Podcasts about Policy Sciences

We have the wonderful Nigel Paine back in the house for an exciting and banter-filled episode about leadership. It's a continuation of the previous Nigel show, The "Follow the Leader" Episode. Nigel and Matt continue the conversation about the nuance of leadership-- what the heck is it practically as organizations struggle to get their arms around it. A bulk of the discussion centers on the work of the wonderful historian and leadership expert, Keith Grint from the Säid Business School of the University of Oxford and also the University of Warwick, both in the UK. You can learn more about Keith here: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people/keith-grint And a wonderful primer on Keith's work is his short book, LEADERSHIP, A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION. You can get it here: https://amzn.to/4elBIeg They leverage his problem-based model of leadership taking Rittel and Webber's Wicked and Tame problems (and adding Critical Problems) as a basis for prescribing a leadership, management, or command response.  Rittel and Webber. Here is the reference to their work: Rittel, H.W.J. and Webber, M.M.. (1973) Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences. 4, pp. 155-169. The classicJames MacGregor Burns book introducing the concept of Transformational Leadership is:  Burns, J. M. (1978). Leadership (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row. Barbara Kellermen's book is: Kellerman, B. (2012). The end of leadership (1st ed.). New York: Harper Business, An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote a wonder book called LEADERSHIP BS. The reference is:  Pfeffer, J. (2015). Leadership BS : fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a time (First edition. ed.). New York, NY: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. We also reference Ronald Riggio: Riggio, R. E. (Ed.) (2018). What's Wrong with Leadership? New York: Routledge. Matt incorrectly says Charles Wheelen's name. It is Wheelen and his book is called Naked Economics. We allude to systems-based leadership. You can learn more about it here: Raelin, J. A. (2016). Imagine There Are No Leaders: Reframing Leader‐ ship as Collaborative Agency. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 12(2), 131-158. In Best and Worst, we reference the new book by economist, Alex Edmans, MAY CONTAIN LIES, found anywhere books are sold.

Hace unas semanas, el Congreso mandó al archivo la creación del Sistema Nacional de Cuidados. La semana pasada, el INEI reveló que la pobreza monetaria en el Perú había aumentado a niveles pandémicos. Esta semana, una trabajadora del hogar casi se lanza de un tercer piso, en Piura, para evitar más abusos sexuales. Todos estos temas están vinculados a algo tan peruano: la precaridad. Para hablar de este tema –sin caer en el exhibicionismo de la tele– estaremos con Miriam Tovar, abogada del IDEHPUCP, y Jhonatan Clausen, PhD in Social and Policy Sciences y profesor en la facultad de Economía de la PUCP.

Dignity, respect, empowerment: adult safeguarding explored with Dr Jeremy DixonEpisode 75 of Let's Talk Social Work explores adult safeguarding—the policies, procedures, and practices aimed at protecting adults who may be at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. This is work guided by principles of dignity, respect, and empowerment and social workers play a crucial role in identifying, assessing, and responding to concerns about the safety and well-being of adults who may be experiencing harm, or who are at risk of harm. For the conversation, Andy McClenaghan is joined by Dr Jeremy Dixon, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. They discuss the findings of Jeremy's research which examined understandings of—and approaches to—adult safeguarding, as detailed in his recent book, Adult Safeguarding Observed. The book is available now, published by Policy Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to a brand-new season of Technically Human! We're thrilled to be back with new episodes of the show. We are kicking off the new season, and the new year, with an episode featuring one of my favorite thinkers, Dr. Deborah Stone, to talk about what it means to count—that is to say, what it means to measure, and what it means to matter. Dr. Deborah Stone is currently a Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she occasionally teaches as a visiting professor. She has taught at Duke University in the Institute of Policy Sciences (1974-77); MIT Department of Political Science (1977-86); Brandeis University Heller School, where she held the David R. Pokross Chair of Law and Social Policy (1986-99); and Dartmouth College Government Department, where she was Research Professor of Government (1999-2014). She has taught as a visitor at Yale, Tulane, University of Bremen, Germany, and National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. Stone is the author of Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making, which has been published in multiple editions (W.W. Norton), translated into five languages, and won the Aaron Wildavsky Award from the American Political Science Association for its enduring contribution to policy studies. She has also authored three other books: The Samaritan's Dilemma (Nation Books, 2008), The Disabled State (Temple University Press 1984), and The Limits of Professional Power (University of Chicago Press, 1980). She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Health Politics, and Policy and Law (of which she was a founder); Women, Politics and Public Policy, and Critical Policy Studies. In addition to numerous articles in academic journals and book chapters, she writes for general audiences. She was the founding senior editor of The American Prospect and her articles have appeared there as well as in in Nation, New Republic, Boston Review, Civilization, Natural History, and Natural New England. Stone has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvard Law School, German Marshall Fund, Open Society Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar in 2005-2006, and a Senior Fellow at Demos from 2008-2012. She has served as a consultant to the Social Security Administration, the Institute of Medicine, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Human Genome Project. Stone is also the recipient of numerous professional awards, including, the 2013 Charles M. McCoy Career Achievement Award for a progressive political scientist who has had a long successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist (American Political Science Association).

