Scholars to discuss COVID-19 impact in podcast series

Local and international experts will be providing key insight into the Covid-19 pandemic this month.

University College Isle of Man is holding a summer series of podcasts with world scholars and UCM lecturers in fields including medicine, genetics, politics and economics who'll explain how Coronavirus has affected each different industry.

The talks will gradually lead up to a live online debate next month (July 8) which will focus on how each speaker would reconstruct their ideal 'new normal'.

Each podcast is available for free on the UCM website with six of them taking place between tomorrow (June 12) and Wednesday, July 1 - a schedule of them is available on our website.

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- 12th June 2020: Join the WEvolution, Co-creating our Future now!
Carol Glover, Executive Coach

- 17th June 2020: Cholera & Covid – A tale of Two Centuries
Andrea Heard, BA (Hons) History & Heritage

- 19th June 2020: Old Drugs for a New Virus – Repurposing Drugs for Covid-19 Treatments
Dr. Ken Mills, Chair of Experimental Haematology in the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast and Deputy Director, Centre for Biomedical Science Education.

- 24th June 2020: Necessity is the Mother of Invention – IOM Covid Testing Lab and Genomics around the World
Dr. Rachel Glover, scientist, Founder of Taxa Genomics and UCM Honorary Fellow

- 26th June 2020: Can Economic Recovery and Climate Action Go Hand in Hand after Covid-19?
Dr. Dave Quirk, Manx Geological Survey

- 1st July 2020: The Economics of Covid – Managing the Negative Economic Impact of Lockdown
Dr. Alistair Robertson, Lecturer in Computer Science at UCM, specialising in statistical methods and machine learning, data analytics consultant and machine learning systems author