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UCL (University College London) is consistently ranked among the world's top ten universities (QS World University Rankings 2010 - 2021). Our excellence extends across all academic disciplines, from one of the world's foremost centres for research and teaching in the biological sciences to world-renowned centres for architecture (UCL Bartlett), education (UCL IOE) and fine art (UCL Slade School). UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 43,000 stu ...
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The Trial Talk Podcast explores how our work at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL is improving health in the UK and worldwide. In this new series, we will hear from world-leading experts about the studies we carry out. We will get inside trials on cancer, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases, explore how public and patient involvement is shaping our studies, and discover new ways to run smarter studies.
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From chronic diseases, the climate crisis, to social injustice, how are we tackling the biggest problems of the 21st century? As UCL Business (UCLB) celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023, this new monthly podcast series will explore how we have supported UCL academics to create impact across several areas, such as: medical research, patient healthcare, the environment, and our wellbeing in a contemporary society. New episodes will be released every third Thursday of each month. Soundtrack ...
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Welcome to the UCL Medical Women Talking podcast series, hosted by physician and medical scholar, Professor Dame Jane Dacre. In this inspirational collection of informal interviews, Jane talks with a range of women doctors hailing from various specialties and backgrounds, each with a remarkable career in medicine. Join Jane and her guests as they explore the challenges and rewards of a medical career and consider how it's possible to strike a balance between professional aspirations and pers ...
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Together We Create is a podcast series from UCL’s Collaborative Social Science Domain in which UCL social scientists share their stories, reflections, and top tips on collaborating with engineers, scientists, health practitioners, and designers and others, and discuss the benefits and challenges of taking a collaborative interdisciplinary approach to research. Series 2 In Series 2 four UCL social scientists, who were awarded one of our Social Science Plus awards, talk about their pilot proje ...
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Throughout this podcast series, we will discuss various topics at the intersections of populist, nationalist and religious movements, formations of various forms of political imaginations in and around and about Turkey. We will be hosting renowned scholars, artists, public intellectuals, and activists.
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This podcast provides the platform to bring awareness to various critical topics in the fields of reproductive science and women’s health – topics that are often not discussed enough. We will cover a range of topics and will focus on creating content that is understandable to individuals from all levels of education and backgrounds, with no science experience required.
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The Institute for Global Prosperity's ERC Project Takhayyul is carried out in eleven different countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, often included in the concept of the Global South, where people are more vulnerable to global changes and crises - as we have seen in the flood catastrophe in Pakistan. Many members of our team are scholars who have expertise in the geographies they grew up in. This series has been emerged due to the pressing issues that have been taking ...
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Oh Pod! x UCL is a co-produced podcast tackling the taboos of healthcare issues. In this series, Shakira and Iman have insightful conversations with leading academics about common health related misconceptions, covering everything from anxiety to perinatal mental health. Each month Shakira and Iman are joined by a leading academic to offer their perspective on the big questions, cut through frivolous news and to de-bunk urban myths. Oh Pod! x UCL is a warm, inclusive, and inviting podcast. E ...
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Generation UCL is a research and engagement project that is collecting the stories of UCL alumni over 200 years. To give an insight into the breadth and diversity of the student experience, this series includes short extracts from these oral history interviews alongside excerpts from written memoirs that have been voiced by actors.
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UCL's award-winning campaign, Disruptive Thinking Since 1826 and hashtag #MadeAtUCL, has been phenomenal in its scope with hoardings at UCL East in London, graphics and animations on our website; a festival, podcast series, and involvement of the wider public to vote for their favourite breakthrough UCL research. This year, we continue to feature more UCL breakthrough stories through Season Two of the podcast! This time, we are also sharing stories from our community, our pioneering research ...
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Welcome to AccessGranted: The Stories of UCL's most Inspiring Students! In each episode, we'll peel back the layers and reveal the unique experiences of our guests, from conquering daunting academic challenges and socio-economic barriers to battling the dragons of self-doubt. These stories will remind us of all that obstacles can be overcome, dreams can be realized, and change is within our reach. Contrary to your average storytelling podcast, we tend to infuse some wit, playfulness, and a d ...
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Artificial Intelligence is hurtling us into an unknown future. Will it pollute our infosphere, reinforce biases, or even be an existential risk? Or will AI help us solve the energy crisis, revolutionise healthcare and even eliminate the need for work? Perhaps all of these? On Steering AI, we talk to leading academic experts at the cutting-edge of this increasingly powerful and pervasive technology, hearing their views on the benefits and how to steer around the risks. The first step to mitig ...
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Following the successful first series of Unlocking the SDGs, Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh are back with a deep dive into the UN SDGs. Over six episodes, the series considers issues including the role of culture and humanities in the SDGs, how the SDGs can be more inclusive, and what will follow the SDGs. Guests from across UCL’s faculties and beyond; will bring new perspectives and understanding, while UCL students share what the SDGs mean to them.
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If you find the term 'healthcare engineering' a bit bamboozling, don't worry, you're not alone. 'Engineering' usually brings to mind images of bridges and buildings. Healthcare engineering is essentially using maths and science to solve healthcare problems. This covers an incredibly broad range of activities – from 3D-printed prosthetic limbs to artificial intelligence to predict cancer. At the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, our mission is to develop digital and medical technologie ...
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A podcast exploring research and teaching underway in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at UCL. Learn more about the subject, the people, and the careers.
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In this second episode on Gaza, we talk about how the events in Gaza is echoed in Turkey, Iran, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.Date of episode recording: 2023-12-19T00:00:00ZDuration: 01:00:00Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Chair: Dr. Mezna Qato; Host: Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu Guests: Dr. Alireza Doostdar; Sumeja Tulic; Dr. Halil Ibrahim YenigunProduce…
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An estimand is a description of the research question a trial seeks to answer, which can help researchers better understand how their study should be designed and analysed. Estimands also provide a clear way to communicate treatment effects to different stakeholders. This episode of the Trial Talk podcast features Principal Research Fellow Brennan …
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In this second episode on Gaza, we talk about how the events in Gaza is echoed in Turkey, Iran, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Date of episode recording: 2023-12-19T00:00:00Z Duration: 01:00:00 Language of episode: English Guests: Dr. Alireza Doostdar; Sumeja Tulic; Dr. Halil Ibrahim Yenigun Producer: Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu; Meryem Zișan Köker; Hazal Aydın…
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We are most likely to think about environmental data as sets of facts, but have you thought of it as having a social life? In this episode, we explore how those who collect and prepare environmental data may not necessarily be the ones to use or benefit from it: Dr Tone Walford and Dr Cecilia Chavana-Bryant draw on their experiences of collecting d…
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E-scooters and the transport related social exclusion E-scooters provoke a 'Marmite' love or hate response in many of us. Still being piloted across UK cities, they straddle an uncertain legislative space, with concerns around safety not far from the headlines. Yet there are other important questions raised by this still-emergent form of transport.…
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Children’s experiences of social media and unsolicited sexual images: Developing Better Digital Literacy In this episode, UCL’s Professor Jessica Ringrose shares her research on unsolicited sexual images on Snapchat, a social media platform which plays a central role in the lives of many teens. We discuss how this work uncovered high rates of non-c…
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The practical challenges of surviving harsh environments and limited resources in outer space have long been a focus of space research. But how might asking questions about living differently in space help us meet the challenges of living differently on earth? In this episode, we explore this with Dr Aaron Parkhurst as he discusses his multidiscipl…
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What do we mean when we talk about collaborative social science? Why is collaborative research useful? What are the standout themes of the collaborative projects featured in this second season of Together We Create? In this episode, we discuss these questions and more with Professor Carey Jewitt, Chair of UCL's Collaborative Social Science Domain. …
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Happy Earth Day! This episode’s focus is on entrepreneurial climate action: what are businesses – particularly the AI sector – doing to combat the climate crisis and help reach net zero?  Helping our hosts Mark and Simon answer these questions are Sims Witherspoon (current UCL student studying for MSC in climate change and Climate and Sustainabilit…
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To mark World Haemophilia Day, we sit down with Professor Amit Nathwani of the UCL Cancer Institute to explore his journey to commercialising the groundbreaking haemophilia A treatment, Roctavian. Host Nigel Campbell is joined by Prof Nathwani and Dr. Rick Fagan, UCLB Director of Biopharm, to explore how Amit’s work looking after patients with haem…
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To mark World Haemophilia Day, we sit down with Professor Amit Nathwani of the UCL Cancer Institute to explore his journey to commercialising the groundbreaking haemophilia A treatment, Roctavian. Host Nigel Campbell is joined by Prof Nathwani and Dr. Rick Fagan, UCLB Director of Biopharm, to explore how Amit’s work looking after patients with haem…
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In this podcast, we examine what 'decent' living standards mean for people in low-income countries – including energy access and transport infrastructure – and how these are critically linked with the urgent need to reduce global carbon emissions. Join UCL experts Professor Priti Parikh, Professor Jing Meng and Dr Simon Chin-Yee as they discuss wha…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Abi Patel. Abi is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. She graduated from University of Cambridge in 2004 and completed higher surgical training in the West Midlands, UK. Abi is a NIHR CRN Research Scholar and believes in patient centred research. S…
