ePODstemology
Medicine for intellectual boredom. Host Dr Mark Fabian of Cambridge University brings together an eclectic mix of creative young folk to discuss the most stimulating ideas at the knowledge frontier, from data governance to the metamodern cultural mode, and everything in between. The world's most thoughtful people, having a chat - and you're invited! So turn off your socials, throw away your popular science books, and get ready for some legit galaxy brain takes. Thanks to Keith Spangle for the spaceship cat avatar https://www.deviantart.com/keithspangle
Episodes
48 episodes
Regenerating democracy with less polling and more deliberation
Democracy is unwell. Trust in politicians, institutions, experts, and other people is steadily falling across the OECD, and even young people seem to be losing faith in the system. What can be done? One idea that has gained traction and demonst...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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1:14:12
Empowering mission driven bureaucrats to provide better public services
In the UK, up to 80% of a social worker’s time can be spent filling out forms rather than helping the desperate people in their care. This is an example of what Dan Honig calls ‘management for compliance’. Honig is associate professor of public...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:01:00
Realising the potential of digital governance with Aaron Maniam
“Digital governance” is a term commonly used to refer to the transformative potential of integrating contemporary technological advances into the day-to-day activities of government. Electronic filing of tax returns, text message reminders to g...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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58:11
Evidence based ways to help your loved ones with eating disorders
Dr Jaclyn Siegel from NORC at the University of Chicago joins regular ePODstemology host Dr Mark Fabian to discuss the psychological science of eating disorders and body image, especially her own qualitative research on eating disorders in the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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56:40
How algorithms control workers
ePODstemology brings you cutting edge insights and analysis from early career researchers to help you cut through 21st century complexity. A major driver of that complexity is Algorithms - an increasingly ubiquitous yet remarkably opaque aspect...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:05:39
Plastic not-so-fantastic: how to reduce packaging waste
Some of you may have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of the Pacific Ocean roughly 1.6 million square kilometres in size that contains between 45 000 to 129 000 metrics tonnes of plastic waste, mostly in the form of microplasti...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:02:05
How machine learning is going to affect your life
This podcast strives to bring forward new insights and innovative frameworks for understanding the world of the 21st century. Few things underscore just how radically different things are today from the 20th century than recent advances in arti...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:02:57
What's hot in sports science?
James Steele is Associate Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at Solent University. He has extensive research and consultancy experience working with elite athletes across a range of sports, the general population across the lifespan, and b...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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58:17
How to do urban regeneration right
Regular host Dr Mark Fabian is joined by episode guest Dr Stefania Fiorentino, senior teaching associate in planning, growth, and urban regeneration at Cambridge university’s department of land economy. Dr Fiorentino’s research is at the inters...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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56:27
Culture, Morality, and Economics in Reef Management by Local Communities
Regular host Dr Mark Fabian is joined by Dr Jacqui Lau, senior lecturer and discovery early career fellow (DECRA) at James Cook University in Australia. Jacqui is an environmental scientist employing interdisciplinary perspectives and mixed met...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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55:13
Copaganda - How reality TV shows about police affect criminal justice reform
‘Copaganda’ is the name given to media that seeks to portray the police in a favourable, often distorted light. This includes fictional shows like Law and Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigations, and Miami Vice, as well as reality-TV style shows...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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58:37
How can we get more action on climate change?
Climate change is the biggest existential threat facing humanity. So why aren’t we doing more about it? This week’s guest is Dr Antonio Valentim, a political scientist and postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s MacMillan Centre. His research seeks to an...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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1:01:20
How to achieve democratic consolidation in Africa
While Kim Jong Un might disagreed, democracy is widely regarded as a universal value – it is a system of political organisation that enshrines the right to self-determination. Recent centuries have seen a wave of democratisation relative to his...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:03:16
Measuring the Human
One way to think about what makes *social* science distinct is that it is trying to study subjects, not objects. Subjects have feelings, opinions, and values, which are often hard to observe and even harder to measure. Subjects’ behaviour is al...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:11:24
Can we make the world a 'better' place with behavioural economics?
Regular host Dr Mark Fabian from the University of Warwick is joined by Dr Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics at Pomona College. Malte is one of the most prominent scholars in the field of behavioural welfare economics, which sits at ...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:03:33
Navigating decolonisation, religion, and gender in Zimbabwe
Raffaella Taylor-Seymour is an anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University. Her work examines religious transformations in the context of struggles ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:00:21
The new contours of global inequality
Inequality is a perennial subject of politics, a foundational element of economic welfare analysis, and one of the central subjects of sociology. In this episode, Dr Marco Ranaldi from University College London joins regular host Dr Mark Fabian...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:02:10
How to achieve workplace wellbeing under capitalism
Workplace wellbeing kicked off in Silicon valley with ping pong tables, bean bags, and on 'campus' Michellin star restaurants. With Google, Facebook, Amazon et al. raking in the dollars, it wasn't long before other companies were exploring the ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:37:24
No more Panama papers - combatting illicit finance
Have you heard of the Panama papers? A giant leak of 11.5 million legal and financial documents exposing a vast system of secretive offshore companies enabling corruption, tax avoidance, and other forms of wrongdoing? Well that system and how t...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:01:08
'Woke' isn't a mind virus; it's generational change
Before there was the COVID-19 virus there was the 'Woke' mind virus, or at least that's how some reactionary commentators in the US refer to a cluster of strongly progressive cultural tropes, including emphasising racial and gender identity, pr...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:05:42
How does societal context affect human psychology?
One of the oldest and most famous questions in the social sciences is the debate over nature vs nurture in determining characteristics of the individual. Transcending this focus on the micro is a new field within social-psychology sometimes cal...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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37:42
How to revive left behind places
Recent political cycles across the OECD have seen the ‘revenge of places that don’t matter’. These ‘left behind places’, where economic prosperity has withered and culture decayed, have made their misery known electorally. The economic conseque...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:01:43
The future of the factory
What is the future of the factory in economic development? That is the subject of a forthcoming book by this episode’s guest, Dr Jostein Hauge from the University of Cambridge. Numerous scholars, Harvard’s Dani Rodrik arguably most prominent am...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:05:16
What animals can teach us about consciousness
Mark is joined by Heather Browning from the London School of Economics and Walter Veit from the University of Sydney who their ideas regarding the nature of consciousness, what we can learn about consciousness from animal studies, and the impli...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:04:26
The peculiarities of public health in Africa
The advancement of health care is one of the hallmarks of development and a central objective of not for profit, public, and private organisations, especially in the developing countries of Africa. Wiktoria Tafesse is an early career researcher...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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57:08
