Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, Jack Dinham, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Podcast communications: Hannah Parish, Alexander Ayerst, Maya Stevens, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Gaming for Sustainable Development: a student SDG summit to understand the role of politics, economics and culture in tackling sustainability challenges
There are many exciting ways to learn about sustainability, so we thought we would attempt a rather different episode of the Meliora podcast.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit is a two-hour class as part of the UOSM2043 Global Sustainability Challenges module at the University of Southampton where students work in groups to represent different parts of the world and reach agreement on what SDGs should be prioritised at an international level. I could go into lots of waffly detail about the summit preparation, operation, negotiation, voting and the pedagogies behind this learning tool, but it's a far better idea to just listen to the episode and enjoy......
Episode Host: Prof Simon Kemp, USOM2043 Module Lead and Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute , University of Southampton
Episode Guests: The UOSM2043 students, Alex Ayerst, Rebecca Collins
Episode Producer: Alex Ayerst
Episode Comms: Hannah Parish
Episode Editor (who worked for 10 hours to somehow stitch all of the 2 hours of chaos together): Libby Kale
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