The ScienceRoadie Podcast

Evelyn Cools is a NYC/New-Jersey-based singer-songwriter born in Belgium. Evelyn has spent time in Hong Kong as well as mainland China, studied cultural and creative industries in London, and she recorded her latest EP, Misfit Paradise, while working as a sound engineer in LA. Enjoy the conversation! Listen to Evelyn's latest EP here: https://vydia.ffm.to/misfitparadise_ep More info about Evelyn Cools' music: Website: www.ecoolsmusic.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/ecoolsmusic Instagram: www.instagram.com/ecoolsmusic

Kerstin Leder Mackley is a qualitative social researcher with a background in cultural studies audience research and more recent specialism in visual and sensory ethnography as applied to the study of digital technologies and everyday life. As a Senior Research Associate on the IN-TOUCH project at the UCL Knowledge Lab, she explores the social impact of digital touch technologies on human communication. Kerstin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kayle10 Website IN TOUCH project: https://in-touch-digital.com/ Twitter IN TOUCH project: https://twitter.com/IN_TOUCH_UCL Book IN TOUCH project: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030245665

Jessie Maryon Davies is an amazing musician with a passion for collaboration. She works for leading arts organisations as musical director, pianist, concert-presenter and workshop-leader – engaging people of all ages and abilities in making music. Her all-female pop choir LIPS has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and she performs regularly in story-telling ensemble TROUPE. Jessie also set up a charity called Girls Rock London which aims to build girls’ self esteem and confidence through song-writing and music. More about Jessie's projects below: Girls Rock London: http://www.girlsrocklondon.com Troupe Ensemble: http://www.troupecollective.co.uk Lips Choir: http://www.lipschoir.co.uk/ Band page - GloryBox: https://www.instagram.com/gloryboxtheband/ Twitter details: @jmaryondavies

Estella Adeyeri is a musician based in London. She currently plays bass guitar in Black Feminist punk band Big Joanie, as well as lead guitar in poppy punk band Charmpit. She has been performing in bands since 2013, and is an active member of organisations that aim to diversify the music scene, namely Girls Rock London and Decolonise Fest. More about Estella here: Twitter/Instagram: @EstellaAdeyeri Website: https://linktr.ee/EstellaAdeyeri

Selma Uamusse is a Mozambican singer living in Lisbon, Portugal. Singing professionally since her teens, with a path from gospel, to rock, soul, afrobeat and jazz, and singing with bands like The Legendary Tiger Man, Selma decided to challenge herself and record her first original solo project between Portugal and Mozambique. She released her first solo album Mati in 2018 and it is absolutely amazing! Hope is one of my favourite songs on the album. More info on her instagram: @selma_uamusse (https://www.instagram.com/selma_uamusse/) Also, make sure to tag Selma using #liwoningochallenge for the challenge at the end ! Enjoy and take care of yourselves!

Nina Salomons is an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans across various platforms. From a YouTube gaming channel to short films, feature films, documentaries and branded content. She was chosen as an emerging filmmaker as part of Modern Tales in 2017. Besides knowing how to tell evocative stories, she is also an XR expert after working for Europe’s largest XR media website, VRFocus for two and a half years. Nina is a keen community grower with a strong belief in inclusion and diversity in emerging technology. This is clear in her organising, judging or curating for film festivals, to planning of hackathons. She is also one of the founders of Women in VR meet-up group in 2016, and led the VR Diversity Initiative in 2018. You can reach out to Nina on the following channels: LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ninasalomons Twitter: https://twitter.com/nina_salomons Instagram: @jellybeefilms JellyBeeFilms: https://www.jellybeefilms.com/documentaries.html Some recommendations by Nina: - White Elephant film - Chris Long, a VR Memorial: https://jellybeefilm.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/whats-it-like-attending-a-memorial-in-virtual-reality/ - Journey: https://youtu.be/oD7KWAQr8Q8?t=1742 - The Last of Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W01L70IGBgE - Minecraft Yogscast Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdEFmxRmNE&list=PLF60520313D07F366 - VR Diversity Initiative: https://vrdi.uk/ - Books: Non-Bullshit Innovation - Radical Ideas from the World's Smartest Minds; The unexpected truth about animals

