Welcome to the LSE Middle East Centre's podcast feed. The MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE. Follow us and keep up to date with our latest event podcasts and interviews!

Mobilise podcast from the Centre for Research on Play and Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Mobilise is a mini -series in which Sally Hogg, Senior Policy Fellow at University of Cambridge, talks to leading policymakers and politicians from across the UK about how research can be used in policy to improve children's lives. We'll be finding out about the things our guests have achieved for children and about the challenges that ar ...

Devpolicy Talks brings you interviews, event recordings and more in-depth documentary features relating to the topics we research at the Development Policy Centre. The Centre, part of the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, works on Australian aid, development in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, and regional and global development issues. It is host to the Devpolicy Blog (devpolicy.org) and a range of public events including the annual PNG Update, Pacific Upda ...

“How do we ensure technology makes our lives better?” Tech Mirror: Reflecting on technology and society with Johanna Weaver explores how technology impacts our lives: the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. Technology is made by humans. When we refocus on this foundational truth, it opens the possibility that technology can be made differently. Questions about how we might shape technology differently are not just “technical” questions. The answers to these questions go to the very co ...

Physics World Weekly offers a unique insight into the latest news, breakthroughs and innovations from the global scientific community. Our award-winning journalists reveal what has captured their imaginations about the stories in the news this week, which might span anything from quantum physics and astronomy through to materials science, environmental research and policy, and biomedical science and technology. Find out more about the stories in this podcast by visiting the Physics World web ...

How can government in the UK recover from a more than half a decade of political chaos and confusion? What can be done to solve some of the most complex policy challenges in living memory? And which battlegrounds will define the fast-approaching – and critical – general election? Featuring some of the world's most innovative public figures, politicians, opinion-formers and academics, the IfG EVENTS podcast brings you the very best of the Institute for Government's agenda-shaping speeches, in ...

From the Development Policy Centre. The podcast that peers behind the bureaucratic curtain to tell the stories of the people, policy and politics of international development.

The Perth USAsia Centre is a non-partisan, not-for-profit institution that promotes stronger relationships between Australia, the Indo-Pacific and the USA by contributing to strategic thinking, policy development and enhanced networks between government, the private sector and academia.

The Frontier Centre is an independent Canadian think tank that conducts research to develop effective and meaningful ideas for public policy reform.

Conversations on governance with leading social scientists around the world. Run by the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London.

The Public Health Insight Podcast is a weekly podcast ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts globally. The podcast covers all things public health and global health, from the sustainable development goals to the social determinants of health, as well as interesting dialogues about the diverse career opportunities that exist in the fields. Since its launch in March 2020, the podcast has featured more than 40 high-profile guests and has built an audience in more than 5,000 cities in over 190 cou ...

Presentations by experts concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science and technological innovation to promote commercial product development.

This is a show that asks: "What is rural in the 21st century?" Rural Routes is the production of The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

The ReEnergise Podcast from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is the place to discover more about emerging technology innovation in offshore renewables and the way that we will harness low carbon energy sources to meet our future energy needs. If you are curious about how to harness the world’s tides, launch intelligent ships with robotic crews in UK waters, adapt national grids to the future energy mix or how artists are envisioning the new offshore reality – this podcast is for ...

Produced for the Australian Government's Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, this fortnightly podcast will bring you insightful information and updates on what is shaping the future of global health.

“The Theory of the Postdoc Evolution” is a podcast from the Postdoctoral Development Centre of Queen’s University Belfast. It aims to provide postdocs with information helping them to develop their careers. It includes, for example, interviews of professionals talking about their career paths, information on the Higher Education system and ways to improve researchers’ CVs. For more info go to: go.qub.ac.uk/PodcastPDC

The Jamaica International Arbitration Centre Ltd (JAIAC), Dispute Management in a New World Podcast Series, is biweekly conversations with Dr Christopher Malcolm, Secretary General, JAIAC. In this informative and insightful podcast series, Dr Malcolm will share his views and explore the concept, including by reference to the leveraging implications of the appropriate use of dispute management options for stability in business relationships and in support of sustainable economic development; ...

Navigating our way through these testing times and embracing hybrid working environments. Here we go almost live, recorded remotely (excuse some sound issues!) with a variety of relaxed discussions with friends from across the development industry. #BWUncut

Discussing how we best shape the future of Scotland.

The Global Economic Governance Programme was established at University College in 2003 to foster research and debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries. The Programme is directly linked to Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations and Centre for International Studies. It serves as an interdisciplinary umbrella within Oxford drawing together members of the Departments of Economics, Law and Developm ...

SystemShift explores how we can create a sustainable, thriving economy that respects the Earth’s capacity to support humankind while putting people and nature at the centre, and provides alternatives to the current failing economic and financial systems that are driving the exploitation of people and planet. Economists, researchers and innovators from around the world offer their solutions for a sustainable, thriving economy that is equitable and serves the interests of all, not just the wea ...

The aims of the Calleva Research Centre are to investigate key questions about the origins, development, causes and functions of human behaviour by bridging the humanities, and the social, cognitive, and biological sciences in an evolutionary framework. The Centre's work is embodied through successive three-year interdisciplinary research programmes that draw on unique collaborations between Magdalen Fellows working in these diverse fields. The Centre was inaugurated in October 2010. Its fir ...

With a straight down the middle approach, Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive on Newstalk ZB delivers the very latest news and views to New Zealanders as they wrap up their day.

HR in Review is a podcast that brings you interviews with leading HR practitioners, academics and consultants. We cover a host of HR related topics like HR strategy, technology, recruitment, training, diversity, employment law, reward and wellbeing. Guests also share personal experiences and career tips, resulting in a varied and interesting discussion which we hope will provide you with useful and actionable advice, while also being an enjoyable and stimulating listen. HR in Review is produ ...

We all want to make a difference — but knowing exactly what we should do with our limited time, money and energy is an extremely hard question. Doing Good Better is a podcast about using reason and evidence to figure out how we can do the most good, using the ideas of effective altruism. We talk to researchers, development economists, philosophers, journalists, charity workers, entrepreneurs, and social scientists to try to figure out what works — and just as importantly, what doesn't. More ...

Commercial Real Estate Library - or CRE Library - is a Canadian Commercial Real Estate podcast focused on connecting you with industry leaders. Listen to insightful discussions with commercial real estate executives who drive the market - from founders of the largest REITs and pension funds to the fastest growing organizations in CRE tech. Your hosts on the show are Dayma Itamunoala - a leading investment broker at Colliers International specialized in the multifamily asset class, and Garret ...

The RISE Podcast aims to illuminate the human perspective behind education research and practice through a series of interviews with experts in education development. In the RISE Podcast series, we invite people who are passionate about improving education to discuss the ‘big picture’ ideas and narratives that have inspired their work. Our guests bring with them stories and expertise from a variety of experiences in research, practice, and policy, and it's our hope that their insights will s ...

I have conceived this podcast as a personal endeavour to bring interesting topics that I have encountered through my professional and academic life to the table. Each episode will take place as conversations with relevant guests who can shed light into the issues being discussed. The podcast will cover economic and political issues with major impact in the countries of the region. EU-Asia relations will feature prominently. I am currently working in Public Affairs in Brussels (Belgium). I ha ...

True Currency: About Feminist Economics is a six-part podcast hosted by artists Amy Feneck and Ruth Beale (The Alternative School of Economics), launching on 16 July, with a new episode released weekly. The outcome of an eight month residency, the podcast is produced in collaboration with Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts, and presents detailed testimonials from academic researchers, policy experts, community leaders and activists; and explores financial inequality, feminism, intersec ...