In conversation with... Talking to Titans podcast host Gudrun Moore

Student Journalist Alina caught up with Professor Gudrun Moore to hear the story behind Talking to Titans - the recently launched UCL Minds podcast series featuring inspiring UCL women - as well as advice for women at the beginning of their careers. There are many different ways to celebrate International Women's Day. Some people buy flowers for women who are important to them, some donate to women's charities; others write heartfelt messages on social media. There is no right or wrong way to do it, but some gestures are definitely more powerful than others and it is to this category that Gudrun Moore's project belongs to. Professor of Molecular Genetics at UCL's Institute of Child Health, Gudrun is the creator and co-host, along with Cathy Giangrande, of Talking to Titans, a podcast series by women and about women in academia which launched in occasion of International Women's Week 2020. The idea for the series, of which each episode features a different female member of the UCL senior team, came to Gudrun back in September 2019, as she was remembering the inspiring speeches that women had given at an event organized by the Institute of Child Health for International Women's Day. "These brilliant women came and talked to an audience of 40 or so - they got huge applause and then left - and I thought 'what a pity not to record them'", she tells me.