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| 4885 | Creative Commons | Digital News Report 2024. Episode 5: The rise of news influencers | What explains the rise of news influencers and who are the most popular? | Nic Newman, Federica Cherubini | 15 Jul 2024 |
| 4884 | Hunger Artistry: Kafka and the Art of Starvation | Kafka’s provocative story “The Hunger Artist” explores starvation, art, and the nature of human existence. Experts discuss the story and its reception. | Peter Boxall, Ankhi Mukherjee, Meindert Peters, Karen Leeder | 10 Jul 2024 | |
| 4883 | Digital News Report 2024. Episode 4: How much people pay for news | How much money are people paying for news around the world? | Craig T. Robertson, Federica Cherubini | 05 Jul 2024 | |
| 4882 | Creative Commons | Digital News Report 2024. Episode 3: What people want from news | What do news audiences actually say they want from news? | Richard Fletcher, Federica Cherubini | 27 Jun 2024 |
| 4881 | Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice | How body size is used in research and discourse on health, bringing together theory from anthropology, sociology, public health and more. With llya Gutin, University of Texas at Austin | llya Gutin | 24 Jun 2024 | |
| 4880 | Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues | Exploring the phenomenal range of roles estrogens play with respect to our metabolism – a range that is only just beginning to be understood. With Deborah Clegg, Texas Tech University | Deborah Clegg | 24 Jun 2024 | |
| 4879 | Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways | Exploring children's views on their diets in relation to culture, identity and tradition in their everyday lives. With Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord, University of Agder, Norway | Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord | 24 Jun 2024 | |
| 4878 | Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity | Where or what is the difference between childhood obesity and fatness, who has the right to decide that, and why is it important? With Zofia Boni, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan | Zofia Boni | 24 Jun 2024 | |
| 4877 | Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context | Looking at the complex relationships between adversity in childhood and obesity in adulthood, with Shakira Suglia, Emory University | Shakira Suglia | 24 Jun 2024 | |
| 4876 | Creative Commons | Our podcast: Digital News Report 2024. Episode 2. Public attitudes about AI and journalism | In this episode of our Digital News Report 2024 series, we explore what people think about the use of AI in journalism. | Amy Ross Arguedas, Federica Cherubini | 24 Jun 2024 |
| 4875 | Creative Commons | Our podcast. Digital News Report 2024. Episode 1. What you need to know | In this opening episode of our series, we’ll explore the key findings from our Digital News Report 2024, the most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide. | Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Federica Cherubini | 13 Jun 2024 |
| 4874 | Creative Commons | Limits and Alternative Approaches to Peacemaking | The liberal peace is gone and is not coming back. This presentation attempts to sketch some of the new (or perhaps more prominent) actors and approaches that are taking its place. | Roger Mac Ginty | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 4873 | Creative Commons | Navigating Climate and Peace | Conflict prevention is vital in Sudan and the Sahel. Conflict drivers include climate and bad governance. Round Lake Chad, 48% of youths joining Boko Haram sought money and prestige after losing livelihoods as the lake shrinks. | Nisreen Elsaim | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 4872 | Creative Commons | Global Fragmentation and its Impact on Peace Processes | Dr Mateja Peter introduces PeaceRep, a new data collection effort. | Mateja Peter | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 4871 | Creative Commons | New actors and changes? | Dr Richard Baltrop provides some observations from peace processes in Africa and the Middle East. | Richard Baltrop | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 4870 | Creative Commons | AI and Peace and Security: the opportunities and challenges | Sam Daws with some observations on the efforts of the UN, regional organisations and national governments to govern and provide ethical frameworks for AI, and what pivotal and innovative technology means for multilateral governance. | Sam Daws | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 4869 | Creative Commons | The Private Sector and Pathways to Peace-building | The responsibilties of business are shifting on issues such as human rights, labour conditions, climate change, social and economic inclusion and systemic integrity. Dr Isabella Bunn introduces a paper providing an overview of several key initiatives. | Isabella Bunn | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 4868 | Creative Commons | Dealing with Intractable Conflicts by De-escalation and the Initiation of an Incremental Procedural Process | Highly escalated conflicts between groups are characterised by deep animosities and contradicting demands, thus posing enormous challenges for conflict resolution. Daniel Schaefer's proposal envisages an incremental approach. | Daniel Schaefer | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 4867 | ‘Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’: Insects and Disgust and Repulsion’ | Franz Kafka exploited people’s disgust at insects as his protagonist, Greger Samsa, was transformed into a giant insect. Is this disgust innate, widely shared or justified and what are the consequences for our treatment of insects? | Liam Crowley, Rosemary Gillespie, Clair Linzey, Geraldine Wright | 12 Jun 2024 | |
| 4866 | Tuberculosis: vaccines, diagnostics and experience | Kafka died in 1924 of tuberculosis, which remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. This talk looks at the various aspects of tuberculosis from candidate vaccines, the role of genetics in TB treatments and the perspective of a patient. | Helen McShane, Philip Fowler | 12 Jun 2024 | |
| 4865 | Oxford Reads Kafka | A collective public reading of 'Metamorphosis' to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death. Bringing together literary figures, civic leaders and University academics and students, this event celebrates the power of Kafka’s voice today. | Lemn Sissay, Ben Okri, Lisa Appignanesi, Helen McShane | 12 Jun 2024 | |
| 4864 | 'Kafka's Ape' and 'Words and Music' | Interview with the creatives behind two shows inspired by Kafka's story 'A Report for an Academy' which explore race, migration, ageing and "humanimal" agency. | Ed Gaughan, Karen Leeder, Tony Miyambo, Wes Williams | 07 Jun 2024 | |
| 4863 | Setting research priorities for English as an Additional Language. | Hamish Chalmers discusses his study asking teachers what kinds of research they think should be prioritised to help inform policy and practice in teaching pupils for whom English is an additional language (EAL). | Hamish Chalmers, Laura Molway | 30 May 2024 | |
| 4862 | What can we learn from asking students directly about their experiences of French lessons? | Laura Molway discusses her research on students’ attitudes and experiences of learning French in secondary schools. She explores the value of teachers seeking direct feedback from their students and how this can help develop policy and practice. | Laura Molway, Hamish Chalmers | 30 May 2024 | |
| 4861 | The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges | The Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, will join us to discuss how to address these challenges as well as seize new opportunities. | Andrew Mitchell, Stefan Dercon, Emily Jones, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira | 30 May 2024 | |
| 4860 | Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet' | Hannah Ritchie discusses her new book 'Not the end of the world' with Prof Charles Godfray. | Hannah Ritchie, Charles Godfray | 20 May 2024 | |
| 4859 | Creative Commons | Chatting with Chris Kowalski | In episode five we chat with Dr Chris Kowalski, a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, from the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom, where he is the simulation lead and is involved in all stages of medical education. | Chris Kowalski, Danica Sims | 14 May 2024 |
| 4858 | Creative Commons | Chatting with Simone Titus-Dawson | In episode four we chat with Associate Professor Simone Titus-Dawson from the Centre for Health Professions Education in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. | Simone Titus-Dawson, Danica Sims | 14 May 2024 |
| 4857 | Creative Commons | Chatting with Richard Canter | In episode three we chat with Professor Richard Canter from the University of Oxford. He reflects over the decades of his fascinating career, sharing his story of how he, a surgeon, became involved in medical education and research. | Richard Canter, Danica Sims | 07 May 2024 |
| 4856 | Creative Commons | Intersecting Crises: Housing and Forced Migration in Oxford | How does housing relate to migration and asylum issues? Using the City of Oxford as a case study, we consider the affordability and accessibility of housing to newcomers and the impact this has on refugee and asylum seekers. | Tiger Hills, Hari Reed, J, Rob McNeil | 30 Apr 2024 |
| 4855 | Emotions in international food law | Anne Saab, associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute looks at how feelings such as fear and anxiety might influence food safety regulations. | Anne Saab | 30 Apr 2024 | |
| 4854 | Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking | Dr Esther Gonzalez-Padilla asks what is sugar? Why should we study it? And how much sugar should we be eating? | Esther Gonzalez-Padilla | 30 Apr 2024 | |
| 4853 | Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship | Dr Maddalena Borsato, senior researcher at Ritsumeikan University examines the ambiguities and of the contradictions of sweetness. | Maddalena Borsato | 30 Apr 2024 | |
| 4852 | Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India | Pallavi Laxmikanth speaks about her PhD research examining understandings and practises of diabetes management in middle class communities in Hyderabad’s High-Tech City. | Pallavi Laxmikanth | 30 Apr 2024 | |
