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‘Museums without visitors are just elaborate storage’
Transforming Society podcast - July 19, 2024 08:36 - 38 minutesTime was when museums were staid, dusty institutions. Those days are long gone. Now the focus is on making visiting a museum a positive, inclusive, meaningful experience for everyone who comes through the door – or visits online. It sounds good in principle, but how to do it in practice? Th...
The psychology behind philanthropy
Transforming Society podcast - July 10, 2024 13:53 - 24 minutesIn this episode, Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks with Jen Shang, co-author of ‘Meaningful Philanthropy: The Person Behind the Giving’, about the high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals behind philanthropic giving. Having had unparalleled access to some of the world’s most reflective ...
Scoring the General Election promises on poverty
Transforming Society podcast - June 30, 2024 18:34 - 31 minutesWith the UK General Election on Thursday, Academics Stand Against Poverty have audited the manifestos to establish which parties are most likely to address poverty and enable British society to flourish. In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Lee Gregory and Cat Tully about how the audit has b...
Veganism: imagining a world beyond contemporary food systems
Transforming Society podcast - June 25, 2024 08:33 - 37 minutesIf the way we eat now is bad for our health, bad for animal welfare and bad for the planet, is veganism the answer? That’s the key question that Catherine Oliver of Lancaster University pursues in the latest addition to the What is it for? series. In this episode of the podcast, Catherine tell...
Danny Dorling on the UK election and hope for change
Transforming Society podcast - June 21, 2024 09:08 - 36 minutesDanny Dorling and Jess Miles talk about his concept of peak injustice - that injustice and inequality are now so bad in the UK that it might just be that they can't get worse. In advance of 4 July, they talk about Keir Starmer and what the Labour party may offer, why higher taxes aren't a burd...
How listening to convicts can transform justice
Transforming Society podcast - June 14, 2024 13:33 - 39 minutesConvict’s voices have traditionally been ignored and marginalised in scholarship and policy debates, but how can we improve if we don’t learn from these lived experiences? Richard Kemp speaks with Jeffrey Ian Ross, author of ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’, about why listening to convi...
How lurkers influence the online world
Transforming Society podcast - May 22, 2024 09:31 - 28 minutesLurking, or reading the comments in an online group without writing a comment, is a common practice. But what does it mean to be a lurker? In this podcast host Jess Miles speaks with Gina Sipley, Associate Professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College and author of Just Here for the Com...
Why history needs to be rewritten
Transforming Society podcast - May 16, 2024 08:14 - 46 minutesHistory is a key battleground in our increasingly bitter contemporary culture wars. In the polarized debates over who we are, the cry of ‘You can’t rewrite history’ regularly goes up. And is regularly met with the counterclaim that history needs to be rewritten. Virtually the only thing both si...
Can the law deliver racial justice?
Transforming Society podcast - April 22, 2024 11:26 - 51 minutesRacial justice is never far from the headlines, but, although the ideals of the legal system such as fairness and equality seem allied to the struggle, campaigners have been all too often let down by the system. In this episode Jess Miles and Bharat Malkani, author of ‘Racial Justice and the L...
Should we be aiming to improve prisons, or abolish them?
Transforming Society podcast - April 10, 2024 11:05 - 31 minutesIn this episode, George Miller talks to the author of What are Prisons for?, prison inspector and visiting professor of law at Oxford Hindpal Singh Bhui, about why we lock so many people up. Prison populations have increased hugely in the past fifty years and vast sums of money are spent to ke...
Class inequality and denied ambition in our schools
Transforming Society podcast - March 20, 2024 09:47 - 54 minutesJessie Abrahams' new book reveals the extent of class inequality in schools in the UK. By telling Jessie's story and that of one of the young people in her research, this episode untangles the role aspiration plays for young people in school and the significance of the different choices that ar...
Emotions and the ‘truths’ of contentious politics
Transforming Society podcast - March 12, 2024 10:48 - 40 minutesIn this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Anna Durnova, one of the guest editors for the Emotions and Society special issue on 'Emotions and the ‘Truths’ of Contentious Politics: Advances in Research on Emotions, Knowledge, and Contemporary Contentious Politics'. They discuss the weaponisation ...
Have research universities lost their way?
Transforming Society podcast - February 13, 2024 09:44 - 38 minutesIn this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Nigel Thrift, author of The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities, about research universities and what makes them different. They discuss the importance of free speech at universities, the many threats research universities face and...
The myth of post-racial Britain
Transforming Society podcast - January 31, 2024 14:07 - 40 minutesIn this episode, we talk about postracialism and colourblind narratives with Paul Warmington, Visiting Professor at Coventry University, Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths and author of ‘Permanent Racism’. Britain’s current postracial perspectives are facile so we need to reconceptualise cr...
Why do people take performance enhancing drugs?
Transforming Society podcast - January 17, 2024 11:34 - 43 minutesIn this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Nick Gibbs, author of ‘The Muscle Trade’, about the rise in the use of image and performance enhancing drugs, why people take them and how they get them. They talk about how the reasons for people taking these drugs goes beyond sporting skill and physical...
Experiencing the menopause at work
Transforming Society podcast - January 10, 2024 12:23 - 38 minutesThere has been a growing interest in talking about menopause over the last decade, but the impact is still rarely discussed in management and organisation studies, despite having profound implications in this area. In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Van...
Has the university experience failed millennials?
Transforming Society podcast - December 06, 2023 11:45 - 48 minutesIn this episode, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, co-author of The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives, talks about the transition to the graduate labour market, examined through the eyes of a cohort of middle-class and working-class young people. They discuss the changing nature of the...
The dangerous growth of governmental power
Transforming Society podcast - November 28, 2023 09:52 - 43 minutesIn this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Alison Young, author of Unchecked Power, about the growth of governmental power and erosion of checks and balances over the last 4 years. They discuss the difference between constitution and law, how the ‘will of the p...
What can you do to combat child poverty?
Transforming Society podcast - November 15, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier, authors of The Escape From Poverty, about child poverty and intergenerational poverty and things we can do as individuals to make change. They talk...
Towards plantification by normalising less meat-intensive diets
Transforming Society podcast - November 08, 2023 11:48 - 46 minutesIn this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks to Arve Hansen, Ulrikke Wethal, Sophia Efstathiou and Johannes Volden, editors of the special issue of Consumption and Society called ‘Towards Less Meat-intensive Diets? Exploring Everyday Practices of Meat Consumpt...
Welcome to the Transforming Society podcast
Transforming Society podcast - October 24, 2023 11:40 - 45 secondsMeet the hosts of the Transforming Society podcast and discover more about the podcast. Browse Transforming Society: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/ Intro music: Cold by yoitrax | @yoitrax Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ...
Open access at a mission-led university press
Transforming Society podcast - October 23, 2023 09:35 - 26 minutesIn this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Julia Mortimer, Journals Director and Head of Open Access at Bristol University Press. They discuss recent developments in Open Access, including funder mandates, community-led models and the direction Bristol Universit...
What rights do we owe animals?
Transforming Society podcast - October 18, 2023 09:41 - 36 minutesIn this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Steve Cooke, author of What Are Animal Rights For?, talks with George Miller about how the field of animal rights evolved – and continues to evolve as advances in the scientific understanding of animals’ lives expand the rights claims made on ...
How can torture be tackled more effectively?
Transforming Society podcast - September 15, 2023 08:39 - 40 minutesIn this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Malcolm Evans, former Chair of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and author of Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice. They discuss the traps we fall into when talking about torture, including the distu...
Why high earners should care about inequality
Transforming Society podcast - August 30, 2023 12:16 - 44 minutesJess Miles speaks with Gerry Mitchell and Marcos González Hernando, authors of ‘Uncomfortably off: Why the top 10% of earners should care about inequality’. Wealth no longer guarantees security. Gerry and Marcos explain why it's time for higher earners to reset their attitudes towards the lives...
Who gets left behind in the race for renewables?
Transforming Society podcast - July 27, 2023 13:40 - 43 minutesIn this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Richard Kemp speaks with Ed Atkins, author of 'A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis', about what is needed for an energy transition to be just. They discuss the need to ensure decarbonisation doesn't co...
Is Universal Basic Income the answer?
Transforming Society podcast - July 14, 2023 10:36 - 45 minutesIn this episode, Richard Kemp speaks to people from both sides of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) debate from a recent issue of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. Howard Robert Reed and Matthew Thomas Johnson argue that UBI is affordable and feasible, whereas Donald Hirsch believes th...
The constantly evolving role of technology in war
Transforming Society podcast - July 05, 2023 13:31 - 18 minutesIn this final short conversation with Jack McDonald, author of 'What is War for?', we turn to the part played by technology in war. There’s long been a technological aspect to war, not just in the development of ever more deadly weapons, but also in the way civilian technology, such as railway n...
Challenging the MacAlister Review of children’s social care
Transforming Society podcast - June 30, 2023 08:35 - 49 minutesRobin Sen and Christian Kerr, authors of 'The Future of Children’s Care', speak to Jess Miles about the recent 'once in a generation' MacAlister Review of Childrens Social Care in England. They discuss the problem of how reviews are commissioned and carried out, omissions in the report and the...
State harms: solidarity, denunciation and resistance
Transforming Society podcast - June 23, 2023 08:22 - 27 minutesWhat are state harms? What are the formal and informal ways they are enacted? How can solidarity, denunciation and resistance challenge state harm and what opportunities and openings for change exist? Federica Rossi and Chris Magill are guest editors of a themed section on state harms in the l...
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