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Humanities and Social Sciences Archives - Pod Academy — 163 episodes · page 1 of 2
How to be a (nearly) perfect grandmother
NHS: A cold Covid winter ahead?
COVID-19 and the geopolitics of health
Nawal el Saadawi – writer and activist
Journalism in the pandemic: challenges and innovation
The dangerous business of journalism in the pandemic
Local journalism in the pandemic
James Bruce: an 18th century Scotsman’s journey to Abyssinia
Masculinity
Left Populism
Hannah Arendt – Truth and Politics
Making things up: what does it mean to ‘make things up’ in literature?
Nervous States
The Real Cost of IVF
Putting our genome to work
The Alt-Right – a journey into mainstream politics?
Journalism – the first draft of history?
“Kill all Normies”: the rise of the alt-right
Murder by women in eighteenth century London and Paris
Trump: the first 100 days
Lies, damned lies and statistics: Fact-checking, the new journalism
Digital exposure
Untitled Episode
The rise and rise of Donald Trump
Thinking and dying in London
Digital breadcrumbs: the data trail we leave behind us
Music and Resistance
Cyber sovereignty: The global Domain Name System in China
‘It’s a war zone now, here’
Otherworldly Politics – how science fiction can help us understand realpolitik
Prison – Does it work? Can it work?
The next big flood – Britain underwater
Debating donor conception 10 years after the removal of anonymity
Marxism and the Oppression of Women
Gender Ambiguity in Vietnam War Films
The Arab Spring – a premature celebration
Slang: a ‘dench’ podcast
Making the best of a bad Job: An introduction to the life and work of Wilfred Bion
The use of the whip in horse racing
Horse Racing and Animal Welfare: Horse deaths over jumps
Journalism and its audiences
Hostis Humani Generis – enemy of all mankind?
Rape Pornography – winning a change in the law
Digital tailspin: rules for the internet after Snowden
Creating an Economy for the Common Good
Women’s Legal Landmarks
Field Marshall Lord Roberts VC
Inequality: What can be done?
The Butterfly Defect: How globalization creates systemic risks, and what to do about It
Sugar, sugar everywhere
Pitt Rivers Collection: The rainforest music of the BayAka
Marxism and the environment
Au pair wanted: look after children, do shopping, walk dog, clean house, cook, teach violin – £50pw
The Social Life of Money
Football and Culture
Pits and Perverts revisited: ‘Pride’ the movie, and politics now
Christmas Truce 1914
Comics: unrepentantly in the gutter?
The Star-Spangled Banner
Faulkner Networked: Regional, Indigenous, Trans-Pacific
Future Readers: Narrative Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Petrochemical Gothic: True Detective and the Energy Unconscious of American Studies
New perspectives on US Studies: Technologies of Crisis
The economic cost of violence against women
Ecofeminism
Treating autism: the promises, perils and politics of pharmaceutical intervention
Being a feminist barrister
Virtual Economies – what can they teach us about the real world?
Happiness by Design: finding pleasure and purpose in everyday life
The odoriferous 18th century
Thinking Big: Evolution and the Human Mind
Understanding school bullying
The High Life: Living high up
Neuroscience and Social Science: Experimental Imaginations
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): new research, new hope?
Football: racism in the beautiful game
Economics and Everyday Life – Part Two
Economics and Everyday Life – Part One
In search of a moral compass: the role of schools in developing ‘character’
Urban smellscapes
What does it mean to be dyslexic?
Big study looks at impact of child poverty in Peru, India, Vietnam and Ethiopia
Shamans and Sacraments: the meaning of rituals
The death of print in a digital age
Egypt: the ongoing revolution
Why does America still have the death penalty?
The Philippines – providing a workforce for the world
Female Genital Mutilation – is zero tolerance the right approach?
Dag Hammarskjöld: assassination or accident?
Mindfulness: a new/old treatment for depression
Ethnomusicology
Exercise: we just don’t get enough
Reading for Real? Children’s literacy in religious settings
On the wrong end of globalisation: The Kolkata slums
Rewriting Addiction
Clasificadores of Montevideo: cleaning up a way of life?
UN in DRC 2: The challenges of the UN’s new offensive approach
Pitt Rivers Collection: Reel to Real
On the offensive – the UN forces’ new mandate in DRC
Education in Vietnam and India – huge differences in achievement