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Anti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Lisa GouldIn this episode we talk about the life changing work of @DrLisaGould whose research is about improving outcomes for patients with dementia when in hospital @imperialcollege
2022-07-2637 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Professor Bryony Dean FranklinIn this episode we chat with Professor Bryony Dean Franklin, who is carrying out research on medication safety @School_Pharmacy. We talk about what might go wrong and why and how it can be prevented from happening. Is barcoding the future of patient safety? @UCL #podcast #research
2022-07-1226 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Lena Ciric and Dr Tse-Hui TehWe spoke to Dr Lena Ciric and Dr Tse-Hui Teh about their research and the vacuum toilet! Using waste as compost, how it works and where the toilet is now @UCL
2022-06-2842 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Professor Catherine Tuleu Professor Catherine Tuleu, from UCL School of Pharmacy talks about devising medicine delivery for children. The difficulties of the balance of making medicine easy to take for children, but not too attractive. How much work goes into the process, the tools they use and making the experience a positive one for the patient. First point of contact in treatment is so important.
2022-06-1443 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Rebecca PowellWe chatted to Rebecca Powell from UCL School of Pharmacy about artificial nerve regeneration, and how they hope to do it!
2022-05-2424 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Katelyn SmalleyDr Katelyn Smalley is a health policy researcher with a background in Political Economy. She recently completed her PhD in Health Services Research at Imperial College London, and currently works as a Research Fellow in Person-Centred Care at the University of Plymouth. Her research focuses on improving access and quality of healthcare services in the NHS.
2022-05-0327 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Ruth BrauerDr Ruth Brauer, is a lecturer in Pharmacoepidemiology, at UCL. Her main research focus is assessing the risks and benefits of drug use in vulnerable patient populations. On this podcast we discussed the importance of collecting data on a wide scale and where data is collected from. We also chatted about the importance of collaboration and who is using this data to inform their research.
2022-04-0525 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Tim Beasley-MurrayDr Tim Beasley-Murray is a researcher at UCL. We talked about his research and the book he is currently writing. We discussed playing the game of Academia and what do those rules look like? Rules we have to follow, and how do they influence us in different situations. Reality vs Games. Playful vs the serious.
2022-02-2257 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Andrew CartmelAndrew Cartmel is a playwright and author of the Vinyl Detective novels. We spoke about how he tackles research for his books and plays. We discussed the balance between too much/too little research, getting facts right, different types of research and using real life experience. The new Vinyl Detective book and his new play ‘Glacier Lake’ is coming out in May.
2022-02-0823 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Sara Garfield Dr Sara Garfield talks to us about her research into patient engagement and factors influencing patients' decisions about treatment and shared decision making
2022-01-1821 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Professor Samantha RaynerProfessor Sam Rayner talks to us about her research into Publishing, book shops and book selling. What makes us read the books we do? We also mention Una Dillon the Bookseller and Georgette Heyer!
2022-01-1134 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast With Dr Matt Winning. Hot Mess Book ReviewDr Matt Winning @UCL chats to us about his new book, Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change? The book is out now
2021-12-1551 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Emma NorrisDr Emma Norris @EJ_Norris at Brunel University discusses her research on making sense of behaviour change interventions using Artificial Intelligence. She is a Researcher @UCL on the Human Behaviour-Change Project https://www.humanbehaviourchange.org/
2020-12-1520 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Victoria GarfieldDr Victoria Garfield is a genetic epidemiologist working at University College London (UCL), she talks to us about her research and how she uses large scale genomic and population health data to investigate complex disease relationships
2020-11-1731 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Hannah TaylorPhD student Hannah Taylor gives us some insight into her research at UCL focused on the hearts of young people and how they develop into adulthood.
2020-11-0312 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Sam SearleGeriatrician Dr Sam Searle explains his current research about patients with multiple conditions who end up in hospital and how this should affect their treatment.
2020-10-2720 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Chloe ParkDr Chloe Park is a physiologist carrying out research on the mechanisms of the cardiovascular system with an additional study on the ethnic differences in heart disease.
2020-10-2018 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Nathan WoodlingNathan Woodling tells us about his work on understanding Alzheimers and the discoveries around glial cells (the non-neuronal cells of the nervous system) rather than neuron cells that change the most as we age. His team are going through a list of hundreds of genes aiming to pinpoint the exact genes that change and cause Alzheimers.
