Knowledge, Engaged – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In recognition of Suicide Prevention Month, Ben sat with Sarah Cassidy, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham (and our Best Policy Impact award winner), to discuss her ground-breaking work on suicide prevention within the autistic community.
 
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Sarah Cassidy
Autistica
Autism Centre for Excellence Cambridge
The Institute for Policy and Engagement
Institute Academy Programmes
The Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards 2024 Winners and Nominees

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2024 marks 200 years since Lord Byron’s death, so in this special episode, Ben visits Newstead Abbey, Byron’s family home, and chats with Sam Hirst, a University of Nottingham research fellow. They are joined by Phillipa Abery from the Institute for Policy and Engagement as well as three volunteers from Newstead Abbey, to talk about Byron, his poetry and Sam’s efforts at bringing Byron’s history to life for the public.

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The Institute for Policy and Engagement
The Institute Academy Programme
Newstead Abbey
Romancing the Gothic (Web)
Romancing the Gothic (YouTube)

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What do Shakespeare's plays and bears have in common? Turns out, many things, and not just from when they appear in the scripts.

Box Office Bears is a multi-institutional project looking at animal baiting in Early Modern England, and lead investigator Hannah O'Regan joins Ben to talk all about it. Listen on to hear all about the bears who were as famous as actors (of the day).

CW: Historic animal cruelty 

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Hannah O'Regan's profile
Box Office Bears
Information on the Bear's Tibia
Bears! Nature, Culture, and Beyond Exhibition at Lakeside Arts

Who doesn't like elephants?? Ben loves them and he chats with Lisa Yon about the Elephant Welfare Project, a long-running love story for looking out for elephants. Honestly it has it all, policy impact, public engagement, heart-warming animal stories and a crowdfunder! (Find that below). Have a listen!

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The Elephant Welfare Project Just Giving Page

Lisa Yon's Profile
The Elephant Welfare Project
The Elephant Welfare Project Twitter
The Elephant Welfare Project Instagram

A BBC Article About the Elephant Welfare App
A BBC Sounds Clip featuring Lisa Yon and a Bachelor Herd of Elephants

The Institute's Twitter Page

Mike Clifford returns to Knowledge, Engaged! Last appearing in 2021 to talk about clean cooking and climate change, he's back to chat to Ben about some closer to home work.

As part of the Green Hustle festival, Mike brought along his DIY fabric cooker that could potentially help both the planet and people's wallets during the cost of living crisis. Intrigued? Listen on to find out about it!

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Mike Clifford's Profile
Tiger Community Enterprise CIC
ITV Coverage of the Fabric Cooker
Green Hustle
Oh no, Ben promised to show off his rabbits... Hop over to Twitter for that one!

Katharine Adeney joins Ben to talk all about Majoritarian Nationalism and the Asia Research Institute, with particular attention on India. What is it? Listen on to find out!

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Katharine Adeney
What is the BBC Modi documentary and why is it so controversial? - The Guardian
The Asia Research Institute

Digital Youth, with Sprouting Minds, is an ambitious UKRI funded research programme with researchers from Nottingham, Auckland, Bath, Glasgow, Kings College London, LSE, UCL and the Open University. Ben sits down with Jo Lockwood and Kareem Khan to talk about the programme, the importance of research and support for young people's mental health, as well as deep dives into their individual research projects.

During the episode, we reference a survey you can participate in. You can find this in the links below!

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Digital Youth With Sprouting Minds
SPARX
SPARX (New Zealand promo)
CaTS-APP
Practitioner Views of the CaTS-App (SURVEY)
Jo Lockwood's Nottingham Profile
Kareem Khan's Nottingham Profile

Stephen Meek and Amanda Chukwudozie join Ben to talk about the Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards 2023, the winners, the range of high quality work at the University of Nottingham.

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Our episode featuring Todd Landman: https://tinyurl.com/yd7pwy3n
Our episode featuring Lara Bianchi: https://tinyurl.com/2dbhtvh6
All of our award winners and nominees are here: https://tinyurl.com/3kt4ssnx

Ben is joined by super-special-guest-host Gabrielle Bunn to talk sustainability, bringing the social sciences into big projects for everyone's benefit and more with Judy Muthuri and Hannah Noke from the University of Nottingham and Daniela Salite from Aston University.

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SHAping Sustainable Futures Research Hub: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-engagement/net-zero/home.aspx
Judy Muthuri: https://tinyurl.com/ykmx6b7d
Hannah Noke: https://tinyurl.com/ywdvbevj
Daniela Salite: https://tinyurl.com/ypmfwjmv

Ben and Special-Guest-Host Amy Hawksworth chat with Pip Logan about the National Rehabilitation Centre and research into preventing falls in vulnerable populations.

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The National Rehabilitation Centre: https://nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk/
UoN's NRC Pages: https://tinyurl.com/3hurkbv6
React to Falls App (Google Play): https://tinyurl.com/ycxpbh6u
React to Falls App (Apple): https://tinyurl.com/2p84v97t
Pip Logan: https://tinyurl.com/53zwwah6