Podcasts about Cardiff University

 Description for Show Notes: Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Harry Collins, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Harry is one of the most distinguished academics involved in the sociology of science and has authored 25 books throughout his career. He earned his master's in sociology from Essex University, went on to earn his PhD in the same field, and spent 45 years studying one group of physicists working to detect gravitational waves.   In this conversation, he talks with Michael about the Bath School Approach, to deeply analyze how scientific facts are socially constructed. He also talks about a book he stumbled across by accident, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, and how it gave science a sociological face and helped people to begin to think of science in a new way.  Harry also talks about the shifting attitudes towards science since the 60's and 70's, and about his well-known book from 1993, The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science, in which he describes science as social, explains what this means, and tells how this book led to a conversation with the director of gravitational physics at the National Science Foundation about the new field.  The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/Z69xPv0zEZg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-collins-9472a6179/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ Keywords: #SociologyOfScience #SocialSciences #SocialConstruction #SciencePhilosophy #ScienceStudies #HistoryOfScience #ScienceAndSociety #InformationScience #HigherEd #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #AcademicInnovation #FutureOfLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

It's Labour's first UK conference since Andy Burnham became its leader and prime minister. It's also the first since its devastating losses in May's elections. Welsh Secretary Stephen Kinnock joins us from Liverpool. Members of the Orange Order were given last-minute permission by the high court to pass through a nationalist area of Portadown in County Armagh for the first time in nearly 30 years. Dr Thomas Leahy is a senior lecturer in British and Irish politics at Cardiff University and explains the significance of the decision. After a terrible week and Dan Thomas' resignation as their leader, Reform have appointed Helen Jenner to take his place. She tells us what her leadership will look like and Nick Tyrone, author of new book The Rise of Reform will discuss how Reform became the party it is. Lithuania has made evacuation plans in the event of a Russian attack. Estonia's foreign affairs committee chair, Marko Mihkelsen, outlines how the Baltic states are preparing for the possibility of war. And the Victorian Society has held its first AGM in Llandudno in twenty years. Dr Kathryn Ferry is a seaside resort historian, and we'll hear from her how Llandudno developed from a hamlet surrounded by marshland into a modern tourist attraction for the Victorians.Continuing with our series meeting politicians, this week we return to the Senedd to meet one of Plaid Cymru's three MSs in the Afan Ogwr Rhondda constituency, Elyn Stephens.

ADHD Awareness Month 2026: What Actually Helps? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠Visit the Events page⁠ to see what's happening and get involved. If you've ever felt shame about what you eat, how you forget to eat, or why your safe foods feel so necessary, this episode is going to be a genuine relief. On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm delighted to welcome back Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas, clinical neuroscientist, applied microbiologist, nutrition researcher, Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University and Senior Lecturer at the University of West London. Miguel has just published his brilliant new book, ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health, published by Jessica Kingsley/Hachette. His research has appeared in leading journals including the BMJ and BMC Psychiatry, and his work is known for translating complex science into something genuinely human and accessible. This is one of those conversations that covers a huge amount of ground while never once feeling overwhelming. We talk about why the ADHD brain is wired for resilience and what that actually costs us, why the gut-brain connection matters so much for neurodivergent people, how to approach nutrition with compassion rather than perfectionism, and why your safe foods are not something to be ashamed of. We also get into the language of science, why terms like comorbidity matter, and how researchers like Miguel are slowly shifting the field towards a more neuroaffirmative approach. 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In this episode, we cover: Why compassion and kindness are at the heart of Miguel's approach to ADHD, nutrition and the nervous system How the ADHD nervous system forms in high alert, and what that means for resilience and hypervigilance Why ADHD is far more than a dopamine deficiency, and how hormones, gut bacteria and the nervous system are all part of the picture The gut-brain axis and why looking after your gut has a direct impact on your ADHD brain Why the language of science still creates problems, including terms like comorbidity and healthy cohort, and how researchers are starting to push back How to read ADHD Body and Mind in whichever way works for your brain, whether that's cover to cover or jumping straight to chapter nine Why understanding the why behind your ADHD behaviours is the keystone to change, even when it doesn't fix things overnight Miguel's approach to nutrition: keep your safe foods, add rather than subtract, and never shame what nourishes you Why safe foods are doing an important job for your nervous system, and why being pushed out of your comfort zone too quickly never lasts The circle approach to expanding your diet gently, starting from your anchors and building outward Why a hot bath is an act of self-compassion backed by neuroscience, and why you don't need to get into cold water to support your nervous system The self-kindness toolkit at the end of the book and what it covers Chapters: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas back to the podcast 02:00 - What's at the heart of ADHD Body and Mind, and why compassion comes first 05:00 - Why the ADHD nervous system is wired for hypervigilance and resilience 08:00 - ADHD as more than dopamine: hormones, gut bacteria and the full picture 11:00 - The neuroaffirmative lens in academic research and why language matters 15:00 - How the gut-brain axis connects to ADHD and emotional regulation 19:00 - The awareness and repetition model: why understanding the why is the keystone 23:00 - Nutrition without perfectionism: how to approach food with kindness 27:00 - Safe foods, anchors and adding rather than subtracting 32:00 - The circle approach: expanding your diet gently from the inside out 37:00 - The ADHD cookery school: creativity, condiments and cooking without recipes 42:00 - Hot baths, cold water and why softness is sometimes the braver choice 46:00 - The self-kindness toolkit and what the book offers neurodivergent readers and clinicians Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Visit Miguel's website Connect with Miguel on Instagram Connect with Miguel on LinkedIn Get Miguel's book: ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we begin to wrap up The Coach's Journey Podcast after seven years, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue…Sat atop a Welsh mountain in 2007 in a moment of depression and despair, Chris Joseph had the first in a series of instances of clarity that would eventually lead him to coaching. On the brink of a meltdown, he knew his Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics was no longer serving him. Buddhism, yoga and mediation became the elixir for him and soon he found he couldn't sleep with excitement at the discoveries he was making. His life changed when he trained to become a mindfulness teacher with Breathworks, and Chris went on to complete his Ph.D. and launch his first coaching practice. But it wasn't a success and in the end he gave it up. His extraordinary journey includes a multitude of highs and lows, from making £10,000 a month in passive income to losing it all to a fraudulent trader. Now he's back coaching and headed for a seven-figure year with his highly successful practice.In this episode, we talk about:Where his practice went wrong the first time round.Why the inner work is so important - understanding that you can only take people as far as you can go yourself.Why a true insight always comes packaged with an action - an ‘outsight' or an ‘outer action'.How to invite an individual to coaching - how to make it feel like a gift to the individual and not a request for yourself.Alongside the practical we get into some big topics: death, impermanence, the importance of play and the effects of all these on our lives. And it is a total pleasure to be in a space with Chris' beautiful open-heartedness.For more information about Chris, visit www.christopherjoseph.co.uk, find him on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drchrisjoseph/ or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/chrisjoseph.uk/ For information about Robbie's wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswale.com. Read more about The Coach's Journey and sign up to our mailing list at www.thecoachsjourney.com.Download the free ebook, An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel, at https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/the-coaching-business-flywheel Music by My Good Man William listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQgThings and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):~ Alex Swallow on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-62-alex-swallow-life-is-better-when-we-choose ~8: Rich Waterman: https://www.richwaterman.com/ ~10: The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt: https://www.happinesshypothesis.com/~12: Michael Neill: https://www.michaelneill.org/~12: Dick Bettinger: http://3principlesmentoring.com/index.html ~12: Sydney Banks: https://sydbanks.com/~14: Breathworks: https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/~20: Unleash the Power Within with Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/events/unleash-the-power-within/ ~25: Unleash the Power Within with Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/events/unleash-the-power-within/~26: The Coaching Academy: https://www.the-coaching-academy.com~26: Richard Bandler: https://richardbandler.com~26: John LaValle: https://www.nlplifetraining.com/trainers/john-lavalle~26: The Prosperous Coach by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prosperous-Coach-Increase-Income-Clients/dp/1600250300 ~26: Breathworks: https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/~27: Simon Coulson: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prosperous-Coach-Increase-Income-Clients/dp/1600250300~27: Peter Thompson: https://peterthomson.com/ ~27: Michael Neill: https://www.michaelneill.org/ ~27: Project Kairos with Rich Litvin: https://richlitvin.com/kairos/~30: Steve Hardison video: https://youtu.be/0Tine-9dz-Y~32: Rich Waterman: https://www.richwaterman.com/ ~33: Three Principles: https://threeprinciplesfoundation.org/ ~33: Eckhart Tolle: https://eckharttolle.com/ ~33: Bryon Katie: https://thework.com/ ~33: The Coaching Academy: https://www.the-coaching-academy.com~33: Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/ ~37: Crazy Good by Steve Chandler: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1600250343/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_JMAKFbP0PYJ7E ~43: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1936891026/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_xlBKFbG7XW11B~50: Loom: https://www.loom.com~1.11: Cardiff University: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk ~1.29: Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1600250408/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_EFCKFbY9VGH7M~1.29: Time Warrior by Steve Chandler: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1600250378/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_kICKFbB90WCJN~1.29: The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1608681890/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_8RCKFbEEPT36Y~1.31: The Meaning Revolution by Fred Kofman : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524760730/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_BsSKFbKHQ773N~1.45: Chris's contact details: email address: chris@christopherjoseph.co.uk, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drchrisjoseph/, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrisjoseph.uk/~1.50: Steve Hardison: https://theultimatecoach.com/ FULL BIOGRAPHY FROM CHRIS Dr. Chris Joseph is a sought-after coach and mindfulness trainer living in South Wales. He specialises in working with high-achieving coaches who are ready to play at the next level. His expertise is in helping people slow down, reconnect with themselves and then create the life that they truly want to wake up to every morning.In his coaching role, Chris works with a small number of clients each year, by invitation or referral. His clients have included the former marketing director of one of the most iconic brands on earth, a senior VP for a fortune 10 company, a woman who has worked in mission control, a former private investigator on Wall Street, a Wall Street attorney, an ex-personal advisor to the former Prime Minister of the UK, a London investment banker and business owners with multi-million dollar turnovers.As a mindfulness trainer, he creates original and impactful sessions on emotional resilience and mindful leadership for world-class companies. He has worked with Tesco, Tata Steel, Cardiff University, the NHS, Breast Cancer Care, Jacobs and MotoNovo Finance. Chris has a Doctorate from Cardiff University and is a qualified Breathworks Mindfulness Trainer and a Richard Bandler certified NLP practitioner.In his former career, he was a Civil Engineer, working in the contracting, consulting and research sectors. His work has been published in international journals.Chris has been featured on National Radio in Wales for his mindfulness work, has written over 20 articles on Mindfulness and is in the process of writing his first book on coaching.When he isn't coaching, training or writing, he is continually learning about play, creativity, fun and laughter from his children, Aled and Anwen. He also enjoys triathlon and has completed an Ironman, a 10km charity swim and a 70km ultra run!

