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  Real Talk  🎤🎤🎤   None of you really want to show up in front of a panel like this so we can bleat on about the business benefits of DE&I do you?   Of course you don’t, because you can chat GPT it, Google it or listen to a gazillion podcasts that talk about it.   Panels that chew the fat on the topic, IMO are wasting a golden opportunity to tell us real-life stories that make us feel something and help us radically change what we do.   Besides, the benefits data has been out there for decades, and most businesses are still not doing a SINGLE THING about it.    So, in tomorrow's session, we are taking a different angle.   We are spotlighting the harsh truths of inequality within our industry - you know, the stuff nobody wants to talk about! 🤐🤐🤐   Chikere Igbokwe (She/Her), Amy Weidner and Lucy Morgan will be discussing some of their own lived experiences and the lived experiences of others.   Miles Lloyd and Matt Ashby-Cooper are sharing their powerful strategies and the things they’ve both seen move the dial in businesses looking to build strategic DE&I to evolve and future-proof themselves.   And me...I’ll be simply creating the space for them on the stage, trying my best not to completely mess up the timings, and maybe dropping the odd truth bomb into conversation myself.   Join us at the Rec Expo tomorrow, Tuesday 19th, at 13.15PM #StoryTelling #Solutions #RealityChecks

Wow - this should be great! I've been learning about Donella Meadows, #degrowth and #doughnuteconomics through Terra.do's Climate fellowship program, where we are lucky to have Katy Shields as an instructor. Degrowth offers an alternative to continued economic growth - so that we don't gobble everything up and destroy ourselves. Described as a "radical theory" by the World Economic Forum, degrowth aims to stabilize economies in order to achieve socio-political equity and ecological sustainability. If you're interested in capitalism and the well-being of our planet, I highly recommend checking out this podcast. Get ideas, get inspired. P.S. You can now get a master's degree in degrowth at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)!

ICYMI: The first episode of the OII Podcast is out now. Featuring Professor Andy Przybylski and Dr Sakshi Ghai, the episode focuses on screen time and the impact of the digital world. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/efhdkTh5

New Podcast 💫 "(...) there is much commotion about #wokeness in #academia. Everyone seems to have an opinion and these opinions are often confirmed by our own echo chambers resulting in a highly polarized discourse. A polarization that seems impossible to overcome at times.  The strange thing is that most of us actually agree with the underlying premise: addressing #injustices in our #classrooms, in (access to) #research and #society at large. #woke #science https://lnkd.in/dWTXfZZE

This is my recent podcast at Wisdom of Crowds. And this is how Damir and Santiago, my hosts, have prefaced it: "Can big problems — like climate change, income inequality, or AI alignment — find solutions “from below,” through collective action, rather than “from above,” i.e., imposed by regulatory bodies? Today’s guest is a fascinating economist. Professor Paul Dragoș Aligică is a senior research fellow at the Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Professor of Governance at the University of Bucharest. Paul believes that we are living through the third great moment in human history, after the transition to agriculture and the industrial revolution. What will this third moment be about? Far too broad to pigeonhole, he’s a visionary public choice theorist and a student of renowned economists Vincent and Elinor Ostrom (the latter won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2009). Paul has thought long and hard about the strange inflection point our world seems to be hurtling towards. It’s a slow burn of an episode, one where interesting and complex ideas are laid out carefully, before Damir and Santiago engage Paul in sussing out their implications. Does Paul think that public choice theory means the world has hope? How do we fix the seemingly intractable problems posed by capitalism and globalization? Tune in to find out. Required Reading and Viewing: * Paul Dragoș Aligică’s personal website ( www.aligica.com ) * Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons (Amazon). * What is the Tragedy of the Commons? (Harvard Business School). * Elinor Ostrom on Ending the Tragedy of the Commons (Big Think on YouTube). * Santiago Ramos, “What Does McDonald’s Mean?” (WoC). This post is part of our collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Governance and Markets. Wisdom of Crowds is a platform challenging premises and understanding first principles on politics and culture. Join us!" I would like to thank Damir and Santiago for inviting me. The conversation with them was a real pleasure. Wisdom of Crowds—"The Comedy of the Commons":

Check out this new podcast, which is just part of Hidden Figures’ strategy to address racism within academia. “We are doing a podcast because conversations are a powerful medium for both self-reflexivity and social action,...The main rationale is informed by the need to challenge the academic status quo by critically evaluating how practices that have historically marginalized certain scholars persist, how these practices remain part of broader systemic injustices and what can be done about it to make our disciplinary fields more inclusive.”

