The University of Bath podcasts are a series of public lectures available to download for free. Enhance your understanding of subjects ranging from how babies develop to the workings of the universe. Learn from academics and business and industry experts. The University of Bath is a leading UK insitution. We offer a distinctive blend of research-led teaching, an outstanding graduate employment record and personal development opportunties.
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Welcome to Management Meets... the University of Bath School of Management podcast. Hosted by Professor Steve Brammer, Dean of the School of Management, and Alumni Engagement Professional Katie Calvert-Jones, Management Meets shares insight from leaders within our community on various topics across various industries. The School of Management has over 27,000 alumni in over 130 countries, including business founders, CEOs, and Olympians. In this series, we meet some of these as we explore the ...
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A series of interviews with authors of new books from Princeton University Press
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The complete collection of University Radio Bath's podcasts, all in one place.
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This podcast is designed to inspire you to get out and explore the beautiful natural landscape surrounding the city of Bath, with its hills and valleys, grasslands and woodlands. Season 1 brought a monthly flavour of the September walking festival through interviews with special guests, a recorded local walk and a 'top-tip' section with festival organiser Lucy Bartlett. Season 2 delves deep into the rich diversity of the Bathscape, its culture, heritage, landscape and people. Footprints was ...
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Team Bath is the sports brand of the University of Bath. As part of our Team Bath Futures programme, we are committed to educating young athletes, parents and any professionals interested in developing their knowledge base of sport science with the very latest discussions taking place within the industry. Our podcasts explore the science behind sport, from growth and maturation to injury prevention and conversations with athletes who have competed at the very pinnacle of their sports.
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Welcome to “Flex and the City”, where we explore the dynamic, sometimes chaotic, but always rewarding journey of life in your 40s! Hosted by two long-time friends, Lisa Wasonga & Ghada Odeh, with a bond that dates back to our university days, we bring you candid conversations that blend wisdom, laughter, and a touch of drama. Our episodes cover everything from health, fitness, and mindset matters to the unique challenges of motherhood and embracing life in our 40s. Join us for relatable advi ...
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These short and to-the-point podcasts hope to improve the interplay between the fields of the built environment and education as we share knowledge between the practitioner, the creative, and the primary school teacher. Exploring how to prepare children and young people for economic, environmental, and societal challenges, and for their professional lives according to today’s needs and those of a sustainable future. The series received an award commendation by the Thornton Education Trust (T ...
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Omar and Tamara Reid are The Egotists based at the University Of Bath. Join us every week as they discuss recent topics. Their ideas are somewhat wacky, sometimes brilliant and always hysterical.
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I am Dr. Amrita Basu ENT surgeon and this is Healthwealthbridge.Balancing health ,wealth ,creativity with STEAM being a favorite topic. I talk Health, wellness, education, writing, financial freedom for Indian moms.And on it, you will hear upto ten minutes of evidence-backed narratives about preventive healthcare, books ,wellness, and interviews with experts. You should listen if you want real information to create your healthiest and most creative life and not propaganda! Website: https://h ...
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Are you curious? Do you like having a bit of knowledge about everything? Do you get inspired & motivated by other people's stories? THEN THIS IS THE PODCAST FOR YOU. Welcome, to the show where we have different guests on every episode and touch on topics that they excel at along with their life journey and struggles. Some episodes dive into the craziest topics like conspiracy theories, unsolved mysteries, coincidences, and so on. My wonderful University of Bath gave me this opportunity. Foll ...
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'Up The Antics’ is a sketch and improvisational comedy group from Bristol, U.K. Established in 2014 as ‘The VA’ by graduates from Bath Spa University, as a company they have performed in and hosted a variety of live performances all over the country, including Bath Comedy Festival, the Southampton Comedy Fridge, and in various venues across London and Bristol. Their flagship audio sketch show 'Pipped at the Podcast' can be found on all good Soundclouds and YouTubes now.
