Podcasts about honorary senior research fellow

Join us for a compelling conversation with Dr. Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader in Arts Management at LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. A globally recognized expert in contemporary museology, digital diplomacy, and international cultural relations, Dr. Grincheva shares insights from her illustrious career—spanning prestigious research fellowships, groundbreaking work with UNESCO, and industry collaborations from ACMI to ICR Research in London. Tune in to explore how culture, technology, and global dialogue intersect in today's digital world.

On this episode of Mind the Gap, Jon Hutchinson is joined by educator, researcher, and author Neil Gilbride to explore the powerful concept of self-efficacy—and why it matters now more than ever in schools. Drawing from his new book, Neil delves into the psychological foundations of self-efficacy, its relationship to agency, and the practical ways it can transform classroom practice. He shares insights from his own diverse career, from play schemes to academia, and explains how educators can help pupils—and themselves—navigate complexity, build resilience, and believe in their capacity to succeed. Together, Jon and Neil discuss Bandura's legacy, the critical importance of managing failure, and why effective modelling is about more than just showing how—it's about lending belief. “If we're not proactively thinking hard about using our capacity to share knowledge and ways of being and working,” Neil says, “then we're not using one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal.” This episode offers a compelling and deeply human lens on what it means to teach, lead, and learn in today's education landscape.Dr Neil Gilbride CPSychol is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Worcester and Associate Dean at Ambition Institute, one of the largest professional development providers in England. He has amassed 20 years of experience working across education as an academic, practitioner and knowledge mobiliser. Neil's research interweaves adult developmental psychology and complexity theory to better understand educational leadership and practitioner development. His most recent book is Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory in Action. Follow him on Bluesky @neilgilbride.bsky.socialJon Hutchinson is a former assistant headteacher of Reach Academy Feltham and is now a Director at the Reach Foundation. He has taught across primary and secondary and HE. In his spare time, Jon runs ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.meno.acacdemy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a platform with free videos to support primary teachers to build their subject knowledge. Follow Jon on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@jon_hutchinson_⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or Bluesky ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@jonhutchinson.bksy.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.This podcast is produced by Haringey Education Partnership. Find out more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://haringeyeducationpartnership.co.uk/

In this episode of Building Better with Brandon Bartneck, Felix Leach, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, and Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics, join the discussion on sustainable transportation. The conversation emphasizes the critical role of mass and distance in determining the environmental impact of transportation, highlighting these as the most important variables for sustainability. Felix and Nick also advocate for a radical reset in public policy and taxation systems to simplify and better align with environmental realities. They discuss the interconnectedness of the transportation ecosystem, the role of consumer choices, and actionable steps toward a more sustainable future. About Building Better: Building Better with Brandon Bartneck focuses on the people, products, and companies creating a better tomorrow, often in the transportation and manufacturing sectors. Previously called the Future of Mobility podcast, the show features real, human conversations exploring what leaders and innovators are doing, why and how they're doing it, and what we can learn from their experiences. Topics include manufacturing, production, assembly, autonomous driving, electric vehicles, hydrogen and fuel cells, leadership, and more. Key Takeaways: Mass and distance are the two most important variables in determining transportation sustainability. Simplicity on the far side of complexity is crucial for effective policies. Current vehicle taxation systems are overly complex and need a reset. Transportation policy must reflect true environmental costs. Consumer choices significantly influence environmental outcomes. Public engagement and education are vital for achieving change. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Critical Mass and Its Importance 05:29 Understanding Vehicle Mass and Environmental Impact 08:32 Navigating Complexity in Transportation Decisions 11:29 Proposed Solutions for Vehicle Taxation 14:31 The Role of Mass in Vehicle Technology Comparison 17:42 Resetting the Transportation Policy Framework 25:56 Rethinking Vehicle Taxation 32:52 Simplifying Consumer Choices 39:06 The Moral Debate on Driving 42:52 Defining System Boundaries 46:13 Closing Thoughts and Future Directions About the Guests: Felix Leach is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in emissions and efficiency in thermal propulsion systems. Felix is the author of Racing Toward Zero and co-author of Critical Mass, which advocates for a simplified understanding of vehicles' environmental impact. Nick Molden is the CEO of Emissions Analytics, a company he founded in 2011 to assess the holistic environmental impact of vehicles. Nick co-authored Critical Mass and chairs multiple European standardization groups on vehicle emissions and air quality. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Links & Resources: Learn more about Felix Leach: University of Oxford Profile Learn more about Nick Molden: Emissions Analytics Critical Mass: SAE Book Details Critical Mass on Amazon: Amazon Link Connect with Building Better: Follow the podcast for more inspiring conversations: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts

In this episode, we explore the history and development of ECG algorithms with a leading expert in the field. We'll cover the early days of ECG interpretation, the hurdles in creating automated algorithms, and how this essential technology has evolved. Our guest, with decades of experience, will discuss his role in establishing an ECG Core Laboratory for clinical trials and epidemiological studies. We'll also look at the globally used Glasgow ECG algorithm, which aids thousands of clinicians in interpreting 12 lead ECGs. Joining me is Professor Peter Macfarlane, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His team's work, including the Glasgow ECG interpretation program, is renowned worldwide. Peter's research has focused on ECG variations across age, gender, and ethnicity, influencing international guidelines for diagnosing acute myocardial infarction. He founded an ECG Core Laboratory for both national and international clinical trials and studies. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Macfarlane received a DSc in 2000, the 1998 Rijlant International Prize in Electrocardiology, and a CBE in January 2014 for his contributions to healthcare. to see more on the Glasgow ECG Program Research, see here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/robertsoncentreforbiostatistics/electrocardiology/glasgowecgprogram/ Some of the publications mentioned in the interview can be seen here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022073606000628 https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/robertsoncentreforbiostatistics/electrocardiology/publications/#clinicaltrialsandstudies This podcast is sponsored by Wel Medical. Wel Medical are a leading provider of life saving medical equipment. Known for their cutting-edge defibrillators, including the widely trusted iPAD SP1, Wel Medical is dedicated to making emergency tools accessible in public spaces, schools, and businesses. Their defibrillators are designed for ease of use, with clear voice prompts and visual aids, empowering anyone to help in a cardiac emergency. Wel Medical also offers a comprehensive range of first aid supplies and provides expert training, ensuring that organizations are well-prepared for any emergency. With a strong focus on customer support, they are passionate about helping people feel confident in saving lives. Tune in to learn how Wel Medical is making a difference in emergency preparedness. For more information, visit welmedical.com and discover how you can make your environment and workplace safer today.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 October 2024: Astrophysics miscellany: * Gamma-ray bursts * Chandra X-ray Observatory sees big explosion * Black hole outflow * NuSTAR. What sedimentary rock layers can reveal about the evolution of the solar system with Prof. Walter Alvarez UC Berkley, California (Courtesy UA) Large space structures: Dr Alexey Kondyurin, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Physics, University of Sydney, discusses large space structures of volume 7000 cubic metres made of composite materials cured in space. TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars in the sky (Inserts courtesy CXC, GSFC, NASA)

