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In recognition of Suicide Prevention Month, Ben sat with Sarah Cassidy, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham (and our Best Policy Impact award winner), to discuss her ground-breaking work on suicide prevention within the autistic community.
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Sarah Cassidy
Autistica
Autism Centre for Excellence Cambridge
The Institute for Policy and Engagement
Institute Academy Programmes
The Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards 2024 Winners and Nominees
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2024 marks 200 years since Lord Byron’s death, so in this special episode, Ben visits Newstead Abbey, Byron’s family home, and chats with Sam Hirst, a University of Nottingham research fellow. They are joined by Phillipa Abery from the Institute for Policy and Engagement as well as three volunteers from Newstead Abbey, to talk about Byron, his poetry and Sam’s efforts at bringing Byron’s history to life for the public.
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The Institute for Policy and Engagement
The Institute Academy Programme
Newstead Abbey
Romancing the Gothic (Web)
Romancing the Gothic (YouTube)
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Ben is joined by Pearl Agyakwa, a specialist in material degradation, and they talk about how that links to the University of Nottingham’s Zero Carbon Cluster programme, outreach work with the community and schools, as well as the social impact of engineering.
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Pearl Agyakwa
Moritz Liesegang
Electric Planes and Net Zero Aviation w/Sharmila Sumsurooah
DIY Slow Cooker for your Wallet and the Planet w/Mike Clifford
Clean Cooking, Kitchen Culture and Climate Change w/Mike Clifford
SHAping Sustainable Futures Hub
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Andrea Sartorius is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham looking at the impacts of trace metal pollution on ecosystems. Grab yourself a brew and have a listen as Andrea and Ben chat about her research, what those impacts are, and what can be done about it.
It turns out there's more to lead than Ben first thought...
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The Environmental Impacts of Historical Lead Mining (YouTube)
Laura Hughes' Financial Times: The Unseen Dangers of Lead Contamination in the UK (paywall)
The Institute for Policy and Engagement
The Institute Academy Programme
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The Institute for Policy and Engagement has some brand new award winners! That's right, the annual Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards 2024 have been announced (you can read about all the winners below) and Ben is sitting down with Paul Crawford, of Best Public Engagement Initiative fame.
They talk all about his project (collaborating with Aardman Animations, no less), arts and health and much more. And during the episode, they talk about what creative hobbies they currently have - maybe you also have a creative hobby that fills your heart each day?
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The Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards 2024 Winners and Nominees
Paul Crawford's Profile
Aardman Animations YouTube Channel
What's Up With Everyone?
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Ben is talking all things Science in the Park with special guest Sam Tang in this episode. Never heard of Science in the Park? (How??) Public engagement at its finest, Science in the Park has been entertaining and sharing knowledge from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and many local organisations for the past 15 years. Have a listen to hear all about it!
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The Institute for Policy and Engagement
Sam Tang
Periodic Videos
Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards - Best Schools Engagement Initiative
Wollaton Hall
British Geological Survey
Girlguiding Nottinghamshire
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Public Engagement is a broad topic, so Ben sits down with fellow Institute for Policy and Engagement colleagues, Stephen Meek and Maria Richards, to pick it apart. They look at the NCCPE Watermark, what it is, what it means for the University of Nottingham (and what UoN received...)
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The Institute for Policy and Engagement
City as Lab
NCCPE
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Ben is joined by Dr Andrew Bennett, Director of the FRAME Alternatives Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, and Amy Beale, Head of Policy and Programmes at FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments). Together they talk all things research, stopping the use of animal testing, and what the benefits of the long-term relationship between University and Charity mean for policymaking and public engagement. Ethics, hamsters and grow-your-own-organs are just a tiny slice of the fun.
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FRAME
Andrew Bennett's profile (UoN)
Andrew Bennett's profile (FRAME)
Amy Beale
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Good public engagement and outreach requires good enthusiasm, and Jez Turner brings it by the bucket load. In this episode, Ben chats with Jez about his outreach work, his passion for lifelong learning, space, using satellites to identify potential slavery cases, and even, at one point, Nazi Germany.
It's a wild ride this one.
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Jez Turner's Profile
Rights Lab Nottingham
Festival of Science and Curiosity
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The climate crisis is usually talked about in terms of the big picture, but Mark Gillott talks to Ben about the local community-driven work he is doing and the massive impacts it could have on green energy as a whole. They discuss the Trent Basin project, Mark's revolutionary ideas and what the real meaning behind the flickering black and white symbol before an ad break on tv is (which blew Ben's mind).
Knowledge, Engaged is brought to you by The Institute of Policy and Engagement at the University of Nottingham, to bring together the ground-breaking research done at Nottingham and you, the listener. Join us as we explore the work the researchers are doing and how it makes a difference in the world around them.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this episode was recorded virtually, so we apologise for any dips in audio quality, but the fascinating content remains.
For more information about Mark and his work, as well as the Institute, please use the following links:
Mark's Bio and Research: https://tinyurl.com/cbjmssav
The UoN Energy Institute: https://tinyurl.com/7vmw4exh
The Trent Basin Project: https://www.era.ac.uk/projects-research/trent-basin
Project SCENe: https://www.projectscene.uk/
The Institute for Policy and Engagement: https://tinyurl.com/yh46zla8
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What do Shakespeare's plays and bears have in common? Turns out, many things, and not just from when they appear in the scripts.
