We all know that physical activity is important for a healthy life right? This week, Niamh interviews Associate Professor Verity Cleland about how we can be more physically active and what role our communities play in supporting us to do this. Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics)

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Episode 131: Walk this way

In this episode we interview Dr Andrew Ottaway, the founder of Health Volunteers International. Andrew’s charity aims to improve medical education and capacity building to improve quality of health care in African countries. With particular focus on improving maternal health and access to safe deliveries.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Production: Sarah LydenMedia & Promotion: Olivia Holloway (@LivHolloway_), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), (Mibu Fischer @miburose)

Episode 130: Improving maternal health

In this episode, we chat about ageism with sociologist Dr Peta Cook. Ageism is a type of discrimination based solely on age and has a significant impact on our society. We speak about ageist stereotypes and the consequence this has on physical and mental health.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Mibu Fischer (Mibu Fischer @miburose), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Liv Holloway (@LivHolloway_)

Episode 129: Embracing age

The number of people studying higher level maths in Australia is in decline. Why?This week, Niamh & Sophie talk to maths teaching specialist Dr Hayden Tronnolone about maths phobia and maths education in Australia.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@Dr_NChapman)Co-Host: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics)Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah)

Episode 128: The Problems with Maths

Kate chats to Dr Penny Jones about her research monitoring air quality, communicating and understanding the intersection of humans and our environment, making decisions about living with fire, and her experience working in STEMM.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)Production: Meredith Castles (@MeredithCastles)Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose), Kelsey Picard (KelseyOnScience)

Episode 127: Fire and Us

This week Niamh and Hannah interview quantitative marine ecologist Dr Nicole Hill. Together they take a deep dive into Nicole’s research, including her career highlights such as diving into Antarctic waters and encountering diverse wildlife.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Co-Host: Hannah McCleary (@mcleary_hannah)Production: Sarah LydenMedia & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose), Kelsey Picard (@KelseyOnScience)

Episode 126: Quantitative Marine Ecology

This week, Niamh and Hannah are joined by Associate Professor Kara Barry from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tasmania, to explore her work around plants and their relationships (good and bad) with fungi and pathogens. Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Co-Host: Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah)Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah)

Episode 125: Plants, fungi and pathogens

Join Sarah and Niamh in this episode as they talk to Assoc. Prof. Damien Holloway from the School of Engineering at UTAS about architectural acoustics.  Damien’s diverse engineering career has spanned from ship hydrodynamics to structural health monitoring to architectural acoustics.  In this episode we focus on research work into the acoustics of concert halls and the experience of musicians in these spaces.  Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Co-Host: Sarah LydenProduction: Sarah LydenMedia & Promotion:  Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah)

Episode 124: Engineering, Architecture and Sound

Tune in to hear science and poetry combined and meet the authors behind the poems!This is the second of two episodes where Kate talks to Tasmanian-based poets reading the poems that they entered in ‘The Poetry of Science’: a science-themed poetry competition for National Science Week 2021. Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose), Kelsey Picard (KelseyOnScience)

Episode 123: Science Poetry of Tasmania: Part 2

Tune in to hear science and poetry combined and meet the authors behind the poems!This is the first of two episodes where Kate talks to Tasmanian-based poets reading the poems that they entered in ‘The Poetry of Science’: a science-themed poetry competition for National Science Week 2021. Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose), Kelsey Picard (KelseyOnScience)

Episode 122: Science Poetry of Tasmania: Part 1

What do you do when you know what the plethora of diversity problems facing Women in ICT are and how to fix them, but it seems like an insurmountable task? You bring together a team of stellar women tech entrepreneurs and diversity champions to get the job done! This week, Niamh and Meredith speak to innovation champion and ICT workforce developer Dr Tristan Richards about the first cultural change pathways model for women entering the ICT industry that has been created and trialled in Tasmania.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Co-Host: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys) & Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah)

Episode 121: Designing a Women in ICT Pathways Model

Join Sarah and Niamh while they talk to environmental engineer Robyn Bussey.  Robyn’s diverse experiences shows the range and scope of work in the environmental engineering, from runways and infrastructure projects to wastewater and wetlands. Discover what you can do to ensure environmental concerns are at the forefront of engineering projects.  Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Co-Host: Sarah LydenProduction: Sarah LydenMedia & Promotion:  Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics),  Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)

Episode 120: Environmental Engineering

How can we use data to assess cardiovascular risk in Australia?This week, Niamh and Sophie talk to biostatistician and public health researcher Dr Karen Lamb about the design, analysis, and reporting of medical research in Australia.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Co-Host: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics)Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles)Media & Promotion: Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys), Mibu Fischer (@miburose), Kelsey Picard (KelseyOnScience)

Episode 119: Biostatistics: it’s good for the heart

Convict ancestry, adoption and skeletons in the closet, find out about the tensions and joys of delving into your family’s past, along with the resources that State Libraries Tasmania have to offer, in preparation for family history month in August!Kate Johnson and Niamh Chapman interview Archivist, Dr Alicia Marchant and family history researcher Beverley Morritt from Libraries Tasmania about Genealogy (Family History) in all its complexities!Host: Niamh Chapman and Kate JohnsonProduction: Sarah LydenPromotion: Kate Johnson, Mibu Fischer, Kelsey PicardShow theme music: Kevin MacLeod

Episode 118: Family History Piecing together the past

By the by-catch, it’s more possible to reduce the harmful side effects of commercial fishing than you might have previously thought!This week, Dr Sheryl Hamilton talks to Niamh and Olly about her work researching mitigation techniques for reducing marine mammal bycatch in commercial fishing gear. She also regales us with tales of her vast experience in monitoring wild marine animal populations, including a few sneaky seabirds hiding under ground.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS)Co-Host: Olly Dove (@littledove440)Production: Olly Dove (@littledove440)Media & Promotion: Sophie Calabretto (@sophluidynamics), Hannah McCleary (@mccleary_hannah), Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)

Episode 117: By the by-catch: mitigation and risk

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