Gursh is the Chief Scientist at MX3 Diagnostics who are best known for its hydration testing and will be soon launching a saliva-based lactate threshold test. Gursh did his PhD at King's College in London before working at UC San Diago and NICTA. Currently, he is both an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne University and the Chief Scientist of MX3 Australia Sports Innovation Week This episode is brought to you by the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Australia Sports Tech Conference⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, the Southern Hemisphere's largest and most respected sports technology industry event. This year's edition is happening on Thursday, October 24th in Melbourne, Victoria. Agenda, tickets, and more info available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://stws.co/conference-australia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ _____ Subscribe to the Sports Tech Feed newsletter. Your source for in-depth sports technology insights, news, and analysis: ⁠⁠⁠⁠sportstechfeed.substack.com

How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of the Arts Singapore and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Stainforth, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds explore the global political context for digital heritage. Drawing on 4 detailed case studies- Singapore Memory Project, the National Library of Australia's Trove, the EU's Europeana, and Google Arts and Culture- the book shows the political ideas and imperatives underpinning the aggregation of heritage on digital platforms. Both an accessible introduction and a significant intervention to the field of heritage studies, the book will be essential reading across the arts, humanities and social sciences. 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 are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of the Arts Singapore and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Stainforth, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds explore the global political context for digital heritage. Drawing on 4 detailed case studies- Singapore Memory Project, the National Library of Australia's Trove, the EU's Europeana, and Google Arts and Culture- the book shows the political ideas and imperatives underpinning the aggregation of heritage on digital platforms. Both an accessible introduction and a significant intervention to the field of heritage studies, the book will be essential reading across the arts, humanities and social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of the Arts Singapore and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Stainforth, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds explore the global political context for digital heritage. Drawing on 4 detailed case studies- Singapore Memory Project, the National Library of Australia's Trove, the EU's Europeana, and Google Arts and Culture- the book shows the political ideas and imperatives underpinning the aggregation of heritage on digital platforms. Both an accessible introduction and a significant intervention to the field of heritage studies, the book will be essential reading across the arts, humanities and social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of the Arts Singapore and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Stainforth, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds explore the global political context for digital heritage. Drawing on 4 detailed case studies- Singapore Memory Project, the National Library of Australia's Trove, the EU's Europeana, and Google Arts and Culture- the book shows the political ideas and imperatives underpinning the aggregation of heritage on digital platforms. Both an accessible introduction and a significant intervention to the field of heritage studies, the book will be essential reading across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of the Arts Singapore and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Stainforth, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds explore the global political context for digital heritage. Drawing on 4 detailed case studies- Singapore Memory Project, the National Library of Australia's Trove, the EU's Europeana, and Google Arts and Culture- the book shows the political ideas and imperatives underpinning the aggregation of heritage on digital platforms. Both an accessible introduction and a significant intervention to the field of heritage studies, the book will be essential reading across the arts, humanities and social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of the Arts Singapore and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Stainforth, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds explore the global political context for digital heritage. Drawing on 4 detailed case studies- Singapore Memory Project, the National Library of Australia's Trove, the EU's Europeana, and Google Arts and Culture- the book shows the political ideas and imperatives underpinning the aggregation of heritage on digital platforms. Both an accessible introduction and a significant intervention to the field of heritage studies, the book will be essential reading across the arts, humanities and social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include: medieval hagiography, disability, gender, digital culture, and film and media studies. Her first monograph, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018, and is now available Open Access. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, a collection co-edited with Blake Gutt, was published in 2021. Shortlisted for the Transgender Non-Fiction award at the 34th Lambda Literary Awards, the volume is now also available Open Access. Their second monograph, Medieval Twitter, will be published by Arc Humanities in autumn 2024. Disability and Sanctity, a collection Alicia co-edited with Stephanie Grace-Petinos and Leah Pope Parker, will also be published around the same time by Amsterdam University Press. Alicia supports scholars' bringing cutting-edge work into the world as Series Editor for two book series: Hagiography Beyond Tradition at Amsterdam University Press, and Premodern Transgressive Literatures at Medieval Institute Publications. Alongside their academic work, Alicia is High Priestess of Sticker Church, your online emporium for weird medieval stickers and postcards. Alicia Contact Information: medievalshewrote: https://www.medievalshewrote.com/contact BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/aspencerhall.bsky.social Modern Medieval: Website: https://northwestmedieval.com/ Podcast: https://modernmedieval.podbean.com/ X: @nwmsNetwork, @medieval_modern

In this episode we welcome back good friend, Dr. Matt Morgan. Dr. Morgan is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales, UK and The Royal Perth Hospital, Australia. He is an adjunct Clinical Professor at Curtin University, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University and regular columnist at the BMJ. In his off time, he has penned 2 books thus far. In his is first book “Critical" he tells the remarkable stories of patients he has met as a guide through the intensive care unit. His second book, "One Medicine", explores how understanding the lives of animals can help treat human disease. In this episode, recorded remotely from Perth, Australia, Matt highlights animal physiology to help understand respiratory therapies in the ICU.