In Episode Five of the University of Bath's Research with Impact podcast, Roland visits two researchers at the forefront of debates surrounding AI development and regulation. First up, it's Nello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence from Bath's Department of Computer Science. With a focus on machine learning, data science, computational social science, philosophy of AI and regulation of AI, Nello's book "The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us", considers how AI is embedded across our technologies, infrastructure and all our lives and asks whether we should be concerned and what should we do. Roland also heads to our Department of Social & Policy Sciences to talk to Professor Emma Carmel. Emma is Professor of Governance and Public Policy with a particular focus on how public policies, and public and private organisations interact to shape society. Emma's work has analysed social and labour market policies, migration, and most recently, AI technologies. She is interested in how AI systems are used by governments, and how this is changing the relationship between state, society, citizens and technologies. She also works on the public policy challenges that the adoption of AI presents in different settings and how it can be regulated. Among other work, Emma is co-editor of a major new international handbook on AI and Public Policy, is launching a book series on Governance, Technology and Society (Edward Elgar) in 2024. This episode was recorded in October 2023.

In this episode, podcast host, Matt Richter is joined by Nigel Paine, organizational learning and leadership expert. Together, they spend the whole episode exploring that nebulous and vague concept of leadership. They fail to definitively lock in a definition for leadership— thus demonstrating one of the inherent challenges organizations face when leveraging LD programs. But, more importantly, they look at what we can do, when we effectively develop leaders within organizational contexts. Leaders are all about managing… managing the context. No one style, approach, model, theory, or consultant prescription will work in all scenarios… of at all. So, what is one to do? Focus on flexibly adapting and managing that aforementioned context. Recognize that that there are so many different perspectives— the leaders, the followers, other players, etc. And then find ways to accept and leverage those different perspectives.In other words, leadership is utterly founded on adaptation and change. It is about systems thinking. To paraphrase Keith Grint, leadership is all about working to solve those wicked problems we face.Nigel answers the question about how we can predict or forecast whether someone will be a good leader. Which then leads to a discussion of how we conceive of leadership in our culture and how we describe leadership success.Below are some references and notes from the show:We referenced both Barbara Kellerman and Jeffrey Pfeffer:Kellerman, B. (2012). The End of Leadership. New York: Harper Collins. Kellerman, B. (2015). Hard Times: Leadership in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Pfeffer, J. (2015). Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time. New York, Harper Business. Matt mentioned some of the Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus management comparisons reference: Young, M., & Dulewicz, V. (2007). Similarities and Differences between Leadership and Management: High-Performance Competencies in the British Royal Navy. British Journal of Management, 19(1), 17-32. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2007.00534.xAnd the book from them is LEADERS: Strategies for Taking Charge.Nigel mentioned John Kotter. Here are two references that sum up his work nicely.Kotter, J.P. (2001) What Leaders Really Do. Harvard Business Review. December 2001.Adapted from A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs From Management (pp. 3–8), by J. P. Kotter, 1990, New York, NY: Free Press. General Electric's Crotonville Leadership Institute was actually opened in 1956, not in 1947, as Nigel stated. We referred to Keith Grint and his article:Grint, K. (2005). Problems, problems, problems: The social construction of ‘leadership.' Human Relations. 58 (11), 1467-1494.The originators of wicked and tame problems: Rittel and Webber.Rittel, H.W.J. and Webber, M.M.. (1973) Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences. 4, pp. 155-169.Peter Senge and The Fifth Discipline. You can find the book anywhere books are sold.Winston Churchill. There are a ton of biographies about Churchill. Matt's favorite's are the William Manchester volumes. Neville Chamberlain reference: Self, R. (2013, September 30). Was Neville Chamberlain Really a Weak and Terrible Leader? Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24300094.Tina Kiefer— and others—  on the drawing a Leader exercise: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/health/women-leadership-workplace.html?smid=url-share Joseph Devlin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph-t-devlin_learningstyles-brainmyth-activity-7113156889688854528-RFWZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

