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Embrace the Change

Thursday 27 March 2014

Live and interactive - solutions for a better future


Thursday 27th 19:00-21:00 GMT

Bringing together some of the most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenging the status quo with real tangible solutions for a better future.

Key speakers will present short talks in the studio on topics such as Economy, Media, Environment, and Personal Change with guests Skyped in from around the globe. Open discussion and debate will follow after each presentation.

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Economy

  • Panelist/Presenter
    Kate Raworth

    Kate Raworth

    Kate Raworth is a researcher, lecturer, and public speaker on how to create an economic toolkit fit for 21st century challenges. Her passion is the rewriting of economics to address current social and ecological issues in a realistic way.

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    Kate is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Insitutue, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also a Visiting Fellow in Economics at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership.

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  • Studio specialist
    Dr Nick Potts

    Dr Nick Potts

    Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Sport and Enterprise

    After studying at the London School of Economics for his first degree and master's degree in Economics, Nick worked as an NHS financial planner before becoming a full-time lecturer in 1993. Nick soon specialised in teaching applied economics, firstly concerning European integration, then concerning the transformation in Eastern Europe, and finally globalisation.

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    Nick had his first refereed journal article published in 1997 and decided to specialise in research. Nick successfully completed his PhD on the question of integrating the productive economy and the monetary system together using a sequential and non-dualistic concept of value in 2005 (University of London, supervisor Lord Desai).

    Nick is interested in how to apply Marx's analysis of the inner workings of capitalism to the economic issues of today including the current credit crunch, the environment, the Euro, knowledge-based production and issues relating to the process of globalisation in general.

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  • |Studio Specialist
    Simon Mouatt

    Simon Mouatt

    Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Sport and Enterprise

    Simon is an active economics researcher and is also a member of the Association of Heterodox economists and the Transition movement.

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    Simon has taught economics at Southampton Solent University for 19 years. His taught units include: Global Economy, International Financial Markets, Contemporary Business Issues, International Financial System, Business Project and Dissertation.

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Environment

  • Panelist/Presenter
    Alice Hooker-Stroud

    Alice Hooker-Stroud

    Alice Hooker-Stroud is the Communications Officer for Zero Carbon Britain a project that hopes to inform, inspire and enable contemporary society to embrace the changes required to rethink the future with regards to renewable energy.

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    Alice has a Master's degrees in Physics and Earth Systems Science. She has contributed to work modelling fossil fuel CO2 emissions; helped set up a research group in Barcelona, Spain; and was the primary author of a set of climate science factsheets designed for campaign groups. She believes that evidence-led policy supported by society is required to make the transition to a sustainable world.

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    Dr Paul Wright

    Dr Paul Wright

    Academic Leader, Maritime and Technology Faculty See more.

    Paul studied for a degree in Environmental Science at Lancaster University, and moved into research involving the early diagenetic and solid phase geochemistry of submarine canyon, and deep sea, sediments.

    On completing this PhD at Cardiff University, he moved to the National Oceanographic Centre at Southampton. This time his post-doctoral research centred on coastal waters, studying the impacts of hypernutrification in local estuaries. Since 1997, Paul has taught aspects of both terrestrial and marine sciences at Southampton Solent University. Latterly, he has also started to teach the environmental impacts of shipping and port operations to Masters students. Most recently, his interest in student learning has involved sharing a Faculty Educational Developer role, and his research interests have varied over aspects of active learning, reflection, and students' conceptions of their own discipline, all funded by his Higher Education Academy (HEA) Subject Centre.

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    Professor AbuBakr Bahaj

    Professor AbuBakr Bahaj

    Head, Energy and Climate Change Division| University of Southampton See more.

    For more than 25 years, Prof Bahaj has pioneered sustainable energy research directing one of the UK's leading university-based research groups

    The aims of ECCD and SERG are to promote and conduct fundamental and applied research and pre-industrial development in the areas of energy technologies, improvements in energy efficiency and assess the impact of climate change on buildings

    Prof Bahaj is a major contributor to the energy debate at local, national and EU levels

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  • Via Skype
    Polly Higgins

    Polly Higgins

    Lawyer, writer, speaker and advocate for making Ecocide a crime.

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    Author of Eradicating Ecocide and Earth is our Business, she advises at all levels; governmental, legal and non-legal and connects with a wide-range of organisations who are working from the same premise. Polly is also part of Wish20 is a Global Citizens Initiative to gather support for ending Ecocide by 2020.

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Media

  • Panelist/Presenter
    Seán Dagan Wood

    Seán Dagan Wood

    Editor, Positive News

    Seán Dagan Wood is the editor of Positive News, the world’s first newspaper dedicated to reporting positive developments and potential solutions to the problems facing society.

    Seán believes that where the media chooses to place its focus, and the overall story it creates about the world, has a profound effect upon people. His vision is for a more balanced and constructive news media that inspires and empowers humanity to reach its potential.

