Keep it Civil - UCL Engineering Podcast

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2017-10-30

  Keep it Civil 304 – The past, present, and future of transport

In this week’s episode of Keep it Civil, we are joined by Dr Clemence Cavoli from the UCL Centre for Transport Studies, to speak about the past, present, and future trends of transport use. The centre for transport studies is a multidisciplinary resear...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2017-10-04

  Keep it Civil 303 - Women in Engineering

In this new episode of Keep it Civil, Julie Elkouby, the president of the UCL Student Society of Women Engineers, joins us to speak about the issues facing women in the engineering industry, and what her soceity is doing to improve the numbers of women...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2017-08-10

  Keep It Civil 302 - The Future of Infrastructure

For the second episode of series three we are joined by Professor Brian Collins to talk us through the work of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC), which aims to address the insufficient and unsustainable value ext...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2017-06-09

  Keep it Civil 301 - Solar Energy in Rwanda

In this new episode of Keep it Civil, Iwona Bisaga talks about her work with solar energy in Rwanda, and the Beacon Bursary grant project bringing the user story to the people of Kigali and London. Follow Iwona on twitter (twitter.com/IwonaBisaga)or t...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2016-09-07

  Keep it Civil 203 - Biodiversity in the City

For the last episode of this mini series, we're joined by EngD Researcher Alison Fairbrass to discuss her research measuring and monitoring biodiversity in cities and the built environment using sound recordings, and the ways in which this research can...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2016-08-31

  Keep it Civil 202 - Earthquake Search and Rescue

Josh Macabuag, Research Engineer at UCL with the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR), joins us to talk about his work with the charity Search and Rescue Assistance in Disasters (SARAID). Working with SARAID, Josh was deployed to Nepal...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2016-08-10

  Keep It Civil 201 - Adaptive Building Structures

Keep it Civil is back for series two, and we're joined by EngD Researcher Gennaro Senatore to discuss the design philosophy of adaptive building structures he developed here at UCL with the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR) and Expe...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2015-12-02

  Keep It Civil 116 - Density Matters!

Rachna Leveque, Urban Planner and doctoral student at UCL, joins us to talk about how density relates to governance and resilience in cities, with a special look at Mumbai. What exactly do planners mean when they talk about density, and why is it impor...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2015-11-18

  Keep it Civil 115 - Tackling Urban Microbes

Dr Lena Ciric and members of UCL's Healthy Infrastructure Research Group (HIRG) join us to talk about tackling the spread of microbes in urban environments. We discuss how exactly microbes spread around the built environment (and how we know this), as ...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author
2015-11-04

  Keep it Civil 114 - Redesigning the Wheelchair

Giulia Barbareschi, PhD student at UCL, joins us to talk about her PhD research which seeks to redesign (or optimise) the wheelchair. We discuss why the wheelchair needs optimising in the first place, as well as Giulia's research which aims to reduce t...
  UCL CEGE Engineering author