Date of lecture: Tuesday 2 May 2023 About the lecture: Anxiety can be physically, emotionally and socially debilitating. Left untreated, anxiety is associated with other serious illnesses and self-harm. This lecture summarises the recent increase in anxiety recorded in primary care, compares available drug treatments, and examines the treatments used for anxiety in UK primary care. We will also discuss the impact of the pandemic on pre-existing anxiety trends, and what will likely be needed to address anxiety going forward. About the speaker: April Slee received her PhD in Primary Care and Population Health at UCL in 2022. She has worked as a biostatistician on design and analysis of clinical trials for the past 21 years, and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology.

Today – in the final episode of this series – historians Helen Berry and John Styles trace connections between babies left at the Foundling Hospital and global forces of war, trade and empire. Presented by Kathleen Palmer, former Curator of Exhibitions and Displays at London's Foundling Museum. Written and produced by Minnie Scott with Louis Mealing. Music by Ben Jacob. Audio production by Will Jacob. Interviewees: Helen Berry, Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter. View the token Helen chose ⁠here⁠⁠. John Styles, Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. –– The tokens are your passport to Georgian London in our online exhibition, ⁠⁠Tokens of History⁠⁠. Discover different facets of eighteenth-century society, guided by nine historians, including Helen Berry and John Styles, who you heard on this episode. –– You can see Helen and John's tokens, along with many others, on display at the Foundling Museum ⁠⁠40 Brunswick Square London, WC1N 1AZ⁠⁠  Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm Sunday 11am – 5pm Follow us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Sign up to our newsletter⁠⁠ Take this Token and Tokens of History are supported by the Woven Foundation, previously the Artisa Foundation, and the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation.

Andy Williams, MB, BS, FRCS[Orth], FFSEM(UK), renowned British knee surgeon at the Fortius Clinic, London; Reader at Imperial College, London; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford shares his expertise in knee surgery, secrets to well-prepared lectures, founding Fortius Clinic and its future, and more.

Ask Your Mentor, a new podcast from Dementia Researcher, in association with Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK). Mentees interviewing their mentors, talking careers, lessons learned and what they've discovered, that could help you forge a successful career in dementia research. In this podcast Cambridge PhD Student, Rebecca Williams interviews her mentor Dr Martina Bocchetta, Lecturer at Brunel University London and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London Full biographies on all our guests and a transcript can be found on our website: ⁠https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk⁠ Find our more about Alzheimer's Research UK and how they support early career researchers on their website:  ⁠https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/research/for-researchers/ecr/supporting-your-career/⁠ Enjoyed the show (or not)? Please review, like, and share our podcast, subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode - also available on YouTube as a video podcast at ⁠https://youtu.be/DrQvmumdeXc Brought to you by Dementia Researcher at University College London with generous funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/askyourmentor/message

Tim Stonor is an architect and urban planner who has devoted his career to the analysis and design of human behaviour patterns – the ways in which people move, interact and transact in buildings and urban places. He is Managing Director of Space Syntax and a visiting professor at several top universities like University College London.Anna Rose is an architect and urban planner, and Director of Space Syntax, where she leads their consulting activities in the UK, USA and continental Europe. She is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The Bartlett, University College London.Space Syntax are a fascinating and unique group of people. Emerging out of University College London with a robust scientific approach to urban design and architecture, they now work all over the world on building, masterplans and urban strategy projects as well as conducting research and training.In this episode we discuss:Taking a science-based and human-centric approach to urban designWhy studying human behaviour should be central to urban and architectural designThe common challenges cities across the world are facingThe role and risks of technology in the future of citiesSpace Syntax website: https://spacesyntax.com/Green Urbanist website Contact Ross Social Media:https://twitter.com/GreenUrbanPodhttps://www.instagram.com/greenurbanistpodhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/green-urbanist-podcast

Around the globe, people are on the move. This is nothing new. Throughout history, migration has been a vital part of human civilization. With an accelerating climate crisis, increased migration is inevitable. And it will not only be a necessary adaptation strategy, but also a way to improve nations around the world. But currently, very few nations are doing much to ensure that migration is safe, affordable, and effective. That's the focus of Gaia Vince's new book  Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World.  Vince is an award-winning science journalist, author, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL's Anthropocene Institute. She joins us this week to discuss how to design better immigration policy around the globe, why this is a problem that needs addressing now, and how it will reshape our world over the coming century.  Read Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World Take part in the Day of Action for the Environmental Voter Project Subscribe to our Substack newsletter "The Climate Weekly" As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group.

Sustainable education, technology and education, language learning and teacher education were the topics of today's conversation with Dr Gary Motteram, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. 

In this episode of Beyond the Green Line, Shonelle Gleeson-Willey talks with Dr Scott Wilson the chief scientist at Earthwatch and the research director of the Australasian Microplastic Assessment Project. He's also a Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University and the Research Director of the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project (AUSMAP), a Eureka Prize-winning citizen science initiative that finds microplastic pollution hotspots, sources, and collaborates with stakeholders on practical solutions across Asia Pacific and Europe.  Scott has always wanted to make an impact in the environment and his new role at Earthwatch Institute Australia offered him a broader opportunity, engagement, and impact not only in Australia but globally and that's what drove him.  His current focus is on understanding the causes and impacts of plastics in the environment, while collaborating with stakeholders and the community across the country.Scott address the need of educating and raising public awareness about environmental concerns, as well as the programs offered by Earthwatch to local communities. He also discusses his involvement in a number of projects, including the Climate Watch Program, which is a community-based program aimed at documenting seasonal changes such as plant flowering or the appearance of certain animals at different times of the year, recording it, and getting the community to notice the changes, as well as how changing climate patterns are altering those patterns.Scott also discusses their new Tiny Forest program, which uses a Japanese botanist's approach known as the Miyawaki method to boost biodiversity, as well as his work and involvement in the AUSMAP program of PFS projects and the non-profit organization known as the Total Environment Centre, which includes university partners and local communities.Finally, they highlight the necessity of recognizing environmental repercussions and contaminants, as well as how, by working together, we can all make a difference!https://www.earthwatch.org.au/

