Public lecture podcasts

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, and is part of the IPR's public event series, 'The future is in our lands'.

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 2019.

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 disconnect between the findings of sociological research and the current discussion of social mobility in political and policy circles. This Public Lecture took place on 21 May 2019.

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.