STARTcast
STARTcast is a podcast created by START International, a nongovernmental organization that has worked to create new connections and strengthen opportunities for advancing sustainability science across Africa and Asia for more than 25 years. The STARTcast is one way we endeavor to bring informative, approachable and free content to early and mid-career scientists working on issues of global sustainability.
Podcasting since 2020 • 12 episodes
STARTcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 4: The FRACTAL Principles: What we learned
In Episode 4, the Season 2 finale of the STARTcast, we discusses the FRACTAL Principles with John Mfune, Deon Shekuza, Lapo Magole, and Genito Maure. The FRACTAL Principles are an outcome of FRACTAL’s transdisciplinary processes. A...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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Episode 3: Networking through embedded researchers
In Episode 3 of the second series of the STARTcast, Mzime Murisa, a Program Specialist at START, discusses the role of embedded researchers in the FRACTAL project with Rudo Mamombe, who was the Embedded Researcher in Harare, Zimbabwe. In her di...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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37:12
Episode 2: Context driven learning lab processes
Season 2 Episode 2 features a discussion between FRACTAL’s program coordinator, Alice McClure, and three FRACTAL researchers: Dr. Anna Taylor, researcher at the University of Cape Town focusing on climate adaptation in cities, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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48:04
Episode 1: Climate information distillation and the narrative approach to climate information
Season 2 Episode 1 features a discussion between START Program Specialist Dr. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa and three prominent climate scientists from the FRACTAL project: Dr. Chris Jack (Deputy Director at the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG), at ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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55:57
Episode 8: Listener Feedback and Reflections
Episode 8 of the STARTcast is our listener feedback and reflections episode and the Season 1 finale. In this episode, we respond to your questions (courtesy of several returning guests), read listener feedback about the podcast, and share parti...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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55:29