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While most clinicians are seeking effective clinical skills to bring back to their clients, NARM® therapists are often surprised to experience such profound personal transformation for themselves through training in NARM. In learning more about themselves and their own healing process, the result is a better understanding of their client's healing process. Self-discovery can be a vehicle toward personal and relational change. On this episode of Transforming Trauma, host Emily Ruth invites NARM Master Therapists Alex White and Sabrena Ness to share their professional experiences as members of the NARM training community and personal journeys of self-discovery. The trio also discusses the mentorship programs that support ongoing professional development and personal growth hosted by the Complex Trauma Training Center, as well as opportunities for stronger community engagement and support. About Sabrena Ness: Sabrena Ness is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC) in Utah and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado. She earned her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Wyoming. Sabrena is the Clinical Director at LifeStance Health in Utah and has been with LifeStance since 2021. She also serves as a Co-Chair for the Pacific Northwest region of LifeStance's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) chapter, where she focuses on fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace culture.  Sabrena specializes in complex developmental trauma and complex PTSD, working with individuals and couples across the lifespan. She is particularly dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent populations, creating affirming and effective therapeutic spaces. She is a NARM Therapist and participates as a Training Assistant in NARM Trainings, reinforcing her commitment to advancing trauma-informed care. Her work emphasizes innovative leadership, continuous improvement, and a deep dedication to mental health advocacy. Learn More: Lifestance Health About Alex White: Alex White's career spans more than 15 years in the mental health field, throughout which he has been continually inspired by the transformative power of the therapeutic process. A NARM Master Therapist, Alex first joined the NARM community in 2020 and has served as a Training Assistant in NARM Trainings since 2022. Alex has worked with diverse populations across various settings, with a particular focus on the unique complexities of trauma work with adults (18+). He currently runs a private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah, focusing on issues such as religious trauma, LGBTQ+ issues, compassion fatigue, burnout, shame, relationship difficulties, and masculinity. He is also an adjunct faculty in the MS Counseling Program at Westminster University. Learn More: Alex White Counseling & Consulting To read the full show notes and discover more resources, visit https://complextraumatrainingcenter.com/transformingtrauma SPACE: SPACE is an Inner Development Program of Support and Self-Discovery for Therapists on the Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Levels offered by the Complex Trauma Training Center. This experiential learning program offers an immersive group experience designed to cultivate space for self-care, community support, and deepening vitality in our professional role as therapists. Learn more about how to join. *** The Complex Trauma Training Center: https://complextraumatrainingcenter.com View upcoming trainings: https://complextraumatrainingcenter.com/schedule/ *** The Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC) is a professional organization providing clinical training, education, consultation, and mentorship for psychotherapists and mental health professionals working with individuals and communities impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD). CTTC provides NARM® Therapist and NARM® Master Therapist Training programs, as well as ongoing monthly groups in support of those learning NARM. CTTC offers a depth-oriented professional community for those seeking a supportive network of therapists focused on three levels of shared human experience: personal, interpersonal & transpersonal. The Transforming Trauma podcast embodies the spirit of CTTC – best described by its three keywords: depth, connection, and heart - and offers guidance to those interested in effective, transformational trauma-informed care. We want to connect with you! Facebook @complextraumatrainingcenter Instagram @complextraumatrainingcenter LinkedIn YouTube  

In this episode, David Mellor continues his exploration of microphone polar patterns by discussing techniques for capturing stereo recordings. He examines how the choice of polar pattern and microphone placement can be used effectively to achieve a balanced and immersive stereo image.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:10 - Defining Mono03:08 - Binaural Recording04:24 - Defining Stereo05:28 - Number Of Mics And Placement06:58 - Polar Patterns07:48 - Figure of 8 Demo09:09 - The Blumlein Pair Configuration11:05 - Coincident Cross Pair Figure Of 8 With Demonstration16:53 - Coincident Cross Pair Of Cardioid With Demonstration21:35 - Mic Spacing - The ORTF Configuration24:31 - Mic Spacing - Omnidirectional Without Angling27:28 - Medley Of Configurations29:38 - SummaryDavid Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. David has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music. Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, also returning to guest lecture at Surrey University. From 2001 until recently David has offered courses in audio online with Audio Masterclass. David now enjoys making YouTube videos for his 84,000 subscribers and releasing music on streaming services and Bandcamp for his dozen or so listeners.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@audiomasterclassSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OkaDx4vB4O2ssUA5p4M8gBandcamp - https://davidmellor.bandcamp.com/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Who doesn't love cacao in some way, shape, or form? (Of course, dark chocolate is the best kind of chocolate in my not-so-humble opinion, but that's beside the point.) In this episode, I got to interview Marcos Patchett, a London herbalist with a very interesting backstory, who also happens to be an expert on cacao.Marcos shared so many fascinating aspects of this amazing plant, from its rich history in South America to its chemical constituents and the way it affects our bodies. He also dove into its many health benefits – so now you have an excuse to indulge in some high-quality chocolate!One traditional way to work with cacao is as a refreshing drink called pozol. Marcos shared a recipe for pozol that he learned in Mexico; you can download your beautifully illustrated copy here: https://bit.ly/4dged6iGood chocolate is much more than just a decadent treat! Here are just a few ways cacao can benefit your health:► It can help reduce stress and anxiety, and even certain kinds of pain► It's high in antioxidants and other nutrients► It improves circulation and reduces inflammationTo learn even more amazing benefits of cacao, be sure to tune in to the entire episode!By the end of this episode, you'll know:► How the many different constituents of cacao work together to affect your brain chemistry► The importance of intention when preparing and using herbal medicine► How adding some cacao to other herbs can help them work better► Why cacao is good medicine for almost everyone, from young mothers to elderly gentlemen► and so much more…For those of you who don't know him, Marcos has practiced as a medical herbalist since 2005, initially specialising in complementary care for people living with HIV. He practiced from Neal's Yard Remedies Therapy Rooms in London from 2007 to 2016, and was a clinical supervisor at Middlesex University's Western Herbal Medicine, Westminster University, and Heartwood Online. His first book, The Secret Life of Chocolate, was released in 2020, and the paperback edit, Pharmakakawa, came out last year. Marcos also teaches Medieval astrology. He launched Plan*tarium, a school of medical astrology for herbalists, therapists, and medical practitioners, in 2024.I'm so excited to share our conversation with you today!----Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.comFor more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.----Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book

David Mellor discusses how to create custom effects in a DAW without relying on expensive plug-ins. Here he demonstrates his approach to creating a filter pan effect using an EQ with high-pass and low-pass filters, highlighting how custom effects can help give your music a unique edge.Chapters00:00 - Introduction02:05 - Pan Effect03:02 - Mono Pan04:30 - Static Pan06:21 - Music Track06:42 - Creative Pan Effect09:00 - Pan Effect Using A Low-Pass Filter 13:23 - Crossfading Using Filters17:15 - Effecting Individual Instruments #slatedigital #infinityeq #protoolsDavid Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. David has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music. Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, also returning to guest lecture at Surrey University. From 2001 until recently David has offered courses in audio online with Audio Masterclass. David now enjoys making YouTube videos for his 84,000 subscribers and releasing music on streaming services and Bandcamp for his dozen or so listeners.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@audiomasterclassSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OkaDx4vB4O2ssUA5p4M8gBandcamp - https://davidmellor.bandcamp.com/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Turner, CEO and co-founder of CeraThrive, to dive into the incredible benefits of red light therapy for both gut and brain health. Sarah shares her expertise on how red light therapy can support the body's natural healing processes and improve the health of the gut-brain axis. We explore the science behind this cutting-edge therapy, how it enhances cellular health, and practical tips for incorporating the CeraThrive into your daily routine. Whether you're looking to optimize gut health, support brain function, or boost overall well-being, this episode offers valuable insights into the healing power of light!Sarah Turner is an accomplished professional with an impressive educational background. She holds a postgraduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Roehampton University, London, and has earned BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University, respectively. Recently, she completed her diploma in PBM (Photobiomodulation) from Montpellier University, where she will particpate on the neurology module for the upcoming academic year. Sarah is the CEO and Co-Founder of the neurotech company, CeraThrive LLC - and the co-host of Rebel Scientist podcast.SHOW NOTES:0:39 Welcome to the podcast!2:31 Sarah Turner's bio3:13 Welcome Sarah to the show!4:15 Her background as a Neuroscientist5:22 Studying Parkinson's with Light8:18 Understanding the Gut-Brain Axis11:25 Symptoms of gut-brain dysfunction14:31 Why is there more mental health dysfunction?16:30 The evolution of light in our modern world20:32 Optimal wavelengths for healing26:35 All about the CeraThrive device!31:40 Low-level stress & antioxidants35:55 Stimulating the vagus nerve through the gut38:35 Why sleep requires energy40:58 Can red light override blue light exposure?44:37 Aligning your day with red light stacks49:37 Structured water for gut-brain health53:20 Recovering from Jet Lag55:00 How CeraThrive differs from other red light panels1:01:23 Where to find Sarah & CeraThrive1:02:41 Her final piece of advice1:04:45 Thanks for tuning in!RESOURCES:Website: CeraThrive - code: BIOHACKERBABES20IG: @CeraThriveLinkedIn: CeraThrive35 Best Biohacking PodcastsOur Sponsors:* Check out Effecty and use my code BIOHACKERBABES for a great deal: https://www.effecty.com* Check out Puori: https://puori.com/BIOHACKERBABESSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/biohacker-babes-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

BRITISH PROG ROCK GROUP ‘PURE REASON REVOLUTION' ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW ALBUM ‘COMING UP TO CONSCIOUSNESS' AND NEW SINGLE “DIG TILL YOU DIE” ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT WITH FOUNDER/SINGER/SONGWRITER/KEYBOARDIST/ JON COURTNEY ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I'm your host Ray Shasho. PURE REASON REVOLUTION is a British Rock group formed at Westminster University in 2003. Trying to fit PRR into a specific genre would be a difficult task, which is one of their attractive qualities. The group is set to release their sixth studio album Coming Up To Consciousness via InsideOutMusic. Their new to-be-released album will be out on September 6th. The album feature's themes of betrayal, deception, fear, grief, mortality, and questions of sanity. Legendary musician Guy Pratt, known for working with the likes of Pink Floyd played the bass guitar on seven of the eight tracks on Pure Reason Revolution's new album. The band tells fans to expect more ambitious bass lines in Coming Up To Consciousness than they've heard in any previous Pure Reason Revolution albums. The band was equally thrilled to work with multiple members of prog icon The Pineapple Thief; the record was mixed by Bruce Soord and mastered by Steve Kitch.  Jon Courtney comments: “Spawned from the bereavement after my dog was put down, a numb & dry creative spell ensued, but after a meeting with my writer friend Craig Walker (Archive/Power of Dreams) & sharing how the last months had been, he urged me to get this experience down in lyrics & music. Suddenly the album flew out of me/us! In terms of the recording process, this album was probably the most enjoyable to make, with the various collaborations firing creativity. PLEASE WELCOME British musician best known as a singer, guitarist, keyboard player and songwriter for the progressive rock band Pure Reason Revolution JON COURTNEY to Interviewing the Legends … PREORDER THE NEW ALBUM BY PURE REASON REVOLUTION Entitled ‘COMING UP TO CONSCIOUSNESS'   Pre-order now here: https://purereasonrevolution.lnk.to/ComingUpToConsciousness Progressive alternative rock band, Pure Reason Revolution is set to release their sixth studio album Coming Up To Consciousness via InsideOutMusic. Their new to-be-released album will be out on September 6th. The album feature's themes of betrayal, deception, fear, grief, mortality, and questions of sanity. The album will be available as a Limited CD+DVD Digipak (featuring 5.1 Surround Sound & High-Resolution Stereo Mixes), Standard CD Jewelcase, as well as a Gatefold ReVinyl LP (Recycled Vinyl), and digitally in both stereo and Dolby Atmos.   FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PURE REASON REVOLUTUON VISIT https://www.purereasonrevolutionofficial.com/ Official website https://www.facebook.com/purereasonrevolution Facebook https://www.facebook.com/purereasonrevolution Twitter https://www.instagram.com/purereasonrevolution_official/ Instagram   PURE REASON REVOLUTION TOUR DATES Confirmed first tour dates in support of the album, playing in Europe alongside Lesoir in September & October, starting at Be Prog! My Friend Festival in Barcelona. 27th September – Be Prog! My Friend, Barcelona, Spain* 29th September – Stummsche Reithalle, Neunkirchen, Germany 30th September – Backstage By The Mill, Paris, France 1st October – Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany 3rd October – Cpunt, Hoofddorp, Netherlands 4th October – Progpower Europe, Baarlo, Netherlands* 5th October – 013, Tilburg, Netherlands *No Lesoir *The band will also make their first appearance on Cruise To The Edge in 2025   PURE REASON REVOLUTION Discography Studio albums The Dark Third (2006) Amor Vincit Omnia (2009) Hammer and Anvil (2010) Eupnea (2020) Above Cirrus (2022) Coming Up to Consciousness (2024) Live albums Live at NEARfest 2007 (2008) Extended plays Cautionary Tales for the Brave (2005) Valour EP (2011)   Support us on PayPal!

Natasha is joined by Natalie Henry on this episode of the Natasha Helfer Podcast.  Natalie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (LMHCA) in Washington State. Natalie has a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Westminster University in Salt Lake City, Utah. Natalie has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah with a minor in English.   For more on Natalie, check out her website: https://www.nataliehenrytherapy.com To help keep this podcast going, please consider donating at natashahelfer.com and share this episode. To watch the video of this podcast, you can subscribe to Natasha's channel on Youtube and follow her professional Facebook page at natashahelfer LCMFT, CST-S. You can find all her cool resources at natashahelfer.com. This podcast addresses many topics around mental health and sexuality and may not be suitable for minors. Some topics may elicit a trigger or emotional response so please care for yourself accordingly. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed by our guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or feelings of Natasha Helfer or the Natasha Helfer Podcast. We provide a platform for open and diverse discussions, and it is important to recognize that different perspectives may be shared. We encourage our listeners to engage in critical thinking and form their own opinions. The intro and outro music for these episodes is by Otter Creek. Thank you for listening. And remember: Symmetry is now offering Ketamine services. To find out more, go to symcounseling.com/ketamine-services.

In this episode Will talks with Dr. Patrick McMillon and Alex White from Westminster University in Utah. They discuss the Graduate Certificate in Adventure Therapy, a program designed to train clinicians in integrating adventure therapy into their practice. Dr. McMillon, the program coordinator, shares insights on the program's structure, which includes three intensive courses focused on theory, professional practice, and clinical application. Alex White, with over ten years of experience, highlights how the program prepares students to implement effective, ethical, and culturally relevant adventure therapy. The episode also delves into the practical aspects of the certification, emphasizing its suitability for mental health and recreational therapists, as well as students in Westminster's Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. The guests discuss the growing interest in adventure therapy, the program's community impact, and the career benefits for graduates. Listeners will gain a comprehensive understanding of how this certification can enhance their therapeutic practices and contribute to the broader field of mental health treatment. Link to Westminster University Adventure Therapy Certification page.

Today on the podcast we are talking about wellbeing and food with Joy Philips of KitchenJoy Cookery school in Chiswick. Joy is a highly accomplished cook, who studied Medicine at Westminster University in homeopathy, herbal & and Chinese medicine. Food against medicine courses at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION) in Richmond and then trained to become a nutritional therapist. Joy went on to create Kitchen Joy, a cookery school with a difference, where she promotes brain foods and gut health and teaches you how to live at your optimum level of energy. Find out more on her website: Our story — KitchenJoy Cookery School Email: joy@kitchenjoycookery.com  Instagram : Joy Phillips (@kitchenjoycookery) • Instagram photos and videos Themes  - How and what prompted you to start Kitchen Joy? (2.20) - It is a cookery school with a difference, can you tell us how you are different from others (4.30) - What is functional medicine and how is it linked to food? (6.10) - We talk a lot about brain food, what are they? (7.00) - What kind of dishes do you teach people? (9.00) - Our podcast talks about difficult life transitions like a divorce. How can brain food help someone going through a lot of stress and emotions? What are they? (12.50) - What would be your tip for someone starting out on this healthier journey or someone with a special condition? (15.20) - How can we book class with you? (17.30)  Our hosts: Audrey Zeitoun is a French Relationship and divorce and Life coach based in London. She works with English and French speaking clients around the world, has extensive training accredited by the International Coaching Federation. She is also working in two London clinics Mme ZEITOUN Audrey – MEDICARE FRANCAIS and Audrey Zeitoun — The Door W4 ·Download her free guide here. book a 30 min discovery free call on her website · Read her Blog .Follow her on social media to hear her latest news and events: LInkedIn and Instagram Her latest workshop on the menopause and intimacy : Friday 3 May online and free and Friday 17 May on menopause and self-confidence Sarah-Jane Tasteyre is a French Collaborative family lawyer, based in Leeds (UK), after having lived in Hong Kong and Tokyo. She assists French clients all over the world, in Hong Kong where she practices with the Firm @JCLegal Sarah Jane Tasteyre | Family & Divorce Lawyer in Hong Kong (jcco-hk.com)  and in England. She has become an expert in cross border cases in area of family law and probate, with the added bonus of having the experience of living abroad. Contact her sjt@tasteyrefamilylaw.co.uk / WhatsApp : +852 5238 2913 · Follow her social media: Ihttps://linktr.ee/tasteyrefamilylaw · Website

This is Derek Miller, Speaking on Business. Westminster University is a private, independent and comprehensive university dedicated to student learning. Dax Jacobson, Dean of the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business at Westminster University, joins us with more. Dax Jacobson: At Westminster University, we are dedicated to providing distinctive academic programs that prepare students for life-long learning and help professionals adapt to a changing social, technological and economic world. In addition to traditional undergraduate and graduate business programs, we are a pioneer in online, project-based undergraduate business courses and degrees. For example, our Bachelor of Business Administration degree is an online program that takes just 12 to 18 months to complete — ideal for working professionals and adult learners. Rather than attending lectures and taking tests, students receive one-on-one mentoring from faculty as they complete real-life projects that are relevant to their career, skills and interests. Plus, thanks to a generous donation from the Fenton Family Foundation, BBA students can apply for a scholarship that reduces the cost of the program to as little as 2,500 dollars per semester. Visit westminsteru.edu to learn more. Derek Miller: If you're seeking to complete your degree, progress in your career, or simply enhance your skills with the convenience of an online program, Westminster's Bachelor of Business Administration might be for you. I'm Derek Miller with the Salt Lake Chamber, Speaking on Business. Originally aired: 4/10/24

In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Shawn Newell about how to develop a greater understanding of one another. Shawn is the retired Vice President of Business Development at Industrial Supply Company where he worked for 37 years. He serves as a community integrator working as the vice president of the Salt Lake Branch of the NAACP, a former Commissioner on the Governor's Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Commission and co-chair of the Utah Black Round Table, the former co-chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Newell formerly served on the Boards of the Utah Non-Profit Association, the Utah Manufacturer's Association Board, as Chair of the Workforce and Economic Development Advisory Board at Salt Lake Community College where he served as the Alumni Council President and currently a Trustee Emeritus for the College. He is a former member of the Utah State Board of Education. He formerly served on the Board of Utah System of Higher Education. He now serves as a champion for the United Way promise Program network and Promise Partnership Board. Shawn serves on the Utah 3rd district Court Committee for Self-Represented Parties, as a President's Ambassador for the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Utah State Department of Workforce Services Board, Utah State Bar Commission Board, South Valley Chamber Board, Trustee at Westminster University, a member of the Third District court Office of accountability committee, the advisory committee for Unite, The University of Utah Hospital and Clinics Board, as co-chair of the Utah Multicultural Commission. Mr. Newell is currently a councilman for the city of Cottonwood Heights. Shawn is a graduate of the University of Utah, Salt Lake Community College and has a Masters of Management degree from the University of Phoenix. He holds an Executive leadership certification from the University Of Utah School Of Business and a Diversity and Inclusion certificate from Cornell University and a Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Certificate from the University of Utah. He has two certificates from the University of South Florida in Inclusion, Workforce and Personal Wellness Foundations and Ethical Leadership and Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace. He is the recipient of a Honorary Doctorate. In Shawn's spare time he officiates youth sports and BBQs great grub. Mr. Newell is married, the father of three and has seven grandchildren. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network! Check out the ⁠HCI Academy⁠: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! Check out the LinkedIn ⁠Alchemizing Human Capital⁠ Newsletter. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Future Leader⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership⁠. Check out the latest issue of the ⁠Human Capital Leadership magazine⁠. Each HCI Podcast episode (Program, ID No. 655967) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Each HCI Podcast episode (Program ID: 24-DP529) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCPHR recertification through SHRM, as part of the knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™). Human Capital Innovations has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. Each HCI Podcast episode qualifies for a maximum of 0.50 points.

