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- Ep67: Highlights from Season Four
- Ep66: Notes from a Mental Health Workshop (Bonus Episode)
- Ep65: Entrepreneur – David Walt
- Ep64: Selling to Scientists – Hamid Ghanadan
- Ep63: Being a Positive Role Model – Chris Jackson
- Ep62: Making New Things - Alex Lathbridge
- Ep61: From Software Engineer to Scientist – Matt Faria
- Ep60: Live at the Imperial Festival – Alexandros Kouris (Bonus Episode)
- Ep59: Live at the Imperial Festival – Ben Britton (Bonus Episode)
- Ep58: Live at the Imperial Festival – Sandrine Heutz (Bonus Episode)
- Ep57: Live at the Imperial Festival – Emma Chapman (Bonus Episode)
- Ep56: Teaching and Researching – Kirsty Shaw
- Ep55: Structural Engineer – Roma Agrawal
- Ep54: Social Media Scientist - Meriame Berboucha
- Ep53: Climate Physicist – Joanna Haigh
- Ep52: Medical Doctor, PhD Doctor – Jennifer Gelinas
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- Ep51: Highlights from Season Three
- Ep50: Experimental Words (Part 2)
- Ep49: Experimental Words (Part 1)
- Ep48: Inferior – Angela Saini
- Ep47: Chief Scientist of the Nudge Unit – Michael Sanders
- Ep46: Technicians Make It Happen
- Ep45: The Recovering Physicist - Martin Zaltz Austwick
- Ep44: It’s All in the Edit – Miriam Frankel and Stephen Harris
- Ep43: Death of the One-Sided Scientist – Roberto Trotta
- Ep42: Your Child is a Scientist – Carole Kenrick
- Ep41: Managing a Lab and TheScienceShed – Steven Lee and Nick Evans
- Ep40: Senior Editor - Luigi Martiradonna (Part 2)
- Ep39: Senior Editor – Luigi Martiradonna (Part 1)
- Ep38: Culture and Science – Robin Ince
- Ep37: Hybrid Scientist and Engineer – Alon Gorodetsky
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- Ep36: Highlights from Season Two
- Ep35: All Change Please! (Bonus Episode)
- Ep34: Feeling Like an Imposter at Work?
- Ep33: Are Scientists Like Comedians? – Stuart Goldsmith
- Ep32: A Matrix for Life – Kristi Anseth (Bonus Episode)
- Ep31: How to Be a Strategic Academic – Shelda Debowski
- Ep30: What's a Postdoc? - Joy Warde
- Ep29: Having a Family in Science – Emma Chapman
- Ep28: Women in Science – Athene Donald
- Ep27: Science Jokes – Helen Arney
- Ep24-26: Success: is it all in the mind? (Bonus Episodes)
- Ep23: Scientists on the Radio (Part 2) - Gareth Mitchell
- Ep22: Scientists on the Radio (Part 1) – Gareth Mitchell
- Ep21: Reaching Out
- Ep20: Mind Your Language!
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- Ep19: Highlights from Season One
- Ep18: Light on the Nanoscale – Anna Lombardi (Bonus Episode)
- Ep17: Quantum Alchemy – Suchitra Sebastian (Bonus Episode)
- Ep16: Understanding the Universe – Giovanna Cottin (Bonus Episode)
- Ep15: A Million Billion Photographs - Jasmine Rivett (Bonus Episode)
- Ep14: Physics Matters - Susan Haines (Bonus Episode)
- Ep13: DNA Origami - Kerstin Göpfrich (Bonus Episode)
- Ep12: Physicist in a Chemists’ World – Silvia Vignolini
- Ep11: Supersonic Curiosity - James Threadgill
- Ep10: Science on a Mountaintop - Hannah Stern
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- Ep02: In Theory - Florian Steiner
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- Ep00: Introducing Scientists not the Science
Ep55: Structural Engineer – Roma Agrawal
June 25, 2018 in Season 4
Roma Agrawal is an engineer who has worked on hundreds of structures across the country, most notably The Shard in London. We explore how she went from studying physics to become a structural engineer.
Science, engineering ... for me it’s the same thing
In this episode, I talk to Roma about her background, and how despite having the mathematical tools, she found the engineering community resistant to accepting a scientist into their ranks.
Roma is an advocate for the value of engineering, working to encourage young people to study the subject, and more generally to improve public perceptions of engineering.
You can find more details about Roma’s book Built: the Hidden Stories Behind our Structures on her website.
Roma tweets @RomaTheEngineer.
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