Crossing Channels

By Bennett Institute for Public Policy and IAST

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Monthly podcast series produced by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy (Cambridge) and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) to give interdisciplinary answers to today's challenging questions. Hosted by Rory Cellan-Jones with guest experts from both research centres. Subscribe to the Crossing Channels podcast feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1841488.rss & download each episode at the start of the month.


Episode Date
Can governments regulate AI without stifling innovation?
Mar 31, 2024
Why are women disadvantaged in the workplace?
Mar 01, 2024
Can economic growth and sustainability coexist?
Feb 04, 2024
How can universal basic infrastructure support growth?
Jan 01, 2024
Can technology rescue ailing health services?
Dec 02, 2023
The world’s problems are interdisciplinary – why is academic research so siloed?
Nov 12, 2023
How big a problem is short-termism in government?
Sep 28, 2023
What is the future of religion?
Jun 02, 2023
Are countries becoming harder to govern?
May 01, 2023
Are emerging technologies more hype than reality?
Apr 03, 2023
Should children have the right to vote?
Mar 05, 2023
Is technology changing our behaviour?
Feb 05, 2023
Why are stories important for society?
Jan 20, 2023
Ukraine war - how can academics apply their expertise?
Dec 13, 2022
How much do people care about inequality?
Dec 05, 2022
Wellbeing at work - whose job is it to fix it?
Oct 30, 2022
Has digital technology made us better off?
Oct 02, 2022
What can political leaders learn from history?
Jun 29, 2022
How might policy steer us towards better decision-making?
May 30, 2022
Can democratic political leaders ever meet our expectations?
May 02, 2022
Is it the government's job to make us happy?
Apr 03, 2022
Ukraine invasion: context, consequences and the information war
Mar 08, 2022
Will Levelling Up Work?
Feb 27, 2022
Broadband before bridges: can digital technologies leapfrog the obstacles to development?
Jan 28, 2022
Can artificial intelligence be ethical?
Jan 02, 2022
What is nature's role in the economy?
Nov 29, 2021
Why has it become so hard to run government? The role of civil servants and decision-making in society today.
Oct 31, 2021
Launching Crossing Channels
Oct 24, 2021