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Fiftyfaces Focus - Intersections

Fiftyfaces Focus - Intersections

Written by: Aoifinn Devitt
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 This podcast series started as a special "capsule" focused on the 2021 Provost Election at Trinity College Dublin, which saw Linda Doyle elected as the first female provost in the institution's 429 year history. Inspired by Linda's focus on the intersection of Engineering and the Arts, we have curated a series of compelling podcasts with individuals who transcend traditional subject matter barriers. These people #choosetochallenge every day and listening to them will force you too to challenge your assumptions and see the enormous potential when we think outside the box and let ideas be cross-fertilized. In February 2023 we are using this platform to promote our Love Series about the loves and passions that our guests hold outside or as their careers. We learn about what these passions can teach us and how they can make us the professionals we are.Copyright 2025 Aoifinn Devitt Careers Economics Personal Success
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  • Episode 14: Bonus Episode - Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE - A Champion of Change and Progress pursues her next Challenge

    Episode 14: Bonus Episode - Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE - A Champion of Change and Progress pursues her next Challenge
    Oct 7 2024
    Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE, until recently was Chancellor of Coventry University, a role she held for close to 7 years. She has had an extensive career having been a partner at Dentons in legal practice for close to 20 years, and has held roles as NED of the NHS, as a Special Trustee at Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens’ Charity, Chair at Shakespeares’ Globe, and as a Board Member of Co-op, to name just a few. We featured her on our podcast in February 2021, where we discussed her role as a champion for diversity in the law and are delighted to now welcome her back to discuss her candidacy for the Chancellorship at Oxford University, an institution of which she is herself an alumna. In order to look forward we first briefly look back - at her legacy from Chancellor of Coventry University - at her vision for educational institutions in terms of growth, access and relevance in the decades to come. We speak about her initiatives there, and her vision for leadership as well as enriching the student body. We move then to some of the issues at stake in the coming election and cycle through them in terms of the unique nature of Oxford given its Oxford specific college/hall identity/symbolism, how it can blend this with a robust research agenda and the other expectations of a modern institution. We return to the topic of value for money of a university degree and the fundraising agenda that must accompany any such role. We move then to Margaret's unique style of leadership and advocacy and her stance on freedom of expression, academic freedoms and other freedoms within the university setting. Modern institution Margaret's career has been characterized by taking a stand, grit, advocacy, transparency and winning trust through partnership and collaboration. Tune in to hear her unique vision for the Chancellorship role at Oxford University.
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    23 mins
  • Episode 13: Vice Provost Orla Shiels of Trinity College Dublin - Micro-Credentials with Macro Impact

    Episode 13: Vice Provost Orla Shiels of Trinity College Dublin - Micro-Credentials with Macro Impact
    Mar 6 2024
    Professor Orla Sheils is the Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Trinity College Dublin as well as holding the position of Professor of Molecular Diagnostics. Prior to her appointment as Vice-Provost in 2021, Orla served as the Director of Medical Ethics in the School of Medicine, was the founding Director of the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, and was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences from 2019-2021. Most recently, Orla was elected as a member of Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer for 2024-27. IARC is a cancer research agency of the World Health Organisation that supports cancer prevention research. Our conversation starts with exploring the rich fabric of Orla's career, and her path to the Vice Provost role as well as the causes and movements that have motivated her over the course of her professional life. We move then to discuss her initiatives in the Vice-Provost role, in particular the initiatives at Trinity College Dublin around micro-credentials and the origins of this flexible and progressive approach to learning, which improves access for a wider range of students and important, skill-based learning. As the workplace is reinvented, so too should education adapt to respond to needs to upskill and retrain later in life. As universities evolve to blend online and in-person teaching, micro-credentials are a way to provide access not only to Trinity's body of teaching but also so much around the world. The four pillars of the current offering of micro-credentials of Environment Sustainability, Wellbeing, ICT, Datascience and Engineering and People, Leadership and Culture, Please enjoy this discussion on the future of third level education and insights into what a cross-disciplinary learning environment might look like. You can see a short video of Orla discussing Micro-Credentials on Fiftyfaces TV here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDShVwCWajQ “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    23 mins
  • Episode 196: Duncan MacInnes of Ruffer: The Art of Mini-Max Regret

    Episode 196: Duncan MacInnes of Ruffer: The Art of Mini-Max Regret
    Jan 3 2024
    Duncan MacInnes is an Investment Director at Ruffer LLP, where he has spent over a decade. He previously worked in wealth management. I have enjoyed listening to Duncan discuss positioning and multi-asset insights on the conference circuit and wanted to take this opportunity to discuss his views on the current macro backdrop as well as the state of play in finance circles as we wrestle with failing banks and what this means for investors. We start our conversation with a run through Duncan’s upbringing in Scotland and his initial study of law, his passage into first wealth management and then asset management. His initial training in wealth management took him to Asia and we discuss how that total immersion experience lit the fire for an interest in economics, markets and multi-asset class investing. Moving to his current outlook we discuss Ruffer’s preference for “minimax regret” which is the practice of minimizing the probability of your maximum regret – and focusing on capital preservation. We discuss the impact of the Fed tightening cycle on taking money out of the system and what this means for the velocity of money and money concentrating in the centre. We then turn to a number of other areas in turn – de-dollarization, the shifting appeal of fixed income and the coming chronic phase of the crisis. Our discussion around diversity focuses on creating an organization that can speak multiple languages – metaphorically speaking – some the language of number and quantitative analysis, some the language of sales and client partnerships Duncan discusses some of the finance books that he recommends to others and these are: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke, The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks and SuperForecasting by Philip Tetlock. Series 3 of the 2023 Fiftyfaces Podcast is supported by Eagle Point Credit Management. Eagle Point Credit Management is a specialist investment manager principally focused on income-oriented credit investments in niche and inefficient markets. Founded by Thomas Majewski in partnership with Stone Point Capital in 2012, Eagle Point currently manages over $7.8 billion in AUM. Investment strategies pursued by the firm include collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”), portfolio debt securities, and other opportunities across the credit universe. Currently, we believe that Eagle Point is the largest investor in CLO equity in the world and one of the largest non-bank lenders focused on providing financing solutions to credit funds. Learn more about Eagle Point at http://eaglepointcredit.com/
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    35 mins
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