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UCL MindsEpisode 08 - Student Advisers (UCL SSWS)- Let's ask the staff!In Episode 08 of Campus Conversations, the hosts speak with student adviser, Adella Forder-Gore, from UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services to explore the vital services available to students. The discussion covers how advisers assist with academic, emotional, and practical challenges, aiming to demystify support systems at UCL. Listeners gain insight into how Student Advisers help students navigate university life, from managing stress to accessing accommodations and resources. It’s a helpful and encouraging episode for anyone looking to better understand or make use of UCL’s wellbeing support. Please note that the views and opinions expressed in this episode are thos...
2025-05-0207 min
Campus Conversations - Series 1Episode 08 - Student Advisers (UCL SSWS)- Let's ask the staff!In Episode 08 of Campus Conversations, the hosts speak with student adviser, Adella Forder-Gore, from UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services to explore the vital services available to students. The discussion covers how advisers assist with academic, emotional, and practical challenges, aiming to demystify support systems at UCL. Listeners gain insight into how Student Advisers help students navigate university life, from managing stress to accessing accommodations and resources. It’s a helpful and encouraging episode for anyone looking to better understand or make use of UCL’s wellbeing support. Please note that the views and opinions expressed in this episode are...
2025-05-0207 min
UCL MindsS2 E1: Introducing Series 2 - what UCL’s social scientists gain from collaborative partnershipsWhat do we mean when we talk about collaborative social science? Why is collaborative research useful? What are the standout themes of the collaborative projects featured in this second season of Together We Create? In this episode, we discuss these questions and more with Professor Carey Jewitt, Chair of UCL's Collaborative Social Science Domain. Carey Jewitt is Professor of Technology and Learning at the UCL Knowledge Lab, based in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the Institute of Education. She brings her interdisciplinary training from fine art and media, sociology, and multimodal discourse to research how the use...
2024-03-0419 min
IOE insights‘Giving ECTs springs to run a marathon’: enthusiasm for UCL’s ECF programme | ECF StaffroomMark and Elaine speak to Louise Dwyer, Assistant Headteacher at the Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls, and discuss how the ECF builds upon a growing movement of evidence-informed practice, enabling a more accessible exchange of ideas.
"There will still be that joy to be found in teaching."
Louise says that if we want to keep teachers in the profession, we need them to see the joy that is to be found in the classroom. And the ECF, she says, gives new teachers a shared language that helps them to ‘grow together'.
In this ep...
2023-12-1541 min
UCL MindsUCL Remarkable Stories - Lakayya PalmerUCL PHD Student Lakayya Palmer shares her journey about overcoming the challenges of studying with dyslexia; imposter syndrome and the importance of mentorship and not giving up on what one strives to achieve.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing/resources-and-information/digital-resources-and-apps/remarkable-stories
Date of episode recording: 2022-04-01
Duration: 40
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Gia Lulic; Mitesh Vagadia
2022-12-2221 minUCL MindsUCL Remarkable Stories -Beth Hinton-LeverUCL alumni of Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisations and graduate of MA in Musical Theatre from Mountview Academy of Theatre Beth Hinton-Lever shares her fascinating life as a West-end actress. She inspires with her wisdom and joyful take on becoming an impromptu activist and example for marginalised communities.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing/resources-and-information/digital-resources-and-apps/remarkable-stories
Date of episode recording: 2022-04-01
Duration: 40
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Gia Lulic
Guests: Beth Hinton-Lever
Producer: Gia Lulic; Mitesh Vagadia, Lina Chang (Ediitor)
2022-12-2241 minUCL MindsUCL Remarkable Stories - Ali IssaUCL student of electronic engineering Ali Issa shares his journey coming to the UK as a refugee on his own at the age of fifteen and how this challenging experience has helped to shape his aspirations to help others. He arrived with limited language skills and was moved to several foster homes before settling into his current residents. His story is inspiring, hope provoking and shows the real power of perseverance and not giving up.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing/resources-and-information/digital-resources-and-apps/remarkable-stories
Date of episode recording: 2022-04-01
Duration: 40
Language...
2022-12-2216 minUCL MindsUCL Remarkable Stories - Gia LulicUCL staff, Remarkable stories host, and published author Gia Lulic talks about the release of her first book ‘Joyful Journey – A guide back to the wild self. She draws on her personal experiences to explain why she believes the principles in the book could help us all create a life that is beyond our wildest dreams.
To purchase a copy of ‘Joyful Journey – A guide back to the wild self, click HERE: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1399934392
If you are a UCL student and would like a copy of the ‘Joyful Journey – A guide back to the wild self’, contact Gia at...
2022-12-2235 min
UCL MindsCOP26: Perspectives from a UCL student delegate from a small-island developing stateCOP26: Perspectives from a UCL student delegate from a small-island developing state. UCL Master's Student Jhénelle Williams talks about her perspective on the SDGs and their impact on Jamaica.
