Heat in everyday life: When summer becomes a burden
In our 30th podcast episode, four students from the Bachelor’s degree programme in Health Management and Health Promotion – Emily Wachtler, Annika Baronyay, Christina Friessnegg and Anita Randjelovic – discuss a topic that affects us all: How a sustainable diet can help in the heat and how we can get through the hot summer days in a healthy and climate-friendly way
The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other popular platforms.
Heatwaves are no longer an exceptional phenomenon, but a recurring reality – in cities and at universities. In the podcast episode ‘Hot Days’, four female students from Burgenland University of Applied Sciences discuss how rising temperatures are affecting their everyday lives, including their studies. What sounds trivial at first – a hot summer’s day in a seminar – turns out, as the conversation unfolds, to be a complex problem with social, health and infrastructural dimensions.
The episode begins with personal experiences: what does it feel like when the sun is beating down, and how do individual experiences differ when the air is still? The students talk about everything from circulatory problems to difficulties concentrating – and explain exactly what strategies they have developed for themselves.
Here are several perspectives:
- Health aspects: The students highlight health risks, particularly for vulnerable groups – such as older people and children.
- Social circumstances: Heat is described as a ‘factor that exacerbates inequality’: those living in a poorly insulated flat in the city experience the summer differently from their more privileged fellow students who live in the cooler parts of Austria.
The podcast stands out for its authenticity and relevance: drawing on specific everyday experiences, the students highlight just how deeply climate change is already affecting everyday life at university – and that it is not just about the natural sciences, but also about social impacts.
The podcast episode ‘Hot Days’ vividly illustrates how the climate crisis has reached the university – not as a theoretical topic, but as a reality that can be physically experienced. The students’ contribution provides an important impetus to take the heat seriously and to develop sufficient resources to combat it.
Behind the scenes
Students on the Bachelor’s degree programme in Health Management and Health Promotion recorded the podcast at the media centre on the Pinkafeld campus. They were clearly enjoying themselves :-)
P.S.: For anyone still interested in this topic: our hard-working students have produced two more videos on this subject. They’re well worth a watch!
Video 1: Food systems as factors influencing climate change – causes, effects and potential solutions. Produced by our students Jessica Bauer and Sarah Duschanek. Click here to watch the video.
Video 2: Nutrition in hot weather – general information, risks and practical tips. Produced by our students Katharina Lederer and Maximilian Pichelbauer. Watch the video here.
Guest contribution: Emily Wachtler, Annika Baronyay, Christina Friessnegg and Anita Randjelovic –
– Bachelor’s students in Health Management and Health Promotion
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