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Intute: Social Sciences Podcast is now available. Each edition features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. To download the podcast visit our blog Primary Format : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Bristol State/Province : Unknown Country : United Kingdom Country : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Intute: Social Sciences Podcast Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Intute: Social Sciences Podcast Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Intute: Social Sciences Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. When the Economy Slows, Spending on Incapacity Benefits, Health and Pensions Increases - and May Keep us Out of Recession In the last of our podcasts supporting the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Jacques Melitz about how increased spending on Social Security benefits may help to keep us out of recession. Listen to the interview Download audio file (darbymelitz.mp3) Increased public spending on incapacity benefits, health and pensions can all help the economy recover [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Children of Socially Active Parents have Better Exam Results In the latest of out podcasts supporting the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Karl Taylor about how socially active parents choose to be and the effect that can have on their kids. Listen to the interview Download audio file (browntaylor.mp3) Parents who are active in various kinds of clubs – from sports to charities, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The MMR Controversy: Highly educated parents were more likely to stop their children being vaccinated In the latest of our podcasts supporting the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008 Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Dan Anderberg about some socio-economic analysis of the effects of the MMR controversy. Listen to the interview Download audio file (anderbergetal.mp3) Highly educated parents responded more strongly to the controversial study linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Europe’s Single Market has kept taxes on alcohol and tobacco low In the latest of our podcasts supporting the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008 Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Ben Lockwood about the effect of the European Single market on alcohol and tobacco taxes. Listen to the interview Download audio file (migalilockwood.mp3) In the wake of Alistair Darling’s swingeing increases on duty on alcohol in Wednesday’s budget comes a new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to prevent another Northern Rock Crisis regulation may help avoid another Northern Rock style panic, according to research by Professors Shurojit Chatterji and Sayantan Ghosal presented at the Royal Economic Society’s 2008 annual conference. Listen to the interview Download audio file (ghosal.mp3) But the authorities should not always aim to prevent bank runs – on the contrary, when regulators cannot monitor banks and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promotional Piracy In the first of a series of interviews with economics researchers at the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Karen Croxson about Promotional Piracy: Why some media and software companies turn a blind eye to illegal downloads. Listen to the interview Download audio file (croxson.mp3) According to new research by Karen Croxson, they do this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding audio and visual materials in Economics The Economics Network have put together a briefing document on how to find audio, video and images for use in economics teaching, which can be a tricky area, given the strictures of copyright and the poor way standard search engines handle resources in different formats. For example, this recent audio interview available from Warwick Podcasts on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: European Economic Association Congress Romesh Vaitilingam presents a special podcast on the recent European Economic Association Congress in Budapest. He speaks to: Guido Tabellini on the influence of culture and institutions on economic development. Yves Zenou on children’s ethnic identity and their educational outcomes Klaus Zimmermann on minority ethnic groups in Germany and the Etnnosizer Phillippe Martin on the relationship between trade and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet the Intute: Psychology Editor In the latest of a mini-series of podcasts, we talk to some of the people who help produce Intute: Social Sciences. In this episode we talk to Ian Hocking, the editor for the Psychology section. Listen to the programme Some of the websites Ian talks about in his interview include: British Psychological Society CSI Web of Knowledge PsychINFO Mental Health Foundation Cognitive Psychology Explore [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet the Intute: Statistics and Data Editor In the first of a mini-series of podcasts, we talk to some of the people who help produce Intute: Social Sciences. We start by talking to Stuart MacDonald, the editor for the Statistics and Data section. Listen to the programme Some of the websites Stuart talks about in his interview include: EDINA ESDS UK Data Archive MIMAS AHDS Office for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smoking During Pregnancy: Giving Up By Month 5 Can Prevent Underweight Babies In the latest of a series of interviews from the Royal Economic Society Conference 2007, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Emma Tominey about the effect of smoking during pregnancy. Listen to the interview Mothers who smoke during pregnancy will have smaller babies. But much of the harm is due to unobservable traits of the mother. If mums stub [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The ‘Part-time Occupational Penalty’: Lower Quality Jobs For British Women Who Don’t Want To Work Full-time In the latest of a series of interviews from the Royal Economic Society Conference 2007, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Victoria Prowse about the ‘Part-time Occupational Penalty’ for UK women. Listen to the interview No matter what qualifications they have or how big their family is, British women face a substantial ‘occupational penalty’ if they work part-time. That [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Underpaid Academics and the Damaging Consequences for the Quality of UK Higher Education In the latest of a series of interviews from the Royal Economic Society Conference 2007, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to James Walker about the pay of UK academics. Listen to the interview Academics are underpaid and overworked compared with other graduate professions – and this is likely to have consequences for the quality of UK degrees. That is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Higher Divorce Risk Raises Women’s Working Hours In the latest of a series of interviews from the Royal Economic Society Conference 2007, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Kerry Papps the effect of divorce on women and work. Listen to the interview Married women work more hours in the labour market when they face a high likelihood of divorce: for example, a woman who is unhappy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunistic Monetary Policy: Why UK Interest Rates Are Often Constant For Long Periods And Why They Are Likely To Rise Soon In the fourth of a series of interviews from the Royal Economic Society annual conference 2007, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Costas Milas about UK interest rates. Listen to the interview Monetary policy-makers do not make minor adjustments to interest rates when inflation is close to the inflation target – but they do respond vigorously when inflation begins [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changing Rates of Self-employment Among British Asians In the third of a series of interviews from the Royal Economic Society annual conference 2007, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Stephen Drinkwater about self-employment among Britain’s Asian community. Listen to the interview The typical Asian working age male is now younger, better educated and more likely to be UK-born than his parents’ generation were. According to research [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Political Studies Association launch podcast The Political Studies Association PSA has just launched their first official podcast. Listen to the interview between Ivor Gabor of the PSA and Professor Gerry Stoker winner of the PSA book of the year. Other gems from the PSA website are a free searchable database of most of the papers from PSA annual conferences 1994-2006 plus [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exchange rate movements have little impact on UK exports In the second of a series of interviews with economics researchers at the Royal Economic Society Conference 2007, Romesh Vaitilingam talks to Richard Kneller about the effect of exchange rate movements on UK exports. Listen to this interview Changes in exchange rates have little impact on UK manufacturing exports and are likely to have only a modest [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 011 Listen to the programme (8 mins, 4 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences News update: This edition’s news update includes: MIT OpenCourseware catalogue updates European Research Council launched ESRC Festival of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 010 Listen to the programme (12 mins, 6 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences News update: This edition’s news update includes: ESRC Festival of Social Science March 9th to March [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 009 Listen to the programme (11 mins, 5 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. News update: This edition’s news update includes: New ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 008 Listen to the programme (13 mins, 6 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. News update: This edition’s news update includes: Internet for Social Welfare and Internet for Law Social [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 006 Listen to the programme (11 mins, 5 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. News update: Sites featured in this edition’s news update include: The Economist Intelligence Unit celebrates 60 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 005 Listen to the programme (8 mins, 4 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. News update: Sites featured in this edition’s news update include: The world’s largest longitudinal household survey [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 004 Listen to the programme (9 mins, 4 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. News update: Sites featured in this edition’s news update include: Carbon Neutral is the word of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 003 Listen to the programme (11 mins, 5 MB) Welcome to the Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. News update: Sites featured in this edition’s news update include: British Sociological Association launches a new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intute: Social Sciences Podcast 002 Listen to the programme (8 mins, 4 MB) Welcome to the second Intute: Social Sciences podcast. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. News update: Sites featured in this edition’s news update include: UK survey on academic Internet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website