A valuable test for recording engineers, David Mellor gives examples of different mic types to emphasise the importance of knowing your mic collection in detail so that you're using the correct one for the recording task at hand. Cardioid, Supercardioid, Figure of 8 and Omnidirectional are compared.Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:23 - Testing The Schoeps CMC 601:44 - Cardioid Examples05:39 - Testing With Percussion06:33 - Supercardioid Examples08:40 - Figure Of 8 Examples11:22 - Omnidirectional Examples14:05 - Testing With Percussion14:58 - Testing Each Mic Type at 0 Degrees17:00 - Testing Each Mic Type at 45 Degrees18:19 - Testing Each Mic Type at 90 Degrees19:42 - Testing Each Mic Type at 180 Degrees21:15 - SummaryDavid Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music, including the Chappell and Carlin music libraries (now combined into Universal Publishing Production Music). Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, and also returning to lecture at Surrey University. He also worked with John Cage on the International Dance Course at the University of Surrey. David now specialises in online audio education and has been Course Director of Audio Masterclass since 2001.https://www.audiomasterclass.com/

In the first of this two-part series, David Mellor gives us an introduction to mic polar patterns, explaining the best type of mic to use for various recording situations.Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:43 - Influenced By The EMI Emiguide Tapes04:08 - What Is A Polar Pattern?06:46 - Omnidirectional and Figure Of 808:43 - Cardioid, Hypercardioid and Super-Cardioid11:14 - Pressure-Sensitive and Pressure Gradient11:58 - Imperfections In Higher And Lower Frequencies13:01 - The Decca Tree14:06 - Abbey Road Demonstration15:32 - 0 degree axis Figure Of 816:10 - 90 degree axis Figure Of 816:48 - 180 degree axis Figure Of 817:30 - 270 degree axis Figure Of 819:01 - Multi-Pattern Microphones19:58 - Best Usage24:26 - Interference Tube, Parabolic Reflector26:23 - Experimenting With Off-AxisDavid Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music, including the Chappell and Carlin music libraries (now combined into Universal Publishing Production Music). Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, and also returning to lecture at Surrey University. He also worked with John Cage on the International Dance Course at the University of Surrey. David now specialises in online audio education and has been Course Director of Audio Masterclass since 2001.https://www.audiomasterclass.com/

Welcome back to Royal Riot! We're covering all things Utah Royals today with special guest and friend of the pod, Carla Swensen-Haslam. Carla graced the crew with on-field insight into key Royals players, perspectives from the broadcast booth, and recapped her summer with Refugee Soccer. We honor National Girls and Women in Sports Day, give away too much personal information, and continue the countdown to the Royals home opener! Learn more about Refugee Soccer at refugeesoccer.org, and shebelongs.org. National Girls and Women in Sports Day and Recreation Clinic at Westminster University  https://westminsteru.edu/about/community-engagement/camps/national-girls-and-women-in-sports-day-and-recreation-clinic/index.html

Episode 9On this week's episode, our guest Michelle Escoffery advocates for balancing life's challenges with wellness. She walks us through some of her teachable moments and experiences whilst embracing getting to know ourselves. Our girls Sherween and Fiona have been up to trouble again (good trouble lol) and Chantal has raised the white flag and given perimenopause a win this week.There's no Under The Mango Tree this week because we were loving up on Michelle too much…Enjoy and see you next week! If you have any feedback, comments, or for sponsorship opportunities, be sure to get in touch with us via email on relateablepodcast@gmail.com or via Instagram on @the_relatable_podcast_ Michelle Escoffery is a powerhouse in the music industry, celebrated as an award-winning singer-songwriter and an inspiration to all who cross her path. With an impressive career spanning over three decades, Michelle has proven herself time and again as a force to be reckoned with.As an esteemed educator, Michelle shares her practical wealth of knowledge on commercial songwriting at prestigious institutes such as Westminster University, BIMM, University of West London, Tileyard Education and others. Her passion for nurturing future talent is evident, as she co-owns boutique production company, 528 Music Global, where she dedicates time and expertise to Artist and Songwriter development.She has been honored with prestigious accolades such as the Ivor Novello Award and Brit Award, which stand as testament to her creative talent and professional contributions. But Michelle's influence extends far beyond her own artistic endeavors. She currently making history as the first President of PRS for Music Member's Council, where she passionately represents and advocates for her fellow music creators. Additionally, she dedicates her time as a Trustee for the PRS Foundation, demonstrating her unwavering commitment to supporting and uplifting the wider music community.Beyond her musical prowess, Michelle is a champion of wellness. For over two decades, she has empowered creative entrepreneurs as a Life Navigation Consultant and executive mentor. Her transformative guidance helps individuals meet the demands of daily life with creativity and spiritual practice, enabling them to ignite their energy, maintain their flow, and avoid burnout. Above all, Michelle's unique specialty as a Joy facilitator, helps individuals access and embody boundless joy in every aspect of their lives. Michelle Escoffery is a force of nature, empowering and inspiring many, and leaving a rich, lasting legacy through her extraordinary achievements, investment into the next generation, and unwavering commitment to uplifting the human spirit.Michelle Escoffery#DontBeAMalpwopTwossaints Kweyol Chronicles: Tracing My Story JournalSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/relateable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At this point, most of you know about red light therapy and all the amazing benefits that come with it. That's why in this episode, we are going to look at it from a different perspective. Rather than focusing solely on the common uses of red light therapy, we'll dive into its potential in enhancing brain health and cognition function, managing conditions like Parkinson's disease, altering your microbiome, and enhancing the connection between your gut and brain. We'll also dive into the lesser-known areas of this therapy such as its influence on structured water and so much more.  We go deep into individual case studies, current trials, and the role of dosing considerations in red light therapy to accentuate the fact that red light therapy is one of the most underrated yet powerful tools and can do some amazing things for healing and optimization – far beyond what most of us realize! Sarah is the co-founder and CEO of Ceratrhive, a company that develops a very special kind of red light therapy devices that we will also discuss in this episode. She has a postgraduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Roehampton University in London. She also holds BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University, respectively. Currently, she is pursuing a diploma in Photobiomodulation at the University of Montpellier in France. During the initial decade of her career, Sarah worked as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. Her role involved planning and conducting experiments to examine the impact of electrostatics on physiology.   Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible: Carol Bike: Visit carolbike.com and use promo code NAT for $100 off. LeelaQ: Go to www.leelaq.com and use code NATHALIE10  Profound Health: Visit www.profound-health.com and use code longevity15 to save 15% off your first order. Find more from Nathalie: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmholC48MqRC50UffIZOMOQ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/biohackingsuperhumanperformance Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nathalieniddam/ Website: NatNiddam.com Join Nat's Membership Community: https://www.natniddam.com/bsp-community Work with Nat: Book Your 20 Minute Optimization Consult: https://calendly.com/nniddam/intro-call?month=2021-08   Find more from Sarah: Website: https://www.cerathrive.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cerathrive/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CERASystem  What we discuss: (00:02) - Red Light Therapy and Its Benefits (11:58) - Dosing Considerations in Red Light Therapy (15:33) - Red Light Therapy for the Brain (24:14) - Structured Water and Its Biological Implications (33:21) - The Gut-Brain Connection and Light Therapy (40:47) - Parkinson's Trial and Brain Health Device (49:15) - Red Light Therapy Case Studies   Key takeaways:   Nature's red light therapy dosing is complex, with factors like power output, treatment time, and individual differences to consider for optimal results. Ongoing research on the effects of red light therapy demonstrates its potential to improve cognition in individuals with Down syndrome and alleviate symptoms of major depressive disorder. Specific devices have been designed for use on the head, as the skull presents a barrier for the light to penetrate. When we apply red light to the lower abdomen, it can benefit the microbiome and overall gut health. This is due to the red light therapy targeting the vagus nerve, blood cells, and even fat cells.   

While Sarah is a co-founder and CEO of CeraThrive she emphasises the imprtance of early morning and evening as a natural way to take the red light that we all need.   Sarah Turner has a postgraduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Roehampton University in London. She also holds BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University, respectively. Currently, she is pursuing a diploma in Photobiomodulation at the University of Montpellier in France. During the initial decade of her career, Sarah worked as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. Her role involved planning and conducting experiments to examine the impact of electrostatics on physiology. Sarah actively participates in the Biohacker movement and has had the opportunity to interview prominent thought leaders, visionaries, and experts in the field of Biohacking. Through these interactions, she has gained a deep understanding of the crucial role of physics in relation to biology. This has ignited her interest in the areas of quantum biology in health, photomedicine, and consciousness studies. Sarah's primary focus lies in photobiomodulation, which involves utilizing specific light wavelengths and pulsed frequencies to enhance optimal functioning, with a specific emphasis on brain-related issues. As the Co-Founder and CEO of CeraThrive, she spearheads the production of a red light therapy system that specifically targets the gut-brain connection. https://www.cerathrive.com/about-us

A Salt Lake City bookstore received bomb threats this week over an all-ages drag storytime event. Lead producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to talk about it — because we think more people should be. Plus, we break down a potentially interesting development in the Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola saga as well as what's going on with the ski bus this winter. Listen to our conversation with Tara Lipsyncki about “the new normal” for drag shows. Attend the next Central Wasatch Commission meeting. Comment on the Utah Transit Authority's long-range transit plan by Sept. 30. Need to talk to someone? Check out Westminster University's community clinic. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this fourth and final episode, David Mellor, a sound engineer and the founder and Course Director of Audio Masterclass, delves into Gain Staging your plug-ins and how to avoid clipping during the mixing and mastering stages.Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:50 - Gain Staging Your Plug-ins08:08 - 32-Bit Float11:35 - Mixing And Mastering16:27 - Gain Staging The Mix19:32 - Headroom21:50 - Mastering Using LUFSDavid Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music, including the Chappell and Carlin music libraries (now combined into Universal Publishing Production Music). Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, and also returning to lecture at Surrey University. He also worked with John Cage on the International Dance Course at the University of Surrey. David now specialises in online audio education and has been Course Director of Audio Masterclass since 2001.https://www.audiomasterclass.com/

Throughout the year, Utahns participate in an array of outdoor activities. You'll find us hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, skiing, just to name a few. One of Utah's most unique features is the Great Salt Lake. It pulls in tourism and many activities mentioned above can be participated in around the lake. It plays a significant part in Utah's ecosystem. If we do not preserve the Great Salt Lake and its ecosystem, the entire state of Utah will be impacted. In this episode of our Altabanking Podcast, we are joined by three panelists to discuss the Great Salt Lake. Max Malmquist is the engagement manager for the National Audubon Society, Dr. Bonnie Baxter is a Westminster University professor of biology and a director of the Great Salt Lake Institute, and Natalie Gardner is the leader of the University of Utah's Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. All three of these individuals care for the Great Salt Lake. They discuss the role of the lake in Utah's ecosystem. They highlight its impact on agriculture, the economy, and wildlife. They emphasize that urgent preservation efforts require collaboration to protect Utah's unique environment and outdoor activities. The message is clear: safeguarding the Great Salt Lake is crucial for Utah's well-being.

Today's Chris Mason is joined by Rachel Aldred, a Professor of Transport at Westminster University, to discuss the overall success of ‘low traffic neighbourhoods' and whether they're here to stay. He then speaks to Linda Taylor, a Transport spokesman for the Local Government Association, who explains the importance of engaging with residents to help find solutions to environmental damage. Steve Berry, a Motoring journalist and former Top Gear presenter, outlines the problem he finds with ‘low traffic neighbourhoods'. Together, the guests look to the future, to discuss the need for better schemes, to provide benefits to future generations.

Carly Biedul, Coordinator of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University, gives us an update on the health of the Great Salt Lake. We have a long way to go, but the 2022/2023 winter lifted lake levels and spirits.

Not a normal episode.We're not actually talking about a Soho film in this episode. It's a long story... We do, however, talk to a genuine film star from the golden era.As an eight year old boy, Bobby Henrey was rocketed into the public eye when he starred in Carol Reed & Graham Greene's 1948 thriller, "The Fallen Idol". He joins us on Soho Bites (on his 84th birthday!) to tell us about that experience.Bobby is now known as Robert and there is a double reason for having him on the show. His mother, Madeleine Henrey, was a French author, based in London, who wrote several memoirs - social histories - about Soho and the west end. These included "A Village in Piccadilly" from 1942 and "Spring in a Soho Street" from 1962. Her books were often published under her married name, "Mrs Robert Henrey" which seems quite an odd decision to make, but Robert explains the reasoning behind this and talks about how this literary career began.Robert spent his early childhood living in Mayfair, specifically in Shepherd Market during the blitz. This period is documented in Mrs Robert Henrey's memoir, A Village in Piccadilly.In the final part of the show we preview our upcoming three part special seasn about Soho's very own fallen idol, the 1930s mega star, Jessie Matthews.An article about Robert.You can buy Robert's book, Through Grown Up Eyes, at Foyles.Some of the people who have helped me research this episode include Professor Debra Kelly of Westminster University, Celia Cotton of the Brentford High St Project, who put me in touch with Anne Wallace who is a distant relative of the Henreys and Roger Greaves, whose book, Reading Madeleine, is currently in production.Madeleine Henrey's Wikipedia entry and her obituary.Images of Shepherd Market from then & now.Our favourite tired old queen reviews The Fallen Idol.During the pandemic, we made an episode of Mural Morsels about Jessie Matthews.Custom artwork for this episode was created by

David Mellor, a sound engineer and the founder and Course Director of Audio Masterclass, introduces us to Gain Staging in a brand new series of podcasts. In the third episode David continues looking at preamps, outlines the use of VU Meters and talks about the benefits of balancing a track prior to mixing. Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:56 - More About Preamps05:38 - Preamps With Valves09:20 - The Mixing Process16:17 - Using VU Meters24:05 - Mixing During RecordingListen to Gain Staging Episode 1Listen to Gain Staging Episode 2David Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music, including the Chappell and Carlin music libraries (now combined into Universal Publishing Production Music). Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, and also returning to lecture at Surrey University. He also worked with John Cage on the International Dance Course at the University of Surrey. David now specialises in online audio education and has been Course Director of Audio Masterclass since 2001.https://www.audiomasterclass.com/

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, a college admissions principle which for decades has sought to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of student populations in higher education. How does the decision impact Salt Lake's colleges? Dr. Tamara Stevenson, Westminster University's vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion, joins host Ali Vallarta to make the case for demographic diversity as an educational tool. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Mellor, a sound engineer and the founder and Course Director of Audio Masterclass, introduces us to Gain Staging in a brand new series of podcasts. In the second episode David focuses on gain staging during recording, by balancing mic input, preamps and gain within your DAW to achieve the optimal sound level.Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:40 - Dynamic Microphones05:19 - Capacitor Microphones11:25 - Gain Staging First Step14:00 - The Pre-amp16:39 - Headroom20:49 - Audio ExamplesDavid Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music, including the Chappell and Carlin music libraries (now combined into Universal Publishing Production Music). Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, and also returning to lecture at Surrey University. He also worked with John Cage on the International Dance Course at the University of Surrey. David now specialises in online audio education and has been Course Director of Audio Masterclass since 2001.https://www.audiomasterclass.com/

“Keeping our blood sugar within limits and eating slow-releasing food is absolutely fundamental to inflammatory disease”Alex is a practising medical herbalist and phytotherapist with more than 20 years of experience. She runs the UK's first herbal clinic in hospital dermatology at Whipps Cross University Hospital, where she is tutor-practitioner to BSc herbal students. She also practises at Breast Cancer Haven and privately. She is a council member of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy (CPP), and formerly of the Aromatherapy Organisations Council. She has published clinical research and is a visiting lecturer to universities including Westminster, East London, Hertfordshire and the Royal Free Medical School. She is a founding director of the charity, Living Medicine, which teaches people how to use food and herbs in self-care, exchanging and updating knowledge from all cultures to feed into public health. Originally a TV producer, she then worked as an aromatherapist for staff at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, with drug users and those with HIV while training as a medical herbalist.Alex's driving passion is discovering how life is designed at all levels – reconnecting to each other, our rhythms, food and nature to follow our design are key to resilience.Alex has built impressive research around the powerful impact of herbalism in dermatology. Whilst supporting community and cultural sensitivities at Whipps Cross, Alex has shown that a personalised approach can really make a difference even with the most complex of skin conditions. In her chat with Simon, we learn about several lightbulb moments that have taken Alex on a journey of discovery and why she is so passionate about the role of nutrition when it comes to improving our health.Alex talks on:Herbal approaches to complement cultural beliefs within communities.Making herbal medicine accessible.Documenting treatment results & wellbeing using Westminster University's Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP.) Looking beyond the diagnosed condition to treat all issues and internal factors. Educating patients and reconnecting them with food. Her commonly used herbs for treating skin conditions.The story of Living Medicine - education support for communities, delivered by herbalistsHer mission as an educator in reminding people of their own resilience.Blowing the research trumpet.Find out more about Living Medicine on their website, www.livingmedicine.org or contact Alex on alex.laird@livingmedicine.orgGrab a copy of Alex's book Root to Stem: a seasonal guide to natural remedies and recipes for everyday life (Penguin 2019) at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/311757/root-to-stem-by-laird-alex/9780241371213Find out more about Herbal Reality on Instagram @herbal.reality or visit www.herbalreality.com Herbcast is produced by Decibelle Creative: @decibelle_creative / www.decibellecreative.com

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Richard Holland and Jonathan Harvey, founders of Holland Harvey Architects.    The practice is on a mission to celebrate the everyday through design. It is committed to high environmental and social impact standards, galvanized through its status as a Certified B Corporation. The studio creates extraordinary sustainable buildings and interiors across the UK and abroad. Richard's focus within the studio is creating aspirational hospitality environments, recently having completed Inhabit Hotels' second site at Queen's Gardens in London's Paddington, alongside several other ongoing hotel refurbishment projects. He sees London as the world's largest refurbishment project, which fuels his passion for the conservation and adaptive reuse of existing and historic buildings – breathing new life into the unloved. Jonathan studied architecture at The Bartlett, University College London, Sheffield School of Architecture, as well as Westminster University. During his early career, Jonathan worked with Michael and Henry Squire at Squire and Partners as well as for Michaelis Boyd Associates, working on a range of high-profile commercial and residential projects. During his time both at university and in his early career, Jonathan found a passion for the role the architect can play in magnifying social impact. He founded ‘Free Architecture', a social enterprise that facilitates pro bono design to the third sector.  Alongside running Holland Harvey, Jonathan commits actively to the academic sphere by teaching Architecture at the University of the Creative Arts in Canterbury.”   In this episode, we will be discussing: The economic and business benefits of becoming a B Corp The benefits of Financial transparency inside a business 1% Pro bono offering   To learn more about Richard & Jonathan, visit their: Website: https://hollandharvey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hollandharvey/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/hollandharvey/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HH_Architects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hollandharveyarchitects   ► Feedback? Email us at podcast@businessofarchitecture.com ► Access your free training at http://SmartPracticeMethod.com/ ► If you want to speak directly to our advisors, book a call at https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/call ► Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for updates: https://www.youtube.com/c/BusinessofArchitecture ******* For more free tools and resources for running a profitable, impactful, and fulfilling practice, connect with me on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessofarchitecture Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enoch.sears/ Website: https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BusinessofArch Podcast: http://www.businessofarchitecture.com/podcast iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-architecture-podcast/id588987926 Android Podcast Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BusinessofArchitecture-podcast Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9idXNpbmVzc29mYXJjaGl0ZWN0dXJlLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz ******* Access the FREE Architecture Firm Profit Map video here: http://freearchitectgift.com Download the FREE Architecture Firm Marketing Process Flowchart video here: http://freearchitectgift.com Carpe Diem!  

