Research Records #27 Professor Tony Ryan Interviews Professor Rachel Falconer

Research Records is a monthly podcast hosted by Professor Marie Kinsey (Journalism) and Professor Tony Ryan OBE (Chemistry) from The University of Sheffield. Each month they are joined by esteemed guests from The University of Sheffield (and occasionally further afield) for a lively and engaging chat about their personal and professional journey alongside their own soundtrack to academic adventure, all over the course of about an hour.

Our latest guest is Rachel Falconer who took up a teaching fellowship at the University of Sheffield in 1993. She moved swiftly through the ranks of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader, becoming a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature in 2009. Rachel is a Professor of Modern English Literature at University of Lausanne and served as HoD in 2017 and 2018. She is currently focussing on contemporary literature’s engagement with the existential crisis of our times: climate change.

Playing tracks by Simon & Garfunkel, Scott Joplin, YoYo Ma, Pablo Casals, Christy Moore and more.