刚刚过去的端午小长假，无论是旅游、娱乐、交通还是餐饮都掀起了消费的热浪。专家指出，假期消费热潮有助于推动我国的经济复苏和增长。Consumption boomed in China on Thursday — the first day of Dragon Boat Festival holiday — benefiting the tourism, entertainment, transportation and catering sectors in particular, which experts said will help facilitate the country's economic recovery and growth.端午节假期首日掀起的消费热浪给旅游、娱乐、交通和餐饮行业都带来了利好，专家指出这将有助于推动我国的经济复苏和增长。Tourist destinations across the country were flooded with millions of visitors taking advantage of the three-day holiday, according to data released by various localities.各地数据显示，端午三天小长假期间，全国各地旅游景点人潮涌动。Shanghai, for instance, tallied more than 2.76 million visits on Thursday, while Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou, home to the West Lake, registered 882,000 visits, data from local tourism departments showed.地方旅游部门数据显示，6月22日上海接待游客超276万人次，而拥有西湖美景的浙江省会杭州接待游客88.2万人次。Tourists also flocked to places such as Zibo, Shandong province, to enjoy its famed barbecue; Chengdu, Sichuan province, to see giant pandas; and Changbai Mountain, Jilin province, to escape the summer heat.还有许多游客到山东淄博去吃当地著名烧烤，到四川成都去看大熊猫，到吉林长白山去避暑。Xu Hongcai, deputy director of the economic policy committee at the China Association of Policy Sciences, said that the holiday travel spending spree is further evidence that the tourism sector is recovering after the country fine-tuned its COVID-19 response measures in January.中国政策科学研究会经济政策委员会副主任徐洪才指出，假期旅游消费热潮进一步证明，自从今年1月份我国优化新冠防控措施以后，旅游行业正在复苏。More importantly, the holiday tourist boom has shed light on the resilience and strength of the world's second-largest economy and will factor in the nation's overall economic recovery efforts this year, Xu said.他表示，更重要的是，假期旅游热展示出我国作为世界第二大经济体的韧性和力量，并将助推我国经济的全面复苏。"I would have liked to travel to any destination as long as I could secure a high-speed train ticket or a flight ticket at a relatively inexpensive price," said Zhang Liyang, a 29-year-old who works for a consulting company in Beijing.就职于北京一家咨询公司的29岁的张立阳（音译）说：“只要我能买到价格比较合适的高铁票或飞机票，我愿意到任何地方去旅游。”However, Zhang failed to find cheaper train tickets — which are much more difficult to acquire as the public engages in intense competition to secure them during holidays — and flight tickets were over his budget. He chose to stay in Beijing instead and enjoy some films.但是，张立阳没买到比较便宜的高铁票（假期低价高铁票太难抢，竞争太激烈），飞机票也超出了他的预算。于是他选择留在北京看电影。"As a movie buff, homegrown films released during the Dragon Boat Festival did not let me down, especially the crime thriller Lost in the Stars," he said, adding that he also watched another Chinese movie, Love Never Ends, which tells the story of two lonely, impoverished elderly lovers at the end of their lives.他说：“端午节期间上映的国产电影并没有让我这个电影迷失望，尤其是犯罪惊悚片《消失的她》。”他表示自己还看了另一部国产电影《我爱你！》，该片讲述了两个孤独贫穷的老年人的黄昏恋。According to movie data platform Maoyan, China's box office receipts from Thursday to Friday morning topped 400 million yuan ($55.7 million).电影数据平台猫眼电影称，从6月22日至23日晨，国内的票房收入突破了4亿元人民币。Furthermore, people have shown a stronger willingness to dine out for gatherings during the holiday as evidenced by data released by the Ministry of Commerce.此外，据商务部发布的数据显示，端午小长假期间，人们外出聚餐的意愿也增强了。According to China UnionPay Merchant Services, food and beverage spending increased by more than 20 percent year-on-year in the past seven days.中国银联商户服务平台的数据显示，过去一周食品饮料消费同比上涨超20%。Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said that the government should roll out more policy measures, such as issuing discount coupons, to sustain robust consumption momentum after the holiday.中国光大银行分析师周茂华表示，政府应推出更多政策措施，比如发放折扣券，来保持假期后消费的良好势头。In the face of weakening external demand and sluggishness in the global economy, China needs to fully tap the potential of its domestic consumption to shore up its economic growth this year, he added.他指出，面对外部需求疲软和全球经济低迷的现实，中国需要充分挖掘国内消费潜力来支撑今年的经济增长。Vacation英 /veɪˈkeɪʃn/美 /veɪˈkeɪʃn/n.假期Consumption英 /kənˈsʌmpʃn/美 /kənˈsʌmpʃn/n. 消费SoarV.猛增

In this episode of Lowy Institute Conversations, Project Director and Research Fellow Dr Jennifer Hsu talks with Dr Max Grömping and Professor Jessica Teets to explore how lobbying by civil society organisations works in an authoritarian context. Using case studies from China, Russia, Belarus, Cambodia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Turkey and Zimbabwe, Lobbying the Autocrat explores how citizen advocacy organisations carve out niches in the authoritarian policy process, even influencing policy outcomes. Dr Max Grömping is senior lecturer at the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University (Australia). His research interests include lobbying and advocacy in different political regime contexts, disinformation, and electoral integrity. He previously worked as lecturer at Heidelberg University (Germany), research associate at the University of Sydney (Australia), and instructor in international relations at Thammasat University (Thailand). Max is an affiliate of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), and associate editor for the journal Democratization. His work has been published in academic journals such as Political Communication, Governance, Party Politics, and Policy Sciences, among others. Professor Jessica C. Teets is Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and Templeton Fellow for the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Her research focuses on governance in authoritarian regimes, especially the role of civic participation. She is the author of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014), editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (Routledge Contemporary China Series, 2014), and editor (with Max Grömping) of Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (University of Michigan Press, 2023).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Troyer is the former Director of the Centre for Death and Society and Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. He grew up in the American funeral industry. Troyer's site: https://johntroyer.com/ Book link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542319/technologies-of-the-human-corpse/ ---   Become part of the Hermitix community:   Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast  Support Hermitix:   Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix  Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod  Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2  Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK   Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Episode Three: How can we tackle preventable diseases? In Episode Three of the University of Bath's Research with Impact podcast, Roland Pease discusses preventable diseases with three of the University's world-leading experts, whose research focuses on improving health around the world. Professor Asel Sartbaeva – based in the Department of Chemistry and Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies – first joined the University in the Earth Sciences Department and went on to focus on the design and synthesis of zeolites and biomolecule. Asel's work on vaccine stability using silica aims to do away with the need for refrigeration of vaccines. Dr John Campbell – from the Department for Health – collaborates with Bath Royal United Hospital, and national and international collaborators, to investigate how exercise augments anti-cancer immunity. John is currently leading a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award exploring the impact of exercise on blood cancer immunotherapies. Professor Harry Rutter – from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences – is a member of numerous influential research teams which work on issues affecting public health policy across the UK and beyond. A previous medical doctor, Harry founded the National Obesity Observatory and has a strong interest in promoting greater active travel. Most recently Harry has used his expertise and experiences in assessing public health responses to Covid-19. For more information on our guests and the University of Bath's Research with Impact Podcast please visit go.bath.ac.uk/research-with-impact or follow @uniofbath.

Ended a day ago Barbara DiPietro has been working on health care and homeless policy for 25 years in both the public and non-profit sector. She holds a Master's Degree in Policy Sciences and a PhD in Public Policy, both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her dissertation research focused on the impact of homelessness on emergency departments in Baltimore City, and she continues to work to ensure that health care systems can better serve vulnerable populations. For 10 years, she worked for the State of Maryland in the Governor's Office as well as the Department of Health, helping coordinate health and human services policy and legislation, inter-agency children and family services, and the state's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. For the last 13 years, she has been Senior Director of Policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. In this role, she focuses on national policies that advance the human right to housing and health care, and end homelessness. She is based at the Health Care for the Homeless program in Baltimore City. Contact Counterparts here: www.counterpartsshow.com

Ended a day ago Barbara DiPietro has been working on health care and homeless policy for 25 years in both the public and non-profit sector. She holds a Master's Degree in Policy Sciences and a PhD in Public Policy, both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her dissertation research focused on the impact of homelessness on emergency departments in Baltimore City, and she continues to work to ensure that health care systems can better serve vulnerable populations. For 10 years, she worked for the State of Maryland in the Governor's Office as well as the Department of Health, helping coordinate health and human services policy and legislation, inter-agency children and family services, and the state's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. For the last 13 years, she has been Senior Director of Policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. In this role, she focuses on national policies that advance the human right to housing and health care, and end homelessness. She is based at the Health Care for the Homeless program in Baltimore City. Contact Counterparts here: www.counterpartsshow.com

Barbara DiPietro has been working on health care and homeless policy for 25 years in both the public and non-profit sectors. She holds a Master's Degree in Policy Sciences and a PhD in Public Policy, both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her dissertation research focused on the impact of homelessness on emergency departments in Baltimore City, and she continues to work to ensure that healthcare systems can better serve vulnerable populations. For 10 years, she worked for the State of Maryland in the Governor's Office as well as the Department of Health, helping coordinate health and human services policy and legislation, inter-agency children and family services, and the state's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. For the last 13 years, she has been Senior Director of Policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. In this role, she focuses on national policies that advance the human right to housing and health care, and end homelessness. She is based at the Health Care for the Homeless program in Baltimore City. Contact Counterparts here: www.counterpartsshow.com

Allison C. Carey is a Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg University and director of the Master's Program in Organizational Development and Leadership. She co-authored Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities (Temple University Press, 2020), and authored Disability and the Sociological Imagination (Sage, 2022) and On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America. She is co-series editor of Research in Social Science and Disability and has co-edited several volumes for that series, as well as co-editing Disability Incarcerated: Disability and Imprisonment in the United States and Canada. In 2021, she was awarded the Outstanding Career in the Sociology of Disability award from the Disability and Society section of American Sociological Association. She can be reached at accare@ship.edu. Pamela Block's Bio & Contact information Richard K. Scotch is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas. His teaching includes courses on medical sociology, social stratification, and social and health policy, while his research focuses on social policy and social movements related to disability, health, and education. He currently serves as Program Head of the Sociology and Public Health Program and the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences. Dr. Scotch's most recent book, Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities was coauthored with Allison Carey and Pam Block and published by Temple University Press. In this episode we discuss the history of parent-led disability advocacy organizations and their relationships to and interactions with organizations led by people with disabilities. We also discussed how this history relates to current mindsets about disability, collaborative efforts between parent organizations and disabled activists, as well as tensions among these groups. If you are an educator, this will give you insight into why parents might have vastly different perspectives. If you are a parent, not only will you feel understood, but also empowered with new information. Links or Resources Mentioned Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities - Note: Allies and Obstacles won an Outstanding Publication Award from the Disability & Society section of the American Sociological Association and the Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Society. Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai Just Care: The Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependence, and Desire by Akemi Nishida United for Communication Choice Stay Connected with Diana Diana's Website Free Resource - 5 Keys to Going Beyond Awareness Beyond Awareness: Bringing Disability into Diversity in K-12 Schools & Communities - Diana's Book Ed Roberts: Champion of Disability Rights - Diana's Children's Book "Beyond Awareness" Digital Course Diana's TEDx Talk Beyond Awareness Facebook Page Diana on Instagram Beyond Awareness Tote Bag Beyond Awareness Pullover Hoodie Beyond Awareness Raglan Baseball T-Shirt Beyond Awareness Journal/Notebook Diana's Teachers Pay Teachers Store - Disability as Diversity Credits and Image Description Intro and outro music courtesy of Emmanuel Castro. Podcast cover photo by Rachel Schlesinger Photography. Podcast cover image description: Black and white photograph of Diana, a Spanish-American woman with long, wavy, brown hair. She is wearing a flowy, white blouse and smiles at camera as she leans against wooden building. Photo is colorfully framed with gold and orange rays of seeming sunshine on top half, and with solid sage green color on bottom half. Text reads "Beyond Awareness: Disability Awareness That Matters, Diana Pastora Carson, M.Ed."

