The Link Podcast
by Ben Woodrow-Hirst
AI for the Mind: Enhancing Executive Functioning with Craig Smith
About this podcast
The Link Podcast is created by staff and healthcare/Policing professionals within Staffordshire University's School of Health, Education, Policing and Sciences. It involves inspirational and evocative topics designed, but not limited to, students of health and policing sciences, healthcare and policing professionals and anyone who is interested in the deeper topics within healthcare.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 46 episodes
- AI for the Mind: Enhancing Executive Functioning with Craig Smith · 1 h 23 min · Season 4 Episode 9On this episode: “AI for the Mind: Enhancing Executive Functioning with Craig Smith” Executive function (EF) refers to a set of cognitive processes that enable individuals to…
- Service Users Mini-Series: Episode 5 – Homeward Bound: Creative Storytelling · 1 h 6 min · Season 4 Episode 8Trigger Warning: This discussion has mention of death, dying and end of life/palliative care. Please refrain from listening if you feel this could be traumatising at this time…
- Medical Mystery 3: Awake in the Dark · 13 min · Season 4 Episode 7On this episode: “Medical Mystery 3: Awake in the Dark” This month we bring you a SPECIAL three part mini-series for Halloween! In this episode of Awake in the Dark, we explore…
- Medical Mystery 2: Pixels and Panic: The Dark History of Pokemon · 17 min · Season 4 Episode 6On this episode: “Medical Mystery 2: Pixels and Panic” This month we bring you a SPECIAL three part mini-series for Halloween! Ben and Kirsty delve into medical mysteries, and…
- Medical Mystery 1: The Dance of Death · 16 min · Season 4 Episode 5On this episode: “Medical Mystery 1: The Dance of Death” This month we bring you a SPECIAL three part mini-series for Halloween! Ben and Kirsty delve into medical mysteries, and…
- Guided Meditation Special: Part Three – Reflections from the Podcast Team (3/3) · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 4On this episode: “Guided Meditation Special: Part Three – Reflections from the Podcast Team" SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE! https://forms.office.com/e/vRH3s8QJ8g Ben and Kirsty are…
- Guided Meditation Special: Part Two – LIVE Guided Meditation (2/3) · 14 min · Season 4 Episode 3On this episode: “Guided Meditation Special: Part Two – LIVE Guided Meditation" Ben and Kirsty are re-joined by Carole Chance from the Service Users Group (SUC’s) for a very…
- Guided Meditation Special: Part One – What is guided meditation? (1/3) · 16 min · Season 4 Episode 2On this episode: “Guided Meditation Special: Part One – What is guided meditation?” Ben and Kirsty are re-joined by Carole Chance from the Service Users Group (SUC’s) for a very…
- Service Users Mini-Series: Episode 4 - Acromegaly "A Label or a Key?" · 1 h 4 min · Season 4 Episode 1We speak to Carole Chance who has been a member of the Service Users Group (SUC’s) for over seven years and started out by interviewing candidates for the University. Carole…
- Student Focus: Impacts of parents presence at child’s resuscitation attempts · 1 h 28 min · Season 3Trigger Warning: This is a discussion about trauma, death, dying, and resuscitation attempts regarding children/babies. Please refrain from listening if you feel this could be…
- Mini-series: Exploring dying and death in different cultures - Sikhism · 1 h 13 min · Season 3On this episode: We speak to Ravinder Kaur, who is the head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at Staffordshire University. Ravinder shares her knowledge and experience…
- Service Users Mini-Series: Episode 3 - Living with Cerebral Palsy · 1 h 9 min · Season 3On this episode: Living with Cerebral Palsy We speak to Charlotte Evans, who is part of the Service Users Group (SUC’s) on her experiences with living with Cerebral Palsy…
- Service Users Mini-Series: "A Journey of Two Roads" Robert Lafferty on Surviving Suicide · 57 min · Season 3Episode Description: Trigger Warning This is a passionate and frank discussion about depression, suicide detail, substance overdose and trauma. Please refrain from listening if…
- Service Users Miniseries Episode 1: Exploring Transgender · 1 h 12 min · Season 3Episode Description: On this episode: Insights and experiences of being transgender We speak to Fee Wood who shares her lived experience of being a transgender person…
- Mini-series: Exploring dying and death in different cultures- Christianity · 1 h 16 min · Season 3Episode Description: On this episode: Christianity We speak to Mick Williams, who has been the chaplain for Staffordshire University for 14 years. Mick shares his experience of…
- Student to Qualified…Dealing with Transitional Shock · 1 h 4 min · Season 3Back for a January Pod! and a year of exciting and interesting podcasts to come! On this episode: Student to qualified…Dealing with Transitional Shock We speak to Kirsty who…
- Mental Health Nursing: A Student’s Perspective. · 1 h 5 min · Season 3On this episode: Mental Health Nursing: A Student’s Perspective. We speak to Michelle Storey who is a third year Mental Health Nurse Student. Michelle explains the complex role…
- ADHD mini-series (3) "ADHD, Student Paramedic & LGBQT" Understanding the lived experience · 1 h 19 min · Season 3On this episode: Celebrating ADHD Awareness Month, Episode 3! I speak to Bridie Benson (2nd Year paramedic student) and the wonderful Anthony Hadley (Voice Coordinator/students…
- ADHD mini-series (2) "Female, ADHD and at University" The Learners Perspectives & How Educators can Help · 1 h 19 min · Season 3On this episode: Celebrating ADHD Awareness Month, episode 2! I speak to Mel Heaton (2nd Year Operating Department Practice student) about everything ADHD. Female misdiagnosis…
- ADHD mini-series (1) "My ADHD" The Student, the Lecturer and the Inclusion Team: A Recipe for Success · 1 h 19 min · Season 3On this episode: Celebrating ADHD Awareness Month, episode 1! I speak to Ryan Baddeley (Student Inclusion Advisor) Rachel Stuart (Student Inclusion Assistant) and Mel Heaton (2nd…