Bassam Mansour Project Director at HSS Engineers Bhd delivering KVMRT, Line 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bassam started his professional career with British Railway Board (BRB) in the eighties  as an Electrification  Engineer working on 750V d.c and 25KV Channel Tunnel Electrification and has occupied  some prominent positions like as a senior Manager in  Dockland Light Rail in the UK, London Underground,  Bosphorous crossing in Turkey, Dublin Area Transit System in Ireland , Japan Railway Technical Services in Tokyo , Delhi Metro in India , General Director for Dubai Metro , Director of Engineering at Roads Transport Authority and Advisor for UAE Government on Railways. Bassam published many technical papers and performed hundreds of presentations on railways. Bassam has done his Engineering degree in Engineering at Manchester University, and Master of Business Administration at Westminster University from the UK, Bassam comes with 36 years of industrial experience working in the entire “V” cycle of Engineering from Concept to Completion, operation and maintenance. He is a Fellow at Institution of Engineering and Technology and Institution of Railway Signal Engineers. 

Ian Appleyard PhD is the Research & Policy Manager for the British Acupuncture Council. His PhD, Acupuncture and moxibustion for osteoarthritis of the knee: a component analysis approach, was completed in 2018. He has a particular interest in the methodological challenges of researching acupuncture and placebo.Ian originally studied acupuncture at Westminster University. Further clinical training included studying with a private practitioner in Japan; clinical training in Shu Guan Hospital and the Meridian Research Institute in Shanghai; a year at the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of TCM, Nanjing, the Meridian Research Institute in Shanghai; and a year at the Jiang-su Provincial Hospital of TCM, in Nanjing.  He has worked as a private practitioner in Hove and Kendal. He was course director for Acupuncture at London South Bank University from 2008-2018.Our Sponsor: Raised Spirit CBDDiscount Code:  ACU10Key reference papers:Acupuncture for chronic pain: update of an individual patient data meta-analysisOther Links:British Acupuncture CouncilThe ACU-Track Clinical Registry

David Mellor, a sound engineer and the founder and Course Director of Audio Masterclass, introduces us to Gain Staging in a brand new series of podcasts. In this first episode he teaches the correct use of terminology and gives his three golden rules of Gain Staging.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:38 - Using The Correct Terminology05:56 - Why Use Gain Staging?11:04 - The Benefits Of Gain Staging15:31 - Working In Digital Audio27:17 - Three Golden Rules Of Gain StagingDavid Mellor BiogDavid Mellor got his start in pro audio through the Tonmeister course at Surrey University studying music, piano performance, acoustics, electronics, electro-acoustics and recording.He went on to work at London's Royal Opera House, with responsibilities including sound design, front-of-house operation, stage monitoring and electronic design satisfying the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has also had over 600 works published in the field of production music, including the Chappell and Carlin music libraries (now combined into Universal Publishing Production Music). Notable uses of his music include the BBC's Horizon, Fahrenheit 911, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.David has been actively involved in Audio Education since 1986, teaching students of City of Westminster College and Westminster University, and also returning to lecture at Surrey University. He also worked with John Cage on the International Dance Course at the University of Surrey. David now specialises in online audio education and has been Course Director of Audio Masterclass since 2001.https://www.audiomasterclass.com/

In episode 262 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the importance of serenity now! What to do when things go wrong on a commissioned shoot and making a small difference. Plus this week, photographer Pippa Healy takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Pippa Healy is a photographic artist based in London whose practice is primarily diaristic and concerned with themes of loss, longing, violence and grief. She had a successful career in television before embarking on her photographic journey, working for Reuters on their news desk as well as on documentaries and factual programmes such as Dispatches and Cutting Edge for Channel 4. Healy studied at Central St Martins for a Post-Grad Certificate in Photography and then an MA in Photographic Studies at Westminster University. She then expanded her photographic practice with an MA in Printmaking at UAL Camberwell graduating in 2020. Her handmade ‘Zines' are central to her practice. Healy has shown work at Festival Circulations in Paris, Les Rencontres d'Arles and Format Festival (UK) and her work has been widely published in magazines and exhibited internationally and her zines are part of the Tate Galley, Martin Parr Foundation and MEP in Paris. Healy was the recipient of the 2020 Bainbridge Studio Prize and a finalist for The Signature Art Prize in 2021. She is currently studying for a Doctorate in Fine Art from The University of East London where she also lectures in Contextual Studies on the BA Photography course. www.pippahealy.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. © Grant Scott 2023

Sarah Turner has a post graduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Roehampton University, London. She also has BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences, and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University, respectively. Sarah spent the first 10 years of her career as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry planning and executing experiments looking at the effects of electrostatics on physiology.Whilst in California, Sarah became involved with the Biohacker movement, and has interviewed some of the most prolific thought-leaders, visionaries, experts in the Biohacking space. This has led to her current understanding of the overriding role of physics in relation to biology and has fuelled her current interest in the field of quantum biology in health, photomedicine and consciousness studies. Her main interest is photobiomodulation – that is, using specific light wavelengths and pulsed frequencies to heal the body, and promote optimal functioning, with a focus on brain issues.Sarah is the CEO and Head of Science of CeraThrive LLC, a neurotech company specializing in the gut-brain connection, and she co-hosts a weekly Biohacking podcast ‘Rebel Scientist' where she and her co-host Russ interview a variety of cutting edge health experts with a focus on wellness, longevity and health optimization.In this episode, Sarah is teaching us all about red light therapy, what it is, the benefits, how we get it and how it can totally transform our health!Highlights from the episode:What is red lightThe importance of light in your lifeHow the light spectrum varies and how each type of light benefits us Optimizing your environment for healthRed light therapy for inflammationRed light therapy and the gut brain connection Red light therapy for brain optimizationHow to choose the best type of red light therapy for youResources:cerathrive.com rebelscientist.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-turner-80087355/***Use code HOPEFUL10 to get 10% off your red light therapy order at cerathrive.com !!

Welcome to a special episode of the Rebel Scientist Podcast, where host Sarah Turner becomes the guest to share her latest breakthrough in neurotechnology. Sarah is a clinical neuroscientist with post-graduate degrees from Roehampton University, London, and BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University.Sarah's company, Cerathrive, is about to launch their first offering, a groundbreaking system of two red light therapy devices that target the gut-brain axis for optimized brain function, increased longevity, and peak physiological health. As the only FDA-listed red light therapy system of its kind, Cerathrive's technology is set to revolutionize the way we approach brain health.In this episode, Sarah dives into the science behind Cerathrive's technology and explains how it works to unlock the brain's full potential. She discusses the connection between the gut and the brain, and how this connection is essential for optimal brain function. Sarah also shares the benefits of using red light therapy for brain health, including laser focus, clarity of mind, and peak performance.Join us as we explore the cutting-edge world of neurotechnology with Sarah Turner, and learn how you can use light to unlock your brain's superpowers and thrive in the 21st century.Pre-order your very own CERA system today and get 10% offCeraThrive.com -> use code: REBELSCIENTIST10DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is solely intended as a self-help tool for your own use.

EPISODE SUMMARY Join scientist and mindset & high-performance coach Claudia Garbutt and “rebel scientist” Sarah Turner, as they discuss the potential of targeted red-light therapy for health & wellbeing.   In this episode we talk about: - Targeted red-light therapy for brain & gut health - Biohacking, health optimization & longevity - How to use CeraThrive for peak performance   EPISODE NOTES Sarah Turner has a post graduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Roehampton University, London. She also has BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences, and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University, respectively.  Sarah spent the first 10 years of her career as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry planning and executing experiments looking at the effects of electrostatics on physiology. Whilst in California, Sarah became involved with the Biohacker movement, and has interviewed some of the most prolific thought-leaders, visionaries, experts in the Biohacking space.  This has led to her current understanding of the overriding role of physics in relation to biology and has fuelled her current interest in the field of quantum biology in health, photomedicine and consciousness studies.  Her main interest is photobiomodulation – that is, using specific light wavelengths and pulsed frequencies to heal the body, and promote optimal functioning, with a focus on brain issues. Sarah co-hosts a weekly Biohacking podcast ‘Rebel Scientist' where she and her co-host Russ interview a variety of cutting edge health experts with a focus on wellness, longevity and health optimization.   Links:   https://www.rebelscientist.com/   Get Sarah's targeted red light therapy device: https://www.cerathrive.com/ Save 10% on your order with the code: HABITS10   https://www.instagram.com/rebelscientistpod/   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-turner-80087355/   ------------------   Music credit: Vittoro by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)   -----------------   If you enjoyed this episode, learned something new, had an epiphany moment - or were reminded about a simple truth that you had forgotten, please let me know by rating & reviewing this show on https://linktr.ee/wiredforsuccess.   Oh, and make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on any of the amazing future episodes! If you don't listen on iTunes, you can find all the episodes here.       Disclaimer: Podcast Episodes might contain sponsored content.

This is Derek Miller, Speaking on Business. For nearly 150 years, Westminster College has been known for excellence in education that has evolved to meet the needs of its students, region, and the world. Starting this fall, the college will evolve once again and become Westminster University. President Bethami Dobkin shares more. PRES. DOBKIN: We're excited to become Westminster University this summer. This transition showcases the opportunities we give our students while preserving our core values and small classes. We know students are looking for supportive experiences that help them build an academic journey, one which is challenging, diverse, and impactful, both personally and professionally. We know families and employers are looking for growth and skill development that prepares students for a lifetime of achievement. We excel in bringing passion and profession together. Our undergraduate education provides all students opportunities to do hands-on research with professors from the time they arrive on campus, perform service work in our communities, and participate in internships that give them career confidence for life. While half of our student body comes from out of state, nearly 80 percent stay in Utah filling roles in business, nursing, education, and other fields. Our undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees are grounded in ethics, critical thinking, collaboration and academic rigor that puts students at the top of their game and top of the list with employers. We're excited about our new phase as Westminster University, and to share our successes with you. Derek Miller: While the name might be changing, the mission and vision of Westminster will not. For more information, visit the Westminster website. Derek Miller with the Salt Lake Chamber, Speaking on Business. Originally aired: March 29, 2023

Can you imagine London, Paris and New York free from car dependency?The Car Free Megacities campaign is a two-year project in London, New York and Paris to reimagine our cities as places where private cars become obsolete, and to dramatically raise policy and public support for urban car reduction. This campaign is a collaboration between climate charity Possible, think-tank the New Weather Institute, Paris sans Voiture, Brooklyn Spoke, TransAlt, Westminster University's Active Travel Academy, and Glimpse, supported by the KR Foundation, and Brompton.Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Car-Free Megacities website - We Are Possible website- Ep 150 w/ Doug Gordon- Ep 149 w/ Dr. Billy Fields- Ep 123 Will Norman- Curbing Traffic book by Melissa & Chris Bruntlett in the Active Towns Bookshop or on Amazon Four Easy Steps to Support My Efforts:1. Become an Active Towns Ambassador by "Buying Me a Coffee" or by pledging as little as $1 per month on Patreon2. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a "thumbs up," leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and share it with a friend.3. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform and the Active Towns YouTube Channel4. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:All video and audio production by John SimmermanMusic:Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this episode:- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm- Adobe Creative Cloud SuiteStudio Equipment:- Main MIcrophone Sennheiser Pro Audio MKH416-P48U3- Rode RODECaster Pro Podcast Production Studio- Additional Microphone - Shure MV7- Camera - Sony ZV-E10 (currently sold out)- Lens - Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary Lens- Elgato Cam Link 4k- Elgato Streamdeck XL*- Elgato Streamdeck (*you may not need the XL)Editing Computer System:- Apple MacBook Pro 16" 2021 M1 Pro- LG 34WP88C-B 34-inch Curved 21:9 UltraWide QHD (3440x1440) IPS Display with Ergo StandFor more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along please visit my links below:- Website- Twitter- Newsletter- Podcast landing pages- Facebook- InstagramBackground:Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.Since that time I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities".My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks for tuning in, I hope you find this content helpful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. Any donations collected are used specifically to support the organization's mission.To make a donation to Advocates for Healthy Communities go here ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

What comes to mind when you hear the word gossip? You're probably imagining two women together whispering or laughing. Gossip has a bad reputation, but it can be a way of forming and maintaining, friendships. Comedian Rachel Parris and improv-artist Lauren Shearing who she works with on 'Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel, talk about the role gossip plays in their relationship. Why do we gossip and why's it get such a bad rap when we enjoy it so much? We hear from Dr Kathryn Waddington, Emerita Fellow in Psychology at Westminster University who's researched and written about gossip for 25 years. In the Middle Ages the word gossip meant ‘women who supported other women during childbirth' so when did it change into the ‘gossip' we know today? Historians Professor Melanie Tebbutt from Manchester Metropolitan University and Dr Natalie Hanley-Smith from Oxford Brookes University discuss. So what if the discovering and reporting of gossip is your profession? Journalist Marie Le Conte, a former diarist for the Evening Standard and Camilla Wright the founder of Popbitch look at the life of a professional gossip. Sex and relationships are a cornerstone of gossip. It's often - ‘who is doing what?' and ‘with whom!?' But what happens if you broadcast your life to the world? Rubina Pabani and Poppy Jay are the hosts of BBC podcast Brown Girls Do It Too. In the days of social media - how do they find the judgemental gossip mill? Gossip is often a key strand in storylines in films, TV and novels. Whether it's introduced for comic effect or used in the build up to the climax of a drama, or to build intrigue in a reality television series Literary critic Alex Clark and film and television critic, Hanna Flint illustrate how. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Guest: Rachel Parris Guest: Lauren Shearing Guest: Dr Kathryn Waddington Guest: Prof Melanie Tebbutt Guest: Dr Natalie Hanley-Smith Guest: Marie Le Conte Guest: Camilla Wright Guest: Rubina Pabani Guest: Poppy Jay Guest: Alex Clark Guest: Hanna Flint

Check this episode out with Lauren, she is a Licensed Professional Counselor and the co-founder of St. Louis Addiction Counseling. She has thriving private practice for over ten years, working exclusively with clients struggling with substance abuse. Lauren has been the speaker for many NAMI events, featured on New Channel 5 St. Louis, numerous radio shows and podcasts and recently a guest lecturer at Westminster University. She is passionate about being a part of the recovery community in St. Louis and believes in the importance of dismantling the stigma surrounding the treatment of addiction and mental health. Harness your glow here https://soberupglowup.teachable.com/p/soberupglowup --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/glowbig/support

On these “Select” episodes of the show, we'll extract our favourite moments from previous episodes of The International Business Podcast. You can find the links to the guests in the show notes. Enjoy. #25: Global people skills aren't optional anymore With Gabor Holch#39: International Direct Sales With Richard Zeissig#47: Fashion Business after COVID-19 With Nicola Giuggioli and Sennait GhebreabGabor Holch is an intercultural leadership coach, consultant, speaker and author specialised in East-West leadership. He supports corporate executives and public-sector leaders in succeeding across national and cultural boundaries instead of getting lost in translation. They'll talk about the importance of possessing global people skills to succeed in the globalized world. An expat since age 4, Gabor moved to China and transitioned from diplomacy to consulting in 2002. In 2005, he founded his Shanghai-based business, Campanile Management Consulting. Since then, he has advised, coached and trained 100+ clients in 25+ countries, spoken at conferences and corporate events and lectured at business programmes.- Richard Zeissig has been establishing, managing and optimizing international sales channels in the medical devices sales market for over 25 years. Driving sales and applying global marketing strategies locally. Specialties: Orthopedic Implants (Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, Reconstruction), Surgical Endoscopy.-An expert in fashion brand development and buying, Sennait Ghebreab has been the Programme Leader for the BA courses in Fashion Business at Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion London since 2015. As a Fashion Business Lecturer, she has taught Business at Istituto Marangoni London. Former guest speaker at London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London) and Westminster University. Sennait is passionate about sustainable fashion and accelerating the integration of sustainability teaching in fashion schools, particularly in the UK and Italian higher education sectors where she operates. Beyond her academic endeavours and based on her extensive experience in wholesale and luxury goods, Sennait provides consultancy services to luxury retailers in Europe and the Middle East.-Subscribe to The International Business Podcast on your favourite platform. The show is listened in 120  countries. Weekly episodes are released every Monday. Self-learning is of paramount importance in the business world, listen to your international peers and step up your game.Connect with the host Leonardo Marra on LinkedIn Follow the page on LinkedIn 

