Unlocking the SDGs: A Blueprint for the Future podcast season 3
The Unlocking the SDGs: A Blueprint for the Future podcast bring together experts from across UCL and beyond to explore the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Following the successful first and second series of Unlocking the SDGs, co-hosts Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health) and Professor Priti Parikh (UCL Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) are back with a wide range of experts to take a deep dive into the UN SDGs.
Over five episodes, the series considers issues including the role of AI and education in the SDGs and what other countries are doing to achieve the goals. Listen as academics from across UCL’s faculties and beyond bring new perspectives and understanding to this complex global issue.
Available on: Soundcloud, Spotify.
Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh are joined by Professor Sumit Malhotra, from the Centre of Community Medicine at AIIMS and Professor PVM Rao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi. In the first episode, we’re going overseas to take a special focus on the role of the SDGs on research in India, and how Indian researchers are contributing to reaching the goals.
Guests:
Professor Sumit Malhotra (the Centre of Community Medicine at AIIMS)
Professor PVM Rao (the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi)
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Dr Maria Perez Ortiz and Professor Jack Stilgoe, taking a look at the role of technology and artificial intelligence, or AI, in supporting the implementation of the goals. AI is a rapidly evolving field, but what is its role in sustainable development? How can it enable progress to a fairer world – or will it prove more of a hindrance? What are the practical and ethical issues that researchers and policy makers need to take into account?
Guests:
Dr Maria Perez Ortiz (UCL Department of Computer Science)
Professor Jack Stilgoe (UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies)
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Following initial discussions from series 2, Professor Essi Viding and Professor Argyris Stringaris, joint PVPs to the UCL Grand Challenge of Mental Health and Wellbeing; take a deeper dive on the issue of mental health and wellbeing relating to education and research.
Guests:
Professor Essi Viding (UCL Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology)
Professor Argyris Stringaris (UCL Divisions of Psychiatry and Psychology and Language Sciences)
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Professor Catalina Turcu and Professor Ilan Kelman discuss the relationship between the SDGs and climate change. Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, and many people have argued that tackling climate change should be the highest priority of the goals because of its impact on all of the other targets.
Guests:
Professor Catalina Turcu (The Bartlett School of Planning. Faculty of the Built Environment)
Professor Ilan Kelman (UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction).
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In the final episode, Anoushka Jain and Vasiliki Kioupi focus on education and the role of Education for Sustainable Development, or ESD, exploring how sustainable development can be integrated into the curriculum, and what that might mean for the next generation of students.
Guests:
Anoushka Jain (UCL Dept of Political Science)
Vasiliki Kioupi (University of Leeds).
More info:
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About our hosts
Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health)
Professor Lakhanpaul graduated from Medicine in 1992. She trained in paediatrics, gained her doctorate in Paediatrics and Child Health in 2003, and proceeded to Senior Lecturer and Consultant Paediatrician at the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, respectively. In 2012 Professor Lakhanpaul joined the UCL GOS Institute of Child Heath as Professor of Integrated Community Child Health. In 2016 she was appointed Head of Population, Policy and Practice.
Professor Priti Parikh (UCL Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction)Professor Parikh is the Director of the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction (BSSC). BSSC has 100 staff members, 100 honoraries, 100 PGRs and 700 MSc students all influencing theory, practice and policy for Sustainable Construction. Professor Parikh is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Council Member. She is also on the board of Engineers Against Poverty and Happold Foundation. Her work has received recognition through UCL's Education and Sustainability Research Award, Top 50 Women in Engineering in 2022 and as one of the top 100 academics for policy making for Apolitical.
Meet the team:
Simon Knowles: Head of Coordination – Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Liz Almond: Head of UCL Research Communications
Flavie Belanco: Communications Officer
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