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Scouse Science Live Video Podcast with Professor Tom Solomon, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Sally Sheard

1:00pm - 1:45pm / Wednesday 10th June 2020
Type: Webinar / Category: Public / Series: Scouse Science Live Video Podcast with Professor Tom Solomon
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PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT IS NOW AT CAPACITY ON ZOOM. HOWEVER, YOU CAN STILL VIEW ON THE OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL FACEBOOK PAGE

Join Professor Tom Solomon as he hosts a regular discussion of Coronavirus and its impact on science and society in Liverpool. Tom talks with leading Liverpool researchers about the scientific progress being made in the city to tackle the virus and chats about the wider impact of the pandemic with some famous local faces. His guests this time are Professor Sally Sheard and novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce. This event is broadcast as a live webinar via Zoom and Facebook, with an audio podcast available afterwards

Please note, you will receive the link to join the Zoom session in advance of the event.

Sally Sheard
Sally Sheard is a health policy analyst and historian, with a research focus in the interface between expert advisers and policymakers. Her latest research looks at the dynamics of policy development and healthcare worker behaviour in the UK during the COVID-19 public health emergency. She is head of the Department of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a children's novelist and screenwriter who won the Carnegie Medal for his debut novel - Millions - in 2004 and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Unforgotten Coat in 2013. Millions was made into a film by Danny Boyle, for whom Frank went on to work as the writer for the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony.