Social Social Sciences Podcasts

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

1,540 episodes - Latest episode: about 17 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news,...

Your Brain at Work

121 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★ - 183 ratings
In organizations around the world, leaders are facing a deluge of urgent issues: a crisis in employee engagement, the need to make workforces more diverse, and the challenge of making workplaces fe...

Science for the People

649 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 174 ratings
Science for the People is a long-format interview podcast that explores the connections between science, popular culture, history, and public policy, to help listeners understand the evidence and a...

NASW Social Work Talks

116 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 96 ratings
NASW Social Work Talks informs, educates and inspires through conversations with experts and exploring issues that social work professionals care about. Brought to you by the National Association o...

Social Science Bites

141 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Bite-sized interviews with top social scientists

Opinion Science

159 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
A show about the psychology of opinions, where they come from, and how they change. Interviews with experts and deep dives into areas of research uncover the basic psychology of persuasion, communi...

Social Media and Politics

182 episodes - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Social Media and Politics is a podcast bringing you innovative, first-hand insights into how social media is changing the political game. Subscribe for interviews and analysis with politicians, aca...

AnthroDish

139 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
AnthroDish is a weekly show about the intersections between our foods, cultures, and identities. Host Dr. Sarah Duignan sits down one-on-one with people in academia, hospitality, farming and agricu...

Human Centered

88 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Conversations about projects and research undertaken by scholars & affiliates of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University; interviews with renowned fe...

Freedom's Creed with Rex Reed

99 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
We often view the use of the word, creed, in a religious context, and rightfully so; but at its essence, a creed is a belief that is fundamental, a guiding principle. This Podcast is dedicated to ...

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast

78 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is hosted by historians of economic thought Jennifer Jhun, François Allisson, and Çınla Akdere. Each month, the hosts discuss themes related to economics, its history...

Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community

45 episodes - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
A public health and social justice podcast brought to you by NASTAD. Much like brewing stronger tea, this platform aims to brew a stronger community by centering the voices of community leaders, an...

Urban Political Podcast

78 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual in...

Wonks and War Rooms

71 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat...

Psych Health and Safety Podcast

214 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago
The goal of the psych health and safety podcast is to rapidly advance the practice of psychological health and safety in companies worldwide. Featuring a guest each episode from the fields of healt...

What Could Possibly Go Right?

141 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago
In this interview series sponsored by Post Carbon Institute, Vicki Robin, activist and best-selling author on sustainable living, talks with provocative thought leaders about emerging possibilitie...

Humanities Matter by Brill

105 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago
With the challenges the world is facing today, the humanities and social sciences are needed and more relevant than ever to help us understand what it means to ‘lead a good life’. The authors and e...

Structured Visions

99 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago
Linguist Jodie Clark explores creative ways of imagining social transformation.

Matrix Podcast

93 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago
The Matrix Podcast features interviews with social scientists from across the University of California, Berkeley campus (and beyond). It also features recordings of events, including panels and lec...

More of a Comment Than a Question

73 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago
A podcast about psychology, academia, culture, and politics, hosted by Rachel Hartman and Paul Connor.

Whiskey & International Relations Theory

50 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago
Patrick and Dan work their way through a piece of international-relations scholarship. And drink whiskey.

Selden Society lecture series Australia

41 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago
Join a variety of judicial officers, legal professionals and academics for this informative and provocative series of legal history lectures. Each episode presents a single story uncovering a uniqu...

Society Matters

36 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago
Society matters is a podcast from Aston University. Presented by Sam Cook, the podcast series explores some of the fascinating work of academics within the University on current issues facing society.

Rob Pyne: Champion of the Underdog!

32 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago
Disabled, Former MP, Councillor and author: A Socialist who wants people to survive and have a better life. Rob Pyne is the author of, "Struggle and Resistance in the Far North".

Take me to the River

30 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago
Join social ecologist and river restoration expert Dr. Siwan Lovett in conversations about the ideas, issues and opportunities that relate to our connections with nature and each other. This podca...

DEEP TALKS [ENG]

26 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago
Petr Ludwig, the author of the book The End of Procrastination, invites guests that do something meaningful and together they discuss topics like personal values, purpose at work and life, or how t...

Recovering Community

9 episodes - Latest episode: 26 days ago
What does the word ‘community’ mean to you? An homogenous group of people united by faith, sexuality or another form of identity? Or perhaps it’s about the place where you grew up, or the people yo...