Global social challenges
There are multiple interlocking crises currently gripping the planet. Significant threats and dangers lie ahead of us, but so do opportunities, as new ways of being, thinking, and doing emerge.
This stream of Transforming Society is a space for exploring the complexities of the global social challenges across disciplines and fields. It seeks to build and share the knowledge needed to shape a fairer world, across and for the global south and north, hoping to foster dialogue between academics, practitioners, policy makers and the wider public.
Graham Scambler, author of 'Healthy Societies', questions what makes a society ‘healthy’. Can a country be considered healthy if improvements in health equity in its own population come at the expense of exploitation of others’?…Read more
Michael Toze, editor of 'Trans and Gender Diverse Ageing in Care Contexts', brings together the issues of ageing and gender diversity. …Read more
Time was when museums were staid, dusty institutions. Those days are long gone. Jon Sleigh tells George Miller why he structured the book around conversations with museum professionals about specific exhibits in a wide range of institutions. …Read more
John Bone suggests that we shouldn’t be complacent that the UK has bucked the right-wing populist tide that is spreading across Western democracies. It is far from being the case. …Read more
Uta Bolt looks at essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to see if their predictions for life at 25 affected their earning outcomes.…Read more
In this episode, Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks with Jen Shang, co-author of ‘Meaningful Philanthropy: The Person Behind the Giving’, about the high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals behind philanthropic giving.…Read more
Zacharoula Kasseri calls for care-oriented advocacy to be promoted as an approach for healing substance addiction, rather than the neoliberal tendencies of medicalisation, criminalisation and the war on drugs ideology. …Read more
If the way we eat now is bad for our health, bad for animal welfare and bad for the planet, is veganism the answer? Catherine Oliver and George Miller discuss in our latest podcast.…Read more
Jules Boykoff, author of 'What Are the Olympics For?', reminds us of the dark side of the Olympics: more than 12,500 people have been forcibly displaced by authorities before the games.…Read more
A migrant, a Brit and a robot walk into a bar. Kostas Maronitis and Denny Pencheva, authors of 'Robots and Immigrants', discuss who will get the job. …Read more