Podcasts
Many Ragged Univerity events and activities have taken place and as many of these have been recorded for podcast. These basic recordings are an archive of some of the activities which have happened. Here are the podcasts and recordings processed so far:
List of Podcasts:
- 2 Languages in 1 Brain by Antonella Sorace
- A Brief History of the Ragged Schools by Alex Dunedin
- A Different Kind Of Revolution by Ciaran Healy
- Advocating to End The Drug War: How to Build Successful Advocacy by Michael Collins
- An Exploration of Informal Education with Students at John Moores University
- An Interview With A Development Worker: Shahid Khan
- An Interview With Dr Tuppy Owens; Human capabilities and supporting disabled people with their sexual lives
- Annie Harrison talks about the endangered Cornflower
- Are Scottish Prisons Fit For Purpose: Transcript and Podcast of Panel Discussion
- Are We All Going Mad? Changing Approaches to Mental Health by Prof Ray Miller
- Aye Minister; What Civil Servants Do: A Podcast of Colin MacLean's Talk
- Betting on Famine; Why The World Still Goes Hungry
- Beyond The Urban Fox by Bob Redwater
- Butterfly Kisses from the Hunchback (whilst driving on the M6) by Craig Hammond
- Carl Rosa; The Entrepreneur Who Made Opera Popular: or From ‘Juvenile Paganini’ to Operatic Entrepreneur by Iain Fraser
- Civil War; Ranters, Quakers and Revolution by Richard Gunn
- Confessions of an FE Lecturer; What Happened to the Community? From Further Education to Factory by Nina Doran
- Consuming Education; BERA Panel on Challenges, Threats & Opportunities across the Post-compulsory Sectors
- Conversation on Education: John Salway and Alex Dunedin
- Crime, Punishment and Faith in Change by Prof Fergus McNeill
- DADA and the Drum Kit by Aiden Pilling
- David Seagrave Talks About Walks He Has Created For Lonely People At Christmas
- David Turner talks the Arms Trade
- Dek Keenan: Radical Adult Education in Scotland – Looking back
- Demian Natakhan Talks About Skepticism And Climate Change
- Disaster Capitalism and War on Drugs: An Interview With Antony Loewenstein and Q+A Session at Recovering Justice
- Discussion of M.E. with Knowledgeable Patient Elizabeth Moncrieff following Film Screening of Unrest
- Doctor Thomas Barnardo and the Ragged Schools
- Dr Jim Crowther: Looking back
- Embedding Sustainability Across The Curriculum: University of Manchester Community of Practice
- Face Value: Individuals Who Inspired People To Learn
- Film Screening of ‘European voices in Edinburgh’ Followed by Discussion by Lin Li
- Food Additives – How to tell which ones are toxic by Alex Dunedin
- Freedom in the Fridge by Sara Louise Dobson
- How and why did a religious country like Scotland in 17th and 18th centuries, get involved in slavery and how was it eventually ended? by Kate Phillips
- How Creativity, Exercise and Nutrition can help to Better Manage Mental Health Conditions by Louise Lord
- How, as an environmentalist, I got involved in solidarity with the Palestinians by Eurig Scandrett
- Independent Business: An Interview With Ali Gower Owner Of The Chocolate Tree
- International Waste Management; Crises and Opportunities by David Brown
- Interview With An Educator: Alex Shukie
- Interview With An Educator: John Morrison
- Interview With An Educator: Professor Ray Miller
- Interview With An Educator: Will Golding
- James Clegg Talks About The Art Exhibition ‘Trading Zone’
- John Player and Joyce Nicholson: Looking Forward; The Recovery Movement and Adult Education
- Let’s Talk about Identities, Choices and Freedom by Anne Pia
- Lets Talk About Population Baby! By Brian Chrystal
- Lets Talk About Population Baby! by Brian Chrystal
- Lions Led by Donkeys – The Catastrophic Failures of WW1 British High Command; A Memorial to Commemorate Those Lost at the Battle of Loos
- Livestream: Strange Terrain Part One; On A New Understanding Of The Nature Of Human Beings by Ciaran Healy
- Loneliness and Social Isolation
- Mad People’s History by Steve Tilley
- Medical Imaging Physics; Seeing Beyond the Skin by Tommy McMullan
- Methodologies of Participation: Shared Anthropology by John Morrison
- Metissage: A Conversation on Knowledge, Social Movements and Really Big Change
- Music, Mathematics and the Harmony of the Spheres by Hugh Peters
- Nick Dixon and Annie Harrison talk about ExtInked tattoos
- Nick Dixon and the endangered Western Capercaillie
- On Mutual Recognition by Richard Gunn
- Oor Mad History by Kirsten Maclean
- Pete Wilkinson Co-Founder of Greenpeace Talks About His Life
- Peter Barratt talks about Alice Hawkins the Suffragette
- Philosophy of Science: How we know what we think we know by Alex Dunedin
- Piyush Roy Brings Together A Panel On Indian Politics
- Piyush Roy Introduces Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish by Rituparno Ghosh
- Podcast and Transcript: Reflections On Schizophrenia by Kenneth Wilson
- Podcast: 3D Printing; No-hype, Promise, Just Extraordinary Art and Design by Ann Marie Shillito
- Podcast: A Different Kind Of Humanity by Ciaran Healy
- Podcast: A Memory of Blood; Livestreaming and the Fall of the Mongolian Empire by Donald Carrick
- Podcast: A World Where Everyone Is A Teacher And Knowledge Is Up To You by Peter Shukie
- Podcast: Basic Computer Programming With No Code by Dr Tim Willis
- Podcast: Broken Boy
- Podcast: Classificatory Struggles; Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times by Dr Imogen Tyler
- Podcast: Colin Waugh Talks About The Ruskin College Strike of 1909
- Podcast: David Greig Talks About W S Graham And His Poetry
- Podcast: Digital Culture, Mindfulness and Existential Threat by Nadine Andrews
- Podcast: Dr Tim Willis talks about How to Start Up A Tech Business
- Podcast: Drew Whitworth Introduces Session on Information Inequalities
- Podcast: Dyslexia in Post Industrial Manchester by Roger Broadbent
- Podcast: Food Inc; The Film And A Discussion
- Podcast: George Monbiot; How Did We Get Into This Mess ?
