Advocating for unsung scientists: Physicist and Wikipedian Dr Jessica Wade
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
In this episode, our guest host Frances Brown (Associate Director, Hoare Lea) chats to physicist and Faculty of Engineering material scientist Dr Jessica Wade of Imperial College London. Having also become known as a ‘Wikipedian’ and advocate for unsung scientists including women in STEM, Jess has written thousands of online bios for those deserving of recognition and was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2019 for services to gender diversity in science.
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A world of pure imagination - Innovation for a sustainable built environment
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
In this episode, Ellie Griffiths chats to Yewande Akinola – an engineer, consultant and Innovate UK ambassador recently awarded an MBE for services to innovation and industry diversification – whose human-centric built environment journey began with modelling her dream house from her mum’s living room.
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AI in the built environment
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
In this episode, our host Ellie Griffiths chats to Alan Mosca, co-founder and chief technology officer at nPlan – a machine learning-based platform that forecasts and predicts outcomes of construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. As well as the capability for innovation through optioneering, improving efficiency, and the flywheel that AI can give to designers, we discuss sustainability and energy consumption cost-benefit analysis, efficient AI chips of the future, and cautionary tales. Alan offers his perspective on concerns about bias in data sets, plus a new bias that...
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Data-led solutions for positive social change
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
Imagine Eastenders without its community hotspots: the Queen Vic, the cafe, the market, the square. It’d be a lot harder for the main characters to mix, right? In this episode, Ellie Griffiths chats to Amir Hussain, the Bradford-born founder/CEO of Yeme Tech, about building inclusive communities. Amir uses his geospatial mapping platform to intelligently and compassionately bring people together in the real world – seeking out innovative built-environment solutions that inform place regeneration and facilitate connection, especially in challenged areas. Hear about his journey from...
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Human first, designer second.
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
In this episode, our host Ellie Griffiths hears from The Royal College of Art’s Rama Gheerawo – an inclusive design innovator who has used his skillset to address societal issues around ageing, healthcare, ability and diversity. Together they discuss human-centric healthcare design today and juggling its multiple demands, as well as the importance of healthcare placement, localisation and access, getting comfortable with uncertainty, non-binary thinking and leadership models based around empathy, clarity and creativity.
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Full STEAM ahead - Nurturing the talent pipeline
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
In this episode, our host Ellie Griffiths chats to Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon – mathematician, computer scientist and co-founder of social enterprise – about our sector today and Anne-Marie’s own prodigal trajectory through it, including her road-to-Damascus moment, as well as the labour involved with changing cultures, and enriching the quality of the solution.
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Newton to Net Zero
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
In this episode Alex chats to Charlie Blair, of Gravitricity, about the development of a storage technology based on a simple principle: raising and lowering a heavy weight. Offering some of the best characteristics of lithium batteries and pumped hydro storage, Charlie shares the journey so far for this novel innovation that will enable existing grid infrastructure to go further in a renewable energy world.
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Spinouts and the city.
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
We hear from Professor Michele Barbour, the University of Bristol’s Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Innovation – a new role created just six months ago. Following a recent study which has found that the university’s spinout companies generate higher average returns on investment than those of any other UK university, Michele shares her own experience in founding a spinout.
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Vanessa Murray Founder of Mentoring Circle
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
We hear from Vanessa Murray, who founded Mentoring Circle to address the gender diversity gap at the property industry’s senior leadership level – by partnering newly qualified female professionals with top female leaders. The organisation welcomes its second intake on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2022. Vanessa discusses with Hoare Lea Directors Jo Edwards and Sara Quaglieni their experience of mentoring for the scheme, as well as getting comfortable with not knowing all the answers, and articulating ambitions out loud. Together they talk confidence, reverse mentoring and the...
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Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast Episode 20
Hoare Lea Exploration Podcast
A detox is a common new year’s resolution, and the planet needs one as our everyday internet actions contributing considerably to the climate emergency.
info_outlineThis episode, we hear from two key designers of the Social Contact Pod – a collaborative project launched in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. We discuss what makes this unique pod – which allows families to spend valuable time with loved ones without the risk of contamination – so special, and how spaces that promote human and connection with our natural environment are likely to become more important than ever.