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Dr Sam Moxon, narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Sam examines the impact of the UK's shifting financial priorities on dementia research funding. While government-backed funds like Innovate UK, MRC, EPSRC, and UKRI face potential budget tightening, charities such as Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society & Race Against Dementia continue to play a crucial role. The blog highlights uncertainties ahead, suggesting increased competition for available grants, but reassures that the overall support for dementia research remains strong despite financial pressures. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-will-dementia-research-funding-weather-the-financial-storm/ #Grantfunding #Research #ResearchFunding -- Dr Sam Moxon is a biomaterials Research Fellow at University of Birmingham. His expertise falls on the interface between biology and engineering. His PhD focussed on regenerative medicine and he now works on trying to develop 3D bioprinting techniques with human stem cells, so that we better understand and treat degenerative diseases. Outside of the lab he hikes through the Lake District and is an expert on all things Disney. -- Enjoy listening and reading our blogs? We're always on the look out for new contributors, drop us a line and share your own research and careers advice dementiaresearcher@ucl.ac.uk This podcast is brought to you in association with the NIHR, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support. -- Follow us on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ https://twitter.com/demrescommunity https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social

Claire chatted to Anuradha Ranasinghe from Liverpool Hope University about haptic (touch) sensors for wearable tech and robotics. Anuradha Ranasinghe earned her PhD in robotics from King's College London in 2015, focusing on haptic-based human control in low-visibility conditions. She is now a senior lecturer in robotics at Liverpool Hope University, researching haptics, miniaturized sensors, and perception. Her work has received national and international media attention, including features by EPSRC, CBS Radio, Liverpool Echo, and Techxplore. She has published in leading robotics conferences and journals, and she has presented her findings at various international conferences. Join the Robot Talk community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ClaireAsher  

Inspiring Stories 049 - Dr Helen Bridle - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Helen is an Associate Professor in bioengineering at Heriot-Watt University and Director of Let's Do Engineering, an EPSRC funded engagement project designed to tackle stereotypes around engineering with interventions for children aged 3-7 years. In this episode we talk about: Overcoming the critical mindset surrounding perfectionism and people pleasing. Ensuring we don't use avoidance and procrastination tactics when it comes to feedback so it can be tackled constructively using the 4A's framework. Tools to overcome overwhelm and burnout and being back the intentionality in your career. Connect with Helen LinkedIn: Helen Bridle Kickstart your Intentional Careers Journey: Take the Career Accelerator Scorecard: https://scorecard.intentional-careers.com/strategy Register for a free Intentional Careers workshop: https://intentional-careers.com/workshop/ Read The Book 'Intentional Careers for STEM Women' Connect with Hannah Website: hannahnikeroberts.com LinkedIn: Hannah Roberts Coaching  Facebook: Dr Hannah Roberts X (Twitter) @HannahNikeR Instagram @drhannahroberts

Claire chatted to Steve Benford from the University of Nottingham all about art, dance, and cat sitting robots. Steve Benford is the Dunford Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham where he co-founded the Mixed Reality Laboratory. His research explores artistic applications of digital technologies through performance-led methods that engage artists in creating, touring and studying unique interactive experiences. He directs the EPSRC-funded Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training and the University's newly founded Cobot Maker Space that is exploring human interaction with robots. He is also a keen musician. Join the live audience! Robot Talk will be returning for another live episode recording this June, as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival in London. 'Humans 2.0: Robotically Augmented People' will be held at the V&A Museum at 1.30pm on Sunday 16th June. Win a Robot Talk T-shirt For a chance to win your very own organic cotton Robot Talk t-shirt, all you have to do is: Sign up to our newsletter Share our competition post on social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads or Mastodon You can enter across multiple platforms. One lucky winner will be randomly selected each month!  Find out more: https://www.robottalk.org/t-shirt-competition/.

This week, Claire chatted to Sina Sareh from the Royal College of Art all about industrial inspection, soft robotics, and robotic grippers. Sina Sareh is the Academic Leader in Robotics at Royal College of Art. He is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) in Robotics and Design Intelligence at RCA, and a Fellow of EPSRC, whose research develops technological solutions to problems of human safety, access, and performance involved in a range of industrial operations. Dr Sareh holds a PhD from the University of Bristol, 2012, and served as an impact assessor of Sub-panel 12: Engineering in the assessment phase of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

Graduated with first class with distinction degree in Applied Math from Kiev National University, Kiev, Ukraine (1975); did PhD in Astrophysics ‘Radiative transfer of solar prominences' at Main Astronomical Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine, viva in 1984. Worked as Researcher/Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer at KNU (1975-1994). In 1992 moved to Glasgow University, UK as Senior Research Fellow to investigate energetic particles in solar flares. Discovered sunquakes induced by flaring processes, published a paper in Nature, 1998 with wide media coverage. In 2000 moved to Bradford University as Lecturer, then Reader (2002) and Professor of Applied Mathematics (2005). Joined Northumbria University in September 2013 as Professor of Mathematics. Taught the key Maths and Physics modules. Published more then 200 papers, from which 3 papers in Nature group journals (during work at NU), one of the papers was predicting the modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2053). Published a monograph on particle kinetics, was an Editor a book on automated recognition and classification of digital images and the RHESSI book on high energy particles. Also published 18 chapters in other books. Received funding from European Commission, EPSRC, STFC, the Royal society, the RAS and US Airforce. At NU was the MPEE department Lead in international affairs (2014-2016) and in Equality and Diversity (2018-2020). About: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/z/valentina-zharkova/ Website: https://solargsm.com/ —— Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

EPISODE 41 of ‘All About Art': Quantum Physics & Art with Libby Heaney In this episode, I speak to the fabulous London-based contemporary artist Libby Heaney. Libby studied Physics at Imperial College London and has a PhD in Quantum Information Science from the University of Leeds. She spent 5 years working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore, leading her own research and publishing 20 papers on topics like quantum entanglement and quantum biology. In 2008, she won HSBC and the Institute of Physics Very Early Career Woman physicist of the year and a prestigious EPSRC postdoctoral fellowship. However, as you will hear later on in the episode, Libby retrained as an artist at Central St. Martins, graduating in 2015, and now works at the intersection of advanced technologies, science and art. She is widely recognized as a pioneer of quantum computing and art, receiving substantial international press for her artwork Ent-, which is a work we will discuss in depth later on. Thank you Libby for coming on the podcast! Follow Libby on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/libby_heaney_/ And have a look at the exhibitions and artists we discussed: The Calder Foundation: https://calder.org/exhibitions/ Fiumano Clase: https://www.fiumanoclase.com/exhibitions/30-libby-heaney-remiqxing-still/overview/ Elliot Walker, glass sculptor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Walker Laure Prouvost: https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/laure-prouvost You can support All About Art on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/allaboutart ABOUT THE HOST: I am an Austrian-American art historian, curator, and writer. I obtained my BA in History of Art at University College London and my MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London. My specializations include contemporary art, specifically feminism and artificial intelligence in artistic practice, as well as museum policies and arts engagement. Here are links to my social media, feel free to reach out: Instagram @alexandrasteinacker Twitter @alex_steinacker and LinkedIn at Alexandra Steinacker-Clark COVER ART: Lisa Schrofner a.k.a Liser www.liser-art.com

As the mental health crisis continues, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council are finding mental health researcher higher up their priority list. Philippa Hemmings, Head of Healthcare Technologies at the EPSRC tells the Mental Health Research Matters team how the EPS community can contribute to mental health research. She touches on the importance of interdisciplinary research, and how you shouldn't wait for the perfect funding call to come along. Find out more about EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/ Find out more about Mental Health Research Matters: www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk

How can mathematics contribute to mental health research? Although the two seem distinct, the connection is found in data. Mathematics can help make sense of complex, messy evolving data, helping to build a helpful bigger picture from multiple smaller snapshots. JJ speaks to Professor Terry Lyons, the principal investigator on EPSRC-funded DataSig, about how his work in mathematics led him to mental health research. He also talks about the importance of interdisciplinary research, and the role of the EPS community in mental health research. This is a fascinating episode from the #MentalHealthResearchMatters interdisciplinary podcast series. Thank you Terry for taking part. Find out more about DataSig: https://www.datasig.ac.uk/ Find out more about Mental Health Research Matters: www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk

The Mental Health Research Matters team spoke to Dr Aisling Ann O'Kane and Dr Amid Ayobi from the SPHERE project to find out more about human-computer interactions and mental health. Amid and Aisling are part of a team of 100 researchers from different disciplines working on SPHERE - an EPSRC-funded project where participants use wearable or at-home sensors to monitor physical and mental health problems at home. These sensors can help researchers better understand physical and mental health conditions outside of a lab or hospital setting. Amid and Aisling discuss the importance of interdisciplinary research, researching health problems that serve and involve the communities you're trying to help, and share tips for early-career engineering and physical sciences researchers looking to get involved in mental health. Find out more about SPHERE here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/digital-health/research/sphere/ Find out more about #MentalHealthResearchMatters here: www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk

Adam Letchford is Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He has published over 85 articles in leading journals, and over 15 book chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals, including Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, and Operations Research. In 2006, he received an IBM Faculty Award and was made an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the OR Society. From 2008 to 2013, he co-ordinated the optimisation cluster of the LANCS Initiative. In 2013, he led a research programme on optimisation at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. From 2011-2018, he was director of NATCOR, the national doctoral training centre in OR. From 2017-2022, he was a member of the REF Subpanel on Mathematical Sciences. He is also a member of the EPSRC and URKI Future Leaders Peer Review Colleges. His research interest is in optimisation, including theory, algorithms, and applications. He concentrates mainly on integer programming and combinatorial optimisation, but also has some interest in global optimisation. He tends to work on exact methods rather than heuristics. He is interested in applications of optimisation not only in OR, but also in statistics, computer science, engineering and the physical sciences. He is known especially for his work on cutting planes and their application to vehicle routing and facility location problems.

Sind wir mal ehrlich: Quantentechnologie ist derzeit das Thema im Innovationsbereich. Und in der heutigen Podcastepisode wird mein heutiger Interview-Partner der Innovation unserer Zukunft genauer auf den Grund gehen. Im exklusiven Interview während unseres alljährlichen Zukunftskongresses spricht kein geringerer als Pete Shadbolt über seinen Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer und Zukunftsvisionären. Als Mitbegründer von PsiQuantum, dem wohl bestfinanzierten Start-Up überhaupt, entwickelt er einen universell einsetzbaren Silizium-Quantencomputer und revolutioniert damit die heutige und zukünftige Quantentechnologie. Für seine Erfindung erhielt er unter anderem den EPSRC "Rising Star" 2014 des British Research Council, den EPSRC Recognizing Inspirational Scientists and Engineers Award und den European Physics Society Thesis Prize.Wie sieht unsere Welt in 10 Jahren aus? Welche Länder gelten als Big Bosses im Quantengeschäft und inwieweit kann Quantenphysik unseren Alltag verändern? All das hört Ihr in meiner neuen Folge, macht euch auf einen Quantensprung der Technik bereit! Hat Dich das Thema der Quantentechnologie überzeugt, informiere Dich hier weiter über PsiQuantum: https://psiquantum.com/. Für weitere Aufzeichnungen des Zukunftskongresses 2021 kannst Du gerne in der Future.me Membership nachschauen. Sichere Dir dazu nur noch für kurze Zeit die Membership-Aktion: https://event.2bahead.de/s/2bAHEAD/future-me-membership-aktion-1-monat/payment  Oder sichere Dir direkt Tickets für den Zukunftskongress 2022 am 20./21. Juli in München an! Sei live dabei und sichere Dir Dein Ticket unter: https://zukunftskongress.2bahead.com. 

Welcome to Season 3 of Code for Thought!In this episode, I met with 7 of the new EPSRC fellows in the UK. EPSRC stands for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The EPSRC fellowship has been pivotal in putting research software engineering (RSE) firmly on the map in universities and research centres. RSE has become a recognised role not only in the UK, but also in an increasing number of countries around the globe.I had the pleasure and privilege to meet with some of the new fellows last autumn. As you will hear from my discussion with Eilis, Heather, Carlin, Tom, Jamie, Peter and Ed - they bring a lot of interesting and different hopes, ideas and aspirations to their fellowship. https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/ Support the Show.Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastadon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

In this episode released to coincide with Transport Day at COP26, we focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by decarbonising transport. Claire Spooner, Head of Decarbonising Transport at EPSRC guest hosts and is joined by UKERC Co-Directors Prof. Jillian Anable, University of Leeds and Prof. Christian Brand, University of Oxford. To cover topics such as the impacts of COVID on transport, the ICE phase out date, active travel, international car ownership and what we can hope for from COP26.

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  Listen as Anne Whitehouse shares a motivational talk How to turn imposter syndrome on its head, quickly and easily with AGC Minneapolis March 2021. Learning Objectives: A radical new understanding on what causes imposter syndrome, low confidence, and the push pull that sabotage your success and impact in the world. Why conventional empowerment only plasters over the cracks. How to turn your imposter literally on its head, in the moment, and skyrocket confidence just when you need it. Speaker Bio: Dr Anne Whitehouse is an author, Legend Within speaker, a PhD scientist turned female power alchemist, FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts), and subconscious transformation expert. Above all, she is a passionate empoweree of women, dedicated to helping them achieve their full potential and success through activating their innate female brilliance. Anne studied at Jesus College, Cambridge University, graduating a scholar and multiple prize-winner with a first class honors degree in Natural Sciences. She won the 1990 Royal Charter Prize awarded by the Institute of Metals, as the top metallurgy graduate in the UK, then went on to gain a PhD and an EPSRC post-doctoral research fellowship. By 1996 she was a high-flying University Lecturer (College Professor) in Mechanics of Materials at a leading university's Engineering Department. In this environment, she came up against the Boys Club, struggled with confidence and suffered stress, anxiety and burnout, which ultimately caused her to leave her scientific career. Instead of accepting the situation, she embarked on a quest to understand what had caused her extreme reaction in a career for which she was eminently qualified and capable. After 20 years of research, applying her scientific approach to the subconscious world, and working with many high-achieving women, who had all gone through similar experiences, she developed a six-key, ground-breaking code for unlocking profound confidence by breaking free of old limitations set by the patriarchal systems encoded into our psyche. This life-changing process is described in her impactful bestselling book Pull Back Your Power, which offers techniques to release women from the hidden subconscious restraints that continue to sabotage their wellbeing and block success, despite the freedoms of the 21st century.  Anne works with high-achieving visionary women, facilitating life-changing workshops, talks, mastermind groups and one to one power alchemy, both online and worldwide. She lives near Leicester in the UK with her husband and son. AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

In this episode I speak with Richard Gunn and Sarah King from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).Recognising the work research software engineers do is one thing. But funding and supporting career paths in it quite another. In the UK,  the EPSRC together with the Science and Technology Facilities Council  (STFC) have provided fellowship programmes to help getting roles and career paths off the ground.Some links:EPSRC https://epsrc.ukri.orgHidden Ref and their work to recognise software contributions in scientific output https://hidden-ref.orgREF (Research Excellence Framework) in the UK https://www.ref.ac.ukSupport the Show.Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastadon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Caroline Kühn is a senior lecturer in the School of Education (Bath Spa University) and principal investigator of EPSRC funded project Understanding data: praxis and politics,  Follow Caroline  On Twitter: @carolak Caroline's blog: https://carolinekuhn.net/ The critical data literacies project: Datapraxis.net  Caroline's doctoral research key concept: Jenkins (2006)  participatory culture  theoretical framework(s): critical realism and realist social theory focus: engagement with digital technology, specifically open and participatory tools. Kühn Hildebrandt, C. (2019). Whose interest is educational technology serving? Who is included and who is excluded?. RIED: Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 22(1). http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ried/article/view/22293  Caroline's recommendations: Global OER Graduate Network  The GO_GN network: and on twitter – #GO_GN   DeRosa and Jianghini → Open Pedagogy Notebook: an interesting and excellent resource for Open Educational Practice ALT: Association for learning and technology. An excellent source for advice, interest groups, conferences, articles, etc.  Caroline is also interested in feminism from a Marxist perspective: Silvia Federici: feminist activist, writer, and teacher. YouTube talk: Witches, the Commons, reclaiming the body and discovering our power Blog post by Jodi Dean: Silvia Federici, The exploitation of women and the development of capitalism Interview with Nancy Fraser: Feminism in neoliberal times Audre Lorde, Paris Review presents an interesting account of Lorde's legacy. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Sorularını Sor: https://bit.ly/EmineYilmazaSorulariniSor Canlı yayın linki: https://bit.ly/KesisenYollarCanliYayin Kariyer sohbetlerini takip etmek için: https://bit.ly/2HuqQya Websitemiz: https://kesisenyollar.org/ Youtube kanalımızı takip etmek için:http://bit.ly/KesisenYollarYoutube Geri bildirimleriniz için:https://bit.ly/EmineYilmazYayiniGeriBildirim Prof. Dr. Emine Yılmaz Prof. Dr. Emine Yılmaz, University College London'da Profesör ve Turing Fellow olarak dogal dil isleme, makine öğrenmesi ve veri madenciliği üzerine çalışmalar yürütmektedir. Doktora öncesi eğitimini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'nde tamamladıktan sonra, eğitimine doktora ile Northeastern University' de devam etmiştir. Doktora sonrası araştırmalarına Microsoft'un Cambridge'deki arastirma labrotuarinda devam etmistir. Bugüne kadar araştırmaları yaklaşık olarak 1.5 milyon GBP fon toplamıştır. Akademik çalışmalarındaki başarısı 2015 yılında Karen Sparck Jones ve Google Faculty Research Award ödüllerine ve 2018 yılında Bloomberg Data Science ödülüne layık görülmüş, 2018-2025 arasi EPSRC fellow olarak secilmistir. University College London'daki akademik araştırmalarını sürdürürken 2019'a kadar Microsoft'ta Research Consultant olarak devam etmiş, Nisan 2019 itibariyle Amazon Scholar pozisyonunda Amazon Alexa ürününün çalışmalarına destek vermektedir.

