The Black & Gold Podcast: Recent Episodes
University of Sheffield Sports Committee
The Black and Gold Podcast sets off its first episode of the 2022-23 year with an introduction to Sport Sheffield, and what life is like as a student involved in Sport at The University of Sheffield! Featuring special our newly elected Wellbeing and Sports Officer Iwan James, Director of Sport and Physical Activity Andrew Cox, Chair of Sportscomm Emily Westwood and Secretary of Sportscomm Megan Taljaard. Hosted by Becky Cooper, Sportscomm publicity and communications liaison.
Today our guests discuss how they were first introduced to Sport and joining sports clubs at Sheffield, the benefits of sport on emotional, physical and mental wellbeing, as well as discussing their goals for the year ahead.
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for a very special episode on Sustainable Diets!
Hosted by Sports Comm's Mature Students Representative Helen Radford, she is joined by Esme Tuttiett who is a PGR student in the department of Oncology and metabolism. Her PhD is looking at Protein supplementation and musculoskeletal health in middle-older age. Esme has also worked with professional elite athletes advising on their nutrition.
She is also joined by Sarah Wright! Sarah is a passionate vegan, who started her own company NUVE, this was developed from her on research into plant based nutrition to aid health problems. Sarah found that there was little environmentally friendly products on the market and therefore set about creating some plant based products. Sarah as also had an award winning brownie company and during lockdown she started creating vegan meals for NHS workers, which led her to work for one of London's top vegan restaurants. Sarah enjoys nothing more than sharing her love of plant based nutrition.
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for a very special two part series on Pride in Sport!
Hosted by Sports Comm's Social Media officer Iwan James (He/Him), he is joined by Rowan (They/Them) from trampolining and Sports Comm's LGBTQ+ representative, Ellie (She/Her) from women's rugby, Elizabeth (She/Her) from Sheffield roller derby and Phil (He/Him) from Vulcans Rugby Club!
In this second episode the guests discuss their LGBTQ+ sporting role models, transgender and non-binary involvement in sport and finally what can be achieved in the LGBGTQ+ community going forward in sport.
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for a very special two part series on Pride in Sport!
Hosted by Sports Comm's Social Media officer Iwan (He/Him), he is joined by Rowan (They/Them) from trampolining and Sports Comm's LGBTQ+ representative, Ellie (She/Her) from women's rugby, Elizabeth (She/Her) from Sheffield roller derby and Phil (He/Him) from Vulcans Rugby Club!
In this first episode the guests discuss pride in university sports and the barriers for LGBTQ+ community in joining a sport.
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for a very special three part series on mental health!
Hosted by our Wellbeing and Sports officer Charlotte McGinley SU, she is joined by Andy from Andys Man Club, Rohan and Abbie from Mental Health Matters Society (Sheffield Union), Zoe Whitehead who is the ambassador for The OddBalls Foundation, Tom Hill our Mature Students Representative and Becky Mayne who is a representative from Sheffield Nightline as this years public face!
In this third and final episode the guests discuss the importance of mens mental and physical health alongside the importance of Movember.
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for a very special three part series on mental health!
Hosted by our Wellbeing and Sports officer Charlotte McGinley, she is joined by Andy from Andys man Club, Rohan and Abbie from Mental Health Matters Society, Zoe Whitehead who is the ambassador for Oddballs Foundation, Tom Hill our Mature Students Representative and Becky Mayne who is a representative from Sheffield Nightline as this years public face!
In this second episode the guests give a brief overview of their work and experiences as well as what they took up over lockdown! Keep an eye out for our final episode releasing soon!
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for a very special three part series on mental health awareness!
Hosted by our Wellbeing and Sports officer Charlotte McGinley, she is joined by Andy from Andys man Club, Rohan and Abbie from Mental Health Matters Society, Zoe Whitehead who is the ambassador for Oddballs Foundation, Tom Hill our Mature Students Representative and Becky Mayne who is a representative from Sheffield Nightline as this years public face!
