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STARTcast is a podcast created by START International, a nongovernmental organization that has worked to create new connections and strengthen opportunities for advancing sustainability science across Africa and Asia for more than 25 years. The STARTcast is one way we endeavor to bring informative, approachable and free content to early and mid-career scientists working on issues of global sustainability.
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In Episode 4, the Season 2 finale of the STARTcast, we discusses the FRACTAL Principles with John Mfune, Deon Shekuza, Lapo Magole, and Genito Maure. The FRACTAL Principles are an outcome of FRACTAL’s transdisciplinary processes. As the emergent Principles became clear, they helped to shape and guide engagements in the nine southern African cities where FRACTAL worked. They sum up the way in which FRACTAL approached working in these cities and it is hoped that they can provide a framew...
In Episode 3 of the second series of the STARTcast, Mzime Murisa, a Program Specialist at START, discusses the role of embedded researchers in the FRACTAL project with Rudo Mamombe, who was the Embedded Researcher in Harare, Zimbabwe. In her discussion she also includes comments from Dr Anna Taylor, Dr Lulu van Rooyen and Brenda Mwalukanga.
Season 2 Episode 2 features a discussion between FRACTAL’s program coordinator, Alice McClure, and three FRACTAL researchers: Dr. Anna Taylor, researcher at the University of Cape Town focusing on climate adaptation in cities, particularly developing a process-based understanding of how urban climate adaptation happens, is organized and governed; Dr. Sukaina Bhurwani, an interdisciplinary senior researcher with a background in social anthropology and computer science. She co-leads ...
Season 2 Episode 1 features a discussion between START Program Specialist Dr. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa and three prominent climate scientists from the FRACTAL project: Dr. Chris Jack (Deputy Director at the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG), at the University of Cape Town, South Africa); Dr. Richard Jones (Science Fellow at the UK Met Office and a visiting professor at Oxford University); and Dr. Tamara Janes (Researcher in atmospheric sciences, monsoons and climate change adaptation). Togethe...
Episode 8 of the STARTcast is our listener feedback and reflections episode and the Season 1 finale. In this episode, we respond to your questions (courtesy of several returning guests), read listener feedback about the podcast, and share parting reflections on our first season of the STARTcast.
Episode seven of the STARTcast features a conversation between START's Executive Director, Jon Padgham and Bruce Currie-Alder, Climate Change Program Leader at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian governmental organization that supports research in developing countries to promote sustainable growth, reduce poverty, and drive large-scale positive change. In this episode, Bruce and Jon revisit points and ideas raised throughout the first season of the STARTcast relat...
Episode six of the STARTcast features a conversation between START Program Specialist, Dr. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa and Dr. Blane Harvey, an Assistant Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University in Canada. Blane is also an associate of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in the UK. In this episode, Blane shares his experience and offers invaluable advice on research proposal review processes, why proposals get r...
Episode five of the STARTcast features a conversation between START’s Sarah Schweizer and Dr. Natasha Udu-gama, Program Manager of International and Community Engagement at AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange. Here, Natasha shares about community science and how scientists and communities can co-write proposals to do science together to advance community priorities.
Episode four of the STARTcast features a conversation between START’s Dr. Mary Thompson-Hall and Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Deputy Director and Senior Expert on Climate Change Adaptation, Nature-based Solutions, & Research-for-Impact at PlanAdapt. Here, Jesse talks about his work on Research-for-Impact, or Research-into-Use and how he works with scientists to help them strengthen the impact of their work and to better communicate those impacts.
Episode three of the STARTcast is a discussion between START’s program specialist Dr. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa and Ms. Alice McClure, the Project Coordinator of the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) program which is one of DFID/NERC’s five projects under the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA). Alice is based at the University of Cape Town’s Climate System Analysis Group. Before this post Alice worked with regional initiatives in both Africa and Asia. Here, Alice shares ...
Episode two of the STARTcast features a conversation between START’s Dr. Mary Thompson-Hall and Dr. Ed Carr, Professor and Director of the International Development, Community, and Environment Department and of the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab at Clark University. Ed also serves as an Adviser on Adaptation for the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, of the Global Environment Facility. Here, Ed shares about his experiences with convening successful, diverse research tea...
On the first episode of the STARTcast, we’re chatting with Dr. Chandni Singh, a Research Consultant with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Chandni shares with us about her experiences and challenges with writing scientific proposals, and we will use her feedback and that of other early and mid-career scientists to set the agenda for the rest of Season 1 of the STARTcast.
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