For more info and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/
Date of episode recording: 2022-11-01
Duration: 00:23:02
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, Dr Priti Parikh
Guests: Jahnelle Williams
Producer: FrontEar
2022-11-0223 min
UCL Minds#MadeAtUCL Season 3 - The UCL Walking Tour: A Closer LookIn June this year, UCL launched the UCL Walking Tour, a free guided walking tour aimed at inviting members of the public onto campus to learn more about UCL as a university and research institution and embrace its place at the heart of the Bloomsbury community.
This month, host Cerys alongside Ariana Razavi, Molly Rasbash and Chanju Mwanza, delve deeper into three of the tours stops, the Wilkins Building, the Petrie Museum and the Student Centre and discuss the role that these places on campus have on the people who use them every day – students and staff.
While these buildings fo...
2022-10-2828 min
UCL Minds#MadeAtUCL Season 3 - New Beginnings: UCL EastThis month, the team has stories from an anthropologist who believes in the power of immersive storytelling, a social researcher trying to improve the health opportunities of young people, and a PhD student whose research is bringing greater access to green spaces.
Hosts: Katie Davies, Maria Bunyun, Taqwa Sadiq (UCL Students)
Guests: Prof Dinah Lamimmiman, Dr Alexandra Albert, Maryam Bandukda
For the show notes and transcript, visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s3-ep5-new-beginnings-ucl-east
2022-09-3027 min
UCL MindsIM@UCL The Podcast TrailerThe media has portrayed self-driving vehicles as both an exciting and terrifying prospect, but what will the future of autonomous driving really be like? The transition is already in progress. Join me, Cassidy Martin, as I interview IM@UCL's multi-disciplinary team of researchers who are leading the automotive revolution.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/intell…lity-ucl-podcast-0
2022-07-2901 min
Brain StoriesBrain Stories – Episode 9: UCL Neuroscience SymposiumConversations with the speakers from the 2022 UCL Neuroscience Symposium.For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast Date of episode recording: 2022-06-22Duration: 00:35:39Language of episode: EnglishPresenter:Selina Wray; Caswell Barry; Steve FlemingGuests: UCL Neuroscience Symposium speakersProducer: Patrick Robinson
2022-07-0537 min
UCL MindsBrain Stories – Episode 9: UCL Neuroscience SymposiumConversations with the speakers from the 2022 UCL Neuroscience Symposium.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2022-06-22
Duration: 00:35:39
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Selina Wray; Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming
Guests: UCL Neuroscience Symposium speakers
Producer: Patrick Robinson
2022-07-0537 min
UCL MindsUncertainty quantification in weather forecasting and doing a PhD in Statistics at UCLIn this interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL Clair Barnes, a recent PhD student, talks to Dr Terry Soo about her research into weather forecasting and her experiences of doing a PhD. We discover the difference between weather and climate and how to tell if ancient homes were randomly built!
To access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/transcript-episode-3
Date of episode recording: 2022-02-23
Duration: 00:30:51
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Terry Soo
Guests: Clair Barnes
Producer: Nathan Green
2022-02-2430 min
IOE insightsLeon Greenman and the struggle for survival | UCL Centre for Holocaust EducationFor London-born Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman it was after the Holocaust that he said his nightmare really began. Every day was an agonising struggle for survival.
Leon passed away in 2008 at the grand age of 97. Ruth-Anne Lenga, was privileged to be with him at that moment. Ruth-Anne’s long friendship with Leon gave her – and in turn the Centre – a rare insight into how he lived with the trauma of the past and what drove him to become a force for good despite the suffering he had endured.
Leon’s mission was to bear witness so that...
2022-01-2737 min
IOE insightsIntroducing Academia et al: the UCL podcast all about life in academiaThis is Academia et al., a brand new podcast series from the IOE Early Career Network at UCL.
With hosts Dr Keri Wong and Dr Alina Pelikh, we're having some honest conversations about the challenges of being an early career academic in the modern world, with colleagues who've been there, and those who are just now figuring it all out.
Find out more about the coming series: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about-ioe/ioe-life/digital-and-social-media/podcasts/academia-et-al
Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about-ioe/ioe-life/digital-and-social-media/podcasts/academia-et-al/transcript-trailer
2021-12-1603 min
UCL MindsThe History of Statistics and Eugenics at UCL with Professor Tom FearnIn this contributed series from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Tom Fearn about how UCL is acknowledging and addressing its historical links with the eugenics movement, and in particular the roles of the prominent statisticians and eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.
For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/transcript-episode-1
2021-11-1728 min
UCL Minds#MadeAt UCL Podcasts - Awareness And ActivismThis 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...
2021-11-0532 min
UCL MindsTogether Towards Net Zero: The LGA and UCL Partnership - Creating the ProgrammeIn this final episode for the series, we sit down with the organisers of the programme, UCL and the Local Government Association.
We will be going behind the scenes to explore the highs and lows of the partnership and how they developed an idea into an innovative network of officers and academics. It will cover how the partnership came about, the challenges and opportunities, what they have learnt along the way and anything they might have done differently.
Joining us are Katherine Welch, Deputy Director of Partnerships at UCL Public Policy and Grace Abel, Programme Manager at the Local Government...
2021-10-0232 min
IOE insightsSuperdiverse UCL | Xiaoyu: Creating my own student lifeThis episode features a story of change. Xiaoyu, an Applied Linguistics Master's student from the IOE, shares how she took the initiative to create her own unique university experience since she came to London in March 2020, in the middle of the UK's first lockdown.
