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Oct 27, 2022

Over its very long history, cannabis has been celebrated by some for its pleasures and medicinal properties.  It has also been demonised for inducing psychotic effects, addiction and cognitive impairment.  A cannabis plant can contain over 140 cannabinoids and levels of these vary widely in different strains of...


Oct 25, 2022

Is it ok to smile before Christmas? This week my guest, David Lowe and I talk about humour in the classroom - what it is, how it can help learning and how it can go wrong, there are also some (very good) jokes!  If you want to find out more about David’s research or get involved you can visit his website hahasquad.com


Oct 18, 2022

Dr Laura Jenkins, Laura is a University Teacher in Psychology at Loughborough University, a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  Laura’s research interests focus around areas of personality and factors that could be influenced by personality.  Today we are going to be...


Oct 11, 2022

We don’t give much thought to names, but we probably ought to.  In this emotive podcast Prof. I. M. Nick, the current Editor-in-Chief of NAMES, the scholarly journal for onomastic research(“Onomastics” is the formal name for the scientific study of names and naming) discusses name-based prejudice and how...


Oct 4, 2022

A couple of years ago I saw a tweet asking if the fashion for hessian backing on display boards was based on any evidence.  It turns out no one has researched this but Dr Karrie Godwin researches (amongst other things) the impact of classroom displays on off-task behaviour and learning. In this podcast we talk...