Create the Future Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

How might engineering improve cancer outcomes in the next decade? What's the future of tech in hospitals? Why did fellow scientists laugh derisively when Moderna was developing their COVID-19 vaccine?
Roma Agrawal hosts two engineers have been key in fighting back against the recent pandemic: Professor Rebecca Shipley, and Dr. Robert Langer, co-founder of Moderna and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2015.
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Engineering can be a force for good. It can build our homes, create energy efficient solutions, and improve our world in innumerable ways. But there's a darker side as well, from weapons manufacture to deforestation.
To discuss the ethical quandaries that engineers encounter on a daily basis, Roma Agrawal hosts Dr. Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director at Scientists for Global Responsibility, and Yasmin Ali, a chemical engineer focused on energy innovation.
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How should countries work together to solve global warming? How easily could the UK convert to solar energy ? If we already have all the tools we need, what is holding us back from embracing renewable energy systems?
Throwing some light onto this hugely important topic are regular host Roma Agrawal with Professor Andrew Blakers, one of the 2023 winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering for groundbreaking innovations in solar cell design.
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The QEPrize for Engineering is the world's leading award for engineers. The annual £500,000 prize promotes excellence and celebrates visionaries. But what goes on backstage?
Roma Agrawal hears from the great and the good of engineering:
Yewande Akinola
Professor Andrew Blakers
Professor Martin Green
Dr. Nikita Hari
Vinita Marwaha Madill
Krystina Pearson-Rampeearee
Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
Professor Jez Willis
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Is there a secret to beautiful design? How do you marry style and function? And what is the role of human emotion in this process?
Designing the perfect conversation for this episode are regular host Roma Agrawal and architect-artist-designer Rebeca Ramos.
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How is a Baked Alaska like a Space Shuttle? Can cakes teach us about engineering? What is 'Bakineering' anyway?
Whipping up a treat of a conversation today are Roma Agrawal and Andrew Smyth, an aerospace engineer who reached the final of The Great British Bake Off in 2016. Sara Schonour, a contestant on Netflix show Baking Impossible, also joins the chat.
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