Do you ever have a task you need to complete but however urgent it may be, you just don't get on and do it?您是否曾经有一项任务需要完成，但无论它多么紧迫，您就是不去做吗？ From doing the housework to writing an assignment, there's always something I can put off until tomorrow.从做家务到写作业，总有一些事情我可以推迟到明天。Being a procrastinator is quite easy. 成为拖延者很容易。There are so many other more interesting distractions such as watching funny cat videos on the internet or catching up with friends on social media! 还有很多其他更有趣的干扰，例如在互联网上观看有趣的猫视频或在社交媒体上与朋友聊天！But Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, once wisely said that: 'You may delay, but time will not', in other words, the time we waste now is gone forever,但美国国父之一本杰明·富兰克林曾睿智地说：“你可以拖延，但时间不会”，换句话说，我们现在浪费的时间已经一去不复返了，so maybe I should pull my socks up and get on with what I should be doing.所以也许我应该拉起袜子，继续我应该做的事情。The reason why many of us delay doing something is that we live for the present not the future. 我们中的许多人延迟做某事的原因是我们为现在而不是未来而活。We are reluctant to engage in tasks that relate to the future – sorting something out now that will benefit us in the future doesn't seem like a priority.我们不愿意从事与未来相关的任务——现在整理出对我们未来有益的事情似乎并不是一个优先事项。 Daphna Oyserman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, says that "many things that are quite important about the future require that we start doing things now rather than waiting for later to happen ... waiting till later means that we won't have much time."南加州大学心理学教授 Daphna Oyserman 说：“许多对未来非常重要的事情要求我们现在就开始做事，而不是等到以后发生……等到以后就意味着我们赢了。”时间不多。” So get on with it now rather than have a last-minute panic later!But it's hard to muster any enthusiasm when there are tedious chores to be done, so how can I control my lack of focus and knuckle down to what really needs to be done?所以现在就开始吧，而不是等到最后一刻惊慌失措！但是当有繁琐的家务要做时，很难调动任何热情，那么我该如何控制自己的注意力不集中并专注于真正需要做的事情呢？ One idea is temptation bundling – doing two activities together – one that is boring but essential and one that you enjoy but isn't so productive. 一个想法是诱惑捆绑——一起做两项活动——一项无聊但必不可少，另一项你喜欢但效率不高。Planning is essential too and we should never underestimate how long things will take us. 计划也是必不可少的，我们永远不应低估事情需要多长时间。However, Dr Catherine Loveday from Westminster University warns us about a 'planning fallacy' thinking we can get something done quickly. 然而，威斯敏斯特大学的凯瑟琳·洛夫戴博士警告我们注意“计划谬误”，认为我们可以快速完成某事。She says "We never seem to get any better at judging time in the future and how long things will take us."她说：“我们在判断未来的时间和事情需要多长时间方面似乎从来没有变得更好。”Maybe for now, I'll make a cup of tea, and ponder on these thoughts before I crack on with some important tasks – anyway, there's always tomorrow.也许现在，我会泡一杯茶，在我开始做一些重要的任务之前，好好思考一下这些想法——不管怎样，明天总会有的。词汇表task 任务put off 延后，拖延procrastinator 托拉的人distraction 分心的事，分散注意力的东西pull my socks up 努力加油干，加把劲儿live for the present 活在当下reluctant 勉强的，不情愿的engage 参与priority 优先考虑的事情，重要的事情last-minute 最后一刻的muster 激起（某种感情）knuckle down 开始努力工作temptation bundling 诱惑捆绑（把一件需要做但枯燥的事情和一件有趣的事情连在一起做，合二为一）productive 有效率的underestimate 低估fallacy 谬论，谬见ponder 沉思，考虑to crack on 赶快加速继续（工作）

Rama Gheerawo is an international and inspirational figure within design. He won a ‘Hall of Fame' award for his work at the Design Week Awards in 2019 and was named a 2018 Creative Leaders by Creative Review alongside Paul Smith and Björk, As Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, he uses design to address issues around age, ability, gender and race. He is a serial innovator in the fields of Inclusive Design, Design Thinking and Creative Leadership having personally led over 100 projects working internationally with governments, business, academia and the third sector with clients such as Samsung, Toyota, AgeUK and Panasonic. He champions inclusive and empathic approaches for individuals and organisations through his pathfinding work in Creative Leadership, with training delivered globally to thousands of people including over 700 civil servants. He is in high demand as a keynote speaker, and writes, curates exhibitions and runs workshops for audiences that range from students to business executives. Rama sits on a number of advisory boards and committees for awards, universities and organisations such as the UK Design Council, The International Association for Universal Design, the Design Management Institute, The Bhavan Institute for Indian Culture and the RSA Decolonising Design Initiative. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Katowice Academy of Fine Art.Melanie Flory is a psychologist and neuroscientist whose research enquiry is at the intersection of design, systems thinking and cognitive neuroscience.Melanie is the first appointed Associate Director of Research of The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. Her role involves leading the growth and development of the Centre's inclusive design and creative leadership research and knowledge exchange portfolios, as well as co-developing and launching the Centre's first doctoral and Master's by research programmes (2022–3). She is the neuroscience lead on the Centre's creative leadership project.She has a strong focus on fostering and incorporating the Centre's inclusive design methods in cross-disciplinary research, innovation and knowledge exchange programmes and projects, with the RCA's four Schools and other Research Centres.Before joining HHCD in 2021, Melanie founded (2009), and is the Director of MindRheo, an organisational development consultancy intersecting neuroscience, design and systems thinking to enhance human, organisational and business performance and experience. Prior to MindRheo, Melanie held clinical, senior academic and research leadership positions (2000–11) at Westminster University, Ministry of Defence (UK) and the UK government's Trauma Response Unit. She has led global cross-disciplinary research in war-related PTSD and the role of brain plasticity in emotion regulation and processing. Her research exploration seeks new insights into the interplay between emotion and cognition

In this episode with Fiona Agombar we talk about yoga therapy for fatigue conditions, including CFS/ME, burnout, stress and long-Covid, which Fiona specialises in. Fiona Agombar is an author, Rest Activist and yoga therapist in the Krishnamacharya Tradition. She originally trained with the Yoga for Health Foundation in 2001 then qualified as a KHYF teacher in 2011 and is accredited as an advanced teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). She has studied under Bill Feeney, Gill Lloyd, Sarah Ryan, TKV Desikachar and also the Zen teacher Adyashanti. Fiona was a Trustee of Action for ME (major UK charity) for eight years. She was one of the key speakers for Global Yoga Therapy Day in August 2020 on exhaustion, overwhelm and burnout and a speaker at the Wellness After Covid Symposium in May 2021 and in March 2021 she contributed to the advisory meeting for the British Council of Yoga Therapy on guidelines for teaching those with long-Covid.  She runs a successful introductory course for teachers on Burnout, CFS and Long-Covid with Sarah Ryan through Yoga Teachers Forum. She also runs weekly classes online for those with fatigue and has referrals for long-Covid from a major teaching hospital in the UK. Fiona will be teaching the Long Covid module with Nadyne McKie for the Minded Institute's Yoga Therapy training in 2022. Fiona and Nadyne have also been commissioned to write a book on Long Covid for Singing Dragon books and are part of a steering committee being set up by Westminster University to investigate the benefits of Yoga for Long Covid. Fiona is the author of the book and DVD Beat Fatigue with Yoga (Cherry Red Books) and Yoga Therapy for Stress, Burnout and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Singing Dragon). Fiona has Lyme disease which she manages with yoga. She is passionate about campaigning to change attitudes to those with fatigue conditions and describes herself as a Feminine Rest Activist. Connect with Fiona as follows:   Facebook group: Gentle Yoga for Fatigue with Fiona: https://www.facebook.com/groups/560314231255748 She run classes for fatigue twice a week on Zoom payable by donation. Follow Fiona on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/184334606994243  Visit her website and enjoy free downloads here: www.fionaagombar.co.uk Find Fiona on instagram and YouTube as well. Enjoy 20% off her book by using the code Energy20 on the Singing Dragon website. Further reading recommendation following this episode:  Lost Connections by Johann Hari  www.waterstones.com/book/lost-connections/johann-hari/9781408878729 *** From The Heart is a podcast about Yoga, Mindfulness, healing and wellbeing from Dawn Lister and Daniel Groom, founders of Anahata Yoga Centre, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK. Conversations in this light hearted, kind and honest podcast series brings together people who have found ways to practise self-care in their lives, by sharing their knowledge, experiences and insights. Anahata is a heart centred and nurturing Wellbeing Studio in Leigh on Sea, Essex. Specialising in Yoga, Pilates, Yoga Therapy and mindful meditation. They offer expert tuition in small groups run by qualified and specialist professionals, who are experts in their field. Many of their teachers offer skills which support members of the public affected by long term health conditions, which may affect them physically, mentally and or emotionally. Catch up on previous episodes via the Anahata website at www.anahatayogacentre.com/podcast Follow From The Heart on Instagram at @from_the_heart_podcast.

A Little Bit Culty –Think you're immune to culty shit? Dr. Alexandra Stein begs to differ. She's one of the world's leading experts on ideological extremism and dangerous social relationships, and she makes a very convincing case that under the right set of circumstances almost anyone can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts. In this episode, she joins us to discuss her experience as a former cult member, and the relationship between neuroscience, attachment, and indoctrination.More about today's guest: Alexandra Stein, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, writer and educator specializing in cults, totalitarianism and extremism. She is currently a visiting research fellow at London South Bank University and has previously taught at Birkbeck University of London, Westminster University and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Stein is a trustee of The Family Survival Trust, a UK charity working to raise awareness about cults and support those affected. She is the author of two books: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems, and Inside Out, a Mmemoir of Entering and Breaking out of a Minneapolis Political Cult. Learn more about her work at her official website and follow her on Twitter @alexandraistein~The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.~A Little Bit Culty is proud to support the #IGOTOUT project, which empowers survivors of cultic abuse to share their stories online as a catalyst for education, prevention, and healing. Learn more at igotout.org~For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty~CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony AmesProduction Partner: Citizens of Sound Producer: Will RetherfordAssociate Producer: Jess TardyTheme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel AsselinAdditional Music Score by Will Retherford See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summary of Key Lessons1. Career Navigation. It is okay to start out in life being unsure of what you want to do career wise. However, as you move on, clarity increases, and you must be willing to put in the effort.2. Power of Pictures. In 1985, as an undergrad, I took a picture in front of the Vice Chancellor's Lodge at Legon and declared, “I will be back.” 32 years later, I became VC at Central University.3. Decisions. My best career decisions were doing a PhD and going into academia, and secondly, deciding to lecture at Westminster University in the UK. Everything else sprung from these two.4. Mentoring. The key to mentoring is mutual respect and humility on the part of the mentee. Mentoring needn't always be close contact. Keith Philips at Westminster had a significant impact on me with just one defining conversation.5. Stay with the script.  I had financially juicy offers for corporate roles that would have diverted me from academia. I considered them but stayed the course. If you ever have to change your career, ask the right questions and don't jump without a clear plan.6. Respect for Humanity. All human beings are created in the image of God and deserve our respect no matter their economic status. A soul is a soul is a soul and is precious to God.7. Balanced Life. I love reading, driving, poetry and squash. Many executives are on a deliberate path to physical self-destruction and must make time for personal fitness.8. Patient Building. No one will hand you career opportunities on a silver platter; it takes time, continuous pursuit, the right attitude, being widely knowledgeable and being willing to volunteer.9. Unglamorous Work. I was inspired by a Legon student who helped her mother sell banana and peanuts to support her education. I carried and sold mangoes in my school days in Ada and cleaned floors in the UK to help fund my graduate education.10. Legacy. I want Central University to be known as a Christian institution where the ethos of the founder and church are clearly embedded. I want to entrench research and graduate students who are employable and ready for market.

A five-year settlement for local authorities and a change to the Highways Act to allow delivery in accordance to the imperatives of the time are two of the most important things that should be considered to help support future investment and planning for active travel, according to this week's guest on the Highways Voices podcast. The University of Westminster's Tom Cohen, report author for the latest report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking (APPGCW). He tells this week's Highways Voices that there was an agreement among almost all those surveyed that a five-year funding settlement would be ideal to allow  a ‘funding horizon' of five years to enable transport/highway authorities to build teams and manage programmes successfully but at the same time giving central government the fiscal control it needs. A change to the Highways Act, he said would mean that local authorities could develop and manage their network in accordance with the need to achieve the goals of environmental sustainability and improved public health.  "It would need to impose upon highways authorities, a requirement to act in accordance with the imperatives of the time, notably climate change and public health. And there would be an expectation that authorities would, whenever taking action on the highway network, always be looking to improve if at all possible, the arrangements for active travel, and at the very least not to make them any worse," said Mr Cohen. The report also recommends that a new standard is created for active travel to ensure councils adhere to issues of justice when planning further active travel. Subscribe to Highways Voices free on https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/highways-voices/id1551975855 (Apple Podcasts,) https://open.spotify.com/show/0U6BbFBYLr5eeX0HuZtPv8 (Spotify), https://highways-voices.captivate.fm/amazon (Amazon Music), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaGlnaHdheXMtdm9pY2Vz (Google Podcasts) or https://pca.st/7a3xxskl (Pocket Casts) and never miss an episode!

The first episode of the second series will be a little different. Dr. @keyajafari will be the interviewer asking me the questions that you've wanted answered. We talk about the story behind @MehmooniPodcast how and why it was started and @Banni_Adam_ . We also discuss my work in architecture and design. _ Aylar (@fvrro) is an Architecture graduate, interior designer and creator. She is also the founder of the charity organisation @Banni_Adam_ . Although she has spent almost all of her life living outside Iran, she feels a deep connection to her Iranian roots and heritage. She has studied fine art at Kingston University in London and has a degree in Architecture from Westminster University in London, UK. She has been invited by Westminster University to assist with the teaching of several Architecture programs as a guest tutor. She has worked for several leading architects both in London and Barcelona. In addition to this, she has exhibited her work at the Design Museum in London, and the Barbican Centre. In January 2020, Aylar founded @Banni_Adam_ , a clothing brand with the vision of helping those who are most vulnerable in Iran. Aylar hopes to highlight the amazing art and culture of Iran while also helping those in need through Banni Adam. 100% of profits made from sales are donated. Money raised by Banni Adam helps provide basic care packages, medicine and food. In some instances, proceeds go to providing essential white goods for families in need -this includes fridges and hobs. You can read more about Banni Adam's work on: www.BanniAdam.com/our-work - Mehmooni is a podcast series where I speak with professional Iranians & hyphenated-Iranians about their journeys. In the first series, we had conversations with various artists, doctors, actors, directors and more. The purpose of these conversations is to bring this community of incredible talent closer together and to introduce Iranian culture to a wider audience. @MehmooniPodcast @Banni_Adam_ Host: @fvrro #podcasts #podcast #podcasting #podcastlife #mehmoonipodcast #podcaster #podcasters #podcastshow #spotify #applepodcasts #youtube #itunes #music #podcastinglife #podcastaddict #radio

This is the first episode in a series on Practice. Artist Victoria Burgher explores how practice can engage with political issues such as colonialism, imperial legacy and racism. Victoria uses various materials –- for example sugar, bagass, rubber, which are all linked to colonial crimes -- to challenge symbolic values. Her current project, funded by Techne, focuses on porcelain's associations with whiteness and how subverting porcelain's material properties like 'purity', as well as its more traditional uses for fragile, nimble pieces displayed in vitrines can critique notions of white supremacy and structural racism. In short, this episode is about Victoria's attempt, through her practice, to reflect the times we're living in and to work from an actively anti-racist position, focusing in her new research on exposing whiteness. --- Contributor Bio Victoria Burgher is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in East London. Her politically engaged practice ranges from sculptural installations and site-specific interventions to collaborative community projects. She is interested in art's ability to challenge histories and a fascination with materials and process inform her approach to making. Current work uses colonial commodities in an attempt to challenge the nostalgic narrative of Empire. She exhibits regularly in the UK and Europe and was recently awarded a techne PhD studentship at Westminster University for her research project "Crafting counter-hegemony: using porcelain to interrogate constructed ideologies of whiteness and empire". Website: www.victoriaburgher.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/VictoriaBurgher Insta: www.instagram.com/victoriaburgher === Presented by Julien Clin. Royalty free music generously shared by Steve Oxen. FesliyanStudios.com The Technecast is run by Julien Clin and Polly Hember. Please email technecaster@gmail.com if you would like to be featured on the podcast, or if you have any questions.

Have you thought about menswear in fashion? Men make up half the planet so if you want to learn more about fashion, then you need to know more about menswear! Today I'm talking with Maya Rutland who's at the end of her 2nd year on her Menswear BA at Westminster University - one of the top places in the UK if you want to study the subject and pursue a career in such a vast and important area of fashion. Plus, it's exciting! I've known Maya since she was a schoolgirl and had just started at Dorothy Stringer School in Brighton. Always level-headed, measured and very creative in all areas of art and design. Maya had the ability to choose whichever discipline she wanted, I thought she might go into jewellery, just goes to show how little I know! Listen in as Maya lets you into her world and tells you what it's like to study menswear. @mayarutland @thefashionschooluk

Continuing our theme of ‘futures', we are delighted to share a conversation between artist and writer Diann Bauer with writer and theoretician Suhail Malik about time. The focus of Diann's research is time outside of human experience and how it impacts how we live in relation to the anthropocene. With this in mind the conversation begins with an quote from a 2016 article by Malik and Armen Avanessian about the idea of ‘The Speculative Time Complex' where Suhail says: 'The main reason for the speculative reorganisation of time is the complexity and scale of social organisation today. Systems, infrastructures and networks are now the leading conditions of complex societies rather than individual human agents. Correspondingly, human experience loses its primacy, as do the semantics and politics based on it. The present as the primary category of human experience, which has been the basis for both the understanding of time and of what time is, also loses its priority in favor of what we could call a speculative time-complex. Complex societies — which means more-than-human societies at scales of sociotechnical organization that surpass phenomenological determination — are those in which the past, the present and the future enter into an economy where maybe none of these modes is primary, or where the future replaces the present as the lead structuring aspect of time.' Using this as a starting point, they speak about finance, insurance, risk, scale, climate collapse and our relationship to an unknown future that is none-the-less the conditioning force of our present. Read ‘The Speculative Time Complex': http://dismagazine.com/blog/81218/the-speculative-time-complex-armen-avanessian-suhail-malik/ Watch 'Rumsfeld Epistimology of Climate Change': https://vimeo.com/579819571 Diann Bauer is an artist & writer based in London. She is currently a researcher at Westminster University working on questions regarding the discrepancy between time at extra-human scale & the linear persistence of temporality focusing on what this discrepancy means for how we understand ourselves as a species in relation to the anthropocene. Much of her practice is collaborative & interdisciplinary with projects including Laboria Cuboniks, with whom she collaboratively wrote and published Xenofeminism, A Politics for Alienation in 2015. (laboriacuboniks.net) & A.S.T. (the Alliance of the Southern Triangle), a working group of artists, architects & curators who's focus is urbanism & climate change. Bauer has screened and exhibited independently at Tate Britain, The ICA, The Showroom & FACT Liverpool, Deste Foundation, Athens, The New Museum, & Socrates sculpture park, New York. She has done projects with Arts at CERN & recently worked as part of a team on the German Pavilion for the 2021 Architecture Biennale in Venice. She has taught & lectured widely at universities & cultural institutions including: Cornell University, Yale University, the New School and Cooper Union (US), HKW (Germany), ETH (Switzerland), DAI (Netherlands), Ashkal Alwan (Lebanon), The Tate & the ICA London. Suhail Malik is Co-Director of the MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London, where he holds a Readership in Critical Studies. Recent & forthcoming publications include, as author, ContraContemporary: Modernity's Unknown Future (Urbanomic) & 'The Ontology of Finance' in Collapse 8: Casino Real (2014). Malik is co-editor of The Flood of Rights (2017), a Special Issue of the journal Finance and Society on 'Art and Finance' (2016), Genealogies of Speculation (2016), The Time-Complex. Postcontemporary (2016), & Realism Materialism Art (2015). Royalty free music generously shared by Steve Oxen. FesliyanStudios.com The technecast is run by Julien Clin (@ClinJulien) & Polly Hember (@pollyhember). Please email technecaster@gmail.com if you would like to be featured on the podcast. Follow us on twitter @technecast to keep an eye out for the latest themed call for papers.

