ProGRESS19 Juli 2025

Matteo Menapace, Serious, ethical, cooperative games designer

When he was young Matteo Menapace spent many afternoons playing video games and learnt to code so he could hack his first game.

So how does a kid playing video games (with a Saturday job making pizzas) turn his hobby into a professional career that challenges people to think about the most pressing issues of the era, including climate change?

Listen to hear the philosophy and ethics behind serious games design, why you don’t need to have studied graphics, games design or even to have a degree to be a successful games designer and what Matteo does in a typical week.

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Em Burnip, founder of Eco Wedding Festivals

Em Burnip is passionate about nature and the environment and when her daughter Grace was born she matched her business skills with her values to create Eco Wedding Festivals.But taking control of her ...

25 Jan 29min

Holly Westgarth-Graham, Masters student at Edinburgh Futures Institute

Holly Westgarth-Graham has returned to her studies after a spell working as an intern for sustainable travel company Byway, the flight-free holiday platform. She explains how her course is helping her...

17 Jan 24min

Elspeth Yates, career coach at Happier Humans and head of people at Change Agents

This episode drops in January, traditionally the month when people quit their jobs or evaluate whether what they are doing is the right thing for them.As an independent career coach alongside working ...

10 Jan 33min

Whitni Thomas, Head of Corporate Finance, Triodos Bank UK

How do you land a job at a bank that creates positive social, environmental and cultural change? And how do you get to hear about banks like Triodos in the first place?Whitni Thomas, the daughter of m...

3 Jan 38min

Carlos Terol, changemaker, responsible entrepreneur

Carlos Terol is a founder at Good Ripple, a community of change-makers who want to make a difference in the world.He describes his fascinating journey to find meaning and purpose in his work life over...

27 Dec 202546min

Dr Jessica Tipton Head of the National Education Nature Park at the Natural History Museum

Dr Jessica Tipton, or Jess as she is known, is head of the National Education Nature Park at the Natural History Museum, a project commissioned by the Department for Education as part of its Sustainab...

19 Dec 202533min

The big five-zero. Season five finale and round-up

Here's the Series 5 grand finale, featuring the best bits of the latest guests on ProGRESS, the podcast promoting green, ethical, sustainable and socially responsible careers.The podcast was set up wi...

12 Aug 202530min

Reena Mahajan, Urban planner, designer and advocate for sustainable development

Drawn to both science and the arts when she was at school, Reena Mahajan’s studies and work took her to three continents. She studied architecture in New Delhi before moving to Paris to study urban pl...

2 Aug 202531min