Keep it Civil, the engineering podcast from UCL Civil, Environmental& Geomatic Engineering, explores the fascinating and diverse world of engineering. We sit down with top engineers from UCL and beyond to discuss some amazing projects tackling real-world problems and shine a light on aspects of engineering science that may not have been on your radar. New episodes every other Wednesday.
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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... |
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2017-10-04 | 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... |
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2017-08-10 | 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... |
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2017-06-09 | 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... |
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2016-09-07 | 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... |
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2016-08-31 | 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... |
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2016-08-10 | 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... |
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2015-12-02 | 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... |
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2015-11-18 | 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 ... |
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2015-11-04 | 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... |
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