Beyond The Dark Clouds Podcast
Hello! My name is Dr Ann-Marie Mealey , Ethicist and Director of Catholic Mission at Leeds Trinity University, it is my great pleasure to launch this online lecture series at our university. I am thrilled to have such a talented and diverse group of local, national and international experts helping us to share our mission with other universities and with the world. Please join us as we learn and grow together in the hope of sensitizing everyone to who our neighbour really is and to help to repair the ‘shattered dreams’ of our world. ‘Education for hope’ is what this series has at its heart as it seeks to move our closed world ‘Beyond the Dark Clouds’.
Episodes
July 2, 2025 • 27 mins
Mariana Behr Andrade is a Leadership Development Specialist and Self Compassion Advocate who is also a Fellow at Harvard University. Mariana talks to Dr Mealey about her work on compassionate leadership, focussing in particular on the distinction between ‘resonant’ and ‘dissonant’ leadership approaches and informed by current scholarship in the field. She explains the importance of ‘psychological safety’ in teams and stresses the n...
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July 2, 2025 • 35 mins
Alison Lowe, OBE, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime for West Yorkshire, talks to Dr Ann Marie Mealey about her journey to Deputy Mayor, her career and the life experiences that shaped what she supports and works on nationally and locally today. She gives a detailed account of her work as well as integrating her own personal story into the conversation. The combination of her life story and life’s work clearly shows how her valu...
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In this episode, Dr Ann Marie Mealey speaks to a group of students from St Teresa of Calcutta’s Multi Academy Company about their values, their experiences of studying in a Catholic setting and what they would like to see from their local leaders regarding litter in the City of Birmingham and protection of earth globally. They also express their hopes for the future of St Teresa’s and for the next generation of students as well ma...
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April 16, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode, Jamie Bykov- Brett, award- winning human-centric innovator, talks to Dr Mealey about his own journey in education which continues to shape his approach to AI -assisted learned. His values-driven approach is inspirational and thought-provoking in an age where we are seeking to understand learners and the workforce on a more individual basis. Jamie is a advocate for the use of AI in HE as it can cater for diverse n...
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March 12, 2025 • 33 mins
Devika Shekhawat, a social entrepreneur and founder of Dhara Shakti Foundation. With a decade of experience driving social impact, Devika also serves as a director at The Global Education and Leadership Foundation. She has worked as a project lead for Values 20 India in 2023 on behalf of the foundation.
Her academic credentials include a Master's degree from the prestigious School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of ...
Her academic credentials include a Master's degree from the prestigious School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of ...
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March 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Andi Brierley is a Senior Lecturer and PhD researcher at Leeds Trinity University with a 15-year career in Youth Justice. His professional journey has been shaped, in part, by his own personal experiences with childhood trauma, family separation, care placements, school exclusion, heroin addiction, and the subsequent cycle of incarceration. Motivated by a sense of social responsibility to improve the lives of others facing similar ...
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February 6, 2025 • 32 mins
Dr Anshul Gupta holds a Ph.D in Human resources. Her research focuses on deriving an innovative dimension to manage Human Resources that is known as "Workplace Spirituality" in the Indian context. Her profile includes a mix of corporate and research experience. She has worked with Brands like Unilever, Essel group, Cadbury, ITC on projects like Competency Mapping, Career planning, Training and Development for values, content develo...
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February 6, 2025 • 32 mins
Dr Lampkin is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at York St John University where he have also worked as a Lecturer in Police Studies and Course Lead for the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) in partnership with Humberside Police. Prior to joining York St John, Jack was Programme Lead for the Degree Holder Entry Programme (DHEP) at Leeds Trinity University, working in collaboration with West Yorkshire Police. I have also ...
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December 19, 2024 • 36 mins
Alan Williams talks to Dr Ann Marie Mealey about his journey to being an advocate of values-driven leadership, his work as a business promoting values-driven behaviours in the workplace and for the world at large. The discussion also includes thoughts on the freedom of choice that is involved in becoming a values – driven professional and the need to have an informed conscience in the search for truth and understanding.
