Transforming Society podcast
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Brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press, the Transforming Society podcast brings you conversations with our authors around social justice and global social challenges.We get to grips with the story their research tells, with a focus on the specific ways in which it could transform society for the better.
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Growing up and older at work
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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How true crime stories shape society
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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‘Is there snow on Mount Everest?’ – why truth still matters
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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When HR hurts: Why workplace discipline needs a rethink
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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PODCAST: Are people really to blame for their debt?
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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How education is failing young working-class men
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Drugs: The path that led to prohibition
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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From faultlines to frontlines: Neoliberalism vs. people-powered movements
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Has Racism Really Changed? From Black Lives Matter to EDI Backlash and Beyond
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Safety net or patchwork quilt? Getting to grips with the welfare state
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Is basic income the answer to our age of crisis?
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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A humanist looks at the night sky
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May 30, 2025 |
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The ageing crisis that no one’s talking about
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May 19, 2025 |
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Challenging the monarchy: Britain after Elizabeth II
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May 02, 2025 |
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Can journalism as we know it survive?
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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The myth of the heroic billionaire
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Social work and social control
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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The myth of the hormonal female
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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How to be creative with data analysis
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Are zoos an anachronism in the 21st century?
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Austerity: The silent killer
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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PODCAST: How economics left the real world behind
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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The problem with counterterrorism
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Viral masculinity and the far right: Karen Lee Ashcraft on gender in the US Election
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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What can business learn from the Moomins?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Black PhD experience
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Critical race theory and the search for truth
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Modern Slavery in Society
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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What diplomacy means in the real world
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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‘The Olympics are political through and through’
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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‘Museums without visitors are just elaborate storage’
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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The psychology behind philanthropy
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Scoring the General Election promises on poverty
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Veganism: imagining a world beyond contemporary food systems
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Danny Dorling on the UK election and hope for change
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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How listening to convicts can transform justice
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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How lurkers influence the online world
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May 22, 2024 |
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Why history needs to be rewritten
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May 16, 2024 |
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Can the law deliver racial justice?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Should we be aiming to improve prisons, or abolish them?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Class inequality and denied ambition in our schools
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Emotions and the ‘truths’ of contentious politics
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Have research universities lost their way?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The myth of post-racial Britain
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Why do people take performance enhancing drugs?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Experiencing the menopause at work
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Has the university experience failed millennials?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The dangerous growth of governmental power
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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What can you do to combat child poverty?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Towards plantification by normalising less meat-intensive diets
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Welcome to the Transforming Society podcast
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Open access at a mission-led university press
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What rights do we owe animals?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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How can torture be tackled more effectively?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Why high earners should care about inequality
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Who gets left behind in the race for renewables?
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Is Universal Basic Income the answer?
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The constantly evolving role of technology in war
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Challenging the MacAlister Review of children’s social care
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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State harms: solidarity, denunciation and resistance
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Cybersecurity is political
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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What should we do about tainted donations?
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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What counts as war and why does it matter?
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May 24, 2023 |
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Learning from an unequal pandemic
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May 17, 2023 |
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Cybersecurity is about people
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May 10, 2023 |
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It's not where you live, it's how you live
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May 04, 2023 |
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Is philanthropy charity’s more rational cousin?
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Defunding the police is the best route forward
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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On writing about war in an era of conflict
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Cybersecurity, beyond the 1s and 0s
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Dismantling the construct of finance
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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What is philanthropy and why does it matter?
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The lure of dark destinations
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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The war on dirty money
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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How should we respond to ‘youth violence’?
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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"I refuse to live with the stigma now": Life on a low income
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Why we need to apply psychology to politics
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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University–Industry Partnerships for Positive Change
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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How do you know if you are making a difference?
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The death of the Left
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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China's rise and the liberal demise
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Viral masculinity and the populist pandemic
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Protecting young people outside the home
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Developing AI for an anti-fascist future
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Transformational change through public policy
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Radical solutions for a broken system
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Publishing to address global social challenges
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Six new rules of democracy for a fairer world
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Chasing the Mafia
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Women in STEM: Provoking change through collaboration
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May 31, 2022 |
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Illiberal democracy and racism in Central Europe
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May 24, 2022 |
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Radical social work then and now
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Guilt, innocence and the illusion of truth
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Why racial justice will always need activists
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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How business can engage with the global goals and start saving the planet
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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How linking poverty and wealth will break the inequality cycle
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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What is policing for?
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Publishing to address society's greatest social challenges
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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How woke capitalism is sabotaging democracy
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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How can you make your research matter?
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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What next for the welfare state?
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Using your alumni status as a gateway to opportunity
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Racism, resilience and identity in a divided nation
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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The many faces of disability
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Human gene-editing and what it means for social justice
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Teaching philosophy in prisons makes it more than just survival
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Ann Oakley on how women are written out of history
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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A justice system in crisis
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Listening to sex workers will improve safety and policies
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Why do democracies fall apart?
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May 28, 2021 |
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What the history of the women's movement can teach us now
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May 26, 2021 |
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Understanding the politics of fear
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May 21, 2021 |
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What have charities ever done for us?
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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COVID-19, Brexit and what they mean for devolution
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Creating participatory ideology for social justice
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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How radical empathy can bridge racial divides
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Why good policing should be based on trust and legitimacy
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Demystifying the author-editor relationship
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Space, place and gender-based violence
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Taking back control of our digital lives: Part 2
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Taking back control of our digital lives: Part 1
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Scandal and corruption in our education system
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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How governments blame citizens for their own policies
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Culture and values and their impact on policy
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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How our cars shape and reflect who we are
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Helen Kara on research
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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What white working class Americans really think
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Erik Andersson on the global political economy
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Omar: A Wasted Life
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Lisa Mckenzie on class
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Martin Glynn on crime and race
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Sam Royston on families and welfare
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May 27, 2020 |
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Breaking the cycle of homelessness
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May 21, 2020 |
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‘I am, because we are, we are because I am’: race and COVID-19
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May 12, 2020 |
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Joshua Rozenberg on 'Enemies of the People?'
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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How to use social work theory in practice
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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How a sociology of emotions helps us understand society
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Happiness is nice but it won't solve the world's problems
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Working mothers and the work-life balance myth
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Dreams and life in the debt trap
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Loss, grief and life in the debt trap
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Isolation and life in the debt trap
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Money - Mary Mellor
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Snobbery - David Morgan
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Making Sense of Brexit - Victor Seidler
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Mar 04, 2019 |