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Working Hours

Working Hours

著者： Western Studios Leeds Ltd
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 What do you do? Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us? Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency. If you are in Leeds or from Leeds then help me to reach my target of interviewing 1000 Loiners over the 2020s. Let me ask you, what do you do?Copyright 2026 Western Studios, Leeds Ltd 世界 出世 就職活動 社会科学 経済学
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  • Only Your Work Can Regenerate Your World

    Only Your Work Can Regenerate Your World
    2026/11/13
    Recorded on 07/07/2026David Midgley was born in Newcastle on Tyne in 1953 into an academic family - both his parents were professional philosophers, and in a way he ended up going into the family business, as it were.At university David initially studied science and mathematics, but changed to philosophy and continued with three years’ postgraduate research at Oxford. In 1979 David moved to York to continue his philosophy studies, but in 1980 he became deeply involved in the European Nuclear Disarmament movement, and also began studying and practising Tibetan Buddhism.In 1988, needing to create income David moved to Leeds and started a business as a freelance computer consultant, and in 1995 started his own software company, which continued until 2003 when he decided to give up IT work and concentrate on his activist work, this time focussing on ecology and sustainable development. David then became coordinator of Sustainable Futures Leeds, and later Programme Director for Schumacher North, organising the Leeds Schumacher Lectures and Schumacher Conferences from 2006 until 2012.At the same time David continued his Buddhist studies and teaching. In 1996 David founded the Jamyang Buddhist Centre in Leeds, and was Director there until 2001, later becoming Deputy Director and a Trustee. David taught Buddhism at the Centre for 25 years, after which he trained to teach a secular Compassion Cultivation programme (created by the Dalai Lama’s translator with a team from Stanford University, where he was a Visiting Professor.)In 2024 David enrolled in a seven year full-time Masters Programme in Buddhist Studies at Nalanda Monastery in France; after one year he felt a strong call to return to climate activism, so returned to the UK to work on launching a Regeneration UK movement, based on emphasising the power of natural systems to regenerate themselves and draw down carbon from the atmosphere, instead of relying on technological solutions which run the risk of damaging the natural world in other ways.David is now working on launching a Regeneration Yorkshire project centred on transforming the food system in the region – there is huge potential in Yorkshire for a regional transition away from reliance on fossil fuels, agrochemicals and global food supply chains to locally based regenerative agriculture system that can supply our cities with the climate-and-nature-friendly, affordable and nutritious food we will need to survive and thrive through the twenty-first century.You can find out more about David’s work at:https://regenerationuk.substack.com/Want to be on Working Hours? Click the link to get your own episode or buy an episode for someone else. https://western-studios.com/be-on-a-podcast/working-hours-podcast-the-paid-plan/Things discussed in the episodeBuy Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation by Paul Hawken https://www.waterstones.com/book/regeneration/paul-hawken/9780141998916https://www.climatepolicyradar.org/https://fixourfood.org/Oxford Real Farming Conference https://orfc.org.uk/Food Security - Professor Paul Behrens | National Emergency Briefing: https://youtu.be/jvjJ8Ag0-z0?si=bO_sqXHtfZ_d-txTAnimal Rising: https://www.animalrising.org/Campaign Against Factory Farming: https://www.caff.org.uk/This is Hell A History of Conspiracy Theory / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg: https://thisishell.com/interviews/1915-andrew-mckenzie-mchargPlump Village: https://plumvillage.uk/Climate Mind: https://climatemind.org/Tony Crooks' Working Hours episode: https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/tony-crooks
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    1 時間 44 分
  • Work is a Bio Blitz

    Work is a Bio Blitz
    2026/10/08

    Recorded on 21/08/2026

    Michael Howroyd has spent more than 30 years working across a diverse range of disciplines, from landscape gardening and green-keeping through to sustainability leadership and environmental management.

    During his 21-year career at the University of Leeds, he has helped establish and lead several of the University's flagship sustainability initiatives, including its Environmental Management System, Blueprint programme, reuse@leeds and most recently, its biodiversity programme.

    Now serving as Biodiversity Programme Lead, Michael is focused on rethinking how organisations approach nature recovery. Rather than seeing biodiversity as something delivered solely through habitat management, he champions a people-centred approach that encourages communities to become active participants in creating positive change for nature. His ambition is to demonstrate that lasting environmental impact comes not only from improving places for wildlife, but from inspiring people to value, understand, and champion their natural world.

    Want to be on Working Hours? Click the link to get your own episode or buy an episode for someone else. https://western-studios.com/be-on-a-podcast/working-hours-podcast-the-paid-plan/

    Michael’s trying to get organisations across Leeds to record the wildlife they encounter over a particular weekend in April 2027 for The City Nature Challenge. Leeds is one of the few UK cities not participating and Michael wants to put us firmly on the map!

    Michael provided me with an MS Form that you can complete to get involved Leeds City Nature Challenge 2027 – Fill in form

    Share it around, if that’s okay.

    You can find out more about Michael’s work at:

    Uni of Leeds Sustainability Service on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-leeds-sustainability-service/posts/?feedView=all

    Uni of Leeds Sustainability Service on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uol_sus

    You can contact Michael at:

    Sustainability Service email: sustainability@leeds.ac.uk

    Biodiversity email address: biodiversity@leeds.ac.uk

    Sign the petition and join the campaign against the Leeds Hyperscale Datacentres: https://noleedsdatacentre.wordpress.com/

    Donate £3 or more to the podcast and help this project keep going: https://ko-fi.com/workinghours

    Become a regular supporter of the project by getting a Patreon subscription to fund the show: https://www.patreon.com/c/WorkingHoursPod
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    1 時間 51 分
  • Work is for Putting Food on The Table

    Work is for Putting Food on The Table
    2026/10/12

    Recorded on 26/06/2026

    Sonja Woodcock has co-ordinated FoodWise Leeds, the city’s sustainable food partnership, since its inception in 2017. With a strong commitment to cross-sectoral collaboration, she applies a systems-based approach towards improving community food security, expanding urban agriculture, and driving awareness and action around food and the climate and nature emergency. She works closely with partners across Leeds to monitor and deliver the Leeds Food Strategy and Good Food Action Plan (2023-30).

    Sonja has a longstanding interest in public procurement as a lever for food system transformation and collaborates with colleagues at the University of Leeds on action research in this area. She also works at a regional level with food partnership colleagues across West Yorkshire and is an active member within the national Sustainable Food Places Network, recently supporting the development of a strategic framework for representation and justice across the network.

    Want to be on Working Hours? Click the link to get your own episode or buy an episode for someone else. https://western-studios.com/be-on-a-podcast/working-hours-podcast-the-paid-plan/

    Listen to Nathan Atkinson and Kevin Mackay from Rethink Food: https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/rethink-food/

    Listen to Dom Charkin from Zest: https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/dominic-charkin

    Listen to Helen Underwood from Underwood Training: https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/helen-underwood

    Buy Ghost Signs here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ghost-signs/stu-hennigan/9781910422960

    You can find out more about Sonja’s work at:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonja-woodcock-3316751/

    World Food Day on Oct 16: https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/en/

    Find out more about FoodWise:

    https://foodwiseleeds.org/

    https://www.linkedin.com/company/foodwise-leeds

    https://bsky.app/profile/foodwiseleeds.bsky.social

    https://www.instagram.com/foodwiseleeds/

    https://www.facebook.com/foodwiseleeds

    https://www.youtube.com/@foodwiseleeds
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    1 時間 36 分
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