What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr John Troyer discuss technology and the human corpse, necrowaste, necrophilia laws, transdisciplinary death studies, grief and his sister and mother's deaths. Who is John? Dr John Troyer is the Death Studies Scholar-at-Large and former director of the University of Bath's Centre for Death and Society in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. John received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "Technologies of the Human Corpse" was awarded the University of Minnesota's 2006 Best Dissertation Award in the Arts and Humanities. In 2020 MIT Press published his most recent book under the same title. From 2007-2008 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University teaching the cultural studies of science and technology. In 2018 he was awarded the University of Minnesota's Alumni of Notable Achievement Award for his work on death and dying and in 2019 he received the University of Bath's Mary Tasker Award for excellence in teaching. Within the field of death studies, John focuses on the history of science and technology, science and technology studies, bioethics and the law. How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists? To cite this episode, you can use the following citation: Troyer, J. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 September 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20750005 What Next? Check out more episodes or find out more about the hosts! Got a question? Get in touch. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedeathstudiespodcast/message

Death & dying are topics that clinicians frequently tackle both directly (as manifested around a fear of death), indirectly (through discussion of questions of meaning, managing pulls towards nihilism) and process-wise, through helping clients manage grief around the loss of a loved one or to process/manage their own impending death.  Medical Anthropologist & podcaster, Dr. Renske Visser, joins us for a discussion of the topics of death & dying.  In this conversation we cover:  what led Dr. Visser towards the study of medical anthropology and the sub-speciality of aging, dying and deaththe experiences that have shaped Dr. Visser's personal reflections on death and dyingthe important distinction between death and dying Dr. Visser's thoughts on the importance of cultural tools in navigating death & dyingconsideration of the inborn psychological tools we may posses for managing death vs. messaging by/distraction of modern societyhow the subjectivity that we bring to our own conceptualizations of death, influences how we talk about, research & generally deal with deathhow attitudes towards death and dying change across the arc of the lifespan and a consideration of how good (or bad) we are at predicting how we will feel about our deaths when the time comes    potential "active ingredients" with respect to what eases the process of dying for people psychologically  (control, place of death etc.)why the notion of “home” (i.e., dying at home) is often so prominent in discussions around end of life and how this applies  to more marginalized settings like mental health institutions, prisons etc.  how the ongoing cultural evolution around euthanasia/medical assistance in dying has influenced attitudes & conversations about dying/deathconsideration of conundrums & observations around extending medical assistance in dying to those with mental disorders the missed opportunities with respect to talking about dying more openlyaspects of our day-to-day life (or way that we lives our day-to-day life) that are profoundly affected by knowledge of our own death that we don't always (or ever) acknowledge or we could benefit from making more conscious or intentionalFeedback or comments?  Email the show at: oicbtpodcast@gmail.comRenske Visser is a Medical Anthropologist interested in Ageing, Dying and Death. Renske was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has lived and worked in England and is currently living in Helsinki, Finland. She holds a PhD in Social and Policy Sciences from the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath and has done research on parental bereavement in young adulthood, homemaking in later life, ageing in secure environments, and cancer care in prison. Renske is the post-doctoral representative of the Association for the Study of Death and Society. She has a blog entitled Dead Good Reading, where she reviews books on death, dying and the dead, and is co-host of the Death Studies Podcast which is a monthly podcast and a  platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. https://www.deadgoodreading.com/

This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth welcomes K Royal, the recently-approved PhD graduand (yes, it's a word) fresh from her dissertation defense on Privacy Complaince in US Universities. Many of our listeners likely participated in the nearly-anonymous Delphi Method part of her research, where privacy professionals around the world answered a series of questions to determine critical parts about privacy in the university setting. These included triggers, program elements, and risk factors. Her PhD is in public affairs, a fitting match for privacy law, from the University of Texas at Dallas, the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences.Join us as we discuss the substance of privacy law at US universities, some common misperceptions, but also the difference in the PhD process between the US and Europe. Some of your favorite topics come up, such as CCPA, GDPR, and HIPAA. Also, her research involves the complexity of managing privacy law in a complex environment, bringing in Complexity Theory as a framework. Complex Adaptive Systems was used in terms of privacy law by Zhang and Schmidt when considering China's privacy law back in 2015 in their paper Thinking of data protection law's subject matter as a complex adaptive system: A heuristic display.As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. In addition, if you like our podcast, please do rate and comment on our program in your favorite podcast app. We also have a LinkedIn page for Serious Privacy, so please follow for more in-depth discussion.

In this episode, Deirdre Heenan and Anne Matthews delve into how cross-border cooperation relating to health between Ireland and Northern Ireland really works. What collaborations are working? How did health co-operation really work during the COVID-19 pandemic? What are the best parts of each system? Does politics stand in the way of citizens' health? How could health outcomes for everyone on the island be improved? You can read Deirdre Heenan's paper at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.10 Anne Matthew's response is available at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.11. These were both published by ARINS in Irish Studies in International Affairs. Deirdre Heenan is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. Anne Matthews is a Professor in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health at Dublin City University. * This is episode 1 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

John Taden is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy and Political Economy at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He also has a Master of Science in Social Data Analytics and Research from the same school and a Master's in Business Administration from the Texas A&M University, Commerce. John was born and raised in Ghana where he had his Bachelor of Science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He regularly grants TV and radio interviews to TV and radio stations in Ghana on public policy issues of interest, including on taxes, national debt, and elections. John Taden is also passionate about mob justice attitudes in Africa. He currently runs a campaign to end the practice of mob justice and was invited to give a Ted Talk about mob justice in 2019. John has recently accepted an offer as Assistant Professor of International Studies at Pepperdine University.

