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Transforming Society podcast — 155 episodes
Why immigration policy doesn’t add up
Rethinking vulnerability as strength
How to be an employee activist for sustainability
Why disappearance research matters
When nature has a voice in business
Building worker power at Amazon and beyond
Why freedom movements fail
89 seconds to midnight: why we need to rethink nuclear weapons now
Growing up and older at work
How true crime stories shape society
‘Is there snow on Mount Everest?’ – why truth still matters
When HR hurts: Why workplace discipline needs a rethink
PODCAST: Are people really to blame for their debt?
How education is failing young working-class men
Drugs: The path that led to prohibition
From faultlines to frontlines: Neoliberalism vs. people-powered movements
Has Racism Really Changed? From Black Lives Matter to EDI Backlash and Beyond
Safety net or patchwork quilt? Getting to grips with the welfare state
Is basic income the answer to our age of crisis?
A humanist looks at the night sky
The ageing crisis that no one’s talking about
Challenging the monarchy: Britain after Elizabeth II
Can journalism as we know it survive?
The myth of the heroic billionaire
Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis
Social work and social control
The myth of the hormonal female
How to be creative with data analysis
Are zoos an anachronism in the 21st century?
Austerity: The silent killer
PODCAST: How economics left the real world behind
The problem with counterterrorism
Viral masculinity and the far right: Karen Lee Ashcraft on gender in the US Election
What can business learn from the Moomins?
The Black PhD experience
Critical race theory and the search for truth
Modern Slavery in Society
What diplomacy means in the real world
‘The Olympics are political through and through’
‘Museums without visitors are just elaborate storage’
The psychology behind philanthropy
Scoring the General Election promises on poverty
Veganism: imagining a world beyond contemporary food systems
Danny Dorling on the UK election and hope for change
How listening to convicts can transform justice
How lurkers influence the online world
Why history needs to be rewritten
Can the law deliver racial justice?
Should we be aiming to improve prisons, or abolish them?
Class inequality and denied ambition in our schools
Emotions and the ‘truths’ of contentious politics
Have research universities lost their way?
The myth of post-racial Britain
Why do people take performance enhancing drugs?
Experiencing the menopause at work
Has the university experience failed millennials?
The dangerous growth of governmental power
What can you do to combat child poverty?
Towards plantification by normalising less meat-intensive diets
Welcome to the Transforming Society podcast
Open access at a mission-led university press
What rights do we owe animals?
How can torture be tackled more effectively?
Why high earners should care about inequality
Who gets left behind in the race for renewables?
Is Universal Basic Income the answer?
The constantly evolving role of technology in war
Challenging the MacAlister Review of children’s social care
State harms: solidarity, denunciation and resistance
Cybersecurity is political
What should we do about tainted donations?
What counts as war and why does it matter?
Learning from an unequal pandemic
Cybersecurity is about people
It's not where you live, it's how you live
Is philanthropy charity’s more rational cousin?
Defunding the police is the best route forward
On writing about war in an era of conflict
Cybersecurity, beyond the 1s and 0s
Dismantling the construct of finance
What is philanthropy and why does it matter?
The lure of dark destinations
The war on dirty money
How should we respond to ‘youth violence’?
"I refuse to live with the stigma now": Life on a low income
Why we need to apply psychology to politics
University–Industry Partnerships for Positive Change
How do you know if you are making a difference?
The death of the Left
China's rise and the liberal demise
Viral masculinity and the populist pandemic
Protecting young people outside the home
Developing AI for an anti-fascist future
Transformational change through public policy
Radical solutions for a broken system
Publishing to address global social challenges
Six new rules of democracy for a fairer world
Chasing the Mafia
Women in STEM: Provoking change through collaboration
Illiberal democracy and racism in Central Europe
Radical social work then and now
Guilt, innocence and the illusion of truth
Why racial justice will always need activists
How business can engage with the global goals and start saving the planet
How linking poverty and wealth will break the inequality cycle
What is policing for?
Publishing to address society's greatest social challenges
How woke capitalism is sabotaging democracy
How can you make your research matter?
What next for the welfare state?
Using your alumni status as a gateway to opportunity
Racism, resilience and identity in a divided nation
The many faces of disability
Human gene-editing and what it means for social justice
Teaching philosophy in prisons makes it more than just survival
Ann Oakley on how women are written out of history
A justice system in crisis
Listening to sex workers will improve safety and policies
Why do democracies fall apart?
What the history of the women's movement can teach us now
Understanding the politics of fear
What have charities ever done for us?
COVID-19, Brexit and what they mean for devolution
Creating participatory ideology for social justice
How radical empathy can bridge racial divides
Why good policing should be based on trust and legitimacy
Demystifying the author-editor relationship
Space, place and gender-based violence
Taking back control of our digital lives: Part 2
Taking back control of our digital lives: Part 1
Scandal and corruption in our education system
How governments blame citizens for their own policies
Culture and values and their impact on policy
How our cars shape and reflect who we are
LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Helen Kara on research
What white working class Americans really think
LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Erik Andersson on the global political economy
Omar: A Wasted Life
LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Lisa Mckenzie on class
LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Martin Glynn on crime and race
LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Sam Royston on families and welfare
Breaking the cycle of homelessness
‘I am, because we are, we are because I am’: race and COVID-19
Joshua Rozenberg on 'Enemies of the People?'
The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain
How to use social work theory in practice
How a sociology of emotions helps us understand society
Happiness is nice but it won't solve the world's problems
Working mothers and the work-life balance myth
Dreams and life in the debt trap
Loss, grief and life in the debt trap
Isolation and life in the debt trap
Money - Mary Mellor
Snobbery - David Morgan
Making Sense of Brexit - Victor Seidler