| 4851 | Chatting with Danelle Hess | In episode two we chat to Dr Danelle Hess from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. | Danelle Hess, Danica Sim | 17 Apr 2024 | |
| 4850 | Chatting with Danica Sims | This is the first episode of “Conversations in Med Ed”. Podcast host, Dr Danica (’Nici’) Sims, plays the role of the guest, as her colleague, Dr Liam Guilfoyle, asks her, “Why start a podcast?” | Danica Sims, Liam Guilfoyle | 08 Apr 2024 | |
| 4849 | Creative Commons | Diaspora Communities: Powerful Partners Driving Change | What makes diaspora communities unique? We learn about the roles of diasporas, contributions to development and humanitarian initiatives across the globe and unpack how people living in diaspora drive change in their communities. | Alan Gamlen, Larisa Lara, Martin Russell, Rob McNeil | 20 Mar 2024 |
| 4848 | From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world | Dr Francesca Forno, Associate professor at the University of Trento discusses how new, grassroots food movements are using online platforms and how their online platforms are being appropriated by bigger businesses. | Francesca Forno, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider | 13 Mar 2024 | |
| 4847 | Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating | Dr Jeremy Brice explores how consumer choice is governed, protected, and cared for by firms which operate digital marketplace platforms from the likes of Deliveroo to Amazon Fresh. | Jeremy Brice, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider | 13 Mar 2024 | |
| 4846 | Creative Commons | Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience | Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline. | Thao Dam, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider | 13 Mar 2024 |
| 4845 | Creative Commons | Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries | Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’ | Anna Macready, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider | 13 Mar 2024 |
| 4844 | The International Monetary Fund | How does the global financial system cope with a turbulent world? | Jan Eijking, Maurice Obstfeld | 28 Feb 2024 | |
| 4843 | Creative Commons | An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan | How can different kinds of policy help refugees and other displaced populations find work? This project focuses on three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes for Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan. | Stefano Caria, Max Kasy, Simon Quinn | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 4842 | United Nations Peacekeeping | UN peacekeeping expert Renata Dwan shares first-hand experience with peacekeeping in Mali, peacekeeping after the Arab Spring, and how peacekeeping was affected by the 2008 financial crisis. | Renata Dwan, Jan Eijking | 20 Feb 2024 | |
| 4841 | Creative Commons | Artivism and Migration | Intersections of art and activism are used as a tool to promote diversity, address human rights and make calls to action in contexts of migration. What is artivism and how can it support individuals to tell their own stories? | Salma Zulfiqar, Natalia Federenko, Ruth Nyabuto, Rob McNeil | 20 Feb 2024 |
| 4840 | The International Committee of the Red Cross | In this first episode of Global Shocks, we speak to humanitarian leader Yves Daccord, former Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. | Yves Daccord, Jan Eijking | 07 Feb 2024 | |
| 4839 | Supporting children’s skills development – what works | Growing up in poverty affects children’s skills development. In Episode 3, Kath Ford and Sarah Lane Smith discuss what policies and programmes can make a real difference to children’s future opportunities. | Cath Porter, Kath Ford, Sarah Lane-Smith | 06 Feb 2024 | |
| 4838 | Creative Commons | The Moral Economy of Infrastructures in Everest Tourism | As social media posts from the slopes of Mount Everest become almost commonplace Dr Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester) focuses on digital media use amongst guides and porters and the impact of digital infrastructures in the area. | Jolynna Sinanan, Peyton Cherry | 06 Feb 2024 |
| 4837 | Creative Commons | Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations | Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. | Adriaan van Klinken, Olivia Elizabeth Freidinger | 06 Feb 2024 |
| 4836 | Trailer: Global Shocks | In a world facing multiple overlapping crises and wars, understanding how existing international institutions can tackle mounting global challenges is more crucial than ever. | Jan Eijking | 31 Jan 2024 | |
| 4835 | Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work | Dr. Vonnak reflects on how socio historical events impact the definition, preservation, and sometimes neglect of cultural heritage. She draws from her extensive field work in Ukraine over the past eight years. | Diana Vonnak, Dora Duo | 25 Jan 2024 | |
| 4834 | How to keep girls in high school in India | Why do more girls in India drop out of higher education, despite having similar skills to boys? | Cath Porter, Renu Singh | 23 Jan 2024 | |