Sarah Turner has a post graduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Roehampton University, London. She also has BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences, and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University, respectively. Sarah spent the first 10 years of her career as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry planning and executing experiments looking at the effects of electrostatics on physiology. Whilst in California, Sarah became involved with the Biohacker movement. This led to her current understanding of the overriding role of physics in biological science, and fueled her fascination with quantum biology in relation to health, photomedicine and consciousness studies. Sarah's main interest currently is photobiomodulation – that is, using specific light devices to heal the body and promote optimal functioning, with a focus on brain issues. She is currently developing a transcranial red-light device with a Dutch team - Light Tree Ventures, as well as being the science advisor for the PBM research company Neuronic. Sarah hosts a bi-weekly podcast ‘Rebel Scientist' and offers 1:1 coaching sessions for people looking to improve brain function with light and lifestyle modifications.

Your chance to help develop online accessible tours of Chelsea Physic Garden in London and you could win a £200 prize! Westminster University and Chelsea Physic Garden in London are working together to research and develop accessible online tours to improve access for blind and partially sighted people. Connect Radio's Toby Davey caught up with Dr Lindsay Bywood from Westminster University to find out more about the research project and how blind and partially sighted people can get involved in the research project. Dr Lindsay Bywood began by explaining to Toby why Westminster University are researching into online historic garden tours and why they have teamed up with Chelsea Physic Garden in London.  Lindsay also outlined to Toby how blind and partially sighted people can get involved in the research, what they will be asked to do, how their feedback and comments will  be taken forward to develop both online and physical historic garden tours in the future. For more details and your chance to win a £200 prize do click onto the following website link to start the online research survey -  https://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/westminster   (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

Scientists have reported on some unusual things flying in space recently. In one paper, sperm, stored aboard the International Space Station for the last 5 years, has been brought back to Earth and used to fertilise eggs. Also, a group of glow-in-the-dark bobtailed squid headed spacewards to look at how microgravity affects their microbiome. Westminster University astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell talked Chris Smith through the different projects... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Scientists have reported on some unusual things flying in space recently. In one paper, sperm, stored aboard the International Space Station for the last 5 years, has been brought back to Earth and used to fertilise eggs. Also, a group of glow-in-the-dark bobtailed squid headed spacewards to look at how microgravity affects their microbiome. Westminster University astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell talked Chris Smith through the different projects... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

New research from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal shows current body mass index [BMI] guidance is outdated and dangerous for people from different ethnic groups. The study's principal investigator, Dr Rishi Caleyachetty unpicks the global implications of his findings. Maria Rebollo Polo – WHO lead for Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa – explains the important task of mapping NTDs like Trachoma. Plus Khadidiatou Cisse reports from Benin on Trachoma – one of the oldest known infections and a leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. And, have our memories really got worse during the pandemic? Professor Catherine Loveday of Westminster University discusses her new research on our memories during lockdown. Guest: Dr Ann Robinson Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Erika Wright (Picture: Female doctor weighing senior patient at medical clinic. Photo credit: Jose Luis Pelaez/Getty Images.)

New research from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal shows current body mass index [BMI] guidance is outdated and dangerous for people from different ethnic groups. The study’s principal investigator, Dr Rishi Caleyachetty unpicks the global implications of his findings. Maria Rebollo Polo – WHO lead for Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa – explains the important task of mapping NTDs like Trachoma. Plus Khadidiatou Cisse reports from Benin on Trachoma – one of the oldest known infections and a leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. And, have our memories really got worse during the pandemic? Professor Catherine Loveday of Westminster University discusses her new research on our memories during lockdown. Guest: Dr Ann Robinson Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Erika Wright (Picture: Female doctor weighing senior patient at medical clinic. Photo credit: Jose Luis Pelaez/Getty Images.)

Claudia Hammond talks to Professor Catherine Loveday of Westminster University about her new research on our memories during lockdown. Have our memories really got worse during the pandemic? And Claudia meets the first of the finalists in the All in the Mind Mental Health Awards 2021: we hear about StrongMen - a group set up to support men who have been bereaved. It was nominated by Adam Lee who suffered severe mental health issues following the unexpectedly loss of his daughter. The awards recognise the people and organisations that have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help you with your mental health. Radio 4 listeners nominated the unsung heroes and after a process of sifting through the entries, a judging panel of people with extensive experience of mental health has selected nine finalists, three from each category. And how come some people have found lockdown to be a positive experience. Is there anything those of us who've found it harder can learn from them? Producer: Adrian Washbourne Produced in association with The Open University

On this episode Leo interviews Nicola Giuggioli and Sennait Ghebreab. They're both two Fashion experts. Nicola is Chairman of Eco-Age, while Sennait is the Programme Leader for the BA courses in Fashion Business at Istituto Marangoni London school.Are consumers more value-driven after the pandemic? How should brands deal with their unsold inventory in a sustainable way without jeopardising their brand equity?Nicola Giuggioli, Chairman of Eco-Age, graduated at Università Roma Tre in Business and Management with a Masters in Sustainable Business. Nicola moved to London and in 2008 opened Eco-Age, the first business of its kind in the world: a corporate consultancy, retail concept, showroom and green hub.Eco-Age has since developed into a leading brand consultancy company, working at the cutting edge of sustainability. Corporate consultancy clients include Adidas, Unilever, Wembley Stadium and The Football Association, Carpetright PLC and BlueCrest Capital LLC, The British Film Institute (BFI), Ealing Film Studios, Gucci, Chopard, 5 Star mining, Arsenal Football team, Diesel, DeBears, Forevermore, Candiani Denim, Stella McCartney and many others.Nicola is also advisor to several startups in the field of fashion, technology and retail. Furthermore, he is a lecturer at Marangoni Fashion Institute, Milano Fashion Institute, Cattolica University and Bocconi University.Connect with Nicola on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-giuggioli-150b5125/ -Company website: https://eco-age.com -An expert in fashion brand development and buying, Sennait Ghebreab has been the Programme Leader for the BA courses in Fashion Business at Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion London since 2015. As a Fashion Business Lecturer, she has taught Business at Istituto Marangoni London. Former guest speaker at London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London) and Westminster University. Sennait is passionate about sustainable fashion and accelerating the integration of sustainability teaching in fashion schools, particularly in the UK and Italian higher education sectors where she operates. Beyond her academic endeavours and based on her extensive experience in wholesale and luxury goods, Sennait provides consultancy services to luxury retailers in Europe and the Middle East.Connect with Sennait on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sennait-ghebreab-75b94b23/ -Self-learning is of paramount importance in the business world, listen to your international peers and step up your game.Connect with Leonardo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardo-marra26/ -Follow the page on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/65338319/

Hilary Mwelwa the voice that is Hil St. Soul (pronounced Hill Street Soul). The striking Zambian born Hilary Mwelwa burst onto the UK music scene in the early 2000s and has not looked back. She has shared the stage with D'Angelo, Kelis, Macy Gray, and Angie Stone and collaborated with Incognito and Noel Gourdin. Her infectious grooves, poetic and self-empowering lyrics are a hallmark of her soulful, sensuous, and hypnotic vocals. Born in Lusaka, Zambia, Hilary Mwelwa relocated to London with her family at age five. As a child, she adopted her father's love of music, as their home was immersed with the sounds of traditional Zambian music along with American R&B/Soul icons Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder. As a graduate of London's Westminster University, Hilary had early ambitions to go into the science field and earned a degree in biological sciences. Hil St. Soul delivers the kind of music that promises to stand the test of time. Blessed with an intensely rich, soul-drenched, and honey-toned alto and armed with serious lyrical and compositional sensibilities, Mwelwa's 2006 SOULidified showcased her powerful chops and soul-stirring vocals and highlighted the steamy and sexy duo with Dwele, “Baby Come Over," and the endearing “Sweet On You.” Black Rose followed in 2008 featuring the catchy anthem "Don't Forget The Ghetto" and the dreamy "Sweetest Days." She was brought up on a diet of Soul, R&B, Gospel, and Pop music from an early age. Her personal motto is to live life to the fullest and to spend your time doing what you love. You have to enjoy each day as if it were your last.” New single now out everywhere online! "Heaven Must Be like this" check it out!

This is such a joy! Nigel Luck is one of the UK's most revered fashion tutors. His knowledge, expertise and empathic approach have made him a legend in fashion education. Nigel's taught the greats such as Sarah Burton, Hussein Chalayan, Christopher Bailey, Ashley Williams, Katie Hillier with graduates working at Gucci, Maison Margiela, JW Anderson and Alexander McQueen. He's going to tell you in much more detail but Nigel negotiated projects between companies such as Fendi and courses he ran whilst at Westminster University, Central St Martin's and London College of Fashion. Nigel now runs his own freelance design consultancy and offers private fashion design tuition and career advice to grads and postgrads, he'll explain how that works too. You might be expecting an austere and proud man based on his excellent legacy but you will be drawn in by his caring and open recollection of his own story from school to Royal College of Art and beyond. His advice to all of you comes from the heart as he answers your questions. He's also very funny, I hope you enjoy your time with Nigel as he enlightens you about his role within fashion. @nigel_luck @thefashionschooluk

In this episode I'm delighted to be joined by Peter Allan. Peter is the UK Managing Director for Cargill's Protein division, a £300m turnover business employing over 350 staff, servicing the Retail, Foodservice and B2B channels. Having graduated from Westminster University, Peter initially served 5 years with the British Army before joining Cargill in 1995. Having enjoyed a very successful career with Cargill, spanning 25 years, Peter progressed his way through the organisation and became a member of the European Board for Cargill's 1Bn turnover group. In 2014 Peter became Chair of the Board for the BFFF (British Frozen Food Federation) and is currently a Member of the British Poultry Council. Enjoy listening to Peter's thoughts on leadership, how people diversity is critical to a company's success and learn about what he attributes to his own career success to date.

Ever wandered what the creative process is behind the films, tv shows and theatre productions you watch? Well, Crew Chats is a podcast going behind the scenes and chatting to the crew that help make these productions. Becky Johnson and Paul Vincett are the Directors of character creation company, ‘Stitches & Glue’. They both alongside their company work are also freelance makers in the film, theatre & TV industry. Becky studied Technical Effects & Makeup for the Performing Arts at The London College of Fashion. In her final year of university, Becky had the opportunity to work on the film, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy’ and has subsequently worked in the film industry, working on productions such as, ‘Assassin’s Creed’, ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, and ‘Ready Player One’, to name a few. Paul studied Illustration, specialising in Character Design and Puppets for Film and Animation at Westminster University. After graduating, Paul began his career by making character mascot costumes and went onto to become a puppet maker for a number of puppet studios. His film work has included, ‘Thor: The Dark World’, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ and ‘X-Men: First Class’. Paul started ‘Stitches& Glue’ whilst at university and it subsequently became a platform for Paul’s own puppet projects but is now the company within which Becky & Paul, design and make bespoke puppets and creature costumes for film, TV and theatre. They have worked on productions such as, Netflix’s, ‘The Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance’, A worldwide theatre production of Disney’s, ‘The Little Mermaid’ and the ‘The Stranger Things’ Secret Cinema immersive experience to name a few. Becky & Paul's Recommendations were: -Willow -The Princess Bride -Little Shop of Horrors -Jurassic Park

It is that time of the year again, it's the beginning of the year for all the university students in the UK. University is a life changing experience but not everyone manages to make the most of this time. Luwi will be chatting with Wana Luwaya, a recent television and media production graduate from Westminster University, about their experiences at university. They both studied vastly different subjects and had opposite experiences at university! Let us know what your experience of Uni! You Are the Salt is brought to you by Kingdom Life Coaching (KLC).  Follow KLC on Instagram @kingdomlifecoach  Email us to ask a question you'd like answered on the podcast or to enquire of our coaching services on info@kingdomlifecoaching.co.uk  Do rate and review on apple podcast so we can continue to improve.  Thank you for listening. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/you-are-the-salt/support

