In the first of a two-part episode on the Environmental Humanities, host Roxana talks with Prof. Mark Bould about climate change subtexts, Sharknado, and the utopian potential of speculative fiction. Mark Bould is Professor of Film and Literature at UWE Bristol and author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (Verso, 2021). In 2016 he was awarded the SFRA Pilgrim Lifetime Achievement Award for Critical Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

A transcript of this episode is available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/moveable-type-podcast-environmental-humanities-anthropocene-unconscious-episode-5

Date of episode recording: 2022-04-14

Duration: 00:50:52

Language of episode: English

Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon

Guests: Mark Bould

Producer: Producer: Damian Walsh; Assistant Producer: Anna De Vivo; Editor: Daniel Lewis

This week we're tackling the question: how do we make London as bike friendly as Amsterdam? Host Helen Czerski is joined by Richard Jackson, Director of Sustainability at UCL and Will Norman, Walking and Cycling Commissioner for London and TFL.

They are discussing cycling in London, plans for making it even safer, and the impact of electric scooters on our streets.

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcasts-videos/generation-one-climate-podcast

Date of episode recording: 21/04/2022

Duration: 00:29:56

Language of episode: English

Presenter: Helen Czerski

Guests: RIchard Jackson, Dr Tim Norman

Producer: Adam Batstone

Hear how UCL economics researchers and campaigning journalists put keeping fossil fuels in the ground and divestment on the climate crisis agenda.

Guests:

• Prof Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and the UK Energy Research Centre

• Dr Christophe McGlade, Head of the Energy Supply Unit, IEA

• Damian Carrington, Environment Editor, The Guardian

Read more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/where-research-transforms-lives-podcast

This week we are looking at apps and technology, and whether they can help us fight the climate crisis. Listen now to hear host Mark Maslin chat to Chris Tan, Co-Founder of Marble app and UCL master's student, and Ed Caldecott, co-founder of TrainHugger.

Mark and his guests are discussing how apps can be vital tools for consumers, the fight to keep them accessible for all and the long-term impact they could have.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcasts-videos/generation-one-climate-podcast

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Date of episode recording: 07/04/2022

Duration: 00:29:02

Language of episode: English

Presenter: Mark Maslin

Guests: Chris Tan, Ed Caldecott

Producer: Adam Batstone

Welcome back to series three of Made at UCL! Cerys Bradley is our producer-turned-host this year alongside six new UCL student hosts.

Join Cerys, Taqwa Sadiq, Chanju Mwanza and Katie Davies for this months episode: Data Moves. We’re looking at the impact of data, the absence of data and how data can be utilised across three of our incredible REF case studies.

For more information on Made At UCL and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/

For more information on each case study check out the REF hub: www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/research-excellence-framework-2021

How UCL research led by care experienced people has restored children’s voices to official records of their time in care.

Guests:

Elizabeth Shepherd, Professor of Archives and Records Management in the Department of Information Studies at UCL

John-george Nicholson, care experienced adult and co-researcher

David Holmes, CEO of Family Action

Access the transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/ucl-ref-podcast/ep3-where-research-transforms-access-childrens-social-care-records

Discover how UCL research is making an impact at www.ucl.ac.uk/ref

Why are bees and wasps so important? Join host Helen Czerski this week as she dives into why insects are so critical to our ecosystem, how the climate crisis is impacting them and what the long term impact will be.

Helen is joined by Dr Tim Newbold and Dr Seirian Sumner from UCL Division of Biosciences as they debate why wasps are as important as bees, and why and how we need to protect them both.

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Date of episode recording: 21/04/2022

Duration: 00:30:13

Language of episode: English

Presenter: Helen Czerski

Guests: Dr Tim Newbold, Dr Seirian Sumner

Producer: Adam Batstone

Professor Alison Rodger and activist Bruce Richman explain how people living with HIV came together with scientists to fight stigma and prove that Undetectable Equals Untransmittable.

Guests:

Bruce Richman, Founder and Director, Prevention Access Campaign

Professor Alison Rodger, Institute of Global Health, UCL

Access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/ucl-ref-podcast/ep1-where-research-transforms-hiv-treatment-and-prevention

Discover how UCL research is making an impact at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ref

Professor Jayant Vaidya explains how, as a young surgeon in Mumbai, he set out to invent a new radiotherapy device to make his patients’ lives a little easier, and wound up discovering new things about how the body heals and transforming breast cancer surgery around the world.

Guests:

Marcelle Bernstein, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012

Dr Sandeep Nayak, Fortis Hospital, Bangalore, India

Dr Samuele Massarut, CRO Aviano, Italy

Professor Jayant Vaidya, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, UCL

Access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/ucl-ref-podcast/ep2-where-research-transforms-cancer-treatment

Discover how UCL research is making an impact at www.ucl.ac.uk/ref

Date of lecture: Tuesday 26 April 2022

About the lecture:

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unexpected disruption to Western countries and studies suggest this has affected women more adversely than men. This is because they were over-represented in the most affected sectors of the economy and women, especially mothers, took a bigger share of housework and childcare responsibilities following school closures. We investigate the gender gaps in remaining in employment, being furloughed and pay by using the data from four British nationally representative cohort studies a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. Our findings confirm that the adverse labour market effects were still experienced by women a year into the covid-19 pandemic but adjusting for pre-pandemic job characteristics substantially attenuates the gaps. These effects are likely to have long lasting implications for women’s longer-term position and the progress towards gender equality.

About the speaker:

Dr Bożena Wielgoszewska is a Research Associate dividing her time between the Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Quantitative Social Science, Social Research Institute, UCL.