Our podcasts
Listen to our work and ideas
The STEPS Centre aims to make its work as accessible as possible and making podcasts of seminars, events and opinions is one way we try to achieve this. By listening via your computer or downloading podcasts onto an MP3 player, you can keep up-to-date with our debates. We hope to have audio from our projects around the world on the site in the future.
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STEPS Centre podcasts:
Listen to the STEPS water team's event at World Water Week in Stockholm, using case studies from our peri-urban work in Delhi and Community-Led Total Sanitation. August 2009
Listen to: Our Deangerous Ideas in Development debate in Parliament - GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis event, June 10 2009
Listen to Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath of the United Nations University gave a Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar entitled 'Promoting Knowledge Generation through Intellectual property in Late Development'. 16 June 2009
Listen to Joanna Chattaway, Co-Director of the ESRC Innogen Research Centre, Development Policy and Practice, Open University gave a Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar entitled ‘Below the Radar’. 5 March 2009
Listen to Dr Andrew Barnett, Director, Policy Practice Ltd gave a
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar entitled 'Innovation - re-labelling research or a shift in paradigm: the current debate in agricultural research for development' . 16 January 2009
Listen to Fred Steward, Fred Steward, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Brunel University on Transformative Innovation for the Global Good: A shared challenge-oriented mission for the 21st Century. 30 October 2008
Listen to Francis X. Johnson, Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute on Biofuels, Climate and Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges. 15 September 2008
Listen to Geoff Oldham, former SPRU director, former chairman of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development, and UK Delegate to the UN Commission on IDS/SPRU collaboration in the Early Days: ‘The Sussex Manifesto and its Aftermath’. 6 February 2008
Listen to Helena Paul and Les Levidow's seminar on global biofuel crops; integrating an agri-energy industry, driving dispossession. 24 January 2008
Listen to Andrew Jamison's seminar on the quest for green knowledge. 9 January 2008
Listen to Bill Adams' recent seminar on the political ecology of biodiversity conservation. 27 November 2007
Farmer First Revisited
Listen to Robert Chamber's opening speech, Wale Adekunle's after-dinner speeach and the final wrap up session from this event. December 2007
Robert Chambers of IDS (27 mins)
Wale Adekunle of FARA (38 mins)
Final wrap-up panel session (73 mins)
New Agriculturist: Farmer First Revisited Podcast
New Agriculturist: Programme for African radio stations (Farmer First Revisited is fourth item)
STEPS Symposium at the DSA 2007 Annual Conference
The first STEPS Centre Symposium was held alongside the Development Studies Association Annual Conference in September 2007, with the theme of connecting science, society and development.
Listen to the
DSA podcasts: day one / day two / day three
External podcasts
STEPS members appear on radio programmes or podcasts from time to time. Here is the latest selection:
- New Agriculturist: Farmer First Revisited Podcast
- New Agriculturist: Programme for African radio stations (Farmer First Revisited is fourth item)
- Can science sustain our world? BBC Radio 4's Material World asks STEPS co-director Andy Stirling and three other scientists about the role of science in sustaining and preserving Earth (3.01.08).
- Melissa Leach talks about vaccination dissent on the Nature podcast (November 2007)
- Melissa on Guardian Weekly STEPS director Melissa Leach is interviewed on the Guardian Weekly podcast about putting local knowledge first, her passion for anthropology and the STEPS Centre.
