14. Protecting endangered species - using tracking data to prevent poaching
Zoology professor Rory Wilson talks about how his research helps to prevent endangered animals being poached. Rory explains how he tracks the movement...
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A podcast about the ground breaking research by Swansea University into global challenges. We explore topics from health innovation and climate change, to clean energy and human-centred digital technologies.
13. Online Child Sexual Grooming: How can we develop social resilience to combat it?
Professor Lorenzo-Dus’s research focusses on the ‘dark side’ of social media, working to help combat individuals and groups looking to deceive, manipu...
12. Cancer treatment and eradicating malaria: what role can microbes play?
How could bacteria be used to prevent the spread of malaria or Zika virus? Could this research also be used to treat or even cure cancers? Professor P...
11. Reducing carbon emissions: using algae to clean up industry waste fumes
Currently, there is a massive drive to solve global warming and to minimise the effects waste gases have on the environment. Dr Emily Preedy’s researc...
10. Clean energy: revolutionary research to generate, store and use renewable energy
Dr Ian Mabbett talks about SUNRISE, a project which aims to develop new materials for energy generation, storage and use that are integrated into buil...
9. The gig economy - think you know the benefits? Think again.
Is exploitative work becoming the new normal? Does the world of work have to be this way? Professor Geraint Harvey of Swansea University's School of M...
8. Burn injuries are a disease of poverty: how do we tackle this global public health crisis?
The World Health Organisation has called it a public health crisis and burn injuries have been described as a “disease of poverty”. In this episode, C...
7. Preserving heritage sites in conflict zones: does this help communities to recover?
Dr Nigel Pollard discusses his work on the protection of heritage in conflict zones around the world and why it is important from both a moral and phi...
6. Circular economy: discouraging the throwaway culture
The UK produces 200 million tonnes of waste each year and one quarter of that goes to landfill. The resources that we need are becoming more and more ...
5. There’s more to life than money: how do we measure happiness?
From supermarkets to high speed trains, politics to lottery tickets; economics is embedded in all that we do. Dr Simon Rudkin explains how economics i...