In this first episode the guests give a brief overview of their work and experiences as well as what they took up over lockdown! Keep an eye out for our next two episodes releasing soon!
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for a very special Black History Month episode! Host Iwan James is joined by Education and Welfare Officer Anesu (Ness) Matanda Mambingo, Sportscomm's BME Representative Daniel Olatokun and Sportscomm's Disabled Students Engagement Lead!
In the episode the guests discuss wide range of topics including each of our black sporting idols, barriers we’ve faced in sport, and things we’d like to say change to ensure our sports can be more inclusive!
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back for its 2nd podcast for the 2021-22 year! Host Iwan James is joined by Sportscomm's Widening Engagement Representatives: LGBTQ+ Representative Rowan Garwood, International Students Representative Philip Svensson and Mature Students Representative Helen Radford!
Today the guests will discuss Freshers memories, what they are doing to help the students they represent, what to do about your mental health at University and the goals ahead for the year.
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
The Black and Gold Podcast is back! Host Iwan James is joined by Wellbeing and Sports Officer Charlotte McGinley, Chair of Sportscomm Alice Cipolat, Sport Sheffield Club Sport Manager Greg Unwin and Club Sport Officer Harry Preston!
Today the guests will discuss Freshers memories, all you need to know about sport and COVID, what to do about your mental health at University and the goals ahead for the year.
Don't forget to follow Sportscomm on social media, on Instagram: @sheffsportscomm, Facebook: University of Sheffield Sports Committee and Twitter: @sheffsportscomm!
This episode is our This Girl Can special.
We hear from Dr Emma Ross on all things female in sport. We discuss the menstrual cycle and female hormones role in sporting performance, how to implement this into your own training, how sport and exercise can be so empowering for women and much much more.
Also joining us are Annie Timmis and Erin Kelley from UoS Women’s Football Club, speaking about the challenges women face in a male dominated sport.
This podcast features Tom Armitage from project 14.
Project 14 is a local non-profit community group that promotes positive mental health.
This podcast discusses how we can listen to someone struggling with mental health issues. As well as self-help mechanisms, and a small focus on men’s mental health.
Tom, Beth and Gemma founded project 14 after their close friend sadly took his own life, this podcast provides heartfelt informative advice about mental health to those who may need it.
On this addition we discuss racism more broadly, both within our university and beyond.
We hear from Matt our sports officer and Temi, a previous member of sports committee.
We discuss institutional racism in football as well as tackling what we can do to break down everyday racism within our university
On this edition of The Black and Gold Podcast we are talking about sport, racism in sport and what a year 2020 has been for all of us.
We have special guests Angela Ewurum and Euodia Dodd from women’s rugby speaking openly about their own experiences of racism in sport, both growing up and once they started at university.
Our guests were interviewed by this weeks interviewers Charlotte and Jordan from Sports Committee, Charlotte is our publicity and alumni officer and Jordan is inclusions and well-being officer.
This podcast speaks about the realistic experience of freshers, both good and bad. Hearing from Matt and holly welfare and sports officers. As well as Olivia fuller, the winner of fresher of the year at this years sports awards. Then we also have sheffield nightline speaking about their services and where to go for support.
Nightline information:
Email: nightline@sheffield.ac.uk
Phone- on the back of student card
Instant messaging: Sheffieldnightline.co.uk
Social media: @sheffieldnightline
Volunteering info:
Sheffieldnightline.co.uk/volunteering
If you have any questions about volunteering, please contact us at sunl@sheffield.ac.uk
Our next edition of The Black and Gold Podcast is all things Sports Awards. We couldn’t celebrate in person this year but our podcast features some of our fantastic winners and our very own Sports Awards Coordinators from the last two years.
NEW!! This year we have set up a Sports Committee podcast called ‘The Black & Gold Podcast’!!
Today we have released our first edition ‘Welcome to Black and Gold’ featuring guests Matt Graves, Greg Unwin and Kitty Price with Hèlènè Jasmine interviewing.
Please have a listen to the guys chat all things Black and Gold, some quick fire questions and some updates about a return to sport at Sheffield.