Crossing Channels
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Crossing Channels
Monthly podcast series produced by the Bennett School of Public Policy (University of Cambridge) and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (Toulouse School of Economics) to give interdisciplinary answers to today's challenging questions. Hosted by Richard Westcott with guest experts from both uni...
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Are universities ready for the age of AI?
In this first episode of series five, our Crossing Channels podcast host Richard Westcott welcomes three affiliated experts to explore how artificial...
How does migration change our world?
In this final episode of season 4, Richard Westcott is joined by Catherine Barnard (University of Cambridge) and Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse School of...
What is the value of speaking other languages?
In this episode, Richard Westcott is joined by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Benjamin Pitt to explore a big, everyday question: what is the value of speakin...
Why do we choose what we choose?
In this episode, Richard Westcott is joined by Simone Schnall, Catherine Molho, and Maximilian Müller to explore a big, everyday question: why do we m...
How can we make food that is good for health, societies, the planet and the economy?
Richard Westcott talks to Jonathan Stieglitz, IAST and Martin White, University of Cambridge, about the global health challenges related to diet and...
Can Europe ever catch up to the US in technology?
In this episode, Richard Westcott talks to Diane Coyle, Jacques Crémer, and Paul Seabright about Europe’s position in competing with the US in technol...
How can green finance drive the clean transition?
In this episode of Crossing Channels, Richard Westcott is joined by Dimitri Zenghelis, Ulrich Hege, and Mathias Reynaert to explore how green finance...
How are data and algorithms impacting our lives?
Hear Richard Westcott (Cambridge University Health Partners and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus) talk to Gina Neff (Cambridge University), Jeni Tennis...
Is the world becoming less democratic?
In this episode, Richard Westcott (Cambridge University Health Partners and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus) talks to David Runciman (University of Ca...
What is happening to young people’s mental health?
In this episode, Richard Westcott talks to Gordon Harold, Anna Moore, and Olympia Campbell. about the growing rates of mental health issues among youn...
Does prison work?
To kickstart Season Four of Crossing Channels, Richard Westcott (Cambridge University Health Partners and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus) talks to Pr...
Should there be a compulsory retirement age for society's leaders?
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Who pays the price of colonialism today?
In this episode, Rory Cellan-Jones discusses the enduring legacies of colonialism on global economic inequalities, the climate crisis, and the digital...
What's the point of a protest?
In this episode, Rory Cellan-Jones discusses with Dr Lauren Wilcox, Dr Felix Dwinger, and Dr Giacomo Lemoli why the world is protesting so much, how p...
Can governments regulate AI without stifling innovation?
In this episode, Rory Cellan-Jones (former technology correspondent for the BBC) chats with Verity Harding (Bennett Institute for Public Policy), Gin...
Why are women disadvantaged in the workplace?
This episode asks why are women disadvantaged in the workplace? Experts explore why women are underrepresented in certain professions. Why is the moth...
Can economic growth and sustainability coexist?
Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Matthew Agarwala, Stefan Lamp and Alessio Terzi about the trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection, t...
How can universal basic infrastructure support growth?
Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Jean-Paul Azam, Diane Coyle and Andy Westwood about the potential of universal basic income to tackle regional inequalities...
Can technology rescue ailing health services?
Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Angelique Acquatella, Shan Morgan and Jennifer Dixon about the current status of digital technology adoption in healthcare...
The world’s problems are interdisciplinary – why is academic research so siloed?
Rory Cellan-Jones (host) talks to Ingela Alger (IAST) and Flavio Toxvaerd (University of Cambridge) about the drivers of research silos, the merits of...
How big a problem is short-termism in government?
In this first episode of series 3, Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Dr Anne Degrave, Prof Dennis Grube and Halima Khan about the drivers of short-termism in...
What is the future of religion?
Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Iza Hussin and Paul Seabright about recent trends in world religions, the interplay between politics and religion, and the...
Are countries becoming harder to govern?
Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Michael Kenny, Louis Baktash, and Mathieu Carpentier about the governance challenges in France and the United Kingdom, the...
Are emerging technologies more hype than reality?
Leading experts, Sam Gilbert Bennett Institute), César Hidalgo (IAST) and Jeni Tennison (Bennett Institute) talk to podcast host Rory Cellan-Jones (...
Should children have the right to vote?
Prof David Runciman and Prof Karine Van der Straeten talk to Rory Cellan-Jones about extending voting rights to school-aged children.
This epis...
Is technology changing our behaviour?
Rory Cellan-Jones and leading experts Maria Kleshnina, Daniel Nettle and Amy Orben discuss the drivers of cooperation and how online and offline envir...
Why are stories important for society?
Rory Cellan-Jones and leading experts Sarah Dillon and Manvir Singh discuss the value of stories, the possible dangers of endorsing stories and the ne...
Ukraine war - how can academics apply their expertise?
Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), and Nataliia Shapoval, head of KSE Institute, discuss how their research prioritie...
How much do people care about inequality?
Rory Cellan-Jones and leading experts Charlotte Cavaillé, Ailbhe McNabola and Jack Shaw discuss the causes of income and regional inequality, why poli...
Wellbeing at work - whose job is it to fix it?
Rory Cellan-Jones and leading experts Gordon Harold, Laura Nurski and Zoe Purcell discuss why mental wellbeing in the workplace is essential, and what...
Has digital technology made us better off?
Rory Cellan-Jones talks to leading economists Diane Coyle, Jacques Crémer and Jean Tirole, about why productivity growth has slowed in spite of immens...
What can political leaders learn from history?
In this episode, Rory Cellan-Jones talks to expert guests Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge) and Victor Gay (IAST) about how lessons from history ca...
How might policy steer us towards better decision-making?
This podcast looks at the psychological quirks of humankind, what effects our bad decisions have on the society we live in, and how policy might best...
Can democratic political leaders ever meet our expectations?
This episode looks at what we expect from our leaders, how that's changed over time, and whether democratic leaders are particularly prone to disappoi...
Is it the government's job to make us happy?
This podcast looks at why some people think we need policies for happiness and what those might mean. Leading experts discuss how to define and measur...
Ukraine invasion: context, consequences and the information war
This special edition of Crossing Channels was organised in response to the invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022. It covers how the Ukrainia...
Will Levelling Up Work?
The UK is currently one of the most regionally unequal countries in the developed world. The government's White Paper on Levelling Up sets out 12 “mis...
Broadband before bridges: can digital technologies leapfrog the obstacles to development?
This episode discusses the potential of digital technologies to change infrastructure priorities in developing countries. Experts from the Bennett Ins...
Can artificial intelligence be ethical?
Hope versus fear in artificial intelligence
In this third episode of Crossing Channels, experts from the Bennett Institute for Public Pol...
What is nature's role in the economy?
Why have economists ignored nature for so long - and now they have discovered it, are they measuring it correctly?
This episode tackles the issu...