Welcome to this new weekly podcast series that explores the pandemic from the perspective of researchers across UCL.
At UCL, our experts are taking a prominent role in advancing public knowledge about Covid-19. Find out more and help support the research.
The 'Coronavirus: The Whole Story' podcast highlights UCL's interdisciplinary expertise on Covid-19 - focusing on its management, mitigation, eventual halt, and preparing for a post-coronavirus world.
Presented by writer, broadcaster and UCL alumna Vivienne Parry OBE, each episode will look at the coronavirus outbreak through different lenses, covering history, psychology, social sciences, arts, engineering, economics, law, and politics.
For more info and transcripts, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus
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Welcome to this new weekly podcast series that explores the pandemic from the perspective of researchers across UCL.
At UCL, our experts are taking a prominent role in advancing public knowledge about Covid-19. Find out more and help support the research.
The 'Coronavirus: The Whole Story' podcast highlights UCL's interdisciplinary expertise on Covid-19 - focusing on its management, mitigation, eventual halt, and preparing for a post-coronavirus world.
Presented by writer, broadcaster and UCL alumna Vivienne Parry OBE, each episode will look at the coronavirus outbreak through different lenses, covering history, psychology, social sciences, arts, engineering, economics, law, and politics.
For more info and transcripts, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus
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Listen to the highlights of our series finale, recorded live on 21 July 2021. Hosted by UCL alumna, broadcaster and writer, Vivienne Parry OBE, our global audience put their questions to the experts.
Guests:
- Professor Dame Anne Johnson (Professor of Infectious Disease, Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences and Faculty of Population Health Sciences). Adviser to the SAGE committee.
- Professor Deenan Pillay (Professor of Virology, Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences). Adviser to the Independent SAGE committee.
- Professor Susan Michie (Professor of Health Psychology, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences). Adviser to the Sage and Independent SAGE committees.
- Professor Andrew Hayward (Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Inclusion Health Research, UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health). Adviser to the Sage and Nervtag committees.
Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
View the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…nscript-episode-53
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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
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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. > http://bit.ly/CTWSlive
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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.
Transcript and more infor on www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
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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!
Guests: 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: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-50
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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 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-49
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Get the facts about COVID-19 vaccines.
With the recent news that under-40s are going to be offered an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, we speak to two UCL experts to explore the risks and benefits of coronavirus vaccines. How safe are vaccines? Do they cause blood clots? And how does this risk compare with other day-to-day activities? Listen to find out.
Transcript and more information on www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…nscript-episode-48
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This week marks one year since we launched our first episode of Coronavirus: The Whole Story - when we had no idea what challenges lay ahead of us. In today’s episode, we speak to three UCL experts to hear about how much has changed in that time, looking specifically at government and the law. What powers have been brought in to help enforce lockdown and tackle the virus? Have they been given the correct amount of scrutiny? And, how do they compare to other coronavirus laws created by other countries? Tune in to find out.
Guests:
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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/coronavirus/transcript-episode-46
Related UCL podcasts:
- Disruptive Voices - AI and the Future of Work - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/disruptive-voices
- eWorkLife - https://www.eworklife.co.uk/podcast/
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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: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-45
If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.
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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 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/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-44
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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/coronavirus/transcript-episode-43
If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.
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With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the UK well underway, in this episode we explore some of the differences in uptake in communities across the UK, with around 70% of Black people reporting that they're unlikely to have the jab.
Host Vivienne Parry is joined by a UCL team of researchers and clinicians from the Royal Free Hosptial in London - Mr Leye Ajayi, Dr Lola Emanuel-Kole, Dr Taj Fregene and Chris Brew-Graves to discuss some of the issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy, and exploring how to overcome some of the barriers to Black people being vaccinated.
Transcript and more information on https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-42
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What can we do to help young people recover from the pandemic?
