Episode Summary This week we ask: Is there value in taking offence? Indeed, should we cultivate a readiness to take offence in ourselves and others? Episode Notes This week we welcome Dr Emily McTernan, co-host of this podcast, into the guest seat. Emily is talking about her new book, On Taking Offence. In it, she argues that taking offence is an important and often valuable response to affronts against our social standing, and that it deserves to be taken more seriously by scholars than it has been (and perhaps less seriously than it might be seen by some sections of society).

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10/12/2023

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 11: Homophobia - a global phenomenon To mark LGBT History Month, Professor Michael King will look at why homophobia has existed in nearly every society throughout history, and what motivates the hatred of gay people around the world. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures

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9/27/2023

This week we discuss social contract theory and the illustrious career of Professor Albert Weale. EPISODE NOTES Our guest this week is Professor Albert Weale, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy at UCL. Following an event honouring his career on his retirement, in this episode, we’re exploring Albert’s life and work as an academic. Over his career, Albert has published 20 books and more than 150 articles and book chapters on a diverse and impressive array of topics, from the politics of pollution, political legitimacy in the European Union and healthcare, to social contract theory and democracy. He has held faculty positions at Newcastle, York, UEA, Essex and, of course, for more than a decade, here at UCL. The event held in his honour had an impressive 28 speakers, discussing the prospects for practical public reason, priority setting in healthcare and the best form of social contract theory, and motivating our tackling of climate change, among many other issue

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9/5/2023

Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 9: Why the courts are as important as hospitals to the nation's health Professor Genn will focus on the critical ways in which courts support society and the economy and on how they have directly improved standards of medicine practice and healthcare. She will also discuss new evidence about the link between access to justice and health and consider whether much of what turns up in doctors’ surgeries (including requests for anti-depressants) are in fact the results of an inability to access the courts. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures

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7/25/2023

A Mission-Oriented Industrial Strategy Innovation has both a rate and a direction. Innovation policy, and Industrial Strategy specifically, are an opportunity to support the development of technology and to influence the direction of innovation towards solving big societal problems. The government’s Industrial Strategy is explicitly targeted at solving four grand challenges – an ageing society, data and artificial intelligence, clean growth, and the future of mobility. For the past year, the UCL Commission on Mission-Oriented Innovation and Industrial Strategy (MOIIS) has been working closely with BEIS to develop these challenges into bold and ambitious missions which inspire innovation across multiple sectors. We have also been looking at cross-cutting issues—like how to use procurement policy to inspire bottom-up experimentation and exploration towards achieving the missions, and how to engage civil society.

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5/31/2019