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Cultural Peeps Podcast

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 Hello and welcome to the Cultural Peeps Podcast. My name is Iain Wheeldon and I’m a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University. This Podcast series is part of an ongoing project which explores different careers across the cultural sectors. I really want this series to do three things; The first aim is to help people understand the huge range of ever-changing job profiles that now exist across these complex and interconnected sectors. The second is aim is to help people interpret job titles in the context of different venues and organisations – often, jobs with the same title can be radically different depending on the organisation. The third aim is to help listeners understand that the people that make up any field of work are all human and are ultimately making human decisions, and that in turn plays a significant part in their unfolding careers and decision making processes.All rights reserved Art
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  • Episode 49 - Alex Evans (Founder & Director of Larger Us)

    Episode 49 - Alex Evans (Founder & Director of Larger Us)
    May 14 2025
    This episode features a chat with Alex Evans, the founder and executive Director of ‘Larger Us’, which is a community of change-makers who share the aim of using psychology for good – to bridge divides, build broader coalitions and bring people together. Alex is the author of "The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough?", which is a book about the how power of deep stories can help us unlock transformational change. This is a text I’ve used with my own students when exploring the power storytelling. Alex has also previously worked as a Campaign Director at Avaaz, the 50-million-member global citizens' movement. He’s also worked in the UN Secretary-General's office on climate and sustainability, and as Special Adviser to two Secretaries of State at the Department for International Development. In our chat we explore the highs and lows of Alex’s fascinating journey and what that led him to set up Larger Us back in 2018. This chat was recorded over zoom in October 2024, a few weeks before the US general election – so, you’ll hear that mentioned a couple of times. I want to thank Darren Kelsey for connecting me with Alex and I also wanted to give a shout out to the Larger Us Podcast – which has some fantastic guests and explores how we can become a larger us, rather than an us and them society – that’s definitely worth checking out. Links: Larger Us: https://larger.us/ Larger Us Podcast: https://larger.us/ideas/?podcast The Good Apocalypse Guide: https://goodapocalypse.substack.com/ Get Out the Vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_out_the_vote Dave Fleischer (Larger Us Podcast): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1738464/episodes/8465284-3-how-to-change-people-s-minds-with-dave-fleischer Daryl Davis (Larger Us Podcast): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1738464/episodes/15989624-how-to-get-a-white-supremacist-to-leave-the-kkk-with-daryl-davis McKinsey & Company: https://www.mckinsey.com/uk/overview Greenpeace UK: https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/ Loving the Enemy (Article by Alex Evans): https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/author535-alex-evans.html Environmental Technology Imperial College): https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-taught/environmental-technology/ Institute for Public Policy: https://www.ippr.org United Nations: https://www.un.org/sg/en Baroness Amos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Amos,_Baroness_Amos Claire Short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Short Hilary Benn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Benn Department for International Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_International_Development#:~:text=Three%20former%20British%20Prime%20Ministers,Foreign%2C%20Commonwealth%20and%20Development%20Office The Centre on International Cooperation: https://cic.nyu.edu/ Dami Makinde: https://www.socialchangeinitiative.com/dami-makinde Building a Larger Us: Five Questions for Change-Makers (pdf download): https://www.larger.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Building-a-Larger-Us.pdf The Myth Gap (Alex Evans Book): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/435427/the-myth-gap-by-alex-evans/9781909513112 Activists throw soup on Van Gogh painting again (BBC Article): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c243v5m0r0lo The WI: https://www.thewi.org.uk Unison: https://www.unison.org.uk/ Parent for Future: https://parentsforfuture.org.uk/ Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 48 - Bridget McKenzie (Director of Climate Museum UK & Culture Declares Emergency)

