Dinner Ladies Save the World

Sharon Friel
  • 5.0 (8)
  • EDUCATION

Join Prof Sharon Friel and senior female academics in this uplifting podcast celebrating amazing women with incredible minds discussing how to solve the World’s problems. Easy! Each episode features the Dinner Ladies chatting over ‘virtual’ dinner about Covid-19 in the context of politics, inequality, ethics, civil liberty, climate change and more...

Episodes

  1. Christmas Special 2020 'Utopia'

    06/12/2020

    Christmas Special 2020 'Utopia'

    In the Dinner Ladies Save the World 2020 Christmas Special, Prof Sharon Friel speaks with the Dinner Ladies about pathways to Utopia. Evolutionary theory, misogyny, guardian AI, humour, equity – we discuss it all. What a future! Hear from Prof Helen Sullivan, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy; Prof Imogen Mitchell, ANU Medical School; Prof Lyndall Strazdins, ANU Research School of Population Health; Prof Prof Lesley Seebeck, Cyber expert; and Prof Joan Leach, ANU National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.

    54 min
  2. Episode 9 Covid Insights

    19/05/2020

    Episode 9 Covid Insights

    In the final episode of Series 1 of Dinner Ladies Save the World, Prof Sharon Friel speaks with all of the Dinner Ladies about their insights from the Covid-19 experience. Hear from Prof Imogen Mitchell, Director Medical School; Prof Lyndall Strazdins, Director Research School of Population Health; Prof Helen Sullivan, Director Crawford School of Public Policy; Prof Toni Erskine, Director Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs; Prof Sally Wheeler, Dean College of Law; Prof Lessley Seebeck, CEO Cyber Institute; Prof Joan Leach, Director National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and Prof Shirley Leitch, former Dean of Business and Economics

    52 min
  3. Episode 8. Consumptagenic systems, climate change & Covid-19

    12/05/2020

    Episode 8. Consumptagenic systems, climate change & Covid-19

    In Episode 8 of Dinner Ladies Save the World, Sharon Friel and Helen Sullivan speak about consumptagenic systems, Covid-19 and climate change. Prof Sullivan is Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Prof Friel is Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance, RegNet at the ANU. They are both Dinner Ladies.

    40 min
  • 3 Episodes

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5
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Join Prof Sharon Friel and senior female academics in this uplifting podcast celebrating amazing women with incredible minds discussing how to solve the World’s problems. Easy! Each episode features the Dinner Ladies chatting over ‘virtual’ dinner about Covid-19 in the context of politics, inequality, ethics, civil liberty, climate change and more...

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