The Blackwood 50th Anniversary Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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To celebrate 50 years of innovation in independent living, in our all new podcast series we will hear from Blackwood’s customers and leading experts in housing, care, technology, sports, the arts and financial sector. Together we hope to stimulate debate, new thinking and create a vision of independent living for the future. New episodes will be published fortnightly.
This episode of the Future 50 podcast series focusses on Sustainable Investment and ESG. Hosted by Blackwood's Chair, Julie McDowell and featuring two distinguished members of the investment industry Euan Munro, CEO of Newton Investment Management and John Godfrey, Director of Levelling Up at Legal & General.
This episode of the Future 50 podcast series focusses on Designing and Building Homes for independent Living and features Charlie Luxton the architectural designer and tv presenter, Anne Walker, a Blackwood tenant and former board member, and is hosted by Simon Fitzpatrick our Development and Commercial Director.
This episode of the Blackwood 50th anniversary podcasts features journalist Pennie Taylor and Age Scotland Chief Executive Brian Sloan. Brian tell us why a good home is central to someone's wellbeing and their thoughts on the blueprint for the future of independent living.
In this episode Robotics, an introduction, we explore what is a robot? How might it help us live more independently now, or in the future? Hosted by Colin Foskett, Blackwood's head of innovation, Colin is joined by experts in the field of robotics, Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly from the University of Nottingham and Dr Mauro Dragone from Heriot-Watt University. We explore everything from telepresence to assistive robotics and how Blackwood are at the forefront of exploring this new technology in some exciting collaborative projects.
Blackwood's first podcast in our 50th anniversary series, this episode features Fanchea Kelly, our CEO and Simon Fitzpatrick our Development & Commercial Director. They discuss what independent living means to them, to our customers now and what the future of independent living might look like.
Listen to our chief executive, Fanchea Kelly introduce our podcast series celebrating Blackwoods 50 years of innovation in independent living. Check back fortnightly for more episodes as we celebrate our 50th anniversary.