Lucy Di Silvio is Professor of Tissue Engineering, based in the Centre of Oral, Clinical and Translational sciences at King’s College London. Lucy’s research is focussed on high quality science based on the regeneration of tissues using stem cell technology and its translation and application for specific clinical problems related largely to oral, craniofacial and orthopaedics. Also, studying the biocompatibility of novel materials, 3D cell models (Bioreactor), and cell-material interactions are part of her research. Lucy develops regenerative medicine strategies for musculoskeletal conditions relating to bone, articular cartilage damage and osteochondral defects e.g. cell-seeded scaffolds to direct differentiation of stem cells for in vivo bone and cartilage regeneration. Her research group's major focus is on vascularisation of grafts ex-vivo and their integration with host tissue. More info about Lucy's work and how to reach out can be found below: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/lucy.di_silvio.html https://www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/diversity/meettheprofessors/dentistry/disilvio https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlight-article?id=be6b1a73-ca5d-4ea9-8c13-cb50d8287c95 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/diversity/opendoors/dentistry https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucy_Di_Silvio https://london.sciencegallery.com/seasons/spare-parts/exhibition/new-organs-creation

Abbie Gobeli is radio DJ at KEXP and music manager for the band Actors. Archaeological music digging became an intense hobby of Abbie requiring late night hours watching music videos on MTV, scouring the internet for deep cuts of New Order, and learning all about Bjork's music repertoire at a CD store located in the Surf Ballroom where Buddy Holly played his last show on Earth. She escaped from the cornfields of Iowa after high school and settled in the promised land of Prince (Minneapolis) where she graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Theatre and Psychology. Abbie joined the college radio station, Radio K (KUOM), when The Drums were loading in for an in-studio session and they needed someone to interview them, so Abbie quickly volunteered and never looked back. At Radio K, Abbie hosted the morning show, local show, and also served as Music Director. She also helped out at venues including First Avenue (cue "Purple Rain"), booked shows, and has written for various music publications. Abbie also briefly studied at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and delved into the music scene where she interviewed new Scottish bands for Radio K, wrote for The Pop Cop, and went to shows almost every night. During her final semester of university, she began hustling marketing and press for many beloved artists that she grew up listening to at Saddle Creek Records. Then one day, Abbie visited Seattle and was offered a job at Sonic Boom Records. The universe seemed to be beckoning Abbie to the West, so she packed up her car and moved a month later. Abbie immediately started volunteering at KEXP: DJ assisting John in the Morning on Mondays and interning with the Business Support and Underwriting Department. Then in October 2016, Abbie began her dream job hosting her very own show on KEXP every Wednesday during which she shares her passion for music with listeners. You can get in touch with Abbie here: Abbie @kexp - https://www.kexp.org/djs/abbie/ Twitter - @ACertainAbbie Email - [email protected] Music/Books tips from Abbie: Sir baby girl - https://soundcloud.com/sir_babygirl Miya Folick (Premonitions) - https://miyafolick.com/ Wiley The Autobiography (Grime music) Rockband camps for Girls we talked about: She rock She rock - https://sherocksherock.org/ Rain City Rock Camp - https://www.raincityrockcamp.org/ Girls Rock London - http://www.girlsrocklondon.com/

Ghislaine is an artist-curator, researcher and director, a specialist in body responsive technologies and immersion experiences. She is recognised as an international pioneer, having strongly advocated the use of the entire body as a digital interaction canvas for over 25 years. From a performing arts background, Ghislaine has directed numerous international projects, creating unique convergences between the physical body, telepresence, motion capture, robotics, wearables, sense/gesture tech and virtual worlds. Her work examines the representation of our physical selves and our identities in virtual environments and the hyper enhancement of our human senses through the digital transmission/reception of body data, such as touch, motion, biofeedback and gesture. She has created live links between thousands of participants/audiences across the world for educational, performing arts and creative industries usage since the mid-nineties. She developed co-creation methodologies for these connected immersive experiences, experimenting with the hyper-enhancement of our senses. Recent installation works include the direction of ‘me and my shadow’ (National Theatre 2012) and ‘Collective Reality – Experiencing Togetherness’ (Nesta’s FutureFest 2016). She regularly curates, from Gender Mayhem (ICA, 1993-95), Virtual Incarnations (Dance Umbrella / ICA 2000-02) to international programmes such as ‘Future Physical’ (2002-04) and ‘Robots and Avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future’ (2009-12). Recent curations include ‘Future Love’ (Nesta’s FutureFest 2016) and ‘The Games Europe Plays’ (EUNIC London 2016). A Reader in Digital Immersion at University of Greenwich, she is researching what she calls “The Internet of Bodies”, the evolution of our future multi-selves through tele-intuition, deep body connectivities (sensors/implants) and the rapid blending of the virtual/physical. Ghislaine has keynoted and presented in over 30 countries, surviving two TedX presentations. She is regularly featured on TV, radio and in the press, giving thought shifting inputs to BBC Business World and the New Scientist among others. She consults into creative Industries sector on creative innovation and futures, most recently (2016-2017) as Creative Director for the new Plexal Innovation Centre (Here East, Olympics Park London) and for composer-songwriter Imogen Heap and the development of her Mycelia Platform (2017). You can catch Ghislaine co-presenting bi-weekly for BBC Click (BBC World Service Radio). In 2017, Ghislaine was awarded the IX Immersion Experience Visionary Pioneer Award by Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) for her longterm innovative work in digital arts, and in particular her “passionate and inspirational engagement towards embodied intelligence”. She is the Guest Editor for a 2019 issue of ‘AI & SOCIETY’ on body technologies, Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication (Editor-in-Chief: Karamjit S. Gill) Ghislaine is a co-curator of Nesta’s FutureFest 2018 and is curating the FutureFest Forward series around the festival. More details about Ghislaine's work can be found here: http://www.bodydataspace.net/ https://www.womenshiftdigital.com/