To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Murdoch's 'Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals' I'm joined by Gillian Dooley (Flinders University, Australia), Nora Hämäläinen (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic), and Frances White (IMRC, Chichester) to give an introductory overview of the work. As this is Murdoch's magnum opus this is the first in a series of four podcasts being released in 2022 focusing on it. You can find Gillian and Nora's edited collection 'Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals' here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-18967-9?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=google_books&utm_campaign=3_pier05_buy_print&utm_content=en_08082017 Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Flinders University, Australia. She was the founding general editor of the Flinders Humanities Research Centre's electronic journal Transnational Literature from 2008-2018, and was founding co-editor of Writers in Conversation 2014-2020. She has published three monographs, several scholarly editions and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters including the co-edited Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Her latest work Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds and Silences will be published in the ‘Iris Murdoch Today' series with Palgrave Macmillan in July this year. Nora Hämäläinen is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Ethics as study in Human value at the University of Pardubice in the Czech Republic. As well as being the author of Literature and Moral Theory and Descriptive Ethics: What Does Moral Philosophy Know About Morality she is also the co-editor of Reading Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals with Gillian. She is currently working on two interrelated projects: completing a monograph called The Making of the Good Person: Moral Philosophy, Self-Help and Technologies of the Self, where I look at some discussions on self-transformation and self-development in philosophy and popular culture. She is also working on a long term project on moral change (the change and renegotiation of moral frameworks and axioms). Frances white is the deputy director of the iris Murdoch research centre at the university of Chichester. As well as publishing widely on Murdoch, including the biography Becoming Iris Murdoch in 2014 she is the co-editor of the Iris Murdoch Today series with Palgrave Macmillan and the Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review. She is currently editing Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination, also with Palgrave.

Dr Georgie Bruinvels is a Research Scientist and the Female Athlete lead at Orreco. Georgie is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Both her applied and research focus is on better understanding female physiology and in particular focusing on how the hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle impact physiological, physical and psychological readiness. At Orreco, Georgie works across a wide range of both team and individual sports including both National and WSL teams. Within her applied practice, she has four different aims: Improving education, increasing participation; helping to support performance; and ultimately driving research in this space. Podcast content: · How Georgie initially got into research on menstrual cycle. · The recent publication on menstrual education provision in UK schools: Key findings and recommendations. · Georgie's thoughts on whether there is an actual increase in knowledge application. · Orreco's work with FIFA on education about women. · Georgie's own growth and promotion of her research (e.g., the Female Athlete Podcast): Advice for others. · The Fitrwoman app and Fitrcoach · Georgie's recent publication on COVID-19, menstrual cycle and the female athlete, and thoughts on how COVID vaccinations might disrupt the menstrual cycle.

Discovered by local farmers in 1974, the Terracotta Army is one of the most astounding archaeological finds on record. A piece of funerary art, dedicated to the First Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang, it contains over 8,000 figures of soldiers, chariots, and horses. This week Tristan is joined by Dr Xiuzhen Li, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL, to discuss its origins, its possible Hellenistic influences, and what else we can learn from this incredible ancient wonder.If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hithttps://access.historyhit.com/?utm_source=audio&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Podcast+Campaign&utm_id=PodcastTo download, go to Android or Apple store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.historyhit&hl=en_GB&gl=UShttps://apps.apple.com/gb/app/history-hit/id1303668247If you're enjoying this podcast and looking for more fascinating Ancients content then subscribe to our Ancients newsletter. Follow the link here:https://www.historyhit.com/sign-up-to-history-hit/?utm_source=timelinenewsletter&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Timeline+Podcast+Campaign See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recognized internationally as a preeminent philosopher of education, Michael A. Peters' contributions to the field are extensive, including over a hundred published books and more than several hundred articles or chapters. In addition to his current roles as Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Auckland, he is also Editor-in-Chief for Educational Philosophy and Theory and Co-Editor-in-Chief for Beijing International Review of Education. Michael joins us this episode to discuss the influence of Wittgenstein and Foucault on his work as well as recent research that examines knowledge socialism, post-truth, conspiracy, and avenues for peer production.Visit Michael's website at www.michaeladrianpeters.com and find links to selected recent works below.Pandemic Education and Viral Politics(2021, Routledge, with Tina Besley)https://www.routledge.com/Pandemic-Education-and-Viral-Politics/Peters-Besley/p/book/9780367635404 The Far-Right, Education and Violence: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume IX (2021, Routledge, with Tina Besley)https://www.routledge.com/The-Far-Right-Education-and-Violence-An-Educational-Philosophy-and-Theory/Peters-Besley/p/book/9780367562014 Knowledge SocialismThe Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence(2020, Springer, with Tina Besley, Petar Jandrić, and Xudong Zhu)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8126-3 Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of Rationality(2020, Springer)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-9972-9 

Ben Myers joins host Jonathan in this episode for a deep dive on the fascinating life, times and thought of John Milton (1608–1674). They cover everything from the English Civil War, regicide, political authority, republicanism, the Protestant Reformation, tyranny, censorship, theology, exegesis, the individual conscience, freedom, marriage and divorce, poetry and more. Dr Ben Myers is Director of Graduate Research at Alphacrucis College and writes on the intersection of literature and theology. His international appointments have included visiting fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary and member in residence at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. He is a Research Fellow of the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre at Charles Sturt University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. He is the author of The Apostles' Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism, Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams and Milton's Theology of Freedom. Host of The Political Animals, Jonathan Cole, is an academic, writer, speaker and translator who specialises in political theology: the intersection of religion and politics. He is currently Assistant Director of the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University. Previously, he worked as a Senior Terrorism Analyst at Australian intelligence agency The Office of National Assessments. You can follow Jonathan on Twitter and Facebook.

