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Public lecture podcasts — 454 episodes
Glen O'Hara: How the Blair governments reshaped the country (Institute for Policy Research)
Liam Byrne: Why populists are winning: and how to beat them (Institute for Policy Research)
Prof Matt Sleat: Post-liberalism (Institute for Policy Research)
Kate Hamblin and Emily Kenway: The work of care (Institute for Policy Research)
James Muldoon: The hidden human labour powering AI (Institute for Policy Research)
Rebecca Florisson: Living precariously: The challenge of insecure work (Institute for Policy Research)
Andrew Wallis: Tackling modern slavery (Institute for Policy Research)
A conversation with Everardo González: The Disappeared of History Global Webinar Series
Placements Abroad
Stop the Scroll, Pick a Role
Acing Assessment Centres
Returning to Uni
Prof Phil Scraton: Bearing witness to the 'pain of others'
A conversation with Rubén Blades: The Disappeared of History Global Webinar Series
How to get a horse on a treadmill (Dr Polly McGuigan)
Life beyond Bath (part 2) the HES graduates’ stories (Health and Exercise Science graduates, Amalia and Ellie)
Life beyond Bath (part 1): the SES graduates’ stories (Sport and Exercise Science graduates, Lucy and Jack)
Tackling the big challenges in sports injuries (Dr Stephen West)
No carbs before Marbs? (Profs James Betts and Javier Gonzalez)
The Realities of Being on Placement
Starting your Placement
Revitalising Britain: Panel discussion (IPR)
Disabilities
A Place for Possible Podcast – Episode 4: Support at Bath
A Place for Possible Podcast – Episode 3: Employability at Bath
A Place for Possible Podcast – Episode 2: Sustainability at Bath
Heikki Hiilamo: Analysing commercial determinants of health through the well-being economy framework
Addressing England's Water Quality: Panel discussion (IPR)
A Place for Possible Podcast – Episode 1: Accommodation and Living in Bath
Top tips for Interviews
Common Mistakes
Benefits of a Placement
Professor Jonathan White: The Future as a Political Idea (IPR)
State of Disappearance introduction (Vice-Chancellor, Professor Phil Taylor)
The Void
Realm of Words
Apparitions
Fragments of a Catastrophe
Collapse of Consciousness
Obscure Beasts
Episode 10: Women's sport (the state of play) - Dr Jessica Francombe-Webb & Dr Fiona Spotswood
Lauren Fedor: The US Presidential Election: Where Do We Go From Here? (IPR)
Professor Yvonne Jewkes: An Architecture of Hope (IPR)
Coordinating movement and the Bath student experience (Prof Cassie Wilson & SU reps, Abbie & David)
SCI: Miami: living well with spinal cord injury (Dr Jenn Maher)
Research with Impact with Roland Pease Episode 7: Alumni making an Impact
Would Messi make it in England? (Prof Sean Cumming)
Can you outrun a bad diet? (Dr Jean-Philippe Walhin)
Babies, baristas and BMX (Dr Adam Brazil)
Motivating the unmotivated (Professor Fiona Gillison)
Balancing studies, socials and spoons (Bath students: Megan and Zak)
Episode 9: Women’s football and female coaches - Briony Smith
Episode 8: Social Media Fitness Influencers and Young Women - Hollie Hall
Episode 7: Generation Z And Sports Consumption - Oliver Snoddy
Episode 6: Sport for Development – Dr Haydn Morgan & Professor Andrew Parker
Episode 5: ‘The Feminist Sport Lab’ - Dr Sheree Bekker & Professor Stephen Mumford
Professor Lane Kenworthy: Is inequality the problem?
The Net Zero transition in the UK
Episode 1: Gender and Sport - Professor Holly Thorpe
Episode 2: Online Hate in Football and Psychoanalysis and sport - Dr Jack Black
Episode 3: Sport Scandals - Professor David Rowe
Episode 4: Girls and Physical Education - Zoe Jeffery
Overcoming stagnation: A new strategy for economic prosperity in Britain?