Gateway appears to have cracked the code at its Yandal Gold Project in Western Australia, with some cracking results. The upside now could be huge. Guest bio Richard Pugh is Chief Executive Officer of Gateway Mining Limited (ASX: GML), a Perth-based gold explorer whose flagship Yandal Gold Project covers 1,780 square kilometres on the eastern flank of the Yandal greenstone belt in Western Australia, alongside the Glenburgh South and Barrelmaker projects. Pugh is a geologist with more than 18 years of industry experience, having worked as a senior consulting geologist and exploration manager for ASX-listed explorers. He came to Gateway with the ground already familiar. As Technical Director of the Yandal Gold Project at Strickland Metals, he ran the work that turned Millrose from an unloved asset into a $61 million sale to Northern Star Resources, and led the drilling at Horse Well that more than doubled the resource there and established what controls the gold along the belt. Gateway acquired the Yandal project from Strickland in August 2025 for $45 million in convertible preference shares, and Pugh was appointed Chief Executive Officer shortly afterwards. Pugh holds a Bachelor of Science in Exploration and Resource Geology from Cardiff University and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, acting as Competent Person under the JORC Code for the company's results. He works alongside Executive Chairman Andrew Bray, a foundation shareholder and former Chief Executive Officer of Strickland Metals, and Non-Executive Directors Anthony McClure, David Morgan and David Crook. Produced by Resource Media The Hole Truth: Mining Investment Podcast is a product of Read Corporate. Please note that Read Corporate does not provide investment advice and investors should seek personalised advice before making any investment decisions. Resources LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/the-hole-truth-podcast YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI4sZkSfEpPi_u7OrD7lQ-tZHbdy6EhCC Website: https://resourcesrisingstars.com.au/the-hole-truth-podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theholetruthpodcast/ Company website: https://www.gatewaymining.com.au/ Key Insights Five years of watching where gold sits, and where it doesn't, produced a four-box checklist. Pugh frames the Cowza discovery as an overnight success five years in the making. Working across Millrose and Horse Well from 2021, he and his team noticed that the deposits behaving best were the ones sitting on a particular contact. Palomino and Warmblood, the two largest at Horse Well, sit on a mafic-intermediate contact, run high grade, plunge north and remain open in fresh rock. Bronco and Marwari, formed in the footwall, carried good oxide and transitional gold but had no contact for the gold to drop out against, so they stayed shallow. From those observations came four criteria: the mafic-intermediate contact, evidence of fluid flow in the form of demagnetised zones where the fluid has stripped magnetite from the rock, northeast-trending structures creating the gaps for gold to settle into, and a position on the Celia Shear. Cowza jumped out of the dataset more than anywhere else. The first test of the thesis in fresh rock returned 41 metres at 2 grams per tonne. Cowza had been drilled in the 1990s by Eagle Mining, which found good oxide and transitional results in the southern part of the prospect but nothing with roots underneath. Gateway pulled the historic chips, sent them for multi-element analysis and found a single rock type with no mafic component, which said the contact they wanted was further east. Three lines of aircore on that contact returned 4 metres at 3 grams per tonne and 4 metres at 4.7 grams per tonne. Cowza ticked every box: 4.5 kilometres of demagnetisation, buffered against two northeast-trending structures on the Celia lineament, and now a proven mafic-intermediate contact. Six reverse circulation holes were then drilled into fresh rock beneath the oxide intercepts. The first punched through a 40-metre-wide shear zone and returned 41 metres at 2 grams per tonne gold from 104 metres, including 9 metres at 7.5 grams per tonne. As Pugh puts it, the hypothesis was right. The checklist travels, and there is more than 13 kilometres of strike to run it across. The value of a repeatable set of criteria is that it can be pointed at ground nobody has drilled. Gateway announced one such target on the morning of this interview: Pewy, a Cowza look-alike sitting south of the Ward prospect along the Celia Shear, with three kilometres of demagnetisation on the mafic-intermediate contact and no drill testing to date. Flanking aircore has already returned 8 metres at 1 gram per tonne to the south and 4 metres at 1.4 grams per tonne to the north, which Pugh reads as everything vectoring towards the demagnetised zone. With Cowza, Celia South and Ward's seven-kilometre trend, the known mineralised corridor runs beyond 13 kilometres and could stretch to 19 if the gap between Ward and Cowza fills in. Pugh's view on what that could amount to is unambiguous: Horse Well could be a million ounces in its own right, Cowza multi-million, and Pewy multi-million again. A $25 million raise that closed at $45 million, and a $60 million war chest behind a $230 million company. Gateway went to market for $25 million and came away with $45 million at 8 cents a share, lead managed by JP Equity Partners. The swing factor was London-based Jupiter Asset Management, an existing shareholder Pugh says was one of the few funds appearing on the register daily and actively picking up stock. Gateway had modelled Jupiter for $5 million to $10 million. It came in for $20 million. Add $15.1 million in cash and liquid securities, including $8.23 million banked from selling the Brightstar Resources shares Gateway received for the Montague East gold rights, and the company is carrying roughly $60 million against a market capitalisation of about $230 million. Ninety cents in every dollar goes to the new discovery and ten cents to tidying up the existing resources. Two diamond rigs arrive at the end of the month, around six rigs should be turning at Cowza by year end, Pewy drilling starts in October, and a 120,000-metre reverse circulation and diamond program is now funded. The existing 400,400 ounces still has a depth story, and Jundee is 50 kilometres away. The Yandal resource Gateway bought from Strickland stands at 8.17 million tonnes at 1.52 grams per tonne for 400,400 ounces, weighted to the Horse Well camp with Dusk 'til Dawn alongside it. That resource was built for a purpose, constraining as much oxide and transitional material as possible into $4,000 gold pit shells to around 140 metres depth, which is why the fresh rock below it has barely been tested. Palomino and Warmblood are both open at depth and down plunge. On the corporate question, Gateway sits about 50 kilometres from Northern Star's Jundee operations, and Pugh is straightforward that the same management group transacted the Millrose deal with Northern Star, making a sale one option among several. The bigger the company gets, the more options it has, and at multi-million ounces it could stand alone. Executive Chairman Andrew Bray has put more than $10 million of his own money into the register and takes no options or performance rights.

