Welcome to our school podcast, the place to find out more about our school and where we'll be speaking to staff, pupils and parents so that together we're all connected. If you have any questions please contact the school through the main website.
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St Edmund Hall’s inaugural Research Expo took place on 28 February 2015. It was a celebration of the great diversity of research currently being undertaken at the College, and was an opportunity for students and academics to interact, learn and engage with colleagues across all disciplines. The ‘Teddy Talks’, given by St Edmund Hall academics and postgraduate students, were a key part of the Expo. Aimed at a non-specialist audience and lasting around 12 minutes each, they give a quick introd ...
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#004 - Welcome to St Ed’s Line, the podcast from St Edmund’s School, an independent day and boarding school in Canterbury for children aged 2-18. In this episode we’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 with four different guests! We have pupils Issy and Charlotte, then two Mums, Charley and Marsha, and together we discuss a wide range of t…
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#003 - Welcome to St Ed’s Line, the podcast from St Edmund’s School, an independent day and boarding school in Canterbury for children aged 2-18. In this episode, we’re speaking to multiple people including Senior Deputy Head, Catherine Shearer, School Counsellor, Nicky Crouch and L6 pupils, Lucy, Kristina, Henry and Sienna. We will be exploring me…
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#002 - Welcome to St Ed’s Line, the podcast from St Edmund’s School, an independent day and boarding school in Canterbury for children aged 2-18. In this, our second episode, we’re speaking to multiple people. First we hear from Ed O’Connor, the Head. Then we switch across to Andrew de Silva, Head of the Junior School, and Samantha Barnes who talks…
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#001 - Welcome to St Ed’s Line, the podcast from St Edmund’s School, an independent day and boarding school in Canterbury for children aged 2-18. This is episode number one of the school’s new podcast and we’re so delighted to bring it to you. In this episode we’re speaking to Edward O’Connor, the Head, Howard Sykes, Assistant Director of Drama and…
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Welcome to our new podcast, the place to find out more about our school and where we'll be speaking to staff, pupils and parents so that together we're all connected. Our first main episode is coming soon so be sure to check back here in the next few days to see the first release. If you have any questions in the meantime please contact the school …
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Investigating how schools may help improve diet, particularly in low- and middle-income countries In recent decades, Sri Lanka has experienced a social, economic, demographic and environmental transition. Currently it suffers a double burden of under- and over-nutrition. It is important to align health promotion and development. This DPhil, which i…
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This lecture illustrates the ways in which the landscape in Central Asia has been influenced by active faults and earthquakes and will examine the hazard faced at the present-day. Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan are lands of high mountains, faults, and earthquakes in the heart of Asia. The active deformation is due to the collision of India an…
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The importance of looking at the American colonial period not as the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ but as a British America consisting of twenty-six colonies and provinces. This discussion emphasises the importance of looking at the American colonial period not as the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ but as a British America consisting of twenty-six colonies and province…
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How non-invasive brain stimulation techniques might work, and how we have started to use them in stroke survivors. Non-invasive brain stimulation has been around for thousands of years - from the use of electric fish in Ancient Greece to cure headaches, to the modern use of very small electric currents passed through the brain via two electrodes pl…
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From predicting the properties of nanotechnological devices to the structural stability of small proteins and dynamics of water. Atomistic computer simulations of matter based on solving quantum mechanical equations is an interdisciplinary area that touches physics, chemistry, and a part of biology. By calculating the electronic structure of an arr…
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Current practice in preventing and handling missing data alongside clinical trials: are we doing well?
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Reviewing the methodology surrounding missing data in research and statistical analysis, clarifying why it can contribute to misleading results. Missing data is present in almost all research. However, it is also a well-recognised problem in the analysis and reporting of clinical research due to its potential to introduce bias into the results. Pat…
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How mathematicians think about the puzzle that Christopher Monckton launched in 1999. In 1999 Christopher Monckton launched a new type of puzzle, similar to a jigsaw but with 209 plain green plastic pieces with geometric shapes. To attract interest, and increase sales, he offered a £1,000,000 prize for the first solution if found within a time limi…
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What debt management strategies do OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries follow?
