Research lives and cultures

Dr Sandrine Soubes
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Research lives and cultures

Research careers are complex and unpredictable, but the lives of researchers are fascinating.On this podcast, Dr Sandrine Soubes interviews researchers, academics and professionals with research background about their journeying through research lives and professional transitions.Bringing these stories to you listeners is about illustrating the diversity of approaches in navigating the complexities of the research environment. Stories from our guests show that there is never a set path for research careers. Guests share ideas from their own experiences about thriving in the research environment.These discussions address how individuals make choices or create opportunities and what challenges they face balancing personal lives and professional aspirations. This podcast represents a desire to help researchers navigate more joyfully the bumpy rides of research lives through sharing stories.The podcast is hosted by Dr Sandrine Soubes who is a facilitator, coach and trainer for the research environment. If you want to share your own life in research, contact Sandrine at sandrine@tesselledevelopment.com

  1. 74- Prof. Jenny Clark- Modelling parenthood in research careers

    2 SEPT

    74- Prof. Jenny Clark- Modelling parenthood in research careers

    Prof. Jenny Clark is a Materials Physics research leader in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at The University of Sheffield. Jenny has sailed the fellowship boat to build her research career while putting her family as one of her priorities. She is an example to showcase that whilst no one can ever “do it all”, researchers with parenting responsibilities can progress in science and protect their family time.Listening to our conversation will prompt your thinking:What are the b...

    50 min
  2. 73- Dr Phil Elks- Joining a thriving community

    27 AUG

    73- Dr Phil Elks- Joining a thriving community

    Dr Phil Elks is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Population Health at The University of Sheffield. His research career has been dedicated to using Zebrafish as a model to study human diseases. Being part of a vibrant community using this animal model has shaped his career.Listening to our conversation will prompt your thinking:How spotting small funding opportunities is part of shifting towards research independenceWhat informal opportunities may you consider to construc...

    50 min
  3. 72- Dr Cariad Evans- Integrating research into your clinical practice

    16 AUG

    72- Dr Cariad Evans- Integrating research into your clinical practice

    Dr Cariad Evans is a virology consultant for the NHS, as well as an infectious diseases specialist. After a period of working in Africa, Cariad returned to the UK to work as a consultant. A corridor conversation with a senior colleague kick-started her engagement in doing research via an MD. The recent pandemics have been fertile grounds to contribute to research, as well as impact national policy decisions.Listening to our conversation will prompt your thinking:Do you know your motivat...

    46 min
  4. 71- Dr Deanne Bell- Weathering the white gaze and inventing post-colonial higher education

    2 AUG

    71- Dr Deanne Bell- Weathering the white gaze and inventing post-colonial higher education

    Deanne Bell is Associate Professor in Race, Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham. When I interviewed her, she was working at Nottingham Trent University as Associate Professor of Critical Psychology and Decolonial Studies. Her research has the potential to shift higher education towards an era where the colonial past is addressed, but first, it means “exposing and dismantling colonial systems of knowledge and exclusion.”Working in banking and playing tennis for Jamaica...

    46 min
  5. 70- Prof. Jo Richardson- Helping people feel at home

    26 JUL

    70- Prof. Jo Richardson- Helping people feel at home

    Professor Jo Richardson is Associate Dean of Research for Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University and Professor of Housing & Social Inclusion. Her expertise on homelessness and methodological stance in co-production have created solid and value-based foundations for her leadership style. Jo’s career was not planned from the start as an academic career. She started as a housing practitioner working in the public sector, such as a national professional body, a ho...

    46 min
  6. 69- Dr Cristina Nostro- Demonstrating research independence

    25 JUL

    69- Dr Cristina Nostro- Demonstrating research independence

    Dr Cristina Nostro is a Senior Scientist at the McEwen Stem Cell Institute at the University Health Network (UHN), a research hospital, as well as Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She recalls challenges in demonstrating research independence.Cristina started her research career not taking no for an answer. As an undergraduate student in Florence (Italy), she had hoped to access the Erasmus programme. There had been strong links between her university and the University of Man...

    45 min
  7. 68- Prof. Milica Radisic- Creating interdependence in teams

    19 JUL

    68- Prof. Milica Radisic- Creating interdependence in teams

    Prof. Milica Radisic is a Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (University of Toronto, Canada). Her work sits at the interface of engineering, stem cell biology and chemistry. Her ethos as a PI is to create interdependence between team members to build a collaborative and effective research team.Milica is part of a generation of scientists for whom the transition from PhD to academic positions could appear to have been incred...

    52 min
  8. 67- Dr Catarina Henriques- Drilling down what to focus on

    11 JUL

    67- Dr Catarina Henriques- Drilling down what to focus on

    Dr. Catarina Henriques is a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at The University of Sheffield. Her journey into a research career was ignited by a TV documentary on telomeres she watched as a teenager, which fueled her enduring interest in the biology of aging. Transitioning from Portugal to the UK to pursue her research ambitions involved numerous daring conversations.Not many people can claim they visited embassies to figure out where to study at university, but Catarina did...

    59 min
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About

Research careers are complex and unpredictable, but the lives of researchers are fascinating.On this podcast, Dr Sandrine Soubes interviews researchers, academics and professionals with research background about their journeying through research lives and professional transitions.Bringing these stories to you listeners is about illustrating the diversity of approaches in navigating the complexities of the research environment. Stories from our guests show that there is never a set path for research careers. Guests share ideas from their own experiences about thriving in the research environment.These discussions address how individuals make choices or create opportunities and what challenges they face balancing personal lives and professional aspirations. This podcast represents a desire to help researchers navigate more joyfully the bumpy rides of research lives through sharing stories.The podcast is hosted by Dr Sandrine Soubes who is a facilitator, coach and trainer for the research environment. If you want to share your own life in research, contact Sandrine at sandrine@tesselledevelopment.com

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  • Creator
    Dr Sandrine Soubes
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Research lives and cultures
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