Rising with the Tide

* Episode 7 of our old Podcast *   Your hosts Ellie and Skander talk with Gordon Walker, Professor in the University of Lancaster. For decades now, Gordon has researched the ins and outs of human/nature relationships. We discuss how to use natural energy flows, cycles and rhythms to best de-energise and de-carbonise our societies, as well as the effects of heat waves on care homes and the experien...

* Ep 6 of our archived LUXR Series *   Your hosts Jonny and Skander talk with David Tyfield, Reader at the University of Lancaster. David's research focuses on critically analysing knowledge-based systems as well as mobility and climate issues in China and around the globe. We discuss the complex role of China in the climate crisis, science's obessession with techne/episteme and how to build a bet...

Welcome fellow travelers!  Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with Keston Perry, lecturer and political economist at the University of West England. We discuss his theory of the disproportionate effect that climate change has on low-income countries, and in what ways this is rooted in historical colonialism. We talk about why high-income countries should offer reparations to low-income countries, t...

*Ep. 5 of our archived LUXR series*    Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with lecturer in International Relations at the School of Global Studies for the University of Sussex, Dr. Andrea Brock. Andrea researches political ecology, with a particular focus on exctractivism, environmental/social justice and the violence associated with environmental developments. We discuss her expertise on the decar...

Welcome fellow travellers!  Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with Vicki Hird, award winning author, expert, strategist and senior manager who has been working on environment, food and farming issues for over 25 years. We discuss her career leading various NGOs, what it means to farm sustainably as well as the state of food in the UK.  Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as we...

*Ep. 4 of our archived LUXR series*    Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Development and Environment (SUM) for the University of Oslo, Dr. Alexander Dunlap. Alexander specialises in critical anthropology and political ecology and talks to us about the negative socio-economic impacts of wind energy developments, resistance in the face of land-grabbing and...

*Ep. 3 of our archived LUXR series*    Your hosts Josh and Skander talk with Lancaster University Senior Lecturer Dr. Benjamin Neimark who specialises in political ecology. Ben talks to us about bioprospecting in Madagascar, the fuel emissions and carbon "boot-print" of the US Military as well as his views on environmental movements at LU and abroad.    Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththeti...

Welcome fellow travellers!  Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with Keith Beven, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University and Fellow of the Royal Society. We discuss his career in hydrology, from student to the ranks of the highest cited of his field. Keith talks to us about what it really means to study hydrology, with all of its uncertainties, as an inexact science, as well as wha...

*Ep. 2 of our archived LUXR series*    Your hosts Pablo and Skander interview Lancaster academic Petter Terenius who specialises in Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion and Renewable Energy solutions. Petter teaches us about the potential of OTEC and of using heat from data centers to power generators. We delve into the relationship between tech and climate, as well as a bit of eco-minded philosophy.  ...

*Ep. 1 of our archived LUXR series*  Your hosts Ellie and Skander talk with Lancaster University Teaching Fellow and UCU Branch Secretary Dr. Emily Heath who specialises in earth sciences. In our first ever episode, we discuss the current environmental scene and situation in Lancaster, and learn from Emily's years of fighting for change at and outside of the University. Let us know your thoughts a...

Welcome fellow travellers!  Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). We discuss her ideas of trade unions, the pandemic and what a just transition entails, as well as her experience leading the world's top union organisations.  Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us...