Box Office Bears is a multi-institutional project looking at animal baiting in Early Modern England, and lead investigator Hannah O'Regan joins Ben to talk all about it. Listen on to hear all about the bears who were as famous as actors (of the day).
CW: Historic animal cruelty
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Hannah O'Regan's profile
Box Office Bears
Information on the Bear's Tibia
Bears! Nature, Culture, and Beyond Exhibition at Lakeside Arts -
Who doesn't like elephants?? Ben loves them and he chats with Lisa Yon about the Elephant Welfare Project, a long-running love story for looking out for elephants. Honestly it has it all, policy impact, public engagement, heart-warming animal stories and a crowdfunder! (Find that below). Have a listen!
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The Elephant Welfare Project Just Giving Page
Lisa Yon's Profile
The Elephant Welfare Project
The Elephant Welfare Project Twitter
The Elephant Welfare Project Instagram
A BBC Article About the Elephant Welfare App
A BBC Sounds Clip featuring Lisa Yon and a Bachelor Herd of Elephants
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Mike Clifford returns to Knowledge, Engaged! Last appearing in 2021 to talk about clean cooking and climate change, he's back to chat to Ben about some closer to home work.
As part of the Green Hustle festival, Mike brought along his DIY fabric cooker that could potentially help both the planet and people's wallets during the cost of living crisis. Intrigued? Listen on to find out about it!
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Mike Clifford's Profile
Tiger Community Enterprise CIC
ITV Coverage of the Fabric Cooker
Green Hustle
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Katharine Adeney joins Ben to talk all about Majoritarian Nationalism and the Asia Research Institute, with particular attention on India. What is it? Listen on to find out!
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Katharine Adeney
What is the BBC Modi documentary and why is it so controversial? - The Guardian
The Asia Research Institute -
Digital Youth, with Sprouting Minds, is an ambitious UKRI funded research programme with researchers from Nottingham, Auckland, Bath, Glasgow, Kings College London, LSE, UCL and the Open University. Ben sits down with Jo Lockwood and Kareem Khan to talk about the programme, the importance of research and support for young people's mental health, as well as deep dives into their individual research projects.
During the episode, we reference a survey you can participate in. You can find this in the links below!
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Digital Youth With Sprouting Minds
SPARX
SPARX (New Zealand promo)
CaTS-APP
Practitioner Views of the CaTS-App (SURVEY)
Jo Lockwood's Nottingham Profile
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Stephen Meek and Amanda Chukwudozie join Ben to talk about the Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards 2023, the winners, the range of high quality work at the University of Nottingham.
Want some links? We have plenty:
Our episode featuring Todd Landman: https://tinyurl.com/yd7pwy3n
Our episode featuring Lara Bianchi: https://tinyurl.com/2dbhtvh6
All of our award winners and nominees are here: https://tinyurl.com/3kt4ssnx -
Ben is joined by super-special-guest-host Gabrielle Bunn to talk sustainability, bringing the social sciences into big projects for everyone's benefit and more with Judy Muthuri and Hannah Noke from the University of Nottingham and Daniela Salite from Aston University.
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SHAping Sustainable Futures Research Hub: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-engagement/net-zero/home.aspx
Judy Muthuri: https://tinyurl.com/ykmx6b7d
Hannah Noke: https://tinyurl.com/ywdvbevj
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Ben and Special-Guest-Host Amy Hawksworth chat with Pip Logan about the National Rehabilitation Centre and research into preventing falls in vulnerable populations.
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The National Rehabilitation Centre: https://nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk/
UoN's NRC Pages: https://tinyurl.com/3hurkbv6
React to Falls App (Google Play): https://tinyurl.com/ycxpbh6u
React to Falls App (Apple): https://tinyurl.com/2p84v97t
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Join Ben and Special-Guest-Host Gabrielle Bunn as they sit down with Professor Todd Landman and Stephen Meek to talk about the all shiny and brand new SHAping Sustainable Futures Research Hub. Developed in collaboration with the Faculty for Social Science, the Hub is an online resource dedicated to showcasing the value of UoN Social Science research for policy around climate change, sustainability and the net zero challenge.
Want some links? We have plenty:
SHAping Sustainable Futures Research Hub: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-engagement/net-zero/home.aspx
The MriNH3 Project: https://tinyurl.com/dv9ssu46
Siddharth Kara: https://tinyurl.com/mvh74s85
Todd Landman: https://tinyurl.com/yfrhj8fb
Stephen Meek: https://tinyurl.com/5dyam6ys -
Corporate Social Responsibility is not enough to tackle gender inequality - so is a Business and Human Rights approach the better option for business schools? Why is social compliance ineffective when it comes to gender discrimination? These are some of the questions raised when Ben is joined by a whole host of remarkable guests across multiple time zones, including Lara Bianchi and Samentha Goethals, who head the Research Group of Gender of the Global Business School Network for Human Rights (GBSN), Lauren McCarthy of Bayes Business School and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, director of the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights.
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The Geneva Centre for Business and Human Rights: gcbhr.org
Dr Lara Bianchi: https://tinyurl.com/cpfbvzcc
Dr Lauren McCarthy: https://tinyurl.com/2c6r5548
Dr Dorothée Baumann-Pauly: https://tinyurl.com/mr2zrk9n
Dr Samentha Goethals: https://tinyurl.com/2m7xxxaj - Vis mere
