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.
Gerry Mitchell and Marcos González Hernando, authors of ‘Uncomfortably Off', explain why it's time for higher earners to reset their attitudes towards social inequality.…Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Richard Kemp speaks with Ed Atkins about what is needed for an energy transition to be just.…Read more
In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks to people from both sides of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) debate. They explore the different UBI schemes that have been tested, discuss what an alternative, reformed welfare system may look like, and outline the changes they all agree are needed to improve the lives of people both below, and above, the minimum income standard.…Read more
In this final short conversation with Jack McDonald, author of What Is War For?', we turn to the part played by technology in war.…Read more
Robin Sen and Christian Kerr speak to Jess Miles about the recent 'once in a generation' MacAlister Review of Childrens Social Care in England.…Read more
Federica Rossi and Chris Magill speak to Jess Miles about what state harms are, how they are justified, opportunities for resistance and whether academic research itself should be political.…Read more
In this, the last of three short conversations, Tim Stevens focuses on cybersecurity’s political dimensions.…Read more
When is it wrong to accept a donation because of how the money was made? In this final conversation with Rhodri Davies, he explores this and other moral dilemmas that beset the philanthropic landscape of the 21st century.…Read more
In the second of three short conversations, Jack McDonald, the author of What is War For?, tells George Miller what’s at stake in calling something a war.…Read more
What’s the emotional toll of COVID-19? In this new episode of the Transforming Society podcast, the fantastic Lucy Easthope and Kandida Purnell, two of the co-editors of 'When This Is Over', talk about the pandemic and its long lasting impact.…Read more