Anti-Waffle Podcast
The podcast that discusses research without any gobbledygook. We will be having conversations with researchers, who will discuss the work they are doing, looking at why this research is important and asking how did they get into this field. We hope that it will be informative and interesting and bring a bit of the academic world into the real world.
Episodes
In 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
In 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
We 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
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...
We chatted to Rebecca Powell from UCL School of Pharmacy about artificial nerve regeneration, and how they hope to do it!
Dr 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.
Dr 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.
Andrew 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.
Dr Sara Garfield talks to us about her research into patient engagement and factors influencing patients' decisions about treatment and shared decision making
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Professor 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!
Dr 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
Dr 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-Cha...
Dr 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
PhD 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.
Geriatrician Dr Sam Searle explains his current research about patients with multiple conditions who end up in hospital and how this should affect their treatment.
Dr 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.
Nathan 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 ...
Dr 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.
Prof 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 nurs...
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