Insight Faster

Imagine a world where we could uncover the past by listening to music. Well, imagine no more, because sonic heritage does just that. Dr. Angela Bellia, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science, explains how listening to music from different time periods contributes to experiencing places with all of our senses. As well as this, she discusses how technology such as computer-aided modelling is widening the scope of what was once thought possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mina Sami and Wael Abdallah discuss the impact that cryptocurrencies have on African firms. They talk about, not the ups and downs of crypto value, but rather the real-world impact that cryptocurrencies have beyond their value. These new forms of payment provide innovative ways to exchange funds, but also have significant repercussions across the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This year for Peer Review Week 2022 we were delighted to have an opportunity to sit down the Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica), co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee. In this fascinating and at-times meta conversation, Stefan Tochev and Unai Vicario ask questions about our guests, the state of peer review, and where things might be heading. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We catch up with Nick King and Professor Aled Jones from the Global Sustainability Institute to think about some of the consequences of pushing our planet and societies beyond their limits, how the world might look when the dust settles, and whether we can prevent the collapse of our increasingly complex systems. As we discuss their 2020 article in Sustainability, An Analysis of the Potential for Formation of ‘Nodes of Persisting Complexity'. You can find the link here and I really encourage you to read it—it's fascinating, accessible and engaging. While it's easy to jump straight to the end to find the winners and losers from Aled and Nick's research, it's important that we focus on the system behaviours that they discuss and begin to recognise the complexity of our societies and the long-term impacts of this complexity. It might not grab the headlines, but it might just be the difference between a future we can manage and one that we can't.Here are some links to some of the press coverage of their article from around the world: The New York TimesNorway TodayThe GuardianHere's a link to Greta Thunberg's Twitter, who a lot of our Nick, Aled and a lot of our guests talk about on Insight Faster: https://twitter.com/GretaThunbergListen to Insight Faster on Apple or Google Podcasts!To find out more about this subject (or pretty much anything else), or to submit a paper to any of MDPI's journals, head over to the MDPI website: https://www.mdpi.com/ If there's anything in particular you'd like to hear about on the MDPI Podcast, email me at: jasper.clow@mdpi.com Follow us on Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdpi/mycompany/https://www.facebook.com/MDPIOpenAccessPublishinghttps://twitter.com/MDPIOpenAccess See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on Insight Faster we're back at the afterparty for the 2021 Global Sustainability Awards. This time it's with Professor John Elkington. Creator of the ‘Triple Bottom Line' and now founder and leader of thinktank sustainability thinktank Volans, Professor Elkington has been leading the sustainability for decades. We'll dive deep into his work with both Volans and the brand new Green Swans Observatory and we'll discuss his new book Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism. This episode made me really excited for the potential for real sustainable business! Here's a few links to what John is doing with, Volans, the Green Swans Observatory and details of his new book: Volans: https://volans.com/The Green Swans Observatory: https://theobservatory.volans.com/John Elkington's Website: https://johnelkington.com/ (definitely worth a look!) To find out more about this subject (or pretty much anything else), or to submit a paper to any of MDPI's journals, head over to the MDPI website: https://www.mdpi.com/ Insight Faster is also now available on Apple and Google Podcasts, follow the links to find it or search Insight Faster! If there's anything in particular you'd like to hear about on the MDPI Podcast, email me at: jasper.clow@mdpi.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Episode 3 of Insight Faster, we welcome Chris Rhodes from the University of Manchester, who is redefining our relationship with computers, composition and music using gestural interfaces for musical composition. In our discussion we'll explore exactly what that means, why it matters, and listen to some of the music he's created during his research. It's technology with wide-ranging and exciting implications, and its potential is only just beginning to be realized. Here's a link to some of Chris' work at the Royal Northern College of Music (35:52 onwards): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3KqZ0z6CjAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBnZu3Ymjxshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3C3CFrtDHUAnd a link to his larger portfolio: http://www.chrisrhodesmusic.co.uk/portfolio.htmlThis is his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/crhodes1992 Insight Faster is now available on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts! Search Insight Faster or follow the links below:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/insight-faster/id1604819778https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2luc2lnaHQtZmFzdGVy?pli=1 We're recruiting for Season 2! If there's something you'd like to hear about on the podcast, drop me an email at jasper.clow@mdpi.com To find out more about this subject (or pretty much anything else), or to submit a paper to any of MDPI's journals, head over to the MDPI website: https://www.mdpi.com/ and follow us on social media! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To kick off our World Sustainability Awards afterparty, we've been speaking to Emerging Sustainability Leader Dr Lela Mélon. Executive Director of the Planetary Wellbeing Project at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Dr Mélon has already begun to transform higher education and is setting her sights on business. We'll talk about the Planetary Wellbeing Project, what it's doing, why, as well as touching on some of the people and organisations who are leading the way in sustainability research and governance.Insight Faster is now available on Apple Podcasts! Search Insight Faster or follow the link below:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/insight-faster/id1604819778Here are a load of links to Dr Mélon's wider work!Here are all the relevant links to the recent (In)Corporate Sustainability Conference—Loads to get your teeth into!Volume 1Information and Programme: Vol 1 Day 1.1 Vol 1 Day 1.2 Vol 1 Day 1.3 Vol 1 Day 1.4 Vol 1 Day 2.1 Vol 1 Day 2.2 Vol 1 Day 2.3 Vol 1 Day 2.4 Vol 1 Day 3.1 Vol 1 Day 3.2 Vol 1 Day 3.3 Vol 1 Day 3.4 Volume 2The second edition is still at the editing stage.Information and Programme: Postgraduate Course in Sustainability Transition Management and Climate Emergency Planetary Wellbeing Page: Dr Mélon's Profile: Dr Mélon's LinkedIn Profile: Dr Mélon's most recent book: https://www.routledge.com/Shareholder-Primacy-and-Global-Business-Re-clothing-the-EU-Corporate-Law/Melon/p/book/9780367183981 To find out more about this subject (or pretty much anything else), or to submit a paper to any of MDPI's journals, head over to the MDPI website: https://www.mdpi.com/ If there's anything in particular you'd like to hear about on the MDPI Podcast, email me at: jasper.clow@mdpi.com Follow us on Social Media:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdpi/mycompany/https://www.facebook.com/MDPIOpenAccessPublishinghttps://twitter.com/MDPIOpenAccess See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Insight Faster, a Podcast by MDPI. This is Episode 1—Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis with Dr Panu Pihkala. Sustainability will be the theme of the rest of our lives; it should've been the theme of our lives so far. It affects every single one of us in profoundly different ways. One of the more often inconspicuous and yet equally damaging impacts is the way that it affects everyone's mental health. Anxiety regarding the ecological crisis is natural, it is after all a serious, global problem, but Eco-Anxiety is notoriously difficulty to characterize. We sat down with Dr Panu Pihkala, a leading interdisciplinary researcher on the topic from the University of Helsinki and author of Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Eco and Climate Anxiety in MDPI's Sustainability journal. The article has since attracted more than 10,000 full-text reads and more than 30 citations. We'll talk about what Eco-Anxiety is and why it can be both incredibly challenging but also provide opportunities for positive change, whilst touching on the psychology of COVID-19 and how its psychology relates to the psychology of Eco-Anxiety. Dr Pihkala's article Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis AnAnalysis of Eco and Climate Anxiety can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/19/7836/htm# His more recent article Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education,also published in Sustainability, can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/23/10149/htm In 2021, Dr Pihkala also co-authored a paper published in the Lancet on children and youth climate anxiety which Nature described as a “landmark study”. You can find it here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00278-3/fulltext#figures Along with some of the huge amount of media coverage that itreceived here:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02582-8https://www.vice.com/en/article/88npnp/fifty-six-percent-of-young-people-think-humanity-is-doomed https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/young-people-say-climate-anxiety-is-affecting-their-daily-life.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-58549373 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/four-in-10-young-people-fear-having-children-due-to-climate-crisisTo find out more about this subject (or pretty much anything else), or to submit a paper to any of MDPI's journals, head over to the MDPI website: https://www.mdpi.com/ If there's anything in particular you'd like to hear about onthe MDPI Podcast, email me at: jasper.clow@mdpi.com Follow us on Social Media:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdpi/mycompany/https://www.facebook.com/MDPIOpenAccessPublishinghttps://twitter.com/MDPIOpenAccess See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Introducing Insight Faster—a podcast by MDPI where we'll be putting the researcher on speaker! We spoke to some of our authors to understand what motivates their research and their experience of conducting it! Join host Jasper Clow as we consider the progress made in the recent years and uncover some worrying future perspectives, but some exciting ones as well!Series 1 is mostly centred around sustainability, including interviews with authors from the Sustainability journal alongside chats with some of the winners of the World Sustainability Awards and Emerging Sustainability Leader Awards. It's a huge topic, and we won't be able to cover all of it, but we've tried to address some of the issues that you might not have heard about, in conversation with academics who are leading the field. Alongside this, we'll also be speaking to a researcher from the University of Manchester who's been using gestural interfaces for musical composition.Tune in this time next week (January 12th) as we get started by talking to Dr Panu Pihkala, a researcher at the University of Helsinki and Finland's leading expert on Eco-Anxiety. We'll be exploring how we all navigate our own relationship with the climate crisis, and I promise it's not all bad news.Insight Faster will be published on the MDPI blog site every 2 weeks and will soon be available on mainstream podcast platforms.If you have any questions or would like to suggest topics for Insight Faster, please email me at jasper.clow@mdpi.comIf you're interested in publishing with MDPI you can find all the info on how to do that at https://www.mdpi.com/.You can also follow us on social media to find out what we're up to:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdpihttps://www.facebook.com/MDPIOpenAccessPublishinghttps://twitter.com/MDPIOpenAccess See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.