In addition to some common hurdles faced by international students, including socialising and adapting to living and working in a different culture, remote learning threatened to undermine the unique experience of attending different universities – with everything happening on Zoom. Yet Xiaoyu decided to step out and to grasp opportunities for socialising by participating in...
2021-09-2026 min
IOE insightsLearning and working in a future London | UCL Future CitiesProfessor Allison Littlejohn (Professor and Director of the UCL Knowledge Lab, IOE) joins this podcast discussing knowledge, skills and jobs in a future London.
How has the pandemic affected education, and what lessons can we take from it in the future? How can we continue to attract and retain talent in an era of virtual working, and how will increasing digitisation augment learning and social justice?
This episode is republished with the permission of the UCL Future Cities podcast series.
Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/ucl-future-cities/s1-ep5-transcript
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2021-09-0622 min
UCL MindsUCL Post-Soviet Press Pod: 10 Mins on KazakhstanIn this ninth episode, we cover Kazakhstan – the biggest land-locked country in the world. MA students at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Tom King and Kristina Tsabala, talk about the current, historical, and cultural affairs of the Central Asian giant while sampling some Kazakh pelmeni (dumplings).
Hosts: Kristina Tsabala and Tom King
Editor: Eleanor Evans
Research and production: Post-Soviet Press Group Editorial Assistants
Academic supervisor: Dr Rasmus Nilsson
Post-Soviet Press Group Editor: Dr Ben Noble
Find out more and view the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news-events/seminar-series/post-soviet-press-group/post-soviet-press-pod
2021-08-1012 min
UCL MindsUCL Post-Soviet Press Pod: 10 Mins on UzbekistanIn the eight episode, we turn our attention to Uzbekistan. In this handy primer, MA students at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), James Bolton-Jones and Sophia Burna-Asefi, introduce you to some basic facts about Uzbekistan followed by a discussion of its history, culture, and current affairs, all while enjoying some delicious (in the case of Sophia at least!) homemade plov.
Hosts and authors: James Bolton-Jones and Sophia Burna-Asefi
Editor: James Bolton-Jones
Academic supervisor: Rasmus Nilsson
Post-Soviet Press Group Editor: Dr Ben Noble
Transcript and more info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news-events/%E2%80%A6...
2021-07-2312 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesBBC interview with UCL Americas PhD student Shodona Kettle on Haiti's political crisisUCL Americas PhD student Shodona Kettle was recently invited to talk on the BBC World Service Newshour about the new government imposed in Haiti this week and civil society reaction to these changes. The Haitian Civil Society Commission had been meeting for months to come to a consensus on how best to find Haitian solutions to Haitian problems, but the new political shift silenced their voices. Shodona appeared in the programme in her capacity as Chair of The Haiti Support Group. You can listen to the programme in full via this link to the BBC. This episode was first broadcast...
2021-07-2248 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesThe UCL Americas 2021 Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Amy C. Offner on 'Sorting Out the Mixed Economy'We were delighted to host Dr Amy C. Offner (Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania) as our guest to deliver the UCL Institute of the Americas 2021 Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture on June 3, 2021. She provided an overview of her latest book, 'Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Princeton University Press, 2019). It takes readers through half a century of US and Colombian history, offering a transnational history of state formation and capitalist reconstruction since 1945, showing the influence of Latin American developmentalism on the formation of the US welfare state...
2021-06-041h 18
IOE insightsPublic Health Disrupted: People and Power | UCL MindsIn public health, we often refer to 'hard to reach' groups, but are we doing enough to listen to them? Hear from the co-founders of Five X More, and UCL academic Dr Carol Rivas, to explore the role of discrimination and structural disadvantage in the health inequalities experienced by different marginalised groups in the UK, and the incredible work they are doing to change this.
Black women in the UK have a fourfold* higher risk of dying in pregnancy in comparison to white women. Five X More co-founders Tinuke and Clo, discuss the action they are taking t...
2021-04-1233 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesProfessor Kevin Middlebrook (UCL Institute on the Americas) on NAFTA renegotiationKevin Middlebrook, Professor of Latin American Politics at UCL Institute of the Americas, talks to BBC's Dan Damon about the rounds of NAFTA negotiations starting this week between Canada, Mexico and the United States.
2017-08-1705 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesCuba After Fidel: A Talk at UCL AmericasOn December 13, UCL Americas students and distinguished guests had the opportunity to listen to and discuss with two leading experts on Cuba, Professors Hal Klepak (UCL Americas Visiting Fellow), and Jean Stubbs (UCL Americas Associate Fellow) talking about their reflections and assessment on Cuba after the death of its former leader Fidel Castro (November 25, 2016). This event was convened by Dr Kate Quinn, Lecturer in Caribbean History at UCL Americas.
2016-12-1631 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas book launch: A Hidden History of the Cuban RevolutionIntroduction by Dr Kate Quinn, UCL Americas (up to minute 05:00) and presentation by book's author Dr Steve Cushion - To both its supporters and detractors, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally understood as having been won by a small band of guerrillas. This book turns the conventional wisdom on its head, and argues that the Cuban working class played a much more decisive role in the Revolution’s outcome than previously understood. It contends that that significant portions of the Cuban working class launched an underground movement in tandem with the guerrillas operating in the mountains.
