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Aston University

Public university in Birmingham, Englandwww.aston.ac.uk

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Nov 4, 2026

Luan WiseGUEST
6:42
are huge.
Luan WiseGUEST
6:43
So if I just, you know, how the book evolved was I did a TEDx talk at Aston University back in September 2024.
Luan WiseGUEST
6:50
The overall theme of that TEDx was the ripple effect.
Luan WiseGUEST
6:53
So I was able to talk about social media as a force for good, you know, how it's raised money, how it's you know, supports initiatives and campaigns and things like that.
Andy TrewickGUEST
4:44
And ultimately, at the end, there were communities that had all that livelihood taken away from them.
Adam LeggeHOST
4:50
Yeah, that's a great segue in terms of you graduating from Aston University in Birmingham with your engineering degree in hand.
Adam LeggeHOST
4:59
So tell us, people love to hear the story of going from there to where you are today, leading Graham.
Adam LeggeHOST
5:04
So tell us the journey through your career that took you to Europe and the Middle East before coming to Canada to lead Graham.
Steve DukeHOST
8:33
Oh, what have I started?
Martin ShepherdGUEST
8:37
I graduated as a mechanical engineer from Aston University, so in Birmingham.
Martin ShepherdGUEST
8:44
Um, and I think at the time I said, "I've had enough of Birmingham," and then I just sort of forgot to leave, I think.
Martin ShepherdGUEST
8:50
Um, but I then joined Land Rover as an engineer and worked there for 27 years.
Mark EllenHOST
11:03
So you went to see them?
Carl PalmerGUEST
11:04
No, what happened, first of all, they were both at, two of the guys were still at Aston University.
Carl PalmerGUEST
11:10
They said, the Who are playing at the university.
Carl PalmerGUEST
11:15
Oh, I said, I saw them on Top of the Pops.
JasonHOST
14:36
October 26, food technology and bee ethics.
JasonHOST
14:41
Researchers at Aston University are investigating a way to recreate important antimicrobial properties of manuka honey.
JasonHOST
14:52
Using compounds including, it's a hard word to say, methylglycerol and hydrogen peroxide.
JasonHOST
15:00
Wow, okay.
Tom BreezeHOST
34:15
You know, like I'm more than happy for somebody, if I was in a school, for somebody to come to me and say, right, we need to put in a consistent old school behaviour policy and classroom management policy because we need to kind of get things back together.
Tom BreezeHOST
34:25
You know, things are getting a bit away from us here, whatever, you know, Aston have come and had a word or whatever.
Tom BreezeHOST
34:30
To come and sit down with me as a music specialist and say, this is what we're thinking.
Tom BreezeHOST
34:34
And for me to say, yes, yes, yes,
Karl JonesHOST
40:58
Have you got one?
Antony BourneGUEST
40:59
I don't tend to read that many books now, but the last one, going to the topic... was this made to serve by one of my friends, Tim Baines, the professor of Aston University, all about the move, how manufacturers can move to a more servitized approach.
Antony BourneGUEST
41:15
These days, I tend to read much more short articles on the web from analyst companies like Gartner and IDC because the technology is moving so quickly.
Antony BourneGUEST
41:24
By the time you've written the book and published it, it's out of date already.
François PicardHOST
1:02
And that brings us to our spotlight segment.
François PicardHOST
1:11
And joining us is Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University.
François PicardHOST
1:17
Thank you for being with us here on France 24.
François PicardHOST
1:18
Thank you.
Michael LarkinGUEST
37:14
So I have supervised bits of discursive work, bits of narrative work.
Michael LarkinGUEST
37:21
We have a research group at Aston that is called Phenomenology of Health and Relationships.
Michael LarkinGUEST
37:26
It's quite eclectic.
Michael LarkinGUEST
37:28
So we're very deliberately not an IPA-only group or not an IPA group.
Alex CrispHOST
12:48
So I've heard of a few different types of scaffolds.
Alex CrispHOST
12:52
I know at Aston University, they're working on kind of mycelium as a scaffold.
Alex CrispHOST
13:00
Part of the problem is to get the cells to want to attach to the scaffold.
Risto MartinGUEST
13:04
Yeah.

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