| 4833 | Unpacking gender and social and emotional skills in the Global South | Children’s skills are a broad field and consistent terminology is elusive. In this episode, Matthew Jukes focuses on social and emotional skills, in particular how they are valued in the Global South. | Cath Porter, Matthew Jukes, Julia Tilford | 23 Jan 2024 | |
| 4832 | Creative Commons | Municipal IDs and Local Citizenship | For irregular migrants, the inability to provide proof of identity affects nearly every aspect of life. We explore cities that have introduced municipal ID cards to enhance social integration and enable access to key services. | Myriam Cherti, Albert Gamarra, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 18 Jan 2024 |
| 4831 | What should we expect from journalism in 2024? | In this episode of Future of Journalism we discuss what the biggest trends are shaping journalism in 2024. | Nic Newman, Federica Cherubini | 18 Jan 2024 | |
| 4830 | Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience | Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline. | Thao Dam | 15 Dec 2023 | |
| 4829 | From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world | Dr Francesca Forno, Associate professor at the University of Trento discusses how new, grassroots food movements are using online platforms and how their online platforms are being appropriated by bigger businesses. | Francesca Forno | 15 Dec 2023 | |
| 4828 | Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating | Dr Jeremy Brice explores how consumer choice is governed, protected, and cared for by firms which operate digital marketplace platforms from the likes of Deliveroo to Amazon Fresh. | Jeremy Brice | 15 Dec 2023 | |
| 4827 | Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries | Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’ | Anna Macready | 15 Dec 2023 | |
| 4826 | How newsrooms are meeting the challenges of AI, diversity and flexible working | In this episode of our podcast we explore our latest report on how news organisations around the world are adapting their working practices to external changes and internal dynamics including AI, diversity and flexible working. | Gretel Kahn, Ramaa Sharma , Federica Cherubini | 15 Dec 2023 | |
| 4825 | Cash Transfer Grants in South Africa during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Work Behind the ESRC Outstanding Public Policy Impact Award 2023 | The CSAE's Kate Orkin has won the ESRC award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact 2023. Stefan Dercon talks to Kate about the work behind the cash grant programme in South Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic that reached an extra 26.2 million people. | Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin | 28 Nov 2023 | |
| 4824 | Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action? | Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, explores the implications of growing paralysis, polarisation and uncertainty for a world in a race against time to achieve systemic and transformational change. | Achim Steiner | 24 Nov 2023 | |
| 4823 | The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities | Adama Dieng, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, July 2012 to July 2020, discusses the UN's role in the global collective responsibility to prevent genocide and other mass atrocities. | Adama Dieng | 24 Nov 2023 | |
| 4822 | From protests to politics: How people engage with news about climate change | We explore our latest report on how people access news about climate change, which we are publishing two weeks before COP28 kicks off and in a year when the news has been dominated by so many effects of the climate crisis | Mitali Mukherjee, Waqas Ejaz, Gretel Kahn | 10 Nov 2023 | |
| 4821 | Emptiness, War and Migration | In the UK, migration debates tend to be about the idea of fullness – concepts of arrivals, overcrowding, competition for resources – but what about emptiness? We learn why it is such an important part of understanding migration. | Maria Gunko, Volodymyr Artiukh, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 07 Nov 2023 | |
| 4820 | Time To Look Up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisis | After a summer of extreme heatwaves, devastating wildfires and deadly flooding across the world, all made worse by climate change, the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow 2021, will discuss the ongoing climate crisis. | Alok Sharma, Charles Godfray | 31 Oct 2023 | |
| 4819 | Creative Commons | Watts up with EV charging: An entrepreneur’s view from ground zero | Leye (Cornelius) Makanjuola, Oxford Saïd MBA and host discusses the EV charging market with Folasade Ayoola, a fellow student and entrepreneur. | Folasade Ayoola, Leye Makanjuola | 05 Oct 2023 |
