Mind matters: investigating academia’s ‘mental health crisis’
Why do so many academics struggle to ‘power down’ at the end of a long working day, and what are the longer-term health effects of failing to switch off at evenings and weekends?Desiree Dickerson is a...
10 Jan 202519min
Four weddings, a funeral, and the Sustainable Development Goal logos
Graphic designer Jakob Trollbäck remembers a 2014 meeting with film director Richard Curtis and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, then very much a work in progress, coming up in conver...
17 Okt 202439min
A checklist for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals
When Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency, sought to change the country’s food systems in 2020, it started by looking at school meals and funding several projects around menus, procurement, and how caf...
10 Okt 202435min
How artificial intelligence can help to keep us safe
Growing up in the last years of the Cold War motivated Gabriele Jacobs to enter academia and play her part in building peaceful societies. Jacobs works at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlan...
3 Okt 202430min
My mission to protect threatened mangroves
Sigit Sasmito describes how his research at James Cook University in Brisbane, Australia, is helping to protect both peatlands and mangroves across southeast Asia, as part of a drive to meet Sustainab...
26 Sep 202425min
How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans
Watching documentaries about the Titanic inspired deep-sea microbiologist Beth Orcutt to study life at the bottom of the ocean - a world of ‘towering chimneys, weird shrimp and octopus nurseries’ that...
19 Sep 202431min
How we slashed our lab’s carbon footprint
Analytical chemist Jane Kilcoyne was working in her biotoxin monitoring lab one day in 2018 when she noticed a bin overflowing with plastic waste. The observation prompted her to join forces with like...
12 Sep 202424min
Meet the retired scientists who collaborate with younger colleagues
In the sixth and final episode of The Last few miles: planning for the late stage career in science, Julie Gould unpicks some of the generational tensions that can arise in academia when a colleague a...
26 Jul 202419min
