Action Research: Lighting a Fire in Further Education
Join us in episode 14 for a candid conversation with Martine Ellis, writer, coach and educator on wellbeing-driven productivity. What is action research, and why is wellbeing so important in academia? Plus, we talk about perceived tensions between further and higher education, and discover how saying ‘no’ can make your academic life a whole lot healthier.
Psycholinguistic Secrets: The Mysterious Workings of Words and the Mind
What happens to your heart when it undergoes too much stress? Is it possible to exercise too much? And why might a fit, healthy young athlete suffer a heart attack mid-match? Discover the answers to all of these questions and more in episode 9, with Yasmin Dickinson, PhD in cardiovascular medicine. Plus, we address the issue of unstable research contracts, and ask ‘how do you find a balance between real life and academia?’
Questions of the Heart: Cardiac Hypertrophy with Yasmin Dickinson
What happens to your heart when it undergoes too much stress? Is it possible to exercise too much? And why might a fit, healthy young athlete suffer a heart attack mid-match? Discover the answers to all of these questions and more in episode 9, with Yasmin Dickinson, PhD in cardiovascular medicine. Plus, we address the issue of unstable research contracts, and ask ‘how do you find a balance between real life and academia?’
Great Journeys and Graphene: Crossing a Continent in the Name of Research
Join us in episode 10 as we chat to Maheera Ghani about her incredible journey from Pakistan to Western Europe, in search of a solution to the challenges of tomorrow’s information industry. Do you know what goes into the devices you carry in your pocket? Plus, we talk about the changing role of women in the sciences, and discuss the scientific (yes) principles of baking.
The Air We Breathe: The Link Between COPD and Pollutants in the Air
What’s going in our city air? Join us in episode 11 as we chat to Chahat Suri of the LHI, Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich, about her research into chronic lung disease. Is airborne pollution doing more harm than we realise? Plus, a familiar issue for hardworking academics – impostor syndrome – and we get real on what they don’t tell you about coming to Europe to study.
Maths, Apps, and the Modern World: Finding New Ways to Study Mathematics
Join us in episode 12 with Dr Charles Roddie of Cambridge, pioneering new methods of teaching maths with his app, Summatic. Just how far can AI go in helping students to learn independently? Plus, we talk about why maths matters, and dive into the complex world of game theory – almost tempting Charles back into research in the process!
Feeling Like a Fake: Impostor Syndrome in Academia
So, you’ve been accepted as a PhD candidate at the university of your dreams. You’ve fought hard through a gruelling application process, secured just enough of that ever-elusive funding, and finally, after all your toils, you’re there. But something isn’t quite right. You don’t feel the way you expected to. As the months pass, instead […]
Playing with Knowledge: 4 of the Finest Research Scientists in Videogaming
Research science. Videogames. For real. If you’ve ever come home from a hard day’s research to unwind with a few rounds of Street Fighter, or disappear into the magical worlds of Final Fantasy, you’ll know the relaxing thrill (a paradox, surely?) of videogames. But what happens when research science meets videogaming? Two unlikely allies, you […]
Researchers at Play: Game Theory, Polarisation and Bubbles
A question for you. What is game theory, and what do we mean when we talk about ‘polarisation’ and ‘bubbles’? We know that some of you will be nodding your heads silently in perfect understanding of that question, but for the rest of you… just know that the answer doesn’t have a lot to do […]
5 Scientists Killing It On Social Media
Here at Audemic we love thinking up new ways to bring research to a wider audience – and it seems we’re not alone! All over the world academic researchers are using video, audio and social media to share their work far and wide, putting passion and personality into it every step of the way. Today we focus […]