What’s ‘good growth’? How can cities be more productive and successful while also being fair, inclusive, sustainable and resilient?

In this episode we explore perspectives on Oxford with two deeply knowledgeable professionals – Jo Stevens, Managing Director of Oxford Innovation Space and Richard Venables, Senior Director at CBRE. In conversation with Ben Copithorne, they talk planning, people, productivity, polarity, purpose and, of course, politics for one of the UK’s fastest-growing and best known cities.

What do refugees, prison leavers and the neuro-diverse have in common? Could they hold the key to winning the war for talent?

Paul Thornton, Talent Acquisition Director at Kier Group and Siyanda Mngaza, project co-ordinator for Kier’s inclusive recruitment team, and a prison leaver herself, join Camargue Director Isabel Stanley to explore the answer.

What’s The Academy of Urbanism all about, what happens at its annual Congress and why should you care? Listen to Chair Jas Atwal and Congress lead Shane Quinn in conversation with Ben Copithorne and you’ll find the answers.

Cities need solutions across everything from accessibility to inclusivity and sustainability to affordability.  The Academy is at the forefront of learning, sharing, and leading and is a great place for anyone involved in design, development, planning and any aspect of placemaking to grow their knowledge.

Last week a Camargue contingent attended the latest edition of UKREiiF, now in its second year. Covering a range of topics from Net Zero through to housing and universities, hear from members of the team on some of their key takeaways on themes arising from this year's gathering of the UK real estate industry.

Hear from Matt Sutton on conversations around Net Zero (01:00), Richard Pia on the logistics sector (02:10), Holly Bryden discussing universities attending this year's conference (04:00), Jenny Marshall's assessment of some of the housing discussion across the three days (05:15) and James Snowdon covering the devolution agenda (08:20).

As the dust settles on the results of local elections, the Camargue team sits down to discuss some of the key local and national dynamics emerging across the country - including housing, sustainability, and the cost of living - as well as the impact of new voter ID requirements, and what this might mean for the upcoming general election.

Host Roxy Blake is joined by director Will Scawn, who stood as candidate in Windsor and Maidenhead, and Hugh Deery, who acted as a poll clerk at his local polling station.

There is so much going on in the hydrogen sector at the moment both in the UK and around the world. New projects are springing up around the country and last month we saw the UK’s first official Hydrogen Week.  So what better time for Tim Read to sit down and talk through all things hydrogen with Kerry-Ann Adamson, global strategic adviser for hydrogen at Worley.

As real estate grapples with ambitious environmental goals, we talk with BNP Paribas Real Estate’s sustainability transformation manager Josh Spencer about the operational and asset management challenges facing the industry and how a more holistic mindset when delivering decarbonisation and biodiversity measures could benefit us all.

With massive investment planned to meet growing demand and achieve net zero targets, how can the water sector work smarter to mobilise the supply chain in delivering these aims? Rachel Lewis and Shaun Stevens from British Water discuss the role of structural reform and greater collaboration in unlocking innovation for the benefit of the water sector and the UK as a whole.

We’re all aware of the impact that Covid has had on how we work, where we work, and what we need in order to do our work – and there have been some pretty existential questions about the role and future of the office.

In this episode we’re asking the question ‘Is your office working?’ and exploring the changing workplace together with predictions for what we’ll see in the world of offices and corporate workspace in 2023.  Our guests are LOM architecture and design directors Richard Hutchinson, John Avery and Ben Taylor.

Is your office working? For more of Richard, John and Ben’s expertise on the changing face of the corporate workspace, read more here:

Flexibility is fundamental 

Reflections from Director Richard Hutchinson on what occupiers want from their workspaces – giving his insight on their appetite for maximum flexibility with 100 per cent functionality.

Mind the gap: Home vs office – what makes a workspace?

LOM Director John Avery gives his insight on home workspace versus the office, occupier and employee expectations, and the challenge of ‘having it all’.

As prices rise across the supermarket shelves, we speak to shopper behaviour expert, Fraser McKevitt, Kantar's head of retail and consumer insight, about how our habits are evolving, what we can learn from past periods of inflation and where we might be heading next.