Facing the Future
Vox pop interviews with participants of The Great Debate: Facing the Future, a day of active debate and documentary-making held as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011. Participants were encourages to take a critical look at current discussions around population and the limits to social and technical engineering. View Videos

Visions for the Future of the City
Presentations from workshop exploring the question "How do we create a sustainable and resilient city in 2050?" held as part of the Sustained Engagement project at Newcastle University, 22nd October 2011. With Caspar Hewett, The Great Debate, Claire Walsh, Newcastle University, John Whitehead, Sentient Cities project and Mark Wilkinson, Newcastle University. View Videos

Economic Growth: Bane or Boon?
Head to head debate between Daniel Ben-Ami, author Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress and Jonathon Porritt, author Globalism and Regionalism, Living within our means, Capitalism as If the World Matters held at Northumbria University, 19th October 2010. View Video

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Limits to Growth in the 21st Century
Discussion held as part of The Great Debate Green Phoenix Festival Programme, August 2010 with Daniel Ben-Ami, author Cowardly Capitalism, Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress; Richard Dyer, Transport and Climate Campaigner, Friends of the Earth; Phil O'Keefe, Professor of Economic Development and Environmental Management, University of Northumbria. View Video

Food and Water Security, March 2010
Debate held as part of Getting Real About Climate Change with Prof Tony Allan, Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2008, founder of London University's Water Issues Group; Dr Jennie Barron, research fellow in water management at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI); Dr Julia Brown, Portsmouth University; and Dr Ben Campbell, social anthropologist, Durham University. View Video

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Living in a Changing World
Video made by young participants of the documentary-making project Living in a Changing World, funded by Mediabox, 2010. The interviews featured were filmed at The Great Debate: Getting Real About Climate Change workshop held as part of the Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science/Newcastle Science Festival in March 2010. View video.

Getting Real About Energy
Debate held at EGU conference in Vienna, May 2010. With Dermot Roddy, Science City Professor of Energy, Newcastle upon Tyne, Director, Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research; Hervé Coutrix, Vice President, Geosciences Structural and Sedimentological studies, TOTAL; Niel Bowerman, co-founder and former Executive Director, Climatico, co-founder, The Climate Justice Project.
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Free Thinking
Oliver Moss and Caspar Hewett comment on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival at the Sage Gateshead. View videos.

Don't Shout at the Telly North East
Following the North East premiere of the documentary Flush It, students reflect on water and sanitation provision across the globe. The featured discussion was filmed by young people taking part in The Great Debate and WORLDwrite workshop Don’t Shout at the Telly, Change What's on it!, March 2009. Learning camera and reporting skills ‘on the job’ they consider key issues in the process. View video.

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The Great Human Nature Debate
Video of debate between Rita Carter, Caspar Hewett and Thomas Pink held as part of Agents of Change? Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature, October 2008. View video.

What can science tell us about human nature?
Video of debate between Bruce Charlton and Igor Aleksander held as part of The Great Debate: Agents of Change? Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature. October 2008. View video.

Darwinism or Darwinitis?
Video of discussion following Darwinism without Darwinitis: key note talk by Raymond Tallis given at The Great Debate: Agents of Change? Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature. October 2008. View video.

What is radical politics today?
Video of Will Hutton and Anthony Giddens in conversation with Jonathan Pugh and an audience on 5^th December 2008. Video.

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