2022 Video chats
These video chats were part of a previous series of video interviews with University of Exeter academics and alumni that started during the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020 and continued over the following two years.
You can watch all of the videos from 2022 below as well as listen to the audio only from many videos, via Spotify and other podcast platforms.
Make sure to also catch up on our latest video series - Alumni Matters - where we chat to several alumni and learn more about their careers, their thoughts on some of the key challenges our world is facing, and discover how they are helping to shape it into a healthier, fairer, greener place.
Professor Craig Williams, Director of the Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC), talks about his research into cardiac risk in young athletes and ways of identifying potential issues early.
Professor Richard Betts, Chair in Climate Impacts at the University of Exeter and Head of Climate Impacts in the Met Office, talks about how the climate has changed and how we can protect it for the future.
Special edition:
In this episode, hear from a range of climate scientists and activists talking about their work, what inspires them, why COP26 is such as important event, and what gives them hope for the future.
Alumna and best-selling author Milly Johnson talks about her career, how she gets her ideas, and why it's important the romantic fiction genre is not overlooked by the industry.
As the number of satellites in Earth's orbit starts to rise significantly, Professor Kevin Gaston at the University of Exeter talks about the potential impacts and balancing technology and the environment.
Current final year student Tom Parker talks about the impact donations to the Alumni Annual Fund have had on their project Formula Student which provides students with hands-on engineering experience in the XRacing team.