Robert Gordon University

Now, many of us are fatalistic about that Parkinson's look, feeling there's nothing we can do about it, but that's not necessarily the case.

I've been talking to Dr Julie Jones, a physiotherapist and academic who specialises in Parkinson's, as well as being an associate professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and a leader of the Parkinson's

Excellence Network in Scotland.

I asked her how early changes in posture occurred after diagnosis.

In a few moments, I'll be having a discussion with CO2 Coalition science and research associate Vijay Jayaraj about the history of the environmental movement and the real-world human impacts it has had.

Vijay holds a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, UK, an MS in environmental sciences from University of East Anglia, UK, and a BS in engineering from Anna University, India.

He's a prolific contributor, writing about CO2 benefits, energy, and climate science, most often from the viewpoint of the developing world.

He is based in southern India.

My wife had started a PhD while we were in Scotland.

She has a PhD in nursing from Robert Gordon University, which was on the other side of town.

They were the sciences school.

And so she was still finishing up her PhD when we moved back to the States.

Yeah.

So we actually studied at RGU, at the Scots School of Architecture, and one of our projects was to design an urban sports center here to replace the, the health center.

Maybe that will materialize one day.

Who knows? But we kind of, yeah, came to love the spot, see all the people that kind of use it and how important it is to the people in the area, whether that's just 'cause they don't like the look of it or whether they like to hang out here.

And there's, there's, there's, there's still people coming in.

Like, that's something completely random, not even related to oil, but they're, they were sending people to R- uh, RGU, Robert Gordon University.

Um, but there's still, it's always been quite, there's lots of people coming in, and obviously with all the investment in the city, the infrastructure getting built, there's obviously contracts, there's people, uh, coming in.

So the market's kinda still moving.

When I left secondary school, my goal in my head was to be a journalist.

So I actually studied journalism for two years at RGU already.

It was through that course that I kind of fell in love with design because there was a lot of creative modules and through the lecture comments and a lot of my classmates basically telling me well like why are you not doing this and it wasn't the case that I didn't enjoy journalism I did but I just kind of could see myself excelling at more of the creative based modules than the actual writing and theory based ones so I was like oh this is interesting so I met a former well a graduate a job I was at, just a part-time job and he was telling me all about communication design and greys and he saw some of my work because I did freelance, well I say freelance but it was basically just I was on social media posting football graphics and weird kit designs and things and People were just kind of getting back to me being like, can we do something? This would be really fun.

So it was really a weird way of getting into it.

So I think climate campaigners feel they've got a stronger case against Rosebank in terms of what happens there.

But to come all the way back to your point about jobs, Robert Gordon University, which assesses these things, there's an expert there called Professor Paul DeLeo, who I think you've spoken to before, I've spoken to before.

He says that he reckons there'll be about 1,600 offshore job losses every year for the coming decade.

And not nearly that amount is being created in renewables.

oh I see like pineapples are all iconography that were on emojis and suddenly it was like oh I want like that poo you know you can buy the poo oh my god that's so true yeah yeah yeah anyway I just thought it was a really weird thing so odd

yeah just like pineapple and art in 2017 there were two students at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen who bought a pineapple from a supermarket and walked into an art exhibition in Aberdeen and just put the pineapple kind of like in a room and it was there for four days because people thought it was part of the exhibition I loved it so much

See, that's the thing.

They're just so, like, aesthetically pleasing.

I wanted to do something a bit more practical.

So RGU is kind of the university that I selected there.

And I guess waste and decommissioning translated really well because it's that analytical background that evidence-led thinking that translates really well so that's how like I kind of got into kind of the science field and then I just applied for a job with ASCO god I think maybe about 12 years ago and I've never left I started at the boots, boots on the ground, that really kind of technical thinking, and it evolved.

I've worked my way up, and now I'm leading the department.