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Transforming Society 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why racial justice will always need activists

41 mins; March 28, 2022

How business can engage with the global goals and start saving the planet

49 mins; March 01, 2022

How linking poverty and wealth will break the inequality cycle

24 mins; February 11, 2022

What is policing for?

59 mins; January 20, 2022

Publishing to address society's greatest social challenges

27 mins; December 14, 2021

How woke capitalism is sabotaging democracy

33 mins; November 23, 2021

How can you make your research matter?

30 mins; November 03, 2021

What next for the welfare state?

23 mins; October 14, 2021

Using your alumni status as a gateway to opportunity

39 mins; September 30, 2021

Racism, resilience and identity in a divided nation

44 mins; September 21, 2021

The many faces of disability

44 mins; August 25, 2021

Human gene-editing and what it means for social justice

36 mins; August 16, 2021

Teaching philosophy in prisons makes it more than just survival

48 mins; July 27, 2021

Ann Oakley on how women are written out of history

50 mins; July 06, 2021

A justice system in crisis

39 mins; June 22, 2021

Listening to sex workers will improve safety and policies

64 hours 42 mins; June 11, 2021

Why do democracies fall apart?

29 mins; May 28, 2021

What the history of the women's movement can teach us now

37 mins; May 26, 2021

Understanding the politics of fear

49 mins; May 21, 2021

What have charities ever done for us?

40 mins; April 12, 2021

COVID-19, Brexit and what they mean for devolution

38 mins; April 01, 2021

Creating participatory ideology for social justice

34 mins; March 15, 2021

How radical empathy can bridge racial divides

39 mins; January 19, 2021

Why good policing should be based on trust and legitimacy

22 mins; December 09, 2020

Demystifying the author-editor relationship

28 mins; December 03, 2020

Space, place and gender-based violence

48 mins; November 23, 2020

Taking back control of our digital lives: Part 2

32 mins; October 19, 2020

Taking back control of our digital lives: Part 1

17 mins; October 19, 2020

Scandal and corruption in our education system

48 mins; September 09, 2020

How governments blame citizens for their own policies

39 mins; September 02, 2020

Culture and values and their impact on policy

30 mins; July 29, 2020

How our cars shape and reflect who we are

41 mins; July 20, 2020

LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Helen Kara on research

8 mins; July 06, 2020

What white working class Americans really think

56 mins; July 02, 2020

LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Erik Andersson on the global political economy

18 mins; June 16, 2020

Omar: A Wasted Life

7 mins; June 09, 2020

LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Lisa Mckenzie on class

11 mins; June 09, 2020

LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Martin Glynn on crime and race

12 mins; June 02, 2020

LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN: Sam Royston on families and welfare

8 mins; May 27, 2020

Breaking the cycle of homelessness

37 mins; May 21, 2020

‘I am, because we are, we are because I am’: race and COVID-19

7 mins; May 12, 2020

Joshua Rozenberg on 'Enemies of the People?'

27 mins; February 25, 2020

The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain

35 mins; January 22, 2020

How to use social work theory in practice

30 mins; January 08, 2020

How a sociology of emotions helps us understand society

34 mins; December 19, 2019

Happiness is nice but it won't solve the world's problems

29 mins; November 05, 2019

Working mothers and the work-life balance myth

39 mins; October 10, 2019

Dreams and life in the debt trap

30 mins; September 12, 2019

Loss, grief and life in the debt trap

33 mins; August 29, 2019

Isolation and life in the debt trap

37 mins; August 15, 2019

Money - Mary Mellor

33 mins; June 11, 2019

Snobbery - David Morgan

31 mins; March 28, 2019

Making Sense of Brexit - Victor Seidler

30 mins; March 04, 2019

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