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Nina Stanczyk on mosquito bites
Mosquitoes may seem to bite us indiscriminately, but some people are targeted more than others. Join Nina Stanczyk to hear about how mosquitoes use smell to find people, why our body odour makes some...
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Anne Koerber on Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes may seem to bite us indiscriminately, but some people are targeted more than others. Join Nina Stanczyk to hear about how mosquitoes use smell to find people, why our body odour makes some...
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Seif Shaheen on asthma
The last half-century has seen an epidemic of asthma in the UK. Despite years of study, science is still unable to fully explain its rise. Seif Shaheen is Clinical Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology...
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Tim Smith on cinema
Film directors are entertainers, artists, auteurs… and natural psychologists. That’s the perspective of Tim Smith, a cognitive psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London, who is fascinated by the...
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Therese Hesketh on Population
What is the impact of China’s one-child policy? Since its introduction in 1979, the policy has had a direct impact on the lives of over one-fifth of the world’s population. It has influenced...
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Henrietta Bowden-Jones on Gambling
Half of the UK's 500,000 problem gamblers are in London, making this a very urban issue. Henriette Bowden-Jones is founder and director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic in Soho, whose clientele...
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Katharina Wulff on Body Clocks
City life, with its shift work, artificially lit offices and bright computer screens may be disrupting our natural rhythms - a phenomenom called social jetlag. Katharina Wulff, a neurobiologist at the...
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Hugo Spiers on Navigating the City
Hugo Spiers, Lecturer in Cognitive and Perceptual Brain Sciences at UCL, sends his experimental subjects out into the streets of Soho and works with London cabbies to study the way the brain constructs...
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Anne Lingford-Hughes on addiction
Most people enjoy the occasional drink, but what happens when it goes too far? Anne Lingford-Hughes is an addiction psychiatrist at Imperial College London who works on alcohol and heroin addiction....
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Caspar Addyman on baby laughter
What makes babies laugh? This is a question that fascinates psychologist Caspar Addyman. His research at the Birkbeck Babylab investigates this, alongside other aspects of infant cognition. Join him to...
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Kate Jones on bats
Bats – according to international bat expert Kate Jones – are cool. From the wonders of echolocation to a surprisingly long lifespan, they possess a fascinating set of special skills and...
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Malcolm Finlay on the heart
Can you die of a broken heart? Perhaps not, but heart attacks have been known to be triggered by intense emotion and mental stress. Malcolm Finlay, Senior Clinical Research Fellow at UCL, is...
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Matt Piper on diet and ageing
How does what we eat affect how we age? Is it a question of quantity, or is quality the key? With the global population getting older and many of the world's most devastating diseases linked to the...
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Michael Banissy on synaesthesia
What colour is the number 3? What do words taste like? This might sound like nonsense, but for people with synaesthesia this crossing of the senses creates a unique - and very real - way of perceiving...
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Sarah Bell on sewers
Hosepipe bans, torrential rain, flooding - water was constantly in the news in 2012. Sarah Bell, a civil engineer at UCL, is an expert on water systems (and sewers in particular). She talks to Benjamin...
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Stephen McMahon on pain
Pain is an important warning signal that can help us to avoid harm, but for people living with prolonged, chronic pain it can have devastating consequences. Stephen McMahon, Director of the London Pain...
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Mary Morrell on sleep apnoea
Up to 4 per cent of adults, and as many as one-third of older people, suffer from sleep apnoea, or interrupted breathing during sleep. Mary Morrell’s research sleep lab at the Royal Brompton Hospital...
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Gerry Thomas on radiation
A year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, how has human health been affected - and what lessons were learned from previous nuclear accidents? Drawing on her work at the Chernobyl Tissue Bank, Gerry...
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Sandra Shefelbine on bones
How does the work our bones do influence their size, shape and resilience? Bioengineer Sandra Shefelbine combines number crunching with imaging and practical experiments. She talks to the Wellcome...
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Essi Veding on antisocial behaviour
The tendency toward antisocial behaviour may be inherited. But for psychologist Essi Viding heritability isn't inevitability. Environmental factors are important too. She talks to the Wellcome Trust's...
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