2016-04-2940 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas seminar: Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and its LegacyShortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson. The report's central argument that poor families headed by single mothers inhibited African American progress touched off a heated controversy. The long-running dispute over Moynihan's conclusions changed how Americans talk about race, the family, and poverty.
Learn more about this event here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/archive/beyond_civil_rights
To know more about the UCL Institute of the Americas MA in US Studies: History and Politics...
2015-11-2648 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas panel discussion: Ayotzinapa - One Year AfterOn 26 September 2014, 43 students from the [teaching training college] Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos (Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico) were abducted by local police. According to a highly contested official investigation, the police handed the students over to a gang of drug-traffickers who killed them, incinerated their bodies, and threw what remained into a river. Nearly a year after the tragic event, a panel of academic experts hosted by UCL Institute of the Americas, London, discusses what's happened in Mexico since.
2015-09-241h 10
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesAnnual UCL Canada Lecture : So Near and Yet So Far: Lessons from the Quebec Referendum of 1995This is the Annual UCL Canadian Studies Lecture. This year, we are honored to have Sir Nicholas Bayne KCMG, former British High Commissioner to Canada, to deliver the lecture. In 1995 the people of Quebec voted only by the narrowest of margins not to separate from Canada. Yet Canada remains united twenty years later.
2015-07-0343 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas seminar: C.L.R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial BritainThis paper will explore how James turned from an identification with ''imperial Britishness'' to a more radical transnational identification with black people internationally – militant Pan-Africanism – after arriving in depression-hit Britain in 1932. More here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/clrjames_conquest
2015-06-0450 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas seminar: Commonwealth States and the Judicial Committee of the Privy CouncilUCL Americas seminar: Commonwealth States and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
2015-06-0147 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesMisleading Cases in the Customary Law - Professor Martyn Rady (UCL SSEES)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Martyn Rady (UCL SSEES)
Full title: Misleading Cases in the Customary Law: The Pertinacious Litigant and Central Europe
Historians have tended to regard customary law as either an unwritten text communicating fixed principles or else as a less sophisticated variety of the Common Law. A number of its principles were inadvertently satirized by A. P. Herbert through the interventions of his pertinacious litigant, Alfred Haddock. Customary legal systems are, however, readily explicable as a means of obtaining equitable solutions that comport with a popular understanding of the law’s content. In the modern period, customary law be...
2015-06-011h 03
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas seminar: Leadership in the Cuban Revolution - The Unseen StoryUCL Americas seminar: Leadership in the Cuban Revolution - The Unseen Story by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
2015-06-0151 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas lecture: Francisco Panizza's keynote speech for 'Power and Change in Latin America'This is the closing lecture to the First UCL Americas International Post-graduate Conference, April 30 - May 1, 2015, organized by UCL Americas Research Network. The title of the lecture is: 'Latin America 2005-2015: A Decade Won or a Decade Lost?'
2015-05-2949 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas lecture: Peter Wade on 'Genomics, Race and Multiculturalism in Latin America'Podcast of the introductory lecture to the conference: 'Power and Change in the Americas in the Modern Era' organized by UCL Institute of the Americas Post-graduate Research Network, April 30-May 1, 2015. Speaker: Dr Peter Wade (Manchester)
2015-05-291h 00
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesThe Porous University - Professor Michael Stewart (UCL Anthropology)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Michael Stewart (UCL Anthropology)
Full title: The Porous University: Creating Partnerships in a Global City
UCL was founded to open the world of learning to the excluded for the betterment of all. Like many institutions, over time and under many pressures, UCL has become encased in a self-protective shell. The founding principle that knowledge would be taken out and applied to make the world a better place is relegated to an aspiration as seemingly more urgent agendas hold sway. In a changing world it is pertinent to ask how we can both fulfil new obligations and...
2015-05-1458 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas: Freedom Of Expression, Power and the Media in Mexico: the case of Carmen AristeguiOne of the most influential journalists of Mexico, Carmen Aristegui, was sacked last month under allegations of "loss of trust" from the Media company she worked for (MVS Noticias) towards two members of her team. Four months earlier, Aristegui's team had published a report on what would become a massive scandal for the Administration of President Peña Nieto: the acquisition of a £4 million mansion, through one of the government's contractors. What are the implications of this event for freedom of expression? What is the role of Media and its relation to political power in Mexico? With Ella McPherson (Cambridge) an...
2015-04-2233 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas - Book launch: Politics Of Autonomy In Latin America: the Art of Organising HopeUCL Americas - Book launch: Politics Of Autonomy In Latin America: the Art of Organising Hope by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
2015-04-131h 41
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesRepresenting Representation - Professor José Zalabardo (UCL PhilosophyInaugural Lecture - Professor José Zalabardo (UCL Philosophy)
The representation of the world provided by the natural sciences leaves mental phenomena out of the picture. A comprehensive representation of the world would have to overcome this limitation. This requires, among other things, explaining mental representation — our ability to represent things in consciousness as being a certain way. When this is achieved, our representation of the world will represent itself. The standard approach to this task is to find a place in the natural order for relations between mental items and things in the extra-mental world. This approach is doomed to fai...