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How do debt managers decide about the maturity of new public debt? Typical debt management objectives include:cost minimization,economic stabilization and tax smoothing, andadjusting to investor preferences.These objectives cannot be all achieved simultaneously. Theoretical models from the normative literature point to (2) tax smoothing as the opti…
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Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare's language. Only two actual animals definitely appear in Shakespeare’s plays: a naughty dog in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and a hungry bear in The Winter’s Tale. But animals are everywhere in Shakespeare’s language. This talk will offer some suggestions as to why that is, and will show that the much-vaunte…
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Looking at atoms to understand mega-structures' structural integritySome components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected ...
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How we need to characterize materials at atomic level in order to understand their macroscopic behaviour. Some components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected to be safely in service for over 20 years. However, it is not unusual that they suffer from environmental degra…
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An introduction to the theory of unreliable narration and outlines two critical approaches: the cognitivist and the rhetorical. Body language experts and polygraph tests can help us to determine when we are being deceived, but how do we know whether the narrator in a literary text is lying to us? This talk provides an introduction to the theory of …
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Using a scenario from the Hollywood film "Hot Shots", how should a compensation payment have been divided up between all those involved in the circumstances of "Dead Meat" Thompson's death? The circumstances of LT “Dead Meat” Thompson’s (from Hot Shots) death are as unfortunate as they are spectacular: during a training flight he crashes into anoth…
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Demonstrating the pilot and explaining the significance of this digital database. A prolific letter-writer, Catherine II ruled during the high point of the European Enlightenment, when letters were the essential knowledge-transfer medium in government, commerce and intellectual exchange in an increasingly globalised world. She maintained a vast cor…
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Our research uses brain imaging techniques such as MRI, to assess changes in brain activity or brain structure. We then try to use this information to design new interventions to improve healthy ageing or boost recovery from stroke. The brain changes when we learn, get older, or recover from damage such as stroke. Our research uses brain imaging te…
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How our ability to now see the invisible is central to research in biology – from infectious disease to cancer and Alzheimers. The development of the electron microscope in the middle of the last century revolutionised biology and our understanding of cells and tissues. Developments have continued and in this century computation methods have enable…
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Why is cancer metastasis to bone so devastating, what are the challenges, and what are we trying to do about it.Από τον Claire Edwards
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Is Climate Change responsible for the downfall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt Recent palaeoenvironmental evidence suggests that northeast Africa and southwest Asia were struck by an intense 'mega-drought' around the year 2200 BC. The event has already been blamed for the collapse of complex societies in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. I am trying to…
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Anomalocaridids: their ecology & their diversity. The Cambrian Explosion was a major biodiversification event that saw the rise of nearly all animal phyla in a rapid burst 500 million years ago. The anomalocaridids are iconic members of these primitive animal ecosystems, owing to their huge size, bizarre morphology and complicated history of desrip…
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An analysis of George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' and how the writer's critique of railroads might inform an ethically sensitive approach to HS2 Whilst no-one would question the economic advantages of a high-speed rail network connecting major cities in the UK, there is still little agreement about the feasibility of the government’s £50 billion HS2 proj…
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What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? This talk challenges the predominant assumption in research on trade unions and democratization rule, namely that trade unions are necessarily driven by material interests or by th…
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Fossil records tell us a lot about evolution around the time of dinosaursΑπό τον Roger Benson
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How audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. This presentation will seek to explore how audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. We will explore the concept of ‘liveness’ and question how the physical presence of an actor alters our expectation of a cinematic/ theatrical event. We will touch on spectator theory, in both th…
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How flow cytometry can help investigations into immune-mediated diseases. Flow cytometry is a technique which uses flourescent compounds of different colours to label molecules on cells. Using this approach we can investigate the cell populations responsible for causing immune-mediated diseases such as Ankylosing Spondylitis and explore how new the…
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