Katriona Beales is a London-based sculptor who makes digital artefacts, moving image and installation, stressing the continuing role of the object in digital life. Her work responds to the experience of slipping between offine and online worlds, information overload, online behavioural addictions, experiences of the technological sublime and notions of a Digital Baroque. Katriona’s interdisciplinary project ‘Are we all addicts now?’ is supported by The Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England and will be exhibited at Furtherfield, London in 2017. Katriona received an MA from Chelsea College of Arts and has an artist profile on Rhizome.org - www.katrionabeales.com. Website: www.katrionabeales.com Twitter: @KatrionaBeales Instagram: @bealesabout New commissions showing now as part of: 'Artificially Intelligent' curated by Irini Papadimitriou at the V&A : https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/digital/artificially-intelligent-digital-design-weekend-2018 'HOOKED' curated by Hannah Redler Hawes at the new Science Gallery London, supported by Arts Council England : https://london.sciencegallery.com/seasons/hooked/ Are We All Addicts Now? Publication edited by Vanessa Bartlett and Henrietta Bowden-Jones, published by Liverpool University Press and Furtherfield, out now. A member of Artists' Union England : www.artistsunionengland.org.uk

Me for Queen aka Mary Erskine is inspired by people and their stories. Growing up feral in rural Fife/Scotland in a big old house near the sea, years of classical training together with a Blues guitarist for a father make for an interesting mix of Soul and Folk, drawing comparisons to a range of artists from Regina Spektor to Carole King, Kate Bush and This is the Kit. Of her latest single, Jessica, released on Seahorse Music, Folk Radio UK wrote, “The combination of rich poetic lines and one of most beautiful, emotive voices I’ve heard in a long time make Me for Queen stand out in any crowd.” She has enjoyed support from BBC 6 Music, BBC Scotland (single of the week on Janice Forsyth’s Culture show for Slow Train) and BBC Wales. Jessica was also included in one of Spotify UK’s most-listened to playlists, “The Most Beautiful Songs in the World”. The last year has seen her play two headline UK tours, including sold-out shows at London’s Paper Dress Vintage and the Sound Lounge. Her new full-length album Loose End was released in Summer 2018, which you can find here: https://meforqueen.bandcamp.com/ and listen to on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5HIBZdQxI2yK1xeIs069n7?si=dClFv3UXQF69vzkJ30XbaA You can find more about Me for Queen here: http://www.meforqueen.com/ More info about musical: https://littleangeltheatre.com/whats-on/finding-santa/

Summertime means time for some fun summer challenges! Challenge 1 : Delve into some new science or technology you are fascinated about! Challenge 2 : Take on a new creative challenge, whether it is in music, dance, the arts, etc. Everything creative applies! And then tell other people about your scientific discoveries or creative journey! Let's get that ripple effect started! Hope you will join the challenges! Looking forward to reading all about them, just tag us in your tweets :)! Happy summer!

