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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 Depr…
1 year, 2 months 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 sp…
1 year, 2 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, …
1 year, 3 months 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 …
1 year, 3 months 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 pro…
1 year, 3 months 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 Oko…
1 year, 6 months 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 e…
1 year, 6 months 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 even…
1 year, 6 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 reforme…
1 year, 6 months ago
Making a responsible budget with Sir Robert Chote
Season 7 Episode 3
The Institute for Fiscal Studies - or IFS - has become the nation’s go to institution for judgements about tax, spending and borrowing. And the Offi…
1 year, 7 months ago