PodFest 2020

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PodFest 2020

University of Aberdeen

10 episodes

4 months ago

PodFest 2020, a podcast series created by the May Fest team at The University of Aberdeen, bringing research and culture to you at home!

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PodFest 2020, a podcast series created by the May Fest team at The University of Aberdeen, bringing research and culture to you at home!

Society & Culture

Arts

Episodes (10/10)

PodFest 2020

Lockdown Nutrition Recipes

Find out how the Human Nutrition Unit team at the University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute designs diets and feeds our volunteers as part of the human nutrition trials, and why it is so important to eat healthily.

5 years ago

33 minutes

PodFest 2020

In Conversation with Henry McLeish

Former First Minister Henry McLeish talks to Neil McLennan about leadership in a crisis; how Scotland's politics and parliament might change before reflecting on life during lockdown and his primary passion- football.

5 years ago

37 minutes

PodFest 2020

Sharing the Benefits of the Oceans

This podcast looks at the work of Professor Abbe Brown, a professor in Intellectual Property, and Professor Marcel Jaspars, a Chair in Chemistry, in advising policy makers who are developing a new UN treaty to conserve marine biodiversity.

5 years ago

40 minutes

PodFest 2020

Period Poverty: Policy, Technology & Activism

PhD student Nolwazi Nadia Ncube talks menstrual activism. She launched a charity in Zimbabwe in 2015 providing sanitary wear to women and girls in Zimbabwe.

5 years ago

43 minutes

PodFest 2020

Neologisms

What makes us, as speakers, decide on whether to use a new word? Join PhD student Sabrina Link as she discusses the factors which might influence a word’s success or failure, what makes a word attractive to speakers and what impact real-life changes have on our vocabulary.

5 years ago

21 minutes

PodFest 2020

In Conversation with Jane Alexander

Join Scottish author Jane Alexander as she talks to Helen Lynch about the imaginative possibilities of speculative fiction, what draws her to writing about technology, the challenges of writing about virtual realities and what such stories can tell us about our present day.

5 years ago

45 minutes

PodFest 2020

Transforming Foresterhill – The Joint Hospitals Scheme

Using records held by NHS Grampian Archives, Fiona Musk an Archivist at NHS Grampian, looks at the history of the project to relocate three hospitals to one site at Foresterhill in Aberdeen.

5 years ago

15 minutes

PodFest 2020

In Conversation with Chris Young

Film and TV producer Chris Young talks to Alec Macdonald, the Gaelic voice of Daddy Pig, about his work transforming Gaelic narrative tradition into film.

5 years ago

42 minutes

PodFest 2020

Northlife

Bryan Angus, Martin Malone and Pete Stollery (collectively now known as Northlife) present work in progress on the project that was set up at May Fest 2019.

5 years ago

44 minutes

PodFest 2020

PodFest 2020 Trailer

Brought to you by the May Fest team at the University of Aberdeen; PodFest 2020 is coming soon - Bringing research and culture to you at home!

While so many of us are unable to go out to enjoy live events and festivals this summer, we will bring some of the interesting topics and discussions you would normally enjoy at MayFest, to you in your living room, bedroom or even bath.... to listen to at your leisure.

We hope you enjoy the variety of topics covered from ‘Sharing the Benefits of the Ocean’ to ‘The transformation of the Foresterhill NHS campus in Aberdeen, and even some nutritious cooking tips to follow in lockdown.

For more information check out the original May Fest website www.abdn.ac.uk/mayfestival to discover the series of 9 podcasts as they are released from Friday 29 May onwards.

5 years ago