University of the West of England Bristol

It has actually grown into a family.

Welcome to the Let's Talk Health and Care podcast series brought to you by the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol.

We'll be diving deep into exciting research and service changes by speaking to the people directly behind them.

I'm Peter Brindle.

I'm a GP with a real passion for service improvement, health tech and innovation.

And I'm Mark Griffiths, Pro Vice Chancellor and Sponsor for the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol.

Welcome to Let's Talk Health and Care.

Welcome to this episode of Let's Talk Health and Care.

How we treat vulnerable beings reflects our values as a society.

In a recent study reported by positive.news online, the University of the West of England and the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment worked with 18 volunteers who were trained in the physiology and sensory abilities of a chosen animal.

The animals were the red deer, a kestrel, earthworm, otter, and salmon.

And before heading out to experience the world firsthand, they were getting an idea of what these animals felt like.

It shouldn't be doing that.

And one of the things I've called for, along with colleagues of mine, Joe Michel at UWE Bristol, Rob Jump at Greenwich, Frank van der Leeuwen used to be at the New Economics Foundation, now elsewhere, in a pamphlet for the Fabian Society, actually, just a couple of years ago, said we need better coordination.

between the Treasury, the government and the Bank of England, and indeed between other bodies that deal with the government and with economic policy.

And my view is that we need, I would say now that the kind of next stage in the evolution of government-Bank of England relations is formal coordination between the two, so that you haven't got a Bank of England that is effectively trying to do the opposite of what the government needs.

The new gig for me is, so Altus Higher Education is just kind of a new arm of Altus, the core Altus brand that lots of people are familiar with.

And we have become verified as a college and, So the best way of thinking about it as people, you know, UK based who are familiar with the model of Hartbury College, Hartbury started as an associate faculty of the University of the West of England, i.e. the University of the West of England validated and signed the degree certificates, but everything was delivered and controlled and managed by the Hartbury College entity.

That I think that's the best analogy that I can give people in the sense that Altice Higher Education has become a college that is a An associate faculty member college is the more official way that we would describe it of a kind of a university group called Wolf, which means we are providing validated master's degrees that are available to people all over the world.

The core thing for us is that everything we do, every program that we come up with is about helping people get better at coaching and being a practitioner.

And also a substantial lack of safety data shared, by which I mean no safety data shared at all.

And Glenn Lyons, Mark McDonald's Professor of Future Mobility at the University of West England, told us that given the large amount of data being gathered by autonomous vehicles, there's an opportunity for regulators to access more data than is currently legally required.

Yeah, quite.

And it kind of goes on in this sense.

She had grown up in Hampshire, the daughter of David and Teresa Yeats, and she had a younger brother, Chris.

She had studied at the University of the West of England, and she trained as a landscape architect, a profession that suited her perfectly.

She loved the outdoors and design.

She had an eye for how spaces could be made beautiful.

Um, first of all, I've been, uh, working with Queen Mary University of London, and we've been doing an engaging and influencing program, um, with their staff and their managers.

And, and then also, I've been, over the years, working with, uh, University of the West of England, uh, supporting their staff to support their learners.

And we've been working on emotional intelligence, which is a program I do i- in various different places.

And, um, I'm really fascinated with the idea in both of those programs about, uh, reading the room.

The off-and-in-pouches policy favored, of course, by most schools comes with challenges of its own, and a new study has pinpointed these, raising questions about the effectiveness of this pouch approach.

Dr. Benjamin Knight and Dr. Paul Redford of UWE Bristol researched how the ban is sometimes circumvented, what the learning implications are, and just how much of a burden this is all to school staff.

Benjamin and Paul are talking to NAHT's Assistant General Secretary, James Bowen.

Paul, Ben, thank you ever so much for joining me on the podcast.