1.8 billion people have access to electricity but still cook with biomass. Four million people die each year from Household Air Pollution.  “Clean cooking” means cooking using non-polluting fuels.  The Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme aims to rapidly accelerate the transition from biomass to clean cooking on a global scale. To understand the problem, and what they are doing to facilitate change, we are joined by four experts from the programme, Prof Ed Brown, Nick Rousseau and Anh Tran from Loughborough University and Simon Batchelor Director of Gamos Ltd. Join them to hear about the challenges they see and find how you can partner with them to drive innovation in clean cooking. If you want to find out more about the MECS programme and explore how you could get involved, email n.rousseau@lboro.ac.uk (mailto:n.rousseau@lboro.ac.uk) In addition to the panel discussion, we have recorded interviews with some of our partners in Kenya so you can hear their perspective on the work and why it is exciting the interest of both cooks and utility companies. An interview by Dr Jon Leary with Mourine Cheruiyot, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) https://youtu.be/NCJ11SZFhNM An interview by Dr Jon Leary with Warimu Njehia, Kenya Light and Power Company (KPLC) https://youtu.be/s2QfT3xIA80 About our panel Ed Brown, MECS Research Director, Loughborough University Ed Brown is the MECS Research Director. He is a Professor of Global Energy Challenges at Loughborough University with research interests in the fields of governance and international development issues with current research outputs focusing upon: questions of transparency and corruption; financial globalisation and the financial needs of the poor; and energy access and low carbon energy transitions. Ed has also long had a particular interest in the Central American region where he has explored the political economy of state reforms as well as the broader impacts of neoliberal globalisation. As well as being the MECS PI, Ed is the Co-Coordinator of the UK Low Carbon Energy for Development Network through which we are building bridges between the divergent branches of academia working on energy and international development issues. Through this he also leads the LCEDN’s involvement in DFID’s Transforming Energy Access initiative. He is (or has recently been) PI on three EPSRC/DFID-funded projects in this field. One involved networking the projects funded under the RCUK Understanding Sustainable Energy Solutions (USES Network) programme, whilst the other two were research projects, one exploring the implications of political decentralisation for energy governance in Africa (READ) and the other exploring the potential of solar nano-grids in the contexts of Kenya and Bangladesh (SONG). Simon Batchelor, UK Research and Innovation Co-ordinator, Loughborough University Simon is the UK research and innovation co-ordinator. He has over 30 years’ experience in development. Starting in agriculture and water provision in the 80’s, he focused on Wind and Solar energy, contributing to the early development of renewable energy in Africa and Asia. In the 90’s, he designed and implemented an innovative programme of social mobilisation in Cambodia – which saw considerable impact over a ten year period. This experience influenced his interest in the importance of social factors in technology adoption, and led to stream of participatory research focused on the role of energy in development. In 2002, based on research in Africa, Simon began to Champion the potential of using Mobile Phones for banking the unbanked and lowering remittance costs. From 2010 onwards he has returned to his clean energy roots, and is currently part of a number of research teams on low carbon programmes. A practitioner at heart, he is currently Director of Gamos Ltd, which undertakes action research and learning on the social factors influencing development programmes. Anh Tran, International Liaison Manager, Loughborough University Anh is one of the MECS International Liaison Managers and her focus is on humanitarian and displacement context in both urban and rural settings, gender and institutional cooking services. Before joining MECS, she was a Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Engineering at Coventry University and the former head of research for UNESCO UNITWIN Network in Humanitarian Engineering. She has successfully secured over £1.5 million dollars in research funding from EPSRC, RAEng, Innovate UK, British Council and private businesses. Her research interests are in the area of Appropriate and Humanitarian Technology, with a focus on renewable energy, water and sanitation, sustainable waste management, humanitarian applications of 3D printing and drones, social entrepreneurship and engineering education. She has over 10 years’ experience on international development engineering projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, South America and Australian Indigenous communities. A daughter of refugees, she is passionate about empowering refugee and local communities to access modern energy cooking services and to enable them to thrive and not just survive. Anh has a Bachelor (Honours) and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia. Nick Rousseau, International Liaison Manager, Loughborough University Nick has over 20 years of experience of working in UK Government – his final role was Head of International Innovation Strategy at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. Nick led the innovation strand of the Newton programme and Government to Government policy dialogues. Nick’s consultancy, Unconventional Connections, focuses on innovation collaboration included work funded by DfID on harnessing the UK’s strengths in clean energy technology to increase access to clean energy in Africa and SE Asia. Nick has a personal interest in sustainable solutions to local and global food-related challenges – in 2015 he set up the Woven Network – UK-based network for those working on insect protein. Nick holds BA, MSc and PhD degrees in psychology from the universities of Cambridge, Loughborough and Sheffield with a focus on psychology and user-centred system design. Within the MECS project, Nick is one of the International Liaison Managers with a focus on driving growth in availability of modern energy cooking devices within the developing world.

COVID-19 has changed the way that consumers shop, with online grocery shopping experiencing a boom of 33% after 4 years of consecutive decline. What does the future hold in store for retail, how is the landscape changing and what does this means for the supply chain? As we now ease our way out of lockdown, this podcast will explore how COVID-19 has impacted on the future of retail, for the short and longer term. Can we expect change to continue, how must the supply chain evolve to meet with the demand. About our panel Mike Watkins, Head of Retailer and Business Insight, Nielsen Mike Watkins is Head of Retailer and Business and Insight for Nielsen UK (https://www.nielsen.com/uk/en/) and is responsible for commercial development with food, non food and e commerce retailers. Having graduated from Loughborough University with an Economics degree, he worked for Co-operative retailers in various line management positions across buying, marketing and merchandising, before leaving to join Nielsen as Business Manager. Before taking on his current role, he was Senior Manager for Retailer Services, with responsibility for strategic planning across the retail and wholesale channels in the UK. Mike is a lead contributor to white papers for Nielsen and regularly shares his viewpoints on the Retail State of the Nation with the media, and is a member of the Nielsen Global Thought Leadership team, supporting retailer, manufacturer and financial services clients with retail, business and shopper insight for the UK and Europe. With over 25 years’ experience in retailing, his view is that over the next 5 years we will see the biggest ever change in how we shop, which will challenge the traditional industry business models. Sam Roscoe, Senior Lecturer in Operations Management, University of Sussex Sam is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and teaches in the areas of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Sam has published in the Journal of Operations Management on digital manufacturing in the aerospace sector. He has also published on dynamic supply chain capabilities in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM) and local volunteerism in disaster relief situations with the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR). Sam received funding from the EPSRC to investigate how 3D printing is reconfiguring pharmaceutical supply chains; moving production closer to patients and consumers. Sam's research interests are on how emerging technologies (3D printing, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence) are reconfiguring global supply chains. He is the research leader for the Supply Chain 4.0 Hub at the University of Sussex Business School. Shane Brennan, Chief Executive, Cold Chain Federation Shane leads the Cold Chain Federation team, having joined the Federation in July 2018. He is an experienced lobbyist and campaigner. He has worked in membership organisations across the food industry and brings a track record of running influencing campaigns that make a positive difference. Shane is a political geek, he can recite sections of early 2000’s political drama the West Wing verbatim (don’t ask him to!) He is also a part time supporter of Bristol City and father to two girls.