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I’m sorry what!? follows the exciting, typically hazardous experiences of amazing single women all over the world in their quest for great love. Because like most things in life the fun is in the doing!! (pun intended) Sure we all have our recurring patterns and often fall into the same pitfalls but instead of crying about it alone in our bath, why not share all our private thoughts on the internet, so we can enjoy the process TOGETHER, with humor and detachment ! We follow either Angeline o ...
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Join a virtual staffroom of keen teachers to explore the best teaching method known to science: storytelling. In 2014, Epic Tales and EU Lifelong Learning proved that children perform an average of 26% better in tests when taught through stories, a fact that's since been backed up by London's Institute of Education and Bath University, so we're here to help your learners achieve greater success in English, Maths, Science, and more. Hosted by Oxford Owl storyteller Chip Colquhoun, author of t ...
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Bringing the conversation about innovation, culture, and leadership and sharing how to release the energy and potential of people at work
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San Antonio's award-winning podcast. Hosted by Zachary Espericueta The SA Talk series provides candid conversations and thought-provoking discussions that are relevant to San Antonio. Guests are occasionally invited to share their insight and opinions on the matter being discussed. The Searching for San Antonio series showcases the local community by interviewing many of the wonderful small business owners, non-profit leaders, and influential people that the city has to offer. New episodes a ...
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The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies
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This week on Democratic Dialogues, co-hosts Rachel Beatty Riedl and Esam Boraey speak with Susan C. Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy. Drawing from her book The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies (…
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Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Haman, infamous as the antagonist in the book of Esther, appears as a villainous figure in virtually all varieties of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In this “biography” of Haman (Princeton UP, 2025), Dr. Adam Silverstein traces the evolution of this villainous character from the ancient Near East to modern times, drawing on sources in a variety …
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EP. 48 - Money and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Hey Flexy Fam — this week we ask a big one: does money actually buy happiness, or does it mostly buy relief and options? We unpack the hedonic treadmill, why stability often beats luxury, spender vs saver dynamics, the pressure to “look successful,” and how connection, health, and autonomy shape real well-being. We also talk mom-guilt around spendi…
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Jessica F. Green, "Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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It’s no secret that the Paris Agreement and voluntary efforts to address climate change are failing. Governments have spent three decades crafting international rules to manage the climate crisis yet have made little progress on decarbonization. In Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them (Princeton UP, …
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Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how jus…
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In the first episode of series four, Katie sits down with Max Teichert, founder and CEO of Track Titan, an AI driver coaching startup. Max shares how studying international management at the School of Management helped him merge his passion for racing and entrepreneurship, getting him to where he is today. His formative experiences at Bath include …
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Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers--from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity…
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15 Startling Truths No One Tells You About Giving Birth
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When I initially thought of doing this podvast, I wasn’t sure how much I should say. Should I talk about the not so good and painful parts? Or should I just focus on the beauty of giving birth which is akin to a miracle? That's the one time you feel like a superwoman. It's Thanksgiving week and I thought of giving thanks to my doctor who made my pr…
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This is the final episode of Footprints as Bathscape itself draws to a close early in 2026. And so for the first time ever, the Bathscape team gathered together in the same room to mark the end of an era. I’m joined by Bathscape’s Manager Dan Merrett; Community Projects Officer and Walking Festival Organiser Lucy Bartlett and Volunteer Coordinator …
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A conversation with Everardo González: The Disappeared of History Global Webinar Series
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In this webinar, we spoke to Everardo González, a Mexican director who is considered one of the strongest voices in the documentary genre in Latin America.Everardo's filmography includes Pulque Song (2003), The Old Thieves (2007), The Open Sky (2011), Drought (2011) and El Paso (2015), all screened and awarded at various festivals like Berlin, IDFA…
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EP. 47 - Cacao Ceremonies, Sound Baths… and an Eddie Murphy Detour
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Hey Flexy Fam, This week we go all in on wellness rituals you keep asking about: a cacao ceremony, sound baths, retreats, and even float tanks. We talk intention, guided vs silent meditation, and what happens when a ritual unexpectedly hits the heart. Then we slide into a full love letter to Eddie Murphy and 90s excellence. It tracks. Trust us. In …
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In this episode, Katherine and her guests talk about the joy and challenges of going abroad for a placement year.By University of Bath
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Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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In 2016, Ludovic Orlando, a genetics researcher, embarked on the Pegasus Project, an ambitious endeavor to use genetics to discover the origin of the modern horse. There were plenty of theories as to who domesticated horses first–but Ludovic’s team came up with their answer: They emerged on the western Eurasian steppe around 4200 years ago. But tha…
