Podcast
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.
In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.…Read more
Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of 'Changemakers: Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising', discuss the power of activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible.…Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society Podcast Malcolm Carey and Gurnam Singh, guest editors of the Critical and Radical Social Work special issue on social work and social control, speak with Richard Kemp about the social work paradox of care and control.…Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks to Sally King about the myths and sexist tropes that blame the healthy reproductive body for the female-prevalence of emotional distress and physical pain.…Read more
Jess Miles talks to Helen Kara, Dawn Mannay, and Alastair Roy about the role of creativity in research, its benefits for analysis and communication, and the anxieties and difficulties people might experience around using creative methods for the first time.…Read more
In this episode, George Miller talks to Heather Browning and Walter Veit about the ethics of captivity, the challenges of balancing animal welfare with the need for public engagement, and the potential for zoos to drive meaningful conservation efforts. We also get to hear about Walter’s recent memorable encounter with Frank the feisty king penguin.…Read more
Life expectancy is about more than just health – it’s about the kind of society we live in. In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with David Walsh and Gerry McCartney about the monumental impact austerity has had, and continues to have, on life expectancy.…Read more
In this podcast, Nat Dyer, author of 'Ricardo's Dream', explores Ricardo’s theories, their link to the welfare state, and why flawed economic models still shape policy.…Read more
The budget and resources that have been dedicated to combatting terrorism this century are staggering. But has it worked? In this episode, George Miller talks to Leonie B. Jackson about the exceptional measures that states have taken in recent decades in reaction to terrorist threats which they often portray as existential.…Read more
As the US election approaches, MSNBC notes that the question of “what it means to be a man” is now a defining theme. In this episode, Jess Miles and Karen Lee Ashcraft revisit Karen's concept of 'viral masculinity' — a powerful current of aggrieved manhood fuelling far-right ideologies worldwide.…Read more