25 years after the deadly terror attacks on the World Trade Centre, is the world a safer place? Lord Peter Ricketts was working at the foreign office at the time. Far right party AfD won Sachsen-Anhalt's state election last weekend, whilst far right French party National Rally made a deal on migrants with Reform UK. Protests against migrants followed in Dover. Chief political editor at DW, Michaela Küfner and Cardiff University's Dr Marta Lorimer discuss the rise of the far right in Europe. Wales is not done with changing Senedd constituencies. Chief Executive of the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru, Shereen Williams joins us to encourage participation in their boundary review. Following terrible PISA results for Wales and a medical report highlighting the poor health of our children, Wales' first Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe and children's laureate Nicola Davies ponder what life is like for a child in Wales today. And September 16 is Owain Glyndwr day. To mark the occasion, author Paul Hughes is launching his book Glyndwr's People, all about those who served and lived around the so-called last true Prince of Wales.And continuing with our series meeting Welsh policitians, we have deputy speaker in the House of Lords, Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaff.

Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. In this episode I speak to Bethan Pell a PhD Student in Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences. Her Phd is focused on developing a theoretical understanding of Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence  (CAPVA) in the context of Wales.  I really enjoyed this conversation and saw the potential for the use of her model to help practitioners and parents who are living with Child to parent violence understand it and address it.  You can read Bethan's research here and can contact Bethan here. As always if you've experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com  

Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. In this episode I speak to Bethan Pell a PhD Student in Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences. Her Phd is focused on developing a theoretical understanding of Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA) in the context of Wales.  I really enjoyed this conversation and saw the potential for the use of her model to help practitioners and parents who are living with Child to parent violence understand it and address it.  You can read Bethan's research here and can contact Bethan here. As always if you've experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com  

The team are taking a belated summer break this week, so instead of our usual show, we've unlocked a Patreon bonus episode with Pat Younge.Pat is a former Chief Creative Officer for BBC Television production and former President/General Manager of US cable network, Travel Channel Media. Pat served on the board as Non Executive Director of ITV Studios Ltd from 2020-2024 and is the Chair of the Council of Cardiff University. He's also one of the founding members of the Over/Under podcast.Want to hear more bonus episodes? Support us on ⁠⁠www.patreon.com/OverTheTopUnderTheRadar⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠to listen to our back catalogue and become a part of our members-only WhatsApp community.Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠info@overunderpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up to the newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.overunderpod.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on all socials @‌over_under_pod_

My guests for this episode are Jamie Lewis and Andrew Bartlett. Jamie is a Reader in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and Andrew is based at the School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations at Sheffield University. They joined me to discuss their new book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science. The book examines the Bigfooting community sociologically. Using concepts from Science and Technology Studies (STS) as well as cultural sociology, Jamie and Andrew shed new light on what it is to do ‘science', what it is to behave ‘scientifically', and where the borders of legitimate scientific practice lie. Through detailed interviews with Bigfooters themselves, this book explores the ways in which the Bigfooting community makes sense of traces and absences to make knowledge claims that are acceptable to those within that community. It also shows how Bigfooters, in the face of scepticism, attempt to render Bigfoot a proper object of scientific inquiry outside of their own circle. In the interview I talk with Jamie and Andrew about how the idea for the book came about, after which we discuss the subject matter itself; the early history and legacy of bigfooting, the methods and techniques Bigfooters use to make knowledge claims, the challenges they face to legitimise their endeavours, and how they navigate and contextualise hoaxes. To find out more about Jamie and Andy, please visit their respective university website profile pages: Jamie: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/lewisjt1 Andy: https://sheffield.ac.uk/spir/people/academic/andy-bartlett You can find out more about their book from the publisher, Routledge. Their article The Shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims is available here. If you enjoy what I do with Some Other Sphere and would like to support its upkeep, you can make a donation via Ko-fi. To buy the podcast a coffee go to https://ko-fi.com/someotherspherepodcast. Thank you!   The podcast theme music is by The Night Monitor, from his album, ‘Close Encounters of the Pennine Kind'. You can find out more about The Night Monitor's music at https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com/.  

Zamysleli ste sa niekedy nad tým, prečo je práve slovenský med taký kvalitný a čo všetko sa dá z pohára medu vyčítať vďaka modernej vede? Odpovede na tieto otázky pozná Juraj Majtán, mikrobiológ, vedúci Laboratória apidológie a apiterapie v Ústave molekulárnej biológie SAV, v. v. i., dlhoročný včelár a jeden z popredných svetových expertov na výskum medu.V rozhovore sa dozviete, ako sa mikrobiológ bez rodinnej včelárskej tradície stal včelárom a ako mu táto skúsenosť pomohla lepšie porozumieť vlastnému výskumu. Juraj Majtán vedie projekt Medového laboratória, vďaka ktorému sa Slovensko stalo prvou krajinou v Európskej únii s akreditovanou metódou stanovenia antibakteriálnej aktivity medu, teda schopnosti rozpoznať a otestovať jeho liečivý potenciál. Slovenské medy pravidelne získavajú medzinárodné ocenenia, no chýba väčšia marketingová podpora tejto vzácnej komodity.Nevyhneme sa téme falšovania medu, čo je mimoriadne veľký problém: podľa analýz je v Európe podozrivá takmer polovica dovezeného medu. Reč príde na medicínsky med, ktorý je sterilizovaný gama žiarením a určený priamo na hojenie rán, a porozprávame sa aj o ďalších včelích produktoch, ako je propolis, materská kašička či včelí chlieb (perga) označovaný za superpotravinu.Dozviete sa nielen to, ako medu rozumieť v bežnom živote, ako ho správne skladovať a prečo kryštalizácia nie je chyba, ale aj to, či je v poriadku med mraziť. Juraj Majtán otvorene hovorí o tom, čo na Slovensku v oblasti výskumu chýba. Podľa neho je to predovšetkým chuť aktívne vyhľadávať praktické využitie vedeckých poznatkov, ako to sám zažil počas svojho pôsobenia na univerzite v Oxforde.Ing. Juraj Majtán, DrSc., MBA, FIFST. FRSB, je vedúci laboratória apidológie a apiterapie v Ústave molekulárnej biológie SAV. Za svoje úspechy v základnom, ako aj aplikovanom výskume získal Podporný fond Štefana Schwarza. V roku 2010 získal ocenenie Early Career Researcher z Cardiff University. Pôsobí ako lektor Slovenského zväzu včelárov a je zakladateľom Slovenskej apiterapeutickej spoločnosti. Je členom komisie pre kvalitu a bezpečnosť včelích produktov Európskej včelárskej organizácie (EBA). Je zakladateľom projektu Medové laboratórium, ktoré získalo niekoľko prestížnych národných ocenení, ako je Zlatý kosák (Agrokomplex, 2022) a Cena za transfer technológií na Slovensku v kategórii počin v oblasti transferu technológií (CVTI SR, 2022). O podcastePodcast Veda na dosah vznikol preto, aby sa k slovu dostali naše odborníčky a naši odborníci. Slovenská veda je plná osobností, ktoré denne objavujú svet, aby sa nám mohlo ľahšie žiť. V epizódach môžete počuť výskumníkov z rôznych vedeckých oblastí.Všetky podcasty Veda na dosah sú dostupné na stránke vedanadosah.sk, na YouTube CVTI SR, cez aplikácie Spotify a Apple Podcasts a na ďalších streamovacích platformách.Nahrávanie podcastu prebehlo v priestoroch NIVaM. Podcasty z oblasti školstva si môžete vypočuť na https://nivam.sk/?s=podcast.

Look closely at the Bayeux Tapestry and you will see a medieval spy.But far from the world of James Bond gadgetry, what was medieval spycraft like? Why were they referred to as 'little birds'? And why were women often used in medieval espionage?Joining Anthony and Maddy today is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University and expert in all things medieval spycraft, Jenny Benham.This episode was edited by Hannah Feodorov. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer is Freddy Chick.Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards. Click to place your vote on the Spotify mobile app: https://open.spotify.com/s/xhg6PJaSign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards. Click to place your vote on the Spotify mobile app: https://open.spotify.com/s/xhg6PJa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A city shrouded in myth, which was purported to contain the Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens. It's mentioned over two hundred times in the Bible but what does Babylon mean today? A decadent destination? A lost location? A misunderstood metropolis? Richard Littledale discusses this with the Reverend Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones from the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. He's the author of “Babylon. The Mother of all Cities”

In this episode we explore the draft NICE guideline for PMOS (formerly known as PCOS), out for public consultation until 11 August 2026. We're joined by guideline committee members Aled Rees, professor of endocrinology at Cardiff University, and Sharon Manship, a lay member with lived experience of PMOS. Together they discuss how the recent name change, a new annual review, and a stronger focus on earlier diagnosis could transform care for the estimated 1 in 8 women living with the condition. Learn more: https://www.nice.org.uk/news/articles/nice-recommends-annual-review-for-pmos-in-new-draft-guideline-aimed-at-improving-diagnosis-and-care Read the draft guideline: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10436/consultation/html-content-9

In this episode of Meet the Professionals, Eve speaks with Professor Marcela Votruba, Professor of Ophthalmology at Cardiff University and Consultant Ophthalmologist at University Hospital Wales, where she leads a specialist genetic eye clinic.Together, they explore the vital role ophthalmologists play in diagnosing and supporting people living with inherited retinal diseases. Marcela explains the differences between ophthalmologists and optometrists, how referrals work, what happens during the diagnostic process, and the range of tests used to diagnose inherited retinal conditions.The conversation also covers what support is available following diagnosis, why some patients are discharged from regular ophthalmology care, when re-referral may be appropriate, and how ophthalmologists collaborate with researchers, genetic counsellors, Eye Care Liaison Officers (ECLOs), rehabilitation specialists and other professionals.This episode offers valuable insight for anyone living with inherited sight loss, supporting a loved one, or wanting to better understand the clinical care pathway and the professionals involved.

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During this year's visit to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London, Tom Whipple discovers how sea urchins are being used to develop techniques to digitally preserve natural history, why we haven't got robot butlers just yet, and what it takes to bottle lightning. Plus, in his ongoing quest to assemble a World Cup squad of science Tom recruits health reporter James Gallagher to scout out the best football science from around the world. This week, we want to know if there is robust evidence for a home advantage. We speak with Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology Laura Porro from University College London, Dr Alice Leavey and Dr Fernando Alvares from the University of Southampton, Professor Ingmar Posner who leads the Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Oxford and Dr Daniel Mitchard who is co-lead of Cardiff University's Lightning Laboratory. Presenter: Tom Whipple Producers: Katie Tomsett, Kate White & Tabby Taylor Buck Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

In this presentation, Dr Asma Shahin Khan explores insights gathered while developing an online course on Muslim mental health at Cardiff University's Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK. Drawing on interviews with mental health experts, she identifies key themes around using Islamic knowledge in treatment, community-based support, and the barriers and stereotypes British Muslims face when accessing mental health services.

In a programme examining the origins and tracing the history of the Middle East conflict, presenter Jonny Dymond is joined by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, professor in ancient history at Cardiff University, and historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography. They discuss the value of the Bible as a guide to history, the concept of a “promised land”, the archaeological record of the various peoples who lived in the region in ancient times, the coming of the Romans, and the Jewish revolts against them in the first and second centuries AD.

What will a Burnham premiership mean for Wales? Former Labour communications advisor Scarlett MccGwire discusses. With a new party in government, what is the future of transport in Wales? Cardiff University's Mark Barry and the new deputy minister for transport, Mark Hooper are in the studio. We've had the hottest June on record and climate change is getting the blame. Professor Hayley Fowler from Newcastle University tells us why. And it's the 150th anniversary of the battle of Little Big Horn in Montana, USA. Journalist and author Mike Lewis knows about a Welsh connection.Our interviews with new members of the Senedd continue: this week we have one of Plaid Cymru's three Rhondda Cynon Merthyr MSs, Sara Crowley.

Welcome to Science Quest!

In the Declaration of Independence, signed on 4th July 1776, King George III is cast as a 'tyrant'. How fair is this representation?  In this episode, Kew Palace curator Polly Putnam is joined by Dr Rachel Herrmann, Senior Lecturer in Modern American History at Cardiff University, and Dr Robin Eagles, Editor at the History of Parliament Trust. Together, they explore George III's legacy in the United States of America, and whether this matches what we know about his reign. How much power did George have over the American colonies? Who is often left out of the story? And was he the 'tyrant' that he was made out to be?  Learn more about George III on our website.

Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer "Dr. Dust" Millard host.  Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. The idea that sparked a billion-dollar space telescope was recorded in the most unlikely of places: a scrap of paper fished out a pocket while gondolas sailed by in Venice. In this talk, award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator Steve Eales of Cardiff University takes us on the unlikely journey of the Herschel Space Observatory, the most sensitive far-infrared space telescope yet launched. This talk was recorded at the recent AstroCamp in Cwmdu, Wales.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

The idea that sparked a billion-dollar space telescope was recorded in the most unlikely of places: a scrap of paper fished out a pocket while gondolas sailed by in Venice. In this talk, award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator Steve Eales of Cardiff University takes us on the unlikely journey of the Herschel Space Observatory, the most sensitive far-infrared space telescope yet launched. This talk wes recorded at the recent AstroCamp in Cwmdu, Wales Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin

With two further ministerial resignations, this time in the ministry of defence, what now for the government and defence spending? Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis is with us to discuss. After two nights of rioting in Belfast following a horrific attack, Professor Dominic Bryan from Queen's Belfast University explains to us how we got here. Questions are being raised about how Plaid Cymru will fund their policies in government. We put them to Finance minister Elin Jones. With rural schools in Welsh-speaking communities closing, research fellow Catrin Llwyd looks at the use of the Welsh language in our communities. The Welsh government is naming its arm's length body for building social housing 'Unnos'. Dr Juliette Wood from Cardiff University tells us what a 'Ty Unnos' or house in one night really is.And in our series meeting new members of the Senedd, we have Plaid Cymru's Zaynub Akbar joining us in the studio.

Is there any power left in campaigning? Is university worth it? And what's happened to the World Cup song?Joining Carys is  Pat Younge. Pat is a former Chief Creative Officer for BBC Television production and former President/General Manager of US cable network, Travel Channel Media. Pat served on the board as Non Executive Director of ITV Studios Ltd from 2020-2024 and is the Chair of the Council of Cardiff University. He's also one of the founding members of the Over/Under podcast.Pat and Carys discuss how Elon Musk is using X to abuse his power, the bigger story around David Stroud and harassment law, why universities provide a societal benefit, and how Donald Trump's immigration rules are impacting the FIFA World Cup.Support us on ⁠www.patreon.com/OverTheTopUnderTheRadar⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - get bonus episodes, a weekly newsletter and become a part of our members-only WhatsApp community.Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠info@overunderpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up to the newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.overunderpod.com⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on all socials @‌over_under_pod_Links:https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464445https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/02/shrinking-graduate-premium-sours-views-on-university-poll-shows

Thomas had a great conversation with Marc Williams, a Welsh-speaking psychologist from Cardiff University, and one of few psychologists who, like Thomas, blends clinical and environmental psychology. Marc talked about his formative experiences growing up in West Wales and his recent research on environmental identity and evidence-based therapy for climate distress.

What really went down in the Garden of Eden? Was there an apple? Was there a snake? Was the 'original sin' all that bad?To answer these questions and more, Kate is joined by Dr Dylan Johnson, biblical scholar and historian of the Ancient Near East at Cardiff University. His most recent publication is 'Lawgiving in the ancient Near East'.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.Betwixt the Sheets: History of Sex, Scandal & Society is a History Hit podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three months into the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, we find out about the 20,000 sailors trapped on board with dwindling resources and minimal health provision. We hear from Mohamed Arrachedi, Network Co-ordinator for the Arab World and Iran for the International Transport Workers' Federation, and Helen Sampson, Emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.News from the World Health Assembly where WHO member countries come together for form health policy for the year ahead. Global Health journalist Andrew Green reports.Lots of us love a video game, but for a few the games can start to take over their lives, and the impact of a gaming disorder can be very serious – especially for children. Our reporter Kate Ferguson reports from a specialist clinic in Western Australia to find out how they have been tackling the issue One in four surveyed doctors thought preservation was likely to work in the future, but how might we be preserved and why would we want to be? We unpack the reality of what's possible now and what might be next.Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Hannah Robins, Clare Salisbury, Researcher: Scarlett VictoriaThis programme was edited on 29/05/2026

Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth has been confirmed as Wales' first minister, calling it "the greatest privilege of my life".Born in Tonteg in south-east Wales, ap Iorwerth moved to Anglesey as a young child. His father was a teacher, prominent singer and composer, and an active campaigner for Plaid Cymru. His mother was also a teacher and went on to become president of several organisations promoting the Welsh language.After graduating from Cardiff University ap Iorwerth became a journalist and spent two decades as a reporter and presenter with BBC Wales. But in 2013, following the death of his mother, he left broadcasting and successfully contested the Ynys Môn by-election, winning the Anglesey seat in the Senedd.When the Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price resigned in 2023 ap Iorwerth quickly emerged as the obvious successor for many in the party. He was elected unopposed, at the age of 50. Three years later he has become the first Welsh minister from Plaid Cymru. Presenter: Becky Milligan Producers: Annabel Deas and Bethan Ashmead Editor: Justine Lang Production Coordinators: Maria Ogundele, Sabine Schereck Sound Designer: James Beard

With Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting gunning for Sir Keir Starmer's job, Labour's Lord Peter Hain explains how his party got into such a bind. Plaid Cymru's first ever Welsh government has been formed. New culture and sport minister Heledd Fychan joins us in the studio. Reform gained 34 Senedd members in last week's election. Their leader Dan Thomas tells us his plans for the seventh Senedd. Where Reform succeeded, the Conservatives failed. Why? Former Conservative secretary of state for Wales Robert Buckland has ideas what went wrong, and how to put it right. And 100 years after the 1926 general strike came to an end, reader Stephanie Ward of Cardiff University reminds us how it all unfolded, and its significance.Two new Senedd members join us to tell us all about themselves: married couple Gwyn Williams and Safa Elhassan, two of Plaid Cymru's three members for Gwyr Abertawe.