The Active Travel Academy's (ATA) Dr Rachel Aldred and journalist Laura Laker talk media reporting of active travel, in this two-part pilot episode of the Active Travel Podcast.First up, your hosts speak to researchers Tara Goddard (Texas A&M University) and Kelcie Ralph (Rutgers University, Alaska), on their paper Does news coverage of traffic crashes affect perceived blame and preferred solutions? Evidence from an experiment. Our guests answer that question and discuss how, when it comes to news reporting of road collisions, framing is everything.In the second half of the podcast, Cristina Caimotto, (University of Turin), speaks from Italy about her new book Discourses of Cycling, Road Users and Sustainability. An Ecolinguistic Investigation. Much of the language we use is subconscious, and that applies to journalists too. Cristina's analysis of media reporting of the death of Kim Briggs is startling and eye-opening - she discusses whether there are parallels with racist discourse on reporting of this issue, and why we need a new way of talking about the environment.Kelcie and Tara's paper can be accessed here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198219300727And Cristina's book is just out, from Palgrave:https://www.palgrave.com/9783030440251.TRANSCRIPTATA Podcast PilotLaura Laker [00:00:00] Hi and welcome to the active travel podcast pilot episode. The active travel podcast is the podcast for the Active Travel Academy, an academic think tank, if you like, on all things cycling, walking and micromobility. Is part of the University of Westminster in London. I'm Laura Laker. An active travel journalist, collaborating with the Active Travel Academy.Rachel Aldred [00:00:21] And I'm Rachel Aldred, I'm the director of the Active Travel Academy and I'm a reader in transport at Westminster University.Laura Laker [00:00:28] And to kick off, we're talking about media reporting of active travel. So, Rachel, as it's our first podcast, could you start by explaining a little bit about why we're here, how the active Travel Academy came about and the tiny bits about what it does?Rachel Aldred [00:00:41] So the Active Travel Academy has been going since autumn last year. It's funded by a grant from the Quintin Hogg Trust, which is affiliated with the university Westminster and basically set up to bring together interdisciplinary expertise, academic, non-academic expertise around all things active travel related. And we had a whole lot of different ideas, we have been doing a range of different projects, collaborations and so on. And one of our ideas with the summer programme, where we had various guests who were going to visit and collaborate and so on. Now, obviously, the physical collaborations have been on hold for a while, but we instead we've been setting up some virtual collaborations, including this podcast. So we hope you enjoy it.Laura Laker [00:01:23] And one of the things that we did was do the Active Travel Academy's media awards, wasn't it? last year, which was great because it gave us a bit of an opportunity to launch the Active Travel Academy. And it also made us think a bit more about the kind of role in the media has in how we see active travel as a society and how powerful that is. And it was just around that time, I think, maybe a month before our guests came up with a study which is super interesting, which they are here to talk about with us today. So those guests are all the way from Texas A&M University. Tara Goddard, who is assistant professor at the School of Landscape, Architecture and Urban Planning, and from Alaska, Kelsey Ralph, assistant professor of transportation planning at Rutgers University. So could you tell us a bit about yourselves, how you ended up collaborating on media reporting of road collisions from different sides of the United States?Tara Goddard [00:02:24] Sure, Laura and Rachel, thanks for having us both here. It's really fun to connect this way. So we have been friends and colleagues for many years and mostly through Twitter, I think, we had realised that we both have a shared interest in a lot of the way that we talk about active travel, traffic safety, road design, things like that. So when we both kind of realised we had that interest is where we started talking about a collaboration. The two of us as well with our colleagues, Calvin Thigpen, who's been at Arizona State and is now with Lime, and then Evan Iacobucci, a graduate student of Kelcie's.Laura Laker [00:03:06] On Twitter, connecting us across the world.Kelcie Ralph [00:03:12] There came a point where it was sort of daily screenshots of Tweets of news coverage. And I think that both of us are a little bit motivated out of a place of anger and rage, like "this is unacceptable! Let's do a project to show that."Laura Laker [00:03:26] I think. I think all of us who work in this field have had those moments. And it seems to be a commonality with English speaking countries that are media reporting of road collisions does seem to be so biased towards drivers. So can you tell us about your about your study and how you kind of decided what you're gonna do and what you did?Tara Goddard [00:03:50] Sure. So the first study we did we really just wanted to see, OK, we have this idea that these patterns are happening. There's victim blaming, this focus on the pedestrian, the absolving the driver. But, you know, it was just like, do we have some kind of confirmation bias? Are we just noticing these more or these patterns are really happening? So we wanted to even just inventory and get a sense of what are the different ways that this language or framing is used. How pervasive is it? And so we looked at two hundred articles across the US from local news reports about crashes that involved a byciclist or pedestrian, serious injury or crash and 100 involving a bicyclist and a 100 involving a pedestrian. And that's where we do a process that we developed, pretty fine grained way of coding or analysing the articles for use of passive voice, use of victim blaming, whether they focus on the driver or the car, for example. And even though that was pretty fine grain and we went through all that, then we were able to kind of really distil it down into two issues. Just how pervasive this victim blaming is and then looking at the potential effects. And so through that we confirmed essentially what we thought we were seeing, this was just this was widespread. It was very common. Kelcia do you want to add it on.Kelcie Ralph [00:05:20] Yeah. So we actually found two different kinds of problems. And the first is like a sentence level issue. And this one's the easiest one to fix, right? We, in the way that we cover crashes now, we tend to focus on the pedestrian or the victim of the crash. We say the pedestrian was hit rather than saying a car or a driver hit a pedestrian. And that doesn't sound like a major issue, except for that we know from a whole host of studies and media studies that the focus of the sentence gets more of the blame. So this tiny, tiny little shift from a pedestrian was hit to a car or a driver hit a pedestrian is going to absolve the pedestrian of blame and sort of shift our attention back to the driver.Laura Laker [00:06:07] And that's the kind of act, active or passive voice.Kelcie Ralph [00:06:10] Well it's not quite active or passive, that's also an issue. But this it's even simpler than that focus. Who is the star of the show within the sentence? The other sort of sentence level thing we found is that we do very funny things with agency. So who's the actor in the story and at the sentence level we found that a lot of the times we were just leaving out an actor entirely. A pedestrian was hit. By what? By whom? We have no idea. And often stories left out a driver entirely. So not mentioned anywhere in the article at all. We do have one other funny thing with agency, and that is if we do mentioned an agent, four times more likely we were likely to refer to the vehicle rather than the driver. And as far as I know, there's not quite a lot of autonomous vehicles yet. Most of these crashes have drivers associated with them and they are entirely absolved of responsibility.Laura Laker [00:07:13] Yes we get the same problem here. Some of these stories just don't mention a driver at all, and it's not uncommon at all. I was thinking about it actually, and I was wondering, because, if you're going to put focus on anyone but you don't know who is responsible for the collision, obviously it's more likely that someone driving was the cause of a collision than somebody walking. But I guess you can't assume that as a journalist. I'm wondering what you think about that.Tara Goddard [00:07:42] That's a great question. So the intent isn't to place blame before we know what happens, right? It's just the fact that we know from communication and media studies that if you only focus on the pedestrian, people are more likely to think they're at fault. So even just making it more objective or it's actually making it more neutral, to phrase things correctly, as when an actor does something. It doesn't necessarily assign them blame, but at least brings them into the conversation. And then this larger issue that we found of treating all these crashes as one-off events is also part of the problem. So it isn't just that someone behaved badly, often the driver, not always, but often the driver, but it's about their responding to the cues of the environment.Laura Laker [00:08:38] I'm wondering actually now if, um, if now's a good time before we move on to bring Rachel in, because this talk about mentioning a driver versus mentioning a car is something that you've looked at as well, Rachel, isn't it, in the UK context?Rachel Aldred [00:08:56] Yes. but not around media discusses, but around participant, like public discourses, people just describing things that they've seen or experience they've thought about. And it's interesting that you get similar patterns there. I don't know which necessarily comes first, but you can see how they reinforce each other. So a study that I did looked at how people talked in survey comments, talked about bad driving vs bad cycling. And it was quite interesting because there's lots of complaints about bad driving, lots of complaints about bad cycling. But they wouldn't narrated really differently. And this won't surprise you, I guess, but in terms of bad driving, it was very often the car. It was like "cars speed, cars park on the pavement", all this kind of thing. That was generally what was said. Whereas in relation to cyclists, it was really different. It was "cyclists go through red light, cyclists on the footlights", you know. So it was a very different narration and often the cyclists as well, it was sort of linked to an outgroup, sometimes linked to outgroups stereotype. But yes, the drivers very often disappeared, and when there was a person mentioned, it often wasn't the driver as well, it was commuters or people park on the pavement. So it did seem that this kind of thing you get in the way that ordinary people talk about their experiences as well. It's similar.Laura Laker [00:10:12] And I guess when you talk about someone, is it just a person or a commuter? You know, they're there for legitimate reasons. You know, you're sort of suggesting.Rachel Aldred [00:10:21] Yes, I think so, and you didn't really get that with talk about cyclists doing things, it wasn't commuters cycle three red light, whereas the drivers doing bad stuff. It was often commuters or parents park in the way or that kind of thing. It was sort of personalise them in a way that you didn't get about cyclists.Tara Goddard [00:10:39] And that's something that even in my earlier work, in my dissertation work, looking at these social identity issues where cycling is, this thing that you get associated with, that's like a deep part of your identity, and therefore, when you behave badly, it's like part of your internal motivation to be a jerk or whatever it was. Drivers aren't kind of wrapped up in that idea of being a car user, and then when they behave badly, it's just kind of a one-off event. It's not something like a deep motivation of theirs.Laura Laker [00:11:07] And then you get the issue of the collective responsibility of being a cyclist and therefore being responsible for members of your own "community", and why don't we sort of deal with them?Tara Goddard [00:11:22] I call that the exemplar problem. We expect other cyclists to be an exemplar all the time and hold up the whole group.Laura Laker [00:11:31] You would never say to a speeding driver, you're letting everyone down. You're letting the rest of us down.Tara Goddard [00:11:38] We should, but we don't.Kelcie Ralph [00:11:43] It's amazing how pervasive all of this is because even in talking about this research, I've slipped up so many times and said exactly the thing that we're saying "media don't do this". So these are really deeply ingrained.Tara Goddard [00:11:58] And that's something we talked about, too. Even though we chose to focus on the media and we do think it's important, these patterns are much broader and more pervasive than not, like Kelsey is alluding to, you know, whether it's dinner table conversations or in transportation plans and codified documents, you can see these same patterns replicated.Rachel Aldred [00:12:20] And it's also it's not totally divorced from reality in a sense, because it does matter that a car hit are not an individual driver, it does make a difference. It's not completely stupid, but it also depersonalises and, you know, avoid blame.Laura Laker [00:12:36] I think just most people haven't really considered it. We're looking at doing some media reporting guidelines with the Active Travel Academy because of this very issue. And I was speaking to someone from Impress, one of the media regulators in this country and they were saying, you know, they think about the way that the media works all the time and the impact that it has, but they never thought about the transportation piece. And so I think it was quite a revelation, it's just so kind of ingrained. And so your research then it kind of led them to a new a new US study, the one that came out last year, late last year, that was then really interesting for us as we did the Active Travel Media Award, as we could use it as an example of why language matters and why good reporting matters and why less good reporting, bad reporting needs perhaps highlighting. And so maybe you could talk to us about about, that what came next after this first study?Tara Goddard [00:13:40] Yeah, I'll talk about how it came about and then Kelsey can talk about what we found. So, you know, we found all these pervasive issues. But then the next question, of course, is does it matter? Right. Is this just something that irritates, you know, transportation safety professionals and advocates on Twitter? Or is it something that potentially really has an effect on how people view what's going on or what they think needs to change? And so we devised an experiment where we took one, or really many of what we call the status quo or the common pattern, and we created a hypothetical crash report or a fictional crash report. And then we tweaked it very slightly, relatively subtle. We tweaked it so that there was three versions. So the first version, having the status quo, the passive voice, the focus on the pedestrian, no agent type of work and using the word accident instead of crash. And then the second version, we use the improving. So we said a driver hit instead of a pedestrian was hit, that type of work. And then the third version, we did that same work that we did in the second article, but then we also included some context or what's called thematic framing, tying it to larger issues and trends and also to the built environment at the site. And then we recruited nine hundred ninety nine people, which sounds like a funny number, but it's perfectly divided between three groups. And then we had them read the article and then answer some questions and they didn't know that there was two other versions, so they only saw the version and knew they were answering questions about that.Kelcie Ralph [00:15:18] And what's sort of amazing is that these very tiny changes that Tara described have a huge effect on how people perceive a crash. So let's just talk about the first sort of issue that we talked about, sentence level grammatical choices. If you shift from pedestrian focussed to driver focussed and you make sure that there is an agent, those two changes reduces blame on the pedestrian by 30 percent and increases blame on the driver by 30 percent, from one article, one time. So I when I'm talking about this work, I get really excited because if we changed every article, every time, you would see this really dramatic change in how we think about who's responsible for these crashes. But like Tara mentioned earlier, we don't just want to blame drivers. There is a systematic problem with our roads. And so that's what that third article was. There we used thematic framing, which explicitly connects the dots between all of the different crashes by, you know, including crash statistics, by describing the location of the crash and describing why a pedestrian might want to cross there in the first place. Including those thematic elements changed how people saw blame as well, and they were much more likely to start to blame other factors or quote unquote, the road system as a whole rather than the driver or the pedestrian. So when we shifted to that third article, we found that readers were much more likely to blame other factors like the road system. But then for me, the most important part of it is that they supported different solutions for improving road safety. So they did this dramatic shift from individual level solutions, like an education campaign, to systems level solutions like adding pedestrian infrastructure and lowering speeds. And if we want to save lives, those are the sorts of things we actually have to do rather than victim blaming.Tara Goddard [00:17:21] So we had one final question that had a really important outcome is that we asked them about a trade-off. Basically, would you trade off this road that you take every day lower speeds for fewer pedestrian deaths? And it was the people who read those improved article framing, particularly the thematic framing, who are more likely to say, yes, I would accept, you know, the speeds would be lower and we kind of assumed that people in their mind would mean I would take me longer to get where I'm going for a drop in pedestrian deaths.Laura Laker [00:17:57] But that's amazing, isn't it, because you could argue that the that changes to our streets could hinge on just how we talk about them. It is public acceptance of change is one of the major issues, because it impacts how willing politicians are to make these changes, if they think people don't want them, then they're not going to do them. But if you can talk about road safety in a way that people understand with the context and with the focus in the right place, then you could shift people's perceptions and therefore impacts how likely we are to have safer roads, which is huge, really.Tara Goddard [00:18:38] It's probably necessary, but not sufficient. But absolutely the first step.Laura Laker [00:18:46] So a lot of local news reports particularly come from local police reports from the collision. So it's not just the media that needs to be targeted in terms of, you know, thinking about the context, the wider context, who is involved, and also, you know, we need to talk to law enforcement about this as well.Tara Goddard [00:19:09] That was one of the outcomes I think we were not expecting, but that came out, that was very clear in our first study is how frequently the local news media was just either printing direct quoting the police press report or quoting an officer on scene or clearly paraphrasing, but incorporating the same language from the police reports. And so that was something we identified as absolutely, as you're saying, as a huge issue. So even further upstream from the media reports is how police are thinking about this and how they're trained to speak to the media, whether it's on scene or someone calls them up because they heard about a crash or the official press release, like in the US would be the public information officers, is the title typically. So that's something that we've talked with some law enforcement professionals that are really interested in pursuing and looking at how that process exists now or how it works now to train them or what kind of information they get and then also what might work to get them as well thinking about this a little bit differently, watching out for their own biases that we all have internalised, like Kelsey said, these ways of phrasing things and how that can be improved as well. So that's something we're working on and looking at doing next.Laura Laker [00:20:30] And Rachel, obviously, this is an American study we're talking about, but it kind of is the same issue that we have in the U.K., isn't it? And I wonder if, obviously this is a similar situation, but it is different. I mean, in the US, we have jaywalking rules and the whole, I guess that language kind of implies if you're on the road, not on a crossing, then you're at fault. But it's a similar issue in the UK, and I wonder if this is the kind of research that we would need here or if there's something that we could take from it.Rachel Aldred [00:21:05] I mean, I think it's great to have to study and just the evidence that it has. Just looking at one single story has such an impact in how people how people respond and how they blame or don't blame the road users, the road system and so on. So it kind of reminds me of a study that I was involved in looking at coverage of cycling fatalities in London, where the story and it is, I think, involves the media being quite influential in getting a change in cycling policy and getting greater public support for cycling infrastructure, including where it involves taking space away from drivers. And I'm just looking at the chart now that we have in the paper, which is quite stark, which is that generally cycling fatalities didn't get covered in the local London newspaper in the 1990s. And suddenly in the 2000s, they started getting covered more and more to a point where all of them were getting covered in this local newspaper. And I had a student do a bit of a qualitative analysis of this as well. And she found that generally the framing did involve, it wasn't just individual tragedy framing, it was often including comments around the road network and safety for cyclists and putting it in a broader context. So when we read this paper, we thought, well, this seems to be having an impact. The fact that it's being covered and it is being framed in this way, I think is having an impact on policy and public opinion. This paper really suggests in the opposite direction in terms of having, you know, potentially having a negative impact, that this does happen in a measurable way. So, yes, very much. I think we can see the same things happening here, and I'd like to see more research. In fact I was going to ask you, Tara and Kelcie, what kind of follow on research you would think, what needs to be done now following on from this study?Tara Goddard [00:22:53] Well, actually a question I have for you or speaks to future research, we found reviewing those 200 articles that the media had reached out or spoken to a transportation safety professional or, you know, kind of a road safety advocate zero percent of the time, so in zero of those instances. And so I'm curious if in the study that you did, where there was comments about the road network and points to these larger system issues, if that played a role, that the people who were involved in writing are the people that they consulted, you know, helped make those ties. Because it's not fair, of course, especially in this media environment, to expect all journalists to be experts in road safety or how the networks work. But having those relationships and knowing who you can talk to and reach out to bring that context, we think is potentially really important. And I think that's one thing that would be something going forward to study. Like how could that work differently as far as those relationships or knowing who to talk to and would that have a measurable, positive effect and how these things get talked about?Rachel Aldred [00:24:04] No, I think that's a really good point, and I'm trying to remember whether we specifically looked at that. But certainly other work that I've done looking at some of these networks in the London context has suggested that, you know, having this coalition where you have some of those road safety experts, transport experts, advocacy people, in those networks together who can share information and educate each other. I think one of the things that happened in London as well was that a lot of the journalists who were writing these stories with themselves cycling or knew people who did, and therefore, you know, some of these issues came into quite sharp relief for them because they were experiencing the same kinds of things on the streets. They were experiencing being second class citizens effectively when they got on their bikes and being treated in a way that, you know, perhaps was different to the ways in which they were treated in other parts of their lives. But, yeah, I think you will also find now more diverse people being quoted, although to be fair as well, this I think the police, the road safety police in London are doing quite a lot of stuff around. For instance, speeding and trying to highlight this is an unacceptable behaviour. So maybe approaches to road safety have also changed as well. And the quotes that you'll get from some of these people were maybe not what you might have got 15 years ago.Laura Laker [00:25:25] It's interesting to see things shifting, isn't it? And it's interesting to see, I guess the cycling reporting was based on some very effective campaigning from the likes of the London Cycling Campaign in London and we are starting to see this reporting. And Andy Cox is the Met police has been fantastic about speeding because it is obviously one of the major causes of death and serious injury on the roads, and he's all about making it socially unacceptable. I guess that your latest study was about pedestrians. They seem to be, pedestrians, we as we're all pedestrians, seem to be the next kind of group, if you like, of road users who perhaps are getting more of a voice, but have struggled in the past because perhaps they don't associate as one group or they're not associated from the outside as one group. And you wouldn't call yourself a pedestrian. You might call yourself a cyclist, maybe. But, yeah, I think maybe that's the sort of the next thing that people who work in road safety are very keen to push up the agenda because far more people die walking on the roads than cycling. But it just doesn't really get the kind of coverage.Kelcie Ralph [00:26:42] So one thing that you asked about sort of future work. One thing that I just actually got accepted this week is a paper about distracted pedestrians. And to explain how this links to the media, I have to take one step back, and that is that I asked a bunch of transportation practitioners if they were worried about distracted pedestrians. It turns out they're very worried, right? They estimate that crazy high numbers of people who are dying on our streets are dying because they were distracted. And one of my questions was, where did that come from? And there's this idea called the illusory truth effect. So the more often you hear a fact, or the more often you hear a narrative, or story, the more likely it is to ring true. And we sort of documented in this paper just how prolific and pervasive this coverage of distracted pedestrians was in the United States. I'm not sure if it's the same in the UK. And it just gives such an easy out for the rise in pedestrian deaths, and it doesn't, you know, focus on things like speeding or on driver responsibility whatsoever. So all of these things are linked in the sense that the stories we tell really matter and they're going to shape the things that we do to save lives.Laura Laker [00:28:02] I think quite often the media is looking for someone to blame, and a lot of the reporting we're seeing around cycling and walking during the Coronavirus crisis is people disobeying the social distancing rules by walking together or cycling together. And people are photo journalists using a telephoto lenses basically to make it look like people walking close together, and they've got like a mile of... there was one from Bournemouth and it was a massive amount. Again, the guy said, I know this route is that this beach. Here's the cliff. And it's like a mile between the sea, but it looks like it's super close!Tara Goddard [00:28:39] That is a really great example because the guy who debunked that debunked it because he runs it so often. So he's very familiar with the distances, which I think is a great example of how when you do, are you walking or cycling or rolling, you are so much more aware of those parts of the environment and the actual distances and things like that, which is why it's so important to get people out of their vehicles and out of that windshield bias. So I thought that was just like a perfect encapsulation of a lot of things, that story.Laura Laker [00:29:10] Yeah, and the pedestrian, you asked about the distracted pedestrians is definitely something that editors have said that they might be interested in for me, and I'm just thinking, no, I'm not going to go there.Tara Goddard [00:29:21] Well, Kelcie's work is so vital because it's not just the media or it's not just the dinner table conversations. It's the professionals who were responsible. And I think much in the way that you talk about the media sometimes or people are looking for a scapegoat or someone to blame, the professionals, in a sense, are too, even if it's subconscious, because if not, they have to take responsibility for the things, the things that we're designing and building. And that's something that like I think the human brain is kind of pushing back against, at least subconsciously saying, no, this is the system. And I think one, you know, and this is a research potential research project is looking at folks who really understand Vision Zero or the safe systems approach and how and talking about planning professionals and engineers and folks like that and then looking at their language around these issues versus people who, again, are more likely to be distracted walker or the scofflaw cyclists or whoever, and not blaming the system, but blaming individuals. I'm sure we could sit here and in an hour come up with four careers worth of.