Ethical Fields presents:

In Transit

In Transit Series Webinar with Dr. Jose Ramos and Moira Were (AM)

With special guest Ariella Helgott

Bringing a future and gender lens to a Green Industrial Transition

Season 1: Webinar #5

10 June 2020, Wednesday

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm AEST

Join the questions and conversation exploring the themes, barriers and opportunities of transition. Jose and Moira will have a far reaching conversation challenging assumptions, used futures, gender, age demographics, post COVID industrialisation, new economy matters and everything in between!

Provoke and poke their discourse with your questions.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Ariella Helfgott

Experienced Senior Researcher with a demonstrated history of working across disciplines, sectors and social worlds to achieve sustainable and equitable futures.

Ariella Helfgott is a Senior Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and a member of Shell's Scenario Team.

Ariella undertakes Multi-Actor Collaborative Action Research supporting sustainability transitions. Her research spans conceptual and mathematical modeling of system resilience and adaptability, through to participatory approaches to building resilience and adaptive capacity on-the-ground. Within the later, she brings together stakeholders across and within multiple decision-making levels and engages them in programs that develop strategic capacity, for example exploratory scenarios, visioning and back-casting and resilience-based planning.

She has extensive experience in the design, implementation and analysis of participatory planning, decision-aiding and capacity development programs in East and West Africa, South and South-East Asia, Latin America, Europe and Australia from community to national, regional and international scales.

Whilst formally trained as a mathematician and engineer, Ariella's current work focuses on integrating technical-analytical, philosophical-hermeneutic and management-administrative disciplines to achieve sustainable and equitable futures.

She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide.

Moira Were

Moira Were (AM) has worked from the kitchen table as a direct service social worker through to the cabinet table as a Chief of Staff to a Minister. She has extensive strategic and operational experience in the not-for-profit sector and in government at state, regional, national and international levels.

She has served and led in governance on statutory and regulatory bodies (including Medical Board of SA and the South Australian Emergency Services Commission), not for profit boards (including Social Impact Investment Network of SA, Southern Domestic Violence Service, Issues Deliberation Australia/America) as well as providing executive and strategic leadership roles including as CEO of Volunteering SA & NT Inc. and Global Executive Director of International Association of Public Participation (IAP2).

She is a Director of Scope Global, an Australian specialist international project management company with people as the focus of its program delivery. Moira is a member of the core team for Collaboration for Impact, Australia’s premier company doing systems change at scale.

Dissatisfied with the lack of gender equity in investment and contribution women led start ups, entrepreneurs and social enterprises get from the market, she founded Chooks SA, in 2017, a movement to foster gender equity for women innovators and entrepreneurs. With over 3000 members she is now developing a new incubator model for women excluded from the economy under the auspices of a co-operative called the Hen House. Moira received an Australian honour in 2019 (AM) for her significant service to the community of South Australia.

Dr. Jose Ramos

José Maria Ramos has been a foresight researcher and practitioner for the last 20 years, is Senior Consulting Editor for the Journal of Futures Studies and is Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He has taught and lectured on Futures studies, public policy and social innovation at the National University of Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), Leuphana University (Germany), the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) and Victoria University (Australia).

He has over 60 publications in journals, magazines and books spanning economic, cultural and political change, Futures studies, public policy and social innovation. He has also co-founded a number of civil society organizations, a social forum, a maker lab, an advocacy group for commons governance, and a peer to peer leadership development group for mutant futurists.

He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature, a Masters degree in Strategic Foresight and a Ph.D. in critical globalisation studies.

Of Mexican ancestry, he was born in Oakland, California and grew up in a very multi-cultural suburb of Los Angeles. After living in Japan and Taiwan, where he studied Japanese and Mandarin, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to be with his wife, De Chantal. They now live in Central Victoria with their two children, son Ethan and daughter Rafaela. He has a passion for the coupling of foresight and action, alternative globalisations and writings and research on cosmo-localization. This line of work connects him to the truth that we are all brothers and sisters inter-dependent on our planet and each other for our survival and wellbeing - our shared commons.

He is a director with Ethical Fields.