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In this epsisode, Jane Dacre chats with Dr Parveen Jayia. Dr Jayia has held a number of medical leadership roles both within NHS, where she practised as a surgeon, and within the pharmaceutical industry. Currently working in oncology, Parveen is keen to embrace new ways to optimise healthcare and determined that working in partnerships is the way f…
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What are individuals doing to fight climate change and how important is the role of local activism? This episode will be focusing on individual climate action, with our guests chatting to our hosts about the role of activism in initiating change. Featuring Louise Harris (songwriter and Just Stop Oil activist), Versha Jones, (Climate Reality Project…
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Date of lecture: Tuesday 19 March 2024About the lecture:Beauty and aesthetics have always played a multi-faceted role in human society. During the last decades, smile attractiveness has become a very important factor influencing both personal and professional aspects of everyday life. This has been compounded by the effect of social media and marke…
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About the Lecture:A tapestry of cosmic events stretching over the past 13.8 billion years have shaped our existence in a vast universe. This lecture will explore how the computer simulations to study the cosmos have developed in tandem with more down-to-earth pursuits like weather forecasting. We will see how the resulting computer codes have unloc…
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About the Lecture:Understanding reproductive health is key for everyone, whether we want children or not. Since writing a book called Your Fertile Years, Professor Harper has been researching into all aspects of reproductive health education and heads the International Reproductive Health Education Collaboration who aim to deliver reproductive heal…
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In part two of a two part medical special we focus on the question 'If I am good at Maths and Biology and I want to go into Neurosurgery and Science, do I have to start out as an ordinary doctor? I am also interested in Pathology, where do I start with this?' In this episode we focus on the second question and Dr. Shoba Poduval talks us through a c…
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In part one of a two part medical special we focus on the question 'If I am good at Maths and Biology and I want to go into Neurosurgery and Science, do I have to start out as an ordinary doctor? I am also interested in Pathology, where do I start with this?' In this episode we focus on the first question and Dr. Shoba Poduval talks us through appl…
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This week we’re looking at disputes between states and international investors. How are they resolved? And why should every one of us care about them? Date of episode recording: 2024-02-29T00:00:00ZDuration: 38:13Language of episode: English (UK)Presenter: Prof Alan RenwickGuests: Lauge PoulsenProducer: Eleanor Kingwell-Banham…
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This week we ask: how should the European Union handle the political, social, and economic diversity amongst its member states – and what can it do about democratic backsliding? Date of episode recording: 2024-02-15T00:00:00ZDuration: 39:08Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Dr Emily McTernan Guests: Richard BellamyProducer: Eleanor Kingwell-Ban…
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Marking LGBT+ History Month, this week we’re looking at the battle for LGBT+ rights around the world. How great are the challenges facing rights campaigners today? And how could they be addressed? Date of episode recording: 2024-02-08T00:00:00ZDuration: 40:42Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Prof Alan RenwickGuests: Phillip AyoubProducer: Elea…
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This week we’re looking at the politics of power-sharing in Northern Ireland. What is it? Why is it not currently working? And what is its future?Date of episode recording: 2024-01-11T00:00:00ZDuration: 40:31Language of episode: EnglishPresenter:Prof Alan RenwickGuests: Conor Kelly and Alan WhysallProducer: Eleanor Kingwell-Banham…
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Join hosts Doctor Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess for Season 4, Episode 3 of Public Health Disrupted. "It's not our children who are disordered, it's the environment in which we're expecting them to operate." In this month’s episode, our experts explore the pressing issue of children's mental health in the UK. With one in five young indiv…
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For this podcast we are visited by Chris Layne (Nova Southeastern University) to discuss the topic 'Resilience in grief and bereavement'. The podcast is hosted by Shi-Hui Kau (UCL). This podcast covers: 1. What are the similarities between posttraumatic stress and grief reactions? 2. Does the circumstances or reasons of death affect the way a berea…
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In this episode, we’re moving beyond the UK to explore global climate policy in the wake of COP28. Hosts Mark and Simon are joined by Pierre Cannet, the Global Head of Public Affairs and Policy at Client Earth, to discuss how the law can be used to create change. More about Client Earth: https://www.clientearth.org/For more information and to acces…
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In this episode, we are hosting Professor Maria Todorova from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to revisit her illuminating book 'Imagining The Balkans.' Professor Todorova specializes in Eastern Europe, particularly the Balkans in the modern period, focusing on historical demography, nationalism, socialism, and post-communism. Her work h…
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In this episode, we are hosting Professor Maria Todorova from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to revisit her illuminating book 'Imagining The Balkans.' Professor Todorova specializes in Eastern Europe, particularly the Balkans in the modern period, focusing on historical demography, nationalism, socialism, and post-communism. Her work h…