Memorial tattoos can be such a unique and personal way to remember someone special who is no longer with us. A tattoo can help keep memories alive long after someone has gone.In this episode, Dr John Troyer shares his knowledge on the history of the memorial tattoo, his advice to anyone thinking about getting one, and we discuss the language and icons of the memorial tattoo. Dr Troyer is director of the Centre for Death and Society, an RCUK Research Fellow, and Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. John's book, The Technologies of the Human Corpse is available online across many book retailers through https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technologies-human-corpse See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Danyelle speaks with Dr. Alex Piquero of the University of Miami and formerly of the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at UT Dallas. **NOTES** UTD Departments Offer Anti-Racism Resources https://www.utdallas.edu/magazine/13198/utd-departments-offer-anti-racism-resources/ Police Study Links Low Self-Control, Officers' Use of Deadly Force https://utdallas.edu/news/social-sciences/police-study-links-low-self-control-officers-use-o/ Data Show Spike in Family Violence after Stay-at-Home Orders https://www.utdallas.edu/news/social-sciences/domestic-violence-covid-19-2020/ School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences https://epps.utdallas.edu/index.html

In this webinar, hosted by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Stephen Muers discusses culture and values in politics and policymaking; his experience in government; and what lessons can be learned. This webinar took place on 7 September 2020, as part of the MSc Public Policy online residential.

In Episode 25 haben wir uns mit Entscheiden unter Unsicherheit auseinandergesetzt. Wann macht Evidenz-basiertes Entscheiden Sinn, wann müssen wir andere Strategien anwenden. Dies war ein erster Aufschlag zu diesem Thema. In dieser Episode greifen wir einen der kurz erwähnten Aspekte auf und vertiefen ihn: Wicked Problems. Mit dem einflussreichen Fachartikel aus dem Jahr 1973 haben Horst Rittel und Melvin Webber den Begriff eingeführt, ins Deutsche vielleicht mit »bösartige Probleme« übersetzbar. Wir werden uns mit der Frage auseinandersetzen was Wicked Problems von Tame Problems also »zahmen Problemen« unterscheidet und welche Rolle Effizienz dabei spielt. Rittel und Webber beschreiben 10 Charakteristika von wicked problems, die ich auf 4+1 Aspekte zusammenfasse. Die Erkenntnisse dieses fast fünfzig Jahre alten Artikels sind heute gültiger als zur Zeit der Veröffentlichung. Das zeigen zahlreiche neuere Publikationen, die die Terminologie und Konzepte aufgreifen. Ich wähle beispielhaft zwei hervor: David Epstein (Range) und Chris Clearfield (Meltdown). Beide beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, wie wir mit den heute überall zu sehenden wicked problems und wicked domains umgehen sollen. Was ist die Konsequenz für unsere Zukunft? Schule, Universität, Politik, Management? Und nicht zuletzt: was halten wir von Experten, oder besser gesagt: wie können wir Experten, denen wir täglich in den Medien begegnen einschätzen? Referenzen Horst Rittel, Melvin Webber, Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning, Policy Sciences 4 (1973), 155-169 Peter Kruse, Wie reagieren Menschen auf Komplexität? Peter Kruse, Next Practice, Gabel (2004) David J. Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Riverhead (2019) Chris Clearfield, Meltdown: Why systems fail and what we can do about it, Atlantic (2018) Philip Tetlock, Superforecasting. The Art and Science of Prediction, Cornerstone (2015) Roger Willemsen: Die Kunst des Streitens in der Mediengesellschaft, Keynote (2014)

Danyelle speaks with Dr. Doug Kiel, professor of public and nonprofit management in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. **NOTES** UT Dallas COVID-19 Information Webpage utdallas.edu/coronavirus Dr. Doug Kiel profiles.utdallas.edu/lowell.kiel personal.utdallas.edu/~dkiel/ Dallas Business Journal: COVID-19 is changing business — and that could mean new work-from-home efforts when offices reopen, feat. Dr. Doug Kiel www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/202…-from-home.html EPPS Public and Nonprofit Management Program epps.utdallas.edu/about/programs/p…ofit-management/ EPPS Facebook www.facebook.com/UTDEPPS EPPS Instagram www.instagram.com/utdepps EPPS Twitter twitter.com/UTDEPPS

Dr. Lloyd Jeff Dumas is a Professor of Political Economy, Economics, and Public Policy in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the UT-Dallas. In an interview for AllatRa TV Professor Dumas shared his thoughts and understandings of how to make the economy more stable, talks about limitation of capital and its advantages how inflation can be avoided, whether people can unite, and what relationship among each other people can have so that a constructive, flourishing society can be built. During the interview with Dr.Lloyd Jeff Dumas we also talked about the Creative Society project of ALLATRA International Public Movement. More about this project at the allatraunites website. SOCIETY. THE LAST CHANCE, May 11th, 2019. International Conference on ALLATRA IPM platform https://youtu.be/yKUX_QXSelE Round Table. Creative and Constructive Economy. Limitation of capital. Questions and answers: https://youtu.be/ZPv7bxhonfQ #creativesociety #allatraunites #economy #worldeconomy #society #allatra

Ricardo and Danyelle sit down with Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology, who dissects the question: “Could we ever use science to fight crime?” (Clip from “Unbelievable” by Netflix) **Links** D.A.R.E. > https://www.livescience.com/33795-effective.html Dallas District Attorney John Cruezot > https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2019/04/11/dallas-da-reveals-plan-for-ending-mass-incarceration-for-petty-crimes-slashing-probation-and-bail/ Dallas DA’s Plan to Give Petty Criminals a Pass Could Backfire, Police Leaders Argue > https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2019/04/12/dallas-da-s-plan-to-give-petty-criminals-a-pass-could-backfire-police-leaders-argue/ Dr. Piquero’s NFL study > https://www.utdallas.edu/news/research/ut-dallas-criminologist-tackles-perception-of-nfl/ Dr. Piquero’s theme park study > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/07418825.2019.1677935 School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences > https://epps.utdallas.edu/ More about Dr. Piquero > https://www.utdallas.edu/chairs/profiles/dr-alex-r-piquero/

In this talk, Prof Louise Brown of Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath discusses the GCRF-funded project that focusses on transferring, contextualising and implementing sustainable social work interventions into low and middle income countries.

