Resilience in the Round

UK Resilience Academy

The UK Resilience Academy (UKRA) presents 'Resilience in the Round' - a brand new podcast that brings people together, as part of a wider national resilience conversation. Over six 30-minute episodes, we will be welcoming a range of guests into the ‘Round’, to talk about the resilience structures they work in, share some of their stories, and discuss solutions - for strengthening societal resilience, together. For more information about the UK Resilience Academy visit: www.ukresilienceacademy.org

Episodes

  1. 12/17/2025

    Episode 3: Professionalising Resilience

    In this episode the UKRA’s very own Head of Training and Curriculum, Dr El Parker, joins us in the Round to discuss her work in helping to strengthen the professionalisationof resilience. The conversation emphasises the diverse nature of resilience roles and the how individual competencies shape our resilience capabilities. It also explores how the shift towards ‘whole of society resilience’ has shaped important developments in the resilience and emergencies profession. Packed with key information and unique insights from her work with partners to pioneer the Resilienceand Emergencies Professional Apprenticeship, refresh the National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Resilience and Emergencies, and proactively develop new, professional training pathways at the UKRA, this conversation is not one to miss!

    34 min

  2. 08/26/2025

    Episode 2: More than a Meeting - COBR in the National Resilience Context

    In this second episode of the UKRA’s new podcast, we welcome the Director of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR)*, Roger Hargreaves, into the Round to discuss the UK’s central government arrangements for responding to serious domestic and international crises.The conversation offers an insightful overview of COBR’s structural role and functional remit within government, and in the wider, national resilience context. It also underscores the critical role of local resilience partners in a national crisis response, and includes personal reflections on how the UKs central crisis response has evolved in recent years. *COBR is the Cabinet Office-led mechanism for co‑ordinating UK central government’s acute response to emergencies. For more information on the central government response to crisis see The Amber Book on gov.uk.

    28 min

  3. 06/12/2025

    Episode 1: Resilience is Everyone's Business

    On this first episode of the UK Resilience Academy's brand new podcast, our Head of Thought Leadership, Lianna Roast, welcomes Chief Resilience Officer for Greater Manchester, Dr Kathy Oldham, OBE, and Voluntary Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) Programme Lead for Greater Manchester Resilience Forum, Sulafa Abushal, into the Round. The conversation explores the breadth and scope of local, whole-of-society resilience efforts - before and beyond an emergency response . Kathy and Sulafa also discuss the structures that they operate in as part of the Greater Manchester Resilience Forum, and share reflections on their own personal routes in to the resilience profession.

    32 min
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The UK Resilience Academy (UKRA) presents 'Resilience in the Round' - a brand new podcast that brings people together, as part of a wider national resilience conversation. Over six 30-minute episodes, we will be welcoming a range of guests into the ‘Round’, to talk about the resilience structures they work in, share some of their stories, and discuss solutions - for strengthening societal resilience, together. For more information about the UK Resilience Academy visit: www.ukresilienceacademy.org

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