When he’s not monitoring seals from space, Prem Gill is laying down Grime tracks featuring the voices of seals and live-streaming his Antarctic expeditions to secondary school students in the UK. He hopes that his efforts will encourage others

From discovering So Solid Crew to researching hate crimes - Julian Hargreaves

Nov 6th, 2019 32m 6s

Welcome to We are the University. A podcast about the alumni, staff and students who make Cambridge University unique. In this episode we chat to Julian Hargreaves about his life in the music industry discovering talent like So Solid Crew and

The student working to make education accessible to everyone - Shadab Ahmed

Oct 8th, 2019 23m 3s

Final-year chemist Shadab Ahmed reflects on his sabbatical year as Cambridge University Student Union Access and Funding Officer, the importance of role models, and how increasing diversity within universities could be the start of seeing real

The neuroscientist working to understand and prevent suicide in teenagers - Anne-Laura van Harmelen

Sep 10th, 2019 29m 7s

The neuroscientist working to understand and prevent suicide in teenagers.We talk to Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, a neuroscientist, who became fascinated by the brain as a teenager, after her dad gave her a copy of Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mi

AI and the classroom. Using machine learning to identify why children struggle at school - Duncan Astle

May 8th, 2019 37m 11s

In this episode we chat to Duncan Astle, a developmental neuroscientist, who’s based at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Duncan and I talk about his recent study that uses machine learning to identify learning difficulties and why chi

The woman who brought Space Invaders to the UK - Pat Marsh

Apr 10th, 2019 21m 20s

In this episode, Charis and I speak to Cambridge alumna, Pat Marsh. When we recorded the interview, we didn’t have any of the studio equipment with us, just a phone, but we thought it would be a crime not to share Pat’s incredible story.Pat

The star rower whose research examines teachers’ perceptions of intelligence - Daphne Martschenko

Feb 11th, 2019 24m 34s

Daphne Martschenko, president of Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club, is determined to make the sport of rowing more accessible. Her mission to pave the way for greater diversity in rowing chimes with her study of the charged concepts of rac

The doctor using smartphones to save lives in war zones - Waheed Arian

Feb 4th, 2019 39m 20s

Having survived the civil war in Afghanistan, Waheed Arian arrived alone in the UK aged 15. He went on to study medicine at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. Today he’s using smartphones and volunteer specialists to provide life-saving medica

Releasing the imagination: the University of Cambridge Primary School - James Biddulph

Jan 28th, 2019 34m 47s

Welcome to We are the University. A podcast about the people who make Cambridge University unique.In this episode we meet James Biddulph, the headmaster of the University of Cambridge Primary School.We talk about the school’s character and

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