Dr Rita Griffiths and Dr Marsha Wood: Coping and hoping: monthly assessment and Universal Credit
Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan: When science meets power
How Do We Make Devolution Work Better?
Addressing Britain's teacher retention and recruitment crisis
James Boyd-Wallis: What Do MPs Think of AI?
Research with Impact with Roland Pease Episode 6: The Science of Pain
Research with Impact with Roland Pease Episode 5: 'We need to talk about Artificial Intelligence'
Supporting Good Palliative Dementia Care
Research with Impact with Roland Pease Episode 4: 'A bright future for solar energy'
End Of Life Decisions In Care Homes
Disenfranchised Death And Grief Today
Peter Foster: What went wrong with Brexit and what we can do about it
Interfaith Community: Strategies for Peace
death - exciting and new!
Dr Rachel Wilder: The Mental Health in Schools Podcast
Dr Stephen Hall: The Authoritarian International
Dr Anna Killick: Politicians and Economic Experts: The Limits of Technocracy
Prof Larry Bartels: Democracy Erodes from the Top
Prof Stefan Eich: The Currency of Politics
Prof Ricardo Garcia Mira: The social dimension in transitions to clean energy in Europe
Bishop Paul Campus Pride 2023
Prof Barry Eichengreen: In defense of public debt
Prof Guy Standing: The Blue Commons - Rescuing the Economy of the Sea
Prof Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake: Restarting The Future - How To Fix The Intangible Economy
Research with Impact with Roland Pease Episode 3: 'How can we tackle preventable diseases?'
Centre for Death and Society - Reflections on the Death of Queen Elizabeth Part 1
Prof Loraine Whitmarsh and Pete Dyson: Putting Behaviour Change Evidence Into Practice
Interfaith Community: World Interfaith Harmony Week
Research with Impact with Roland Pease Episode 2: 'How can we make big data work for society?'
Interfaith Community: Faith Writings & Loneliness
Michael Woolcock: The changing face of international development cooperation
Andrew Haldane: The (second) Great Transition
Behaviour change for Net Zero: mobilising society to accelerate action
Making gender salient: From gender quota laws to policy
Prof Chris Armstrong: A blue new deal: Why we need a new politics for the ocean
Prof Jaideep Roy: Automation, displacement and democracy
Dr Graeme Garrard: The return of the state
Research with Impact with Roland Pease Episode 1: 'How do we get to net zero?'
Research with Impact Podcast - with Roland Pease (trailer)
Girls' education and language of instruction
Prof Maria Fusaro: World oceans and contemporary challenges: An historical perspective
Lord Christopher Tugendhat: The worm in the apple: A history of the Conservative Party and Europe
Understanding Russian aggression and the invasion of Ukraine
Tero Mustonen: Arctic Indigenous Seas: Selected highlights from the unknown region
Mark J. Spalding: The future of seafood in a changed ocean
Steven Lutz: Our oceans: A deep dive on blue carbon
Couples navigating work, care and Universal Credit
In conversation with Sir Michael Barber
The future of funerals
Topics for Personal Tutors to discuss with tutees - Part 2
Topics for Personal Tutors to discuss with tutees - Part 1
Male Mental Health Podcast - with guest Matthew Legg
Is basic income the right response to future needs?
What is the relationship between UBI and monetary and fiscal policy?
How do we build a new welfare state after COVID-19?
Will UBI help create greater wellbeing and a greener world?
Will technological change make UBI inevitable?
Diane Coyle and Martin Ford: Will artificial intelligence transform everything?
Culture Shock
Policy Matters: The long shadow of early life health
Policy Matters: Congestion charging, performance-related pay and MPs’ other jobs
Policy Matters: Brexit and crime, how immigrants succeed in the labour market
Policy Matters: Live from lockdown #3 – new hope in the battle against coronavirus
Policy Matters: Live from lockdown #2 – what have we learnt since April?
Policy Matters: “For love or money?” – creative arts and the economy?
Policy Matters: What’s wrong with democracy in Britain and how can it be fixed?
