The recent years have brought extraordinary and ongoing challenges to societies and cultures, as well as bringing long-standing crises and predicaments to the foreground in new ways. 

Each episode of this series of curated conversations brings together University of Leeds researchers from different backgrounds, disciplines and career stages to stimulate conversation about how research communities might respond to these challenges – and about the futures we want to imagine and realise.

This episode features Alice Owen (School of Earth and Environment) and  Stephen Dobson  (School of Performance and Cultural Industries) around issues relating to sustainability.

Their conversation covers: the role of Culture in sustainability; the relationship between Enterprise & sustainability; the importance of place, and place-specific approaches, to sustainability; and, more broadly, Alice and Steve will reflect on the value of interdisciplinarity.

This is the first of four conversations in our second series. These are released over April and May 2022 and are available via major podcast platforms as well as in an abridged video form on the LAHRI Website. If you’d like to comment on any of the issues raised on social media, use the hashtag #ArtsAndHumanitiesFutures and follow us on Twitter @LeedsAHRI. Visit our website for more information on the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute.