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Hi, you’re listening to Postdocalypse, a podcast by postgrad students about all things postgrad. The name comes from the idea that once you finish your PhD, there’s the big question for all of us whether we’ll continue along the academic path or take on of the many alternative routes that are on offer to us. We’re a team of PhD students at King’s College London, trying to navigate this crazy world and we’ll be sharing the highs and the lows of postgraduate study.
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King's College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2018/19) and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 8,500 staff. King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘in ...
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King's College London Middle East & North Africa Podcast

King's College London Department of Middle Eastern Studies

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Established in September 2018, the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies draws together staff and students from across King’s College London working on the Middle East and North Africa. Based in a dozen departments, its over 30 faculty members produce world-class research on every country in the region. They are routinely asked by policy makers, civil society groups and media outlets both in the UK and elsewhere to provide expert analysis on events and developments in this important part of th ...
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Welcome to Postdocalypse on Lockdown! This episode is a re-release of our "Cohabitants on COVID" episode. We have all been busy in the labs since we were allowed back in to work but we hope you'll forgive us... we will get back to filling your ears with sciencey sounds ASAP!In this re-release, we corner our flatmates to talk about working on COVID …
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Welcome to Postdocalypse on Lockdown!Some Postdocalypse team members corner their flatmates to talk about working on COVID in this socially distant episode! We answer some of your burning COVID FAQs and some Qs you didn't know you had when we talk to a doctor and a scientist who have both taken time out of their training to work on the front lines …
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This book launch highlighted the economic, social and political rise of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) as well as its political resilience over the last sixteen years.Speaker - Sevinc BermekSevinc is a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies and a teaching fellow at the department of International Development at…
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Welcome to episode 7 of Postdocalypse 2019! This podcast is produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This month we have a special guest! We met Anne-Marie Coriat, Head of UK and EU Research Landscape at the Wellcome Trust, at VItae Conference and we are so excited to have picked her brains about the changing fac…
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This panel examines the consequences of surrogate warfare for local conflicts in the Middle East, looking at how Iran, Arab Gulf states and the United States externalize the burden of conflicts to surrogates. What drives surrogate warfare in the region, what can patrons really achieve and what are the long-term effects trained, equipped and empower…
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This is a recording of the IMES Inaugural Conference titled 'The Media, Politics and Dissent in North Africa Since the Arab Spring' which took place on 25 September 2019.00:00 Introductions: Fatima El-Issawi and Jonathan Hill 13:30Panel #1: The media and authoritarian resilienceChair: Jonathan HillSpeakers:(1) Francesco Cavatorta; (2) Kjetil Selvic…
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Welcome to the episode 6 of Postdocalypse 2019! This podcast is produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode was recorded ***live*** at Vitae International Researcher Development Conference, where we led a special interest session with KCL’s Careers in Your Ears! This episode concerns how to get researc…
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Welcome to the episode 5 of Postdocalypse 2019! This podcast is produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This month we have a very special treat for listeners - a whole episode dedicated to open science - What is it? Why should we be talking about it? And how is it changing the face of research? Ale Lautarescu i…
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It's our 4th Postdocalypse episode of 2019! You know what they say...4th time's a charm. Right? That's definitely what they say. They also say that this podcast is produced by Health Sciences PhD researchers at King's College London. In this episode we will hear about Olatz's PhD research into the complex and difficult-to-quantify relationship betw…
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The third episode of 2019 has dropped! This podcast is produced by Health Sciences PhD researchers at King's College London. This a career special where Madeleine Iafrate interviews two speical guests, Dr's Samantha Terry and Daniel Burnham. They discuss the practicalities of being academics in a relationship and maintaining a good work life balanc…
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Welcome to the second Postdocalypse episode of 2019! This podcast is produced by Health Sciences PhD researchers at King's College London.In this episode, we will help you sort out your life! Just kidding, but we will interview Donald Lush from the Careers & Employability office who has some reassuring advice about post-PhD options. Don't worry, yo…
