{"podcast":{"title":"People doing Physics","slug":"people-doing-physics-4852314","podcast_index_feed_id":4852314,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/people-doing-physics/","website_url":"https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/e5480daf-2a6f-4ebf-9b5d-9a02d5faa32e/roqmM8Bs4Lyt1GpYR51AA0Ru.png","author":"Cavendish Laboratory","episode_count":46,"summary":"As fascinating as physics can be, it can also seem very abstract, but behind each experiment and discovery stands a real person trying to understand the universe. Join us at the Cavendish Laboratory on the first Thursday of every month as we get up close and personal with the researchers, technicians, students, teachers, and people that are the beating heart of Cambridge University’s Physics department. If you want to know what goes on behind the doors of a Physics department, are curious to know how people get into physics, or simply wonder what physicists think and dream about, listen in! Join us on Twitter @DeptofPhysics using the hashtag #PeopleDoingPhysics. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T14:21:08.688439+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/people-doing-physics-4852314"},"episode":{"title":"Pushing boundaries with Lisa Jardine-Wright","slug":"pushing-boundaries-with-lisa-jardine-wright","published_at":"2024-06-06T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/people-doing-physics-4852314/pushing-boundaries-with-lisa-jardine-wright","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/people-doing-physics-4852314","url":"https://people-doing-physics.captivate.fm/episode/pushing-boundaries-with-lisa-jardine-wright","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e3b6ea3b-7367-45a6-8d04-281fa10b56b6/june-24-ver2-1-1.mp3","summary":"We are joined by Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright, OBE; Director of Isaac Physics, Director of Studies for Physics at Churchill College, and Vice-President for Education and Skills at the Institute of Physics. An astrophysicist by training, Lisa studied Natural Sciences and for a Master’s Degree in Physics at Trinity College in Cambridge, before completing her PhD at the Institute of Astronomy just over the road from the Cavendish. While there, she became involved in the Institute’s outreach activities, contributing to the first Cambridge Festivals and the regular Public Open Evenings, before moving on to a postdoc that was split evenly between simulating the formation of spiral galaxies and outreach. Since then, she has been a media fellow at the Financial Times, Astronomy Consultant for the Royal Observatory, Outreach Officer at the Cavendish, and co-founder of the internationally-used Isaac Physics project. Her work to support outreach and education has been widely recognised; Lisa has won numerous awards, culminating in an OBE for services to education in 2022. In this episode, we talk to her about her route through science, the valuable perspective that comes from seeing your work through non-specialist eyes, and the importance of making her teachers work late… Useful links Isaac Physics is the free platform headed by Lisa, for students and teachers to master physics by solving problems. STEM SMART (Subject Mastery and Attainment Raising Tuition) is a widening participation initiative from the University of Cambridge in association with Isaac Physics, to provide free, complementary teaching and support to UK (non-fee paying) students. The research relating to A-level physics numbers that Lisa refers to is in this paper by Alan Smithers (Centre for Education and Employment R…","meta_description":"We are joined by Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright, OBE; Director of Isaac Physics, Director of Studies for Physics at Churchill College, and Vice-President for Educ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2584,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/people-doing-physics-4852314/episodes/pushing-boundaries-with-lisa-jardine-wright/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/people-doing-physics-4852314/pushing-boundaries-with-lisa-jardine-wright.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}