COVID-19

In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Peter Beresford about the problem neoliberalism poses, both in politics and in our everyday lives.…Read more

Lee Gregory, Vanessa Boon, and Dave Beck highlight how the UK’s consultation on the socioeconomic duty offers a key chance to tackle poverty through a legal, intersectional, and evidence-based approach.…Read more

Nicola Madge, author of 'Lockdown Life', shows how the pandemic overlooked older people as a valuable resource, focusing only on their vulnerability.…Read more

Martin Parker, editor of 'Life After COVID-19', hoped the pandemic might spark lasting change, but entrenched power and economic interests drove a return to business as usual, revealing that real progress demands active, sustained effort. …Read more

In 'Organising for Change', Silke Roth and Clare Saunders show how social change organisations resist far-right influence through adaptation, local mobilisation, and hybrid activism.…Read more

In light of the first report by the Covid Inquiry UK, the editors of 'When this is Over' call for the recommendations made in their book to be listened to, in the hope that a more equal society will emerge from the COVID-19 ashes.…Read more

Sally Stapley and Claire Pentecost reveal the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on family carers of dementia patients. …Read more

Heidi J Larson and Alexander H Toledo look at how declining public trust in institutions and in each other is affecting vaccination take-up and organ donation. …Read more

Richard Joy seeks lessons from the COVID-19 Inquiry for climate change policy making. Let’s not let anyone say in 20 years’ time that they should have twigged much earlier. …Read more

Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in our top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2023.…Read more