Faced with more and more unfamiliar hazards, planners and governments want to know whether their preparations are sufficient. Citizens are increasingly asking the same questions. We hear from Dr Hitomi Nakanishi (University of Canberra) and Dr Sarah Wise (UCL CASA) on how new kinds of simulation can be used to help people understand evacuation, and…

Our theme for this episode is “Seeing Cities”. We hear about two very different ways of looking at a city, making connections across space and time, and allowing us to understand the urban environment and its history in new and unexpected ways.We visited Queen Mary University to talk to two art historians whose work is bound up with these issues.We…

In February and March, many Universities across the United Kingdom were affected by the largest wave of industrial action to hit the sector for many years. For this episode of the Global Lab, we spoke to Tony Brown and Sean Wallis from UCL's University and College Union branch about why the strikes took place.To give you a sense of what it felt lik…

As part of a new strand for the Global Lab, this month's podcast features a roundtable discussion with researchers from CASA about the relationship between Science Fiction and technology.The short story discussed in this episode, "The Gernsbach Continuum" by William Gibson, is available to read here:https://web.archive.org/web/20070217183337/http:/…

We spot some of the biggies hidden right before our eyes. Featuring Tim Causer, Max Colson, and Alex Mankoo.---Produced by Martin Zaltz Austwick, Hannah Sender, and Oliver Marsh. ---Visit http://thegloballab.com or follow us on twitter @thegloballab.Por The Global Lab