Climate-changed induced migration has severe effects for all population, but arguably some impacts are especially strong for women. What challenges, in particular, do female face? And how can policies take these into account?

Every year, millions of people are forced to leave their homes because of floods, tropical storms, droughts, melting glaciers, earthquakes and other natural hazards. What is the space for cross-sectoral, coordinated action to address the diverse and region-specific challenges of human mobility in the context of disasters and climate change?

The project UNICORE offers selected refugees the opportunity to attend a master’s degree programme at an Italian university. How did this project come about and how does it work?

The increase in voting for anti-immigration parties in the past decade has been an important political development in Western Europe. What explains this development?

Today, in 25 countries worldwide women cannot pass their nationality to their children on an equal basis to men. Many of these countries are in the Gulf, where women find it more difficult than men to acquire and transfer nationality. Why is this important and what changes have there been over the last few years?

Population displacement often takes place in countries and communities where livestock plays an essential role in people’s livelihoods and food security. What is the risk that diseases trasmitted from animals to human spread in these contexts? And what policy actions can be put in place to mitigate the effects of such zoonotic diseases?

In March 2020, the US government invoked Title 42 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, using it to restrict the entry of non-US citizens into the country at its borders with Canada and Mexico. What have been its effects on asylum seekers reaching the border in Tijuana?

In the last episode, Professor Claudio Radaelli, Academic Coordinator of the Policy Leaders Fellowship and source of inspiration for the Sandals podcast, joins Carla in the studio. Claudio takes listeners on a journey from the summer of 2019 by the Italian sea, across the cobblestones of Florence's Piazza Santissima Annunziata to the STG's headquarters, Palazzo Buontalenti. Hear what role the new songs by "Tool" play in this and what it all has to do with the Policy Leader Fellows.

Policy Leader Fellow Daiva Repeckaite takes us to Malta, more specifically to the days when Maltese writer and journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb placed inside her car. Learn how this tragic event shaped Daiva's perception and her career as a journalist, and a life that embraces the unpredictable.

Policy Leader Fellow Aleksei Karnaukhov has lived in 12 different cities around Russia. On his day-long train journeys between the city of Chita in the far east and the capital Moscow he has not only witnessed the difference in landscapes but also the injustice and inequality. Tune in to know how this has affected Alex's views on Russia and how it inspired his interest for investigative journalism