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On this week’s show we are joined by Amy Kean to talk Advertising, Agencies, Events and the huge importance of diversity and inclusion. There is also mention of caravans. If you want to find out more about Amy’s DICE initiative, you can do so here:https://www.getdice.co.uk/ There’s also more about her Practice Makes UnPerfect programme with New Digital Age here:https://newdigitalage.co/2020/10/21/practice-makes-unperfect-starts-12th-november-2020/

On this week’s show, Chris & Matt open up the WB-40 Helpdesk to answer some listener questions.

On this week’s show we are joined by Edafe Onerhime who talks about the breadth of skills that an organisation might need to consider when thinking about upping their data game.

On this week’s show Chris & Matt discuss whether it really is so surprising that Covid data is being fed through Excel.

On this week’s show we are joined by artist Steve Chapman to talk about his podcast project Sound of Silence.

On this week’s show we chat with Wendy Kendall and Tom Cheesewright about how with increasing remote working, organisations need to think again about how people learn the ropes of work…You can find out more about Wendy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyakendall/ And more about Tom here: https://tomcheesewright.com/

On this week’s show Chris & Matt meet technologist Dave Rogers and explore the concept of Toxic IT. You can read Dave’s Toxic IT articles on his blog here: https://daverog.com/

(161) Future Health On this week’s show we talk conversational UI, humanising technology and healthcare with Vala Health CEO Pete Trainor.

On this week’s show we explore how the bits of work we might be missing most in lockdown are those that are the bits between the actual work. We also ask the question “Is IT a Social Science?” Here are the two Twitter threads that inspired this week’s show: Nice piece by @samwollaston on the commute. It offers a third space between home and work – albeit one which is expensive and often unpleasant. Do we need to find new third spaces? https://t.co/cN4jUu7kZK— Sharon O'Dea (@sharonodea) August 24, 2020 In the early days of the pandemic, the term "contact tracing" vaulted into the public consciousness: that's the shoe-leather- and labor-intensive process whereby skilled heath experts establish a personal rapport with infected people to establish who they had contact with.1/ pic.twitter.com/uUDa2VlUM6— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK) (@doctorow) August 20, 2020 And Randy Connolly’s article about Social Science is here: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/8/246368-why-computing-belongs-within-the-social-sciences/fulltext

On this week’s show Chris and Matt reflect on the non-linear journey that coming out of COVID Lockdown might prove to be, and Matt also spends time talking with Naomi Oiku, Hannah-Mae Graham and Jordan Scudder from the Student Radio Association about student media in the 2020s.