Welcome to episode one of Fulbright Conversations: Global Challenges! In this episode, podcast host, Sam Thompson, Senior Programme Manager at the US-UK Fulbright Commission is joined by Fulbrighters, Sammie Buzzard and Staci Strobl as they take a transatlantic approach to exploring climate change and climate action. Read episode transcripts here.

In this episode you’ll hear about: 

• Their experiences on the Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Award (GCTA) and its impact on their students and their work 
• Why cultural exchange and collaboration are essential to tackling global challenges such as climate change 
• Their learnings from taking an interdisciplinary perspective to climate change and climate action 
• How we can take the conversation beyond academia and encourage climate action on an individual level 
• How their experiences have shaped their optimism for the future  

About our speakers 

Sammie Buzzard is a glaciologist and as climate scientist who works a lecture in climate science at Cardiff University in Wales. 

Staci Strobl is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Shenandoah University in Virginia, and a research fellow in the sectarian proxies and Desectarianization Centre SEPAD at the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom. 

Both were two of the first grantees on the inaugural Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Award (GCTA) which supports pairs of teaching faculty – one at a US higher education institution (HEI), one at a UK HEI – to co-deliver a virtual exchange programme for undergraduates between their two universities. 

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