Determining what Shingles really is and why vaccine uptake is so low? This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by a grant from The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust and The Stafford Trust What exactly is Shingles? We often hear it thrown into conversation alongside a virus many of us have already had: Chickenpox. So how are the two linked? Why is one more associated with young people and the other with older people? The answer is they are both infections caused by the varicella-zoster virus. The vast majority of us had the Chickenpox virus when we were children, with many parents even intentionally exposing their children to the virus. Shingles, on the other hand, occurs after someone has already had Chickenpox when the virus (which remains in the body) is reactivated. One of the main worries people have about having Shingles is the potential to develop Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN). This is defined as persistent pain 3 months after the initial rash developed. Unfortunately PHN is a chronic condition which causes burning neuropathic pain. This condition is caused by the damage the virus inflicted during its reactivation. Paul Evans speaks to health professionals and somebody with lived experience of Shingles & PHN in order to illuminate the intricacies of the varicella-zoster virus, how it works and how it affects us throughout our lives. Time Stamps 1:55 - Dr Michael Serpell speaks: What is Shingles and how does it affect us? 6:15 - Dr Robert Johnson speaks: What is Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN)? 11:35 - Jan Fisher, who has lived with PHN for 8 years, speaks about her experience.  14:55 - Marian Nicholson from the Shingles Support Society speaks: Shingles awareness, treatment & what to do if you think you have Shingles? 16:55 - Dr Robert Johnson speaks about treatment for Shingles & PHN. 20:05 - Jan Fisher elaborates on her own experience of medication for PHN. 21:25 - Dr Michael Serpell on what you can expect from PHN treatment & pain management techniques. 26:10 - Dr Robert Johnson discusses the Shingles vaccination. 26: 45- Marian Nicholson speaks about the rollout of the Shingles vaccination and who is eligible. 27:45 - Dr Robert speaks about the low uptake of the vaccine and why it's important to get it. 33:11 - Dr Robert Johnson on amitriptyline and studies on preventing PHN. 35:15 - Final words from Jan Fisher on why you should get the Shingles vaccine. Issues covered in this programme include: Shingles, Chickenpox, varicella-zoster virus, neuropathic pain, Post Herpetic Neuralgia, pain management, virus reactivation, insomnia, vaccination, vaccine uptake, side effects, amitriptyline, Gabapentinoids, depression. Contributors:  Dr Michael Serpell, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine at Stobhill Hospital Glasgow. Marian Nicholson, Director of the Herpes Viruses Association & Shingles Support Society. Dr Robert Johnson, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol. Jan Fisher, had the Shingles virus & lives with Post Herpetic Neuralgia. More information:  Shingles Support Society Airing Pain 46: Post-Herpetic Neuralgia and Migraine Airing Pain 115: Neuropathic Pain 1 Airing Pain 116: Neuropathic Pain 2 Pain Concern's leaflet on Neuropathic Pain Herpes Viruses Association NHS Guidance for Shingles British Pain Society IASP Global Year Against Neuropathic Pain 2014-15

This week, some comparative politics between Sweden and Scotland with Prof. Jonas Hinnfors, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenberg and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. Enjoy!

How did the early church's theologians think of atonement and violence? We ask Dr Ben Myers. Dr Ben Myers oversees the higher degree research programs at Alphacrucis College in Australia. (Honours, MPhil, DMin, PhD). He has worked extensively in research and postgraduate supervision, and has been a research fellow at the University of Queensland, a lecturer at Charles Sturt University, and dean of liberal arts at Christian Heritage College. His international appointments have included visiting fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary and member in residence at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. He is a Research Fellow of the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre (PaCT) at Charles Sturt University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Queensland. Ben has published widely in theology, literature, and the history of Christian thought. His current research focuses on poetry and theology in the 17th century, especially George Herbert and John Milton. Follow Drew Hart on Instagram and Twitter @druhart. Follow Jarrod McKenna on Instagram and Twitter @jarrodmckenna. Discover our global community on Twitter and Instagram @inversepodcast. Become a Patron of Inverse at https://www.patreon.com/InVerse Inverse is produced by Julie Kerr (@juliekkerr) with music provided by David Andrew (@davidjandrew)

How did the early church’s theologians think of atonement and violence? We ask Dr Ben Myers. Dr Ben Myers oversees the higher degree research programs at Alphacrucis College in Australia. (Honours, MPhil, DMin, PhD). He has worked extensively in research and postgraduate supervision, and has been a research fellow at the University of Queensland, a lecturer at Charles Sturt University, and dean of liberal arts at Christian Heritage College. His international appointments have included visiting fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary and member in residence at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. He is a Research Fellow of the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre (PaCT) at Charles Sturt University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Queensland. Ben has published widely in theology, literature, and the history of Christian thought. His current research focuses on poetry and theology in the 17th century, especially George Herbert and John Milton. Follow Drew Hart on Instagram and Twitter @druhart. Follow Jarrod McKenna on Instagram and Twitter @jarrodmckenna. Discover our global community on Twitter and Instagram @inversepodcast. Become a Patron of Inverse at https://www.patreon.com/InVerse Inverse is produced by Julie Kerr (@juliekkerr) with music provided by David Andrew (@davidjandrew)

Elizabeth Harris is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham. She carries out research in Buddhist Studies, Religion and Conflict, and Interreligious Studies. A link to Elizabeth's latest monograph: https://www.routledge.com/Religion-Space-and-Conflict-in-Sri-Lanka-Colonial-and-Postcolonial-Contexts/Harris/p/book/9780367591762 Anna King is Professor of Religious Studies and Social Anthropology and Director of Postgraduate Research in the University of Winchester's Centre for Religion, Reconciliation and Peace.