| 4818 | Creative Commons | Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy | Michael Degani analyzes the styles of work and conflict amongst electrical contractors who congregate across the street from a power utility office in urban Tanzania. | Michael Degani, Peyton Cherry | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 4817 | Creative Commons | Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation | Philippe Descola, one of Anthropology's most influential figures, invites us to go beyond the traditional boundaries of nature and culture and redefine our understanding of humanity's relationship with the world around us. | Philippe Descola, Luise Eder | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 4816 | Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe | Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans | Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn, Peyton Cherry | 02 Oct 2023 | |
| 4815 | Creative Commons | Nutritional Anthropology | Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection | Stanley Ulijaszek, Jacob Evans | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 4814 | Creative Commons | How to Stitch Ethnography | Feminist anthropologist Tania Perez-Bustos discusses how immersion in the act of embroidery affects the body and enables collective reflection and listening. | Tania Perez-Bustos, Malin Schlode | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 4813 | The Rise and Fall of Generations | Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them? | Tim Ingold, Luise Eder | 02 Oct 2023 | |
| 4812 | Creative Commons | Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea | How do fishers and scientists read the uncertain terrain of the city in the sea? What stories does the urban sea hold for the futures of the city? | Lan Duo, Nikhil Anand | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 4811 | Creative Commons | Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone | Zsuzsanna Ihar leads us through field recordings captured in the marginal settlements of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. She traces sounds that haunt, interrupt, and resist processes of gentrification, displacement, and capitalist profiteering. | Zsuzsanna Ihar, Eben Kirksey | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 4810 | Automating Immigration in the Digital Age | What do advancements in AI mean for immigration? We discuss the current and emerging practices of new technologies in the field, and explore developments in the use of predictive analytics, automated risk assessment and profiling. | Derya Ozkul, Caterina Rodelli, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 29 Sep 2023 | |
| 4809 | Creative Commons | AI and Services-led Growth: Evidence from Indian Job Adverts | Online job adverts show that the demand for AI related skills has grown rapidly in countries around the world since 2015. This project examines the demand for AI skills in India's service sector, using a new dataset of online job adverts. | Alex Copestake, Max Marczinek, Ashley Pople, Katherine Stapleton | 30 Aug 2023 |
| 4808 | Digital News Report 2023. Episode 6: The importance of public service media for individuals and for society | In this episode of our #DNR23 podcast we look at how important news audiences feel public service media is, both for themselves and wider society. | Richard Fletcher, Federica Cherubini | 13 Jul 2023 | |
| 4807 | Creative Commons | Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war | Why did Iraq fail to prove its WMD absence before the 2003 invasion? This seminar examines new evidence from Iraq and United Nations sources to shed light on the internal debates leading up to the 2003 war. | Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley | 10 Jul 2023 |
| 4806 | Creative Commons | The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State | This talk examines the Shi‘ite political parties linked to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) and their influence over the state, exploring their strategies for legitimacy in politics, religion, and society. | Inna Rudolf, Maryam Alemzadeh | 10 Jul 2023 |
| 4805 | Creative Commons | The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism | This talk explores the impact of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 on militant Islamism using new evidence. | Thomas Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley | 10 Jul 2023 |
| 4804 | Creative Commons | Digital News Report 2023. Episode 5: News podcasts: who is listening and what formats are working? | In this episode of our #DNR23 podcast we look at the world of news podcasts and why they're popular with listeners and publishers. | Federica Cherubini, Nic Newman | 07 Jul 2023 |
| 4803 | Digital News Report 2023. Episode 4: Attitudes towards algorithms and their impact on news | In this episode of our #DNR23 podcast series we explore people’s attitudes towards algorithmic selection of news and the correlation with attitudes towards editorial selection. | Federica Cherubini, Richard Fletcher | 28 Jun 2023 | |
| 4802 | Creative Commons | The Aftermath of Forced Return | With the help of our panel, we discuss forced return migration and the different power dynamics at play. What are the difficulties of forced returnees to home countries and what are the differences between the wealth and influence of certain states? | Matthew Gibney, Guadalupe Chavez, Maggie Loredo, Delphine Boagey | 27 Jun 2023 |