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Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom--and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics In the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders of two diametrically opposed f…
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Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced econo…
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EP. 46 - Pilates Princess, Beige Flags & Goblin Mode: Midlife Women Decode Micro Labels
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Hey Flexy Fam,This week on Flex and the City, we’re diving into the wild world of micro labels, or the “identity Olympics” of 2024/2025.From Pilates princess, biohacking dads and coastal grandmas to almond moms, beige flags, goblin mode and rat girl summer… do we actually need all these labels, or are we just trying to make sense of ourselves in a …
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In series four, Management Meets is going international. Join Steve and Katie on a world tour, meeting graduates across the globe leading change and innovation in their industries. From motorsport to high-end fashion, listen along and join us on our journey to celebrate the international impact of your School of Management community.…
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On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
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Today I’m speaking with Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about Democracy and Bullshit, with a special focus on her 2020 book, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2020). Bullshit is a feature of both democracies and dictatorships alike, but it takes di…
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Harry Thorpe & CAUKIN: Co‑Production & Architecture for Social Change
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Send us a text What if a classroom could seed a local business, reshape gender norms on site, and stand strong through a category‑five cyclone? We sit down with CAUKIN co‑founder Harry Thorpe to unpack architecture’s role in driving education, gender equity, and climate resilience, tracing a bold path from student initiative to 60+ transformative p…
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David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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The United States has long been an international outlier, with a powerful business class, a weak social state, and an exceptional gun culture. In Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (Princeton UP, 2025), David Garland shows how, after the 1960s, American-style capitalism disrupted poor communities and …
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Join Katherine Bright and fellow Placement Officer, Gina Pollock, plus a range of students, to find out how to stop scrolling through adverts and work out what jobs are a good match for you.By University of Bath
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Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near East In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten’s capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform ta…
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Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Today’s guest is Jenny Mann, who has a new book titled The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime (Princeton University Press, 2021). Jenny is Professor in both New York University’s English Department and the Gallatin School, and her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Folger Shakespeare Library. She …
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EP. 45 - How to Show Up for the Glow Up
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This week, we’re pulling back the perfectly-filtered curtain on glow-up culture — where transformation is expected to be inspiring, aesthetic, and preferably monetizable.We unpack:Why “wellness” is just the new skinnySocial media’s role in performative progressThe hidden pressure behind public transformationBody image, identity, and backlash — from…
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Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the effects of polarization on domestic politics, little is known about how polarization influences international cooperation and conflict. Democracies are thought to have advantages over nondemocratic nati…
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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism and extremism. Yet despite mass content takedowns, account suspensions, and mounting pressure on technology companies to do more, hate thrives online. Safe Havens for Hate: The…
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John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World (Princeton UP, 2025) by Professor John Blair provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, Dr. Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-d…
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In the final episode of series three ‘Business for Good’, Katie is joined by MBA graduate, Kirsty Matthews. Kirsty is CEO of charity DFN Project Search, a UK charity enabling young adults who have a learning disability or autism spectrum condition to secure permanent employment. Listen and learn more about the external challenges facing charities, …
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Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (Princeton UP, 2025) shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: thast the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and…
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R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and the Wharton School of Business. It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of …
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What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
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What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money, work for justice, run marathons, sing in a choir, have children, travel the world? The things we care about in life—family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals—often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don’t always know what we really wan…
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David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and how its current structur…
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David Stasavage, "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (Princeton University Press, 2020) draws from global evidence to show that the story is much richer--democratic practices were present in many places, at many other times, fr…