New Year, New Investment, New Materials, Same Challenges... A review of the aerospace industry in January 2020 can be summarised in three parts: big themes, new technology investment and new materials. Will Stirling reports... THE FIGHT IS ON FOR UK WING MANUFACTURE Airbus has expressed a more upbeat tone about the company’s long-term UK prospects since new chief executive Guillaume Faury said that expertise in the UK supply chain is critical to Airbus. Before then, uncertainty over a possible no deal Brexit had fed speculation about the future of wing manufacture in Britain. The manufacture of narrow body aircraft in the next five to 10-years will have to change to keep up with demand. There's the need to deploy new technologies such as next generation engines, composite wings and automated production and assembly, and the UK has competition here. With Airbus sites in France, Germany and Spain keen to take wing manufacture from Britain, Airbus in Broughton and Bristol must fight and invest in all of the above to retain its wings ‘global centre of excellence’ position. Spirit AeroSystems bought the wing manufacturing division of Bombardier in Belfast last year, which had previously used research funding, Queen’s University Belfast and local SMEs to develop a patented resin transfer-injection process for composite wings. This is the kind of innovation Britain will need to take further to retain its wing making as competitors circle. Airbus is benefiting from Boeing’s crisis following the grounding of Boeing’s popular 737 Max after two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 – orders for the rival Airbus 320neo overtook the 737 in 2019. Airbus is pushing for “rate 60” – that's the manufacture of 60 completed aircraft per month – for its single aisle models in 2020, the main driver of which is fuel efficiency as airlines seek to replace legacy aircraft with cleaner Max and Neo versions. Linked to this is jet engine design and, in the UK, the big story is Rolls-Royce’s next generation Advance and UltraFan engines. These programmes are high performance, high temperature, more efficient fuel burn engines for the next 20-30 years’ service. They represent the first time in 20-years that Rolls-Royce has changed its main engine architecture, a radical move in the jet engine world. New features such as a lightweight CTi fan system, hybrid ceramic bearings, advanced high OPR cycles, and high torque density shafts are designed into Advance. Rolls-Royce procurement has gone worldwide to find new suppliers for components made in these materials with such aggressive delivery schedules. UK suppliers need to tick many technology and delivery boxes to be in with a chance. THIS NEW ‘HIGH VOLUME’ SECTOR PRIORITISES THE BEST MACHINES As aircraft manufacture hits rate 60 and aims to reach rate 90 and above in the next few years, subcontractors serious about aerospace have to invest. A trend, albeit anecdotal without figures on individual machine type sales volumes, is that more precision engineering companies are buying high performance, multi-turret and multi-pallet machines for high productivity – often with automated pallet loaders. Followers of www.mtdcnc.com will see plentiful evidence of this. Coker Engineering in Taunton does high volume work in hard materials and has invested in a DMG Morry NZX 2000 triple turret machine to handle some big batch work, According to Managing Director Giles Throup this proves why high capacity machines are now essential for subbies serious about aerospace He says “This machine can run 18 to 20 hours a day, making prismatic parts not conventional turned parts, with a minimum amount of manual input. With 12000rpm on the driven tool, we run end mills on this harder than on some of our VMCs.” The company also bought a DMG Morry NX4000 with an RPS pallet changer. “We soon had it clocking 120-hours a week, but it only requires 15-20 hours of labour per week,” Giles says, and that's a point echoed by Rab Duncan at Contract Solutions, a subcontractor in Cupar, Scotland. The busy firm bought a new multi-pallet Matsuura MAM72 for increased capacity. The winning point for the MAM seventy-two is it can take five or six jobs at the same time, with storage space for many tools and several pallets per job. Unlike its other Matsuura machines, which can run 24/7 with automated loading, the MAM can process several different jobs in sequence with no manual intervention. These advanced machines are helping companies with skills shortages. The MTD video on this story, paraphrasing Rab’s comment “Manpower in Scotland is an issue, we had to automate” has received over 2,200 views, showing that this point is a hot topic. Business was dominated by uncertainty during 2019 with political inertia over Brexit forcing some companies to hit the investment brakes. However AE Aerospace opened a new 16,500ft factory at Network Park, Birmingham in July, and has spent £1.25 million over 12-months on six new Mazak 5-axis machines. Regarding 2020 Managing Director Peter Bruch says: “Following the general election result, we now have a parliament that ‘works’, we also have ‘certainty’ that we will leave the European Union on the 31st January 2020 and enter trade negotiations. Although it isn’t yet certain when we will complete the transition period, there does now seem to be a plan and it is unlikely that Parliament will descend into the tactics of the past 3.5 years.” Peter expects a big increase in demand and investment as a result. On trade Peter adds: “The aerospace industry is generally tariff free, and won’t be adversely affected by a move to WTO rules in the event that a trade deal with the EU can’t be signed by the end of 2020. However, in the absence of a deal being signed, it is very simple for both parties to agree a ‘no tariff – no quota’ deal based on everything we currently do. The only barrier is the political will to make this happen.” GET USED TO NEW MATERIALS The biggest trend in manufacturing in aerospace is light-weighting to reduce fuel burn and build costs, and a key pillar of this is new materials. Titanium is strong but expensive and it’s also wasteful to remove up to 95% of material from a billet to produce a machined part, even with swarf recycling. Universities and companies are working on new alloys and materials all the time. In November, the BCAST Centre, for liquid metal research at Brunel University hosted a conference on aluminium for aerospace and it believes the evolution of new aluminium alloys is essential for the aerospace industry. It said: “there is scope to expedite this evolution through cross-sectoral knowledge transfer using materials development and process optimisation, with the automotive industry manufacturing processes and technology becoming increasingly relevant in the context of increased aerospace production rates.” Additive manufacturing is getting more mainstream and UK-based researchers are perfecting methods for making very large aerospace structures. In 2019, Cranfield University’s Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre won a £6 million EPSRC grant to develop the next generation of ‘Directed Energy Deposition additive processes’. The project target is to manufacture at 8kg/hour net shape in titanium, to a specific
shape with no post-processing and proven full integrity. Centre lead Professor Stewart Williams says “The build rate is nearly one order of magnitude higher than current AM techniques, and uses our novel patented Multi Energy Source concept.” Outside of metals, composite materials are likely to have a big 2020 as the aerospace industry seeks to use more of these lighter but strong materials in airframes and parts. Subbies that can fabricate in both metals and composites, ideally with some additive capability, and can deliver quickly, are well positioned for aerospace in the medium term.

Today we’re talking about design and innovation for a circular economy! I’m joined by Dr. Merryn Haines-Gadd from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Circular Economy. In this episode, you will learn about emotionally durable design and the nine product longevity strategies that are relevant for a circular economy. You will also hear about the fascinating new world of self-healing materials and the various applications where they are being applied to help extend product lifetimes. Resources and links in this episode can be found on our website at www.gettinginthelooppodcast.com . ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTDr. Merryn Haines-Gadd is a post-doc researcher at the University of Exeter within the Exeter Centre for Circular Economy (ECCE). She works in the EPSRC consortium ‘Manufacturing Immortality’, investigating the design opportunities and Circular Economy implications of implementing self-healing materials within product development.

