University of Warwick Podcasts
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Parish pieties
10:25, Wed 21 May 2008
The sixth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research, held in the humanities research centre on May 17, 2008, drew together scholars from the UK, Europe and North America to consider religious devotion in late medieval and early modern parishes. Here the organisers, speakers and postgraduates talk about the symposium and different approaches to the theme of parish pieties.
(MP3 format, 24 MB)
Hybrid embryo research could ‘offer chance to treat incurable diseases’
15:09, Tue 20 May 2008
Justin St John, Professor of reproductive biology at Warwick Medical School, explains some of the details of planned legislation that would permit for the first time in the UK the wide scale creation of hybrid human embryos for research, containing human and animal elements.
(MP3 format, 29 MB)
Improving solar cells
15:26, Wed 14 May 2008
Professor Chris McConville, from the department of physics, talks about his work on the semiconductor indium nitride which could make the conversion of solar energy more efficient. Professor McConville won the John Yarwood Memorial Medal for his work in this area.
(MP3 format, 15 MB)
White British working class children make the worst progress in secondary school
13:02, Tue 22 Apr 2008
Dr Steve Strand from the Warwick Institute of Education talks about his report which shows that white British children from working class backgrounds make the least progress compared to other ethnic groups at secondary school.
(MP3 format, 20 MB)
Programme promoting international research begins
11:23, Fri 11 Apr 2008
The director of the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany, Professor Klaus Kern, talks about collaboration with Warwick as he completes the first of a programme of visits by academics from across the world aimed at promoting international research across institutions and disciplines.
(MP3 format, 10 MB)
Pregnancy with diabetes
11:52, Wed 9 Apr 2008
Dr Roger Gadsby from the institute of education at Warwick Medical School talks about a study in to how women with diabetes plan for pregnancy which could have major implications for care in this area.
(MP3 format, 12 MB)
Positron emission imaging
10:23, Mon 7 Apr 2008
The newly appointed dean of the school of engineering Professor Jonathan Seville talks about how his area of expertise, positron emission imaging, is set to develop and what lies ahead for the whole discipline of engineering.
(MP3 format, 16 MB)
The case for embryo research
11:13, Tue 25 Mar 2008
Professor of reproductive biology at Warwick Medical School Justin St John explains why his proposed work into using very early stage hybrid human-animal embryos for research is necessary. For more details see www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/csri/reproductive_biology/
(MP3 format, 25 MB)
Making history live through improvisational theatre
12:39, Wed 19 Mar 2008
How improvisational theatre is providing a new insight into the history of capital punishment.
(MP3 format, 23 MB)
Honour crime and the legal system
14:43, Mon 17 Mar 2008
Prof Shirin Rai talks about a joint study into how honour crimes are dealt with by the legal systems in India and Pakistan.
(MP3 format, 26 MB)
War and Peace at Warwick
16:07, Tue 11 Mar 2008
Polly Teale, the co-director of a production Tolstoy's War and Peace being staged at Warwick Arts Centre, talks to Prof Michael Bell from the English department. The Shared Experience production runs at Warwick Arts Centre from Thursday March 13 to Sunday March 16, for more information see www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/home
(MP3 format, 47 MB)
Kosovo independence; a threat to Balkan stability?
13:42, Mon 3 Mar 2008
What are the implications of an independent Kosovo for security in the Balkans?
(MP3 format, 17 MB)
A better mind on drugs?
09:33, Fri 29 Feb 2008
One of the co-inventors of a type of brain improving drug, and leading neuroscientist, Prof Gary Lynch talks about the implications of mind enhancing drugs.
(MP3 format, 18 MB)
Sharia and UK Law
14:12, Mon 11 Feb 2008
Professor Shaheen Ali talks about Dr Rowan Williams' recent comments regarding Sharia and English law.
(MP3 format, 47 MB)
Getting Chinese medicine in to balance
12:01, Fri 1 Feb 2008
Director of the Health Science Research Institute and chair of public health Professor Sarah Stuart-Brown talks about some of the fundamentals of Chinese medicine and her own experience of the practice.
(MP3 format, 17 MB)
Economic meltdown for 2008?
15:51, Tue 22 Jan 2008
Economist Professor Andrew Oswald talks about the chances of an economic recession and what consumers could do if it happens.
(MP3 format, 19 MB)
Finding gratitude at Christmas
11:52, Fri 21 Dec 2007
Psychologist Alex Wood talks about how gratitude could be the key to happiness and how our Christmas gifts can best generate gratitude.
(MP3 format, 14 MB)
A future direction for multilateral trade
08:02, Thu 6 Dec 2007
Pierre Pettigrew, Chair of the Warwick Commission, talks about the Commissions' report on the future of the multilateral trade system.
(MP3 format, 23 MB)
Women's fight for equal pay
12:34, Fri 30 Nov 2007
The launch of the equal pay archive at Warwick’s Modern Records Centre is discussed by three figures who have played a central role in the battle for equal pay for women. They are Jo Morris, senior equality and employment rights officer of the Trades Union Congress, Sue Hastings, an independent pay and employment adviser, along with Rodney Bickerstaffe, the former general secretary of the public sector union Unison and chairman of the Modern Records Centre’s Advisory Board.
(MP3 format, 31 MB)
Democracy in Burma, where now?
10:30, Wed 21 Nov 2007
Dr Peter Ferdinand, director of the Centre for Studies in Democratisation, discusses the future of democracy in Burma after the violent put down of protests in the country.
(MP3 format, 16 MB)
For more information on Warwick Podcasts contact Emily Little:
E.Little@warwick.ac.uk / 024 76575329
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