Introducing the sixth season of ‘What Happens Next?’
Monash University’s multi-award-nominated podcast, What Happens Next?, returns on 18 March with a new season of tough challenges and expert guests.
Now in its sixth season, What Happens Next? is a sliding-doors podcast that examines some of the biggest challenges facing our world. Hosted by academic and social commentator Dr Susan Carland, each two-episode arc within the season addresses a new set of topics looking at the future we’re facing if we don’t change, the future we could have if we do, and how to get the kind of future we all want.
In the upcoming season, world-leading experts share their insights and research on the future of soldiering, digital vigilantism, slow fashion, weight loss, loneliness, and women’s role in peacekeeping as explored through the lens of the crisis in Afghanistan.
Expert guests include Gender, Peace and Security Centre Director Professor Jacqui True, named one of the 100 most-influential people in gender policy in 2021; 2009 Australian Life Scientist of the Year Dr Michael Cowley; Dr Suzanne Nielsen, Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre; and other leading researchers.
Other notable guests this season include celebrity personal trainer Michelle Bridges, federal MP Andrew Giles, designer and Instagram influencer Nicole McLaughlin, former SAS commanding officer Ben Pronk, and former Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls Natasha Stott-Despoja AO.
Listen: Visit the ‘What Happens Next?’ back catalogue
New episodes of What Happens Next? will be released weekly from Friday, 18 March, 2022. To be alerted when new episodes are available, subscribe now. You can also listen to every episode of What Happens Next?, including its entire back catalogue, here on Monash Lens.