Talks, interviews and articles
Interviews, podcasts and random pieces of writing
2023 Career profiled in the British Neuroscience Association Autumn Bulletin
2023 Podcast interview with Akseli Ilmanen https://akseliilmanen.wixsite.com/home/post/pod06
2023 Podcast interview with Tim Fendley (Applied Wayfinding) and the DiSegno design company on the neuroscience of navigation (Aug) Spotify, Apple Podcasts and also the Disegno article on the launch of the series
2023 Podcast interview for UCL Brain Stories On the cognitive map and memory see transcript
Interview for UCL Brain Sciences to mark International women’s Day https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/women-science/kate-jeffery
2021 Interview for Wired magazine https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-way-to-understand-the-brains-intricate-rhythm/
2021 Article for book on Darwin and our relationship with nature by Julian F Derry, entitled How does Darwinian evolution lead to complexity, given entropy?
2021 Book chapter for book on Quantum computing and AI by Greg Viggiano entitled Quantum AI – the advancement of intelligence or the end of it?
2021 BJKS Podcast 15. Kate Jeffery: A brief history of spatial navigation, place cells & grid cells in 3D, and brain evolution https://bjks.buzzsprout.com/1390924/8305803-15-kate-jeffery-a-brief-history-of-spatial-navigation-place-cells-grid-cells-in-3d-and-brain-evolution
2021 Panelist for BNA special session on Green Neuroscience (April 14)
2021 BBC podcast interview on the hippocampus with Emily Finch broadcast March 31
2020 Talk to Meeting of the Minds conference, Imperial College, on the Psychology of climate inaction followed by panel discussion on neuroscience and society
2020 Talk to KCL Psychiatry Society on the Psychology of climate inaction (Jan 21)
2019 UCL Minds lunch-hour lecture on the Psychology of climate inaction (Nov 12)
2019 Oct 24 Interview about climate change on Radio Verulam (starts at 6.54 min)
2019 Conversation on Entropy, Complexity and Evolution with Sean Carroll for his Mindscape podcast series
2019 Panel discussion on XR’s Rebel Radio about the science of climate change
2019 Interview with Brian Resnik for Vox Magazine about whether GPS is ruining our brains
2017 Article for Aeon magazine “Maps in the Head: How cognitive maps help animals navigate the world” (pdf here)
2017 Annual Edge Question - what scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? My answer: Attractors link
2016 Podcast interview with Nigel Warburton for Philosophy Bites on Concepts and representations audio
2016 Interview with The Naked Scientists for podcast on navigation audio
2016 Article on three dimensional thinking for July issue of Navigation News pdf
2016 Radio interview with Katy Davis on Wandsworth Radio about women in science audio
2016 Annual Edge Question - what do you consider the most interesting recent [scientific] news? What makes it important? My answer: Memory is a labile fabrication link
2015 Interview with Amar Toor from The Verge about Benchenane paper on memory modification during sleep audio
2015 Interview with Anna Azvolinsky from The Scientist about Benchenane paper on memory modification during sleep link
2015 Annual Edge Question - what do you think about machines that think? My answer: In our own image link
2014 Interview with Chris Woolston from Nature concerning my Twitter prediction of the O’Keefe Nobel Prize audio
2014 Radio interview for Martin Sixsmith’s Radio 4 series In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind Episode 4, The Mind Observes the Mind audio
2014 Annual Edge Question - What scientific idea is ready for retirement? My answer: Animal mindlessness link
2013 Annual Edge Question - What should we be worried about? My answer: The loss of death link
2011 UCL Bright Club: interviewed by Steve Cross and comedian Steve Hall about space audio
2010 Featured in Guardian article on how science funding cuts could cause scientists to leave the UK link