12 episodes

UCL's award-winning campaign, Disruptive Thinking Since 1826 and hashtag #MadeAtUCL, has been phenomenal in its scope with hoardings at UCL East in London, graphics and animations on our website; a festival, podcast series, and involvement of the wider public to vote for their favourite breakthrough UCL research.

This year, we continue to feature more UCL breakthrough stories through Season Two of the podcast! This time, we are also sharing stories from our community, our pioneering researchers, staff, students and alumni who have or are achieving great things that impact society and help change the world for the better.

Catch up on Season 1 on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482943970 or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5N3f3fffYZcqzJ9IiVxw9W

#MadeAtUCL Season 2 UCL

    • Science

UCL's award-winning campaign, Disruptive Thinking Since 1826 and hashtag #MadeAtUCL, has been phenomenal in its scope with hoardings at UCL East in London, graphics and animations on our website; a festival, podcast series, and involvement of the wider public to vote for their favourite breakthrough UCL research.

This year, we continue to feature more UCL breakthrough stories through Season Two of the podcast! This time, we are also sharing stories from our community, our pioneering researchers, staff, students and alumni who have or are achieving great things that impact society and help change the world for the better.

Catch up on Season 1 on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482943970 or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5N3f3fffYZcqzJ9IiVxw9W

    Resolution

    Resolution

    In our final episode of this series, Cassidy and Cerys reflect on some of their favourite interviews. They share updates from guests and discuss the ground-breaking research that has really surprised or changed them in the course of making the podcast.
    For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…s2-ep11-resolution

    • 34 min
    Awareness And Activism

    Awareness And Activism

    This month's episode is about awareness and the activism it can lead to. Join us as we talk to three members of the UCL community who are making meaningful change to combat the problems they have been confronted by. Cassidy spoke with Hope Oloye, a PhD student whose programme Thinking Black is breaking down barriers to higher education, Virginie Le Masson, a geographer working with women across the world to understand the impacts of climate change through a feminist lens, and Emilia Molimpakis, a neuroscientist and entrepreneur who is revolutionising mental health care.
    For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…eness-and-activism
    Music Credits:
    Basketliner by BittersSorry Linus by LimoncelloThe Onyx by Glass Obelisk

    • 32 min
    Recovery

    Recovery

    This month we are exploring recovery. As Cassidy has been busy finishing her dissertation, join Cerys as they learn how to recover through stories about Long Covid community led research, transformative technology in the NHS, and a memorial garden built by students in the IOE.

    With thanks to our speakers:

    Dr Susan McGrath - Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work at UCL's Institute of Education.
    Dr Owain Rhys Hughes is the founder and CEO of Cinapsis.
    Dr Athena Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

    • 30 min
    Growth

    Growth

    In this month’s episode of #MadeAtUCL we’re growing. Join us as we explore three unique perspectives on growth and how it can be both a positive and negative concept. We chat with Dr Michelle Heys and Dr Simbarashe Chimhuya and hear about their technical solution to newborn healthcare, with Dr Philip Pogge Von Strandmann about how we can reduce the growing levels of co2 in the atmosphere, and lastly with Dr Seb Coxon to learn how beards of medieval Germany can help us understand masculinity today.
    Find out more and listen to the transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep8-growth

    • 36 min
    Getting Closer

    Getting Closer

    In this month's episode of #MadeAtUCL, join us as we explore closeness and how proximity has changed over the past year. From designing new spaces that help us feel close from afar, to how researchers learnt about smartphones by living with their users, to how sounds of the rainforests thousands of miles way can help connect us to nature.

    To find our more and access the transcript click here: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…ep7-getting-closer

    • 34 min
    Mission to Mars

    Mission to Mars

    In this episode, #MadeAtUCL goes to Mars! We hear about the incredible UCL work that is helping to send a Rover (and maybe one day even a person) to the Red Planet as well as what we might find when we get there.

    • 36 min

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