Latest Universityofglasgow Podcast Episodes

The Wellbeing Economy: rethinking traditional economic structures to benefit people and planet

Recovering Community - June 10, 2022 19:07 - 26 minutes
What does it take to reconfigure our traditional capitalist economic structures so that people, communities and the environment come before profit? That’s the question at the heart of the wellbeing economy movement and the subject of today’s episode. Gerard McCartney practiced as a GP and traine...

Coming Back: How Vox Liminis uses creative responses to the criminal justice system to build community

Recovering Community - February 03, 2022 17:55 - 30 minutes
How do you build community after the criminal justice system has removed you from society to serve a prison sentence?   Today’s episode of Recovering Community explores the work of Vox Liminis, a unique organisation, set up to find creative answers to questions about crime, punishment, reinteg...

Colombia River Stories: The symbiotic relationship between the Río Atrato and the community who call it home

Recovering Community - November 05, 2021 16:20 - 30 minutes
The 400 mile long Río Atrato is in the Chocó department of northwest Colombia. Chocó is one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the country. It’s also one of the poorest, and the river provides essential transport and economic opportunities to the residents. In today’s episode, Anne Kerr...

Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?

Recovering Community - October 08, 2021 12:33 - 34 minutes
The way we control our borders and treat those who want or need to cross them says so much about our national identity. And for the last 25 years, the U.K. Government has - with significant public support - moved to make immigration as difficult as possible. But in contrast, the Scottish governm...

1. After Auchengeich: Resilience in a Mining Community

Recovering Community - September 14, 2021 12:28 - 33 minutes
For this first episode of Recovering Community, we’re focusing on Moodiesburn, a former mining town about eight miles north of Glasgow. Moodiesburn was home to the Auchengeich colliery. The danger of mining left its mark on the area. 6 men died in an explosion in 1931. And then, in 1959, the com...