The Scottish Student Sport Podcast

The Scottish Student Sport Podcast

The SSS Podcast touches on a little bit of everything and anything student sport related. Featuring guest interviews, news and updates from the student sporting world.

Episodes

February 7, 2024 37 mins
On today’s episode Stew and Cam are joined by Scottish Student Sport’s Head of Competitions Chris Purdie.

Chris is a well known face within the Student Sport Network and has passionately delivered for students, from his time as University of Stirling Sports president to his current role at SSS.

Chris is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to Competitions, so join us as we explore the latest from the SSS event calendar and learn a ...
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On today’s show Stew and Cam are putting the focus on Men’s health, highlighting some of the incredible fundraising and advocacy carried out by those across the Student Sector. Oddballs Ambassdor James Falls joins us to talk about the phenomenal charity work he’s championed throughout his university career.

We’ve also got a wee insight into the great work being done by the Scottish Student Movember Ambassadors!

We’re also delighted t...
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This month Cam and Stew welcome on Judith McCleary, Judo Scotland CEO and former World Mixed-Double championship Curler to talk about her illustrious career, inspiring different sporting communities and the importance of female leadership within sport. It’s a cracker of an episode so make sure to grab your headphones and listen in!
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Join Stew and Cam on this months episode of the Scottish Student Sport Podcast as they welcome Wheelchair Racer Melanie Woods. Melanie talks at length about her early life, her incredible sporting career that saw her selected for the Paralympic team just two and a half years after recovering from the accident that left her paralysed, and the merits of being a total beginner at a new sport. It’s a whopper of an episode so make sure ...
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On Episode 30 of the Scottish Student Sport Podcast Stew and Cam welcome University of Strathclyde Deputy Head of Sport Anne-Marie Hughes. The boys chat to Anne-Marie about her illustrious career, her time competing internationally and her coaching ethos. Anne-Mare has helped shape the lives of Strathclyde students for decades and has plenty of advice pick up from over the years, so you definitely don’t want to miss this one!
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In this episode Stew and Cam are joined by Forbes Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer at sportscotland. They’ll chat about Forbes sporting background, his championing of disability sport, the new College active campus network and Forbes goals for the next few years. You don’t want to miss this one!
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This episode Stew and Cam are joined by the incredible Heather Lowden, Education & Development Manager at Scottish Disability Sport, to discuss her amazing work with athletes with a disability, her advocacy work and some practical guidance for clubs and institutions to make sport a more inclusive place.

Ronan Welch, VP for sport at the University of Strathclyde, also paid the boys a visit: giving an update on Glasgow’s biggest ...
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Stew and Cam are joined by a trio of fantastic guests on this week’s podcast.

Chris Geddes, Men's High Performance Football Coach at the University of Stirling, joins them to discuss Stirling Uni FC’s historic Scottish Cup run, their BUCS Prem North Victory, and how he as a coach manages to get the best out of his players whilst they navigate student life.

We’ve also got the dynamic SAAB double act from the University of Glasgow, as ...
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Join quiz master Keith Easton as he hosts a very special festive episode of the Scottish Student Sport podcast.

Cam and Stew lead two teams chock full of big hitters from the student sport sector with the aim to discover who knows more about Scottish Sport!
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This month Stew and Cam are joined by Carolina Sousa e Sá, Senior Project Officer at LEAP Sport and Dan Potter, Sports President at Heriot-Watt University. They cover the latest going’s on at Heriot-Watt, some of the barriers that LGBTQ+ Students may face whilst participating within student sport and how we can work together to make sport a more inclusive place for all.
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On this episode Stew and Cam bring you three great student guests!

Gemma Lumsdaine, wheelchair rugby player, Dundee Dragons coach, UWS masters student and disability sport advocate joins us to chat about Women’s sport, sport as a vessel for societal change, her studies, career and coaching as well as her own experiences in sport.

We’ve also got a super special SABB Corner, featuring The University of St Andrew’s Athletic Union Presid...
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On this show we’re bringing you two very special guests! Jonny Pearson, Vice Principal at Edinburgh College, joins us to discuss how Edinburgh College are developing student sport and how his students are getting involved with sport around the capital! We’re also joined by Louise Ford, President of Student Activities at Queen Margaret University and recent speech and language therapy graduate. She’ll discuss her new role, how getti...
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On this week's show we’re kicking off the 22/23 student sport season with a phenomenal line-up! Stew and Cam catch up with Radha Balani, co-managing director at Think Beyond, joins us to discuss her fantastic career, her work in the sport for development space, and how she’s working to improve the lives of women and girls through sport. They’re also joined by Murray Bushell, Sports Union President at the University of Stirling, who...
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Stew and Cam are joined by Marketing Graduate and Outgoing Vice President of Sport at Strathclyde Students' Union Kirsty Bannatyne, as well as hearing from a whole host of others on this special episode of the #SSS Pod.

We discuss sport at the University of Strathclyde, Kirsty’s plans for the future, our Conference highlights and we hear from some of our very own SSS Award Winners, so grab your headphones and settle in to the SSS P...
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Joining Stew and Cam on the podcast today are two fantastic guests from the world of sport. Robert Nesbitt, the physical activity and sport lead at Scottish Association for Mental Health and Adam Lambert, Vice President for Activities at the Aberdeen University Students Association jump on to chat about mental health, developing university sports clubs and the importance of physical activity to student life and beyond.
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On this episode of the #SSSPOD Stew and Cameron welcome Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, decorated Paralympian, house of Lords Crossbench Peer, and broadcaster amongst a whole host of other accolades, and Adam Brady, Biomedical Sciences Graduate and Sports Union President at the University of Dundee.

Join us as we discuss Adam’s time at Dundee and how he achieved his campaign pledges, Tanni’s incredible Paralympic career, her transiti...
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In the first #SSSPOD of 2022 Cameron and Stew bring you two fantastic guests from the world of Student Sport.

On the agenda is health and wellbeing and how it should be implemented into wider student life, the importance of Student Sport to the Scottish Sport Governing Bodies and much more in this whopper of an episode!

We’re joined by Kim Atkinson, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Sports Association and Emily Devine, the Co-Pre...
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A short but sweet final episode of the year as Stew and Gav take a look back at some of the best bits of 2021. We preview our SSS Festive Gathering, take a trip down memory lane and we asked you for your 2021 highlights.

Featuring festive cheer, plenty of laughs and a few tears as Stew says farewell to Gav…
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What advice would you give your 11-year-old self? Tackling that question and more we welcome the inspirational Scotland Women’s Cricketer Abtaha Maqsood, who is smashing boundaries wherever she goes. We cover everything from cricket, dentistry and university life to taekwondo and tackling challenges head-on.

Alongside Abtaha, we are joined by Kirsten Mullen - our first SSS Sports Chair on the pod! Kirsten covers everything including...
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June 9, 2021 38 mins
To kick-start our 10 Years of SSS celebrations we are inviting everyone to join in with our #TimeForTen active challenge! As part of the challenge, we are encouraging everyone to move their body to the theme of 10 whilst listening along to the SSSPOD. On this special episode, we will be joined by a whole range of guests from across the student sport network, sharing some of their best memories from the last 10 years and beyond! Get...
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