The Louder Than Words Podcast

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The Louder Than Words Podcast

The Louder Than Words podcast is about how ideas improve lives. Professor Jules Pretty created the Louder than Words podcast for conversations on how the world can be made a better place by inquiry, research and public engagement. These are ideas that can inspire individual, collective and policy action. This is the first podcast from the Centre for Public and Policy Engagement at the University of Essex. There are three series a year: autumn, spring and summer. Each episode of Louder Than Words takes a key contemporary issue and gives you a chance to hear from leading researchers, policy makers, thinkers and campaigners plus those directly affected by the issue. The podcast is produced by Marcus Pierpoint and Luke Fitch of the University of Essex’s Media Centre. Producers of series 1-3 were Ali Martin and Martha Dixon.

  1. 11/23/2023

    Talking About the Crime of Ecocide

    Join Matthew Gillett and Marina Lostal in conversation with Jules Pretty on international law, courts and institutions. We talk about peace, security and the environment; hate crimes and losses in cultural heritage; the founding of a Biocultural Indigenous University in the Andean Amazon of Colombia; how the crime of ecocide is being prosecuted, and how a river has been declared a victim. Matthew Gillett and Marina Lostal are in the Essex Law School at the University of Essex.

    40 min

  2. 11/16/2023

    You Can Say That Again

    Amanda Cole and Ella Jeffries from the Department of Language and Linguistics talk to Jules Pretty about sociolinguistics: the loss and gain of language and dialect, language variation; influence of Cockney on Essex; accent bias – class and gender; right or wrong or plain different.

    38 min

  3. 11/09/2023

    How Rewilding Changes Us, and What’s With the New Orca Behaviours

    Join Ben Goldsmith and Níels Einarsson in conversation with Jules Pretty on how rewilding changes whole landscapes as well as our imagination, and how the 500 Orca marine incidents off Iberia are challenging how we think of wild marine mammals. What is rewilding, how can it benefit landscapes and cities, what are the best ways to think about human-nature relationships? Ben Goldsmith is author of “God is an Octopus”, rewilding farmer and advocate, and Chief Executive of Menhaden Plc. Níels Einarsson is Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute at the University of Akureyri, northern Iceland. It is the 25th anniversary year of the Stefansson Arctic Institute.

    1 hr

  4. 11/02/2023

    Perhaps, By the Skin of Our Teeth

    Join Lloyd Peck and Bill McKibben in conversation with Jules Pretty on the climate crisis. Lloyd has travelled to the Antarctic 20 times in 30 years, and describes first hand from under water the changes in these cold and slow environments. Bill is the foremost green writer, journalist and activists in the USA, and is the founder of both 350.org and Third Act. Lloyd Peck is with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, and has researched changes in the Antarctic for 30 years. Bill McKibben is author of the book Falter, and founder of Third Act, a US organisation bringing together the over-60s in direct action on the climate crisis and democracy.

    54 min

  5. 10/25/2023

    Bending Circular Economies Into Shape

    Join Erik Jacobi and Jordon Lazell in conversation with Jules Pretty on circular economies and neuromarketing. What are circular economies, and how can they help businesses become more successful as well as creating social benefits? How can new neuromarketing approaches pioneered at the University of Essex help brands and our understanding of consumer behaviours.  Erik Jacobi and Jordon Lazell are at the Essex Business School. Erik is one of the University’s Public Voice Scholars, and directs the Neuromarketing Lab.

    43 min

  6. 10/12/2023

    Good Things Come to Those who Hope

    Join Andrew Simms and Nicky Saunter of the Rapid Transition Alliance in conversation with Jules Pretty on Hope. How can we address climate, ecological and social inequality crises with new forms of language and action; how can hope be deployed to improve lives. The joint Hope Tales project is producing new street literature in the form of chapbooks arising from live events across the UK. Andrew Simms and Nicky Saunter are at the Rapid Transition Alliance. The Hope Tales chapbooks can be found at https://rapidtransition.org/resources/hope-tales/

    47 min
  7. Policing Domestic Abuse

    07/06/2023

    Policing Domestic Abuse

    Join Ruth Weir and Jackie Turton in conversation with Jules Pretty on domestic abuse and violence in the home. What works and why? What has changed in recent years? What are the prospects for the future? Ruth Weir is at City University’s Violence and Society Centre and Jackie Turton is in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. They are co-authors with two serving police officers, Kate Barrow-Grint and Jacqueline Sebine, of the new book, Policing Domestic Violence.

    41 min
  8. Now You See It: Immersive Tech for Leisure and Health

    06/29/2023

    Now You See It: Immersive Tech for Leisure and Health

    Join Paul Hibberd and Abigail Webb in conversation with Jules Pretty on processing visual information – how we humans see the world, how technology is opening up new options for immersive theatre, and the exciting roles for virtual and augmented reality. Paul Hibberd is in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex and Abigail Webb is at the University of Suffolk.

    42 min
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The Louder Than Words podcast is about how ideas improve lives. Professor Jules Pretty created the Louder than Words podcast for conversations on how the world can be made a better place by inquiry, research and public engagement. These are ideas that can inspire individual, collective and policy action. This is the first podcast from the Centre for Public and Policy Engagement at the University of Essex. There are three series a year: autumn, spring and summer. Each episode of Louder Than Words takes a key contemporary issue and gives you a chance to hear from leading researchers, policy makers, thinkers and campaigners plus those directly affected by the issue. The podcast is produced by Marcus Pierpoint and Luke Fitch of the University of Essex’s Media Centre. Producers of series 1-3 were Ali Martin and Martha Dixon.

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