Are you a naturally curious person? Following on from the Royal Society of Edinburgh's successful Tea & Talk series held during their Curious 2019 summer events programme, the concept has been developed for a digital format to provide access to experts talking on a wide range of subjects and provide the opportunity for listeners to learn something new, expand their horizons and hear from national and world experts in their respective disciplines.
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What is a Just Transition and how do we achieve it?
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To close Series 5 of Tea and Talk with the RSE, we chat to Professor Jim Skea and Professor Camilla Toulmin about the road to a Just Transition to net-zero. Jim is Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London, co-chair of Working Group III (Mitigation) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a former member of the UK Committ…
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How climate change affects the way we use our land
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We speak to RSE Fellows Professor Maggie Gill and Professor Colin Campbell about land use and climate change. Maggie is Emeritus Professor in the School of Biology at the University of Aberdeen. She is a former Chief Scientific Advisor, chairs the Scottish Science Advisory Council, which provides independent advice to the Scottish government and ha…
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How we will travel and commute in a net-zero Scotland
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In episode three of the Tea and Talk Podcast, we speak to RSE Fellows Professor Gordon Masterton and Professor Iain Docherty about transport, mobility and what net-zero means in practice. Gordon is Chair of Future Infrastructure at the University of Edinburgh and has a wealth of experience advising on transport and infrastructure projects including…
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What tourism looks like in a net-zero world
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We chat with members of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland, Dr Sandro Carnicelli and Dr Leslie Mabon about the impacts of climate change on tourism. Sandro Carnicelli is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland where he leads work and conducts research on Marketing, Events and Tourism. Leslie Mabon is a lecturer in Environmental S…
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How climate change impacts Scottish cities
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With COP26 being held in Glasgow, we chat to Professor James Curran MBE FRSE and Professor Duncan Maclennan CBE FRSE about the impact of climate change on Scottish cities, and the policy and lifestyle changes needed in order to make cities more environmentally friendly. James Curran MBE is a former Chief Executive of the Scottish Environmental Prot…
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Integrating asylum seekers and refugees to build a more inclusive, equal society
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“Good integration is not camps, it’s not aid. It’s people living in flourishing communities where everyone can contribute.” In S03E05 of the RSE Tea and Talk Podcast, Dr Rebekah Widdowfield discusses the issues asylum seekers and refugees face in a post-Brexit Britain with RSE Fellow, Professor Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultura…
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The inequalities of disability during the pandemic
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Studies have shown that living with a disability is more expensive than living without one. As the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a huge blow to the global economy, what will this mean for those with disabilities and the social care and welfare systems that many rely on? In S03E04 of the RSE Tea and Talk Podcast, Dr Rebekah Widdowfield discusses these…
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Sexual equality and diversity in a modern Scotland
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Scotland has become a massively more diverse country in the past fifty years. The advent of better birth control methods in the 1960s sparked an attitude shift and offered more freedoms to women in their lives, their place in the labour market and to a person’s sexual identity entirely. However, alongside these freedoms came issues like the gender …
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Health inequalities in Scotland and how the Deep End Project aims to balance them
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Scotland compares very poorly with other countries in Europe and even within the UK when it comes to health inequalities, but why? In S03E02 of the RSE’s Tea and Talk Podcast, RSE Chief Executive Rebekah Widdowfield talks to Professor Graham Watt CBE FRSE about the reasons and possible answers. Graham is Emeritus Professor in General Practice at th…
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Using the pandemic to increase public participation in debates and decision-making
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Launching the third series of the RSE’s Tea and Talk Podcast, RSE Chief Executive Rebekah Widdowfield chats with RSE Fellows, Talat Yaqoob and Louise Macdonald OBE. They look at how the public has been informed and engaged during the Covid-19 pandemic and how we can build on this experience to improve both public debate and participation in decisio…
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Using evidence and data to tackle public challenges
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Welcome back for another series of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 'Tea & Talk' Podcast; a series of conversations with some of Scotland's leading authorities on the impact of Covid-19, featuring Fellows of the RSE and members of their Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission. In Episode 5, RSE Chief Executive, Rebekah Widdowfield chats with Professor Nia…