Acknowledgement of country We hear Doin Time's Marisa Sposaro speak with Tabitha Lean last week on International Womens' Day  - a day generally not inclusive of Indigenous women. Tabitha spells out the dangers of carceral responses to harm and what criminalising coercive control could mean for Indigenous women experiencing family violence.  Doin Time airs Monday from 4-5pm on 3CR.  Scott Jordan, Tarkine campaigner joins us on the show to speak about the blockade at Venture Minerals' Riley Creek mine site. Yesterday activists blocked the mine site in an effort to prevent works on the controversial and environment destroying project. You can find out more on Facebook and at the Bob Brown Foundation. NO COMMENT is an investigation by Bridget Chappell into the science of phase cancellation — the phenomenon when audio waves work against each other eliminating inverse frequencies — and the theory of ungovernable space. Chappell imagines an anti-carceral speculative future of sound technologies, and tactical defence to ‘phase cancel the cops’ in material, political and psychic terms.  The exhibition is located at Blindside level 7, Room 14 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Naarm/Melbourne.  Dr Ruth de Souza, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at RMIT University, joins us to talk about recent research on older migrant Australians' experiences of isolation during COVID-19. Ruth is a nurse, academic and community engaged researcher in gender, race, health and digital technologies. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow role at The Centre for Digital Transformation of Health at The University of Melbourne and has her own consulting practice. Tilde Joy, from 3CR's Stick Together show, comes on to chat about the special 3CR Binary Busting Broadcast, which airs this Sunday the 21st of March from 12-7PM. SongsIzy - FranticBarkaa - 22clan

Randall Curren is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education (secondary) at the University of Rochester (New York), and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues (JCCV) at the University of Birmingham (England).  He was the Ginny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey for 2012-2013, and held concurrent research professorships at the Jubilee Centre and the Royal Institute of Philosophy (London) in 2013-2015. Professor Curren is the author of 130 publications, including most recently Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters, with geologist Ellen Metzger (MIT Press, 2017), Why Character Education? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), Patriotic Education in a Global Age, with historian Charles Dorn (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and a series of papers on populism, civic friendship, and the rural-urban opportunity gap. He is editor of the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Education, co-editor of the History and Philosophy of Education Series for the University of Chicago Press, and a past editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education. His work in philosophy of education, social and political philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, moral psychology, and psychometrics, has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and Templeton Foundation. 

The FRC Genocide Podcast with retired Dean, Professor Gill Boehringer covers: 1) The feudal structure of wealth and power in the Philippines 2) The targeted extrajudicial killings of those “red-tagged” (that is, labelled "subversives") by the Duterte regime 3) The alarming rate of the persecution of people’s lawyers and 4) The attacks on civil society including journalists Prof. Gill Boehringer is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University School of Law, Sydney, Australia. He was previously Dean at the School. His research focuses on repressive states and the violation of human and environmental rights. For the past decade he has had a special focus on the Philippines. Currently he is studying the ‘drug war” in that country, and attacks on lawyers under the regime of the authoritarian regime of President Duterte.

Have you visited any of your past patients or their families in their homes? Would this be difficult? What might you learn? Medicine is mostly a series of stories of people’s lives. This is a privilege we often overlook. In Intensive Care we usually only have a glimpse into each life, an almost unrecognisable flash of physical suffering, medical procedure, bedside vigil and hopefully recovery, but sadly we often miss the end of the story. What happened to that person? Did they recover? Did they regain their previous life? What do they remember? Dr Matt Morgan, a Welsh Intensivist, didn’t enjoy missing the end of these stories, and he wasn’t sure that laypeople really understood what we do in the ICU. So he took it upon himself to visit some of the patients or their families who he had helped care for in the Intensive Care Unit. And what he learned helped him write his recently published book “Critical - science and stories from the brink of life”. Matt is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University in the UK. After completing medical school in Cardiff, where he still lives and works, Matt studied ethics at Bristol University, served as a junior doctor in the RAF, and subsequently chose the path of intensive care medicine, training in the UK and Australia, and completing a PhD. Matt is passionate about public engagement and has contributed to multiple scientific articles. The book “Critical” takes readers on a tour around the intensive care unit, meeting some of his most interesting and memorable cases. These stories include a pregnant woman who survived for weeks without a heart beat, the son of a police officer who was critically injured in a drug lab explosion, a judge who returns to the court room where he needed CPR, and an 18-year-old student who sadly died from sepsis after a trip to Africa. Throughout the book, Matt also highlights public health messages like the importance of bystander CPR, the harms of alcohol, the benefits of organ donation and how medicine is currently battling what should be done with what can be done. In this podcast conversation you’ll hear Matt speak about his new book, and also about: How he has tried to mix science, history, emotions and humans together in his writing How hard it was to visit some of the patients and their families he wrote about in his book The value of doing this “deep follow up” The story of Vivi, who is understood to be the world’s first ever Intensive Care patient How we can increase our use of narrative medicine including in medical note writing The changes he’s made to the process of his ward round Some of his thoughts on burnout and how he deals with the demands of work The importance he places on sleep His views on mindfulness What he says and does in a family meeting The question he thinks is crucial in a family meeting How he involves trainees in these meetings Some advice for difficult conversations The value of reading outside of intensive care and outside of medicine His obsession with animal physiology His thoughts on changes we need to make in intensive care Matt is an excellent writer with a gift for describing disease and concepts very simply. He speaks articulately too. Please enjoy listening to Matt Morgan. Andrew Davies -------------------- About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to bring your best self to the intensive care unit, through conversations with thought-provoking guests. I hope you’ll glean insights to help you improve as a healthcare professional and as a human being so you can make a truly valuable contribution to your patient’s lives.   -------------------- Links to people, organisations and other resources mentioned: Dr Matt Morgan website Matt Morgan on twitter Book “Critical” (by Matt Morgan) Blog piece “The ward round is broken” (by Matt Morgan) Blog piece “Burnout in healthcare workers - are we surprised” (by Peter Brindley and Matt Morgan) Other BMJ blog pieces by Matt Morgan Other blogs by Matt Morgan If this then that (IFTTT) Book “Why we Sleep” (by Matt Walker) Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 41 with Rana Awdish Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 46 with Deborah Cook 2019 World Congress of Intensive Care Medicine New Normal Project podcast New Normal Project podcast - Episode 56 with Brad Dalrymple Mastering Intensive Care podcast Mastering Intensive Care page on Facebook Mastering Intensive Care at Life In The Fast Lane Andrew Davies on Twitter: @andrewdavies66 Andrew Davies on Instagram: @andrewdavies66 Email Andrew Davies