2020-04-1519 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Andrew MorleyDr Andrew Morley shares with Em and Pixie his research into a critical history of anaesthesia, where he’s looking at previous and current incidents, how they were dealt with and what was learnt or changed. Andy’s primary source of research is an incident book discovered at Guys Hospital and he has been interviewing the staff involved with the events recorded in there between 1955 and 1974.
2020-04-011h 06Anti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Prof Chloe MarshallProf Chloe Marshall, Prof of Psychology, Language and Education at UCL talks about her research into how children learn language and how to read and write. Her work is around those who are learning in challenging circumstances. Chloe has a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of East Anglia, and a MA in Linguistics and PhD in Human Communication Science from University College London. Her first career was as a Montessori nursery teacher and teacher-trainer, where she became fascinated by young children's language and early literacy development, and by how language and literacy set the foundation f...
2020-03-1830 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Professor John WardJohn Ward, Professor of Synthetic Biology for Bioprocessing at UCL speaks to Pixie and Em about his work using and experimenting with enzymes to make very specific changes in small molecules, doing with biology what organic chemists do with chemistry, but making much less waste and shortening the number of steps for each change process. Professor Ward explains how he and others at UCL will be applying their expertise to experiment with enzymes that may mitigate the problems of plastic and plastic waste. They hope to find bacteria and enzymes that can start to degrade and chop u...
2020-03-041h 00Anti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Prof Alan PennProfessor Alan Penn of UCL takes us through a brief history of his research in Architecture and Urban Computing, from looking at the pitfalls of post war social housing, and its effect on social breakdown in London, to new research questions about the effects of digital space on real world spaces and communities. We also hear about his new role as Chief Scientific Advisor at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the first appointment for this role for 7-8 years and one of vital importance in the wake of Grenfell; a tragic wake-up call to government, proving...
2020-02-1942 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Matthew WinningDr Matthew Winning Research Associate UCL Energy Institute, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Dr Winning is an environmental economist and his research is looking at how you can apply economics to make the planet better! Listen to Dr Winning discuss his research. What impact changes will have on the planet and people. He is also a stand up comedian and he has an upcoming tour starting in London, 21-23 Feb 2020. Matthew's main research focus is on the macroeconomic impacts of environmental policies. His research interests include climate change policy, circular economy, green growth, low carbon
2020-02-0536 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Sudax MurdanSudax Murdan Associate Professor of Pharmacy, carries out innovative research into how we can better and more conveniently administer vaccines and medicines. In this episode she discusses her ideas for vaccine designs that would protect new babies from the common Strep-B infection as they are born, specifically relevant in remote regions where the normal westernised medical procedure of giving antibiotics to the mother during birth, cannot happen, usually because no medical professional is present. Instead she hopes to design an effective oral vaccine that can be taken by the mother alone. We also hear about the apparently neglected field...
2020-01-2221 minAnti-Waffle PodcastProf Andrew Hayward and Dr Al StoryIn this episode we hear about research, past and present, of Professor Andrew Hayward and Dr Al Story, who've spent much of their careers looking into the pathways of a disease, often perceived to be a one of migration and, at least in the UK, a disease of the past. In fact, London is leading in Europe with a disease that is really one of poverty and exclusion, and much of it is home grown. Here they discuss some of their findings; the link of TB prevalence to crack cocaine use, to poverty, access and availability of services - t...
2019-08-1455 minAnti-Waffle PodcastProfessor Nora GroceThe hidden 1 billion. Despite being 15% of the world’s population; where one in every four households in the world has a person with a significant enough disability for it to make a difference to their everyday life, people with disabilities often remain marginalised, invisible, and the last in line when it comes to international development or global health or human rights efforts. But things are changing - with some help from Professor Nora Groce and colleagues at the Disability Research Centre at UCL. In this episode we hear about efforts to include disability in the Sustainable Development Goals, and ab...
2019-07-3131 minAnti-Waffle PodcastDr Chris SmithIn this concise and intriguing podcast, we’re introduced to emerging technologies in biomedical research that offer alternative methods, and which promote the 3Rs of animal testing: Replace, Reduce, Refine. Recent Post Grad Dr Chris Smith talks about his experiments in 3D Organotypic Modelling (manufacturing human tissue) – of both skin and gum tissue, testing their differences in wound healing. We learn about what his findings could mean for improving surgery and other wound recovery times, and hear about other technological developments, such as the Organ-on-a-chip that ‘looks like the future’ of biomedical experimentation.
