Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Green Gown Award winning Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Jack Dinham, Ellie Howell, Mya Harvey, Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Podcast communications: Tyler Domone-Hollands, Hannah Parish, Alexander Ayerst, Maya Stevens, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Student Takeover Season: Celebrities, Influencers, Consumption & the SDGs
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In this student takeover episode of the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton we delve into how celebrities and brand endorsements affect consumer behaviours. We place celebrities such as social media influencer Molly Mae, and the Kardashian family under the spotlight and assess their own contributions to sustainable lifestyles and fashion. We explore brand partnerships in detail, especially focusing on those within the fast fashion sector. Analysing sustainability aims of each company and discussing whether these aims are met, and linking back to both SDG 8, and SDG 12. From this, we evaluate who is truly responsible for these fashion behaviours, celebrities, or us. Then, we expand on potential avenues to explore to try and buy fashion products more sustainably.
Please note, the terminology and tone used in this episode is intended to reflect everyday conversations between young people. There is no intention to offend anyone.
Episode team: Madison Blundell, Ella Camp, Isla Hamilton, Jeena Kahai, Inaara Rattansi, Sarah Wilson
This episode is part of the Student Takeover Season on the Meliora Podcast, and is a group project from the University of Southampton 'Global Sustainability Challenges' module.