| 4801 | Digital News Report 2023. Episode 3: Unpacking news participation and online engagement over time | In this episode of our #DNR23 podcast we look at levels of news participation across the world. We also look at whether people have positive experiences of engaging in news online and offline. | Kirsten Eddy, Federica Cherubini | 22 Jun 2023 | |
| 4800 | Digital News Report 2023. Episode 2: Sources and drivers of news media criticism | In this episode of our #DNR23 podcast we look at how people say they encounter criticism of the news media, who’s saying it and where, critical differences between countries and how age plays a part. | Federica Cherubini, Craig T. Robertson | 16 Jun 2023 | |
| 4799 | Digital News Report 2023. Episode 1: What you need to know | In this opening episode of our series, we’ll explore the key findings from our Digital News Report 2023, the most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide. | Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Federica Cherubini | 12 Jun 2023 | |
| 4798 | Authentic Leadership - Episode 5 - Authenticity and Solidarity: "We are more united" | In the final episode of our Authentic Leadership series we hear from two women leaders from Latin America who have each had to find strategies for dealing with some very tough challenges in journalism. | Fernanda Delmas, Marcela Turatio, Ramaa Sharma | 05 Jun 2023 | |
| 4797 | Creative Commons | Anticipatory Cash Transfers in Climate Disaster Response | Billions of dollars are spent annually on humanitarian support to households in crisis. Researchers discuss a large-scale evaluation that tests the impact of anticipatory cash transfers in response to floods in Bangladesh. | Ben Brunckhorst, Stefan Dercon, Ruth Hill, Ashley Pople | 02 Jun 2023 |
| 4796 | Authentic Leadership: Episode 4 - Authenticity and resilience: "You don't want rage to define you" | In this episode of our Authentic Leadership podcast series we hear from a senior editor in India on how her upbringing led her to find the resilience and self-confidence to progress in challenging newsroom environments. | Rupa Jha, Ramaa Sharma | 26 May 2023 | |
| 4795 | Precarious Migrants | We often think of migration in binary terms of regular or irregular migration; legal or illegal, but often people move in between these states and are left in an insecure status. How does this precarity effect a migrant’s access to services in cities? | Marie Mallet-Garcia, Shams Asadi, Wanjiku Ngotho-Mbugua, Delphine Boagey | 19 May 2023 | |
| 4794 | Authentic Leadership: Episode 3 - Authenticity and perseverance: "It became clear it wasn't about me" | In this episode, we look at how one young woman leader found the courage to negotiate an array of challenges in the newsroom and how the stories we craft for ourselves can help us persevere through challenging times. | Ramaa Sharma, Yvette Dimiri | 19 May 2023 | |
| 4793 | Authentic Leadership: Episode 2 - Authenticity and honesty: "It was a big moment for me to say that I was struggling" | In this episode of our Authentic Leadership podcast we look at how newsroom environments can foster or hinder the search for authenticity. We explore the importance of finding allies and being honest with yourself on the journey. | Ramaa Sharma, Anup Kaphle | 15 May 2023 | |
| 4792 | Creative Commons | Russia and Christian nationalism: the background of a conflict | How the global resurgence of traditionalist, religion-based nationalism relates to the specifics of the present conflict between Russia and Ukraine. | Rowan Williams | 12 May 2023 |
| 4791 | Creative Commons | Exiting Russia: the effects of multinational withdrawal | Can corporate action contribute to human rights, peace, and conflict prevention? | Bennett Freeman | 12 May 2023 |
| 4790 | Creative Commons | The Global Food Crisis and the Ukraine War | Exploring the three elements that intersect and contribute to the global food crisis. | Alex de Waal | 12 May 2023 |
| 4789 | Creative Commons | The early medieval history of Ukraine: mythology and historical logics | The history of early Slavs as a point for debunking historical misconceptions that benefit one state at the expense of another. | Andrii Pastushenko | 12 May 2023 |
| 4788 | Creative Commons | Ukraine and the fragmentation of world order | Using the unfolding crisis of the Ukraine war as a lens to consider the drivers of conflict and transformation in the contemporary world order. | Luke Cooper | 12 May 2023 |
| 4787 | Creative Commons | Being a Social Entrepreneur in a War Zone | How did I evacuate over 30,000 women and children from the warzone, not knowing Ukraine and not speaking a word of Ukrainian? I drew on my business, political and organisation skills to move quickly to save thousands of lives. This is my story. | Brooks Newmark | 12 May 2023 |
| 4786 | Creative Commons | The work of the media during the Russian-Ukrainian war | How the media in Ukraine transitioned to covering the war with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. | Yaroslava Bukhta | 12 May 2023 |
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