Professor Carey Jewitt is the Director of UCL Knowledge Lab, a research centre based in the faculty UCL Institute of Education (IOE). The UCL Knowledge Lab team undertakes leading interdisciplinary digital research and design in education and beyond, including research on games and playful learning, smart technologies, creativity and coding, digital cultures and media literacy, multimodal interaction, and designing for diversity.  Based on research evidence, the team devises new pedagogies, designs and implements innovative digital media and technologies for teaching and learning, and informs policymakers and educational stakeholders. Carey’s own research explores how technologies shape the ways that people interact and communicate, she looks beyond language alone to understand the multimodal character of interaction. You can find out more about Carey’s research here: https://in-touch-digital.com https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=CJEWI83 You can reach out to Carey on twitter (at)IN_TOUCH_UCL Some top tips from Carey: Book: Vertigo by Joanna Walsh Music: Suede Amazing Scientist: Dr Constance Classen - Concordia University Photo credit: UCL

Emma is a freelance electric bass player. She plays bass, guitar and sings backing vocals for Brit-award winning singer song writer Kate Nash. Since 2011 she has toured across North America, South America, Europe and Canada. She has also played many prestigious festivals such as Glastonbury, Coachella, Reading & Leeds, Bestival, Rock AM Ring and many more. Recently Emma has been writing, recording and touring with Electric Pyramid. They supported Queen & Adam Lambert on their European tour in June 2016 and are currently working towards their debut album. Previous artists worked with include: Charli XCX, Magalie, Emma Stevens, and she has performed TV shows such as The X-Factor for winner James Arthur and Alan Carr’s Chatty Man. Emma is also the founder of Music Over Matter UK. Music Over Matter provides specialist music lessons for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Wiltshire UK. You can get in touch with Emma on: - her websites: https://musicovermatter.co.uk & https://elhbass.net - twitter & instagram: (at)musicovermattuk - instagram: (at)elhbass Recommended Books by Emma: - Sacred Powers - Davidji - Women Who Run With The Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes Photo Credit: Andy Wilsher

Kat Five is the singer & guitarist at Feral Five, a band she fronts together with bassist, composer, and throat-grabbing beats creator Drew. They are from London and Kent, write, mix and produce at Feral HQ and their music features in acclaimed drag queens film Dressed As A Girl. Feral Five make electro-punk dance music with bite, fusing snarling guitars, jittery synths, and ferocious beats. Raised by wolves on a diet of punk rock, disco and roots, the duo have been championed by BBC Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq and Gideon Coe, and Eddy Temple-Morris on The Remix. They’ve been BBC 6 Recommends Track of the Week with ‘Kiss’ with the poet Equinox. Electronic legend Martyn Ware (The Human League / Heaven 17 / B.E.F.) picked them for the National Portrait Gallery Picasso-inspired night he curated in January 2017, and they released a politically-charged EP Man Cat Doll Machine of songs they wrote for the event. Obsessed with science, they create songs about the dark human side of tech, as well as love, lust and madness. They’ve collaborated with world leading 3D designer Francis Bitonti on ‘Rule 9’, sculpting synths, vocals and beats around his algorithms. They predicted #3dprintinghumans in their song ‘3D’, sampled 3D printers and created 3D printed artwork, also using a 3D printer as an instrument when they played Music Tech Fest in London. The Ferals are in demand for their production skills and have remixed artists like Sisteray and Frank Turner favourites deux furieuses, and collaborated with poet Equinox to create sleaze disco track ‘Kiss’. Their song ‘Void’ is on the compilation album #MoreInCommon in aid of Hope Not Hate. You can reach out to Kat Five on twitter (at)kat_five and learn more about Feral Five on http://feralfive.com and (at)feralfive on twitter and instagram. Kat's female band recommendation: https://www.deuxfurieuses.com More details on the ethical music streaming service Resonate: https://resonate.is

Girls Rock London (GRL!) is a music project for girls and women in London. They are part of a movement of rock camps that take place all over the world, united by a desire to achieve gender equality in the music industry and to ensure that all girls and women get the chance to make music. The aims of the project are to empower girls and women – regardless of previous musical experience – to write and perform music, and to build self-confidence. ​The programme Girls Rock London runs is a mixture of musical/technical tuition and workshops, which together help to build participants’ self-esteem and confidence, and provide a platform for girls and women to find and develop their voices. Rock Camp is all about trying new things, working together and making lots of NOISE :). GRL! welcomes applicants who self-identify as girls, women, trans* and/or gender non-conforming. More info here: http://www.girlsrocklondon.com/ You can support the GRL! charity as well by donating here: https://donate.kindlink.com/girls-rock-london/764