In the final episode of this series, we tackle the fast-growing area of Quantum Biology. To do so, we have spoken with Professor Jim Al-Khalili at the University of Surrey. Prof. Al-Khalili is a household name in the UK due to his contributions to making science, and quantum mechanics especially, more accessible to the general public through the media of TV, radio, and books he has written and contributed to. Jim obtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from Surrey in 1989, and is now the Co-Director of a CDT in Quantum Biology at the same university. Furthermore, he has recently published a novel (as mentioned on the episode) entitled Sun Fall, you can find it in your favourite bookshop: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1112028/sunfall/9780593077429.html “What's next” is a previous collaborative book by Jim and other experts in their fields which covers a number of very important and current topics, such as climate change, and discusses what our future may hold as a result. Check our social media pages very soon for details of our signed book giveaway for a copy of ‘What's Next?'!! https://profilebooks.com/what-039-s-next.html The papers we have discussed during this episode can be found at: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspa.2018.0674 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/cp/c5cp00472a#!divAbstract You can find more information about Jim's work at: https://www.jimal-khalili.com/ If you are interested in working in the field of Quantum Biology, you can find out more information about the CDT at: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/leverhulme-quantum-biology-doctoral-training-centre Thumbnail picture "What's next?" edited by Jim Al-Khalili Thanks to TMCS and EPSRC for funding this podcast. Theme music: from "Earnest's Understanding" © 2017 Charles Ormrod

THE INTRO- We are excited to hear that Apple has increased their bug bounty for security researchers to $1M- We also look at the role research plays in our industry includingo The start of our industry in 1971o Who is doing research today- It's great that we have an academic on the show today to talk to us about their research and how the cyber security community can get more engaged with academiaTHE CHATis a qualitative researcher who uses creative engagement methods to explore everyday practices of information production, protection, circulation, curation and consumption within and between communities. She took up a full-time academic post in 2008 and prior to joining Royal Holloway University of London she worked for 18 years as an information security practitioner. Lizzie's focus is the intersection between perceptions and narratives of individual and community security and technological security. Her research specialises in public and community service design and consumption. Lizzie is currently an EPSRC research fellow with a research programme in everyday security and digital service design.Professor Lizzie Coles Kemp We talk about- How Lizzie landed in Information Security in 1990 because she spoke Swedish and why she enjoys security- Why cybersecurity professionals are diverse and why it is important- How design thinking tools can be use in cybersecurity including storytelling, using different mediums - story boarding, lego, and forms of physical modelling to represent security to think through all the things that contribute to a secure interaction etc- The importance of bringing together different thinking and ways of solving the problem- Why we need to ask the question from different angles and ask the fundamental questions – why does it work (as well as what doesn't work)- How do we actually use design thinking? Lizzie walks through an example on where engagement on security awareness training is low and how you could use design thinking to understand the everyday of those not engaging with the training. It allows us to take a step back.- An overview of the ‘You Shape Security' program Lizzie had worked on with the NCSC- The need to work with and not work against and understand the benefit as well as the benefit gaps you need to resolve of a security measure (technology, policy, service).- How you can scale capacity of these kind of engagements as they are low fidelity- Why this sort of thinking is a great bridge to other parts of the organisationo Research has show security practitioners spend a lot of time interacting and communicating but the framing/language is alien to those outside of securityo Design tools are a useful bridge into the other world as they don't use specialist language and why HR, Product Designers, CEOs, the board like these engagements as they help them to understand what is going on, on the front lineso They help to highlight the creativity and the positive (as well as the negative and the blockages). Security can be both negative AND positive- Lizzie touches briefly on her work in Sweden on the digitisation programs – how digitisation changes how decisions are made, where the processes happen and frees up spaces, so that we can have other interactions (there) so that we can start to work with people to understand better their information flows and the benefits they get.- Lizzie works us through how we can better engage with academia – to imagine different futures through design café, sprints and workshops in spaces that help us to build a more creative toolkit to think about different types of security challenges and the only way we can do this is by working together.o Lizzie would love to work together more not in solution mode but in imagining different futureso Lizzie talks about the great example of the security practice conference and how the teams from different areas came up with different ideas on how to go forward. These are the sort of activities that will spark new and interesting academia and security practice collaborations- Lizzie will be in Australia in September for 3 weeks and loves our open nature and willingness to embrace new ideas- Why Lizzie thinks Australia has such a fantastic capability around civil resilience around bush fires, food security and environmental and how Lizzie thinks Australia could lead the world in resilience thinkingTHE DEBRIEF- Our key takeaways from the chat includingo The potential of Australia when it comes to cyber resilienceo The need to identify (and work on) those benefit gaps when it comes to people's view on a security control, policy or serviceo The way we can use design thinking to help us solve problems in cyber securityHow to follow Lizzie:Email: Lizzie.Coles-Kemp@rhul.ac.ukCREDITSGuest: Professor Lizzie Coles KempHosts: Beverley Roche and Louisa VogelenzangProducer/Editor: Louisa VogelenzangSound Producer: Darcy Milne (Propodcastproduction.com)RESEARCHWhere cybersecurity began – with a research project! https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/a-brief-history-of-cybersecurity/The cybersecurity Cooporative research centre in Australia https://www.cybersecuritycrc.org.au10 signs that you aren't suited to a career in cyber security https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-signs-you-arent-cut-out-to-be-a-cybersecurity-specialist/NCSC ‘origins' research into cybersecurity background that Lizzie mentioned https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/origin-storiesProfessor Lizzie Coles Kemp's YouTube on ‘Digital security for all' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-K0yM4PLANCSC ‘You Shape Security' booklets that Lizzie mentioned https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/you-shape-securityDigitizing Sweden (also mentioned by Lizzie:https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/europe/digitizing-sweden-opportunities-and-priorities-in-five-ecosystemsCONTACT THE CYBERSECURITY CAFÉJoin our LinkedIn Group https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-cybersecurity-caféEmail us:louisa@cybersecuritycafe.com.aubeverley@cybersecuritycafe.com.auVisit our website: https://www.cybersecuritycafe.com.auWant to be on the show? Send us your bio and an overview on what you want to chat about and we'll be in touch asap.We also welcome guest suggestions – in particular we'd love to hear from new voices in the industry who have new ideas to share about the human side of security.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE INTRO- We are excited to hear that Apple has increased their bug bounty for security researchers to $1M- We also look at the role research plays in our industry includingo The start of our industry in 1971o Who is doing research today- It’s great that we have an academic on the show today to talk to us about their research and how the cyber security community can get more engaged with academiaTHE CHATProfessor Lizzie Coles Kemp is a qualitative researcher who uses creative engagement methods to explore everyday practices of information production, protection, circulation, curation and consumption within and between communities. She took up a full-time academic post in 2008 and prior to joining Royal Holloway University of London she worked for 18 years as an information security practitioner. Lizzie’s focus is the intersection between perceptions and narratives of individual and community security and technological security. Her research specialises in public and community service design and consumption. Lizzie is currently an EPSRC research fellow with a research programme in everyday security and digital service design.We talk about- How Lizzie landed in Information Security in 1990 because she spoke Swedish and why she enjoys security- Why cybersecurity professionals are diverse and why it is important- How design thinking tools can be use in cybersecurity including storytelling, using different mediums - story boarding, lego, and forms of physical modelling to represent security to think through all the things that contribute to a secure interaction etc- The importance of bringing together different thinking and ways of solving the problem- Why we need to ask the question from different angles and ask the fundamental questions – why does it work (as well as what doesn’t work)- How do we actually use design thinking? Lizzie walks through an example on where engagement on security awareness training is low and how you could use design thinking to understand the everyday of those not engaging with the training. It allows us to take a step back.- An overview of the ‘You Shape Security’ program Lizzie had worked on with the NCSC- The need to work with and not work against and understand the benefit as well as the benefit gaps you need to resolve of a security measure (technology, policy, service).- How you can scale capacity of these kind of engagements as they are low fidelity- Why this sort of thinking is a great bridge to other parts of the organisationo Research has show security practitioners spend a lot of time interacting and communicating but the framing/language is alien to those outside of securityo Design tools are a useful bridge into the other world as they don’t use specialist language and why HR, Product Designers, CEOs, the board like these engagements as they help them to understand what is going on, on the front lineso They help to highlight the creativity and the positive (as well as the negative and the blockages). Security can be both negative AND positive- Lizzie touches briefly on her work in Sweden on the digitisation programs – how digitisation changes how decisions are made, where the processes happen and frees up spaces, so that we can have other interactions (there) so that we can start to work with people to understand better their information flows and the benefits they get.- Lizzie works us through how we can better engage with academia – to imagine different futures through design café, sprints and workshops in spaces that help us to build a more creative toolkit to think about different types of security challenges and the only way we can do this is by working together.o Lizzie would love to work together more not in solution mode but in imagining different futureso Lizzie talks about the great example of the security practice conference and how the teams from different areas came up with different ideas on how to go forward. These are the sort of activities that will spark new and interesting academia and security practice collaborations- Lizzie will be in Australia in September for 3 weeks and loves our open nature and willingness to embrace new ideas- Why Lizzie thinks Australia has such a fantastic capability around civil resilience around bush fires, food security and environmental and how Lizzie thinks Australia could lead the world in resilience thinkingTHE DEBRIEF- Our key takeaways from the chat includingo The potential of Australia when it comes to cyber resilienceo The need to identify (and work on) those benefit gaps when it comes to people’s view on a security control, policy or serviceo The way we can use design thinking to help us solve problems in cyber securityHow to follow Lizzie:Email: Lizzie.Coles-Kemp@rhul.ac.ukCREDITSGuest: Professor Lizzie Coles KempHosts: Beverley Roche and Louisa VogelenzangProducer/Editor: Louisa VogelenzangSound Producer: Darcy Milne (Propodcastproduction.com)RESEARCHWhere cybersecurity began – with a research project! https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/a-brief-history-of-cybersecurity/The cybersecurity Cooporative research centre in Australia https://www.cybersecuritycrc.org.au10 signs that you aren’t suited to a career in cyber security https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-signs-you-arent-cut-out-to-be-a-cybersecurity-specialist/NCSC ‘origins’ research into cybersecurity background that Lizzie mentioned https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/origin-storiesProfessor Lizzie Coles Kemp’s YouTube on ‘Digital security for all’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-K0yM4PLANCSC ‘You Shape Security’ booklets that Lizzie mentioned https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/you-shape-securityDigitizing Sweden (also mentioned by Lizzie:https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/europe/digitizing-sweden-opportunities-and-priorities-in-five-ecosystemsCONTACT THE CYBERSECURITY CAFÉJoin our LinkedIn Group https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-cybersecurity-caféEmail us:louisa@cybersecuritycafe.com.aubeverley@cybersecuritycafe.com.auVisit our website: https://www.cybersecuritycafe.com.auWant to be on the show? Send us your bio and an overview on what you want to chat about and we’ll be in touch asap.We also welcome guest suggestions – in particular we’d love to hear from new voices in the industry who have new ideas to share about the human side of security.

