College of Social Sciences

In our UNFILTERED series, we invite two experts to discuss a current topic over coffee.This episode, Professor Andy Lymer (Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management at the University of Birmingham) and Joanna Elson (Money Advice Trust) discuss the question "Should people in problem debt look to save?" For more on this episode and other UNFILTERED content visithttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/socsci/unfiltered/index.aspx.

Nick is a serial investor in early stage technology businesses, known for founding Moonpig.com and for his stint as a Dragon on BBC Dragon’s Den. Moonpig was the first disruptive technology business in the greeting cards sector, generating sales of £400,000 per employee compared to its High St rival Clinton Cards who managed £30,000 per employee. Clinton Cards went into administration in May 2012 with the loss of several hundred jobs. Moonpig made cards better, funnier and more convenient for 5 million customers a year by 2011 when Nick sold the business. But should he have been concerned about the impact on employment? Nick is now a serial investor in technology business, including autonomous driving technology.Nick will be asking whether or not entrepreneurs and investors should take into account the impact on society of disruptive technology or whether the state should set the parameters within which we should work.

In our UNFILTERED series, we invite two experts to discuss a current topic over coffee.This episode, Professor of Democracy Nic Cheeseman and Dr Niheer Dasandi (Birmingham Fellow in Politics and Development) discuss the question "Is democracy better in theory than in practice?"For more on this episode and other UNFILTERED content visithttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/socsci/unfiltered/index.aspx

In our UNFILTERED series, we invite two experts to discuss a current topic over coffee.In this special episode in collaboration with the College of Arts and Law, political experts Professor Scott Lucas and Dr Matt Cole tackle the question: "Brexit - the end or the beginning?"For more content around this and other episodes visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/unfiltered.

In our UNFILTERED series, we invite two experts to discuss a current topic over coffee.In this first episode, experts Professor Scott Lucas and Amelia Morris discuss the question "All things considered, is the world really such a bad place?"Listening time: 13 minuteswww.birmingham.ac.uk/university/col…red/index.aspx

In this fourth episode, marketing experts Professor Isabelle Szmigin and Dr Caroline Moraes discuss the question "Has consumerism stolen Christmas?"For more content around this and other episodes visit https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/socsci/unfiltered/index.aspx

In this third episode of UNFILTERED, Professor Kiran Trehan (Director of WE-LEAD)and Andy Lee (Strategic Lead for Diversity in Business, Natwest) discuss the question "Why do we need more female CEOs?"Listening time: 17 minutesFor more content around this episode visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/unfiltered3.To request a transcript for this podcast please contact: cossdigital@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

In this second episode of 'UNFILTERED', we invite two of our migration and identity experts to discuss a current topic over a coffee. The 22 June marks 70 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks. Fast forward to today, three generations later, the Windrush scandal is a stark reminder of this contested history of settlement, integration and exclusion throwing into question what Britishness really means.Dr Nando Sigona, Reader in International Migration and Forced Displacement, and Doctoral Researcher April-Louise Pennant discuss, "What does it mean to be British?"For more content on this episode visithttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/unfiltered2