Audio-Visual media

Our research community utilise a range of audio-visual media to communicate their research in dynamic and engaging ways. Check out some of these films and podcasts.

Chris Stokes on polar ice sheets and sea level rise

Chris Stokes explains why efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the world’s ice sheets.

Watch the video here Professor Chris Stokes

Living with Landslides

A film about Living with Landslides in Nepal, produced by BBC Media Action with support from the Sajag-Nepal project led by Professor Alex Densmore

View the film on YouTube (part 1) View the film on YouTube (part 2)

Community energy in Malawi: on the ground experiences

The short film “community energy in Malawi: on the ground experiences” was produced by filmmaker Sean Lovell as part of the CESET project (Community Energy Systems and Sustainable Energy Transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique) involving Professor Marcus Power.

Community energy in Malawi CESET project website

DON'T TOUCH TARIQUÍA: The Resistance of Chiquiacá

A group of rural women in southern Bolivia organise to block the entry of oil companies to their communities in the Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna. A research-based documentary made by Penelope Anthias.

DON'T TOUCH TARIQUÍA: The Resistance of Chiquiacá Read Penelope's book 'Limits to Decolonisation'

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Ivan Markovic on BBC's Thinking Allowed

Dr Ivan Markovic speaks on BBC Radio 4 about his new book 'An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain'. Ivan's book focuses on the social, cultural and emotional aspects of smoking in modern Britain, covering 150 years of British history.

Listen here Ivan's book

Cloud Ethics | Louise Amoore & Fleur Johns

Louise Amoore, author of the acclaimed 'Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others', joins UNSW international law and technology expert Fleur Johns as they explore the ethics and politics of algorithmic systems.

Listen here Louise Amoore

Podcast on Oil Transformations

What exactly do we mean when we talk about oil? How is our relationship with it changing? And what would stopping oil really look like? Gavin Bridge and colleagues have a new podcast series on transformations in the oil sector.

The oil industry has historically operated in relative invisibility. Mysterious offshore rigs hundreds of miles out to sea can appear like images of a foreign land; refinery chimneys rising beyond the edges of some of our biggest cities are easy to mistake for just another factory; and bustling offices, the site of monumental decisions affecting generations to come, are just as faceless as the next. Out of sight – and often out of mind.

Listen to the podcast here!

Sim Reaney on Diffuse pollution

Sim Reaney's short video on diffuse pollution, its sources and impacts on water, ecology and sediment.

Watch on YouTube

Jonny Darling on BBC's Thinking Allowed

Asylum and 'home' - the impact of asylum dispersal and Syrian refugees' quest for home. Laurie Taylor talks to Jonathan Darling, Associate Professor in Human Geography at Durham University, about the system of housing and support for asylum seekers and refugees in Britain.

Listen to the full episode Jonny Darling

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