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Mel Hall and Jenny van Hooff consider the emphasis society places on whether or not women have children. Mothers and childfree women are pitted against each other, rather than common ground being shared. …Read more
Lurking, or reading the comments in an online group without writing a comment, is a common practice. But what does it mean to be a lurker? In this podcast Gina Sipley challenges our assumptions about lurking, revealing it to be a complex and valuable form of online engagement.…Read more
Sandra Lyndon, Carla Solvason and Rebecca Webb consider the role of the Health and Wellbeing Lead in a primary school in SE England, and what a crucial cog it is in the wheel of care and education. …Read more
Henry Tam looks at the low voter turnout at last week’s elections, and considers how we can persuade the public that their vote matters.…Read more
Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, authors of 'Uncomfortably Off', discuss the impact of their book. By delving into the complex issue of the wealth divide, they shed light on how reducing income inequality could have far-reaching benefits, even for the top 10% of earners.…Read more
Rosalind Edwards, Val Gilles and Sarah Gorin consider parents’ response to predictive analytics being used to decide whether police or social workers should intervene on an anticipatory basis.…Read more
Stewart Lansley calls on Keir Starmer to step up his ‘laser focus on poverty’ commitment to attack Britain’s yawning income and wealth gap.…Read more
Ari Väänänen, author of 'The Rise of Mental Vulnerability at Work', considers why mental vulnerability in the workplace has evolved since the 1960s into a major mental health crisis.…Read more
Racial justice is never far from the headlines, but, although the ideals of the legal system such as fairness and equality seem allied to the struggle, campaigners have been all too often let down by the system. In this episode Jess Miles and Bharat Malkani talk through cases like those of the Colston Four and Shamima Begum to explore this paradox and establish where change is possible.…Read more
Scott Timcke considers the impact of AI systems on democratic politics, as our lives become managed experiences optimised for efficient data extraction, and our social relations mediated by computer engineering.…Read more