The CivicUEA Podcast

The CivicUEA Podcast

Welcome to the first episode of The CivicUEA Podcast. 
In this episode Johanna and Ben chat about their backgrounds and their work on CivicUEA with producer Skye and share what's to come on this new podcast highlighting the excellent civic work taking place as The University of East Anglia.

Ep.1 University of Sanctuary

In this episode Johanna and Ben welcome Sophie North, Academic Lead of UEA’s University of Sanctuary initiative, alongside Sanctuary Scholar Salah Elnagar. They detail the important and life changing work Sophie and her team are doing at UEA and in the region more widely.
Find out more about the University of Sanctuary here
Find out more about CivicUEA here
 

Ep.2 Communications Access

This time Johanna and Ben speak to UEA Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy Lauren Flannery about her Communication Access project at UEA which aims to coach staff and students across the university to be more mindful of people they may encounter with additional communication needs. 

Ep.3 Coastal and Rural Health Inequalities and Healthy Ageing

Ben and Johanna speak to Sally Hardy and Jonathan Webster as well as Anne-Marie Minihane about two initiatives actively helping to improve the health and wellbeing of people in the region now and in the future.
Find out more about NICHE here Find out more about NIHA here

Ep.4 UEA Civic Charter Launch at UEA Court

In this episode Johanna Forster and our new producer Mike Rigby share highlights of the launch of the new UEA Civic Charter at our AGM, which we call UEA Court, before during and after the event. 

Ep.5 UEA Law and Business Clinics and the Norfolk Community Law Service

In this episode Johanna Forster talks to Polly Morgan from the UEA Law and Business Clinics and David Powles from the Norfolk Community Law Service to find out about the amazing work they are doing together to provide help and advice to our people in our region. 

Ep.6 Health Inequalities

In this episode we talk to Sarah Hanson, associate professor in Community Health at UEA, about her research into preventative health and poverty in the region. We also meet Jo Critch from the charity Feathers Futures and talk to her about the work she has been doing with Sarah to make a positive difference to the lives of women in Great Yarmouth. 

Ep.7 The Norwich Good Economy Commission

In this episode we are delighted to welcome Alan Waters, who is the former leader of Norwich City Council, as well as Noel Longhurst, lecturer in energy and climate change at UEA, to talk about their role in the Good Economy Commission.
The Good Economy Commission was a collaboration between Norwich City Council and UEA, and ran from 2020-22. It was set up to carry out research to identify key issues and explore how the lives and experience of people in Norwich could be improved. 

Ep.11 Original Projects

In this episode we are delighted to welcome Julia Devonshire and Kaavous Clayton from artist-based organisation Original Projects which is based in Great Yarmouth. We also chat to Professor John Gordon, Academic Chair of CreativeUEA, about UEA’s work with Original Projects.  

Ep.10 IntoUniversity Great Yarmouth

In this episode we meet Steph Copsey, who is Outreach Manager at UEA, and Hollie Baines who is the Regional Operations Manager for IntoUniversity
Steph and Hollie chat to Johanna about the work they are doing together to support young people in one of the Britain's least privileged neighbourhoods.