2015-03-251h 10
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesPlucked Hens and Principals - Professor Jason Peacey (UCL History)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Jason Peacey (UCL History)
Full title: Plucked Hens and Principals: Tackling Dutch Politics in Seventeenth Century England
Despite growing awareness about the cultural, economic and social interactions between different parts of Europe in the early modern era, political historians of the period generally remain wedded to a picture of separate and more or less competitive states, which sometimes forged dynastic, political and confessional alliances, but which frequently found themselves in conflict as well. This talk will offer new perspectives on seventeenth century European politics, by drawing attention not just to the English fascination with the Dutch...
2015-03-231h 10
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas - A panel discussion: Violence Against Women in Mexico & Central AmericaUCL Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) hosts and co-organizes with Radical Americas Network this panel discussion, featuring distinguished speakers Laura Carlsen (Center for International Policy - CIP), Marilyn Thomson (Central America Women's Network - CAWN) and Lorena Fuentes (Birkbeck). Chaired by Prof Kevin Middlebrook (UCL-IA).
2015-03-131h 03
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesPolitics, Academia and the Real World - Professor Meg Russell (UCL Political Science)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Meg Russell
This lecture reflects on politics from the 'inside' and from the 'outside', and the relationships between the two. In contemporary academia 'impact' has become a buzzword, with academics increasingly encouraged to engage with the real world. But if political scientists do so, will anybody listen? Drawing on her own research journey in British and comparative politics, particularly with relation to parliament, Professor Russell argues that closer engagement between political practitioners and academics is highly desirable - but also challenging - in the quest by both groups to comprehend, and shape, the world beyond.
Meg...
2015-03-1047 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesIn Nisaba’s House of Wisdom and Nabu’s True House - Professor Eleanor Robson (UCL History)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Eleanor Robson
Full title: In Nisaba’s House of Wisdom and Nabu’s True House: Social Geographies of Cuneiform Scholarship in Ancient Iraq
Writing is not only the stuff of which history is made. It is also a valuable subject of historical enquiry in its own right. By considering the uses, values and meanings of writing in past societies we can make better sense of why the historical record takes the shape it does. This talk focuses on the individuals and communities who wrote in cuneiform script on clay tablets some 5000–2000 years ago in and around the mo...
2015-02-2547 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Americas Seminar: China and LatinAmerica: from Cyberspace to the Farm GateSpeakers: Adrian Hearn (Melbourne), Ariel C. Armony (Pittsburgh); Chair: Paulo Drinot (UCL-IA) - This presentation examines Latin American perceptions of deepening Chinese trade and investment. China’s growing influence in Latin America is evident in the growth of bilateral trade to $240 (£143) billion in 2013, and a new wave of investment announced during Xi Jinping’s July 2014 regional tour. Alongside mining and energy, agriculture has become critical to Sino-Latin cooperation, driven by unprecedented demand for food as Chinese cities progress toward the target of one billion residents. Chinese acquisition of Latin American land for food production has proven more contentious than investment in ot...
2014-11-2844 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesPast, Present and Future - Professor Elizabeth Shepherd (UCL DIS)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Elizabeth Shepherd
Past, Present and Future: the Archive, the Academy and the Community
This lecture tells the story of archives and archivists in 20th century England by examining the contributions of some characterful pioneers in the archives. Since 1947, archivists have been represented in the academy, initially through professional graduate education, but more recently in an emerging academic discipline with an international research profile.
Archivists have now broken out of the individual scholarly and historical archive into a broad professional domain of information and records management. The lecture will look at how, in future, archivists and academics...
2014-08-0738 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesA Decade in Digital Humanities - Professor Melissa Terras (UCL DIS)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Melissa Terras
A Decade in Digital Humanities
In 2004, Blackwell published their Companion to Digital Humanities, lending a new name to the use of computing in the arts, humanities and heritage sectors: the term 'Digital Humanities' has been much used, and much criticized, since.
Pixellated Image of Medieval Stained Glass
In this lecture, Professor Terras looks back at the decade she has spent at UCL working in the area of applying computing to different areas of humanistic research, ranging from Jeremy Bentham’s manuscripts, to Roman documents from Hadrian’s Wall, to 3D scanning of museum collections, to a...
2014-06-0646 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesTransnational Americans - Professor Maxine Molyneux (UCL Institute of the Americas)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Maxine Molyneux (Institute of the Americas)
Full title: Transnational Americans: Latin American Perspectives on Recent Trends in Pan-American Migration
Commencing around 1960, two new waves of migration began in the Americas, one from the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to the USA, Canada and Spain; the other, a more moderate but still significant trend of inter-regional migration within Latin America.
Following the dip caused by the 2008 global recession, migration figures for Latin America have recovered and surpassed previous levels albeit with some new features including a rise in migration from other developing countries. What do...