[00:30:35] It is interesting because it feels like it needs more attention basically, it's like we were saying how we talk about things is so important to how we see, how we perceive the world and stories is so vital. And if we're seeing it kind of upside down, or we're all about individual responsibility when the environment sends us so many cues on how to behave. And I know Rachel has done research on this, about, you know, what's the road space, what's pedestrian space and the things like having road signs on the pedestrian space. And yeah, it's all space for cars, basically in many of our streets. They are the dominant road user, and then everyone else gets blamed if they dare to infringe on that supreme right.Tara Goddard [00:31:29] Yes. If I could strike one sentence from all the verbiage of this, is all the way we talked about this is "outside of the crosswalk". Because when we talk about pedestrians, right? That's always in there as though they were doing something wrong. But when you're thinking about like how much of the road space is allocated to cars and we funnel pedestrians into these little crosswalks, which may or may not be the safest place to cross or the convenient place across or where the destinations are to across. That, I think, is a good encapsulation of how we set the car user as dominant user.Rachel Aldred [00:32:07] Yes, it kind of is part of tangible plenty of modelling all the way through really often, isn't it? Because for instance, here we count motor vehicle delays at crossings. We don't count pedestrian delays. So an easy way to solve delay problems is to make pedestrians wait longer. But then you make the pedestrians wait longer, they cross while the pedestrian lights are red. Well, then it's their fault, so it just sort of reinforces the marginalisation of people walking.Laura Laker [00:32:31] And we could get on to the whole sticky topic of how we prioritise or whose time we value on the roads, but I guess that's a whole other podcast. But it all kind of fits into each other.Rachel Aldred [00:32:41] Episode two, three, four and five.Laura Laker [00:32:46] So what would you say, knowing what you know from your research...Well, we're drawing up reporting guidelines for media in the U.K., the Active Travel Academy. What would you say those reporting guidelines should say? What advice should we be giving people working in the media. People who are rushed to get X number of stories out every day, they don't have a lot of time.Kelcie Ralph [00:33:11] So I would give two pieces of advice. First, at the sentence level, make the driver the focus of your sentence, not the pedestrian. And make sure there is an agent that is the driver and not a car. And then the second thing is harder. And that is to make sure you include some sort of thematic elements. How many crashes have occurred even nationally? The national crash statistics we can look up very easily. It's better if it's a local crash statistics or even hyper local on that particular street, but those are more difficult. And then I guess a third thing, I'm going to be cheeky about the third, is to try in advance of crashes to make a connexion with a planning professional, a transportation professional and advocate. And there's some responsibility on their end as well to reach out proactively, so that there's some sort of expert knowledge included in the article beyond just the driver who described that pedestrian darted out in front of them. And we need more context than that.Tara Goddard [00:34:22] And I would add that even within the constraints of being, you know, really stretched thin and having to get something out very quickly, you know, as a reporter, it is part of your job to critically think about what it is you're reproducing or reporting on. So, you know, the local news media, their job is not just to replicate uncritically what the police press report says. So take that executive decision or whatever to say, well, even if this is how the police worded it, we're going to word it in a way that's more appropriate. We can say the police report said, however, and then adding these elements or fixing these elements that Kelcie is talking about, I think even in the constraints. And I think too pretty much everywhere there's going to be people in your communities that care about these things. So telling them or helping them understand what they can do to help you, if they want to help you make your job easier or, you know, help you on these issues. So it doesn't need to be an antagonistic relationship at all. It's just about what do you need to be successful in the constraints of your job. and are there any things that they can do to make that easier?Kelcie Ralph [00:35:39] I thought of another one.Laura Laker [00:35:41] Yes, come on!Kelcie Ralph [00:35:43] All of the news coverage that we saw, it was digital news coverage. And so they always had a photo. Not always. Often had a photo. Often a stock photo of a cop car or maybe a bicycle on the ground sort of destroyed by a car. And one thing that we found very effective was when they included a Google Earth for Google Street View image of the roadway. Because suddenly you no longer think, gosh, this is some idiot pedestrian who darted out. There's no sidewalk. It's four lanes wide. You know, it's clearly forty five miles an hour. And so that kind of context is also really helpful and can happen in seconds without visiting the site.Laura Laker [00:36:25] Super interesting about the Google Street View thing; I write for a Website. And sometimes you have to find your own photographs.[00:36:32] And we do end up going to Google Street View just because, you know, resources and I'd never thought of it as a useful way of depicting, you know, why something may have gone wrong at that location.Tara Goddard [00:36:46] One my favourite...So we read all 200 of those articles. And one that I was tapped for reading was a "man was hit, right walking and he was walking in the street". And this article was from February in a place with snow and I Google Street view the location because I was curious and there were no sidewalks and there were four lanes. I mean, this was not pulled out of nowhere. And of course, the man was walking in the streets. There was no other option. And that simple thing changed the entire story.Laura Laker [00:37:19] That's amazing. Thanks so much to Tara Goddard and Kelcie Ralph for coming on the podcast. We'll put a link to their study in the notes. And now for part two of the Active Travel Podcast, we are continuing the theme of media reporting impactive travel with Cristina Caimotto who is talking to us all the way from Turin. She's discussing her book, 'Discourses of Cycling, Road Users and Sustainability and Eco Linguistic Investigation' and Rachel will introduce her.Rachel Aldred [00:37:49] So hi, Christina. So you've written a really interesting book. Discuss the cycling, road users and sustainability. So it's due out in July, but I was lucky enough to be able to look at an advanced copy and one chapter in particular is relevant to our theme this week. But I think the whole book more generally is because it's about how we talk about road users and cycling or cyclists in particular. And I wonder if first of all if you could just describe the general idea of the book to our listeners, what is it about?Cristina Caimotto [00:38:18] Thank you. I'm very happy to be talking to you. So the idea is that from the perspective of my discipline, which is critical discourse analysis and the idea of critical discourse analysis, it is to investigate how language reinforces power in society and how language can be used to change the balance of power. But the power between the various actors that are involved in mobility choices has never been analysed from discourse perspective. Because apart from being a linguist, I'm also a cyclist advocate, I thought I might try to bring discourse analysis to cycling discourse.Rachel Aldred [00:39:10] Brilliant. Cristina Caimotto [00:39:10] So that's the general idea.Rachel Aldred [00:39:12] Great. So you mentioned already being a linguist. Is this the first time you looked at cycling?Cristina Caimotto [00:39:19] Well, I studied, I'd say, political discourse mainly both in translation and, you know, or only focussing on English and basically looking at ideology and as I said, strategies to promote a certain kind of worldview. And on the other hand, strategies to try and change things. And I've also worked on sustainability, focussing in particular on greenwashing and how English is used in Italian to promote a certain view, you know, related to the market and promotion of consumerism.Rachel Aldred [00:40:06] Fantastic. So how did you come up with the idea of looking at cycling specifically? What motivated you?Cristina Caimotto [00:40:12] I was involved in a local association in my city, Turin. As you may know, Turin is the city of Fiat and so it's a city where driving is promoted and has always being promoted in all the possible ways. I've always been a cyclist. I've always moved around Turin on my bicycle.[00:40:33] I became involved in a local association called Bike Ride. We organise a parade every year. And I was the president of the association for one year in 2016 when we were electing the current mayor. And I realised, you know, I was often involved in debates with local administration, etcetera. And I realised that the kind of discourses that I was working was working on with my students concerning racism and sexism and human rights. Exactly the same strategies were coming up in this debate about what should be prioritised, why should we stop prioritising cars and what are the rights of people? Why, you know, why should we pay attention to other aspects? And so I thought, OK, here we have something new for linguistics.Rachel Aldred [00:41:25] Wow, indeed. And you're analysing a range of different data sources in the book. You've got media reports, you've got policy documents, you've got secondary qualitative data interviews. So how did you decide what kind of documents to look at, what kind of data that was?Cristina Caimotto [00:41:43] That was difficult. It took a long time. Well, I just I just started looking at various different documents. And on one hand, documents trying to promote cycling. You know, basically the question I think we all try to answer is why we have all these data and we have all this evidence that cycling is so good. So why is it not working? Why are not people choosing to promote cycling as much as we would expect, given all the evidence we have? And yes, I tried to to answer this question from the perspective of a linguist. And the idea is that framing is mainly basic, important starting point. And I refer in particular to the work of George Lakoff. He has a very interesting paper "Why it matters how we frame the environment", where he explains that we suffer from what he calls tragic hyper cognition. We conceive humanity as something separate from the environment. And this idea is so deeply embedded in our way of thinking that we find it very difficult to think in different terms and look at things from a different perspective. Reframing is a very complex process. And the first thing you need to do is identify what is not working. So I was trying to find out what is not working in the way cycling and cyclists are talked about in several kinds of documents and sources. So the first case study I worked on was the way in which some newspapers in Britain reported the collision which took place in London, where Kim Briggs lost her life. And what I was interested in was not the event itself or the court case itself and you know the specific ways in which it was analysed, but rather how newspapers used that case as, let's say, an excuse to portray cycling and cyclists in particular in a very negative light. And to do this, I used the the discursive strategies to your analysis created by Teun van Dijk, who worked on racist discourse in the press. And he basically has what he calls six discursive moves. And he looks for these moves in the newspaper articles in order to identify how racism is presented as something not racist, first of all, but something reasonable, acceptable, and something that makes sense in many ways. And so I use this six discoursive moves to analyse the articles about the collision. And I found the same discoursive strategies to actually attack all cyclists and and portray cycling as something problematic that needs to be tamed, to be controlled, to be cancelled in many ways. And also, the interesting thing that Van Dijk points out is that, this moves to justify what is actually racist discourse, often criticise a whole group when they should actually just be criticising the actions of one person. And also the the anti-racists are described as the real enemy. And we see something similar in the way in which the cyclist advocates are the real enemy when it comes to finding out who is responsible for the the war between cars and bicycle's or drivers and cyclists.Laura Laker [00:46:13] And these were common pieces, weren't they? From four different newspapers. There was one by Janet Street Porter I think, it got quite a lot of traction, she was in the Times, right. And then there was that one in The Guardian, one in the Independent and one in the Scottish Daily Mail.Cristina Caimotto [00:46:32] That's right, yes.Laura Laker [00:46:32] It's kind of shocking to hear someone comparing anti-Cyclist language with racist language. And I know that is something that some people have said and perhaps said, you know, quietly or with a slight element of embarrassment. And, you know, the history of racism has a huge amount of violence and oppression involved in it. So I don't know, one wonders if so, comparing it with racism might be going a bit far.Cristina Caimotto [00:47:05] It's not really about that, and I don't want to compare the kind of discrimination and suffering that is linked to to racism. Absolutely not. This is about just discursive structure, it's all about the language. It's it's one method that you can use again. Something similar has been done by a big group of psychologists who use the strategies to detect dehumanisation and try the same by interviewing drivers and finding out the same kind of attitude, the same kind of strategies that happen towards cyclists. So it's about methodology really and we are not comparing what has been done, for example, in concentration camps, to what is being done to people's cycle, of course not. But the kind of triggers are the same. That's the interesting thing, because once you can pin down what is actually going on, you can you can make sense of it. For example, I think it's interesting to look at what what happened in the article from The Guardian, where the journalist was trying to create some kind of dialogue with the readers, and in particular, he was trying to address cyclists in a friendly way.Laura Laker [00:48:43] That was the most subtle one that you came across.Cristina Caimotto [00:48:46] Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think some of the aspects that you can observe intent in that article are probably subconscious for the writer. And in particular, I was looking at the headline that says cyclists must realise they are traffic, too. Now, if we imagine...this is this is a strategy we often use in linguistics, because if you hear the sentence, even as the cyclist at first you think, oh, yes, that makes sense. You know, we need to be aware of the fact that we can hurt someone. And in that case, it was there were tragic consequences. But, of course, if we hurt someone with our bicycle, there are likely to be consequences. But thing is, if you imagine the same headline about a collision that killed a pedestrian, you know, a car killing, someone driving, killing a pedestrian, and you imagine something like, oh, 'drivers should realise they are traffic to'. Doesn't make any sense? Right? In fact, killing someone by running into them with your bicycle is an extremely unlikely event. It can happen, unfortunately, but it's extremely likely, so most of the time you don't expect it. But the implication of the article was cyclists are not aware of this. The unsaid implication is, on the contrary, drivers are. But if we look at the statistics, we know that most collisions happen because people are looking at the phones or they are not payong attention, they are driving too fast, they are driving when drunk and so on. So that obviously means that drivers are not aware that they can kill, or they don't show it by the way, they behave. And of course, here I'm talking about drivers, as if all drivers wear the same. Which, again, of course, is false. So coming back to the headline now, this headline implies that cyclists are not aware of the kind of danger that they could generate. But if we turn it around, there you see the subtle implication, drivers are good and cyclists are bad. Which I think is not what the journalist meant, but it is there when you look at it.Laura Laker [00:51:18] And it is so interesting reading how you really sort of take apart the nuts and bolts of the article. And I wonder, as a journalist myself, sometimes you writing and you you might not you don't think about it on this level. It's very much subconscious. And so it is quite interesting because intuitively, you know, when something's not right and in the context of cycling, as I cycle to obviusly, but you can'y always say why, even if you are doing this for a living. So I'm wondering with with journalists writing this stuff, you know, there's definitely something subconscious going on. How do you how do you kind of address that?Cristina Caimotto [00:51:56] It's always I mean, language is subconscious most of the time. Whether we are listening or reading or writing or speaking, most of what we understand, most of what we communicate is subconscious. This is particularly evident when we use metaphors because a metaphor is something that the listener or reader understands by finding the connexion between what we call source domain and target domain. So what we are actually talking about and the image we are using to describe what we're talking about. But yes, most of it is subconscious. And it is influenced by what we call a dominant ideology. I think the problem when we try to promote cycling is that we are using dominant discourse without realising it. And what we are actually doing, we are reinforcing a certain kind of mentality, which is actually detrimental to the promotion of cycling.Laura Laker [00:53:06] And the dominant discourse is, well, your literature review noted that 61 percent of articles involving cyclists had a broadly negative sentiment. And there was a subtle but consistent blaming of vulnerable road users in the media. So that's the dominant discourse, isn't it? I wonder, do you mean that kind of dominant discourse sneaks into or bleeds into positive promotion of cycling, too?[00:53:34] Yes, I think it does. I think this can be seen in the way the promotion of cycling often uses the same strategies to promote any other kind of business. So the business side of it becomes dominant in this kind of attitude where we try to convince local administrations or the government that promoting cycling and increasing the number of people cycling is a good idea because it will mean something positive for the economy and it will boost green jobs and it will be positive for business. And the cost for the NHS will go down because the number of people having a heart attack or being obese would go down and so on and so forth. So of course, all these aspects are perfectly true and they're also important. The problem is that these becomes the dominant aspect. And if these become the dominant aspect, if money, business become the main thing, then the problem is that the current system pre-coronavirus is somehow working. You know, from the point of view of business and the economy, you have something that is working against something that might work. Which one will you choose?Laura Laker [00:55:07] Protecting the status quo.Cristina Caimotto [00:55:09] The one that works!Laura Laker [00:55:09] Exactly.Cristina Caimotto [00:55:10] Exactly. So the point is, we all know this very well as cycling advocates. Right. The reason why we want to increase the number of people cycling is related to air pollution, is related to feeling better, not being stressed on your way to work or wherever else, is reducing the likeliness of yourself or people you love being killed in a collision. This is not about business. Business is one part of it. OK. Now, the interesting thing in this historic moment is that the narrative of the protection of the economy has been suspended for a while. Right now we are protecting life rather than the economy. And, you know, from the perspective of climate change, this was not happening because the life that I wanted to be protected was the life polar bears, trees in the forest, distant, know something away, while right now the life we are protecting is our own. So, you know, the reaction is, of course, different. And so right now, the narrative of first we need to protect the economy has been suspended. And the narrative is, first, we need to protect human life. But the problem is we should stop thinking of it in terms of a dichotomy. It's not the economy against life. It's finding a way of bringing the two things together and remembering that the economy is something that should make us feel better. It's not something more important than feeling better. It's a very simple message in the end. When you look at the language we use, it is this very simple message, most of the time.Laura Laker [00:57:16] And it's really interesting, isn't because that change of discourse has perhaps enabled the kind of changes to the streets of many cities around the world that we, that people have been calling for for decades but haven't happened to date. And it's because of that threat to safety and the protection of people we now see more than ever is crucial to our lives and our safety and the running of the food system and, you know, our shops that we need to get our food. And these kind of emergency cycle lanes and perhaps that discourse has helped to enable that protection of people finally on the streets rather than protecting the so-called rights of people in vehicles to move as fast as they want to.[00:58:04] Hopefully, hopefully, that the debate is going on, isn't it? Some countries are. Some countries were very quick to create temporary cycle lanes and expand the space for people to walk and people cycle while in other countries, this is taking longer time. And I'm following the local debate in Turin, and it's being hard, because we know that there is one political side that is pushing for "We need to protect the people from catching the virus on public transport, and we need to allow them to go by car because that's the safe way of doing it". So you have to fight that kind of ideology.Laura Laker [00:58:53] And another thing that you noted in your chapter on the Charlie Alliston case was the sort of links between discrimination in discourse and threats, and which is quite interesting. And I think that Australian study on the dehumanisation of cyclists found the same thing, that the more people saw cyclists as other than human, the more likely they were to act out violently against them. Which is quite interesting. And so this kind of discourse as it is, can have very negative impacts on people's safety. You know, it's part of a continuum, I think you said, but also, if we could change that discourse, then perhaps we could reduce those kind of acts of violence on the road between drivers. Well, when drivers act dangerously around people cycling.Cristina Caimotto [00:59:46] Yeah. And that's the first thing we need to do is to stop talking about cyclists and pedestrians and drivers because this creates different categories and that the whole narrative of the war on the roads is based on the idea that different groups, different categories are fighting for space on the road. This is why I thought it would be interesting to look at it from the perspective of racist discourse. And by the way, something fascinating is also that, of course, racist or any other you can think of any kind of discrimination, also sexism, for example. So these are these kinds of discrimination discriminate people for a characteristic which is always part of their identity. While in the case of cyclists, of course, it's not, we are not cyclists 100% of the time. So this idea that people can be classified as cyclists or drivers or pedestrians when we really think about it doesn't make any sense.Laura Laker [01:00:59] Like calling someone a gardener because they like to they like to keep their garden nice.Cristina Caimotto [01:01:07] Exactly. So it shows you that there is there is something ideological going on when you divide people like that. And in fact, another document I analysed in my work, the 2018 Mayor's Transport Strategy. I noticed that the word cyclist is never used. And when I looked at the, you can also download a draft that was published a few months before the official document. And I think there are four or five occurrences of the word cyclist in that draft. And they were removed. So it's clear that they really paid attention to that. And the word used was Londoners. We're talking about London as we're talking about citizens, not about different categories. And then to refer to the various ways of moving around, they use people cycling or people walking or active mobility to talk about both, people using public transport. And very interestingly, from a linguistic perspective, when talking about people driving, they don't use the verb, but most of the time they use car dependency. And so this is also fascinating because another problem that you have when you try to promote cycling and convince people to reduce their car use, sometimes, you know, also cycling advocates make the mistake of actually accusing people drive because of their choice, implying that their choice is stupid or just thinking for themselves. And you don't convince people by accusing them. And so the idea that they talk about car dependency implies that the people who drive don't choose, that they depend on the car. And the discourse in that document is that the administration is responsible for this dependency and the administration of the city has to do something to help people get rid of their dependency, just as if they were talking about drugs or alcohol or any kind of other dependency you can think of.Laura Laker [01:03:42] And driving has been compared with smoking, hasn't it, in terms of impact somehow?Cristina Caimotto [01:03:48] Yeah, exactly. Of course.Rachel Aldred [01:03:50] And so the media analysis is focussed on the U.K. media. Do you think, I know you haven't studied it, but do you think that other European media is similar? Is the U.K. particularly bad or do you think these patterns are probably found elsewhere, too?Cristina Caimotto [01:04:08] Well, the country I know well, of course, is Italy, and it's probably even worse. No, this is happening all over the place. And yes, thing is, it's part of the dominant mentality and it's linked to neoliberalism. It's linked to the way we focus on efficiency. So, for example, that the idea that making the traffic flow is the most important thing for citizens. So this is a very deep idea that drives the choices of many policymakers. And they think they're doing the right thing when they when they make that choice. So, yes, it has to do with with the dominant mentality. And in order to change the dominant mentality, you need to work on language.Laura Laker [01:05:14] How do you do that?[01:05:16] That's the difficult question. Well, first of all, you need to be aware of it, because I think many journalists, many activists, many people involved in trying to change things, are not aware of the fact that in many ways the language we use doesn't help us at all in the sense that, for example, this idea that we are part of the environment is extremely difficult to be explained with words, because the very words we use conceive humans as separate from the embodied environment is something that surrounds us. It's not a system of which we are part. So how do you change it? You can work on metaphors. For example, pay attention to the metaphors. One source I used a lot in in my book is the work of Gerlinde Mautner, who talks about marketisation, and she shows how the language of the market is dominant across all kinds of discourses that have nothing to do with the market and market logic. So, for example, she looks at religious discourse. She looks at books about self-help. So she has many different examples where she shows how the dominant language, which is the one of the market, is used through metaphors. Of course, we have other metaphors from other domains, like we can have military metaphors. But when we see those metaphors, we notice them. All of us have noticed how we've been talking about the Covid-19 as a war. But when we have this kind of metaphors from the market, we don't notice. So, for example, the ECF, the European Cyclists Federation, I analysed their document, which is called the EU Cycling Strategy, and they often repeat added value. Added value is the kind of language taken from the market, right? So why are you using those words to talk about the value of feeling better if you cycle to work? You can you can use other words, but you choose to use the ones from the dominant discourse, because the dominant discourse is powerful. And instinctively, we always try to imitate the dominant discourse. This is something that happens all the time. It's we always imitate the ones we we want to be with, the ones that are dominant because it's powerful. And instinctively we think that our discourse will be powerful as well if we use their language. The problem is that in this case, we are trying to promote a new kind of perspective, a new paradigm, and you must use a different language.Laura Laker [01:08:20] I'm sure it's conscious. In many cases it's appealing to this dominant discourse because you feel that people might listen to you perhaps as an organisation or listen accept your cause or if you're talking to someone in their own language, almost.Cristina Caimotto [01:08:37] Yes, that's what happens. That's the process, and it's a very natural process. And in some ways it works, of course. My point is that when you're trying to promote cycling, you need to be aware of the deep links between neoliberalism and auto-mentality, so centred on the automobile. So these two things are deeply linked. So when you use that kind of dominant language, you're actually promoting the dominance of cars. And if you're trying to promote a change and to reduce the number of people using cars, you should not use that language or at least you need to be aware of the dangers.Laura Laker [01:09:22] And I think you talked about in your chapter on media, in your book, about how it needs to be more revolutionary, the language, instead of being about the status quo. It's about making a dramatic change.Cristina Caimotto [01:09:37] Yes. Well, I was referring to the work of Corrado Poli, who identified three ways of thinking about mobility. One he calls traditional, so it's based on the market logic, which is "OK, if there are traffic jams, it means the demand for space is increasing, so we need to provide more space for cars". So that's the traditional which we have seen at work.Laura Laker [01:10:11] We call it predict and provide.Cristina Caimotto [01:10:13] Exactly. And then there is the second one, which is about moving, shifting some of the people from cars to public transport and basically maintaining the same level, the same number of people moving around. And I think it's interesting he compares this to the need to reduce waste. And he says, in terms of waste management, it has been understood that the only way of improving waste management is to reduce the production of useless packaging. It will not solve the problem of waste unless you reduce useless packaging. And he says the revolutionary approach has to start from the same idea. So that the fact that we need to reduce how much we move. We need to reduce the demand because the amount that we need to move around is not sustainable.Laura Laker [01:11:16] The cars are being used, this packaging or the excess. So they use this packaging or both?Cristina Caimotto [01:11:22] Yes, the trips. And again, this is something that we might be able to learn from the lockdown experience. Maybe some people, maybe some companies will realise how the need to go to an office, to have online meetings that you put out from home, you know, it's unnecessary. Just stay home or work maybe one or two kilometres from your house. But not travelling far to do something that you can do from home. So this could be one one aspect. Another one is shopping nearby rather than travelling by car, you know, to a distant shopping centre and so on. All these kinds of changes that would be brought upon.Laura Laker [01:12:09] Yeah, super interesting. And I'm sure I can imagine a lot of people are going to be in the campaigning world, and the policy world are going to find this super interesting, because it was really interesting for me reading what you've written and looking at the kind of language and just talking about just doing things differently, not trying to go along with the dominant discourse, but trying to change that discourse.Cristina Caimotto [01:12:34] What one thing I suggest is to frame it as wellbeing so that refers to the approach I've used, the one of eco linguistics. So eco linguistics is about creating new narratives, new framing, new ways of using language to improve life. So that the importance of life and the protection of life and the forces of well-being are really at the centre of the new kind of discourse that we can create. And this is also linked. We can think of the doughnut economy. You know, that's a good metaphor, for example. So it's something that you des

