Earth to Research

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An award-winning podcast

Earth to Research is a podcast that reimagines research practices in times of eco-cultural crises. Created for early-career researchers, postgraduates, and sustainability professionals, the series explores ways to align research practices with environmental justice and ecological accountability. Through conversations with a diverse range of guests, and featuring sounds from emerging artists, the podcast touches on positionality, eco-emotions, small stories, and transformative approaches. Each eight episodes focuses on a timely topic and reveals transferable insights. In 2025, Earth to Research received a Certificate of Recognition from the Open Science Community Amsterdam.

Eight episodes

  1. Transformative Research, Part 1: Storytelling and Solidarity
  2. Transformative Research, Part 2: Emotions and Justice
  3. Myths and Rituals: Art-Science, Sustainable Tech, and Degrowth
  4. Planetary Health, Part 1: Expelling Shell
  5. Planetary Health, Part 2: Climate, Gender & Intersectionality
  6. Food for Thought: Systems Thinking and Traditional Knowledge
  7. Care and Microplastics Science in Three Acts
  8. Slow AI: Future knowledges and machine spells (January 2026)

Podcasting as method

Research shapes worlds, not only through its outputs, but through its methods, materials, and ethics. Earth to Research is a series of honest, grounded, and collaborative ethical inquiries. Featuring conversations with international guests alongside original soundscapes and songs, Earth to Research thinks across disciplines, seeking to foster solidarity between research communities and the worlds they study, with a specific focus on early career listeners, such as PhD researchers, and others who may be experiencing precarity. Presented and produced by Lucy Sabin from recording studios in Utrecht and London, Earth to Research is an RE4GREEN (Horizon Europe) project, supported by the Open Science Promotion fund, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. Project documentation is available here including a guide to podcasting.

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