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Hilary Holladay, "The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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A major American writer, thinker, and activist, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of forceful, uncompromising prose as well as poetry. In doing so, she emerged as an architect and exemplar of the feminist movem…
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Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton UP, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world’s largest, most advanced economies—the Unite…
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This September, alongside our annual walking festival, Bathscape also hosted a Landscape City Conference looking at what the Bathscape Partnership has achieved and to inspire Bath's future. This is the penultimate episode of Footprints, and with the project itself drawing to a close, this episode shares a flavour of the day. The conference was open…
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Join Faculty of Science Placement Officer, Katherine Bright, to discuss the much-feared world of assessment centres. Many companies use these multi-activity days to assess candidates in different situations, such as group tasks, interviews and presentations. This week, Katherine is joined by Sam from HPE. and two students who were offered roles aft…
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Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers
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Developmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well. Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers (Princeton UP, 2025) offers scholars a practical method for assessing and refining the features of their texts th…
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EP. 44 - Oktoberfest: The Reason for Wiesn
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Hey Flex Fam!From Oktoberfest madness to pelvic floor realness… welcome to Episode 44.We’re diving into:– What it’s really like to navigate Oktoberfest as locals (dirndl struggles, crowd chaos, and €14 roller coasters)– Why motherhood feels like a rollercoaster you can’t get off (and wouldn’t want to)– Scandal monologues, Netflix obsessions, and ho…
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Podcasting: India vs International Whats Working & Whats Not!
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Podcasting: India vs International New Blog post https://healthwealthbridge.com/podcasting-india-vs-international/ This is a #AI research post about Podcasting in India and internationally.I started podcasting in 2018 ,when it wasn't even a thing.I even wrote a short guide for novice podcasters to get started without overwhelm.That was then.Now its…
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Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West: The History of an Idea (Pri…
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Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics (Princeton UP, 2025) reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the…
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EP. 43 - Career or Carer: Must Women Choose?
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In this week’s episode, we unpack one of the biggest unspoken rivalries: stay-at-home moms vs. working moms. Why are women pitted against each other when, in reality, every mom is working and carrying invisible loads? From sleepless nights during Oktoberfest in Munich to Netflix side notes, from juggling toddlers on Zoom calls to Shonda Rhimes’ raw…
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In this episode of 'Management Meets,' Katie and Steve talk with PhD alumna Philippa Kindon, Business Development Manager at Mayden. Mayden’s flagship product, Iaptus, supports mental health patients through providing digital technology solutions to healthcare organisations such as the NHS. Philippa discusses the evolving needs of the healthcare se…
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Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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The Wound Man—a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases—was reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. In Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton University Press, 2025), Dr. Jack Hartnell charts the emergence and endurance of this striking image, u…
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Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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When the US Congress enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, no one expected it to become a prominent tool for confronting sexual harassment in schools. Title IX is the civil rights law that prohibits education programs from discriminating “on the basis of sex.” At the time, however, the term “sexual harassment” was not yet in use; th…
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Laura Garbes, "Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Why is radio so white? In Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry (Princeton UP, 2025) Laura Garbes, a Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, explores the history of public radio, theorising it as a white institutional space. Alongside the rich history and theoretical fram…
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EP 42 - Welcome Back! From Holidays to WTF?!
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Hey Flexy Fam,It's good to be back after a brief hiatus for the summer holidays. In this episode we catch up on cross-continental travel, community, compassion, careers and crazy racist behavior! :)If you're new here -- first of all, welcome! Secondly, lots of prior episodes to catch up on. Have a look around and let us know your thoughts or views …
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Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practice Most Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich to pay more. But the specific tax policies that most favor are more regressive than progressive. What is behind such a disconnect? In Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax At…
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Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe, "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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What do children believe in? In Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England (Princeton UP, 2025) Anna Strhan, a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of York and Rachael Shillitoe, a senior social scientist in the UK civil service and honorary fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of York…
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