Richard Tait CBE is Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University. Previously he was editor of Newsnight, Channel 4 News, Editor-in-Chief of ITN, and a BBC governor, trustee and chair of the Trust's editorial standards committee. In this episode we talk about the letter of advice he's written to the incoming BBC Director General, Matt Brittin – including the key appointment he believes is essential and how the BBC's priorities need to shift.We also explore how the world of journalism has changed, from navigating fake news and political spin to the reported decline in international coverage on BBC News at Ten and the role of the BBC board. We discuss the importance of the BBC defending itself – and whether, in spite of everything, journalism is still a career worth pursuing. To support our journalism and receive a weekly blog sign up now for £1.99 per month www.patreon.com/BeebWatch/membership @beebwatch.bsky.social@BeebRogerInstagram: rogerboltonsbeebwatchLinkedIn: Roger Bolton's Beeb Watchemail: roger@rogerboltonsbeebwatch.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CrowdScience listeners Dougie and Molly have been wondering what happens to animals when they die, and whether there are animals that hold rituals to mark the passing of one of their kin. Presenter Caroline Steel is on the case, trying to work out what happens to the bodies of animals when they die. Dougie and Molly say they rarely see animal carcasses where they live - so where do they all go? Dr Sarah Perkins of Cardiff University in the UK runs a research project called Roadlab, which logs how quickly the bodies of animals killed by traffic disappear, and she thinks she might have a clue. Caroline joins her on a hunt through the undergrowth for animals, and answers. And when animals lose a member of their flock, herd or school, do they indulge in rituals that look anything like a funeral? Caroline meets Dr Kaeli Swift, an ecologist at the University of Washington in the US, who has some surprising evidence from her research into bereaved crows. Meanhile, in Botswana, Mathale ‘Metal' Mosheti is a safari guide in Chobe National Park. The African Savannah Elephants there demonstrate some remarkable behaviour when another elephant dies. But do animals really grieve for their loved ones? Dr Barbara J. King, Emerita Professor of Anthropology at William & Mary University in the US, has some ideas. But is it enough to answer Dougie and Molly's question? Presenter: Caroline Steel Producer: Tom Bonnett Editor: Ben Motley(Photo: Little red sick bird canary inside a wheelbarrow pushed by a lizard. Credit: Fernando Trabanco/Getty Images)

What happens when we assume women's presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978, the newest addition to the Feminist Media Histories book series at the University of California Press. The first book by Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Texas A&M University, Archiving the Past is a fascinating account of some of the many women in France whose labor had a decisive role in the formation of cinema history across the twentieth century. Aurore shows that the film-historical archive has always been a site of feminist agency and power, even if women's work in and around the archive has been diminished, interrupted, erased, or ignored. In this conversation with fellow feminist film scholar Alix Beeston, Aurore shares about the historical, methodological, and political stakes of her work, from the archive to the classroom. She describes her process for discerning the traces of women's archival labor, however fleeting, contingent, or speculative they may be. She reflects on how gendered ideas and norms have defined—and limited—our sense of what counts as film-historical labor. And she ruminates on what it means for feminist scholars, in and beyond film and media studies, to collect and recollect the past—for the sake of the feminist present and its still-possible futures. Alix Beeston is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University. She's the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford UP, 2018) and the co-editor of the award-winning volume Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What happens when we assume women's presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978, the newest addition to the Feminist Media Histories book series at the University of California Press. The first book by Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Texas A&M University, Archiving the Past is a fascinating account of some of the many women in France whose labor had a decisive role in the formation of cinema history across the twentieth century. Aurore shows that the film-historical archive has always been a site of feminist agency and power, even if women's work in and around the archive has been diminished, interrupted, erased, or ignored. In this conversation with fellow feminist film scholar Alix Beeston, Aurore shares about the historical, methodological, and political stakes of her work, from the archive to the classroom. She describes her process for discerning the traces of women's archival labor, however fleeting, contingent, or speculative they may be. She reflects on how gendered ideas and norms have defined—and limited—our sense of what counts as film-historical labor. And she ruminates on what it means for feminist scholars, in and beyond film and media studies, to collect and recollect the past—for the sake of the feminist present and its still-possible futures. Alix Beeston is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University. She's the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford UP, 2018) and the co-editor of the award-winning volume Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

What happens when we assume women's presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978, the newest addition to the Feminist Media Histories book series at the University of California Press. The first book by Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Texas A&M University, Archiving the Past is a fascinating account of some of the many women in France whose labor had a decisive role in the formation of cinema history across the twentieth century. Aurore shows that the film-historical archive has always been a site of feminist agency and power, even if women's work in and around the archive has been diminished, interrupted, erased, or ignored. In this conversation with fellow feminist film scholar Alix Beeston, Aurore shares about the historical, methodological, and political stakes of her work, from the archive to the classroom. She describes her process for discerning the traces of women's archival labor, however fleeting, contingent, or speculative they may be. She reflects on how gendered ideas and norms have defined—and limited—our sense of what counts as film-historical labor. And she ruminates on what it means for feminist scholars, in and beyond film and media studies, to collect and recollect the past—for the sake of the feminist present and its still-possible futures. Alix Beeston is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University. She's the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford UP, 2018) and the co-editor of the award-winning volume Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when we assume women's presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978, the newest addition to the Feminist Media Histories book series at the University of California Press. The first book by Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Texas A&M University, Archiving the Past is a fascinating account of some of the many women in France whose labor had a decisive role in the formation of cinema history across the twentieth century. Aurore shows that the film-historical archive has always been a site of feminist agency and power, even if women's work in and around the archive has been diminished, interrupted, erased, or ignored. In this conversation with fellow feminist film scholar Alix Beeston, Aurore shares about the historical, methodological, and political stakes of her work, from the archive to the classroom. She describes her process for discerning the traces of women's archival labor, however fleeting, contingent, or speculative they may be. She reflects on how gendered ideas and norms have defined—and limited—our sense of what counts as film-historical labor. And she ruminates on what it means for feminist scholars, in and beyond film and media studies, to collect and recollect the past—for the sake of the feminist present and its still-possible futures. Alix Beeston is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University. She's the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford UP, 2018) and the co-editor of the award-winning volume Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

