Today Vivienne Parry talks to Professor Francois Balloux (Chair in Computational Systems Biology and Chair of the UCL Genetics Institute) and Dr Keri Wong (Assistant Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at UCL IOE) about the lockdown extension, a potential third wave here in the UK and what this means for us mentally and physically.
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
With the end of lockdown in England in July, our Coronavirus: The Whole Story podcast is also coming to an end. Join us on Wednesday 21 July for the finale of Coronavirus: The Whole Story, a live panel event hosted by Vivienne Parry.
Ask the experts directly in this very special finale to showcase the amazing work that has taken place across UCL ➡️ bit.ly/CTWSlive
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7/15/2021
Lockdown is easing, the vaccination programme here in the UK is making steady progress, the sun is shining again, it almost feels as if the end is in sight. But what is the “normal” that we’re returning to going to look like?
The pandemic has changed a lot of things about the way the world works and one area, in particular, is shopping. In this week’s episode, host Vivienne Parry speaks to entrepreneur Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (UCL Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology) to understand how the pandemic has affected our shopping habits from delivery apps to online purchasing to the “death” of the highstreet.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
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7/15/2021
Over a year on from the start of the pandemic, many people are still suffering complications after contracting coronavirus in the first wave. In our 50th episode, we explore the long-term physical and psychological effects of the virus by talking to two researchers about their groundbreaking work with “Long COVID”. Find out more about the symptoms of Long COVID, what to do if you think you have it, and what not to say to a Long COVID sufferer!
Join Vivienne Parry speak with UCL experts:
Dr Alexandra Burton, Senior Research Fellow in Behavioural Science / Behaviour Change at the Institute of Epidemiology & Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences
Dr Michael Zandi, Honorary Associate Professor in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…nscript-episode-50
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7/15/2021
One thing that we have learned about coronavirus on this podcast is that it doesn’t affect everyone equally. Whilst the UK and US have been able to vaccinate over half their populations so far this year, the virus has been having a devastating impact in other parts of the world. Today we are going to be talking about the current crisis in India, their deadly second wave and what can be done to help.
Join Vivienne Parry speak with two UCL experts, Dr Vageesh Jain (UCL Institute for Global Health) and Dr Shikta Das (UCL Cardiovascular Science).
Access the transcript on www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…nscript-episode-49
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7/15/2021
Coming out of lockdown doesn't mean returning to life as we knew it, especially in the world of work. So this week, we've brought together two UCL experts to talk us through the future of work, and how COVID-19 has the potential to change things for the better.
Guests:
- Prof Anna Cox (Professor & Vice Dean (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Dave Cook (PhD Candidate, UCL Anthropology)
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…nscript-episode-46
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- Disruptive Voices - AI and the Future of Work - Uclsound – Disruptive-voices-ai-and-the-future-of-work
- eWorkLife - soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/eworklife-work-life-and
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7/15/2021
How is testing helping us address the pandemic? Why is it still important? Could the light at the end of the tunnel that we now glimpse be genuine this time?
Answers depend on the two pillars that underpin hope in the future - vaccines and testing. Host Vivienne Parry OBE is joined by guests who have been instrumental in testing programmes both here at UCL and across the country. We're going to be discussing the benefits of testing especially as the country is starting to reopen as well as the drawbacks.
Special guests: Becky Whitham, Sian Minett, and Prof Irene Petersen
More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…nscript-episode-45
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7/12/2021
This week, we speak to two UCL experts to find out what we can do to help mitigate the long-term harms of coronavirus and reduce the risk of future pandemics. In this episode, we ask: how long will the impacts of COVID-19 last - and will we start seeing many more pandemics in future?
Host Vivienne Parry OBE speaks to Professor Sir Richard Blundell, Professor of Political Economy and Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. Richard recently co-authored 'The Covid Decade', a British Academy report released last week on understanding the long-term societal impacts of COVID-19. Our second guest is Julia Kreienkamp, a researcher at the UCL Global Governance Institute working on the Horizon 2020 project 'Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios'. Julia’s research focuses on the global governance of human rights, health and climate change and how we think about existential global risks.
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podc
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7/12/2021
Over the past year, UCL alumna and science broadcaster Vivienne Parry OBE has spoken to staff, students and alumni from all across UCL's 11 faculties. In this week's episode, almost a year to the day since the UK first went into lock down, we are speaking to two researchers from the UCL School of Pharmacy, Oksana Pyzik, and the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Prof Susan Michie, about that year: How far have we come, and how are we going to use all that research to improve public health policy and ensure that we're better prepared to tackle disease outbreaks and prevent future pandemics?
Watch Okana's UCL Lunch Hour Lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9desxUgDr0
More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…nscript-episode-43
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7/12/2021