The Scouse Science Podcast

By: Professor Tom Solomon
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  • The Scouse Science Podcast
    The University of Liverpool
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Hygiene & Healthy Living Physical Illness & Disease Science
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  • Scouse Science Podcast Episode 21 with Rt. Hon Matt Hancock MP Live at Westminster

    Scouse Science Podcast Episode 21 with Rt. Hon Matt Hancock MP Live at Westminster
    Apr 26 2022
    For this, the last episode in the current series hosted in Westminster by Professor Tom Solomon and Holly O'Dea, the former Secretary of State for Health, the Rt. Hon Matt Hancock discusses the critical collaborative role of the Government and its’ agencies including the NHS and the MHRA with academia and the private sector together with public engagement in the UK's response to Covid-19. Matt answers a range of viewers questions about Covid-19 transmission in care homes and the value of the Nightingale hospitals during the pandemic.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 20: The Music Science Edition

    20: The Music Science Edition
    Mar 31 2022
    In this, the first music science edition hosted Professor Tom Solomon with Holly Ellis, our guests were International DJ, producer, promoter and Circus co-founder Yousef with Dr Eduardo Coutinho, founder and Director of the Applied Music Research Lab at the University of Liverpool which aims to harness the power of music to improve people’s lives. In this episode, Yousef, a pivotal player in ‘The First Dance’, the official trial event forming part of the Governments’ Covid-19 Event Research programme tells us about how he and the team were told they had only 3 weeks to bring these first large-scale, public events together. Eduardo speaks about his experience and research into music acting as an ‘emotional contagion’ and its role in our earliest forms of human communication and how it might have underpinned mating success. Meanwhile Tom brings the exhilarating soundscape created by Yousef directly to the Scouse Science podcast attendees.
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    53 mins
  • 19:  The World Encephalitis Day Edition with Jan Ravens

    19:  The World Encephalitis Day Edition with Jan Ravens
    Mar 3 2022
    Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain. The majority of cases are caused by either a viral infection or the patients' own immune system attacking their own brain tissue. Actress and impressionist Jan Ravens joins Professor Tom Solomon, who is the President of the Encephalitis Society, to raise public awareness about this devastating disease, sharing her own harrowing experience of the onset, and aftermath of herpes simplex encephalitis in her husband Max. The first female producer in the 'old boy network' culture of BBC TV's Light Entertainment department in the 1980s and elected the first female President of the famous Cambridge Footlights Comedy Club, Jan is best known for her impressionist work with Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. In this episode Jan also discusses her new comedy project about her personal explorations into the world of internet dating.
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    1 hr and 1 min

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