What would employee health, business performance and our cities be like if our employees chose to run or even cycle to work and left the car and public transport behind? One big challenge though is that the infrastructure to be able to shower and change has not been easily accessible. Most companies also have not had showers in their buildings. This may be about to change! Scott Cain is the founder and CEO of RunFriendly (www.runfriendly.com). He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL Bartlett, in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, and holds advisory roles with Faculty.ai (Artificial Intelligence and machine learning), PSYT, PAN Studio and Centric Lab. Previously Scott was Chief Business Officer and Executive Director at the Future Cities Catapult, a world-leading urban innovation centre. Join us as we discuss executive health, how organizations can support their employees in getting healthier and more productive and the benefits to our cities.

What would employee health, business performance and our cities be like if our employees chose to run or even cycle to work and left the car and public transport behind? One big challenge though is that the infrastructure to be able to shower and change has not been easily accessible. Most companies also have not had showers in their buildings. This may be about to change! Scott Cain is the founder and CEO of RunFriendly (www.runfriendly.com). He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL Bartlett, in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, and holds advisory roles with Faculty.ai (Artificial Intelligence and machine learning), PSYT, PAN Studio and Centric Lab. Previously Scott was Chief Business Officer and Executive Director at the Future Cities Catapult, a world-leading urban innovation centre. Join us as we discuss executive health, how organizations can support their employees in getting healthier and more productive and the benefits to our cities.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) targets the critical risk mechanism in recurrent depression: the tendency to react to small changes in mood with large amounts of negative self-focused rumination. Mindfulness practice teaches patients to notice this tendency to ruminate earlier so that people can respond more skillfully. Research trials have found that MBCT reduces the risk of recurrence of depression by over 30% overall, with reductions of over 50% in those with the longest and most severe depression.Mark Williams is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. The main focus of his research and clinical work has been to understand how best to prevent serious clinical depression and suicide.With colleagues John Teasdale (Cambridge) and Zindel Segal (Toronto) he developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for prevention of relapse and recurrence in depression, and research has now found that MBCT markedly reduces the rate of future depression in those who have suffered the most serious and persistent forms of major depression. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago, suffragette Punch and Judy plus Shahidha Bari interviews Kapka Kassabova, the winner of a prize for fostering global understanding. The British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding was announced this week. The winner Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova is out in paperback. Dr Lucy Underwood teaches at the University of Warwick and is the author of Childhood, youth and religious dissent in post-Reformation England. Dr Caroline Bowden is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London. Alison Shell is Professor of English at UCL. She is currently writing a monograph on ‘The Drama of the British Counter-Reformation’ New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton is running an event day at the National Theatre in London on November 17th featuring suffragette Punch and Judy. She has also helped curate - What Difference Did the War Make? World War One and Votes for Women which is on show in November in Westminster Hall, London Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Dr Gillian Dooley presented on 19 June 2018 'Matthew Flinders and his Friends'. In all the ups and downs of his career, Matthew Flinders always knew he would get nowhere without his friends – and we have a vast amount of evidence from his letters and journals about what friendship meant to him and whom he regarded as his friends. ‘How extremely happy I have been in my friendships’, he wrote to George Bass. His wife, Ann, was ‘not only a beloved wife, but my most dear and most intimate friend’. He called Sir Joseph Banks ‘my greatest and best friend,’ but the Investigator ship’s cat Trim was also his friend and in turn Matthew was Trim’s ‘affectionate master and friend’. When he wrote towards the end of his life that he had gone to sea ‘against the wishes of my friends,’ he meant his father, who had opposed his wish to join the navy. Detained on Mauritius for more than 6 years, he made many life-long friends among the French inhabitants. He took friendship and its obligations extremely seriously and often went out of his way to repay a friend’s kindness. In this talk, Dr Gillian Dooley, Honorary Senior Research Fellow from Flinders University with a long-standing interest in the life and times of Matthew Flinders, visited Flinders’ own writings and other contemporary sources, to explore his affections and allegiances, and establish who his real friends were. This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series. For upcoming events visit: history.sa.gov.au/whats-on/events/

Event recording from 4/12/2017; introductory remarks by Dr Natasha Kuhrt. Professor Sakwa explores how the tension between Russia and the Atlantic community mirrored a fundamental realignment of the international system from the late 1980s onwards. He provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and competitive behaviour. None of the fundamental problems of European security were resolved, and tensions accumulated. Speaker biography: Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent. Prof. Sakwa is an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham and since September 2002 a member of Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. His latest book, 'Russia Against the Rest: The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order' is published October 2017 with Cambridge University Press. This event was a Russian and Eurasian Security Seminar in association with the King's Russia Institute.

Justine Clark, Editor, writer and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne and Maryam Gusheh, Director of Architecture at The University of New South Wales explore the central Iranian city and former Persian capital Isfahan. Presented by Abercrombie & Kent Image: Courtesy Abercrombie & Kent

Nothing symbolizes life and humanity as strongly and universally as the heart. Stretching across eras and cultures, the heart represents human existence and feeling. Despite this observation though, research on the heart tends to occur along entirely separate disciplinary paths. Initiated by experts from the field of medical heart research, this lecture series will provide insight into the heart from a number of very different perspectives, and will examine the question of what has led to the fascination with this particular organ. | Fay Bound Alberti is cultural scientist and freelance author. She is co-founder of the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Queen Mary University, London, where she is Honorary Senior Research Fellow.

