Birthday Special: Celebrating 1 Year of The Research Room
Posted: Wednesday, 22 July 2026
What happens when the podcast hosts step out from behind the mic and into the guest seat?
In this special first birthday episode of The Research Room, co-hosts Lucy Atha and Janine Heeley from the York Trials Unit at the University of York join podcast intern Hayley Stone to celebrate a whole year of chatting with a purpose!
Listen as Hayley interviews Lucy and Janine about their journey creating the podcast, their favourite past episodes, and the behind-the-scenes recording mishaps they’ve navigated along the way. Looking to the future, they discuss their dream guests and aims of interviewing researchers across other university departments. Stay tuned until the very end to hear Lucy and Janine play a game of “who’s more likely to?” and find out which beverage and cake flavour best represent the podcast!
A huge thank you to all of our incredible previous guests and listeners who have tuned in and supported us over the past year!
Music by Matthew Bailey
