The podcasts explore the lived experiences as well as in-place challenges facing community-based practitioners as they work to tackle issues stemming from substance use, mental health, and suicide as well as the impact the cost-of-living crisis is having in our schools.

The series also explores the potential of key policy initiatives such as Community Wealth Building to address the needs of our most deprived communities and stimulate physical, economic, and social regeneration. Recently it also included a special podcast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement to reflect on its legacy effects by gathering perspectives from different communities across Belfast.

Gavin McWilliams, Multidisciplinary Research Development Manager, The Global Innovation Institute, QUB made the following comments:

We hope to work closely with QCAP on disseminating outputs of this nationally and internationally, in a variety of innovative formats (e.g. QCAP’s leading expertise on podcasting) as well as traditional (e.g. QCAP presenting at the major QUB conference on net zero in 2024).

 

The full QCASTs series can be listened to here.

 

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