The Range Project

Jon Evans is a musician, surfer, runner, intrepid traveller and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia. In this episode, we travel back in time to Jon's early high school days in England as a self-confessed unruly and disengaged student. We stop off at the Great Barrier Reef where Jon had his first real epiphany and swing past St Andrew's University where he compl...

Scotch College Headmaster Dr Alec O'Connell is at the forefront of Australian education. In this interview, Alec reflects on the key people and pivotal experiences that have shaped his diverse career spanning 35 years. Alec shares his insights into the challenges of leading a school in the midst of a looming pandemic and a community gripped with uncertainty and fear. We discuss some of the silver...

Harvard Instructor, business consultant and former TV show host, Areen Shahbari, joins us from her home in California via Zoom in the midst of a raging pandemic and an unprecedented Presidential election cycle. Areen's work at Harvard focuses on entrepreneurship and the intersection of business and psychology. Areen discusses the interdisciplinary nature of entrepreneurial thinking and its clear b...

After 10 years at Google, creative juggernaut Ross Warren joins us in the studio following his return to Perth. With a career trajectory many of us only dream of, Ross looks back on some of his most memorable experiences along the way including the infamous Google interview process, joining Google's Creative Lab, the Summit Against Violent Extremism, heading up Youtube's Brand Operations and his m...

Join us for a conversation with Scotch College alumni, Dr Dave McCutcheon: Emergency specialist, father of three kids and a life-long musician. Dave gives us some fascinating insights into the challenges faced by emergency health workers in the context of a global pandemic. We also discuss ways in which Emergency medicine demands an interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving in what are occasio...

Perennial student and passionate teacher, Akram Azimi, shares his incredible life journey as a young boy seeking refuge from war-torn Afghanistan to winning the Young Australian of the Year in 2013. As a keen inter-disciplinarian, Akram holds a triple major degree in law, sciences and the arts from the University of Western Australia and is now a practising sociologist completing his post-doctoral...

Pierre makes a living by deceiving people......but not in the way you might think. Pierre is a professional magician. In this episode, Pierre shares his varied educational background from his early days as a budding young magician in Quebec to his work as an environmental scientist in Western Australia before turning his passion for magic into a full-time gig. Further reading/links: https://www.bi...