The Emerald Publishing Podcast: Recent Episodes
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We've brought together a selection of experts in the fields of HR, Economics, Sociology, Finance, Marketing and Business to discuss some of the most pressing issues around the future of work. This three episode series covers the role of the worker in the future of work, how workers will need to be trained and developed, and what role technology will have.
We've brought together a selection of experts in the fields of HR, Economics, Sociology, Finance, Marketing and Business to discuss some of the most pressing issues around the future of work. This three episode series covers the role of the worker in the future of work, how workers will need to be trained and developed, and what role technology will have.
We've brought together a selection of experts in the fields of HR, Economics, Sociology, Finance, Marketing and Business to discuss some of the most pressing issues around the future of work. This three episode series covers the role of the worker in the future of work, how workers will need to be trained and developed, and what role technology will have.
Earlier this year Emerald partnered with Oxford Analytica to deliver Expert Briefings to academia through emerald.com/insight
Listen to an interview with Nick Redman (Editor in Chief & Director of Analysis, Oxford Analytica) and Tony Roche (Publishing Director, Emerald Publishing) who discuss the value of Expert Briefings and what this partnership means for academia.
Read the transcript here: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/pdf/expert-briefings-podcast-transcript.pdf
Here, the publisher of L&D journals at Emerald Publishing talks to Stella Collins, co-founder of Stellar Labs EU https://www.stellarlabs.eu/ where we discuss how research can transform how people learn in the workplace
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Sally Whitney talks to us about her part as a co-researcher in the Living Life to the Fullest project, run by the iHuman Institute at the University of Sheffield.
"As a young disabled person you often feel ignored by society. No-one had ever asked us about our lives before - only our impairments. This gave us a voice."
Learn more about the project here: https://livinglifetothefullest.org/
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To mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities we're looking at the importance of community for disabled and non-disabled people alike.
In this podcast, Dr Wendy Uttley of the Down Syndrome Training & Support Service (Bradford, UK) tells us why being part of a community is important for young people with Down Syndrome and how everyone in the community benefits from greater inclusion. We also talk to Sam, a young person with Down Syndrome who has found a work placement through the organisation.
Learn more at: downsyndromebradford.com
The publisher of Learning and Development journal titles at Emerald Publishing in conversation with the Brain Ladies: Stella Collins, Ria van Dinteren, Margie Meacham and Katelijn Nijsmans. Visit the Brain Ladies website to download their whitepaper for free, http://www.brainladies.com/, all about applying neuroscience in the workplace. Or learn more here howtobeabrainfriendlytrainer.com Check out their websites here: https://stellarlearning.co.uk/ https://learningtogo.info/
Following recent scandals at a number of major international aid organisations, how can INGOs reconnect with the communities they exist to serve?
Terry Gibson, author of "Making Aid Agencies Work" talks to Sarwar Bari (Pattan Development Organisation) and Manu Gupta (Seeds India) about the power relationships between INGOs, NGOs and communities, and the need for trust, listening and co-learning.
Learn more here: http://bit.ly/MakingAidAgenciesWork
To mark Dementia Active Week 2019, Farrukh Akhtar, Nan Greenwood, Raymond Smith and Angela Richardson got together to discuss their article and research on 'Dementia cafés: recommendations from interview with informal carers' that can be found in the journal, Working with Older People, Vol. 21 Issue: 4 and is available here https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/WWOP-07-2017-0018
Researchers might like to believe they are wholly objective in their work, but emotion often shows up in the research process. In this podcast, Tracey Loughran, Agata Lisiak, Geraldine Latchem-Hastings, and Kate Mahoney, who all contributed to the book "Emotion and the Researcher", share their experiences.
Listen to Karen Jaw-Madson talk about her brand new book Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @ Work and how the leading edge approach of Design of Work Experience (DOWE)can co-create solutions and differentiating experiences that are customized, relevant, and profoundly impactful to organizations today.
Authors Crystal Abidin and Katrin Tiidenberg talk to us about their research into the world of internet celebrity and selfie culture, with fascinating insight into just how much these phenomena can tells us about 21st century societies.
Want to know more? Check out "Selfies: Why We Love (and Hate)Them" and "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online", part of our SocietyNow series. https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/series-detail/SocietyNow/
Listen to Sandeep Das, legendary tabla player and composer, talk about his experiences working with Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble and his perspective of catalytic leadership first-hand.
Sandeep is featured in The Catalyst Effect: 12 Skills and Behaviors to Boost Your Impact and Elevate Team Performance by Jerry Toomer, Craig Caldwell, Steve Weitzenkorn and Chelsea Clark. Read more about the book here: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/The-Catalyst-Effect/?K=9781787435520
Chris Linder, author of 'Sexual Violence on Campus', talks with academics and practitioners Susan Marine, Niah Grimes and Marvette Lacy about the importance of taking a power-conscious approach to awareness, prevention and response to sexual violence.
Save 30% on Chris' book with promo code GREATDEBATES http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Sexual-Violence-on-Campus/?K=9781787432291
In the second Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity podcast, series editor Ron Iphofen chats to Kandy Woodfield about the challenges faced by academics making use of social media and big data in their research.
Learn more in Kandy's book: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/The-Ethics-of-Online-Research/?K=9781787144866
One hundred years after (some) UK women won the right to vote, Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds (authors of "The Stalled Revolution") discuss the progress made by women, remaining inequalities, and how how today's campaigners can learn lessons from the women's movements of the past. http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/The-Stalled-Revolution/?K=9781787146020
Every weekend, in major cities around the world, computer engineers take part in competitions known as "hackathons", working intensively, often around the clock, to create new digital products for corporate sponsors. Sociologists Sharon Zukin and Max Papadantonakis (City University of New York) have explored the world of the hackathon, what's in it for the competitors and the sponsors, and what it tells us about the "new" economy.
Graham Taylor explores the long-term political, economic and social trends that culminated in the perfect storm of Brexit, calling into question some of the popular narratives about why Britain voted to leave the EU.
"Understanding Brexit" is out now: http://bit.ly/2zv2eyc
Ron Iphofen is one of a group of researchers in the Academy of Social Sciences, who have been working to build on existing foundations for research ethics and make progress. Here he explains why change is so badly needed, and how you can be part of it.
Learn more about the Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity series here: http://bit.ly/2wHaHNU
Research universities have so far defied cuts to funding and competition from industry to maintain their dominance in the production of scientific knowledge, but will that continue into the future? Justin Powell and Jennifer Dusdal were part of an award-winning project, of unprecedented scope, which set out to answer that question.
This research was supported by the Qatar National Research Fund. The findings are published as “The Century of Science: The Global Triumph of the Research University”, part of the International Perspectives in Education and Society series. Learn more: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/?K=9781787144705
The internet is changing. Five corporate tech giants control a system ever more integrated with all aspects of our lives, threatening a future of increased commodification, militarization and authoritarianism. Vincent Mosco (author of "Becoming Digital")discusses how citizens can take back control and use the Next Internet to empower people and create a more equal and more democratic society.
We talk to experienced publisher Jen McCall to get some of her top tips on how to go about writing an academic book.
Peter Kivisto, author of "The Trump Phenomenon", discusses the role the media played in the election of Donald Trump, and what the rise of infotainment and post-truth, and the loss of the 'vital center' means for American democracy.
We're told as job seekers that we're 'invisible' without a profile on a social networking site, but how much do we really know about the way uploading our CV will affect our professional - and personal - lives? We caught up with Ofer Sharone to find out about his research into the far-reaching effects of these new labour market intermediaries.