Welcome to our podcast series which aims to explore how being Useful and kind to yourself, to others and to the world can make things better.

Today our theme focuses on ‘equality’.   

Katherine is a Glasgow based, Australian writer, researcher, and passionate advocate for economic system change.

She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Her brilliant book The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy (co-authored with Jeremy Williams) is a powerful and persuasive and searingly logical debunking of the notion of economic growth.

Ben Phillips is the author of How to Fight Inequality which is in effect a seminal and powerful book on ways in which we can collectively fight inequality.

Ben is Co-founder of the Fight Inequality Alliance. He advises the UN, governments and civil society organisations. He was Launch Director of the Fight Inequality Alliance, and Campaigns and Policy Director for Oxfam and ActionAid International.