Explore every episode of the podcast Let’s Talk Health and Care
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| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #6: Bladder Matters: Taboos, Covid and Ketamine, transforming research into real world care | 17 Apr 2025 | 00:30:00 | |
In this episode, we speak with two leading researchers,Professor Nikki Cotterill and Dr Bahareh Vahabi and the focus of this episode on the work to addressing continence issues through community-based solutions and digital tools and the science related to bladder disorders, include the devasting effect of ketamine and impact of Corona virus on the bladder.
Episode links – CONfidence app: www.confidenceapp.uk
MSc Health Technology programme: https://courses.uwe.ac.uk/L5901/health-technology | |||
| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #5: From Pixels to Plate | 3D Food solutions for swallowing disorders | 17 Apr 2025 | 00:29:55 | |
In this podcast episode, Marc and Peter explore the revolutionary potential of 3D-printed food, with our guest Dr Alexandros Stratakos, who is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Agri-Food Production at the University of the West of England, Bristol and we will delve into how this innovation could bring taste, variety, and safety back to the table for those living with dysphagia.
Useful links: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/news/dysphagia-study
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| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #4: Caafi Health | Addressing Health Inequalities | 17 Apr 2025 | 00:27:31 | |
In this episode, Peter and Marc are joined by Huda Hajinur, co-founder and Director of Caafi Health, and Dr Ilhem Berrou, Senior Lecturer on the Independent Prescribing Programme here at UWE Bristol.
Caafi Health is a community-focused organisation dedicated to addressing health inequalities, particularly within ethnic minority communities. It provides culturally sensitive healthcare services and health education to improve access and outcomes for underserved populations. We explore some of the causes of health inequalities, how trust underpins our communities’ interactions with the health and care system and the impact Caafi Health are creating through designing and delivering a model of community-powered healthcare.
Weblinks: Caafi Health: https://www.caafihealth.org.uk/ Community health clinics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkRf_SYkqH0 | |||
| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #3: Robotic Telepresence and Stroke Rehabilitation | 17 Apr 2025 | 00:27:33 | |
This podcast series is linked to the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol and covers various topics associated with workforce development, applied research with impact and positive societal change. Building relationships and being the interface between people, technology, education, research, culture and health and care are core elements of the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol. uwe.ac.uk/integrated-care-academy Contact us: ica@uwe.ac.uk | |||
| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #2: Design and development of inclusive learning resources | 24 Nov 2024 | 00:25:53 | |
Noor Nixon, Inclusive Practice Project Manager at UWE Bristol and Antony Hill, principal investigator and Dean of Learning and Teaching at the College of Health, Science and Society, UWE Bristol, discuss the design and development of inclusive learning resources that enable workforce culture and behaviour change related to racism and discrimination in healthcare and education across the South West of England, as part of the Inclusive Training in Practice project. Useful links: learninghub.nhs.uk/catalogue/Inclu…gwithinPractice | |||
| Let's Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #1: Intro to UWE Bristol's Integrated Care Academy | 24 Nov 2024 | 00:23:00 | |
In this episode, Professor Marc Griffiths, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health and sponsor for the Integrated Care Academy (ICA) at UWE Bristol, and Dr Peter Brindle, Visiting Professor and Specialist Consultant and UWE Bristol, introduce the ICA @ UWE Bristol and discuss where it connects across the health and care spaces and with whom. Key examples outlining where the ICA @ UWE Bristol makes a positive impact within health and care spaces are discussed along with future work. Useful links: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/business/community-engagement/integrated-care-academy
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| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #8: Revolutionizing Assistive Technologies with affordable innovation | 15 Jun 2025 | 00:35:03 | |
In this latest episode, we are joined by Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Mechatronics at UWE Bristol. From pioneering low-cost prosthetic legs to developing AI-driven assistive devices, Appolinaire is reshaping how technology intersects with healthcare and his vision to create a centre that uses AI, 3D scanning and printing to tailor affordable prosthetics in real time is captivating. The driving force for the vision is entirely user-centred - a career shift motivated by being challenged by a gold medal winning Para Olympian to consider making joints for people rather than robots... His mission is to design technology that empowers and not excludes. Interesting fact: The temperature in a prosthetic leg socket can reach 47-49 Celsius after 90 minutes of walking! There is so much to be done to improve this and many other aspects of living with prosthetics.
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Appolinaire’s university profile: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AppolinaireEtoundi Cybathlon 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbl2Q1xGuA Bristol Centre for Enablement: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/bristol-centre-enablement
Selected publications: Bio-Inspired Knee Joint: Trends in the Hardware Systems Development https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.613574/full Experimental Verification of Kinematics and Kinetics in a Biomimetic Bipedal Robot https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/mechanismsrobotics/article/15/1/014503/1140488/Experimental-Verification-of-Kinematics-and The Anthro-Thumb: a biomimetic hybrid soft robotic carpometacarpal saddle joint for the thumb, Frontiers in Robotics and AI https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2025.1496073/full | |||
| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #7: Preventing the unthinkable: The Public Health approach to preventing child sex abuse | 13 May 2025 | 00:45:15 | |
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Kieran McCartan, Professor of Criminology here at UWE Bristol, and an expert in applying public health strategies. Our focus in this episode is exploring a subject that is as challenging as it is crucial: the prevention of child sex abuse. Child sex abuse affects more children than most people realise and highlighting the urgent need for effective prevention strategies is the focus of this episode. Trigger warning: This podcast episode mentions the sexual abuse of children in the context of how we work together to prevent it. It affects all communities, 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 7 boys worldwide. Talking about child sexual abuse is important and part of the solution. If listening to the podcast has affected you and speaking to someone would help or if you simply want to learn more, the NSPCC website is a good place to start, please go to www.nspcc.org.uk/
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| Let’s Talk Health and Care Podcast Episode #9 Health Technology and Innovation Special | 18 Sep 2025 | 01:11:53 | |
In this episode we speak with three entrepreneurs and our focus is on innovation in health technology. We are joined by Professor Matt Freeman, who is the Centre Director at Future_Space, which is an innovation centre that has become the gold standard for university-industry collaboration. Future_ Space at UWE Bristol is a multi-award-winning innovation centre designed for pioneering high-tech high-growth businesses solving tomorrow's biggest challenges. We are also joined by Dr Jenny Bailey Cooper, CEO and co-founder of Ferryx, a university spin-out company developing innovative gut health solutions and Dr Zeke Steer, founder of Milbotix, has developed smart sock technology that's turning this everyday garment into a powerful health monitoring tool.
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