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Clinical trial results usually tell us how effective a treatment was on average for the overall group of participants, but a key question for clinicians, patients and policy makers is: which individual patients benefit most from the treatment and which don’t benefit as much? In the latest episode of the Trial Talk podcast, Peter Godolphin and David…
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Hosted by Olivia Moir, this very special episode discusses prenatal therapy with Prof Anna David, Director of the Institute for Women's Health here at UCL. Today we cover the basics of what the field of prenatal therapy is about, discussing the general lack of prenatal therapy in clinic and some of the factors behind why this is. We talk about the …
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We are back for season 2 of It All Starts Here! Listen in as your longtime host Olivia Moir introduces you to our new hosts joining us this season, Kathryn Hunwick and Niamh Kenny. Kathryn is a a long-time educator, therapist and yogi, who’s all about helping women and people assigned female at birth (AFAB) to understand and support themselves holi…
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We are back for season 2 of It All Starts Here! Listen in as your longtime host Olivia Moir introduces you to our new hosts joining us this season, Kathryn Hunwick and Niamh Kenny. Kathryn is a a long-time educator, therapist and yogi, who’s all about helping women and people assigned female at birth (AFAB) to understand and support themselves holi…
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In this International Women's Day special, Jane Dacre chats with Dame Lesley Regan, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College's St Mary's Hospital Campus, and Honorary Consultant in Gynaecology at the Imperial College NHS Trust. Lesley combines her clinical and research work on recurrent miscarriage and uterine fibroids with a pas…
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Celebrate International Women's Day with a special first episode of the new series of Life of PIE! Onya, your host, delves into the complex world of women's health alongside Kris Teow, an MSc PIE alum from the 2022-23 cohort. Kris shares findings from her qualitative study on the experiences of Malaysian corporate women, shedding light on the diver…
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This episode focuses on the recent emergent issues in Gaza, delving into the unfolding events and their broader impact, especially within the Global South. Date of episode recording: 2023-11-24T00:00:00Z Duration: 01:01:07 Language of episode: English Presenter: Dr. Mezna Qato; Dr. Sertac Sehlikoglu Guests: Dr. Goldie Osuri, Dr. Saadia Toor, Dr. Sa…
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Introducing episode 3 of season four! Our hosts Mark and Simon continue this series with a discussion on the fallout from COP28 for the UK, and what needs to be done on a national, governmental and local level.Joining them are our guests Ian Townsend (ONS Divisional Director of Environment), Robbie Macpherson, (APPG lead at Uplift), Annabel Rice (P…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Rosia Shah. Rosia is a Locum consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Medical Lead for VCTC, a UK-based clinical trial site that specialises in running patient centric clinical trials. Rosia reflects on her journey from a deprived background to medical school and the challenges she faced as a women of colour…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Rahel Odonde. Rahel is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Her special interests include the safe practice of abortion care, sexual and global health. Rahel is the first Equality, Diversity and Inclusion council officer for the Medical Women’s Federation, and as a member of the executive committee …
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks to Dr Katherine Ordidge. Kate is a Consultant Radiologist at Barts Health NHS Trust, London and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She graduated from University College London (UCL) Medical School in 2007, with an intercalated BSc in Medical Physics and Bioengineering. Kate an…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre chats to Dr Jess Morgan. Jess is a clinical fellow at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, leading a national project to improve the wellbeing and working lives of paediatricians. She spent 11 years as an NHS doctor, specialising in paediatrics and undertaking research in neonatology. Burnout and mental ill…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Patrice Baptiste. Patrice is a double award-winning portfolio GP, medical educator, entrepreneur, writer, author, visionary and champion for diversity within the medical profession. Dr. Baptiste holds various roles alongside her main role as a GP. She is focused on supporting others with their career develo…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Chelcie Jewitt. Chelcie is an Emergency Medicine trainee, interested in health inequalities, particularly those faced by women. Throughout her training she has been a victim of, and witness to, multiple incidences of sexism and misogyny. This prompted her to found the Sexism in Medicine project, which has l…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Becky Cox. Becky is a GP specialist working in gynaecology and an academic GP with an interest in violence against women. She is the founder of Surviving in Scrubs. As a survivor of domestic abuse as well as sexual harassment and assault at work Becky advocates and campaigns to end the culture of misogyny i…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Ruth Law, a consultant physician in integrated geriatric medicine and general internal medicine at Whittington Health NHS Trust in London where she is clinical lead. Ruth's work in integrated care resulted in her being awarded the British Geriatrics Society Rising Star Award for quality in 2018. Ruth talks …
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We are most likely to think about environmental data as sets of facts, but have you thought of it as having a social life? In this episode, we explore how those who collect and prepare environmental data may not necessarily be the ones to use or benefit from it: Dr Tone Walford and Dr Cecilia Chavana-Bryant draw on their experiences of collecting d…
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