Episode 3 – Courtney Neal

Episode 7 – Chris Stewart

Chris leads on research focused on the microbiome and host responses in human health and disease, particularly focusing on early life from neonatal to childhood.

Episode 6 – Alice Roberts

Alice is a PhD student at Newcastle University exploring opportunities to improve the food and drink environment in UK secondary schools. The research Alice runs is looking at opportunities to alter the secondary school food and drink environment with the aim of improving adolescents’ health-related behaviours.

Episode 5 – Helen Elliot

Helen is an NHS researcher scientist and PhD student at Newcastle University. Helen is working on a project looking at a new medical device for imaging breast tissue with the aim of detecting more breast cancers in tissue which is difficult to image with mammography.

Episode 4 – Andy Filby

Andy is a Professor of Practice in Enabling Technologies at Newcastle University and aims to bring together technologists and methodologists from all job families in the faculty toward a true "team science", collaborative attitude to conducting cutting-edge research.

Episode 3 – Courtney Neal

Courtney is a PhD researcher focussing on food insecurity and how this may affective cognition. Courtney’s research has predominantly focussed on the negative outcomes of not having enough, producing a body of literature concerned with the deficits of people in poverty.