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Carolina Panico, who is a Doctoral student in Politics and International Relations in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, pops in for a chat about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which was entered into force last Friday. Carolina chats to Rach about the importance of this treaty and why it's such a big step.

The Associate Director of the Liggins Institute from the University of Auckland, Justin O'Sullivan, joins us to talk about Type 1 Diabetes and his research into how changes in the lungs can relate to the development of Type 1 Diabetes. 

From the University of Auckland's Faculty of Education and Social Work, Anna Vasilyeva pops into the studio as she nears the end of her PhD thesis which is focused around female body image in the age of social media. Anna chats to Rachel about the possible effects of the media's use of image manipulation on our beauty standards and the importance of media literacy.

Associate Professor, Tim Kuhner, from the University of Auckland's Faculty of Law pops in to talk about the latest with the US Election. After recently publishing his book, Tyranny of Greed: Trump, Corruption, and the Revolution to Come, Tim's got some insights to what we're seeing in US politics. If you want to hear more, you can head along to a panel discussion here.