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Why we should support inclusive public services
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Welcome back for another series of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 'Tea & Talk' Podcast; a series of conversations with some of Scotland's leading authorities on the impact of Covid-19, featuring Fellows of the RSE and members of their Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission. In Episode 4, RSE Chief Executive, Rebekah Widdowfield chats with Caroline Gard…
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Building Scotland's resilience post-Covid-19
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Welcome back for another series of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 'Tea & Talk' Podcast; a series of conversations with some of Scotland's leading authorities on the impact of Covid-19, featuring Fellows of the RSE and members of their Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission. In Episode 3, RSE Chief Executive, Rebekah Widdowfield chats with Professor Sir…
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Testing Covid-19 and launching the Lighthouse Labs
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Welcome back for another series of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 'Tea & Talk' Podcast; a series of conversations with some of Scotland's leading authorities on the impact of Covid-19, featuring Fellows of the RSE and members of their Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission. In Episode 2, Dr Rebekah Widdowfield talks to Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak ab…
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The impact of Covid-19 on Culture and the Creative Arts
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Welcome back for another series of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 'Tea & Talk' Podcast; a series of conversations with some of Scotland's leading authorities on the impact of Covid-19, featuring Fellows of the RSE and members of their Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission. Kicking things off, Dr Rebekah Widdowfield talks to Dame Seona Reid about the i…
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How Covid-19 has highlighted inequality across the country
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Wrapping up this series of Tea and Talk, Episode 7 features Talat Yaqoob — Independent consultant and researcher, and a member of the RSE Post-COVID-19 Futures Commission. We discuss how COVID-19 has highlighted inequalities across various sectors across the country, including the economy, employment, healthcare and childcare. What steps we can tak…
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How Covid-19 has impacted the arts & culture sector, venues and festivals
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Episode 6 of 'Tea and Talk' features Fergus Linehan, Festival Director and CEO of Edinburgh International Festival. Fergus chats to us about the impact COVID-19 has had on Arts & Culture, how the way we have consumed the arts has changed, and what roads to recovery for venues and festivals are possible. Subscribe for a new episode every Friday. The…
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The impact of Covid-19 on black and ethnic minority groups across the UK
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In Episode 5 of 'Tea and Talk' we talk to Nasar Meer, Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Nasar discusses the impact of COVID-19 on black and ethnic minority groups across Scotland and the UK. Subscribe for a new episode every Friday. The Royal Society of Edinbur…
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How Covid-19 has impacted people's mental health
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'Tea and Talk' returns for Episode 4 with Dr. Stella Chan of the University of Edinburgh, and a member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland. This time we discuss how lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic have affected people's mental health, how mental health services may be impacted post-lockdown, and coping strategies for difficult times like the pr…
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Public behaviour and adherence during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Episode 3 of our 'Tea and Talk' podcast dives into the social science and analysis of public behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic, as Dr. Rebekah Widdowfield chats with Professor Stephen Reicher of the University of St Andrews. How have people reacted to lockdown measures? How did experts expect them to react? Why is a collective mentality so im…
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How drugs and vaccines are made
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In Episode 2 of our 'Tea and Talk' podcast, Dr. Rebekah Widdowfield chats with the CEO of Novabiotics, Dr. Deborah O'Neil about the efficacy of creating drugs, how the vaccine development process works, current efforts being made to produce treatments for COVID-19, and how the current pandemic has affected our approach to global production and coll…
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The importance of using science and evidence to inform government policy
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Tea and Talk with the RSE In the first episode of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 'Tea and Talk' podcast, RSE Chief Executive, Dr. Rebekah Widdowfield chats with RSE President, Professor Dame Anne Glover about the importance of using science and scientific evidence to inform government policy, how these have been used in the UK during the current …
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