2014-03-3155 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesGrowing Societies - Professor Dorian Fuller (UCL Institute of Archaeology)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Dorian Fuller
Full title - Growing Societies: the Archaeobotany of Food Production and Globalization of Agriculture
The origins of agriculture irrevocably changed the relationship of humans and the earth, literally transforming earth at local scales of cultivation, and over the long-term, promoting population growth and economic specialization globally.While archaeologists have long investigated this “Neolithic revolution”, the ways in which humans changed plants through domestication and reordered their use of the vegetative world has come to be appreciated more recently through advances in the archaeobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains. This lecture considers recent insights on t...
2014-03-071h 08
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesThe East India Company at Home - Professor Margot Finn (UCL History)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Margot Finn
Full title - The East India Company at Home: Private Fortunes, Public Histories
This lecture has two main purposes. The first purpose is to discuss key findings from a three-year collaborative research project that explores the impact of the East India Company - the state-sanctioned monopoly that established Britain’s empire on the subcontinent - on English, Scottish and Welsh country houses in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The second purpose is to explore the ways in which collaborative academic history projects - conducted together with archivists, curators, family historians and organisations such as th...
2014-03-0547 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesFor an Anthropology of History - Professor Charles Stewart (UCL Anthropology)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Charles Stewart
We have had history and anthropology, historical anthropology and the history of anthropology, but as yet there has been no concerted anthropology OF history. What is needed are ethnographic studies of how the past is known, understood and represented in world societies past and present. This does not amount solely to the appreciation of “others” delegitimized by Western academic historiography.
We also need a reverse anthropology where historicism itself along with other Western practices of relating to the past, such as battlefield reenactments, are opened to ethnographic study. This presentation will ask whether heightened reco...
2014-02-051h 15
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUnveiling Modernity: Verdi’s America & Unification of Italy – Professor Axel Körner (UCL History)Inaugural Lecture - Professor Axel Körner
Verdi’s hugely popular American opera Un ballo in maschera (1859) was completed during the final stages of the Unification of Italy. Why did Italy’s compositore nazionale celebrate Unification with an opera set in Boston? Verdi depicts an altogether rather dark and disconcerting image of life in the New World. When president elect Abraham Lincoln attended one of the opera’s first performances in New York, he left the theatre shortly before the final act, allegedly fearing an assassination attempt. Did anybody remember this scene when Lincoln was shot in a theatre four years l...
2014-01-211h 06
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Advanced Centre for Biochemical EngineeringUCL Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering in the basement of the Bernard Katz Building. The sounds of heavy industrial biotech machinery laying idle.
Recordings from 4 locations brought together. There were some tweaks on the EQ and a small amount of reverb on the phd student working in the background. Otherwise, it's a simple four-location recording being faded in.
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2013-06-2402 min
UCL Chamber Music Club - Live recordingsBeethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 126 - UCL Chamber Music Club live recordingLudwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Bagatelles, Op. 126 (1824)
1. Andante con moto, cantabile e compiacevole
2. Allegro
3. Andante. Cantabile ed espressivo
4. Presto
5. Quasi allegretto
6. Presto. Andante amabile e con moto
Helene Albrecht – piano
Recorded live at the UCL Chamber Music Club concert, 22 January, 2013
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music
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2013-05-1614 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Bartlett workshopSanding lathe and spray painting in the workshop of the UCL Bartlett
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk
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2013-04-1200 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Kathleen Lonsdale outsideKathleen Lonsdale outside
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2013-04-1200 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Huntley Building liftHuntley Building lift
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2013-04-1200 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Cruciform building stairwellCruciform building stairwell
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2013-04-1200 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Bells near Central House (St Pancras Parish Church)***
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2013-04-1100 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: North observatoryStudents passing through the Quad by the North Observatory
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2013-04-1100 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: stone carving in the Slade School of Fine ArtThis is the sound of an undergraduate student in the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, carving stone in the courtyard workshop.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade
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2013-04-1100 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Norman Collie's 1895 prototype for the neon signThis 2012 audio recording is the first time this glass tube has been recorded in use. The tube, created c1895–1900, is believed to be the first prototype for the neon sign in which a gas conducts an electric current and emits light. In this recording, Professor Alwyn Davies in the UCL Chemistry Department is lighting the tub with a Tesla coil, a type of transformer designed to provide a high voltage at high frequency and low current.
This tube was created by Norman Collie, a chemist and skilled glassblower, who demonstrated his discharge tubes at the Royal Society in 1909. Although he cr...
2013-04-1001 min
Sounds of UCLRemix & sample our Sounds of UCL under Creative CommonsAttention DJs: Remix and sample our Sounds of UCL under Creative Commons
https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/sounds-of-ucl
At UCL we recently ran a competition for people to record sounds around the labs, libraries and corridors of the university. We’ve now uploaded the best of these sounds and we’ve published most of them under Creative Commons. So if you’re a DJ, you may download, remix and sample these recordings in your own work.
Feel free to use our sounds – just be sure to credit the sound recordist and UCL. And let us know what you create. We’ll like an...
2013-04-1000 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Science Library entranceDaniel Kordik
In this recording the two microphones are capturing the overall sounds of the Science Library entrance area while other two are placed on the floor: one microphone is standing outside of the library turnstile while the other one is being placed inside of the library turnstile - capturing those transitional sounds “coming in & going out” – or starting to tune to different mindsets.
