Season 5 / Episode 4

When healthcare research, biomedical datasets, and diagnostic tools are built predominantly around white, Western populations, what happens to everyone else? In Episode 4, Hani Nasar, Master’s student in Health Data Science at the University of St Andrews, explores the persistent underrepresentation of minority ethnic groups in healthcare research—and the real-world consequences of being left out. From … Read more

Season 5 / Episode 3

In Episode 3 of Season 5, Luci Portugal Vidal (Mlitt International Security Studies) in speaks with Aleksejs Ivashuk, founder of Apatride Network and a leading advocate on statelessness in Europe, about the realities of life without legal nationality. Moving beyond statelessness as a legal category, the conversation explores how non-recognition shapes access to rights, education, healthcare, work, mobility, identity, and … Read more

Season 5 / Episode 2

In this episode, Evgeniya Pakhomova, a social anthropologist specialising in Russian antiwar activism, interviews Lana Pylaeva, an indigenous activist from the republic of Komi and director of regional media Komi.Daily.  Evgeniya presents the context for the new wave of Indigenous activism that emerged in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, while … Read more

Season 5 / Episode 1

In this episode of the CMR Podcast, Esther Zitterl (PhD researcher in Black British literature and the Windrush legacy, School of English, University of St Andrews) speaks with novelist Dr Ashley Hickson-Lovence about his 2026 novella About to Fall Apart (Faber). Told in verse across three days, the book follows Aidy — a man of mixed Irish-Caribbean … Read more