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If the youngster in your household listens to Reggae or Classical Music it could mean they will grow to be open to more things and be a little more adventurous in general. RNIB Connect Radio's Kris Wallace has been talking to leading neuro-psychological expert, Catherine Loveday of Westminster University, who’s been investigating how the music children hear growing up has a direct impact on their openness to try new activities and experiences as they develop.

With over 20 years in financial technology, Lilia Severina set up Fixtrade in July 2011. Lilia has expert knowledge in trading technologies including low latency trading and many years experience in the world of crypto from mining to arbitrage to ICO planning, design and development. With business connections in over 80 countries in FinTech sector, Lilia was instrumental in a number of IPOs and held many senior positions in start-ups as well as corporates including Uptime Institute, Avelacom, Interxion, Gartner Group, Orange and Verizon. Lilia and her team are able to bring together money and opportunities during market highs and lows and achieve consistent results. Lilia studied at the London School of Economics, Westminster University of London and Thames Marketing College. She is a committed trainer and mentor for the Prince’s Trust and believes in empowering SMEs to make the world a better place. What you’ll learn about in this episode: What Lilia does with her London-based consulting business, and why she specializes in financial technology and real estate What kind of returns Lilia’s clients can expect on their investments through her consulting business How Lilia’s business works with underdeveloped countries, and how she works with Prince Charles’s “Prince’s Trust” organization in the UK Why China is a thriving region looking for development opportunities and foreign investments Why timing is important when managing your money and moving it to foreign markets during challenging economic times Why Lilia’s disappointment in her pension fund and wealth manager caused her to develop her own strategies with better results Why Lilia believes capital market strategies can be powerful, as long as you’re willing to accept the risk Lilia shares her story of being born in Ukraine and immigrating to London, and why early financial troubles shaped her thoughts on money Why Lilia believes that abundance and financial security are available to anyone prepared to reach out to it Additional resources: Website: www.fixtradeglobal.com Email: contact@fixtradeglobal.com

Matthew Finn has a Degree in Photography from Derby University and an MA in Photographic Studies from Westminster University. He is best known for his long term projects, undetaken over a period of nearly 30 years, focussing both on his mother, Jean, and his uncle, Jean’s brother, Des. A book of the former project entitled Mother was published by Dewi Lewis in 2017 and the work has been exhibited at various major galleries including Jerwood Space, London, the Impressions Gallery Bradford and The Open Eye gallery Liverpool. The project won him the Jerwood/ Photoworks Awards in 2015. Matthews latest book, due to be published by Stanley Barker later this year, is entitled School of Art and features portraits of his students taken while he was a teacher during the mid to late 90’s. In episode 098, Matthew discusses, among other things: Discovering the astonishing truth about his father on the eve of his funeral How his mum and uncle became his first subjects Love and guilt His School of Art work and why it wouldn’t be possible now Referenced: John Blakemore Nicholas Nixon’s The Brown Sisters Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Sally Mann’s Immediate Family Paul Graham Bill Brandt Daniel Meadows Alec Soth Elinor Carucci Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter “I must be the only person who’s never ever undertaken a commercial job and I’ve been making photographs for over 30 years!”

This week we have Donald Trump cozying up to evangelicals, a failed coup in Turkey, Nice terror attack, and the Nones in Australia set to become the largest "religious" affiliated group. Sources:Coup in Turkey:Anne Barker, “Turkey coup attempt reveals division over desire for secular or Islamist rule.“ Accessed July 20, 2016. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-18...The Young Turks, "Breaking: Turkish Military Attempted Coup to Overthrow Government." Accessed July 21, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeNO3...Australian Religious Affiliation in Census:Brian Morris, “Talking Point: Red Letter Day for Secular Australians.” Accessed July 19, 2016. http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opi...News Ticker:Aftab Ali,“Westminster University achieves national first by hiring first-ever paid secular adviser for staff and students.”Accessed July 19, 2016. http://www.independent.co.uk/student/... Katie Landoll, “Group says judge refused to perform secular marriage.“ Accessed July 19, 2016. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religi...Pew Research Center, “Evangelicals Rally to Trump, Religious ‘Nones’ Back Clinton.” Accessed July 19, 2016. http://www.pewforum.org/2016/07/13/ev...Atheists in Kenya, “AIK Society Has Been Officially Suspended!” Accessed July 19, 2016. https://atheistsinkenya.com/2016/06/1...Janan Bsoul, “New Isreali Bill Would Allow Every - Even the Seular - to no work on Shabbat.“ Accessed July 19, 2016. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/bu...Times of Malta, “Bill decriminalising vilification of religion approved: 'A sad day for Malta' - Archbishop.”Accessed July 19, 2016. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/...

"Do we know what causes déjà vu?" asks Floyd Kitchen from Queenstown in New Zealand. Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate this familiar feeling by speaking to world-leading reseacher Chris Moulin from the University of Grenoble in France and memory expert Catherine Loveday from Westminster University. Plus, they find out why early investigations classed déjà vu as a type of paranormal phenomenon. For most of us, it's a fleetingly strange experience, but for some people it can become a serious problem. Lisa from Hulme in Manchester started experiencing déjà vu when she was 22 with episodes that could last all day. The origin of her déjà vu has been the key to helping psychologists investigate its cause. Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford Producer: Michelle Martin.

A podcast celebrating women working in the rock music industry, offering careers advice and insight. In this episode we interview Tara Noble, Bassist for Elefantasy and Music Student at Westminster University. Elefantasy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elefantasyband/ Rock in The Park application (Closes May 5th 2018): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdurwuI79pxSdWff4kC5--fXtTNKZuCpc76IM0PpXBD8BZ7tA/viewform

In this episode of the Wired Educator Podcast, Kelly interviews Shelley Burgess and Beth Houf, the authors of the hot, new, best-selling book, Lead Like a Pirate. About the book, Lead Like a Pirate: Make School Amazing for Your Students and Staff: Are You a Treasure Seeker?  Pirates are on a constant quest for riches, but PIRATE leaders seek even greater rewards: amazing schools, engaged students, and empowered educators who know they are making a difference. In Lead Like a PIRATE, education leaders Shelley Burgess and Beth Houf map out the character traits necessary to captain a school or district. You'll learn where to find the treasure that's already in your classrooms and schools--and how to bring out the very best in your educators. What does it take to be a PIRATE Leader?  Passion--both professional and personal A willingness to Immerse yourself in your work Good Rapport with your staff, students and community The courage to Ask questions and Analyze what is and isn't working The determination to seek positive Transformation  And the kind of Enthusiasm that gets others excited about education The ultimate goal for any education leader is to create schools and districts where students and staff are knocking down the doors to get in rather than out. This book will equip and encourage you to be relentless in your quest to make school amazing for your students, staff, parents, and communities. Are you ready to set sail? Meet the Authors: Shelley Burgess   Shelley has served as an award-winning teacher, principal, Director of Student Achievement, and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Leadership. Her highly respected work focuses on building leadership capacity through coaching, collaboration, and building a positive culture of change which leads to dramatic improvements in teaching and learning. She now works as a full-time partner in Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. and is the co-author of P is for PIRATE: Inspirational ABC's for Educators. Beth Houf Beth is passionate about developing schools that encourage high levels of learning and empowerment for all… schools where students and staff are running to get in, not out! To do so, Beth seeks out fun and meaningful ways to interact with students and teachers so they are excited about coming to school. Wearing costumes, singing karaoke, or breaking out some original dance moves as she enthusiastically greets students each morning, or providing innovative  learning time and celebrations for her staff so they feel rejuvenated and excited about teaching is common practice for Beth. Beth Houf is a middle school principal in central Missouri. She also serves as a facilitator for the DESE Leadership Academy, providing monthly training to state educational leaders. She has spoken at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference, the Association for Middle Level Education National Conference and many state and local educational venues. She is also active in her local, state and national elementary principal associations. Beth has also been a guest lecturer at William Woods University, Westminster University and the University of Missouri. Beth was named a Missouri Exemplary New Principal in 2011 and the Missouri National Distinguished Principal for 2016. Mentioned in this Podcast: Website: www.LeadLikeaPirate.net www.DaveBurgessConsulting.com Follow Shelley and Beth on Twitter. Order your copy of: Lead Like a Pirate: Make School Amazing for Your Students and Staff: Do you love the Wired Educator Podcast? Really? Really!?! Now you can help support it for just $1 at www.patreon.com/wirededucator

I have asked all of my guests what they think is the essence of a real democracy. In this episode I showcase their responses.   Professor Carson sees the essence of a real democracy as being about self government and trust.   Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, founder of the newDemocracy Foundation, agreed that people should be able to govern themselves.   Professor Janette Hartz-Karp from Curtin University in Western Australia highlighted the need to consider the common good co-designed by the people.   Peter MacLeod from MASS LBP in Canada talked about giving citizens a role between elections with more opportunities for citizens to be involved.   Associate Professor Helene Landemore from Yale University democracy talked about inclusiveness and equality, where everyone has an equal chance of being heard in decision-making.   Iain Walker, the Executive Director of the newDemocracy Foundation, doesn’t believe that democracy equals the vote, rather it should be about acting on the informed will of the people.   Professor Graham Smith for Westminster University sees citizen participation at the heart of democracy with citizens able to participate in critical decisions which affect their lives.   Emily Jenke from DemocracyCo, a facilitation company in South Australia, its about active citizenship.   Titus Alexander from Democracy Matter in the UK believes the public should have an equal say in public decisions.   Associate Professor Caroline Lee from Lafayette University identifies social, economic and political equality being more balanced as important in a real democracy.   Jay Weatherill the Premier of South Australia, like Janette, sees citizens acting in the community interest as part of a real democracy.   And Professor Gerry Stoker from Southamption University proposes a real democracy would be one that allows people to participate when and how they want to, what he calls 'politics fit for amateurs'.   I’d love to know what you think is the essence of a real democracy. Please share you views with the Real Democracy Now! community on our Facebook page, by Twitter or on the website. I’ll share some of your perspectives in later episodes.

Professor Graham Smith from Westminster University was part of a number of academics who designed and ran the Democracy Matters project in 2015. This project involved two Citizens' Assemblies both considering devolution of local decision-making.  In addition to being demonstration projects around engaging everyday citizens in decision-making about local governance these two process involved slightly different designs to allow the academics involved to test the impact of having elected representatives as part of the Citizens' Assembly.  Graham explains the background to these two Citizens' Assemblies as well as the preliminary findings about the impact of having politicians as members of the Citizens' Assembly South. For more information about the Democracy Matters project visit http://citizensassembly.co.uk/home-page/about/  

Homeware designer Elizabeth Elsey of interiors brand Elizabeth Scarlett talks to ASOS editor at large Danielle Radojcin about producing everything from cute cushions to luxe bed linen and the challenges of making her creative vision a success. Having studied fine art at Central St Martins then switching to a business degree at Westminster University, Elizabeth launched Elizabeth Scarlett in 2013, using her signature hand-painted designs to adorn lifestyle products, which are now stocked in high-end stores such as Fortnum & Mason, and as far afield as Ibiza and St Tropez. Elizabeth has just gone full time with Elizabeth Scarlett, having previously combined her work on her homeware range with working for high-street retailers including John Lewis and B&Q. She has used the commercial knowledge she also gained from her time on the retail graduate scheme at Tesco with her eye for design to create a high-quality but affordable lifestyle range that is increasingly loved by 20-somethings. Now, with a candle... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dirk is a founder member and current nominal leader of Zero State and is the Founder member, Secretary, and Deputy Leader of the Transhumanist Party in the UK. He is a member of the Futurists Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a consultant to the Institute for Social Futurism and the Founder of The Consensus in 2002CE, He attended Nottingham University and later what is now Westminster University and has a BSc in Physics. He has pursued a careers in electronics and computer research and is a research engineer at Surface Measurement Systems. Dirks other interests include the interface between technology, theology, magick and occultism explored in the books TechnoMage and The Praxis.  He was co-presenter of a UK radio show, "OneTribe". For several years Dirk has held the position of Branch Master in the World Shorinji Kempo Organization, teaching Zen and martial arts, although is now retired from a teaching role.   Related Links: http://www.transhumanistparty.org.uk

Jennifer Fugo is the founder of Gluten Free School, a website dedicated to teaching gluten-sensitive individuals commonsense, simple and powerful steps to get healthy. She’s a certified Health Coach named a “Gluten Free Guru” by Philadelphia Magazine who created the popular “Gluten-Free Sugar Cleanse” to teach gluten-free folks how to experience positive physical.changes through commonsense sugar reduction. Steve began his career as an engineer but realised he had a passion for changing people’s lives for the better. He studied Sociology at the Westminster University and decided to join Kingsmead Secondary School in Enfield, North London, England, as a mentor.  Lavanzo Maxwell can show you how to become

Institute for the Study of the Americas Speakers: Chaired by Iwan Morgan (Professor of United States Studies, ISA) and includes David Chandler (Professor of International Relations, Westminster University), Adam Quinn (Lecturer in International Stu...

Institute for the Study of the Americas Speakers: Chaired by Iwan Morgan (Professor of United States Studies, ISA) and includes David Chandler (Professor of International Relations, Westminster University), Adam Quinn (Lecturer in International Stu...

In this episode of Tuned In To The Future, Joe Greig - who is completing a work placement at Folded Wing - explores the Routes In To Radio. We hear from radio production lecturer Matthew Linfoot from Westminster University; John Myers, chief executive of the Radio Academy, Carina Tillson from Global Radio, Natasha Maw from the BBC Academy, Fred Bradley from the Student Radio Association and more. This episode was made in conjunction with the Radio Academy's Foot In The Door event at the Radio Festival, 2011.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anarchism and why its political ideas became synonymous with chaos and disorder. Pierre Joseph Proudhon famously declared “property is theft”. And perhaps more surprisingly that “Anarchy is order”. Speaking in 1840, he was the first self-proclaimed anarchist. Anarchy comes from the Greek word “anarchos”, meaning “without rulers”, and the movement draws on the ideas of philosophers like William Godwin and John Locke. It is also prominent in Taoism, Buddhism and other religions. In Christianity, for example, St Paul said there is no authority except God. The anarchist rejection of a ruling class inspired communist thinkers too. Peter Kropotkin, a Russian prince and leading anarcho-communist, led this rousing cry in 1897: “Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life... Or the destruction of States and new life starting again.. on the principles of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you!” In the Spanish Civil War, anarchists embarked on the largest experiment to date in organising society along anarchist principles. Although it ultimately failed, it was not without successes along the way.So why has anarchism become synonymous with chaos and disorder? What factors came together to make the 19th century and early 20th century the high point for its ideas? How has its philosophy influenced other movements from The Diggers and Ranters to communism, feminism and eco-warriors?With John Keane, Professor of Politics at Westminster University; Ruth Kinna, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University; Peter Marshall, philosopher and historian.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anarchism and why its political ideas became synonymous with chaos and disorder. Pierre Joseph Proudhon famously declared “property is theft”. And perhaps more surprisingly that “Anarchy is order”. Speaking in 1840, he was the first self-proclaimed anarchist. Anarchy comes from the Greek word “anarchos”, meaning “without rulers”, and the movement draws on the ideas of philosophers like William Godwin and John Locke. It is also prominent in Taoism, Buddhism and other religions. In Christianity, for example, St Paul said there is no authority except God. The anarchist rejection of a ruling class inspired communist thinkers too. Peter Kropotkin, a Russian prince and leading anarcho-communist, led this rousing cry in 1897: “Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life... Or the destruction of States and new life starting again.. on the principles of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you!” In the Spanish Civil War, anarchists embarked on the largest experiment to date in organising society along anarchist principles. Although it ultimately failed, it was not without successes along the way.So why has anarchism become synonymous with chaos and disorder? What factors came together to make the 19th century and early 20th century the high point for its ideas? How has its philosophy influenced other movements from The Diggers and Ranters to communism, feminism and eco-warriors?With John Keane, Professor of Politics at Westminster University; Ruth Kinna, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University; Peter Marshall, philosopher and historian.