How do the games children play resemble, recall or depart from the games of their parents and grandparents? How can memories of the play of previous generations be made tangible through immersive media, in museums and playgrounds? This lecture draws on an EPSRC-funded project in which archives of play from 20,000 children of the 1950s and 60s at the Bodleian Library and British Library are revoiced by today's children for an interactive installation at the V&A Museum of Childhood. Led by the UCL Institute of Education, in partnership with CASA at the Bartlett and the University of Sheffield, this project promotes inter-generational dialogue about play, and finds new connections between traditional and media-based games. Speaker: Andrew Burn is Professor of English, Media and Drama at Institute of Education. Date: 14 May 2019 UCL's popular public Lunch Hour Lecture series has been running at UCL since 1942, and showcases the exceptional research work being undertaken across UCL. Lectures are free and open to all.

Kev Dhaliwal is Professor of Molecular Imaging & Healthcare Technology and Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine in Edinburgh. He leads an EPSRC interdisciplinary Hub based in the Medical School in Edinburgh developing novel technologies for interventional pulmonary medicine. PROTEUS (@EPSRC_Proteus) is the UK’s largest biophotonics healthcare project and is developing novel tools and technologies for respiratory critical care by exploiting the power of light to enable new insights. PROTEUS will develop new pathways and leverage the power of TEAM SCIENCE

Wednesday 7 November 2018 This Academy Discourse by Professor Máire O'Neill, Queen's University Belfast, is the eighth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran. With the rapid proliferation of pervasive electronic devices in our lives, the internet of things (IoT) has become a reality and its influence on our day to day activities is set to further increase with a projected 125 Billion connected devices by 2030. However, this poses serious security and privacy issues as we will no longer have direct control over with whom and what our devices communicate. Counterfeit, hacked, or cloned devices acting on a network are a significant threat. In addition, IoT devices are often low-cost in area, low-power and typically are restricted in both memory and computing power. Professor O'Neill outlines the challenges in addressing security for resource-constrained IoT devices and some of the solutions currently being considered. The impact of quantum computers on security will also be discussed. About the speaker Professor Máire O'Neill (FIAE, MRIA) has a strong international reputation for her research in hardware security and applied cryptography. She is currently PI of the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), QUB, and Research Director of the £5M UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE), funded by EPSRC and the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). She also leads an EU H2020 SAFEcrypto project in the area of practical quantum-safe cryptography. She previously held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship (2008-2014) and was a former holder of a UK Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship (2003-2008). She has received numerous awards for her research work which include a 2014 Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and British Female Inventor of the Year 2007. She has authored two research books and has over 140 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications.

In this episode I talk to David Gunkel. David is a repeat guest, having first appeared on the show in Episode 10. David a Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is a leading scholar in the philosophy of technology, having written extensively about cyborgification, robot rights and responsibilities, remix cultures, new political structures in the information age and much much more. He is the author of several books, including Hacking Cyberspace, The Machine Question, Of Remixology, Gaming the System and, most recently, Robot Rights. We have a long debate/conversation about whether or not robots should/could have rights. You can download the episode here or listen below. You can also subscribe to the show on iTunes or Stitcher (the RSS feed is here). Show Notes0:00 - Introduction1:52 - Isn't the idea of robot rights ridiculous?3:37 - What is a robot anyway? Is the concept too nebulous/diverse?7:43 - Has science fiction undermined our ability to think about robots clearly?11:01 - What would it mean to grant a robot rights? (A precis of Hohfeld's theory of rights)18:32 - The four positions/modalities one could take on the idea of robot rights21:32 - The First Modality: Robots Can't Have Rights therefore Shouldn't23:37 - The EPSRC guidelines on robotics as an example of this modality26:04 - Criticisms of the EPSRC approach28:27 - Other problems with the first modality31:32 - Europe vs Japan: why the Japanese might be more open to robot 'others'34:00 - The Second Modality: Robots Can Have Rights therefore Should (some day)39:53 - A debate between myself and David about the second modality (why I'm in favour it and he's against it)47:17 - The Third Modality: Robots Can Have Rights but Shouldn't (Bryson's view)53:48 - Can we dehumanise/depersonalise robots?58:10 - The Robot-Slave Metaphor and its Discontents1:04:30 - The Fourth Modality: Robots Cannot Have Rights but Should (Darling's view)1:07:53 - Criticisms of the fourth modality1:12:05 - The 'Thinking Otherwise' Approach (David's preferred approach)1:16:23 - When can robots take on a face?1:19:44 - Is there any possibility of reconciling my view with David's?1:24:42 - So did David waste his time writing this book?  Relevant LinksDavid's HomepageRobot Rights from MIT Press, 2018 (and on Amazon)Episode 10 - Gunkel on Robots and Cyborgs'The other question: can and should robots have rights?' by David Gunkel'Facing Animals: A Relational Other-Oriented Approach to Moral Standing' by Gunkel and CoeckelberghThe Robot Rights Debate (Index) - everything I've written or said on the topic of robot rightsEPSRC Principles of RoboticsEpisode 24 - Joanna Bryson on Why Robots Should be Slaves'Patiency is not a virtue: the design of intelligent systems and systems of ethics' by Joanna BrysonRobo Sapiens Japanicus - by Jennifer Robertson #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */ Subscribe to the newsletter

Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and collaborative cognition.In 2010 Bryson published her most controversial work, "Robots Should Be Slaves" and has helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010. She has also consulted The Red Cross on autonomous weapons and is a member of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.Joanna is focused on "Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems". In 2017 she won an Outstanding Achievement award from Cognition X. She regularly appears in national media, talking about human-robot relationships and the ethics of AIEPSRC's Laws of Robotics: * Robots should not be designed as weapons, except for national security reasons * Robots should be designed and operated to comply with existing law, including privacy * Robots are products: as with other products, they should be designed to be safe and secure * Robots are manufactured artifacts: the illusion of emotions and intent should not be used to exploit vulnerable users * It should be possible to find out who is responsible for any robotYou can listen right here on iTunesIn our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * Why robots and AI should not resemble people * How Joanna helped the British replace Asimov’s laws of robotics * How people confuse consciousness and intelligence and likely problems this creates * Why Joanna is skeptical we'll achieve AI superintelligence * The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, disinformation and overly aggressive Facebook * Why robots cannot be liable/punished for their actions * How people should think about ethics of robot design * The ethical dilemmas with AI and robots in society * How psychology, neuroscience, ethics and AI are merging * The problems with control and governing AI usage * How bad incentives create bad artificial intelligences--Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFMFringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.Donate   