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Welcome to the first Postdocalypse episode of 2019! This podcast is produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.In this episode, Haris Shuaib interviews Katie Begg about her PhD research investigating the cellular mechanisms behind radiotherapy response in head and neck cancer. Later in the episode they are joined …
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Welcome to the seventh episode of Postdocalypse, produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode is hosted by Emily Prpa interviewing Dr Francis Smith about Treacher Collins Syndrome, research motivation and anglophilia. Dr Smith talks to us about his experience of living with Treacher Collins Syndrome and…
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Welcome to the sixth episode of Postdocalypse, produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode is hosted by Haris Shuaib interviewing Joe Barnby about his research into the role of dopamine in psychosis, and how he founded and set up his very own company alongside his PhD studies.Joe tells us about the sta…
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Welcome to the fifth episode of Postdocalypse, produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode is hosted by Katie Begg interviewing Mads Iafrate about her research in cell tracking that aims to improve efficacy and safety of cell therapies for cancer patients. Mads discusses how she uses molecular biology …
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Welcome to the fourth episode of Postdocalypse, produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode is hosted by Alexandra Lautarescu, interviewing Elisa Brann about her research into the neuroscience behind verbal-auditory hallucinations, otherwise known as voice-hearing. Elisa discusses how she uses hypnosis…
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‘Does an apple a day keep the doctor away?’Welcome to the third episode of Postdocalypse, produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode is hosted by Michael Norman from the Dental Institute, interviewing Emily Prpa from Nutritional Sciences about her research on the effects of polyphenols, commonly found…
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Welcome to the second episode of Postdocalypse, produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode is hosted by Elisa Brann, interviewing Alexandra Lautarescu about her research in neurodevelopment and mental health. In the second discussion, Elisa and Ale discuss mental health and wellbeing as a postgraduate…
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Welcome to the inaugural episode of Postdocalypse, produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.This episode is hosted by Emily Prpa, interviewing Haris Shuaib about his research in applying Artificial Intelligence to brain tumour prognosis. In the second discussion, Emily and Haris discuss orthodox and unorthodox p…
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A public lecture delivered by Dr Nimer Sultany (School of Law, SOAS) at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King's College London on 30 January 2018.What is the effect of revolutions on legal systems? What role do constitutions play in legitimating regimes? How do constitutions and revolutions converge or clash? This talk address these and ot…
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"Neoliberal Development, Protests and Mobilizations Between the Urban and Rural: Reflections on the Tunisian Revolution and its Aftermath"A public lecture delivered by Prof. Sami Zemni (Ghent University) at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King's College London on 7 November 2017.This presentation engages in the debate on urban contentious…
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In this talk delivered at King's on 10 October 2017, Dr Rory McCarthy (University of Oxford) asks how competitive electoral contests have transformed an Islamist movement by looking at the internal debates and struggles that have shaped Tunisia’s al-Nahda since 2011. Drawing on a year’s fieldwork in a Nahdawi community in the provincial city of Sou…
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Activists discuss how the pervasive issue of gender inequality manifests itself in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This podcast was recorded in connection with a joint event organised by the British Council and the King's College London Department of Middle Eastern Studies on 7 March 2017, and is chaired by Gillian Cowell, Head of Gender a…
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A public lecture delivered by Dr Adeel Malik (University of Oxford) at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King's College London.This lecture seeks to develop a broader political economy narrative on violence in the Middle East. Using the recent ISIS-related violence in the Levant as a hook, I probe the deep political and economic factors und…
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A public lecture delivered by Christopher Barrie (University of Oxford) at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King's College London.Prevailing understandings of labour protest and strikes take as their focus stable democratic settings where autonomous trade union structures are an established component of the organizational resources availab…
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A public lecture delivered by Dr John Chalcraft (LSE) at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King's College London in February 2017.This lecture aims to develop conceptual understandings of the relationship between mobilization and the political environment. It presents an alternative to conventional social movement theorizing on political op…
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