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Borders, Brexit, and Fault Lines with Katy Hayward
Season 8 Episode 6
Borders contain nations, act as fault lines, but are also meeting points, where different cultures, people, and ideologies come into contact.
Nowhere has this been more visible, more painful, and mo…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Care or Incarceration? How some of the UK’s most vulnerable children are being failed with Lisa Harker
Season 8 Episode 5
We speak with Lisa Harker, the Director of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, who gives us an insight into the alarming rise in the use of Deprivation of Liberty Orders on children.
She expla…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Taking entrepreneurship beyond business with Eleanor Shaw
Season 8 Episode 4
What is the link between social science and entrepreneurship? To give us the answer, Will Hutton speaks to Professor Eleanor Shaw OBE, an academic specialising in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at t…
Published on 5 months ago
Population, Data & Destiny with Andy Tatem
Season 8 Episode 3
Professor Andy Tatem talks to us about WorldPop, the research programme he heads that is based in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton. The team at WorldPop us…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Morality in UK prisons with Alison Liebling
Season 8 Episode 2
We probe the UK prison system with Professor Alison Liebling, a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Institute of Criminology’s Prisons…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
How to get work working for everyone with Gavin Kelly
Season 8 Episode 1
Gavin Kelly is the Chief Executive of the Nuffield Foundation and has spent the past 30 years of his career putting Britain’s economic inactivity problem under a microscope.
For Gavin, one of the …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Keep Calm and Chill with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Season 7 Episode 7
As US President Donald Trump threatens trade tariffs, the We Society invited the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to share her thoughts during this perio…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Improving social mobility through education and language with Lee Elliot Major
Season 7 Episode 6
Professor Lee Elliot Major, who is Britain's first professor of Social Mobility based at the University of Exeter, is our guest in this penultimate episode of Season 7.
In his latest book, Equity in…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Tracking and stopping domestic abuse with Jane Monckton Smith
Season 7 Episode 5
Around one in four women have experienced domestic abuse, according to the Crime Survey of England and Wales.
But abuse is not usually a one off event, it’s part of a protracted pattern, and by stu…
Published on 9 months ago
Should the 9 to 5 be a thing of the past? with Clare Kelliher and Brendan Burchell
Season 7 Episode 4
'Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest' was the rallying cry of Robert Owen, a Welsh textile manufacturer turned labour reformer in the early 19th century.
For those toiling …
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago