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Cultural Peeps PodcastHello and welcome to the Cultural Peeps Podcast. Author: Cultural Peeps Podcast
Hello and welcome to the Cultural Peeps Podcast. My name is Iain Wheeldon and Im a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University. This Podcast series is part of an ongoing project which explores different careers across the cultural sectors. I really want this series to do three things; The first aim is to help people understand the huge range of ever-changing job profiles that now exist across these complex and interconnected sectors. The second is aim is to help people interpret job titles in the context of different venues and organisations often, jobs with the same title can be radically different depending on the organisation. The third aim is to help listeners understand that the people that make up any field of work are all human and are ultimately making human decisions, and that in turn plays a significant part in their unfolding careers and decision making processes. Language: en Genres: Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 49 - Alex Evans (Founder & Director of Larger Us)
Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
This episode features a chat with Alex Evans, the founder and executive Director of ‘Larger Us’, which is a community of change-makers who share the aim of using psychology for good – to bridge divides, build broader coalitions and bring people together. Alex is the author of "The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough?", which is a book about the how power of deep stories can help us unlock transformational change. This is a text I’ve used with my own students when exploring the power storytelling. Alex has also previously worked as a Campaign Director at Avaaz, the 50-million-member global citizens' movement. He’s also worked in the UN Secretary-General's office on climate and sustainability, and as Special Adviser to two Secretaries of State at the Department for International Development. In our chat we explore the highs and lows of Alex’s fascinating journey and what that led him to set up Larger Us back in 2018. This chat was recorded over zoom in October 2024, a few weeks before the US general election – so, you’ll hear that mentioned a couple of times. I want to thank Darren Kelsey for connecting me with Alex and I also wanted to give a shout out to the Larger Us Podcast – which has some fantastic guests and explores how we can become a larger us, rather than an us and them society – that’s definitely worth checking out. Links: Larger Us: https://larger.us/ Larger Us Podcast: https://larger.us/ideas/?podcast The Good Apocalypse Guide: https://goodapocalypse.substack.com/ Get Out the Vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_out_the_vote Dave Fleischer (Larger Us Podcast): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1738464/episodes/8465284-3-how-to-change-people-s-minds-with-dave-fleischer Daryl Davis (Larger Us Podcast): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1738464/episodes/15989624-how-to-get-a-white-supremacist-to-leave-the-kkk-with-daryl-davis McKinsey & Company: https://www.mckinsey.com/uk/overview Greenpeace UK: https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/ Loving the Enemy (Article by Alex Evans): https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/author535-alex-evans.html Environmental Technology Imperial College): https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-taught/environmental-technology/ Institute for Public Policy: https://www.ippr.org United Nations: https://www.un.org/sg/en Baroness Amos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Amos,_Baroness_Amos Claire Short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Short Hilary Benn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Benn Department for International Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_International_Development#:~:text=Three%20former%20British%20Prime%20Ministers,Foreign%2C%20Commonwealth%20and%20Development%20Office The Centre on International Cooperation: https://cic.nyu.edu/ Dami Makinde: https://www.socialchangeinitiative.com/dami-makinde Building a Larger Us: Five Questions for Change-Makers (pdf download): https://www.larger.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Building-a-Larger-Us.pdf The Myth Gap (Alex Evans Book): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/435427/the-myth-gap-by-alex-evans/9781909513112 Activists throw soup on Van Gogh painting again (BBC Article): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c243v5m0r0lo The WI: https://www.thewi.org.uk Unison: https://www.unison.org.uk/ Parent for Future: https://parentsforfuture.org.uk/ Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/
