UCL has a campus.

BBC music credits:

© BBC ‘Gaia’ composed by BBC Young Composer competition winner Advaith Jagannath. Recording made as part of the BBC Proms 2024, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conducted by Hugh Brunt.

BBC Radio 3 website to hear the full pieces: BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms - BBC Young Composer Winners: The Process and Music

Website for BBC Young Composer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030pblf

Find out more about UCL at COP29 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/ucl-cop

Date of episode recording: Monday 25th November 2024

Duration: 41:57

Language of episode: English

Presenters: Professor Mark Maslin and Dr Simon Chin-Yee

Guests:

Professor Priti Parikh

Anoushka Jain

Producers:

Adam Batstone

Caitlin Mullin

Jane Yelloly

In the lead-up to COP29, please join Hope Dillarstone and Elaine Flores for an insightful lecture exploring the complex nexus between climate change, mental health, and reproductive decision-making.

In this special episode, The SDGs and India, Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh are joined by Professor Sumit Malhotra, from the Centre of Community Medicine at AIIMS and Professor PVM Rao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi. In this episode, we’re going overseas to take a special focus on the role of the SDGs on research in India, and how Indian researchers are contributing to reaching the goals.

Date of episode recording: 2024-10-28

Duration: 00:28:49

Language of episode: English

Presenters: Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh

Guests: Professor Sumit Malhotra, from the Centre of Community Medicine at AIIMS and Professor PVM Rao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi

Producer: Front Ear

Link to transcript: https://liveuclac.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/SDGPodcastSeriesWorkingGroup/EbBHXguMfeJMivTtYXtNeKYBYdy5P9mI-z1f3dSaukwk7w?e=hmsdwq

In episode 6 of Oral Health Matters, Richard Watt, Professor of Dental Public Health at University College London is in conversation withDr Benoit Varenne from the World Health Organisation and Dr Dympna Kavanagh, Chief Dental Officer in the Department of Health, Ireland. Together they discuss current and forthcoming developments in global and national oral health policy and how the research community can best support oral health as a public health priority around the world.

Read a full transcript: https://researchpodcasts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/OHM-Ep6-transcript.pdf

Credits

Presenter: Professor Richard Watt, University College London

Editor and producer: Chris Garrington, Research Podcasts

Artwork and audiograms: Krissie Brighty-Glover and Lauren White, Research Podcasts

Music: The Documentary, Mapamusic

In this episode, Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh are joined by Anoushka Jain, a student from UCL Dept of Political Science and Vasiliki Kioupi from University of Leeds. They’re focusing on education and the role of Education for Sustainable Development, or ESD, exploring how sustainable development can be integrated into the curriculum, and what that might mean for the next generation of students.

Date of episode recording: 2024-07-23T00:00:00Z

Duration: 00:43:51

Language of episode: English

Presenter:Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, Professor Priti Parikh

Guests: Anoushka Jain, Vasiliki Kioupi

Producer: Front Ear

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh are joined by Professor Catalina Turcu, Professor of Sustainable Built Environment, Bartlett School of Planning and Professor Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health in the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. Today they’re discussing the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change.

Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, and many people have argued that tackling climate change should be the highest priority of the goals because of its impact on all of the other targets.

Date of episode recording: 2024-07-23T00:00:00Z

Duration: 00:44:36

Language of episode: English

Presenter:Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, Professor Priti Parikh

Guests: Professor Catalina Turcu, Professor Ilan Kelman

Producer: Front Ear

Professor Priti Parikh are joined by Professor Essi Viding and Professor Argyris Stringaris, from the UCL Division of Psychiatry and Psychology and Language Sciences and joint PVPs to the UCL Grand Challenge of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Following initial discussions from series 2, they’re taking a deeper dive on the issue of mental health and wellbeing relating to education and research.

Date of episode recording: 2024-06-25T00:00:00Z

Duration: 00:38:46

Language of episode: English

Presenter:Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh

Guests: Professor Essi Viding and Professor Argyris Stringaris

Producer: Front Ear

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh are joined by Dr Maria Perez Ortiz, from the UCL Department of Computer Science, and Professor Jack Stilgoe, from the UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies.  They’re taking a look at the role of technology and artificial intelligence, or AI, in supporting the implementation of the goals.

AI is a rapidly evolving field, but what is its role in sustainable development? How can it enable progress to a fairer world – or will it prove more of a hindrance? What are the practical and ethical issues that researchers and policy makers need to take into account?

Date of episode recording: 2024-06-25T00:00:00Z

Duration: 00:35:47

Language of episode: English

Presenter:Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, Professor Priti Parikh

Guests: Dr Maria Perez Ortiz, Professor Jack Stilgoe

Producer: Front Ear

Presented on 24/10/24, Dr Thomas Gift discusses 'What can we expect in November’s election? Will both sides accept the result as legitimate? Thomas Gift will address these and other pressing questions in this timely primer on the 2024 US Election.'