Podcast: Manufacturing matters - doesn't it? Podcast: Addicitve Personality - Myth or Reality? Podcast: Migration and Integration. Listen to presentations and read our speakers' notes from our first Myths and Realities public debate, held on 15 September 2009. Speakers from the Refugee Council, the Centre for Population Studies and Oxford University described some of the evidence behind the stories and assumptions made about the nature and impact of migration to the UK.
The event was chaired by Professor Avtar Brah, School of Continuing Education, Birkbeck University. Professor Michael Keith Michael Keith is the Director of COMPAS (Centre on Migration Policy and Society), Oxford University, and was a Commissioner on the National Commission on Integration and Cohesion. In this presentation, Michael describes the background and work of the Commission, in the context of global migration trends and of local expectations and experiences of migration.
Professor Ludi Simpson Ludi Simpson is Professor of Population Studies at the University of Manchester. Donna Covey More Myths and Realities events. Podcast: Making sense of risk. Download presentations from the public debate held at the British Library Conference Centre on 18 November 2009. The Myths and Realities series is sponsored by the Academy of Social Sciences and Economic and Social Research Council in conjunction with the British Library.
The debate was chaired by Sir Bill Callaghan, Chair of the Legal Services Commission. Professor Bridget Hutter Professor Bridget Hutter, Professor of Risk Regulation and Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Jenny Kitzinger Professor Jenny Kitzinger, Director of Research, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. Professor Neil Budworth Professor Neil Budworth, Corporate Health and Safety Manager for E.On UK and past president of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. Other Myths and Realities events Find out about recent and future events in this series. Podcast: Crime and punishment in the 21st century. The third in our series of Myths and Realities debates was held on Monday 8 February 2010.
Listen to our speakers and download presentations about attitudes, policies and the media portrayal of crime and punishment. The event was chaired by Professor Jon Silverman , Research Professor of Media and Criminal Justice, University of Bedfordshire and former BBC Home Affairs correspondent. Professor Mike Hough Listen: Explaining distrust in justice (MP3, 15 min, 10MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 1.5MB) Mike Hough is the Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy, Kings College London.
Professor Ian Loader Listen: Criminology in a hot climate (MP3, 24 min, 16MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 110KB) This presentation describes how responses to crime have become a prominent feature of politics and public debate in the UK over the past thirty years. Lindsey Poole Listen: The practitioner's view (MP3, 20 min, 13MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 156KB) More Myths and Realities events. Podcast: Are we what we eat?
The fourth in our series of public debates was held on Tuesday 9 March 2010. "Are we what we eat? " investigates our relationship with food: what we eat, what we buy, what we cook, and the role of the food industry and government in shaping our attitudes to food. The event was chaired by Mr Geoff Watts, freelance writer and broadcaster on science and medicine. Listen to our speakers from the links below. Anne Murcott Listen: Family meals: myth, reality and the reality of myth (MP3, 16 min, 8MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 0.3 MB) Anne Murcott identifies a common and persistent concern that the practice of eating meals together as a family is on the decline. Martin Yeomans Listen: Attitudes, expectations and appetite control (MP3, 19 min, 9MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 0.4 MB) Professor Yeomans argues that how much we eat, and our experience of hunger, is determined more by external factors than by how full our stomachs are or how much energy we have consumed.
Terrence Collis. Podcast: Educational Standards - Not as Good as in My Day. Podcast: We're all middle class now, aren't we? Podcast: Young People - troubled, troublesome or terrific? Podcast. Podcast: Our ethcnicity and indentity - what does it all mean? Podcast: Security and surveillance - has it gone too far? Podcast: Growing old - somehting to fear or celebrate. Images of later life take two extremes, adverts featuring glowing post-retirement couples enjoying life vs lonely singletons in need of expensive care or support. Many of us will live to a very ripe old age; in just 30 years since 1980, the numbers of centenarians have risen from 2,500 to over 12,500 and are predicted to rise to 160,000 in another 30 years. Longer lives are the result of improved standards of medical treatment, nutrition, housing and living... but most of us may fear rather than celebrate the prospect.
What does the evidence say about older lives? Will we grow old disgracefully or experience a sad decline? The event was chaired by Fi Glover , BBC journalist and presenter and our speakers were Chris Phillipson , Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, Keele University and Mary Gilhooly , Professor of Gerontology, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University. Podcast: We’ve never had it so good? Food and Diet in the UK. Podcast: Who Benefits form Benefits?