2019-07-1722 minAnti-Waffle PodcastDr Yogini JaniWhat do you see when you think of a Pharmacist? A high street dispensary, perhaps? In this episode Dr Yogini Jani, Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellow and consultant Pharmacist at University College Hospitals London, shows us another side to Pharmacy and discusses her research that explores complex factors that influence behaviours and decisions around dispensing our precious, essential and life saving medicines; penicillin antibiotics.
2019-07-0340 minAnti-Waffle PodcastDr Darren SharpeNHS services are not just about treating sickness, they’re about preventing and mitigating ill health too. In this episode Dr Darren Sharpe tells us about the pilot interventions he and his team are evaluating in London. The interventions aim to reduce strain on GP practice services and better support patients, particularly those with multiple medical or non-medical needs and problems which may impact on each other, aka ‘complex needs’. Listen in to learn more about the pilot’s integration of ‘Social Prescribing’, and to hear of administrative innovations, such as the ‘digital front doors’, being put in place to save time and...
2019-06-1931 minAnti-Waffle PodcastDr Kath WoolfIf you’re thinking about applying to medical school in the UK, but don’t know where to start looking, then this could be the podcast for you. In it Dr Kath Woolf tell us about her ongoing research, looking at who in society becomes a Doctor and who doesn’t - and why. She investigates how different medical schools prepare trainees for work in the NHS, and how that affects the type of Doctor they later become. She finds that people from underrepresented backgrounds, for example, those without family backgrounds in medicine, or with no family history in higher...
2019-06-0543 minAnti-Waffle PodcastDr Ilan KelmanHow can individual efforts in our everyday lives mitigate disaster risk for the collective? And what major structural barriers obstruct the facilitation of disaster prevention at a grander scale? In this episode Dr Ilan Kelman talks through some examples and introduces us to his unique research; where diplomacy bridges disaster-risk reduction, global health and climate change. We learn, amongst other things, why llan and colleagues believe the phrase ‘natural disaster’ should be phased out and replaced with ‘human disaster’. And we get to understand the roots - or ‘baselines’ of disaster and health; vulnerability, human values, societal structures...
2019-05-2243 min
Anti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Jo Santini UCLDr Joanne Santini is a Reader in Microbiology at UCL. Listen to Dr Santini discuss her fascinating research in detecting arsenic in drinking water in Bangladesh, her passion for microorganisms, how she uses art to demonstrate her work and how she got to be a reader at UCL.
2018-09-0628 min
Anti-Waffle PodcastAnti-Waffle Podcast with Professor Peter RichProf Peter Rich is Professor of Bioenergetics at UCL. He is interested in energy and how we get energy in our bodies. Prof Rich and his team are looking at the enzyme in our bodies responsible for using the oxygen we breathe and they are trying to understand how this enzyme works and the consequences of any malfunctions. They use very advanced technology to look at this enzyme and use this technology for making simple new devices to go into hospitals for medical diagnostic purposes. In this podcast we discuss his amazing research at UCL, his career path and interest...
2018-08-1729 min
Anti-Waffle PodcastJenny Shand AntiWaffle PodcastJenny Shand is Director, UCLPartners & Executive Lead, Care City. She is responsible for integrated care and supporting the development of Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), with a particular focus on frailty, services for older people, and support for carers (informal and formal). Listen to Jenny talking about her recent research about unpaid carers accessing training.
2018-07-3031 minAnti-Waffle PodcastAntiWaffle Podcast with Prof John ChristodoulouThis podcast we talk to Professor John Christodoulou Professor in Biological NMR Spectroscopy and Director of ISMB Biomolecular NMR Facility. We had a fascinating conversation with John discussing his research, talking about his passion for the amazing world of molecular biology and how he was inspired to work in this area.
2018-07-1340 min
Anti-Waffle PodcastAntiWaffle Podcast with Prof Helen ChatterjeeThis podcast we speak to Prof Helen Chatterjee, Professor of Biology at UCL Culture at University College London. We discuss her research and work involving gibbons, the disastrous effect of palm oil, and the effect it is having on wildlife. We also discuss her other work involving museums and healthcare and bringing artefacts to patients and improving welfare.
2018-06-2946 min