Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures Podcast
1) Who are we? Contesting and transforming racialised histories and futures in the Carolean era
This talk draws on the ways racialisation features in contemporary society and raise basic, but vexed questions about identities and the stories we tell to account for ourselves and contemporary socia...Show More
2) Who are we? Contesting and transforming racialised histories and futures in the Carolean era
This talk draws on the ways racialisation features in contemporary society and raise basic, but vexed questions about identities and the stories we tell to account for ourselves and contemporary socia...Show More
3) What Next for Social Policy
Professor Fiona Williams explores how contemporary social movements – especially those around gender, race, migration, disability, austerity and the environment – pose material, political and ethical ...Show More
4) Why should we have trust in numbers? Making evidence more reliable, and empowering people to check it
Professor David Spiegelhalter, , Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge delivers the annual Sidn...Show More
5) Britain, Europe and Social Policy
For the 2016 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture, Professor Colin Crouch, Vice-President for Social Sciences, gives a talk on European social policies. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alik...Show More
6) Anti-Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Institutionalization for Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses: Finding Common Ground
The 2015 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture, Anti-Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Institutionalization for Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses: Finding Common Ground, delivered by Dr Phyllis Solomon, Unive...Show More
7) The Major Assumptions of Evidence-Based Policy: Bringing Empirical Evidence to Bear
The Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2014 given by Professor Tom Cook. This paper identifies three major assumptions of the current evidence-based policy movement that seeks to use scientific methods to i...Show More
The Major Assumptions of Evidence-Based Policy: Bringing Empirical Evidence to Bear
51:33 | Nov 4th, 2014
8) Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action - Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2013
The 2013 lecture 'Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action' delivered by Baroness Lister of Burtersett on 4th of December 2013 in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College. The Departme...Show More
Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action - Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2013
59:20 | Dec 17th, 2013
9) The Reform of the Welfare State and the Dynamics of People's Lives - Sydney Ball Memorial Lecture 2012
The 2012 lecture 'The Reform of the Welfare State and the Dynamics of People's Lives' delivered by Professor John Hills (London School of Economics) on Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 5 p.m. in the Niss...Show More
10) Evidence-based Interventions in Juvenile Justice: Concepts, Research, Practice, and Frontiers
Professor Mark Lipsey (Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt University) delivers the 2011 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wal...Show More
Evidence-based Interventions in Juvenile Justice: Concepts, Research, Practice, and Frontiers
1:06:38 | Nov 24th, 2011