Nothing symbolizes life and humanity as strongly and universally as the heart. Stretching across eras and cultures, the heart represents human existence and feeling. Despite this observation though, research on the heart tends to occur along entirely separate disciplinary paths. Initiated by experts from the field of medical heart research, this lecture series will provide insight into the heart from a number of very different perspectives, and will examine the question of what has led to the fascination with this particular organ. | Fay Bound Alberti is cultural scientist and freelance author. She is co-founder of the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Queen Mary University, London, where she is Honorary Senior Research Fellow.

Hosted by Jacinta Sherlock, this week’s episode with Dr Anna Boltong - Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia & Head of Cancer information at Cancer Council Victoria - features an in depth discussion about the magic of visionary leadership. We talk about the evolution of Bolton’s Taxonomy of Taste. We also discuss how you can use your passion for food and knowledge of nutritional science to guide your career.

James I, the Abbey and the 'beauty of holiness', a lecture given by Dr Andrew Foster, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Kent. #westminsterabbey #ladychapel #architecture

Melvyn Bragg will be discussing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Written in 1899, Heart of Darkness is a fascinating fin de siecle critique of colonialism and man's greed. Conrad draws on his own adventures for the plot. The story's main narrator is Marlow, a merchant seaman who pilots a steamship upriver in what is largely assumed to be the Belgian Congo. He finds the scramble for Africa well underway, with Europeans desperately competing to make their fortunes from ivory. Marlow's journey takes him into the interior of this mysterious silent continent. After a dangerous passage he finally arrives at the company's most remote trading station. It is reigned over by Kurtz, a white man who seems to have become a kind of God figure to the local people. Marlow is fascinated by him, preferring his messianic ravings to the petty treachery and mercenarism of the other white traders. On the journey back, Kurtz dies, whispering “the horror, the horror”.The interpretation of these words has perplexed readers ever since and the book has prompted a diverse range of readings from the psychoanalytical, that sees the novella as a metaphor for the journey into the subconscious, to feminist readings that examine how Conrad excludes female characters and focuses on the male consciousness. Conrad wrote; “My task is, above all, to make you see”. So did he intend this novella to provoke a discussion of the immorality and rapacity at the centre of colonialism? Was he questioning the hero's welcome given to those famous explorers who came back from “civilising” Africa, as they saw it? Or was he, as the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe put it, “guilty of preposterous and perverse arrogance in reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind?” With Susan Jones, Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford; Robert Hampson, Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London; Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Melvyn Bragg will be discussing Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Written in 1899, Heart of Darkness is a fascinating fin de siecle critique of colonialism and man's greed. Conrad draws on his own adventures for the plot. The story's main narrator is Marlow, a merchant seaman who pilots a steamship upriver in what is largely assumed to be the Belgian Congo. He finds the scramble for Africa well underway, with Europeans desperately competing to make their fortunes from ivory. Marlow's journey takes him into the interior of this mysterious silent continent. After a dangerous passage he finally arrives at the company's most remote trading station. It is reigned over by Kurtz, a white man who seems to have become a kind of God figure to the local people. Marlow is fascinated by him, preferring his messianic ravings to the petty treachery and mercenarism of the other white traders. On the journey back, Kurtz dies, whispering “the horror, the horror”.The interpretation of these words has perplexed readers ever since and the book has prompted a diverse range of readings from the psychoanalytical, that sees the novella as a metaphor for the journey into the subconscious, to feminist readings that examine how Conrad excludes female characters and focuses on the male consciousness. Conrad wrote; “My task is, above all, to make you see”. So did he intend this novella to provoke a discussion of the immorality and rapacity at the centre of colonialism? Was he questioning the hero's welcome given to those famous explorers who came back from “civilising” Africa, as they saw it? Or was he, as the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe put it, “guilty of preposterous and perverse arrogance in reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind?” With Susan Jones, Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford; Robert Hampson, Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London; Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Argentinian master of the short story, Jorge Luis Borges. Borges is one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, best known for his intriguing short stories that play with philosophical ideas, such as identity, reality and language. His work, which includes poetry, essays, and reviews of imaginary books, has had great influence on magical realism and literary theory. He viewed the realist novel as over-rated and deluded, revelling instead in fable and imaginary worlds. He declared "people think life is the thing but I prefer reading".Translation formed an important part of his work, writing a Spanish language version of an Oscar Wilde story when aged around 9. He went on to introduce other key writers such as Faulkner and Kafka to Latin America, liberally making changes to the original work which went far beyond what was, strictly speaking, translation.He lived most of his life in obscurity, finding recognition only in his sixties when he was awarded the International Publishers' Prize which he shared with Samuel Beckett. By this point he was blind but continued to write, composing poetry in his head and reciting from memory.So how has Borges' work informed ideas about our experience of the world through language? How much was his writing shaped by his travel abroad and an unrequited love? And how has his legacy inspired the next generation of great Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa?With Edwin Williamson, Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford University; Efraín Kristal, Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles; Evelyn Fishburn, Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Argentinian master of the short story, Jorge Luis Borges. Borges is one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, best known for his intriguing short stories that play with philosophical ideas, such as identity, reality and language. His work, which includes poetry, essays, and reviews of imaginary books, has had great influence on magical realism and literary theory. He viewed the realist novel as over-rated and deluded, revelling instead in fable and imaginary worlds. He declared "people think life is the thing but I prefer reading".Translation formed an important part of his work, writing a Spanish language version of an Oscar Wilde story when aged around 9. He went on to introduce other key writers such as Faulkner and Kafka to Latin America, liberally making changes to the original work which went far beyond what was, strictly speaking, translation.He lived most of his life in obscurity, finding recognition only in his sixties when he was awarded the International Publishers' Prize which he shared with Samuel Beckett. By this point he was blind but continued to write, composing poetry in his head and reciting from memory.So how has Borges' work informed ideas about our experience of the world through language? How much was his writing shaped by his travel abroad and an unrequited love? And how has his legacy inspired the next generation of great Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa?With Edwin Williamson, Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford University; Efraín Kristal, Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles; Evelyn Fishburn, Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London.

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