Science is for everyone; even those who wish to dismiss it. Kirstin investigates the current crisis in confidence and how we can engage people more successfully.

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Podcast 30: The frustration of misinformation

We sent Iona Macwhirter-Harley, our Head of Multimedia, along to the TEDxUofG conference 2020 at the Queen Margaret University Union. The theme was 'Dear world...'

Podcast 29: Dear world… (TEDxUofG 2020)

Katrina attended the Glasgow Science Festival event ‘Modern Medicine and Death – an Unhealthy Relationship?’ last Summer. In the words of Lana Del Rey, “you and I, we were born to die” – so why does our society struggle so hard against the inevitability of death?

Podcast 28: Modern medicine and successful dying

Curious how you can participate in the data science hype? Anna Henschel explains how open data and open-source software make data science accessible to everyone.

Podcast 27: Can really *everyone* be a data scientist?

Jane Essex explores the gap between reality and the rhetoric of inclusion within the STEM workforce.

Podcast 26: Why don’t we know more about how to make ‘science for all’ a reality?

Sonya discusses the issues associated with prostheses currently available to children and how 3D scanning is transforming the development of prosthetic limbs.

Podcast 25: Technology at our fingertips

Recently, scientists have been observing that the problems associated with climate change are being felt much more severely at the top of the planet. So why is this, and what exactly is “Arctic Amplification”?

Podcast 24: The problem with Arctic amplification

We get the inside scoop on Professor Lee Cronin's 'Chemputer', plus hear all about his grand plans for creating a new form of life.

Episode 23: Lee Cronin, the ‘Chemputer’, and New Designs of Life

Conferences are kind of a necessity if you’re in a research role, but what about all the amazing research University of Glasgow undergraduates do? That’s where Let’s Talk About [X] and [X]position come in!...

Podcast 22: Let’s Talk About [X] 2018

If we had to describe FameLab it would be like Radio 4’s “just a minute” where you have to talk without repetition, hesitation, deviation but instead its three minutes, infront of an audience and...

Podcast 21: FameLab 2018

New year, new us? Of course not, we don’t need to change we’re perfect as we are! Annabel and Gabriela take a look back on all the events theGIST covered in 2017. That includes...

Podcast 20: A Look Back on 2017

This month we’re talking game theory! We interview Jörg Bewersdorff, author of Luck, Logic and White Lies, and take a look at the famous “prisoner’s dilemma”. This nifty piece of game theory can explain...

Podcast 19: The Prisoners Dilemma – From Board Games to Mutually Assured Destruction

This month our Head of Podcasts, Annabel May, visited the Cafe Scientifique event “The Sleeping Giant” and catch up with main speaker Dr Ryan Milligan – ex trucker and NASA researcher. Dr Milligan is a solar physicist and new to the Physics and Astronomy department in the University of Glasgow, but in the past has worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, just outside of Washington D.C. Event and interviews held on November 6th, 2017.

Podcast 18: Cafe Scientifique and The Sleeping Giant

Recently, theGIST attended the St Francis Primary School science event, organised and coordinated by Dr Saeeda Bhatti. In this podcast, Gabi and her team ask pupils, parents and teachers their thoughts on the importance of science in the classroom. Listen to find out what they say! This was made possible by funding from Foundation Scotland.

Podcast 17: St Francis Primary Stem Day

Gabriela De Sousa and Emily May Armstrong interview the speakers at the UK Parliament Outreach and Engagement Service event held in Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. Listen to Dr Caroline Kenny, Dr Phil Larkin, and Simon Wakefield discuss how research is used to inform government policy making, and how researchers can get involved. Event and interviews held on 16th March 2017.

Podcast 16: Research, Impact, and the UK Parliament – Interviews

The Glasgow Insight into Science and Technology's Monthly Podcast, produced by our Head of Podcasts, Annabel May. We are a Glasgow-based science communication group who love to talk about the latest developments in science and tech, local science events, and interview researchers about their work.

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