Podcasts by Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures
The Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures were established after the First World War in memory of Sidney Ball who was a philosophy fellow at St John
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Who are we? Contesting and transforming racialised histories and futures in the Carolean era from 2022-11-15T17:02:16
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 so...
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What Next for Social Policy from 2018-11-09T14:54:57
Professor Fiona Williams explores how contemporary social movements – especially those around gender, race, migration, disability, austerity and the environment – pose material, political and ethic...
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Why should we have trust in numbers? Making evidence more reliable, and empowering people to check it from 2017-11-02T11:06:36
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 S...
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Britain, Europe and Social Policy from 2016-11-11T12:33:17
For the 2016 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture, Professor Colin Crouch, Vice-President for Social Sciences, gives a talk on European social policies.
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Anti-Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Institutionalization for Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses: Finding Common Ground from 2015-12-18T11:50:40
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, Un...
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The Major Assumptions of Evidence-Based Policy: Bringing Empirical Evidence to Bear from 2014-11-04T15:36:29
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 t...
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Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action - Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2013 from 2013-12-17T12:18:10
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 Depar...
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The Reform of the Welfare State and the Dynamics of People's Lives - Sydney Ball Memorial Lecture 2012 from 2012-11-21T15:22:22
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 N...
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Evidence-based Interventions in Juvenile Justice: Concepts, Research, Practice, and Frontiers from 2011-11-24T13:12:43
Professor Mark Lipsey (Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt University) delivers the 2011 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture.
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Life Chances and Early Childhood Investments from 2010-11-08T19:34:51
2010 Sidney Ball memorial Lecture given by Professor Gøsta Esping-Andersen at St Antony's College.
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