DR. JOERI ROGELJ

DR. JOERI ROGELJ

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Director of Research at Grantham Institute, Imperial College
Author on UN Environment Programme & Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

A key part of how I go about doing my research is being involved in policy discussions, policy conversations, and also by following the international climate negotiations very closely. Actually, I started my research career as a part of the Presidency of the International Climate Negotiations in 2009. After that I remained an advisor to country delegations in the international negotiations, particularly small island development states or least developed countries. That really helped me to get a sense of what the real questions are that they are struggling with.

MARILYN MINTER

MARILYN MINTER

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Artist

That's what my work is about. Women owning agency. Any kind. And that's what makes you really excited. Having agency. Sexual agency. Owning sexuality not being the object of it.

I don't really look for inspiration. I just let it come to me, but I don't stop working. So work comes from work. So when I'm stuck I just keep working and make terrible looking things until something else comes out of it. That's the creative process. Work comes from work. You can't think yourself out a right action. You have to act yourself into right thinking. You can't sit there and smoke cigarettes and look at the wall waiting for inspiration.