Policy Matters: Discrimination in the labour market and what policymakers can do about it
Policy Matters: Life as an epidemiologist during COVID-19
Policy Matters: Football tournaments, cash and Michelle Obama
Policy Matters: Live from lockdown – how policymakers have responded to the COVID-19 crisis
Policy Matters: What makes a good education? How does education affect responses to a health crisis?
Policy Matters: Education, intergenerational mobility and the BS factor
Policy Matters: Franz and Matt Matter…
Policy Matters: Economics, the media and policymakers
Policy Matters: Going beyond the numbers on social mobility
Policy Matters: How science is funded and evaluated
Policy Matters: The future of social mobility
Policy Matters: 20 years of the national minimum wage and how economists help shape pay policy
Policy Matters: How can academic research help improve transport policy in the UK?
Policy Matters: How can economists help the Department of Health and Social Care?
Policy Matters: Why are there so few women in economics and what can be done about it?
Policy Matters: Sports economics: what is it and what can we learn from it?
Policy Matters: What can economists can tell policymakers about happiness?
Policy Matters: How economists can inform policymakers in the Home Office
Policy Matters: What did we learn about social mobility?
Policy Matters: The role of vocational education in modern Britain
Policy Matters: The economics of Higher Education
Policy Matters: The UK labour market for young workers
Policy Matters: The role of education in social mobility
Policy Matters: What is social mobility and why should we care?
Leen Jabban discusses her PhD research on making amputees 'feel' again
What are our MSc graduates doing now? Alumni Panel discussion
Jonathon Porritt: Decarbonisation and recarbonisation: Understanding the net zero challenge
PhD student James Male discusses his research on collaborative robots
Professor Peter Mott talk: Covid-19 and its impact on industry
Student Podcast - looking after your wellbeing during assesments
Lord Mark Sedwill: Global governance in the Covid era
Professor Andrew Plummer discusses additive manufacturing's potential for the prosthetics industry
Bath beyond 2020: Creating a resilient economy together
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption
Tracy Daszkiewicz: Public health leadership through times of crises
Edward Luce: The US Presidential Election and the American republic
Prof Tim Lang and Joanna Lewis: Food and social resilience
Guy Shrubsole: This land is not our land: Land ownership and the climate emergency
Heads Up podcast 4 - Building Your Resilience
Universal Credit and couples - policy issues
Prof Leslie Budd: Space 4.0 and enabling Europe’s Space Economy in regional context
In conversation with: Stephen Muers
Heads Up Podcast 3 - Living With Uncertainty
Culture and values at the heart of policymaking: An insider's guide
Lockdown and young people: Consequences and looking ahead
End of life care and bereavement support amid COVID-19
Dr John Troyer: In the time of AIDS in the age of COVID-19
Uncharted Territory: Universal Credit, Couples and Money
Heads Up Podcast 2 - The Problem with Procrastination
What will COVID-19 mean for widening participation in higher education?
In conversation with: Dr Rana Jawad
Heads Up Podcast 1 - Living With Parents
Prof Alastair Driver: Born to rewild!
Philip Rycroft: Brexit and the future governance of the UK
Prof Timothy Mitchell: Why the problem of growth misidentifies our predicament
In conversation with: Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones
IPR Panel Debate: The future of UK farming and food production
Why do men feel more stressed if their wife earns more than them?
Louise Brown: On exploring how to adapt social work models in varied contexts
Craig Bennett: The future is in our lands
Prof Nicholas Hardwick: The prisons crisis - what's gone wrong and how to fix it
Ed Humpherson: How to stop bad data driving out the good
Healing the Generational Divide: A report by the APPG on Social Integration
Prof John Goldthorpe and Dr Erzsébet Bukodi: Social Mobility and Education in Britain
Exam Stress Podcast
Prof Markus Gabriel: Are We Real? Consciousness and Fiction
Dr Claire Craig: How Does Government Listen to Scientists?
Geoff Crocker: Basic Income and Sovereign Money
Prof Timothy Mitchell: No Business of Yours: How the large corporation swallowed the future
Digital Transformation
Discovery Series research showcase November 2018
Anthony Barnett: What is the 'Will of the People'? England and Brexit.
