Life of PIE podcast
Life of PIE with Onya Idoko and Juan Manuel Castillo
Life of PIE (Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship) is an original podcast from UCL Institute for Global Prosperity. The series delves into some of the latest research from our Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship MSc alumni students and starts a different kind of conversation with researchers, practitioners and entrepreneurs doing cutting edge work and rethinking entrepreneurship in new ways.
Hosted by Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship MSc programme lead, Dr Onya Idoko and produced by programme graduate, Juan Manuel Castillo. Available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
The series includes the alumni-led To Prosperity and Beyond mini-series hosted by RP Duterte and Sam Tamayo which focuses on the lives and experiences of professionals who are addressing the challenges to global prosperity through transformative entrepreneurship.
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Celebrate International Women's Day with a special first episode of the new series of Life of PIE! Onya, your host, delves into the complex world of women's health alongside Kris, an MSc PIE alum from the 2022-23 cohort. Kris shares findings from her qualitative study on the experiences of Malaysian corporate women, shedding light on the diverse ways women's health is perceived and managed globally.
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Dealing with 'crises' and not a crisis is becoming the norm for us today. During times of crisis or adversity, female entrepreneurs find themselves faced with multidimensional challenges which they have to navigate using the resources available to them. More often than not, they are hit the hardest by a crisis and find themselves experiencing inter-role conflict. How do they navigate such challenges? In this first episode of Life of PIE with Onya Idoko, we discuss this question with Bidisha Pandey a former UCL Institute for Global Prosperity MSc PIE student.
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An ‘addiction’ to GDP has led to policies that favour increased economic production without consideration of the effects on society or the environment. In this episode with Justin Van Wyk (UCL MSc PIE alumnus) and Robert Costanza (Professor of Ecological Economics at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity), we discuss the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), one of several alternative measures to GDP which takes into consideration the impact of economic activity on social wellbeing.
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Can climate justice principles be applied to businesses? The research on climate justice has grown significantly in the last decade, however, its practical implications are still unclear, and research has mostly been limited to national government responses rather than corporations. How can B Corp businesses advance a just transformation to sustainability? How do they manage the tensions that exist between mission and market-oriented practices? In this episode we discuss these questions with Sarah Wyns (UCL MSc PIE alumna) and James Perry (Co-chairman of Cook & Co-founder of the B Corp movement in the UK).
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Urban greenspaces not only have environmental benefits, but they also have social benefits. They are spaces that bring communities together and contribute to mental health and wellbeing. While these spaces are important and, on the surface, seem to be accessible to all, research by former MSc Global Prosperity student Nyma Haqqani shows that these spaces are in fact inaccessible to ethnic minority groups. How do we achieve environmental equity for all and contribute to the creation and promotion of socially sustainable cities? Nyma Haqqani (Social Consultant and MSc Global Prosperity alumni) and Paul Ely (Trustee for the National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces) join this conversation about urban greenspaces and community-led approaches to social inclusion.
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Reducing coal consumption is crucial for China's sustainable development. To achieve this goal, the Chinese government has implemented various policies aimed at promoting a transition to clean energy, such as the "coal to gas" and "coal to electricity" initiatives. In this particular episode, Lydia Qui, an alumna of the MSc PIE program and currently a Risk analyst at TikTok, focuses on the metropolitan region of Jing-Jin-Ji. She analyses the impact of the "coal to gas" and "coal to electricity" policies on the winter heating sector, a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. During their conversation, Onya and Lydia discuss the key characteristics, impacts, limitations, and differences between these policies. They also delve into the consequences of implementing these policies for the residents of Jing-Jin-Ji, as well as the implications of Lydia's findings for policymakers and corporations.
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About Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Institute for Global Prosperity
We find ourselves at a formative moment wherein growth-based financial models and increasing economic and social inequality are driving new forms of conflict, dislocation and ecological damage, challenging the veracity of our economic and political systems. These challenges necessitate a bold re-thinking of the relationship between economic activity and global prosperity.
At the core of the IGP's Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship master's programme is the concept of transformative entrepreneurship, which involves the implementation of innovations that directly address the causes and consequences of environmental degradation as well as economic and social inequality. Entrepreneurship is widely associated with the promise of technological innovation and the emergence of new markets. Concepts such as social, sustainable, and community enterprise explore the potential of market actors and mechanisms to advance positive social and environmental change. The notion of transformative entrepreneurship takes these a step further by examining to the potential for entrepreneurship to provoke fundamental systemic change in the service of inclusive prosperity.
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