Welcome to The Policy Pod! Join us as we discuss some of the most pressing topics from the world of research, whilst also exploring their specific relevance to policy and policy-making. This podcast is presented by Public Policy | Southampton, we are the University of Southampton’s dedicated unit to help researchers connect with policymakers.
Episodes
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Transformational Coasts Part 1: Sustainable adaptations for climate resilience
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
In the first special episode on Transformational Coasts, we hear from three experts about the changing coastlines of England and around the world.
- Professor Robert Nicholls reflects on the history of coastal management in the UK, from defence through to resilience, and past and present management transformations.
- Professor Mike Elliott outlines the “triple whammy” of threat that coasts face, as well as talks us through the ten tenets for effective and sustainable marine management.
- Dr Jenny Brown describes her passion for the sea, and the need for sustainability to be embedded into coastal adaptation discourse and practice.
Pod Cast hosts-
- Dr Sien van der Plank, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter / Visting Researcher, University of Southampton
- Dominique Townsend, coastal geomorphologist, PhD researcher looking at nearshore change, University of Southampton
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
EPPiGen: Ethical Preparedness for Genomic Medicine
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Dr Lisa Ballard joins us to talk about the EPPiGen research project in this episode of the Policy Pod. Genomic approaches to diagnosis and treatment are becoming more embedded within the UK health care system. This provides a unique opportunity to examine how genomic medicine is understood by those providing and engaging with the service. Dr Ballard discusses "ethical preparedness" as terminology, how genomics is portrayed in the media, ethical issues experienced in labs and more.
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Preconception in the Inter-Pregnancy Period
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Dr Chandni Maria Jacob, Dr Mark Hanson and Dr Daniella Watson discuss the importance of effective policy to improve health outcomes for prospective parents and their children. They talk about the need to look at population health, generational health and how to improve hollistic wellbeing alongside reducing risk factors such as alcohol and smoking, including for those who are not actively planning for pregnancy.
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Learning Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Dr Nic Pensiero and Dr Christian Bokhove join us for the first episode of a brand new season of The Policy Pod. They discuss the UK Understanding Society 2020 and 2021 data, which is the largest longitudinal study of its kind and allowed crucial insights into household dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data indicates that existing learning inequalities were exacerbated during the first school closure, and whilst these didn't worsen during the second, our guests question why they did not altogether reduce. Answering this may lie in considering the role of the home in addition to provisions from schools. Also discussed are the National Tutoring Programme, learning loss, the examinations fiasco, teacher assessed grades and...breathing patterns.
Bokhove C. and Pensiero N., (2022), Learning Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic, The Policy Pod, University of Southampton, DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/PP0005
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Redo: TAVI
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
In this episode of 'Policy Pod' Giles talks to Professor Neil Bressloff about TAVI, transcatheter aortic valve implantation used in the treatment of aortic heart valve disease. Degenerative heart valve disease is a growing problem in the ageing populations of Europe and North America. Also, tens of millions of people in low- and middle-income countries of the global south, experience valve failure following bacterial throat infections. Importantly, so-called, rheumatic heart valve disease affects large numbers of adults of all ages in these poorer parts of the world. Tap into our channels above and listen to Prof. Neil and about this research.
Monday Jul 05, 2021
WorldPop data to support fight against COVID-19
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
In this episode of 'Policy Pod' the Director of Public Policy office, sits together with Professor Andy Tatem, Professor of spatial demography and epidemiology at the University of Southampton and is the Director of WorldPop - an open Spatial Demographic Data and Research. Tune in to learn more how WorldPop data and research methods, helped decision makers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
A Recovering World Economy
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
In this episode of 'Policy Pod' - The Podcast from Public Policy at the University of Southampton - we present Dr Ganeshan Wignaraja as Chair of the Global Economy Programme for the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute, Sri Lanka and presentation on 'A Recovering World Economy and the Roles of China and India'. Presented at a visit to the University of Southampton on the 23rd May 2018.
Additional material:
Presentation: bit.ly/PPSLKIPresentation
Dr Ganeshan Wignaraja: www.lki.lk/people/dr-ganeshan-wignaraja/
Monday Jun 28, 2021
A Career from BBC Computers to Artificial Intelligence
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
In this episode of 'Policy Pod' we discuss the career of Professor Dame Wendy Hall, how universities can support early career researchers, how working with media can help engage with the government, and what it is like to work on a major policy piece for government.
Monday Jun 28, 2021
The RESIN Project
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
In this episode of 'Policy Pod' we sit down with Dr Michael Head, to discuss the ResIn (Research Investments in Global Health study)project, through its growth and development.
BMC Proceedings: bmcproc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.…9-016-0065-2
ResIn Public Policy Page: www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy/w…-diseases.page
Monday Jun 28, 2021
The Cultural Manifesto
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
In this episode of 'Policy Pod' we take to God's House Tower in Southampton's City Centre to discuss The Cultural Manifesto, and the impact of culture across the city.
Hosted by Gareth Giles, with four influential guests;
Andrew Pinnock from the University of Southampton,
James Gough the director of the Southampton Cultural Development Trust,
Satvir Kaur cabinet member for communities, culture and leisure and Southampton graduate Catherine Laws.
Additional material:
The challenge of marketing the Arts to a university student audience in Southampton: drive.google.com/open?id=112fBFgP…IWapIf3F7K6EL1_V
The Cultural Manifesto: drive.google.com/open?id=1D-FtTHJ…7UXHAVQ5NM3LC_ic