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In Lecture 6, the final lecture of Seminar Series 2014-2015, Professor Bruce S. McEwen delivers a talk on how experience shapes the brain across the lifecourse; epigenetics, biological embedding and cumulative change. Professor McEwen is a neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University, New York. He studies the brain and in this lecture, discusses how the social environment affects the brain and through the brain, affects the rest of the body, health and disease through the lifecourse. He also introduces the concept of epigenetics which concerns how environmental factors regulate expression of genes and effect brain and body function.…

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GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Re-imaging justice for women (audio) 1:01:17

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The fifth lecture of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series is delivered by Linda de Caesteker, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Linda talks about justice for women and in particular, the Commission for Women Offenders that she was part of. One of the recommendations of the Commission was to establish Community Justice Centres, along with Linda, colleagues from Tomorrow's Women, the Community Justice Centre in Glasgow, discuss their experiences of working in and also using the Centre.…

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GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Land reform as an engine of economic progress (audio) 59:33

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Lecture 4 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series is delivered by Andy Whightman, self employed writer and researcher from Edinburgh. In the Seminar, Andy discusses land, society and economy, the importance of land not just as an economic resource but how it fits in with our sense of place and the impact of how we regulate land - it's ownership, it's use - has on places and on people. This is a story from the financial crash to the hills of the highlands.…

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GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Lecture 3. Economics of Dignity (audio) 55:20

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In Lecture 3 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series, Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy AUT University, Auckland New Zealand, delivers a presentation on the Economics of Dignity. The dignity discussed concerns those people who are care givers and in particular, children and the question of children's agency. Professor Waring relates this to the new provisions in Scotland for carers and young carers and poses questions about their dignity.…

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GCPH Seminar Series 2014-2015 - Lecture 2. Nature, nurture and society (audio) 1:18:37

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In Lecture 2 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series, Byron Vincent, writer and performer, delivers a talk on Nature, Nurture and Society. He first talks about his experience of growing up on sink estates and how environment often shapes behaviour and discuses what can be done about that. In the second part he talks about his diagnoses of Bipolar disorder and Post Traumatic Stress disorder, his experience within the mental health system and changes that could be made for the better.…

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GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Nourishing the City: The Rise of the Urban Food Question (Audio) 41:58

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Kevin Morgan, Professor of Governance at Cardiff University delivers this lecture on Urban Food Policy. He looks at the rise of the city as a new player in the food policy debate taking the experiences of London, New York, Toronto and distills some of the lessons learned for cities in UK.

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GCPH - Go Well 8th Annual Event 18:34

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Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister, talks about the work of the Go Well project

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GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Does austerity harm health? (Audio) 44:05

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In this lecture, Dr. Reeve, post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University, puts forward the case that austerity does harm health but that is a choice we make and we can change how our governments respond to the recession and recessions in the future.

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GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Healthy Cognitive Ageing (Audio) 1:08:18

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Professor Ian Deary, Director of The Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at Edinburgh University, presents this lecture on healthy cognitive ageing and principally, the research he has carried out on the Lothian birth cohorts of 1921 and 1936.

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GCPH Seminar Series 2013-14 - Who are the real insane? (audio) 1:08:17

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Dr Manie Sher a Director from the Tavistock Institution of Human Relations in London presents this lecture on 'Who are the real insane? Our perceptions of disordered thinking and behaviour as defences against imagination'. The Tavistock Institute is concerned with a broad range of issues through activities involving research, organisational and change consultancy primarily in the Public Sector. With a background as a pyscho-analyst, Dr Sher brings these perspectives to bear on the work he does with large complex organisations which he discuses in this lecture, looking at examples where mental health issues are central to the organisations concerned.…

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GCPH Seminar 1, Series 2013-2014 - Reflecting on Money, Love & Virtue (Audio) 57:28

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The first of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) 2013-14 Seminars; Maria Pereira reflects on Money, Love and Virtue.

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GCPH Seminar Six (Audio) - Medical Humanities and the 'Fifth Wave' in Public Health: Parallel Tracks? 45:50

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In the final lecture of the 2012/2013 series of lectures provided by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), Professor Jane Macnaughton, Medical Humanities, University of Durham, discusses the links between Medical Humanities and the idea of the Fifth Wave in Public Health.

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GCPH Lecture 5 - How the effects of traumatic stress are transmitted to the next generation 1:11:09

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Professor Rachel Yahuda delivers a presentation on epigenetics and the effects of stress on the next generation.

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GCPH Lecture 3: Dr Joe Ravetz (Audio) - An exploration of synergistic thinking in public health , integrated health care, healthy cities 1:13:42

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Public health faces many challenges today and this will intensify in the future across many different areas – cost, technology, lifestyles, expectations etc. In this lecture, Dr Joe Ravetz proposes that we need new ways of thinking to deal with these challenges.

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GCPH Seminar Series 9: Dr. David Reilly - Audio - Human healing in the age of science: the art of the healing shift 1:07:51

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