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December 19, 2024 • 44 mins
John Rainford frsa ftls talks to Dr Ann Marie Mealey about the need for emotional intelligence and values driving business and leadership in the future. He gives examples of how he has worked with companies to develop long term, sustainable business strategies that include care for the environment, values, EQ and financially rewarding outcomes.
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December 19, 2024 • 49 mins
Bill Barton talks with Dr Ann Marie Mealey about ethics and the law, his journey to setting up a business and his hopes for the law profession going forward. Bill also advocates for an inherent ‘respect’ for the law to be embedded into university provision and encourages everyone to be aware of ‘who’ they are as people. Character, values, and the just application of the law are important for a more hopeful future for everyone.
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October 23, 2024 • 47 mins
Nancy M. Rourke teaches courses in religion and ethics at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, NY where she is Assistant Professor of religious studies. Her research is in ecological ethics and health care ethics. Her most recent book is titled Ecological Moral Character (Georgetown University Press, 2024). Her forthcoming edited volume is The Locus of Theological Vocation (Orbis Press, 2026). She earned her PhD in theology at ...
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July 29, 2024 • 42 mins
Dr Neil Hawkes talks to Dr Ann Marie Mealey about his experience and journey to devoting himself to promoting Values-based Education (VbE) in schools and other educational settings. More widely, he also emphasises his wish to promote Ethical leadership and Values-based Living throughout society. To promote Values-based Living Neil founded the influential International Values-based Trust, known as (The IVET Foundation), and its e...
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June 10, 2024 • 34 mins
Paul Charles, NLPAA, CIPD, Director of Organisational Talent Development at GBS, which is part of GEDU, speaks to Ann Marie about the need for values driving leadership, talent development, sport and people development. Paul discusses how the corporate sector can remain competitive whilst upholding values and ethics and that this is a credible position to hold in a business environment. Paul is an expert in leadership development a...
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May 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Joseph Nelson, Pastor in the Lutheran Church in Great Britain and alumnus of Leeds Trinity University, discusses the need to reflect carefully on the advent of AI technology in light of the CST principle of human dignity and the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Joseph provides a very insightful presentation of the issues as they stand right now and suggests that we need to participate in the ethical discussions and reflect together on...
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May 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Professor Neil Messer, Professor of Theological Bioethics at Baylor University in Texas, gives a fascinating lecture on neurotechnologies and the common good. Neil’s talk is expertly crafted to give everyone the science and the theological and ethical frameworks that we need to make the distinction between what might be considered as the good ‘therapeutic’ use of AI in health care and what might be simply ‘enhancement’ for enhancem...
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May 24, 2024 • 47 mins
Dr Catriona Russell, Assistant Professor of Ethics in the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin, takes us on a journey back to the meaning of the word techné so that we can be re-introduced into what the etymology of the word technology is. She then discusses the current marketisation of urban life and whether or not the idea of sustainability is authentically expressed in attempts to introduce technology in the city that w...
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April 17, 2024 • 47 mins
CHARLES FOWLER chairs the Human Values Foundation, which uses positive values to promote young people’s social and emotional development, helps run the UK Values Alliance and is project partner of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice for Health and Social Care at Oxford University. He is a delegate at Values20, the G20 engagement group, and Global Coordinator of World Values Day.
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February 29, 2024 • 28 mins
Professor Jackie Dunne, Vice- Chancellor of Birmingham Newman University, shares her leadership journey in Higher Education, offers advice and guidance to aspiring leaders as well as discussing how creating a sense of ‘community’ is essential for student development and learning. She also shares her thoughts on the mission and values at Birmingham Newman University along with some insights that resonate with her linked to Saint Joh...
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February 9, 2024 • 21 mins
Professor Damien Page, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University, talks about what gives him ‘hope’ in the current HE climate whilst also sharing advice and guidance for our current student body on what he feels are important points to keep in mind for a positive future. Being a ‘disrupter’, asking questions as well as being critical of ideas and concepts is something that Damien mentions as being key to becoming emp...
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