Changemaker Q&A

What a geriatrician wants us to understand about rights-based healthcare, caregiving, and the future of ageing well. In this episode, I spoke with Dr Warren Wong, a geriatrician whose career has been shaped by two intersecting commitments: a lifelong “social mindset” grounded in the idea that healthcare is a right, and a practical dedication to […]

Over the past decade, mindfulness has moved from spiritual and philosophical traditions into mainstream culture. It appears in corporate wellbeing programs, productivity apps, and self-care routines, often framed as a tool for stress reduction and individual resilience. While these practices may offer short-term relief, they rarely question the social, political, and economic systems that generate

Innovation is routinely invoked as a cure-all in the social change and organisational strategy space. It appears in grant applications, corporate mission statements, public sector reform agendas, and community-sector roadmaps. Yet the term often functions as a placeholder rather than a practice. In this episode, Amir—an innovation practitioner based in Stockholm with experience across education,

Money is often treated as the ultimate solution to social problems. Campaigns stall without it, organisations chase it relentlessly, and many changemakers feel that without sufficient funding their work cannot move forward. Yet this assumption—that money itself is a resource—deserves closer scrutiny. When examined through systems thinking, economics, and social change theory, money looks less

It is tempting to treat conservation as a technical problem. A matter for ecologists, protected areas, threatened species lists, and the right mix of interventions. Those elements matter. Deeply. Yet, again and again, the evidence and lived experience converge on a more confronting truth: the hardest part of conservation is not biological complexity. It is

As people enter a new year, vision boards and goal-setting rituals often become a focal point of personal and professional planning. Images representing success, stability, or impact can feel energising, offering a sense of direction at a time when many are seeking clarity. While these practices can be valuable, they are frequently misunderstood. Vision alone

Safety is often discussed as though it is a checklist. Lock your doors. Don’t walk alone at night. Keep your keys between your fingers. Share your location. These fragments of advice circulate constantly, especially among women, yet they rarely add up to something coherent. They can even become exhausting—an endless set of personal precautions that

As 2026 begins, many people are entering the new year with a mixture of exhaustion and cautious hope. After years marked by economic pressure, political volatility, and overlapping global crises, optimism feels less like enthusiasm and more like necessity. Something, many sense, has to change. It is within this context that Changemaker Q&A host Tiyana

Homelessness is often spoken about as though it is a moral failure, a personal choice, or an inevitable by-product of “bad decisions”. Yet the evidence from homelessness research, public health, and lived experience consistently points elsewhere: homelessness is produced by systems that compound vulnerability, and once someone is excluded from housing, reintegration becomes structurally difficult.

Across movements for justice, sustainability, and equity, a common frustration emerges: the feeling that change is not happening fast enough, or worse, that progress is going backwards. This perception can be deeply demoralising for those working in social change spaces, particularly when effort, urgency, and moral conviction appear to yield limited visible results. Yet this