As academic establishments continue to adjust from face to face teaching to being primarily online experiences, how are academics adjusting? That's the start point for my discussion in this episode with Dr Andrew Ishak.

Having seen this article:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-curate-your-zoom-backdrop-and-why-you-should

he responded with this video to help his academic colleagues seem more 'professorial' during their online sessions:

https://vimeo.com/447645552

That forms the start point of my wide-ranging discussion with Andrew covering both his specialism of Communication and his area of research into how teams perform in high-pressure situations. We explore everything from how sports talk radio deliberately confects debates, to how we can train firefighters to be able to deal with situations that it would be too dangerous to allow them to rehearse in. We cover sport, risk management under COVID and the importance of Communication.

As regular listeners will know, the podcast doesn't follow a strict format, and this episode is no exception.

For more on Andrew and his research, visit his faculty page: https://www.scu.edu/cas/communication/faculty/andrew-ishak/

and personal website: http://www.andrewishak.com/

I also refer to the Compliance Communications Toolkit & the Human Risk Newsletter. More details on those are here: www.human-risk.com