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Welcome to the blog for the Social Science Bites podcast: a series of interviews with leading Social Scientists. Each episode explores an aspect of our social world. You can access all audio and the transcripts from each interview here. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @socialscibites to keep up to date on the latest activities.

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Bev Skeggs on Social Media Siloing

By Social Science Bites | Published: December 1, 2017

“Most people,” explains Goldsmiths sociologist Bev Skeggs in this Social Science Space podcast, “think they’re using Facebook to communicate with friends. Basically they’re using it to reveal how much they can be sold for, now...

Sabina Alkire on Measuring Poverty

By Social Science Bites | Published: November 1, 2017

Economist Sabina Alkire has spent her career looking at all the things beyond just a lack of money that make us poor. In this Social Science Bites podcast, the director of the Oxford Poverty and...

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Tom Chatfield on Critical Thinking and Bias

By Social Science Bites | Published: October 2, 2017

Philosopher Tom Chatfield’s media presence – which is substantial – is often directly linked to his writings on technology. But his new book is on critical thinking, and while that involves humanity’s oldest computer, the...

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Ioanna Palaiologou on Play

By Social Science Bites | Published: September 1, 2017

In the Social Science Bites podcast, Ioanna Palaiologou and Dave Edmonds also talk about cultural differences in play and how it is a vital part of children’s emotional development. All work and no play, it...

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Al Roth on Matching Markets

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 1, 2017

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Nobel laureate economist Al Roth explains to interview David Edmonds some of the ins and outs of market matching, giving a wealth of real-world examples.

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Theresa Marteau on Healthy Environments

By Social Science Bites | Published: July 7, 2017

In this Social Science Bites podcast, the director of Studies for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Cambridge’s Christ’s College discusses how environment – and that includes the cultural, built and financial environments --buttresses short term...

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Mary Bosworth on Border Criminology

By Social Science Bites | Published: June 1, 2017

Border criminology, Mary Bosworth details in this Social Science Bites podcast, is trying to understand both things that are happening at the border but also things that are happening in our criminal justice system.

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 3

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 16, 2017

Ask a number of influential social scientists who in turn influenced them, and you’d likely get a blue-ribbon primer on the classics in social science. And so it as we present the third and final...

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Chris Grey on Organizations

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 1, 2017

What is an “organization?” According to Chris Grey, the guest in this Social Science Bites podcast, in many ways it’s a moment in time. “An organization,” he tells interviewer David Edmonds, “is also a momentary...

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Scott Atran on Sacred Values

By Social Science Bites | Published: April 3, 2017

In this Social Science Bites podcast, anthropologist Scott Atran describes how 'sacred values' prove remarkably immune to negotiation and can empower vicious terrorism or victorious revolution.

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 2

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 15, 2017

During the recording of every Social Science Bites podcast, the guest has been asked the following: Which piece of social science research has most inspired or most influenced you? And now, in honor of the...

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Gary King on Big Data Analysis

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 1, 2017

When looking at big data, says computational social scientist Gary King, “The data itself isn’t likely to be particularly useful; the question is whether you can make it useful.” In this Social Science Bites podcast,...

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