The University of Auckland's Alison Talmage from the School of Music joins us for a chat about theCeleBRation Choir. Being a music therapist and doctoral student at the School of Music, Alison leads the CeleBRation Choir, an initiative of the Centre for Brain Research and a bastion for connectivity among those with a
neurological condition, such as dementia, Parkinson’s, or people who have had a stroke or brain injury.
The University of Auckland's David Clark joins us for a chat about The Digital Research Hub and preparing a digital exhibition space as part of the International Ars Electronica Art and Technology Festival. David has a chat to Rachel about what experiencing an online exhibition space might look like and how we can interact with this medium.
University of Auckland Research Fellow, Shaun Hotchkiss, joins us for a chat about cosmology. What's that, you ask? We're confused too, luckily we have an expert in the subject matter to help us through this enormous world we live in. No existential crisis around here.
From the University of Auckland's School of Environment, Dr. Catriona Thompson joins us to talk about coastal erosion and the effects of climate change on our cliffs around Aotearoa.
This week on Ready Steady Learn we're chatting to the University of Auckland's Priyanka Dhopande about aerospace thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, you know, airplanes and spaceships. Priyanka chats to Rach about her research overseas and here in Aotearoa and what it's like to be a woman in the engineering space.
University of Auckland, PhD Candidate, Harry Allard, joins us to talk about his interest in fish. After conducting the same study as one done 40 years ago, Harry looked at the changes of the ecologist environment at Leigh Marine Reserve. Plus, what happened to the Monkey Face Snapper?
Amit Barde from the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute, joins us in the studio to chat about the future of software like Zoom. After a strange year for human contact, Amit's research is moving at a fast pace to put more human-ness into the way we connect virtually.
University of Auckland's lecturer in product design, Gabi Baron, joins us in studio to chat to Rachel about the changes in sustainability within the design sector. Discussing how we view sustainability, what kind of future this might look like whilst fufilling social needs.
From the University of Auckland and the Liggins Institute, Associate Professor Katie Groom, joins us for a chat about corticosteroid injections and childbirth. She chats to Rachel about the C*STEROID Trial, funded by the Health Research Council, is a New Zealand-wide, placebo-controlled, randomised trial to assess the effects of corticosteroids given to the mother prior to a planned caesarean section at or near term on newborn and later childhood health.
The University of Auckland's Dr. Rebecca Meiring chats to Rachel about her research that will explore sleeping habits and general wellbeing both during and after Covid-19. They discuss how exercise changed during our lockdown period and the effect that may have on wellbeing. The survey can be found here.
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