FEASTA and EHFF

Dec 03 2024 55 ep. 30 mins 15

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This series of podcasts is a collaboration between Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum. Feasta is an open-membership think tank whose aims are to identify the characteristics - economic, cultural and environmental - of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose. While rooted in Ireland, Feasta has international membership and its focus is often on the global-level systemic changes that we believe to be vital to our future.

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Health and the Wellbeing Economy

Dec 03 2024 26 mins

David Somekh and Caroline Whyte spoke with Dr Tony Holohan, the former Chief Medical Officer of Ireland and the director of the new One Health Centre at University College Dublin. Tony and David reflected on the breakout session on health at the June 2024 Rethinking Growth conference. They discussed the need to emphasise community-based healthcare, the strong links between health

Rethinking Marketing

Oct 07 2024 29 mins

Doctor Sarah Browne from TCD Business School explains why she moved away from a traditional, mainstream teaching of marketing - including such subjects as ‘micro-targeting’ and ‘brand equity’. Instead, Sarah and colleagues, both in the Business School and elsewhere, are now taking a more critical stance which questions the prioritisation of demand generation, growth at all

Care and the wellbeing economy

Aug 01 2024 34 mins

David Somekh and Caroline Whyte spoke with Mark Garavan, who is a senior lecturer in Social Care at the Atlantic Technological University and the author of the recently-published book ‘Care’. Topics discussed include the double-edged role of technology, the power of dominant narratives - including those concerning inequality and economic growth - modernity’s quest to eliminat

Avoiding polarisation

Jul 17 2024 35 mins

In this podcast Seán Ó Conláin spoke with Philip McDonagh. Philip is the author of several poetry collections and the Director of the Centre for Religion, Human Values, and International Relations at Dublin City University. A former diplomat, he was involved the Good Friday Agreement peace process in Northern Ireland, and he served as ambassador to India, the Holy See, Russia an

Bridging the gaps between traditional and conventional medicine

May 31 2024 27 mins

David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Takis Kotos, the founder of the Cambridge Medical Academy, about his work on integrating conventional and traditional medicine, including research on herbs, while also making use of new technologies to help ensure that patient care is personalised as possible.

Achieving a just fossil fuel phase-out

May 28 2024 30 mins

In this podcast, Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte spoke with Harjeet Singh. Harjeet is the Global Engagement Director at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (FFNPT). He is currently also a member of the United Nations' Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management. Topics covered in our interview included the history of the FFNPT initiative, its curre

Reports from the COP28 frontline

Feb 01 2024 35 mins

Caroline Whyte interviews four of Feasta's delegates to the COP28 climate summit which took place in Dubai, in November 2023: Hania Imran (Pakistan), Angel Smith (USA), Theresa O'Donohoe (Ireland) and Barbara McCarthy (Ireland). Topics discussed include: - the influence of civil society on COP negotiations - the potential for ‘side-treaties’ that develop alongside the UNFCCC p

The importance of being seen

Jan 02 2024 32 mins

Thobile Chittenden, network co-lead of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), speaks with Seán Ó Conláin about her early childhood at the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa and how that experience has influenced her, leading eventually to her decision to join the WEAll global amplification team. Topics covered in their conversation include the importance of people and

Resilience in times of turbulence

Dec 22 2023 25 mins

David Somekh and Caroline Whyte interviewed Professor Jane Gray of Maynooth University Department of Sociology on her research on resilience in times of crisis. We discussed two projects that she recently led which explored the ways in which families coped with the wake of the Great Financial Crisis and, in the case of Ireland, how the Family Income Supplement affected them. Topic

Taking stock and moving forward in environmental politics

Nov 01 2023 28 mins

Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte spoke with Molly Scott Cato. Molly was formerly a Professor of Green Economics and speaks for the Green Party of England and Wales on Economy and Finance. She recently published a book on Sustainable Finance (Springer, 2022). Between 2014 and 2020 Molly represented South West England and Gibraltar in the European Parliament. She was a member of