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This track is part of our Sounds of UCL, a seri...
2013-04-0801 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: ILHAIRE - the Science of LaughterHarry Griffin, UCLIC, ILHAIRE – The Science of Laughter
The ILHAIRE project (www.ilhaire.eu) brings together Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction to investigate how we can incorporate laughter into our interactions with computer-generated characters. Capturing different types of genuine, spontaneous laughs was an essential first step in modelling how laughter can be integrated naturally into conversations with artificial agents. Encouraging laughter in an experimental setting with lots of video, audio and body-movement recording equipment was a challenge. As you can hear from the clip of our participants playing Pictionary, a playful task combined with an exhilarating sense of urgency seemed to wo...
2013-04-0800 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Senate House library exitRichard Morgan: Senate House library exit
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2013-04-0800 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: anechoic chamber laughterProfessor Sophie Scott
www.ucl.ac.uk/chc/people/sophie-scott
Professor Scott uses the anechoic chamber to record emotive sounds, which she then plays back to listeners. This forms part of her research into emotion, social interaction and the brain.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research-facilities/anechoic-chamber
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2013-04-0801 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Greek whistled language research - Psychology & Language SciencesExcerpt from research in Greece into whistled languages
Professor Andrew Nevins, UCL Psychology & Language Sciences
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2013-04-0800 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: EMG recorded from Tibialis Anterior (Toe lift) - Medical Physics & BioengineeringMartin E Fry - EMG recorded from Tibialis Anterior (Toe lift) muscle walking 4 steps
Electromyography (EMG) - a technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles
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2013-04-0800 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL (joint 1st place): Mechanical Engineering wave tank*Joint winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*
Mechanical Engineering Wave Tank - Kate Oliver
The ocean towing tank can reproduce the waves found in deep water, and is often home to ship models, prototypes for extracting tidal energy, or sea-bourne structures. Engineers use this facility, under the Engineering café, to test their designs and get the information about how water moves around and through them that computer models still aren't good enough to give. Controlled by computers that determine the size and frequency of the waves, panels push and pull hundreds of litres of water into a working model o...
2013-04-0801 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Institute of Making - Carving a cuttlefish boneThis sound was recorded on the grand opening of the UCL Institute of Making. People carved cuttlefish bone to make a mould for small metal casting.
Recordist: Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, UCLIC
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2013-04-0800 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL (3rd place): Institute of Ophthalmology - Room of refrigerators*Third place winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*
Room of refrigerators - Andrew Dehany, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
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2013-04-0801 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Inside Jeremy Bentham's boothRecordist: Daniel Kordik
In this recording, I placed my microphones inside the booth where Jeremy Bentham is kept, trying to capture what he might be hearing now - his current sound universe. There is a glass barrier protecting the Jeremy Bentham auto-icon, therefore the sounds are not as transparent and clear, but slightly muffled instead. This “cut off” in the high frequencies range is underlining “the age” of Jeremy Bentham and his historical impact on UCL, especially as growing old means loosing the higher frequencies spectrum when listening.
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2013-04-0801 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Inside the tray of the Library photocopierStereo recording of the inside of the Main Library photocopier. I placed my recording device inside the second tray, while using the photocopier.
Recordist: Daniel Kordik
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2013-04-0801 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL (joint 1st place): Mechanical Engineering wave tank with lute*Joint winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*
Dr Kevin Drake, Department of Mechanical Engineering: 'WAVES AT MIDNIGHT'
A regular wave of 0.75Hz frequency breaking on a sloping beach in the UCL Ocean Towing Tank, with Dr Kevin Drake on eight course renaissance lute, playing 'Mr Dowland's Midnight' by John Dowland (1563-1626).
One of my colleagues thought at first that I might have placed a pre-recorded lute track alongside the sound of breaking waves during multi-track editing. Please note that it was a live single track recording with me playing the lute beside the beach. Indeed, the repeated musical phrase...
2013-04-0802 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Engineering lab - Fluids lab wind tunnelChadwick Engineering Lab Fluids Lab Wind Tunnel Kim Morgan
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2013-04-0800 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL (2nd place): Library early morning - Shelving trolleys and post delivering*Second place winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*
This recording is capturing the sounds of the passing shelving trolley and the trolley used by the Library Porter when distributing an internal post within the UCL Libraries. The location is the Flaxman Gallery, Main Library Building. This recording was made by using 4 microphones placed along “St. Michael Overcoming Satan” statue, to emphasize the Flaxman Gallery spacious and circular character. It was done early Monday morning when the Library is closed for public. The only human inhabitants of this space are shelvers, Library porter and UCL cleaners.
Sound recordist: Daniel Kordik
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This...
2013-04-0801 minSounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Engineering Lab - Environmental Lab PumpEnvironmental Lab Pump - Kim Morgan
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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global...
2013-04-0800 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Applied Health ResearchThe recording was taken in the office of the Dept of Applied Health Research.
