What happens when we lose our sense of belonging? Interdisciplinary researcher Karim Mitha thinks joining a club or getting involved in a community can be a great way to support our mental health and also help us feel part of something.

Are the video games that we play affecting our moral compass?Psychology researcher Eva Murzyn thinks gaming has more to do with self-exploration than simply siding with the ‘paragon’ or the ‘renegade’ within games.Science communications student

What makes a good relationship? Relationships lab director Dr Sarah Stanton gives us relationship advice based on the latest research.Sarah is a psychology lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and is the director of HARP Lab which

Is it ethical for robots to lie to us? Edinburgh philosopher Alistair Isaac thinks so! He argues that robots need to be able to lie to us in order to interact better with humans.Science communications student Alex Perry talks to Dr A

How do we work out, and act on, what matters to us?Rosa Hardt, a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, explores how emotions influence our ability to make moral judgements and why storytelling is important for the judgements

Dr Sarah MacPherson discusses frontal lobe functions in healthy, ageing and damaged brains, her main research interest.Sarah is a Senior Lecturer in Human Cognitive Neuroscience in the Psychology department of the University of Edinburgh.

Maddie Long is a PhD student in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. She works with linguists and psychologists to explore questions at the intersection of cognitive ageing, second language acquisition and the pragmatics of

Dementia: it’s difficult to think of a more pressing topic. But what do we really know about dementia and about the ways to prevent it?Dr Tom Russ tells us that people living in the north of the UK and Sweden are 2 to 3 times more likely to deve

Francesca Rossi talks to the philosophy lecturer Dr Aidan McGlynn about his paper 'How pornography works: Pornography as undermining propaganda and freedom of speech.'Disclaimer: Whilst not explicit, this podcast does deal with adult themes.

Dr Lauren Hall-Lew, a lecturer in sociolinguistics, talks about her research into tourist attitudes to Scottish accents.Lauren and her team hit the streets of Edinburgh during a recent Edinburgh Festival Fringe to quiz tourists about their attit