Podcast explores world’s biggest crises

The Surviving Global Pressures podcast launched in 2024 provides an insightful platform for exploring global challenges, with a strong emphasis on education’s role in addressing poverty. Through expert interviews and real-world case studies,

the podcast integrates interdisciplinary learning, encouraging students to think critically about systemic issues like economic inequality and climate-induced poverty.

Senior lecturer in social work in Charles Sturt’s School of Social Work and Arts Dr Bernadette Moorhead said the podcast series helped foster critical discussions on sustainability, resilience, and socio-economic disparities. “We’re currently experiencing an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, a housing crisis and have been battling a range of natural disasters, so my podcast will discuss how our essential workforce is finding new ways of operating, and new places to operate from, to continue to help those in need.”

Each episode features experts across a range of fields currently navigating and developing solutions to critical challenges, such as information technology and artificial intelligence, agriculture, social work, law and justice, and paramedicine.