Team Meliora at the Green Gown Awards 2025, Reflections & Ramblings

This is just a bit of fun. Not a serious sustainability research, education or careers episode, this is an informal recording of some of the Meliora team chatting before, during and after the 2025 Green Gown Awards.  We reflect on the podcast journey to this point, discuss our favourite episodes to date & the 2024 awards in the pub before the awards, attend the 2025 ceremony, chat to one of the co-chairs of the EAUC who run the GGA the brilliant Prof Zoe Robinson, the announcement of the Next Generation Learning & Skills award, the thoughts of the production and editing team after the awards (I'm not really 'that' competitive honest), and a closing reflection at a horribly early time the morning after at Birmingham New Street Railway Station.We recognise this episode may be seen as a little self-indulgent, but we thought some people may enjoy a light-hearted insight into the more informal celebratory side of sustainability in the HE sector.  We hope you enjoy it :)Episode hosts: Prof Simon Kemp, Jack Dinham, Libby Kale, Ellie HowellEpisode guests: Prof Zoe Robinson and the background comments of the Green Gown Award guestsEpisode editor: Ellie Howell