Best Sarah Lawton Podcasts (2024)

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Continuing Professional Development for scientists 20:20

3y ago20:20

20:20

Returning to our expert, Jessica Evans, a Member Recruitment Executive at The Royal Society of Chemistry, we revisit the topic of continued professional development, or CPD. In particular, we consider in more detail the benefits to be gained by joining a professional body or member organisation offering structured CPD appropriate to specific scient…

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Biophilic building for human resilience and pandemic prevention with Robert Hopkins 24:10

3+ y ago24:10

24:10

Derived in 1964 by the social psychologist Erich Fromm, ‘biophilia’ means to love life. Here, architect Robert Hopkins, expands on how the application of biophilic design and sensor-led monitoring systems can aid human resilience in an indoor work environment.By Sarah Lawton

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A sting in the tail... how venom is helping drug discovery in surprising ways with Steve Trim 28:39

3+ y ago28:39

28:39

Drug discovery is a tough endeavour - but could nature offer a helping hand? I spoke to Steve Trim, Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of Venomtech to find out why some of the world's deadliest creatures hold the key to pharmaceutical success. Taking in poisonous snails, spiders, snakes and arthropods - this episode isn't for the squeamish... but…

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T'is the season - get festive with the Royal Institution Christmas lecturers 31:56

4y ago31:56

31:56

In this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, three scientists from different fields will present a unique ‘user’s guide’ to Planet Earth. They will unravel astonishing global systems and remarkable natural wonders that combine to keep life on Earth alive. I spoke to each them about their work, the lectures and many other things bes…

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Enabling your best self - Professional development in science 25:49

4y ago25:49

25:49

If you work in science then you are already highly skilled – very highly skilled. That doesn't necessarily mean there is no room to develop yourself though. It could be that you want to prepare for the next career move, brush-up on the latest technique or even concentrate on 'soft' skills. Whatever it might be, there will always be a demand for hig…

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Medicinal rollercoasters and life-saving bras - It's the Ig Nobel Prizes with Marc Abrahams 19:27

4y ago19:27

19:27

I spoke to Marc Abrahams, founder of the barmy-but-brilliant Ig Nobel Prizes – which every year honour discoveries which make people laugh and then think. But don't confuse this with simply poking fun at science - it's clear that Marc ultimately cares deeply about tweaking the publics interest in science, medicine and technology. He just thinks tha…

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Biology in space with NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins 20:36

4y ago20:36

20:36

Its not everyday you get to chat to an Astronaut - especially one who is about to head up on a six-month mission to the ISS. Kate Rubins is a molecular biologist who was selected by NASA back in 2009 - then during her first mission to the space station she became the first person to sequence DNA in space. I managed to interrupt her busy training sc…

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Socially distanced lobsters... Covid-19 and the landscape of disgust 21:05

4y ago21:05

21:05

Social distancing is still the main way we have of fending off Covid-19. It has been hard and very costly to the economy, but amazingly we are not the only creatures to do this. I spoke to Disease Ecologist Dr Julia Buck, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, about the idea that however unnatural social distancing may …

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Rhythmical rats and scientific gin 22:26

4y ago22:26

22:26

Its only a bloomin' party episode! And what makes a party really tick? Why music and alcohol of course... Good thing then that in this episode I am joined by a cognitive neuroscientist come musician who thinks he has found the capacity to detect rhythm in non-human mammals AND a scientific equipment supplier who claim their kit can make gin so good…

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Physics at home and making medicine from hibernating animals 23:01

4y ago23:01

23:01

Something of a double-header for you in this episode. I spoke to a physicist who managed to create an incredibly rare and exotic state of matter from her living room during lockdown, AND a geneticist who thinks she can strike medical gold using hibernating animals. Dr Amruta Gadge is a research fellow at the University of Sussex based at the Quantu…

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Life on the back of a turtle with Dr Jeroen Ingels 19:27

4y ago19:27

19:27

"I didn't realise that it is basically impossible to stop a turtle physically... it just rolls you over" Not, it's true to say, what I expected to hear from an ecologist who has spent the last few years finding a surprising amount of interesting life living on the shells of turtles. But, it turns out, there are a lot of unexpected turns in the life…

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Galactic collisions with Christopher Conselice - BONUS podcast 13:04

4y ago13:04

13:04

Not content with bending my mind with his work on intelligent alien civilisations - Astrophysicist Professor Christopher Conselice went on to talk about his main work on galactic formation and galactic mergers...By Sarah Lawton

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Intelligent alien civilisations with astrophysicist Christopher Conselice 22:19

4y ago22:19

22:19

Just how many intelligent civilisations, if you were pressed, would you say exist - or indeed existed – in our galaxy? It may be more than you think. Professor Christopher Conselice thinks he knows how many there should be, and has even put a number in it. This was a genuinely fascinating conversation which left me in awe and also slightly disappoi…

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Coronavirus and Covid-19 with virologist Dr Sarah Pitt 28:30

4y ago28:30

28:30

There is, of course, so much coverage of Covid-19 at the moment I wasn't sure if it was worth yet another conversation... boy, was I wrong. The brilliant Dr Sarah Pitt - Virologist at the University of Brighton and Chief Virology Examiner at the Institute of Biomedical Science – has so much to say on our response to this. The testing, the vaccine, …

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Narwhal song with Evgeny Podolskiy 16:40

4y ago16:40

16:40

How do you record one of the most notoriously shy animals on the planet? Accidentally... Geophysicist Evgeny Podolskiy was busying himself recording the sounds of glaciers in Greenland when he suddenly realised that he had stumbled on the summering grounds of a population of narwhals. So began an odyssey in sound featuring social calls, echolocatio…

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Continuing Professional Development for scientists 20:20

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Biophilic building for human resilience and pandemic prevention with Robert Hopkins 24:10

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A sting in the tail... how venom is helping drug discovery in surprising ways with Steve Trim 28:39

1
T'is the season - get festive with the Royal Institution Christmas lecturers 31:56

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Enabling your best self - Professional development in science 25:49

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Medicinal rollercoasters and life-saving bras - It's the Ig Nobel Prizes with Marc Abrahams 19:27

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Biology in space with NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins 20:36

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Socially distanced lobsters... Covid-19 and the landscape of disgust 21:05

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Rhythmical rats and scientific gin 22:26

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Physics at home and making medicine from hibernating animals 23:01

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Life on the back of a turtle with Dr Jeroen Ingels 19:27

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Galactic collisions with Christopher Conselice - BONUS podcast 13:04

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Intelligent alien civilisations with astrophysicist Christopher Conselice 22:19

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Coronavirus and Covid-19 with virologist Dr Sarah Pitt 28:30

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Narwhal song with Evgeny Podolskiy 16:40

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