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This episode of the Campus podcast comes as record temperatures beat down through the northern hemisphere summer, with wildfires engulfing Greece and Spain, and deadly floods engulf India. With the UK recently approving new oil and gas licences, it’s easy to feel that reversing the climate crisis is a lost cause.
However, our guests both offer elements of hope despite the bleak outlook. Bryan Alexander is a senior scholar at Georgetown University and a futurist. His latest book, Universities on Fire, implores universities to wake up and realise that they can make a profound change in the climate crisis. And he is cautiously optimistic about their ability to do that.
Our second guest is Sebastian Pfautsch, an associate professor in urban planning and management in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University, with a background in tree physiology and, of all things, interior design. His multidisciplinary research is built around the complex issue of urban heat. He talks about some of the actions WSU, which has topped the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for the past two years, has taken to meet the SDGS and what Australia’s experience of extreme heat can teach the rest of the world about cooling their cities.
THE Podcast: highlights from the 2018 World Academic Summit
THE Podcast: World University Rankings 2019 results
THE Podcast: which US institutions are best at student engagement?
THE Podcast: UK HE policy briefing in 15 minutes
THE Podcast: the global competition for academic talent
THE Podcast: the World Academic Summit preview
THE Podcast: Is Australia's international student boom about to go bust?
THE Podcast: tensions between faculty and their students
THE Podcast: Teaching and learning and research, oh my!
THE Podcast: Teaching Excellence Summit interview with Richard Arum
THE Podcast: Debt and the academy
THE Podcast: Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings explained
THE Podcast: Data and how it's changing the way universities work
THE Podcast: Does a university's location inspire innovation?
THE Podcast: Analysis of the teaching excellence framework 2018 results
THE Podcast: University reputation and the "B-word"
THE Podcast: Data on global STEM enrolments
THE Podcast: Forever young? Universities under 50
THE Podcast: AI and higher education
THE Podcast: Women in higher education
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