Cri de Cœur with Cambray Crozier

Next up on season two we have Cambray Crozier & Giles Oldroyd talking about plant science, and what it's like for Giles to be in the top 1% of highly cited plant scientists worldwide.

Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd FRS is a Professor at the University of Cambridge, working on beneficial Legume symbioses in Medicago truncatula.

Giles gives an insight into how he keeps up to date with the most recent literature in his field of study, as well as discussing the importance of advocacy and impact regarding his research and how this has changed over the course of his academic career.

You can find Giles on Twitter @gilesedoldroyd, where he has over 2,000 followers, he often shares interesting articles with his own comments in regards to his area of research. 

• Wilding by Isabella Tree
• Giles' Research Overview (University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences)

Giles' key publications: 

Papers

• Charpentier, M, Sun J, Vaz Martins, T, Radhakrishnan, G, Findlay, K, Soumpourou, E, Thouin, T, Very, A, Sanders, D, Morris, R and Oldroyd, G (2016). Nuclear-localised cyclic gated channels mediate symbiotic calcium oscillations. Science 352:1102-1105
• Sun, J, Miller, J, Granqvist, E, Wiley-Kalil, A, Gobbato, E, Maillet, F, Cottaz, S, Samain, E, Venkateshwaran, M, Fort, S, Morris, R, Ane, J, Denarie, J and Oldroyd, G (2015). Activation of symbiosis signaling by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in legumes and rice. Plant Cell 27:823-38
• Granqvist, E, Sun, J, Op den Camp, R, Pujic, P, Hill, L, Normand, P, Morris, R, Downie, JA, Geurts, R, Oldroyd, G (2015). Bacterial-induced calcium oscillations are present in nitrogen-fixing associations of nodulating legumes and non-legumes. New Phytologist 207:551-558

Reviews

• Zipfel, C and Oldroyd, G (2017). Plant signaling in symbiosis and immunity. Nature 543: 328-336
• Oldroyd, G (2013). Speak, friend, and enter: signaling systems that promote beneficial associations in plants. (2013). Nature Reviews Microbiology 11: 252-263

To kick off season two, Cambray Crozier & Paul Stout talk about TikTok, and all the ways that creating spaces that prioritise people (not cars) can deliver meaningful solutions both to mitigate and adapt to climate change and improve daily life! They dive deep on urbanism, urban design and urban planning. Paul also gives a bit of insight into how advocates can harness the power of TikTok in their own outreach.

On TikTok, @TalkingCities has more than 150,000 followers and 3 million–plus likes. Paul calls his work "an introduction to urban design, city planning, and architecture," an avenue for teens and adults who don't know urban planning exists to become aware of it and get inspired to explore further.

Paul's Favorite Leaders

• Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" does not respect the needs of city-dwellers.
  • Jacobs organized grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods from urban renewal and slum clearance – in particular plans by Robert Moses to overhaul her own Greenwich Village neighborhood. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through an area of Manhattan that later became known as SoHo, as well as part of Little Italy and Chinatown.
• Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris since 2014
  • The 15-Minute City Project argues that everyone living in a city should have access to daily needs within a 15 minute walk or bike.  This idea was popularized by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and inspired by French-Colombian scientist Carlos Moreno.
  • 15-minute cities are built from a series of 5-minute neighborhoods, also known as complete communities or walkable neighborhoods. The concept has been described as a "return to a local way of life."

Cambray Crozier & Martin Valenti talk about Scotland's aim to be the world's first net-zero economy, and the tactics Scotland is utilising in order to go about achieving this goal. They also talk about entrepreneurialism, the world's first carbon-positive gin, spartacus, and 'nemo me impune lacessit,' the national motto of Scotland. 

• Nàdar Gin, created by Arbikie Distillery
• The Count Us In campaign by the United Nations

In this special mini episode, Cambray Crozier sits down with her friend and classmate Nishita Karad to talk about Faces of Climate Change, an ambitious photography project Nishita launched in an effort to engage and mobilise people around the world to take action to protect our planet for generations to come.

You can find out more about the  Faces of Climate Change project after it's official launch next month, and  you can also follow the project on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Dr. Palinkas and Cambray Crozier talk about the role that social work and anthropology can play in responding to and overcoming climate change.

About Dr. Lawrence A. Palinkas

Dr. Palinkas is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and Director of the Behavior, Health and Society Research Cluster in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. He also holds secondary appointments as Professor in the departments of Anthropology and Preventive Medicine at USC. Prior to joining USC’s School of Social Work, he was professor and vice chair of Family and Preventive Medicine at UC San Diego. He has also been a visiting professor at the Peking Union Medical College in China, the University of Oulu in Finland, and the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. His areas of expertise include medical and applied anthropology, behavioral health and prevention science, mental health services research, and health and environmental psychology. 

Recognizing that climate change threatens health, undermines coping, and deepens existing social and environmental inequities. Dr. Palinkas is helping lead work with the the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare to identify transformative social responses, including new partnerships, deep engagement with local communities, and innovations to strengthen individual and collective assets. 

• F.G. Bailey, a British social anthropologist and prolific writer who published sixteen books in anthropology, and is well known for his studies of local and organizational politics.  He conducted fieldwork in Bisipāra, Orissa, India,  and has also written on political functions, particularly the ways that social structure arises out of and is used by the interactions of individuals.
• Eric Gunderson, a psychologist who studied human adaptation to living and working under the conditions associated with isolation and confinement and an important contributor to the field of Antarctic psychology.
• Chester Middlebrook Pierce,  a visionary pioneer in the field of global mental health. Pierce was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Education at Harvard University. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health.
• Loretta Jones, who fought for better healthcare in inner-city Los Angeles,  and whose collaboration with UCLA researchers that helped bridge the gap between community care and academia.
• Kenneth Wells, a psychiatrist and health services researcher, has led a number of studies of how variations in health services systems and financing affect clinical care as well as on the use of Community-Partnered Participatory Research to address disparities in access to and outcomes of services for depression. His full title is a mouthful:  Dr. Wells is the David Weil Endowed Professor and Director of the Center for Health Services and Society of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Fielding School of Public Health
• Interview with Ann Bancroft, Polar Explorer.  This conversation explores climate change, education, and the specific intersection of introversion and advoc

In the inaugural episode of the Cri de Cœur podcast, Esohe Denise Odaro and Cambray Crozier talk about the meaning of advocacy, the role global finance can play in addressing climate change, career pivots, resilience, and the power of storytelling.

Esohe Denise Odaro is the head of investor relations at the World Bank’s International Finance Company (IFC).  She also chairs the steering committee of the Green, Social and Sustainability Linked Bond Principles, the most referenced framework globally for thematic bonds. Esohe’s leadership in the development of the sustainable bonds market led to her being named “Personality of the Year” by Environmental Finance Magazine. 

Click here for more information about Esohe's mum, Princess Dr. Irene Ododo Odaro.