Designed by Wardle and engineered by Aurecon, the $650 million Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) project in Melbourne has a majority women-led team, with six out of seven members being women, including the three most senior roles. With International Women’s Day (IWD) coming up, we speak with AIID Executive Director, Rowan Maclean to offe ... Show More
Oct 5
Episode 316: Will Messiter from Sekisui House on housing affordability, prefab and modular houses and some ideas on fixing our house shortage
In our first Shortcast in over two years, we talk with Will Messiter, Chief Operating Officer - Residential Communities and Home Building at Sekisui House Australia, at the company's manufacturing and assembly facility in southwest Sydney, about house building, the bottlenecks in ... Show More
8m 32s
Sep 29
Episode 315: Jono Mountfort on how to reduce the carbon embodied in the materials and products used in the built environment
As operational energy efficiency improves, attention is increasingly turning to embodied carbon—the emissions associated with extracting raw materials, manufacturing products, transporting them, installing them, and, ultimately, dealing with them at the end of their useful life. ... Show More
42m 52s
Sep 22
Episode 314: Tara Veldman, Managing Director & Principal, Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) on how architecture can influence how people feel, heal and connect
Tara Veldman, Managing Director and Principal at Billard Leece Partnership, has played a major role in growing BLP’s health architecture practice and has worked across hospitals, health hubs, research facilities, education precincts, and other complex environments. In 2025, Tara ... Show More
39m 30s
Sep 2025
Ali McFadyen - Advancing Women's Careers in Australian Architecture
In this episode, Nhi Trinh and Daniel Moore speak with Ali McFayden, Director and Secretary of Parlour, whose career spans more than 15 years across architecture consultancy, research, and advisory roles. Alongside her leadership at Parlour, where she coordinates national program ... Show More
50m 14s
Nov 2023
Women in Finance: How diversity provides a competitive advantage
<p>Following the Women in Finance Summit and Awards 2023, we're catching up with some of the leading women in the financial services space.</p> <p>In this episode, we chat to Rebecca Warren, executive general manager of small-business banking at CommBank, about how she navigated ... Show More
20m 15s
Nov 2023
Women in Finance: How diversity provides a competitive advantage
<p dir="ltr">Following the Women in Finance Summit and Awards 2023, we're catching up with some of the leading women in the financial services space.<br /> <br /> In this episode, we chat to Rebecca Warren, executive general manager of small-business banking at CommBank, about ho ... Show More
20m 15s
Mar 2020
Exploring Gender Equality: Language Assistants and Beyond
<p>With International Women's Day on 08 March, the Language Assistant podcast has carried out a special episode exploring gender within the programme itself and the British Council's work. On this episode, Finola is joined by Ceana from the Language Assistants Team, Anna fr ... Show More
37m 48s