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    Website: www.positivenews.org.uk, Twitter: @SeanDaganWood | @PositiveNewsUK, Facebook: www.facebook.com/Positive.News.UK

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  • Studio specialist
    Tony Steyger

    Tony Steyger

    Principal Lecturer, Producer and Director

    Tony Steyger has been a television producer and director for over twenty years. Whilst at the BBC he helped develop the groundbreaking first person Video Diaries and Video Nation and went on co-create Maverick Television in Birmingham in 1993. It was through Maverick that Tony launched BBC2's Trade Secrets, BBC1’s Going for a Song and made award-winning programmes for Comic Relief.

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    Tony has been teaching all aspects of film and television production at Southampton Solent University since 2005, helping to coordinate media practice and curriculum programmes across the university. He established the in-house media production centre, Solent Productions, which makes programmes for clients and broadcasters, and Solent’s Skillset Media Academy, one of 23 UK centres of excellence in media education.

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  • Via Skype
    Phil Stebbing

    Phil Stebbing

    Producer / Director

    Making films and telling compelling stories about the world we live in is Phil Stebbing's main mission in life.

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    As an experienced Producer Director he has worked consistently for British Broadcasters as well as Discovery Channel and National Geographic. His specialised field is in presenter led factual programmes and observational documentaries. Over the years these productions have picked up awards at The Sundance Festival, Jackson Hole, The International Wildlife Film Festival and The Grierson Award.

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Personal change

  • Panelist/Presenter

    Tim 'Mac' Macartney

    Leadership Development consultant & coach, and writer

    Mac is the founder of Embercombe, a social enterprise that seeks to ‘inspire committed action towards a truly sustainable world’ He works with organisations to help them integrate values-led leadership (hearts, minds, actions) within the core business activity

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    Tim is an inspiring public speaker with recent talks at the London School of Economics, TEDx WWF Singapore, TEDx Whitechapel, Africa Leads organised by the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative in South Africa, AISE Laundry & Detergents Industry Association in Brussels, TEDx Newham, Sustain Wales, Teaching Leaders conference, the SEN Youth Conference (Netherlands), and many festivals including Glastonbury, Buddhafield, and Sunrise Celebration.

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  • Studio specialist
    William Bloom

    William Bloom

    Educator and author

    William Bloom is co-director of the Foudation for Holisitc Spirituality and author of 'Solution: the Holistic Manifesto' and 'The Power of Modern Spirituality'.

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    With a background in psychology, education and the arts, he is compassionately realistic about the human condition. He is also a champion of human rights and environmental awareness.

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  • Via Skype
    Charles Eisenstein

    Charles Eisenstein

    Author and speaker

    Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.

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    After graduating from Yale University with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, Charles lived in Taiwan, for most of his 20s, working as a translator. His published books include 'Sacred Economics' and 'The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible'.

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Presenters

  • Chris Paradox

    Chris Paradox

    Host

    When he has plenty of breath, Chris Paradox calls himself a one-legged, existentialist, stand-up beat-poet, inspiration engineer and destiny mentor. A title that long should have an epic story behind it and fortunately this one does.

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    At the age of 24 Chris was saved from suicide by a 100 Megaton spiritual epiphany. Eleven years later whilst enthusiastically running the rat race, Chris realised that even if he won, he’d still be a rat. So in an desperate attempt to find his life’s true purpose, Chris gave up his career and his £70K salary to go and live under a tree in Battersea Park for 7 months and sell The Big Issue for a year. He did indeed find his purpose under that tree and after never writing a poem before in his life, became the popular performance poet Paradox. Then 6 years later, whilst touring Mexico as part of a Rainbow Cowboy Circus Horse Caravan, Chris jumped off a cliff into a river at just the right place to smash his leg on a rock, get gangrene, nearly die, have his life saved, cure the gangrene, have his $16,000 non insured hospital bills paid by angels (in the form of fundraising friends and fans back in the UK), fly back home, have his leg amputated after all, heal a lifetime of estrangement from his mother, and enjoy the ultimate paradox of the “worst thing that ever happened to me, being the best thing that ever happened to me.”.

    According to Chris “it’s all good material” and according to audiences, workshop participants and website subscribers across the world, Chris has used that material to weave a technicoloured dreamcoat of life affirming inspiration that has empowered thousands to find deeper meaning and purpose in their own lives, as well as making them laugh quite a lot.

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  • Natalie Fee

    Natalie Fee

    Social Media Presenter

    Natalie Fee is is one of Bristol's Happiness Champions, a TV presenter and author of 'The Everyday Alchemist's Happiness Handbook' (Findhorn Press). She currently works as a producer and campaign manager for Bristol's leading ethical film provider, Plastic Buddha Productions.

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    Natalie was involved in Bristol's winning bid to become Green Capital 2015 and continues to bring engaging, informative and light-hearted content to the mainstream arena. As well as presenting and writing, Natalie writes music and is currently producing a song / music video to support the cause of marine plastic pollution, culminating in a week-long, solutions-based exhibition for Bristol's BIG Green Week this coming June.

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