Change the Story
by Impact Studios
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About this podcast
People working to change systems from the ground up — community leaders, researchers, activists and practitioners. Through short series and conversations, you’ll hear big ideas, urgent debates, and practical examples of community-led solutions in action.
This podcast was previously called Life's Lottery, and relaunched in 2026 as Change the Story. Produced by UTS Impact Studios.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 33 episodes
- The Right to Housing: how do we solve Australia's housing crisis? | Change the Story S6 Ep1 · 52 min · Season 6 Episode 1What if your right to a secure home was protected by law? Why is Australia one of the only liberal democracies without housing rights protection? Could a Human Rights Act help…
- Where to from here? | The Shopfront Story Ep 3 · 13 min · Season 5 Episode 3After 30 years of community engagement, a new question emerges - where to from here? Shopfront has survived changes in leadership, funding pressures, shifting university…
- Beyond the Classroom | The Shopfront Story Ep 4 · 17 min · Season 5 Episode 4What happens when learning leaves the classroom and enters the real world? Recorded at Shopfront's 30th anniversary celebration, the final episode in this special series brings…
- Learning Together | The Shopfront Story Ep2 · 15 min · Season 5 Episode 2Universities are often described as places of teaching and research. But what responsibility do they have to the communities around them? In this episode, we move beyond…
- Where It All Began | The Shopfront Story Ep1 · 20 min · Season 5 Episode 1How did a small university program become a bridge between students, academics and communities for more than 30 years? In this first episode, we explore the origins of UTS…
- The Harwood Approach - turning Outward | Mapping What Matters Ep5 · 14 min · Season 4 Episode 5What happens when we stop planning for communities and start listening to them instead? Bringing together the themes explored throughout the series, host Dr. Katie Blair is…
- Body Mapping - making the invisible visible | Mapping What Matters Ep4 · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 4What if some of a community's greatest strengths can't be captured in a survey, a spreadsheet - or even a map? If Episode 3 encouraged us to see the wider system, this episode…
- Life-centred Design - seeing the bigger picture | Mapping What Matters Ep3 · 16 min · Season 4 Episode 3How can we move beyond mapping what exists to designing the futures our communities need? Having explored strengths-based thinking in the previous episodes, host Dr. Katie Blair…
- Appreciative Inquiry - starting with strengths | Mapping What Matters Ep2 · 14 min · Season 4 Episode 2What if the very first question we ask determines everything that follows? In this episode of Mapping What Matters, host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by social impact practitioner…
- Returning to the roots of asset mapping | Mapping What Matters Ep · 8 min · Season 4 Episode 1What is asset mapping and why is it time to rethink it? In the opening episode, host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by Professor Amanda Howard to explore the origins of asset mapping…
- Ethical belonging | My Language My Country Ep6 · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 6In this final episode, we explore what it means to be colonisers on colonised lands. If we’re migrants from a colonising country like Japan, are our perspectives and connections…
- Learning Together | My Language My Country Ep5 · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 5Saying an Acknowledgement in our mother languages inspires us to learn more about First Nations histories and cultures. But many migrants and new settlers claim that they know…
- Waking up languages | My Language My Country Ep4 · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 4How are languages that have been dormant being revived by First Nations peoples? We hear from Dr Lachlan McDaniel and Professor Lindon Coombes of the Jumbanna Institute for…
- Listening to Country | My Language My Country Ep3 · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 3How has English dominance marginalised First Nations knowledges? We hear from Gudanji/Wakaja author and academic Dr Debra Dank about how Aboriginal people’s expressive practices…
- Multilingual homes | My Language My Country Ep2 · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 2What does embracing multilingualism sound like? In this episode, we hear from two poets who challenge the dominance of English by creating bold, multilingual poetry. How do these…
- Acknowledging Country in Our Mother Languages | My Language My Country Ep1 · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 1What happens when we say an Acknowledgement of Country in our mother languages? Would it feel different? More meaningful? Does it change the way we connect to First Nations…
- Introducing My Language My Country · 4 min · Season 3Around 350 languages are spoken in homes across Australia, yet we see ourselves as an English-speaking country. And we tend to understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
- Life's Lottery becomes Change the Story · 3 minLife’s Lottery is changing. Change the Story is the next chapter - a podcast about what it takes to create real social change. Where Life’s Lottery explored how inequality shapes…
- A better start: game-changing preschool reform in NSW & VIC | Backing Kids Ep8 · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 8Jeni Whalan hosts a discussion on the recent commitments from both NSW and Victoria to deliver a year of universal play-based learning for children in the year before they start…
- Evidence is not enough: a review | Backing Kids Ep7 · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 7In this bonus episode, hosts Jeni Whalan and Glyn Davis examine the insights gained across this season of conversations about putting children at the centre of good public…