A few weeks ago we brought you the last episode of our series of podcasts with researchers Technaid S.L. Research Digest. This time, we wanted to bring you the audio versions available from today on the most used platforms. In this 6th episode Eduard Fosch Villaronga, professor and researcher at the Leiden University - Institute of Public Administration (eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies) tells us about his research work in the world of #exoskeletons and how it intersects with the world of #diversity care, among others. Now that the vacations are approaching, if you are interested in #rehabilitation or #neurorehabilitation research with #exoskeleton-type systems, take the opportunity to catch up on how other #researchers are using our #ExoH3 to carry out their #experiments. We hope you enjoy it! https://lnkd.in/eF8HvJHX

Did you know that I was a guest for Historians For Future's podcast? Historians for Future (H4F) support the climate movement by providing a historical perspective on the climate and biodiversity crisis we are facing. Climate change is not only a scientific issue. It’s a human problem, bound up in questions of social justice and human values, and we believe that the humanities can help to solve it. This is the podcast arm of an ongoing commitment to open up conversations and resources for a wider audience. During the episode, the host and I address intersections of ecofeminism, social justice, and new perspectives on the Irish Great Famine. #famine #ecofeminism #environmentalism #climatejustice

John Gray (the author of the book: The New Leviathans, Thoughts After Liberalism) on the US Election and a World After Liberalism. Here you are! Some very interesting thoughts: 👉 Almost certainly we will face deeper division after the election than there was even before. You could have a fairly long and fairly deep period of civil disorder, of deepening semi-anarchy in some areas. 👉 American model of democratic government was being talked about as one that could be projected globally. We're now seeing it in deep, deep trouble in its place of origin. 👉 Progress is always possible. But progress is only possible if there is sufficient convergence of goals and values and sufficient trust in institutions that the different groups have in common. 👉 There's one remarkable element in the recent American election campaigns: Musk's argument, which seems genuine on his part, that unless Trump is elected, he, Trump, won't be able to go on with his Mars program because it would be regulated out of existence, he fears. And if you don't go ahead with the Mars program, you don't have interplanetary colonization. And if you don't have interplanetary colonization, the human race is going to become extinct. Now, John Gray says, it's an unrealistic idea for one very simple reason. The idea that by migrating to another planet or many other planets, you can somehow remove the sting of human destructiveness is an illusion. 👉 Conspiracy theory is deeply woven into American life and American. Conspirators themselves don't know what's going on. Guicciardini says, “don't get involved in conspiracies because 99% of people involved in conspiracies are complete idiots. Just try and stay out of them.” ➡️ I just add: Does this American election’s element seem absurd to you? Compared to this, populism in Europe is just a light tea brew. Source: From Intelligence Squared podcast, 8 Nov 2024 https://lnkd.in/eFPYarsv

📻My two latest contributions to The Grant podcast are finally on air! This time we discussed #HorizonEurope evaluation process. I know this is a very exciting topic for many of you since it addresses a crucial timing for your #EUfunded projects. As expert evaluator, I have the opportunity to work with the European Commission providing my expertise to analyse the viability of many proposals. It's always a fascinating process that can raise multiple questions among the applicants. Together with Niels Tudor-Vinther, Maria Daniela Angione, and Yoram Bar-Zeev, we wanted to shed light on the topic and help you understand what happens once you click "submit". 🙌 🔸The first episode covers the evaluation process, the rules and regulation that evaluators have to follow and, how to evaluate a complex proposal. 🔸The second one addresses the differences between #H2020 and Horizon Europe proposals, our work as evaluators, and the selection of evaluators. Thanks again to Niels Tudor-Vinther for counting on me! 😊 You can listen to both episodes here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dWD_E3jT