Combating Pollution Through New Biodegradable Plastics
How I cycled through 11 countries in 11 days to win the trans-European North Cape bike race
Dr Alison Parken: 'A Feminist Government': Another Opportunity to Mainstream Equality in Wales?
IPR Symposium 2018: Panel Debate on Social Media and Everyday Sexism
IPR Symposium 2018: Panel Debate on Barriers to Equality
IPR Symposium 2018: Panel Debate on the Role of Women in Politics and Work
Prof Emma Griffin: The History of Gender Pay Gaps
A Life Connected by Physics: A Tribute to Professor Darryl Almond
Moralities of wellbeing
Gerald Walters Memorial Lecture - Renaissance 2.0: The Disruptive Changes Shaping Our World
Maths Can Make You Fly
Beyond The Fourth Dimension
Chaos and the Art of Visualising Complexity
Optimising engine performance
Back to the Water: Ichthyosaurs in the 21st Century
Transport in the Low Carbon Age
Helping blind and partially sighted visitors experience cultural heritage
The beauty of Islam
Paul Maltby: Data (and digital) reform in government
The Thought Train Ep. 7 - Dr Janet Withall
The Thought Train Ep. 6 - Dr Felia Allum
Lord Owen: British Foreign Policy after Brexit
49th Annual Designability Lecture
The Thought Train Ep. 5 - Professor Anna Bull
The Intimate Universe: Herschel Society lecture with Dr Marek Kukula
A Subjective History of Subjective Probability – Dr Colin Fox
The Thought Train Ep. 5 - Dr Brett Edwards & Dr Mattia Cacciatori
The Thought Train Ep. 4 - Naomi Deering
The Thought Train Ep. 3 - Discovery Series lectures
Lord Blunkett: In Conversation
The Thought Train Ep. 2 - Prof. Carole Mundell
The Thought Train Ep. 1 - Dr Ben Bowman
James Purnell: In Conversation
Matthew Wills Inaugural Lecture
From Micelles to Materials
Dame Fiona Reynolds: The Fight for Beauty
Prof Janine Wedel: How Power Came to "Trump" Policy and Democracy
Lord Rees: The World in 2050 and Beyond
Lord Kerr: Brexit: Will Divorce be Damaging, and Could it be Amicable?
Prof Roger Farmer: Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - Phenacetin
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - Methanol
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - Big Ben
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - Handbell
Hand Bell
BBC Wiltshire's Eva Piatrikova on University of Bath's Sports Performance Conference
Challenging Perspectives on design and disability
The beauty and hidden charm of the Large Hadron Collider
BBC Radio Bristol interview with the LunaDome project team
The ESA’s mission to Jupiter
How Bath research is improving TB vaccines
Prof Scott Barrett: How to (and How Not to) 'Save the Planet'
Dr Malcolm Torry: Money for Everyone: The State of the Basic Income Debate
A Subjective History of Subjective Probability
Understanding Musculoskeletal Health Challenges
11 Cabinet Secretaries 1916-2016: the most powerful men in Britain
Lord Kerslake: The UK's constitutional crisis
The Rt Hon Douglas Alexander: In conversation
Prof Nancy Cartwright: Building a Case: What You Can Do with the Evidence
Prof David Bailey: Brexit, UK automotive and implications for industrial policy
Daphne Jackson Trust Research Conference
Gerald Walters Memorial Lecture - Right Reverend Peter Price
Stephen Kelly: Rewiring Britain’s Civil Service: lessons learnt as COO of Her Majesty’s Government
Science Research Showcase
Prof Janine Wedel: Meet The New Influence Elites
Dr Jo Farrar: Transforming Public Services in a Time of Austerity
The Rt Hon the Lord Willetts: Fairness Between The Generations
Sir John Beddington: Challenges Of The 21st Century: What Is Happening To The World?
