Public lecture podcasts

In this webinar, co-hosted with the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), Dr John Troyer discusses the AIDS pandemic, and what social and political inferences we can apply to today's COVID-19 crisis. This webinar took place on 25 June 2020.

In this online launch event, Rita Griffiths, Fran Bennett and Jane Millar discuss findings from their new report, co-authored with Marsha Wood, 'Uncharted Territory: Universal Credit, Couples and Money'. They are joined by Nick Pearce and Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, Alison Garnham. Access the report via: https://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/uncharted-territory-universal-credi...

We talk about what procrastination is, why it may be happening and what you can do about it.

In this webinar, Rebecca Montacute (Sutton Trust), Charlotte Chadderton (Bath Spa University), Sam Friedman (LSE), Martha Longdon (Office for Students) and Matt Dickson (IPR) discuss how COVID-19 impacts the widening participation agenda. This webinar took place on 4 June 2020.

Dr Rana Jawad from the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy at the University of Bath talks to Andy Dunne about her research and expertise in relation to welfare systems in the MENA regions. For more on Rana's research see https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/rana-jawad .

In this podcast three members of the Counselling and Mental Health Team chat through the challenges we can find when we move back in with our families, how to understand the difficulties and some helpful tips to help mange it.

In this Public Lecture, conservationist and rewilding specialist, Prof Alastair Driver, explained the pros and cons of rewilding and reintroducing missing species, and illustrated how working with nature rather than against it can actually benefit the economy and society as a whole. This Public Lecture took place on 11 February 2020 at the University of Bath.

In this Public Lecture, former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union, Philip Rycroft, examined the new government's intentions post-Brexit, and asked what the future might hold for the United Kingdom itself. This Public Lecture took place on 21 January 2020 at the University of Bath.

In this IPR Public Lecture, Professor Timothy Mitchell discusses how the climate emergency confronts us with the problem of growth. Can we avert a planetary catastrophe by altering the ways we consume resources, adopting a new path of “green growth”? Or is the survival of human societies incompatible with continued economic expansion, requiring the radical alternative of de-growth? Professor Mitch...

New Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP) at the University of Bath, Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones talks about her research, her motivations for doing it and the wider work of the Centre which will be officially relaunched at an event to be held on Wednesday 15 January 2020. Presented by Andy Dunne. Find out more about CASP at www.bath.ac.uk/casp

In this Panel Debate, Patrick Holden (Sustainable Food Trust), Joanna Lewis (Soil Association), Jo Edwards (Castle Farm Organics), Phil Stocker (National Sheep Association), and Jack Farmer (LettUs Grow) discuss how can we ensure that the way we grow, distribute and eat food provides healthy and affordable nutrition whilst restoring ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of farmers; what the fut...

Dr Joanna Syrda from our School of Management talks to Vicky Just about her study on the effect of spouse income on men's mental health. https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/husbands-stress-increases-if-wives-earn-more-than-40-per-cent-of-household-income-new-research/

In this talk, Prof Louise Brown of Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath discusses the GCRF-funded project that focusses on transferring, contextualising and implementing sustainable social work interventions into low and middle income countries.

In this Public Lecture, Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth, Craig Bennett, explores how doubling tree cover; restoring peat bogs, wetlands and functioning ecosystems; and putting nature back into our towns and cities is essential for solving the climate and ecological emergency. And, how it might be good for people’s health and wellbeing too. This Public Lecture took place on 6 November 2019,...

In this Public Lecture, Professor of Criminal Justice at Royal Holloway University of London, Nicholas Hardwick, discusses the prisons crisis, what's gone wrong and how to fix it. This Public Lecture took place on 7 November 2019.

In this Public Lecture, Director General for Regulation at the UK Statistics Authority, Ed Humpherson, discusses how to stop bad data driving out the good. This Public Lecture took place on 9 October 2019.

In this launch event co-hosted with the All Party Parliamentary Group(APPG) on Social Integration, Chuka Umunna MP, Wera Hobhouse MP, Dr Matt Dickson, Antony Hawkins, Rachael Dutton and Ivo Gormley discuss the growing age divide in the UK, and what can be done to bridge it, and introduce 'Healing the Generational Divide' - an interim report from the APPG. This launch event took place on 16 May 201...

In this Public Lecture, co-hosted with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP), Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Dr John Goldthorpe, and Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Policy at the University of Oxford, Dr Erzsébet Bukodi, discuss their recently published book, 'Social Mobility and Education in Britain: Research, Politics and Policy', in which they show a marked discon...

Understanding exam stress, how to manage it and tips to prepare for the exam period.

In this Public Lecture, Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and Director of the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn, Prof Markus Gabriel, discusses fiction as a component of human thought and ideology. This Public Lecture took place on 27 March 2019.

In this IPR Seminar, Director of Science Policy at The Royal Society, Dr Claire Craig, discussed the intersection between research and policymaking, and how government listens to scientists. This IPR Seminar took place on 28 February 2019.

In this IPR Seminar, Geoff Crocker develops a neo-Keynesian proposal for basic income to supplement consumer demand, displacing consumer credit and avoiding crisis. This IPR Seminar took place on 14 February 2019.

In this IPR Public Lecture, Professor Timothy Mitchell discusses the economy, capitalism, and how large corporations have swallowed the future. Professor Mitchell is a University of Bath Global Chair for the 2018 – 2019 academic year. His appointment has been funded by the International Relations Office’s Global Chair scheme, a flagship programme designed to attract distinguished, globally renowne...

Professor Veronica Hope-Hailey and Bath graduate and digital expert Nick Hynes (MBA Executive 1991) in conversation at the University of Bath London offices on 4 December 2018.

The sound of inspiring and remarkable research, brought to you by the University of Bath. In this episode, we’re sharing the work of four of our researchers who are doing amazing things in our labs right here on campus, that’s making a world of difference. They shared their research with a packed house of Bath alumni and friends at our Discovery Series event in London on 13 November 2018.