Glasgow Centre for Population Health Podcast

gcphmail@drs.glasgow.gov.uk (Glasgow Centre for Population Health)

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  1. 04/21/2015

    GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Experience shapes the brain across the lifecourse; epigenetics, biological embedding and cumulative change (audio)

    In Lecture 6, the final lecture of Seminar Series 2014-2015, Professor Bruce S. McEwen delivers a talk on how experience shapes the brain across the lifecourse; epigenetics, biological embedding and cumulative change. Professor McEwen is a neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University, New York. He studies the brain and in this lecture, discusses how the social environment affects the brain and through the brain, affects the rest of the body, health and disease through the lifecourse. He also introduces the concept of epigenetics which concerns how environmental factors regulate expression of genes and effect brain and body function.

    57 min

  2. 03/16/2015

    GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Re-imaging justice for women (audio)

    The fifth lecture of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series is delivered by Linda de Caesteker, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Linda talks about justice for women and in particular, the Commission for Women Offenders that she was part of. One of the recommendations of the Commission was to establish Community Justice Centres, along with Linda, colleagues from Tomorrow's Women, the Community Justice Centre in Glasgow, discuss their experiences of working in and also using the Centre.

    1h 1m

  3. 02/16/2015

    GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Land reform as an engine of economic progress (audio)

    Lecture 4 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series is delivered by Andy Whightman, self employed writer and researcher from Edinburgh. In the Seminar, Andy discusses land, society and economy, the importance of land not just as an economic resource but how it fits in with our sense of place and the impact of how we regulate land - it's ownership, it's use - has on places and on people. This is a story from the financial crash to the hills of the highlands.

    1 hr

  4. 01/21/2015

    GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Lecture 3. Economics of Dignity (audio)

    In Lecture 3 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series, Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy AUT University, Auckland New Zealand, delivers a presentation on the Economics of Dignity. The dignity discussed concerns those people who are care givers and in particular, children and the question of children's agency. Professor Waring relates this to the new provisions in Scotland for carers and young carers and poses questions about their dignity.

    55 min

  5. 12/10/2014

    GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Lecture 2. Nature, nurture and society (audio)

    In Lecture 2 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series, Byron Vincent, writer and performer, delivers a talk on Nature, Nurture and Society. He first talks about his experience of growing up on sink estates and how environment often shapes behaviour and discuses what can be done about that. In the second part he talks about his diagnoses of Bipolar disorder and Post Traumatic Stress disorder, his experience within the mental health system and changes that could be made for the better.

    1h 19m

  6. 04/28/2014

    GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Nourishing the City: The Rise of the Urban Food Question (Audio)

    Kevin Morgan, Professor of Governance at Cardiff University delivers this lecture on Urban Food Policy. He looks at the rise of the city as a new player in the food policy debate taking the experiences of London, New York, Toronto and distills some of the lessons learned for cities in UK.

    42 min

  7. 04/09/2014

    GCPH - Go Well 8th Annual Event

    Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister, talks about the work of the Go Well project

    19 min

  8. 02/18/2014

    GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Does austerity harm health? (Audio)

    In this lecture, Dr. Reeve, post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University, puts forward the case that austerity does harm health but that is a choice we make and we can change how our governments respond to the recession and recessions in the future.

    44 min
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    gcphmail@drs.glasgow.gov.uk (Glasgow Centre for Population Health)
  • Years Active
    2006 - 2015
  • Episodes
    69
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    Clean
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    © Copyright Glasgow Centre for Population Health 2005-2006. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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