Prof Allyson Pollock: How Our NHS Is Being Abolished
Prof. Ian Kinchin Keynote lecture: Using knowledge structures in teaching to develop expert students
The Curriculum Battleground: Keynote lecture by Dr Tristian Stobie
Harnessing Bio-based Materials for Greener Products
Inside Cancer
It's no use reducing your footprint if you keep increasing the number of feet
Inaugural lecture: Obliged to be well? Healthy minds and active bodies in context of inequality
Professor Simone Fullagar inaugural lecture: Healthy minds and active bodies
Prof Robert Wade: How Income Inequality Puts Democracy - And Climate Change - At Risk
Professor Nigel Wilding inaugural lecture: Monte Carlo or bust: smart simulation for serious science
Prof David Stasavage: Taxing The Rich: A History Of Fiscal Fairness In The US And Europe
The Making of a Medicinal Chemist
Understanding barriers to evidence-based management
Games without frontiers
Global environmental protection: Success or failure?
Professor Dylan Thompson inaugural lecture: Why do we need physical activity and how much is enough?
Professor Bill Durodié inaugural lecture: The politics of risk and resilience
Professor Stephen Emmitt inaugural lecture: Living with Buildings
Professor Julie Barnett inaugural lecture: Social media and social science
Mission into distant space
No promises, just possibilities
Prof David Nutt: Time To Put Science At The Heart Of UK Drug And Alcohol Policy?
Professor Ed Feil inaugural lecture: How do you solve a problem like bacteria?
Timo Kivimäki inaugural lecture: New wars, protection of civilians & the transition of global order
Understanding behaviour and the built environment through engineering and design
How new cancer treatments are developed
What is high-altitude bioprospecting?
Professor Chris Brace inaugural lecture: The future of automotive propulsion
Professor Peter Lambert inaugural lecture: The Priest, the Coup and the Party
Data scientist - heal thyself
Professor David Galbreath inaugural lecture: Technology and the rise of boundless warfare
Professor David Miller inaugural lecture: Disembedded elites?
How to build a time machine
Stage space and characterisation in Caribbean yard plays
What you get is what you expect
Taming the Somerset Levels
Professor Richie Gill inaugural lecture: What is wrong with knee replacement?
End of the NHS?
Artificial photosynthesis
Churches, place names and landscape architecture
Outfoxing Crusaders - parody, satire and non-participation in the crusades
Professor James Copestake inaugural lecture: Brand Aid? Development finance and African agriculture
Presidents & American foreign policy
Professor Steve Gough inaugural lecture: Is education unnatural?
A brief history of infinity
How technology can help older people
Professor Tess Ridge inaugural lecture: Through the eyes of a child
Professor David Coley inaugural lecture: Are buildings evil?
No job for a woman: insights into the manufacture of explosives and shell filling in First World War
How to build an Olympic stadium
Archaeology, common rights and the origins of Britishness
The science of breakfast in weight management and health
Say it with poison
Sustainable future for wildlife and people
Contemporary art in sacred spaces
Founders Day lecture 2013: Trust and transparency in public life and business
Professor Chris Martin inaugural lecture: Monetary policy and the financial crisis
The rise and fall of the gene
Professor Paul Salkovskis inaugural lecture: Understanding and treating anxiety
Money, power and competition
Protecting architectural world heritage from earthquakes
The forgotten Queen of Bath: Remembering author/Mayoress Madame Sarah Grand
Maths and the making of the modern world
Hounds for Heroes
Founders Day lecture 2012: Sport - past, present & future
Founders Day lecture 2012: Planets, life and the universe
Urban peregrines - Bath's very own speed hunters
Public libraries: Past present and future
University research in action
‘From both sides now': reflections on poverty research and politics
Greco-mania: an exploration of this cultural craze
The science of sports performance and injury prevention
The painted garden
On the secrets of human motivation
William Herschel Society lecture 2011: Active galaxy jets - an exhausting business
A nice cup of tea
Why do we need social science?