    Episode 48 - Bridget McKenzie (Director of Climate Museum UK & Culture Declares Emergency)
    May 7 2025
    This episode is a chat with Bridget McKenzie, the founding director of Climate Museums UK. In our chat we talk about Bridget’s career, which includes working at as an education officer at Tate, and as the Head of Learning at the British Library, and we explore how a value driven approach to work drove her to leave a senior role in a major culture institution to cofound her own company, Flow Associates in 2006. Bridget is also the co-founder of Culture Declares Emergency, a growing movement of individuals and organisations who recognise that the cultural sector can be a leading contributor in the transformation of social and economic systems to create a regenerative world in which biodiverse life is protected and the livelihoods of people are sustained with equality. We also chat about Bridget’s Possitopia Norwich project and her Earth Talk project, which is a course, a community of practice and a playbook that offers a set of tools to hold effective conversations and creative activities about the Earth Crisis. This chat was recorded in August 2024 and is an edited version of a longer conversation. Links: Bridget McKenzie (CV): https://bridgetmckenzie.uk/ Climate Museum UK: https://climatemuseumuk.org/ Culture Declares Emergency: https://www.culturedeclares.org/ Flow Associates: https://flowassociates.com/ BP to end Tate Sponsorship: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/11/bp-to-end-tate-sponsorship-climate-protests Robert Janes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lRTBuPSeUg Tony Butler (Director of Derby Museums): https://derbymuseums.org/news/tony-butler-executive-director-of-derby-museums-trust-awarded-obe-in-new-years-honours-2025 Happy Museum Project: https://happymuseumproject.org/ Creative Climate Leadership: https://www.creativeclimateleadership.com/ Julie’s Bicycle: https://juliesbicycle.com/ Miranda Massie: https://www.mirandamassie.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Massie British Library: https://www.bl.uk/ Possitopian Norwich: https://possitopianorwich.me/ Norwich Eco Hub Podcast (Bridget McKenzie episode): https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/3vjNV2ys7Rl0gUkFYR9Eyy?utm_source=generator Explaining Possitopia: https://climatemuseumuk.org/2020/10/15/explaining-possitopia/ Imagination Activism: https://www.moralimaginations.com/imaginationactivism Imagination + Activism for life (Article): https://bridgetmck.medium.com/imagination-activism-for-life-3cc8041ec60a Earth Talk - book and course on engaging people with the Earth Crisis: https://bridgetmckenzie.uk/earth-talk The Roles of Culture in Response to an Earth Crisis: https://tinyurl.com/y2eatehx Some Climate Museum UK projects that have generated resources : https://climatemuseumuk.org/other-sites/ Earth Talk - book and course on engaging people with the Earth Crisis: https://bridgetmckenzie.uk/earth-talk
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    41 mins
  • Episode 47 - Corinne Fowler (Professor of Colonialism and Heritage)

    Episode 47 - Corinne Fowler (Professor of Colonialism and Heritage)
    Apr 30 2025
    My guest today is Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage at Leicester University. Between 2018 and 2022, Corinne directed a child-led history and writing project called 'Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted' and has also worked on the rural racism project. In 2020, she co-authored a National Trust report that explored the colonial connections between 93 Properties that are now in the Care of the Trust and global slave trades, goods and products of enslaved labour and the East India Company and the British Raj. After its release, the report attracted huge media interest and led to hundreds of articles which debated not only its content, but also the work and lives of the authors and the wider role of the National Trust. We talk about what it’s like to be the recipient of intense media scrutiny, and the strategies that Corinne employed during this high-profile public debate. We also chat about Corinne’s latest book, Our Island Stories, which is written around 10 country walks that she undertook with different companions, and which explores the relationships between local and global histories. This conversation was recorded in January 2024 over zoom and is an edited version of a longer conversation. Links: Corinne Fowler: https://le.ac.uk/people/corinne-fowler Centre for New Writing: https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/centrefornewwriting/ Colonial Countryside Project: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/research/colonial-countryside-project Rural Racism Project: https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/rural-racism Centre for Hate Studies: https://le.ac.uk/people/neil-chakraborti University of Leicester Museum Studies: https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies SATs (Key Stage 2 tests): https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2022/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sats/ Arts Council England: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ National Lottery Heritage Fund: https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/ Renaissance One: https://www.renaissanceone.co.uk/ Our Island Stories (Book): https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/289672/corinne-fowler Cooperative Movement: https://www.uk.coop/understanding-co-ops/how-co-ops-began Marian Gwyn: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/dr-marian-gwyn Penrhyn Castle: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/penrhyn-castle-and-garden Moving Manchester Project: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=19248%2F1 Post Colonial Manchester (book): https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/renaissance/9781526120014/ Graham Campbell: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/1703/Councillor-Graham-Campbell Harewood House: https://harewood.org/ Harewood House - Missing Portrait Project: https://harewood.org/about/blog/category/missing-portraits/ David Harewood: What's in a name? A conversation between David Harewood and David Lascelles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPuklu41tw Colonialism and Historic Slavery Report (National Trust): https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/addressing-the-histories-of-slavery-and-colonialism-at-the-national-trust Edward Coulson Statue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Edward_Colston Country Houses and the British Empire: How Imperialism Transformed Britain’s Colonial Countryside MOOC: https://le.ac.uk/people/corinne-fowler Inclusive histories | Responding to the ‘culture war’ through engagement and dialogue: https://www.museumsassociation.org/campaigns/decolonising-museums/inclusive-histories-responding-to-the-culture-war/ Common Sense Group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_Group Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning By Nigel Biggar: https://www.williamcollinsbooks.co.uk/products/colonialism-a-moral-reckoning-nigel-biggar-9780008511630/ Kevin Ncube: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-ncube-32295372/?originalSubdomain=uk Neil Chakraborti: https://le.ac.uk/people/neil-chakraborti
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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