Podcasts
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research organises various lectures, workshops, and symposia over the course of the year to stimulate research, public debate and collaboration among academics and the wider community.
In order to share our events with the greatest possible audience, we record many of these events as podcasts. You can access these for free at any time.
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research podcasts
-
2018-19
-
2017-18
-
2016-17
- Feminist Emergency - International Conference
- Is caring in crisis? Humanitarian crises, public engagement and NGOs
- Mapping the Role of ‘Transnational Family Habitus’ in the Lives and Identity of Black Minority Ethnic Young People
- Dame Joan Ruddock in Conversation with Rosie Campbell
- At the Borders of Flesh: A Secret History of Race and Technology
- Black Scholars in Critical Dialogue: Confronting Racism in the Academy - Re-imagining the Disciplines
- Welcome and Panel 1: Religion: Re-Visioning the Landscape
- Panel 2: History: Looking Back to Look Forward
- Panel 3: Education: Re-imagining the Disciplines
- Panel 4: Next Steps
- A World in Crisis: Climate Change, Violence, Demography and the Global Economy
-
2014-15
- The Worlding in a Sense of Place
- Playing Like a State: Imagining Progressive Governance through Conservative Christian Refusal
- 'Au Pairing After the Au Pair Scheme': ESCR Research Project Dissemination Event
- Journalism, Whistleblowing and the Security State
-
2012-13
-
2011-12
-
2010-11
-
2009-10
Home and Exile Working Group podcasts
Population, Environment and Resources Working Group podcasts
-
2018-19
-
2017-18
-
2016-17
-
2015-16
- The Challenge of Climate Change: What Can and Can’t Be Fixed?
- Architecture in Time: The Temporal Conditions of Design
- Introduction
- Paper 1: The Stuff of Time: How Heritage Practice Works from the Past
- Paper 2: Architecture after People: Emergence, Emergency and Unexpected Buildings
- Paper 3: Endless: Topography, Temporality, Architecture
- Paper 4: Slowing Down: Temporality in Building Renovation and the Escape from Perspective
- Paper 5: Buildings within Time: Inhabitation as a Part of Design Practice
- Paper 6: Revivalism and Meaning in Architecture: Three Case Studies
- Reflections on Future Connections
-
2014-15
- Beyond the Skyline: Addressing London's Housing Crisis
- Panel Session 1: Explaining the Causes of London’s Housing Crisis
- Panel Session 3: The Politics of London’s Housing Crisis
- Our Kind of Town? Citizen Social Science, Participatory Mapping and the Struggle for a Just City
- Population: The Elephant in the Room is Our Friend
- Launch event for the Department's new MSc in Population, Migration and Ecology
- The Housing Disaster: Danny Dorling in Conversation with Paul Watt
- Beyond the Skyline: Addressing London's Housing Crisis
-
2012-13
-
2011-12
Psychoanalysis Working Group podcasts
PhD students: Training and methodologies podcasts
-
2015-16
- Developing Your Research Career: Cultivating Research Impact through Social Media
- Developing Your Research Career: Influencing Parliament and the Policy Process: An Insider's Guide
- Part 1a: Alasdair Mackenzie
- Select Committees Film (YouTube)
- Part 1b: Alasdair Mackenzie
- Part 2: David Hough
- 'Parliament and Research' PowerPoint Presentation
-
2014-15
- Developing Your Research Career: Uncovering the Wellcome Library
- Narrative Networks: Storied Approaches in a Digital Age
- Social Science, Critique and the Rich
- Reflections on Social Change: Metamorphosis or Transformation? Birkbeck Institute Graduate Conference 2015
- A Tribute to Horace Ové (all links currently broken)
- Introduction
- Panel 1: Horace Ové: An Overview / Documentary Filmmaker
- Panel 2: Horace Ové and Television
- Panel 3: The Cultural Politics of Horace Ové’s Work
- Closing Discussion
-
2013-14
-
2012-13
-
2011-12
-
2009-10