Listen NowThough difficult to accurately calculate for obvious reasons, the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) 2018 point-in-time survey identified over 550,000 individuals living in emergency shelters, transitional housing or were unsheltered.  One-third were families, a disproportionate number were African American and/or veterans and a growing number were victims of wildfires or a severe climate event (think: Hurricane Florence or Michael).  The homelessness problem is worsening for numerous reasons including growing income inequality and the lack of livable wages, failed federal policy, an insufficient stock of affordable housing, the criminalization of poverty and health care that leaves nearly 30 million non-elderly uncovered and/or is ill equipped to diagnose and treat a homeless population that bears a heavy disease burden that includes psychotic and affective disorders.  During this 30 minute conversation Mr. Watts and Dr. DePietro begin by briefly explaining how NHCHC is organized and its mission.  They discuss moreover upstream or systemic causes of homelessness, the inadequacy of affordable housing and the failure of related federal policy, the criminalization of homelessness and its effects,  the prevalence and largely unmet physical and behavioral health care needs, associated health care costs and what some health care institutions are doing to recognize the necessity of combining medical care with social service supports including housing. Mr. G. Robert (Bobby) Watts is the CEO of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.  Mr.Watts has more than 25 years of experience in administration, direct service, and implementation of homeless health services. He began his work with people experiencing homelessness as a live-in staff member of the New York City Rescue Mission in Manhattan.   Previously he served as the ED of New York City's Care for the Homeless where he significantly expanded the organizations FQHC and constructed a women's shelter.   Mr. Watts is also the former Finance Officer of the New York City HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council.   He has served on the Steering Committee of the New York City Medicaid Managed Care Task Force and a member of the New York State Interagency Council on Homelessness and numerous other related committees, task forces and work groups.  He earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell University, his a MPH and Master's of Science in epidemiology from Columbia University and holds a Certificate of Theological Studies from Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack,Barbara DiPietro, Ph.D.,  directs the policy and advocacy activities for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. This includes conducting policy analysis, providing educational materials and presentations to a broad range of policymakers and other stakeholders, coordinating the Council's policy priorities with national partners, and organizing staff assistance to the Policy Committee and the National Consumer Advisory Board.   Previously, she worked for the State of Maryland in the Governor's Office as well as the Department of Health.  Dr. DePietro holds a Master's Degree in Policy Sciences and a Doctorate in Public Policy, both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Her dissertation research focused on the impact of homelessness on emergency departments in Baltimore City. For information on NHCHC go to: https://nhchc.org/  Per my mention of the 2018 UN report on poverty in the US, i.e., "Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights" go to: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=EPer my mention of Amazon's opposition last year to a Seattle tax that would have helped the homeless, see: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/technology/seattle-tax-amazon.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

We've been banging the drum about transparency of payment to doctors for years - we've even put a moratorium on financial conflicts of interest in the authors of any of our education articles. Not because we think that all doctors who receive money from industry are being influenced to push their agenda - but because we have no way of telling when that's happening… At the same time, and rightly, patient groups are becoming more involved in setting things like research priorities, and in guideline development - and we're campaigning to increase that involvement. but as that involvement increases, it's also important to make sure that potential industry influence is made transparent. Piotr Ozieranski, is an assistant professor at the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath and one of the authors of a new analysis which attempts to build a picture of industry funding of UK patient groups. Read the full analysis: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1806

