Category Podcasts

The future of the university

Over the last year Sociological Imagination has published a range of podcasts exploring the future of the university. We thought it might be useful to round them up and post them together in one convenient place:

  1. Engaging with the media as a PhD student
  2. Steve Fuller on the Impact Agenda
  3. Making a case for social science
  4. Campaigning for the Public University
  5. The Impact Agenda in the Arts and Humanities
  6. The Future of the University
  7. Making new spaces for learning in the university
  8. The University Project

Podcast: late capitalism and a/sexual culture

The next sexual revolution…?

Nick Crossley on Relational Sociology

In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Nick Crossley about his recent book Towards Relational Sociology. The interview covers relational sociology, interdisciplinary approaches to social theory, the future of social theory and the contested status of quantitative methods.

Relational Sociology

Violence, Inequality and UK Riots

In this podcast Mark Carrigan interviews Larry Ray, a professor at Kent University who has done pioneering work on the sociology of violence, about the summer’s riots in the UK, the media coverage and the subsequent political fall out.

Larry Ray on UK Riots

Larry makes reference to a BBC interview with Darcus Howe in the podcast which you can watch below:

Emma Rees interviewed about Can’t…

In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Emma Rees about her new book Can’t, which explores the strange and confused representation of the female genitalia in contemporary culture.

Can’t

The University Project

In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Dougald Hine about the University Project. If you’re interested in the project and would like to get involved in something similar in your area of the country, check out our list of radical education projects. Get in touch if there’s any other projects you want us to add to the list.

The University Project

How do our brothers and sisters shape who we are?

In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Katherine Davies, a researcher in the Morgan Centre at Manchester University, about her work on sibling relationships and personal identity. Despite the obviously somewhat common experience of sibling relationships, it’s an area that has largely been ignored within social science, which has tended to focus on vertical kinship relations (parent –> child) to the exclusion of lateral kinships relations (child –> child). It’s a weird oversight and one which Katherine’s work is addressing in an interesting and sensitive way.

Sibling Relationships

Deborah Butler at the SI Seminar

In this podcast from the SI Sociology of Sport seminar, Deborah Butler talks about her research on the Horse Racing industry

Warwick PhD researcher Deborah Butler talks about her research of employment in racing, 2011 (Photo: Milena Kremakova)

Deborah Butler on Horse Racing

Sam Farooq on Religious Masculinities in Sport

In this talk from SI’s Sociology of Sport seminar on 20 June 2011Dr Sam Farooq discusses religious masculinities in sport

Sam Farooq gives a talk about masulinity, youth and Islam (Photo: Milena Kremakova)

Religious masculinities in youth sport

The Political Economy of Football – Wyn Grant

In this talk from the SI’s Sociology of Sport seminar, Professor Wyn Grant, who we also interviewed on this topic some time ago, talks about the political economy of football. If you find this interesting you should definitely check out Wyn’s site Football Economy.

Wyn Grant on Political Economy of Football