Rich Walker believes in tackling real world problems in open innovation partnerships, building dextrous robot hands with Shadow Robot Company. Robotics + AI + Society + Ethics + Technology + Open Innovation ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Managing Director at Shadow Robot Company RICH WALKER has worked in robotics for over 20 years and leads the team at the Shadow Robot Company which, as a leader in grasping and manipulation, is constantly developing new robots/applications in the field of cutting-edge robotics and AI. He sits on the Innovate UK “Robotics and Autonomous Systems” SIG Advisory Board, which lets him influence the direction the UK takes in robotics in a way that makes sense to SMEs and innovators. In addition, he is the Director of EuRobotics, and various EPSRC and University networks and committees around robotics. [Edited Transcript] RW: I'm from Shadow, and we're a robot technology company. We're best known for building hands for robots. When a human interacts with the world, we pick something up, we use our hands. If robots are going to do all sorts of things in the world, they're going to need hands that are quite like human hands. The high end dextrous robot hand that we built is pretty much the same dexterity as the human hand. As close as we can get it to the human hand. What do I actually need to do real world tasks? One of the nice things about working with the European research community is that it's very focused on societal challenges. The grand challenges of the sustainable development goals, the missions that the European Commission is looking at for the next generation of research. Trying to tackle real world problems, and saying broadly, 'let's see what could help for those'. So we've been involved in the past in projects as diverse as: How do you pick strawberries. What's the right sort of robot to put in the home of an elder person who's suffering cognitive impairments, dementia? And across those lines, there's always the same set of problems turn up. You need to be able to see things, reach out, grasp them and pick them up. The core technologies from our space are always the same across that. So we've been developing a suite of technology that if you want to take a robot and put it in the home to do cooking, our technology can fill one part of that jigsaw. There's a lot of it we don't - because we aren't going to be the experts in everything. We're big believers in open innovation and partnerships. We talk to our friends over there, they build the robot, our friends over there put the vision on it, our friends over they make it use correct nursing protocols to do the job right. JR: Is the singularity coming, and if so, when? RW: I think that what does happen constantly is that improvements in technology change the world, completely – and we don't notice, because it doesn't happen instantaneously. So I think that what we will see is a series of points where, everything has changed – but not in a 'suddenly there was artificial intelligence is ruling the universe' JR: So it's more like incremental shifts that over time become a larger shift in consciousness, awareness of where we are the in the world? RW: Yeah, I think that's very much it. If you can imagine taking someone from a thousand years ago and putting them here today in the conference we're in, they'd be like: 'why aren't you singing hymns? And what are these little things you keep rubbing?' But human interaction, the need to eat, the need to drink, the need to talk, the need for sunlight - those things haven't changed, and as long as we're this species, they won't. What will change are the tools and equipment we use to do that. I think that from a technology point of view we're going to see robots becoming more familiar, more common, we're going to see robots allow humans to stop doing repetitive tasks and go do things that are more valuable. As technologists, I think we need to make sure that we actually think about what could be done wrongly and badly with the technologies we develop. JR: So you're actually building into the research process a considering and concern for the ethical use and the social impact that technology will have in the future? RW: Yes, I think it's really important to have that kind of ethical perspective on what you're doing. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 We are LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. 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Today Oliver is joined in the studio by Professor Damian Murphy. Damian is a Professor of Sound and Music Computing at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York, where he has been a member of academic staff since 2000, and is the University Research Champion for Creativity. He started his career in the Performing Arts Department at Harrogate College and has previously held positions at Leeds Metropolitan University and Bretton Hall College. His research focuses on virtual acoustics, spatial audio, physical modelling, and audio signal processing. This research formed the basis of the Surrounded by Sound project that was selected for inclusion in the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition in July 2001, and he was also co-author of SoundFX - Making Music with Technology, the 2004 IEE touring Faraday Lecture. He has been principal investigator on a number of AHRC and EPSRC funded projects relating to room acoustics simulation and auralisation, and published over 130 journal articles, conference papers and books in the area. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a visiting lecturer to the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH, Stockholm, where he specialises in spatial audio and acoustics. He has held visiting researcher status at a number of universities internationally. Prof. Murphy is also an active sound artist and in 2004 was appointed as one of the UK's first AHRC/ACE Arts and Science Research Fellows, investigating the compositional and aesthetic aspects of sound spatialisation, acoustic modelling techniques and the acoustics of heritage spaces. His work has been presented in galleries nationally and at festivals and venues internationally and included varied collaborations with writers, photographers and interactive digital artists. He is a founding member of Geodesic Arts through which most of his more recent work has been produced. In this episode, Damian discusses entering into academia and recreating the acoustics of environments. For more information follow: http://1618digital.com/immersive-audio-podcast-episode-8-damian-murphy/ Subscribe: 1618digital.com/#contact

Noémie Bouhana is Senior Lecturer in Security and Crime Science at UCL, where she leads the Counter-Terrorism Research Group and convenes the MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism. She holds a BA in Political Studies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lyon, an MA in Political Science from Université Jean Moulin Lyon III, and an MPhil and PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Most recently, Noémie led the €2.9M EU FP7 PRIME project, an international, multidisciplinary study on lone actor radicalisation and attack behaviour. At present, she is Principal Investigator of the $1M comparative study "The Social Ecology of Radicalisation", funded by the US DoD Minerva Initiative. She is also a co-Investigator on large grants funded by EU H2020 and CREST. Previous research was funded by DSTL, Home Office OSCT, MOD Counter-Terrorism Science and Technology Centre, EPSRC and NIJ. On the fundamental side, Noémie's work is concerned with the social ecological processes involved in the emergence and maintenance of radicalising settings (the "where" of radicalisation, as opposed to the "why"), the role that these settings play, through mechanisms of selection and exposure, in the development of an individual propensity for terrorism, as well as the mechanisms which underpin individual vulnerability to moral change. On the applied side, she is interested in the development of risk analysis instruments, which go beyond reliance on unstable risk factors and indicators. Her approach to the study of terrorism is informed chiefly by criminological, epidemiological and systemic thinking, which is reflected in the research that most influenced her to date. Research that has influenced Noémie's career Per-Olof H. Wikstrom and Robert J. Sampson (ed.) (2006). The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development. J.M. Mc Gloin, C.J. Sullivan and L.W. Kennedy (eds.) (2011). When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence. Sandro Galea, Matthew Riddle and George A Kaplan (2010). Causal thinking and complex system approaches in epidemiology. Some of Noémie's key research Al-Qaeda-Influenced Radicalisation. With Per-Olof H. Wikstrom (2011) PRIME: A Lone Actor Extremism Risk Analysis Framework. With Amy Thornton, Emily Corner, Stefan Malthaner, Lasse Lindekilde, Bart Schuurman and Gali Perry (2017) Preventing Radicalization in the UK: Expanding the Knowledge-Base on the Channel Programme. With Amy Thornton (2017)

Quantum mechanics describes the properties of light, atoms and the even smaller particles inside atoms, like electrons and protons. On these tiny scales, we observe strange effects that contradict our everyday experience and we are beginning to harness these effects to build technologies that seemed impossible before. Kerstin Gpfrich went to the 2016 National Quantum Technologies Showcase in London to find out about the latest quantum leaps in quantum technology. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Quantum mechanics describes the properties of light, atoms and the even smaller particles inside atoms, like electrons and protons. On these tiny scales, we observe strange effects that contradict our everyday experience and we are beginning to harness these effects to build technologies that seemed impossible before. Kerstin Gpfrich went to the 2016 National Quantum Technologies Showcase in London to find out about the latest quantum leaps in quantum technology. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Keep it Civil is back for series two, and we're joined by EngD Researcher Gennaro Senatore to discuss the design philosophy of adaptive building structures he developed here at UCL with the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR) and Expedition Engineering, with the work sponsored by EPSRC. Unlike conventional structures, adaptive structures are designed to change their shape to prevent excessive movement caused by loads, which allows for super-slender structures that look great and use much less material and less whole-life energy. Follow Gennaro (https://twitter.com/g_senatore), Expedition Engineering (https://twitter.com/EXP_Eng) and USAR (https://twitter.com/UCL_USAR) on Twitter. Find out more about adaptive structures and see the truss mentioned in the podcast at a special exhibition at the London Building Centre until 2nd September 2016 (http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/exhibitions/adaptive-structures). Find out more about Gennaro's work (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/usar/who-we-are/cdt-students/gennaro-senatore) and see the adaptive responsive truss in action (https://vimeo.com/groups/315224). Catch up on past episodes of Keep it Civil (soundcloud.com/cege_ucl/sets/keep-it-civil). Intro & outro music: "Helix Nebula" by Anamanaguchi (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anamanaguchi/Party_in_Space/kzz007_-_14_-_anamanaguchi_-_helix_nebula)

Professor Peter Barrett, University of Salford, gies a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 25th January 2016. Convener: Professor Harry Daniels Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT) Based on an empirical study of 3766 primary school pupils and the 153 classrooms they occupied the EPSRC-funded HEAD (Holistic Evidence and Design) Project has successfully isolated the impact of design features on the learning progress of those pupils over a year. This was based on multi-disciplinary collaboration over several years that resulted in a radical new conceptual model of the holistic physical learning environment, taken from a child’s sensory perspective. This increased scope of consideration was then twinned with multilevel modelling of the data to identify the classroom level impacts. These model out at explaining 16% of the overall variation in the learning progress of the pupils in the spaces studied. The findings support detailed practical suggestions for teachers, designers and policy-makers. There are surprises in relation to some aspects that do not appear. Sub-analyses of the data are being carried out and raise interesting issues around subject-specific design and design for particular groupings of pupils.