How can detective fiction explain the social world? In Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Mary Evans and Hazel Johnstone, both from the London School of Economics' Department of Gender Studies,  and Sarah Moore, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath's Department of Social and Policy Sciences, set out a radical agenda for contemporary social theory grounded in an analysis of detective fiction since the 1970s. The book uses a range of examples from the genre, as well as comparative discussions with previous eras of detective fiction. In doing so, the book demonstrates how questions of modernity, globalisation, trust in institutions, blame and responsibility, gender and gender relations, along with the rise of neoliberalism and the transformation of the social state since the 1970s can be understood through key works such as Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. By showing an alternative to 'unpeopled' social theories, the book will be key reading across the social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can detective fiction explain the social world? In Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Mary Evans and Hazel Johnstone, both from the London School of Economics' Department of Gender Studies,  and Sarah Moore, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath's Department of Social and Policy Sciences, set out a radical agenda for contemporary social theory grounded in an analysis of detective fiction since the 1970s. The book uses a range of examples from the genre, as well as comparative discussions with previous eras of detective fiction. In doing so, the book demonstrates how questions of modernity, globalisation, trust in institutions, blame and responsibility, gender and gender relations, along with the rise of neoliberalism and the transformation of the social state since the 1970s can be understood through key works such as Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. By showing an alternative to 'unpeopled' social theories, the book will be key reading across the social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can detective fiction explain the social world? In Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Mary Evans and Hazel Johnstone, both from the London School of Economics' Department of Gender Studies,  and Sarah Moore, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath's Department of Social and Policy Sciences, set out a radical agenda for contemporary social theory grounded in an analysis of detective fiction since the 1970s. The book uses a range of examples from the genre, as well as comparative discussions with previous eras of detective fiction. In doing so, the book demonstrates how questions of modernity, globalisation, trust in institutions, blame and responsibility, gender and gender relations, along with the rise of neoliberalism and the transformation of the social state since the 1970s can be understood through key works such as Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. By showing an alternative to 'unpeopled' social theories, the book will be key reading across the social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can detective fiction explain the social world? In Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Mary Evans and Hazel Johnstone, both from the London School of Economics' Department of Gender Studies,  and Sarah Moore, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath's Department of Social and Policy Sciences, set out a radical agenda for contemporary social theory grounded in an analysis of detective fiction since the 1970s. The book uses a range of examples from the genre, as well as comparative discussions with previous eras of detective fiction. In doing so, the book demonstrates how questions of modernity, globalisation, trust in institutions, blame and responsibility, gender and gender relations, along with the rise of neoliberalism and the transformation of the social state since the 1970s can be understood through key works such as Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. By showing an alternative to 'unpeopled' social theories, the book will be key reading across the social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can detective fiction explain the social world? In Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Mary Evans and Hazel Johnstone, both from the London School of Economics' Department of Gender Studies,  and Sarah Moore, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath's Department of Social and Policy Sciences, set out a radical agenda for contemporary social theory grounded in an analysis of detective fiction since the 1970s. The book uses a range of examples from the genre, as well as comparative discussions with previous eras of detective fiction. In doing so, the book demonstrates how questions of modernity, globalisation, trust in institutions, blame and responsibility, gender and gender relations, along with the rise of neoliberalism and the transformation of the social state since the 1970s can be understood through key works such as Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. By showing an alternative to 'unpeopled' social theories, the book will be key reading across the social sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, team members from ASU’s Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research (Michael Moramarco, Karen J. Saewert, and Jinnette Senecal) and special guest Barbara Maxwell (A.T. Still University - Mesa, AZ) explore the concept and characteristics of wicked problems in relation to health care systems. We discuss the multifaceted ways that interprofessional practice and education may provide a unique lens and set of strategies for approaching the wicked problem of achieving the quadruple aim. The conversation is anchored by select excerpts of conversations the CAIPER team held at the 2018 National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Nexus Summit (MN). Resources: - Health in America is a Wicked Problem - https://stakeholderhealth.org/wicked-problem/ - Is Teamwork the Solution to “Wicked” Health Care? - https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/accelerate/blog/2017/04/kyle-bradford-jones-is-teamwork-the-solution-to-wicked-health-care.php - Rittel, Horst, and Webber. (1973). Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences 4, Elsevier Scientific Publishing, Amsterdam, pp. 155-159 - https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01405730 - Roberts, N.C. (2000). "Wicked Problems and Network Approaches to Resolution". International Public Management Review. International Public Management Network. 1 (1) http://journals.sfu.ca/ipmr/index.php/ipmr/article/view/175/175 - Sykes, Sam [@SamSykesSwears]. (2018, August 22). every day that spiders have not grown wings is a good day [Tweet]. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/SamSykesSwears/status/1032196664470061057 - Wicked Problem (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem - World Coordinating Committee All Together Better Health - http://www.atbh.org/about-us.html The CAIPER team would like to extend a sincere note of gratitude and recognition to those who sat down with us at the 2018 Nexus Summit and provided interviews for this episode (in order of appearance): 1. Dr. Barbara Brandt, Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, University of Minnesota 2. Dr. Claudia Chaperon*, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center 3. Dr. Erin Appelt, Professor of Practice, Midwestern University 4. Dr. Oaklee Rogers, Chair, Occupational Therapy, Assistant Clinical Professor, Northern Arizona University 5. Dr. Lillee Smith Gelinas, Senior Fellow Nurse Executive, Institute for Patient Safety, University of North Texas Health Science Center 6. Stephanie Lackey, Project Coordinator, Accelerating Grant Initiative, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, University of Minnesota 7. Dr. Joy Doll, Associate Professor, Creighton University 8. Dr. Barbara Maxwell, Professor and University Director of Interprofessional Education and Collaboration, A.T. Still University 9. Dr. Shelly Cohen-Conrad, Professor and Director, School of Social Work and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative, University of New England 10. Dr. George M. Thibault, President Emeritus, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation And finally, a special note of thanks to Aaron Kraft (ASU), for assistance with the media production process during studio recording, and Ricardo Leon (ASU), for series development consultation and on-site conference recording support. *“The Accelerating Interprofessional Community-based Education Practice Grant is supported by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education with funding and in collaboration with Robert Johnson Foundation, the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. More information about the National Center can be found at nexusipe.org. This content and opinions are those of the author and should be construed as the official policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education or any of the National Center’s private founders or funders.”

Continuing the conversation about immigration policy, our first expert is Dr. Alex Piquero from the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Alex R. Piquero is Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. 

In this inaugural lecture, Professor Tess Ridge from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, will be discussing the hidden costs of the Government's poverty and austerity policies for Britain's poorest children.

Professor Malcolm Johnson from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath looks at the changing face of death in an ageing society.