Aston Originals

Aston Originals

Aston Originals produces shows, podcasts and livestreams from experts at Aston University and beyond. All of the Aston Originals content is available through a dedicated YouTube channel as well as your podcast provider. Content ranges from themed series to one-off specialised shows including 'Sofa Science with Dr James Brown' and 'CorpusCast'. Aston Originals - Fresh perspectives from Aston University experts

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March 21, 2023 15 mins
Today’s guest is Professor Simon Hepburn, CEO of the Cyber Security Council.

Simon has over twenty years’ experience within the education, business and charity sectors in senior leadership and management positions and is very passionate about professional development and career opportunities that exist in the UK through mediums including university, training and apprenticeships.

He has devoted most of his working life to supporting a...
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Warning: the following contains spoilers.

Magic Mike is back for one last dance in the male stripper franchise’s third and final instalment.

After Mike’s (Channing Tatum) furniture business falls into hard times post-COVID, he finds himself working as a bartender.

Dr Katy Pilcher has conducted research with male dancers and women customers in strip shows in the UK.

Dr Katy Pilcher 👉 https://bit.ly/3SPMz61

The Conversation article 👉 ht...
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Aston University will be illuminating its history with materials from its archives, which will be on show at a public lecture and in a temporary exhibition.

Preserving the Histories of a Community of Makers will launch on Thursday 24 November with this special event which will be open to the public.

The Aston University Archives house materials relating to the history of Aston University (1966 onwards), as well as its predecessor ins...
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Today’s guest is Dawn Hands, who co-founded BMG Research back in 1988 and has gone on to build an organisation which is now one of the leading suppliers of research and insight to UK Governments.

Dawn is an alumna of Aston Business School, completing her MBA in the 1980s, before going on to set up BMG.

BMG works across government departments, informing public policy on issues ranging from health to transport - and education to housi...
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September 22, 2022 12 mins
Cultivated meat is a meat produced using animal cells. It is a form of cellular agriculture, with such agricultural methods being explored in the context of increased consumer demand for protein.

Professor Claire Farrown and Dr Eirini Theodosiou, from Aston University, discuss their latest research around the subject: 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘁: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲?

Professor Claire Farrow 👉 https://bit.ly/3L...
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To mark International Literacy Day 2022 (08 September), Dr Marcello Giovanelli and Dr Abigail Boucher discuss literacy and its affect on society as well as a recap of their Lockdown Library Project during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic

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International Literacy Day is celebrated on the 8th September every year. It’s been that way since the first one in 1967.

Worldwide, 775 millio...
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Join Katie Tonkiss, senior lecturer in sociology at Aston University, for the Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement’s (CMFD) first podcast.

Listen to this podcast episode for an evening of conversation with Sivamohan Valluvan, associate professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. The discussion focuses on his recent book The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in 21st Century Britain.
In his book, Valluvan argues ...
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