This week the UK science minister, Jo Johnson, was in Cambridge where he announced an initiative to pump 21 million into seven key research programmes intended to tackle some of the leading scientific and engineering challenges facing the world. The funding will come from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the EPSRC. Professor Philip Nelson is the EPSRC's chief executive, and he spoke to Kat Arney about how the projects were selected... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

This week the UK science minister, Jo Johnson, was in Cambridge where he announced an initiative to pump 21 million into seven key research programmes intended to tackle some of the leading scientific and engineering challenges facing the world. The funding will come from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the EPSRC. Professor Philip Nelson is the EPSRC's chief executive, and he spoke to Kat Arney about how the projects were selected... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

These days most universities actively help their researchers develop their ideas into products for market.  It's called the commercial exploitation of research.  One such support is the Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)  at Surrey University's Advanced Technology Institute, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which aims to accelerate the process of research exploitation in order to enhance the impact of past, present and future EPSRC funded projects.In this podcast Dr Radu Sporea visits a showcase event to talk to some of the researchers taking part. The projects he hears about include Pervasive Intelligence Ltd's intelligent sofware that enables museums and art galleries to put together an app to augment their exhibitions at a fraction of the cost of most packages of this type.  The museum visitor has the app on their smartphone, they point it at an exhibit and can get a wide range of different types of information about the artefact. But more than that, the museum can track the visitor's journey through the exhibition and gain valuable visitor statistics which enable them to enhance/streamline the experience. Tom Mee from the Chemical Engineering Department describes his project that helps the NHS with demand planning - it could revolutionise cancer treatment in the UK. Plastipack swimming pool covers that heat the water in the pool AND inhibit algae growth- other covers do one or the other.  This is a major advance. Photo by Kev Shine

From 'plastic' solar panels to flexible electronics, and quantum mechanics to regenerative medicine, we found out about the exciting research of the nominated rising star scientists at the British Science Festival... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

From 'plastic' solar panels to flexible electronics, and quantum mechanics to regenerative medicine, we found out about the exciting research of the nominated rising star scientists at the British Science Festival... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Bringing together the University’s engineers and biologists in high-tech labs to work on multi-disciplinary solutions is the aim of the ChELSI (Chemical Engineering at the Life Science Interface) institute. Professor Phillip Wright discusses how EPSRC and BBSRC funding is being used on a range of challenges – from pinpointing the early signs of colon cancer disease progression through to understanding how new sources of biofuels can be developed via synthetic biology and metabolic engineering tools.

Today’s guest uses this machine for aligning carbon nanotubes by electrospinning. Simon King is an engineering doctoral student at Surrey’s MinMat Industrial Doctoral Centre supported by the EPSRC and industrial […]

Surgical Voice - Roger Kneebone At Medicine Unboxed 2013. Roger Kneebone trained first as a general and trauma surgeon, working both in the UK and in Southern Africa. After finishing his specialist training, he decided to become a general practitioner and joined a large group practice in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. In the 1990s he pioneered an innovative national training programme for minor surgery within primary care, based around intensive workshops using simulated tissue models and a computer-based learning program. In 2003, Roger left his practice to join Imperial College London. Much of Roger’s current research focuses on simulation. He leads an unorthodox and creative research group, bringing together clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts. Current themes include Hybrid Simulation (the combination of professional actors with inanimate models to create realistic clinical encounters) and Distributed Simulation (low-cost, portable yet highly convincing environments such as the ‘inflatable operating theatre’). Roger has recently been exploring how simulation can be used to recreate tacit and embodied surgical practices from the recent past. Roger holds grants from the EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, Wellcome Trust and London Deanery. He has a wide range of professional interests and is especially interested in collaborative research at the intersections between traditional disciplinary boundaries. Current work is exploring synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance. Roger leads the UK’s only Masters in Education (MEd) in Surgical Education, which started in October 2005. This challenging programme builds on educational theory and practice to explore relationships between the biomedical sciences, the craft of surgery and the humanities and social sciences.

Diamonds are the new best friends of laser scientists.A new world of lasers is now being created through research which is harnessing the exceptional qualities of diamonds. It will open up new possibilities in the way that lasers can be used in areas such as medicine.Jane Reck from the EPSRC has been finding out more.... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Diamonds are the new best friends of laser scientists.A new world of lasers is now being created through research which is harnessing the exceptional qualities of diamonds. It will open up new possibilities in the way that lasers can be used in areas such as medicine.Jane Reck from the EPSRC has been finding out more.... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

44th Annual Lecture of Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME) Professor Gail Mountain, Professor of Health Services Research (Assisted Living Research) at University of Sheffield; Director of EPSRC-funded SMART Consortium & Principle Director of KT-EQUAL Consortium will describe how technology can be used to meet the needs of an ageing population.

In this NewsFlash, we hear how computer gamers can help to solve scientific puzzles, why you not be as good as you think you are, and how the brain takes control of the immune system. Plus, how a new CT scanning facillity offers super-fast 3D x-ray vision!

From the Management news series: academics talk about collaborative projects funded by the EPSRC, and cross-disciplinary research.

The main aim of SUSTAIN is to develop collaborative research proposals to investigate how to improve the development of sustainable cities. This will be achieved by convening a series of 4 workshops; water, energy, synergy and transport, each consisting of two meetings and each pair developing one (or more) collaborative proposals. In August 2005, Arup- one of the world's most respected global design consultatncies - was contracted to design and masterplan the world's first sustainable city, Dongtan, in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC) contracted Arup to work with them on two further eco-cities. SUSTAIN is part of a wider drive to pull together a critical mass of expertise and research to build and design the cities of the future and Arup will play a pivotal role in the network's development, engaging the participants in the growth of Dongtan. Arup approached EPSRC with a view to sponsoring collaborative research and following a series of initial discussions, EPSRC invited a number of UK universities to work with them to develop research networks involving researchers in the UK and China. The cultural, structural and political differences between the academic bodies of China and other western countries has been the focus of much research over time. The work of SUSTAIN will be concerned with identifying similarities and areas of shared concern. The aim of the network is to put in place a structure that will allow a flow of knowledge and information between the parallel researchers involved in the workshops. The objective to focus this work will be a set of fully-developed research proposals. By drawing together not only academics, but also representatives from funding bodies in China and the UK, the workshops will draw on a vast knowledge-base of expertise in identifying subjects, strategies, funding sources and issues. The SUSTAIN Network will design these research project proposals from which a very large number of people will benefit: communities wishing to develop sustainable cities from new or through regeneration or redevelopment; researchers, developers and consultants who will be able to be more familiar with the holistic systems approaches needed to develop sustainable solutions governments who will be able to understand what policy actions they need to put in place in order for a successful sustainable programme to be implemented and of course the people who will be able to live in sustainable environments in the future. As well as the most visible aim of the project - developing substantive project proposals - a more long-reaching and intricate aim of the workshops will be to encourage a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the researchers to lay strong foundations for feasible and productive collaborations. This understanding will be of benefit to other researchers in each country who wish to enter into collaborative research with researchers in the other. However, the main beneficiaries of the SUSTAIN project itself will be, in addition to the network team, the local people with whom the team will connect during its public activities in each location.