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Recordist:
Dr Helen Barratt
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Research
University College London
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2013-04-0800 min
Sounds of UCLSounds of UCL: Centre for NeuroimagingThese are the sounds from the Birkbeck/UCL Centre for Neuroimaging (first arriving to the centre, and then different MRI sequences). Using MRI scanning, we can look at the structure and function of the human brain. We use this technique to study different cognitive, perceptual and pathological processes, such as deafness and sign language (Velia Cardin's research), or self-body perception (which Ana Tajadura-Jiménez studies).
www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/team/associat…sadmin/veliacardin
www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/people/a_tajadura
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2013-04-0801 min
UCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Flaxman GalleryField recording in the refurbished Flaxman Gallery
Recorded 29 November, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info, r.eagle@ucl.ac...
2012-12-0701 min
UCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Octagon GalleryField recording in the new Octagon Gallery
Recorded 29 November, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info, r.eagle@ucl.ac...
2012-12-0702 min
UCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Print Room Café kitchenField recording of the Print Room Café's kitchen
Recorded 29 November, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info, r.eagle@u...
2012-12-0702 minSounds of UCLUCL Soundscapes: Print Room Café kitchenField recording of the Print Room Café's kitchen
Recorded 29 November, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info, r.eagle@u...
2012-12-0702 min
UCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Bloomsbury Fitness classField recording of a Bloomsbury Fitness gym class
Recorded 9 November, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N
(with kind permission of Bloomsbury Fitness and instructor, Chris)
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around...
2012-12-0602 minSounds of UCLUCL Soundscapes: Bloomsbury Fitness classField recording of a Bloomsbury Fitness gym class
Recorded 9 November, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N
(with kind permission of Bloomsbury Fitness and instructor, Chris)
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around...
2012-12-0602 min
UCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: South Junction stairsField recording of the stairs in the South Junction
Recorded 4 December, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N with windscreen
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info...
2012-12-0601 min
Sounds of UCLUCL Soundscapes: Gower Street, main gates of UCLField recording at UCL's main entrance on Gower Street
Recorded 4 December, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N with windscreen
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info...
2012-12-0601 minUCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Gower Street, main gates of UCLField recording at UCL's main entrance on Gower Street
Recorded 4 December, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N with windscreen
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info...
2012-12-0601 min
Sounds of UCLUCL Soundscapes: Malet Place archwayField recording from the archway in Malet Place
Recorded 4 December, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N with windscreen
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info, r...
2012-12-0601 minUCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Malet Place archwayField recording from the archway in Malet Place
Recorded 4 December, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N with windscreen
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for more info, r...
2012-12-0601 min
UCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Main Library, Art History sectionField recording in the Art History section of the Main Library
Recorded 4 December, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N with windscreen
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for...
2012-12-0601 min
UCL soundscapesUCL Soundscapes: Main Library, North Junction stairsField recording of the North Junction stairs in the Main Library
Recorded 4 December, 2012 in stereo on Zoom H4N with windscreen
Have you ever stopped to listen to the sounds around UCL? This series of 'fly-on-the-wall' field recordings around UCL capture some of the university's ambient sounds, such as footsteps, brief moments of conversations and the hum of air conditioning in the background.
Do you have suggestions of other locations around UCL? Let us know. Or, better yet, if you have a good-quality mic for field recordings, send in some of your own tracks from around UCL. Email Rob for...
2012-12-0601 min
UCL storiesUCL Student Podcast: Student torchbearersThree UCL students are carrying the Olympic torch on Sunday, 22 July. This special edition of the UCL Student Podcast, presented by medical student Dan Grant, brings all three torchbearers together.
Here are the details:
Dan Grant – 8.33am (leg 17) from Incknield Drive along Cranbrook Rd (A123) finishing at Shere Rd
Tom Traill - 14.33 (leg 104) in Havering
James Xu -18:14 (leg 152) from Pole No.42 in Road A220 (also known as Gravel Hill) until the crossing between Latham Road and Gravel Hill
If you can't make it along, watch it online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay
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2012-07-1812 min
Sounds of UCLUCL Chamber Music Club: 'Evening' by Vernon SkinnerUCL Chamber Music Club Concert
Recorded live on 6 March 2012 in the Haldane Room
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music/concert-diary
Vernon Skinner: Evening
Vernon Skinner – piano
Elizabeth Mooney - flute
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2012-03-0801 minUCL Chamber Music Club - Live recordingsUCL Chamber Music Club: 'Evening' by Vernon SkinnerUCL Chamber Music Club Concert
Recorded live on 6 March 2012 in the Haldane Room
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music/concert-diary
Vernon Skinner: Evening
Vernon Skinner – piano
Elizabeth Mooney - flute
https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/sounds-of-ucl
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.
2012-03-0801 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesUCL Dutch: Timetravels in Politics and Literature with Abdelkader Benali and Hisham MatarThe UCL Dutch Department hosted a panel discussion with Abdelkader Benali (author of Wedding by the Sea, and journalist) and Hisham Matar (author of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and Booker Prize nominee) on freedom of speech, the Arab Spring and artistic responses now and in the past to revolutionary events.
Jo Glanville, editor of Index on Censor-ship, chaired the event.
2012-02-101h 25