- An International Women’s Day Special
As children across the UK start heading back to the classroom, we speak to two leading academics, Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL Population Health Science) and Dr Amelia Roberts (UCL IOE), whose work focuses on children and education [respectively]. With a focus on vulnerable children, our guests tell us more about the projects they're involved with to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, in this episode we also hear about their passions and why and how they embarked upon their journeys in academia. Exploring their experiences as women academics during the pandemic, we hear about how they’re coping - and learn what we can do to support women in academia who may be struggling.
Transcript and more information: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
International Women's Day events at UCL:
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With Boris Johnson set to announce several stages for the easing of lockdown later today, rumours are circulating about what his roadmap might mean for international travel. In this week’s episode, we speak to three UCL experts to try and get to the bottom of some of these rumours, and to learn more about international travel during the pandemic and what we can expect in the future.
Our guests today:
- Prof Andreas Schafer, Chair in Energy and Transport, Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resources
- Prof Sir Jonathan Montgomerry, Professor of Healthcare Law
- Kirsty Dias-Watson, UCL Alumna & PriestmanGoode Director
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-40
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
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In this week's episode, we're looking back at our lives in lockdown, and asking - how has the pandemic changed our routine? We speak to UCL experts, Prof Patty Kostkova (Centre for Digital Public Health and Emergencies) and Dr Adrian Brown (UCL Centre for Obesity Research), to find out more about the impact Covid-19 has had on our diet, social interactions, exercise routines, and more.
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-39
If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.
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This week, we're investigating public transport. Now, in the first lockdown, many of us were able to batten down the hatches and stay indoors. But, as lockdown 3.0 continues, it's important that we stay informed about the best precautions to take if and when we do need to leave the house. And, one happy day, we're going to have to return to public transport en masse. So, in this episode, we find out if it's safe to travel, how to protect ourselves when traveling, and hear more from our experts about what we need to know when making longer journeys.
Our guests this week:
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Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-38
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In this week’s episode, we’re discussing home-schooling & play, home-working, parenting - and how to juggle them all. With the latest announcement that schools won’t be reopening until at least the 8th March, we speak to three UCL experts to explore how home-schooling is affecting children and parents, and some practical tips and tricks for listeners.
UCL experts:
- Dr Sandra Leaton Gray, Institute of Education
- Prof Lorraine Sherr, Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
- Prof John Potter, Institute of Education
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-37
If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.
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This month, mental health has come to occupy centre stage as we grapple with the impact of lockdown and the multiple assaults on our resilience caused by uncertainty, illness, recovery, financial insecurity, job losses, bereavement, homeschooling, and so much more. Our focus on mental health right now could represent a real opportunity to build back better and create a mental health system that's right for our times.
UCL experts:
- Prof Anthony David (Professor of Mental Health Director & Sackler Chair, UCL Institute of Mental Health)
- Dr Michael Bloomfield (Principal Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry
Faculty of Brain Sciences)
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-36
If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.
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Today marks a significant milestone in the UK’s vaccination programme as millions more people aged 70 and over are invited to receive their jabs. However, as we are making this progress, so is the virus. In this episode, we speak to UCL experts from the Department of Primary Care & Population Health and the Faculty of Population Health Sciences to find out more about how the vaccine roll-out works, and whether it will work on the new variant of the virus.
Special guests:
- Prof Martin Marshall
- Prof Deenan Pillay
- Prof Helen Bedford
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-35
If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.
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COVID-19 has exposed and amplified the shocking pre-existing health inequalities in the UK. In this week’s episode, we’re embodying the January spirit of new year’s resolutions and looking to the future to see what needs to happen to make our communities safer and fairer.
At the end of last year, the Institute of Health Equity released their report Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review. Inspired by the mantra “Build Back Better” the report, written by Michael Marmot, Jessica Allen, Peter Goldblatt, Eleanor Herd and Joana Morrison, aims to summarise the inequalities, both in terms of those created by the pandemic and the ways it has impacted society, and make recommendations for the future. In today’s episode, we speak to Professor Sir Michael Marmot to find out more.
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-34
If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.
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