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.
Episodes
12 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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1:04:34
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
Episode 7: Funder Insights
Episode seven of the STARTcast features a conversation between START's Executive Director, Jon Padgham and Bruce Currie-Alder, Climate Change Program Leader at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian governmental organi...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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35:40
Episode 6: Review, Rejection and Moving Forward
Episode six of the STARTcast features a conversation between START Program Specialist, Dr. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa and Dr. Blane Harvey, an Assistant Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University in Canada. Blane is also an associate o...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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37:25
Episode 5: Equity and Transparency in Proposal Writing
Episode five of the STARTcast features a conversation between START’s Sarah Schweizer and Dr. Natasha Udu-gama, Program Manager of International and Community Engagement at AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange. Here, Natasha shares about community sci...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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51:24
Episode 4: Writing the Research Impact Section
Episode four of the STARTcast features a conversation between START’s Dr. Mary Thompson-Hall and Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Deputy Director and Senior Expert on Climate Change Adaptation, Nature-based Solutions, & Research-for-Impact at PlanAdap...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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47:53
Episode 3: Budgets
Episode three of the STARTcast is a discussion between START’s program specialist Dr. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa and Ms. Alice McClure, the Project Coordinator of the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) program which is one of DF...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:01
Episode 2: Convening Successful Proposal Writing Teams
Episode two of the STARTcast features a conversation between START’s Dr. Mary Thompson-Hall and Dr. Ed Carr, Professor and Director of the International Development, Community, and Environment Department and of the Humanitarian Response and Dev...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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48:47
Episode 1: Experiences and Challenges with Proposal Writing
On the first episode of the STARTcast, we’re chatting with Dr. Chandni Singh, a Research Consultant with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Chandni shares with us about her experiences and challenges with writing scientific proposals, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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50:01