Public lecture podcasts

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 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 renowned scholars to engage in high-profile research activities at Bath. This Public Lecture took place on 14 January 2020.

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 future of British farming may look like; and how we can measure and value sustainability and soil, plant and animal health, whilst at the same time protecting our farmers and farming communities as well as our environment. This Panel Debate took place on 19 November 2019, and is part of the IPR's public event series, 'The future is in our lands'.

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/