What happens when we assume women's presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978, the newest addition to the Feminist Media Histories book series at the University of California Press. The first book by Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Texas A&M University, Archiving the Past is a fascinating account of some of the many women in France whose labor had a decisive role in the formation of cinema history across the twentieth century. Aurore shows that the film-historical archive has always been a site of feminist agency and power, even if women's work in and around the archive has been diminished, interrupted, erased, or ignored. In this conversation with fellow feminist film scholar Alix Beeston, Aurore shares about the historical, methodological, and political stakes of her work, from the archive to the classroom. She describes her process for discerning the traces of women's archival labor, however fleeting, contingent, or speculative they may be. She reflects on how gendered ideas and norms have defined—and limited—our sense of what counts as film-historical labor. And she ruminates on what it means for feminist scholars, in and beyond film and media studies, to collect and recollect the past—for the sake of the feminist present and its still-possible futures. Alix Beeston is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University. She's the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford UP, 2018) and the co-editor of the award-winning volume Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies

Is the world sitting on a ticking time bomb? CrowdScience listener Christel recently watched a documentary about a volcanic eruption in 536 AD that left her native Sweden under a cloud of ash for three years. It got her thinking, do we know when this could happen again?With more than 300 volcanoes – and 24 of them listed as currently active – the Philippines is a country where trying to predict eruptions has huge real world consequences.Presenter Anand Jagatia travels to Manila to meet the scientists at PHIVOLCS, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, including the head of their Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Prediction Division, Mariton Antonia Bornas, to find out how they try to predict volcanic activity in the country and help make sure communities are evacuated out of harm's way.He travels with the team to Taal volcano, which experienced violent eruptions in 2020 and has been active again this year, to visit the observatory monitoring for signs of future activity and to hike to the main crater of the volcano with resident volcanologist Paolo Reniva.He also speaks to Dr George Cooper from Cardiff University in the UK about what makes a volcano a supervolcano, and to ask the all important question of if we know when this will happen again.Presenter: Anand JagatiaProducer: Dan WelshEditor: Ben Motley(Photo: Smoke Emitting From Volcanic Mountain Against Sky - stock photo -EyeEm Mobile GmbH via Getty Images)

How did the far right go from illegitimate fringe to contender for public office, and did Europe have anything to do with it? Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and Far Right Legitimation in France and Italy (Oxford UP, 2024) argues that European integration functioned as an ideological resource for far right parties looking for legitimation because it enabled them to refashion their political message in a more acceptable form, while maintaining the allegiance of their existing supporters.Drawing on the qualitative analysis of over 400 documents produced by the Movimento Sociale Italiano/Alleanza Nazionale in Italy (1978-2009) and the Rassemblement National in France (1978-2019), Lorimer identifies the core concepts and discourses the parties used to talk about Europe, and the legitimation mechanisms associated with them. The book's narrative is developed through the analysis of four key concepts: the concept of identity, which enabled the parties to transnationalise their message and create a positive association between themselves and Europe; the concept of liberty, which made it possible for them to foster an image of actors holding uncontroversial positions; the concept of threat, which helped them promote the idea that 'desperate times call for desperate measures; and the concept of national interest, which helped them stress commitment to core principles in their ideology.Ever since its re-emergence on the European political scene, scholars have sought to explain the mainstreaming of the far right. By understanding how the process of European integration facilitated its transition from the margins to the mainstream, this book adds one piece to the puzzle of far right legitimation. Marta Lorimer is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, where she teaches on European politics and populism, and co-editor of the journal Political Research Exchange. Her research on far-right politics and European integration has been published widely, including in the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

How did the far right go from illegitimate fringe to contender for public office, and did Europe have anything to do with it? Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and Far Right Legitimation in France and Italy (Oxford UP, 2024) argues that European integration functioned as an ideological resource for far right parties looking for legitimation because it enabled them to refashion their political message in a more acceptable form, while maintaining the allegiance of their existing supporters.Drawing on the qualitative analysis of over 400 documents produced by the Movimento Sociale Italiano/Alleanza Nazionale in Italy (1978-2009) and the Rassemblement National in France (1978-2019), Lorimer identifies the core concepts and discourses the parties used to talk about Europe, and the legitimation mechanisms associated with them. The book's narrative is developed through the analysis of four key concepts: the concept of identity, which enabled the parties to transnationalise their message and create a positive association between themselves and Europe; the concept of liberty, which made it possible for them to foster an image of actors holding uncontroversial positions; the concept of threat, which helped them promote the idea that 'desperate times call for desperate measures; and the concept of national interest, which helped them stress commitment to core principles in their ideology.Ever since its re-emergence on the European political scene, scholars have sought to explain the mainstreaming of the far right. By understanding how the process of European integration facilitated its transition from the margins to the mainstream, this book adds one piece to the puzzle of far right legitimation. Marta Lorimer is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, where she teaches on European politics and populism, and co-editor of the journal Political Research Exchange. Her research on far-right politics and European integration has been published widely, including in the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

How did the far right go from illegitimate fringe to contender for public office, and did Europe have anything to do with it? Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and Far Right Legitimation in France and Italy (Oxford UP, 2024) argues that European integration functioned as an ideological resource for far right parties looking for legitimation because it enabled them to refashion their political message in a more acceptable form, while maintaining the allegiance of their existing supporters.Drawing on the qualitative analysis of over 400 documents produced by the Movimento Sociale Italiano/Alleanza Nazionale in Italy (1978-2009) and the Rassemblement National in France (1978-2019), Lorimer identifies the core concepts and discourses the parties used to talk about Europe, and the legitimation mechanisms associated with them. The book's narrative is developed through the analysis of four key concepts: the concept of identity, which enabled the parties to transnationalise their message and create a positive association between themselves and Europe; the concept of liberty, which made it possible for them to foster an image of actors holding uncontroversial positions; the concept of threat, which helped them promote the idea that 'desperate times call for desperate measures; and the concept of national interest, which helped them stress commitment to core principles in their ideology.Ever since its re-emergence on the European political scene, scholars have sought to explain the mainstreaming of the far right. By understanding how the process of European integration facilitated its transition from the margins to the mainstream, this book adds one piece to the puzzle of far right legitimation. Marta Lorimer is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, where she teaches on European politics and populism, and co-editor of the journal Political Research Exchange. Her research on far-right politics and European integration has been published widely, including in the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

From Spinoza's thinking and the approach of different religions to the Dickens' character Uriah Heep and the "humble brag" - in Radio 4's late night ideas discussion programme Matthew Sweet and guests explore humility.Lamorna Ash is a writer and journalist and the author of Don't Forget We're Here Forever, which explores what it means to be a Christian for young people throughout the UK today and reflected on her own journey into faith.Sir Robert Buckland is the former Conservative MP for South Swindon, a former Lord Chancellor and Solicitor General. He is a practicing barrister with Foundry Chambers, a visiting law professor at the LSE and the Third Church Estates Commissioner.Aaron Reeves is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and co author of Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite with Sam Friedman.Ceri Sullivan is a Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. Her research has encompassed the managerial techniques presented in Shakespeare's history plays, pragmatism in literary texts and devotional poetry.Dr Dan Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Thought at the Open University. He is the author of Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom and is involved in long term projects with long-term projects examining inclusion and housing in Barking and Dagenham; unpaid care in Gateshead; and community in the Fens.Producer: Ruth Watts

In this episode of the Dyslexia Explored Podcast, hosts Darius Namdaran and Jo Lee speak with Alexander Molokwu, founder of Loujo, about using memorable, AI-generated songs to help dyslexic children learn curriculum content and improve retention. Alex shares how he discovered his dyslexia while studying neuroscience at Cardiff University, how educational songs helped him memorize complex material, and how supporting his niece's struggles inspired Loujo. He explains how schools and parents can create tailored songs in different genres within 30 seconds, paired with quizzes and curriculum-aligned datasets, and discusses reported results including a 30% retention increase over text-based learning. Alex describes trials in primary and secondary schools, broader applications including autism and language learning, his accelerator experiences and grants, and invites listeners to trial Loujo and connect schools to the platform.This podcast is sponsored by ivvi. Visual Notes for Visual Thinkers.Get ivvi notes now: ⁠⁠https://www.ivvi.app/Links: Ivvi: https://www.ivvi.app/ What is Dyslexia: https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyslexia/about-dyslexia/what-is-dyslexia How to Mindmap: https://www.bulletmapacademy.com/mindmap-beginners Luojo X: https://x.com/LearnwithLoujoFacebook: http://facebook.com/LearnwithLoujoInstagram: http://instagram.com/learnwithloujoLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/octananna-ltd-loujoWebsite: https://loujo.ai/British Dyslexia Association: https://www.bdadyslexia.org.ukSEND: https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs SEN Support: https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs/special-educational-needs-supportDisabled Students Allowance: https://www.ivvi.app/dsa-for-dyslexia Digital catapult: https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/ innovate UK: https://www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk/ Interested in being a guest? Email us at ⁠jo@ivvi.app

You know those people that you could listen to forever? Well for me, Dr. Matt Morgan is such a person. Like one of those "who would you invite to dinner if you could choose anyone" types. So interesting, so many good stories and such a good human. Also, a brilliant communicator (not always the case with brainiacs). This chat went far and wide from NDE's (near-death experiences) to participating in his own living funeral (sounds morbid but was fascinating), to what happens in the brain the moment people die (and just after), to delivering the news to people that their loved one has just died and an incredibly weird (and unknown by me) fact about kangaroos. So random. BIO: Matt Morgan is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and Curtin University, and a regular columnist for the BMJ. Following a PhD in artificial intelligence, he has authored more than 50 scientific papers and written widely for publications including The Guardian and Esquire. Matt is a sought-after speaker and media commentator, appearing on outlets from BBC and CNN to The Today Programme. His books include Critical, about life inside the ICU, One Medicine, exploring how animal biology informs human health, and A Second Act, about surviving cardiac arrest. He lives in Cardiff with his family and loves ice cream. Enjoy. drmattmorgan.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Azim Ahmed hosts a panel discussion with a live audience recorded on 27th February at BBC Wales in Cardiff Central Square to mark Ramadan 2026. Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, marked by a month of fasting and prayer. But what's it like to work in the media industry during this time? Azim Ahmed is joined by a panel of media professionals to hear first-hand what it is like. Is it difficult to balance fasting with work? Do Muslims face stereotypes in the work place? How do media professionals balance their work with their faith and what can we can we expect from religious broadcasting? On the panel Azim is joined by Mariyah Zaman, the co-founder of 'Now in a Minute Media' an independent media platform for and by Welsh Muslims. Shafin Basheer is an Assistant Producer at Slam Media. Dr Nadia Haq is a research fellow at Cardiff University. She looks at the representation of Muslims and Islam in the press from a journalistic perspective. Shazia Ali studied at the Cardiff School of Journalism and now works as a newsroom journalist at BBC Wales. The programme was recorded on 27th February.

We have all heard rumours that ancient religions used children in ritual sacrifice. But did it really happen? To discuss the evidence, Helen and Lloyd are joined in the Time Machine by Dr Eve MacDonald, lecturer at Cardiff University and author of the acclaimed, Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire (Penguin, 2025). Dr MacDonald answers questions like: Did human sacrifice really occur in the ancient world, and what does the archaeological evidence actually show?What happened in the Great Death Pit at Ur, and what does it reveal about ancient burial rituals?Why do ancient myths and biblical stories so often centre on the sacrifice of young girls?Did the Carthaginians really practise child sacrifice, and what does the evidence from the Tophet suggest?How did Greeks and Romans use accusations of shocking religious practices to demonise their enemies—and even early Christians?SUPPORT BIBLICAL TIME MACHINEIf you enjoy the podcast, please (pretty please!) consider supporting the show through the Time Travellers Club, our Patreon. We are an independent, listener-supported show (no ads!), so please help us continue to showcase high-quality biblical scholarship with a monthly subscription.Support the showTheme music written and performed by Dave Roos, creator of Biblical Time Machine. Season 4 produced by John Nelson.

We may have a new name but it's still time for another BIG and BRILLIANT adventure into the world of science on this week’s Science Quest! In Science in the News, scientists discover that Norwegian polar bears are healthier and fatter than ever, old boats are being sunk around the UK to create brand-new habitats for wildlife, and Meganne Christian from the UK Space Agency joins Dan to talk about the importance of women in science ahead of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It’s time for your questions too. One listener wants to know why cats meow, and language expert Mercedes Durham from Cardiff University explains why our planet is called Earth. Dangerous Dan is back with a strange and mysterious creature called the olm, and in Battle of the Sciences, things get rocky as Shaunna Morrison from Rutgers University makes the case for geoscience and why understanding the Earth beneath our feet really matters. Plus, in Geology Rocks: Earth’s History, join Finley on a journey through time to explore fossils, volcanoes, and how rocks helped form our planet and even our universe. What we learn about: Why cats meow How polar bears in Norway are doing and why it matters How sinking old boats can help wildlife Why women in science are so important The strange underground creature called the olm How rocks, fossils, and volcanoes reveal Earth’s history All that and more on this week’s Science Quest!Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get ready for another BIG and BRILLIANT journey through time, space, and the human mind on this week’s Science Weekly! We’re heading back to Ancient Egypt to unlock the secrets of hieroglyphics, a mysterious language that was lost for thousands of years. Then we zoom inside your head to explore the incredible science of the brain and how this squishy, sparky organ really works. In Science in the News, robotic dogs could soon be helping to fight wildfires, scientists in India have discovered a galaxy that’s an incredible 12 billion years old, and Dr Matilda Brindle joins Dan to investigate the science behind the very first human kiss, believed to date back millions of years. We also answer your questions... Charlie wants to know how race cars go so fast, and Mercedes Durham from Cardiff University explains why the Ancient Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphics. Dangerous Dan returns with a tiny dinosaur with a big reputation, the Compsognathus. And in Battle of the Sciences, Daniel Glaser makes the case for neurology, revealing the electrifying science that powers your brain. Plus, we head back to Deep Space High for Space For All, discovering what kinds of space careers are perfect for people who love languages. This week, we learn about: How hieroglyphics worked in Ancient Egypt How the human brain sends messages Robotic dogs and fighting wildfires A galaxy older than most of the universe The surprising history of the first kiss How race cars reach extreme speeds All that and more on this week’s Science Weekly!Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.