Podcasts
Here, you can find captivating podcasts produced by our academic staff and students, helping to share their research in a bitesize format.
Simply click on the links below to tune in to your chosen episode.
Podcasts
- Pumps and bumps on the road to low carbon heating | 01 March 2025To reach net zero, we’re being expected to switch from gas boilers to heat pumps but, with the lowest installation rates in Europe, many consumers in the UK appear wary. Trust is surfacing as a key issue. Can the sciences of mind and brain help us understand what trust is and how it forms? What will help us trust in novel and greener types of heating technology?
- Climate change and having a family | 13 December 2024Climate change is now becoming a factor in family planning – but why? Drawing on the latest research and insights from neuroscience and psychology, this Professor Paul Howard-Jones investigates how the environment might be impacting our thoughts about having children – and we hear from two people who have reached quite different conclusions.
- How reflection is different to overthinking with Dr Lucy Kelly | 02 November 2024Are you an over thinker? Maybe you've heard of reflective practice and shied away from it because it seems like just over thinking your day, or you the term may be completely new to you. Kimberley Evans chats to Dr Lucy Kelly, Associate Professor in Education (PGCE English) at the University of Bristol, School of Education, about how reflective practice is such a powerful and positive addition to your wellbeing toolkit.
- Where did you get that potato? | 25 October 2024How does the way we obtain our food can impact on our relationship with nature? In this episode, Professor Paul Howard-Jones travels to Berlin to discover a range of food initiatives and interviews Dr Felix Zoll, who has been studying their impact on how we think about food and the natural world that produces it.
- Is there a crisis in the professoriate? | 12 September 2024What’s it like to be a senior academic and more specifically a (full) professor at a time of acute anxiety, turbulence and precarity for the higher education sector? In this podcast, Professor Richard Watermeyer speaks with four field-leading academics – Cassie Sugimoto and Mary P Sheridan in the US, Kalpana Shankar in Ireland, and Gemma Derrick in the UK – to get under the skin of their various experiences of working in an age of ‘permacrisis’.
- BBC Sounds More or Less | 4 September 2024Research conducted by our Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education, Cathryn Knight and Dr Emily Lowthian at Swansea University in a Nuffield Foundation study found that 47% of Welsh children born in 2002/2003 have had Special Educational Needs (SEN). But what does that number really mean?
- The noises of knowledge production | 7 October 2023The noises of knowledge production: close your eyes and listen to a non-verbal soundscape of the School of Education, produced by the TLC Research Centre's Dr Rachel Helme and Michael Rumbelow. This podcast is available to listen to for internal staff members at the University of Bristol.
- Why is the diary the secret to teacher well-being and improved reflection? | 9 March 2023The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Dr Lucy Kelly. Lucy is an Associate Professor of Education at Bristol University and runs their English PGCE. She is also the author of a wonderful new book 'Reimagining the Diary: Reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing'. In today's episode we answer the question: Why is the diary the secret to teacher well-being and improved reflection?
- Collection: Reimagining the Diary with Professor Lucy Kelly | March 2023In these two short films we discuss Lucy's new book ‘Reimagining the Diary: Reflective practice as a positive tool for wellbeing’
- FreshEd #303 Playing with Blocks: The Square Root of Tree | 27 November 2022Flux is a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play.
- Research Frontiers: The psychology of education with Dr Felicity Sedgwick | 8 July 2022Research Frontiers is a podcast series brought to you by the University of Bristol. In this episode, host Ruby Lott-Lavigna is joined by Dr Felicity Sedgewick, lecturer and lead researcher at the University of Bristol, who specialises in the areas of mental health and autism; and Sarah Boon, a recent alumna of the MSc Psychology of Education programme. Together they discuss the need to adapt education settings to allow for different learning styles with a focus specifically on the needs of autistic students at university.
- Forest of Thought: Playing with Time with Professor Keri Facer | 3 June 2020“The Future.” We say the words all the time, but what do we really mean? How do our stories about yesterday and today help shape tomorrow? Could a different idea of the future change the present? And how are we all entangled in the mysterious process of bringing the future into being?! Join us for a session of playing with time, with Professor Keri Facer.
- PsychologiCALL with Dr Felicity Sedgewick | 19 May 2020Dr Felicity Sedgewick is a developmental psychologist at the University of Bristol who specialises in autism, relationships, and gender. During this podcast she chats to Sue about a piece of work looking at the friendships and romantic relationships of autistic women, and the ways in which they are both similar and different to the experiences of non-autistic women.