Energy storage - the missing link
Two great war poets: Gurney and Owen
Journeys in indigo
Alan Cotton inaugural lecture: A sense of place
Moon gods, demons and the sacred disease: A history of epilepsy and how we treat it
Towering ambition: William Beckford and his buildings in Wiltshire and Bath
An engineering adventure
Changing attitudes to disability
Professor Christine Griffin inaugural lecture: Identity and belonging in young people’s lives
The crossroads of global capitalism
Professor Rob Price inaugural lecture: Crystals, particles & powders
Rutherford's Legacy
Civilisation: Who decides? Heritage and the fabrication of history
Graphene: Sketching out a new world
The rise of the Grid and the Large Hadron Collider
Professor Yiannis Gabriel inaugural lecture: Losing the plot in era of image
Founders Day lecture 2011: Great ideas of biology
Creative tensions between science & technology
The Paralympic legacy
The tale of the tulip
Robots with emotions - do we need them?
The pre-history of Bathampton Down - Bath's sacred landscape
The science of drug politics
Kew in the digital age
William Herschel Society lecture 2010: Our place in the Universe
The arm - engineers armed for medical rehabilitation
UN ideas that changed the world
Andreas Kyprianou inaugural lecture: Jumping about in applied probability
Poetry in motion pictures
Stephen Payne inaugural lecture: The Science of interaction between humans & computers
Our future: understanding the big picture
The history and development of Buddhism
The future of brand management
The Sunflower and the rose
How crows make tools and other clever tricks
What world do you see?
Professor Alison Walker inaugural lecture: Devices and desires
Climate change: challenge or swindle?
Nuclear explosives: the technology of destruction
Professor Adrian Hyde-Price inaugural lecture: War, peace and justice
Avebury - megaliths and myths
Have economists gone mad?
William Herschel Society lecture 2009: The cosmic web
Lady Miller of Batheaston
Intimations of immortality
Airfields: a phenomenon of the 20th century
Assisted dying: rights, choices and palliative care
William Herschel Society lecture 2008: The effect of gravity on light
Against the flow: Technology for managing incontinence
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - The Glasgow legacy
Cure or weapon? Towards a new ethics of biological research
CSI unmasked - the facts about forensics
How to amaze your friends
Bio-technology in Africa
At the court of the great moghul
The psychology of habit
Pain science: discovering the limits of experience
Professor Guy Standing inaugural lecture: Work after globalisation
Academics and public policy: a new alignment?
Rediscovering the common wealth
Professor Melanie Welham inaugural lecture: Understanding stem cells
Creativity in the face of crisis: How great entrepreneurs rise from recessions
Spirit country
Professor Simon Wood inaugual lecture: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
How the mind controls the body
The Holburne museum and its plans for the future
Recreating earthquakes in a laboratory
Protecting and preserving historic buildings from earthquakes
How William and Caroline Herschel invented modern astronomy
The hidden universe
Professor Richard Whitman inaugural lecture: Brussels - a 21st century superpower
What can we do about English spelling
Professor Peter Walker inaugural lecture: Grow your own building
Nanotechnology
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Two loves I have of comfort and despair
Bee decline - Countdown to catastrophe?
Paracetamol and over-the-counter medicines - How safe are they?
Stories and visions of Stonehenge
Engineering a better quality of older life
Reading for life
Measuring wellbeing and sustainability
From cathedrals to cars and planes: representations in engineering design
Regenerative medicine: from stem cells to lab-grown tissues and beyond
Improving health and healthcare
How the human genome project reveals our evolutionary past
The utility of force
William Herschel Society lecture 2007: Radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank
The history of death and dying
Physical activity, obesity and health
Lowering our carbon footprint
Professor Tamas Szekely inuagural lecture: Conflict and cooperation in the family life of birds
The science of the swerving free kick
Fifty years since Sputnik - Piers Bizony
Rocks, water but no life?
Saiful Islam Inaugural lecture: Clean energy materials: Crystal gazing on the atomic scale
Paul Stallard Inaugural lecture: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with children and young people
Evolution & the social sciences
Issues in foreign policy: Changes in world power
The man in the woollen mask
Vortex flows: from insects to aircraft
Religion and conflict in Northern Ireland
Paddy Ashdown: Building nations after war
Life and death in the Neolithic Cotswolds
Listening to global women's voices: Reflections on interfaith dialogue
Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right
From Rasputin to Putin and back again
Astronomy and poetry
William Herschel Society lecture 2006: The extraordinary life of John Herschel