Merritt Moore is a ballet dancer and quantum physicist, continually jumping from lab shoes to pointe shoes, from lab goggles to tutus. She has danced as a member of the Zurich Ballet, Boston Ballet, English National Ballet and London Contemporary Ballet Theatre while graduating with honours in physics at Harvard, and graduating with a PhD in Quantum Optics at Oxford University. She was award Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018 and featured in "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls", alongside inspiring women such as Oprah, Angela Merkel, JK Rowling and Audrey Hepburn. She was one of the 12 selected astronaut candidates, out of thousands of applicants, to undergo rigorous astronaut selection on BBC Two "Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?", and she continues to pursue the dream of becoming an astronaut, while pursuing a professional ballet and physics career. Merritt has had enough of hearing that it is only possible to pursue dance or physics. She has worked hard to juggle both to prove that the arts and sciences are not mutually exclusive. She works to inspire young girls and boys by showing them that there is no ‘standard’ personality or path for doing so. Currently Merritt works at the intersection of science and art- spearheading a movement which integrates the two. Whether it be at the Barbican, Imagine Science Festival, or for the London Design Festival at the Victoria and Albert Museum, she creates state-of-the-art work that integrates quantum physics and dance in the form of VR films, dance installations with robots, or online content. Merritt has integrated her love for physics and dance for a TEDx talk at Oxford and for the international "Dance Your PhD" contest (and won the Physics category). She has been on the organizing committee for the Oxford Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) UK 2016 and was awarded Top Ten College Women of 2010 by Glamour Magazine and the Suzanne Farrell Award at Harvard. She was awarded the Michael von Clemm Fellowship (award to only one Harvard student a year) to study at Oxford. You can follow Merritt on Instagram/Twitter (at)PhysicsonPointe or get in touch on http://physicsonpointe.com/contact/ .

Check out my very interesting and thought-provoking conversation with Vicki Callahan who is a media activist and scholar. She is Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts in the Division of Media Arts + Practice. Her research and teaching are focused on the integration of theory and practice with attention to issues in film and media history, feminist studies, digital culture, media strategies for social change, and public scholarship. She is the author of Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade (WSUP 2005), editor for the collection, Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (WSUP 2010), and co-editor with Virginia Kuhn for the collection, Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies (Parlor Press, 2016). With Virginia Kuhn, she co-edited a special issue of The Ciné-Files, #11 on “The Video Essay: Cinematic Writing” (Jan. 2017). She was a Fulbright Scholar with a focus on digital media praxis at University College Cork, Ireland and NEH fellow for the inaugural workshop on Videographic Criticism at Middlebury College. Currently, she is completing work on a monograph on the silent film star, Mabel Normand. With Sarah Atkinson, she is co-authoring, Transmedia: Critical Perspectives on a New Creative and Social Economy (WSUP, 2017). Her teaching blog is DJ Zoe Trop: Participatory Archives and Remix, where you can find several course blog sites and course summaries. Some interesting resources that were mentioned in our conversation: http://www.lynnhershman.com https://erinhill.squarespace.com https://makinganewreality.org https://immerse.news http://www.shiift.world You can get in touch with Vicki on Twitter (at)vacall and find more info about her work on http://www.vickicallahan.com .

I was very fortunate to have a chat with Eden Hennessey, who is a researcher and data-driven artist completing a PhD in Social Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University with Dr. Mindi Foster. Her dissertation focuses on the costs of confronting sexism in science versus other fields. Eden researches diversity promotion and discrimination reduction and transforms her research findings into thought-provoking photo-research exhibits (#DistractinglySexist and #DistractinglyHonest) that have reached international acclaim. She is inspired by her ongoing work with the Laurier Centre for Women in Science (WinS). Connect with her on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/EdenHennessey https://twitter.com/LaurierWinS

Welcome! I am Isabel, your host of The ScienceRoadie Podcast. Having worked in science and tech for a long time as a scientist, academic & healthtech entrepreneur and following my own amazing & life-changing music experience in a band, I am starting a podcast talking to women in science & music and learn about how they ended up where they are now, who inspired(s) them and their journey from when they started out in science/music until today. Who am I? I am a Healthtech Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Immersive Rehab, an Engineer & Scientist, Consultant, Mentor & Advisor and amateur Musician. I am passionate about using tech for good, social entrepreneurship, healthcare technologies & digital health, immersive technologies (VR/AR), everything music related, and promoting women in science, tech & music. You can follow me here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceRoadie Medium: https://medium.com/@ivdkeere Website: https://immersiverehab.com/team/