Expert Explanations’ offer 4-8 minute introductions to key terms and theories in the medical humanities and sciences for a wider audience in general, and undergraduate students in particular. Succinct, engaging and challenging entries by experts in their fields, the audio encyclopaedia aims to create a vibrant and accessible online resource as well as a novel way to promote science and history.
Prof Trevor Cox carries out research, teaching and commercial activities in acoustic engineering. He is was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and is President of the Institute of Acoustics.Prof Cox carries out research in performance room acoustics, investigating how room conditions can be improved for good speech communication, and quality music production and reproduction.
Prof Trevor Cox carries out research, teaching and commercial activities in acoustic engineering. He is was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and is President of the Institute of Acoustics.Prof Cox carries out research in performance room acoustics, investigating how room conditions can be improved for good speech communication, and quality music production and reproduction.
Professor Richard Velleman is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health Research. He is a leading authority on substance misuse, with a special interest in the impact of this misuse on other family members, including children.
Professor Christopher C. French, (born April 6, 1956) is a British psychologist and vocal skeptic specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion.
Professor Edzard Ernst qualified as a physician in Germany in 1978 where he also completed his MD and PhD theses. He has received training in acupuncture, autogenic training, herbalism, homoeopathy, massage therapy and spinal manipulation.
Rita Carter is is an award-winning science and medical writer and is the author of several books about the brain, including MAPPING THE MIND and EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS.
Dr Mark Brown a senior lecturer in biology at Royal Holloway. His interests include: The evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions, the conservation biology of insects and the general biology of social insects.
Here Dr Brown explains evolution.
Professor John Brookfield is a British population geneticist. He is Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Nottingham, in the School of Biology.
Sir Walter Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human linkage studies. In 1985 he chaired a Royal Society committee which wrote The Bodmer Report; this has been credited with starting the movement for the public understanding of science.
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