UCL Minds

by UCL

UCL (University College London) is consistently ranked among the world's top ten universities (QS World University Rankings 2010 - 2021). Our excellence extends across all academic disciplines, from one of the world's foremost centres for research and teaching in the biological sciences to world-renowned centres for architecture (UCL Bartlett), education (UCL IOE) and fine art (UCL Slade School). UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 43,000 students from 150 different countries. Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL was the first university in England to welcome students of any religion and the first to welcome women on equal terms with men. UCL Minds brings together UCL’s knowledge, insights, and ideas through events, activities, and digital content open to everyone. Find out what’s on UCL Minds: www.ucl.ac.uk/minds

Episodes

Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'

4m · Published 02 Jun 10:50

Rob Eagle (UCL Communications & Marketing) reads a passage from Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' for the UCL Festival of Culture Book Club: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/festival-of-culture/festival-book-club 'On the Road' is published by Viking Press: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/publishers/penguin-general/viking/

Emile Zola's 'Thérèse Raquin'

5m · Published 02 Jun 10:50

Dr Isabelle Moreau (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society) reads a passage from Emile Zola's 'Thérèse Raquin' for our UCL Festival of Culture Book Club: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/festival-of-culture/festival-book-club 'Thérèse Raquin' is published in English by Penguin Books: http://www.penguin.com/

Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

3m · Published 02 Jun 10:50

Dana Kovaric (UCL English) reads a passage from Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' for the UCL Festival of Culture Book Club: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/festival-of-culture/festival-book-club 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' is published by Harper Collins: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060838676/their-eyes-were-watching-god

Lunch Hour Lectures 27 Oct 2016 - Navigating the brain: software programming for surgical planning

37m · Published 27 Apr 12:01

Epilepsy affects around 500,000 people in the UK, and one-third of individuals with focal epilepsy continue to have seizures despite optimal medical management. Professor Sebastian Ourselin will discuss his work developing the surgical navigation platform, EpiNavTM, which aims to increase the number of patients suitable for curative treatments.

Lunch Hour Lectures 13 Oct 2016 - Does social science tell the truth?

39m · Published 27 Apr 11:55

There is now abundant evidence that only around half of all published findings in the social sciences are true, and research even suggests that some entire bodies of work are based on non-existent effects. Join Professor David Shanks as he discusses a range of remedies that could make social science research more credible and robust.

Lady Mary Wroth's 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus'

1m · Published 14 Feb 11:55

For Valentine's Day, Professor Helen Hackett (UCL English) reads two love sonnets from Lady Mary Wroth's collection Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621). Wroth was the first Englishwoman to write a sequence of love sonnets, a prose romance (the Urania) and a tragicomedy (Love's Victory). Professor Hackett is an expert on 16th and 17th century literature, with a special interest in women's writing.

T.S. Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’

2m · Published 21 Dec 15:09

Professor John Mullan (UCL English) reads one of his favourite festive poems, T. S. Eliot’s, ‘Journey of the Magi’ (1927). A specialist in 18th-century literature, Professor Mullan is also a broadcaster, journalist and host of the Guardian’s Book Club. For more information about studying literature, visit the UCL English website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english

Lunch Hour Lectures 11 Oct 2016 - Performing matter: greatest hits and new findings

40m · Published 14 Dec 12:21

Speaker information: Dr Zoe Laughlin (UCL Institute of Making) Materials ‘perform’, and ‘stuff’ is constantly getting up to ‘things’ all the time, just to exist and make up the world of objects. Experience some of the most wondrous matter on Earth during Dr Zoe Laughlin’s demo-led exploration of materials, as you witness the inanimate becoming animate and material science performing.

Lunch Hour Lectures 20 Oct 2016 - Shake, rattle and roll: communicating lethal risks

40m · Published 14 Dec 12:21

Speaker information: Dr Carina Fearnley (UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences) The 2009 L’Aquila earthquake sent a ‘shockwave’ through the research community, causing scientists to become increasingly concerned about what risk advice they communicate prior to a crisis. How do scientists make sense of data and share hazard information? Join Dr Carina Fearnley to explore how we can be savvier when it comes to fatal uncertainty.

Lunch Hour Lectures 18 Oct 2016 - Barking up the right tree: how do we understand what words mean?

40m · Published 14 Dec 12:21

Speaker information: Dr Jenni Rodd (UCL Psychology and Language Sciences) If you look up just about any word in a dictionary you will usually see a long list of possible definitions, yet it takes no apparent effort to figure out the intended definition of a word when it is used in everyday life. Dr Jenni Rodd will talk about the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to make rapid ‘best guesses’ about a word’s meaning.

UCL Minds has 687 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 396:31:19. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 25th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 21st, 2024 23:11.