Ep53: Climate Physicist – Joanna Haigh

Climate physicist, co-director of a research institute, and formerly head of one of the UK’s largest physics departments. This episode I talk to Professor Jo Haigh.

May 28, 2018

Ep52: Medical Doctor, PhD Doctor – Jennifer Gelinas

What’s it like being a medical doctor, and a PhD doctor? Can research academics learn tips from the clinicians, or vice versa? This episode I talk to a doctor doctor.

May 14, 2018

Ep51: Highlights from Season Three

Here are some of the highlights from Season Three of Scientists not the Science.

April 30, 2018

Ep50: Experimental Words (Part 2)

Five poets and five scientists meet on stage in Kings Cross. Five performance pieces based around their joint experiences. This episode shares parts of those performances.

December 13, 2017

Ep49: Experimental Words (Part 1)

What happens when you bring scientists and poets together to form unique performance pieces? This episode looks at one project that’s doing exactly that.

November 28, 2017

Ep48: Inferior – Angela Saini

Science can have a huge impact on society, in particular when it can be used to judge those around us. Author Angela Saini has been looking at how research into sex and gender has been getting it wrong.

November 12, 2017

Ep47: Chief Scientist of the Nudge Unit – Michael Sanders

How can the scientific method influence policy? What are the differences between working in policy and academia?

October 31, 2017

Ep46: Technicians Make It Happen

It’s not just academics who conduct experiments, analyse results and teach students - technicians do it too. What is the role of a technician in science?

October 21, 2017

Ep45: The Recovering Physicist - Martin Zaltz Austwick

What if being an academic doesn’t mean focusing on just one subject? Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick has changed subjects throughout his academic career. He now describes himself as a recovering physicist.

September 25, 2017

Ep44: It’s All in the Edit – Miriam Frankel and Stephen Harris

What do scientists get wrong when trying to write for a general audience? I talk to the editors who take scientists’ writing, and turn it into something that will grab your attention.

July 31, 2017