- Podcast: Give And Ye Shall Receive by Joel White
- Podcast: Gulabi Gang; A Discussion With The Director Nivedita Menon
- Podcast: Happiness Revisited: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishments by Prof. Ray Miller
- Podcast: Healthy Living in Edinburgh by Tracy Griffen
- Podcast: Kate Gilliam talking about Guerilla Gardening
- Podcast: Keith Smyth talks about Digital Literacies
- Podcast: Multilingualism; An Investment For A Better Society by Prof Antonella Sorace
- Podcast: Music In India; Music In Me By Jatin Puri
- Podcast: Myths of Popular Psychology by Prof Ray Miller
- Podcast: News Stories and Popular Fiction by Julian Edge
- Podcast: NHS SOS; Five British Medical Association Council Members Speak Out
- Podcast: Noumenal Contouring; The Secret Of Science, The Secret Of Skill by Ciaran Healy
- Podcast: On A New Understanding Of Human Beings by Ciaran Healy
- Podcast: Performance of From The Ganga To The Tay – Epic Poem by Prof Bashabi Fraser
- Podcast: Peter Shukie Introduces Community Open Online Courses
- Podcast: Peter Shukie Shares His Philosophy of Community Open Online Courses
- Podcast: Privacy And Freedom In The Internet Age by Steve McIndoe
- Podcast: Prof Antonella Sorace talks about ‘How Children Learn Two Languages’
- Podcast: Professor Clive George talks about TTIP
- Podcast: Professor Keith Smyth’s Inaugural Lecture; ‘It’s Third Space, Jim, but not as we know it’
- Podcast: Professor Virginia Eubanks Talks About Digital Deadends
- Podcast: Psychology of Vocal Performance by Dr Denise Borland
- Podcast: Robert Burns Subversive Radical by Kevin Williamson
- Podcast: Sam Makin Plays a Grand Piano Interpreting Classic Jazz Standards
- Podcast: Singing The Law and Riding The City; The Story of Ghengis Khan by Donald Carrick
- Podcast: Temujin Rising; How a Slave Would Change World History By Donald Carrick
- Podcast: The British Experimental Novelists of the 1960s; A Forgotten Avant Garde
- Podcast: The Psychology of Sleep by Prof Ray Miller
- Podcast: The Ragged Schools of Angel Meadows by Simon Ward
- Podcast: The Social Psychology of Relationships by Professor Ray Miller
- Podcast: Treasures in phone boxes; street games and play in the city by Jana Wendler
- Podcast: Universities as Anchor Institutes; University of Manchester and Brunswick Estate, A Socially Just Model? by Dr Carl Emery
- Podcast: We Don’t Need No Educashun; The Brain As A Learning Machine by Prof Ray Miller
- Podcast: Welcome To The Midlife Revolution by Andy Fergusson
- Poppies for Peace, Films for Freedom! by Simon Byrom
- Presentation on the Free Education Network for John Morrison
- Prison and Dehumanisation; Film Screening and Talks on Crime, Prison and Us
- Prof Peter Beresford Introduces Studies in Mad Matters
- Professor Beverley Skeggs talks about Exploitation, Domination, Dispossession and Devaluation
- Psychiatry, Human Rights and Social Contagion by Alex Dunedin
- Psychoanalysis And Science: Prof Christian Dunker And Prof Ian Parker Discuss
- Robert Turnbull: The Plebs League In The North of England and Working Class Education
- Romantic Radicals & Intellectual Barbarians; John Hargrave, the KibboKift & Beyond by Anne Fernie
- Sarah McEwan: Looking forward
- Scotland’s Intellectual Heritage: The Democratic Intellect – Richard Gunn and Murdo MacDonald
- Security, Privacy, Information and Surveillance Discussion by Prof William Webster, Prof Charles Raab and Dr Andrew Neil
- Shared Anthropology, Corporate Parenting and Care Experience
- Spinoza’s Spectacles: Philosophy, Science and Dutch Masters by Joseph Darlington
- Susan Brown Talks About Sustainability Education
- Sustainability in the Curriculum: University of Manchester
- Teachers in Bangladesh; Ways of Seeing and Expressing Reality by Taslima Ivy
- The Art of Not-Knowing by James Clegg
- The Colonisation of Political Economy as a Subject Field and its Reduction to Finance
- The Dark or Ethical Prince; There Is Always A Choice by Lynne Sedgmore
- The Excluded Voices of FE Teachers and Communities: The Principal – Power and Politics in Further Education by Rob Peutrell
- The Free Project; Opening Doors To Freedom by Emma Hammond
- The Future of Education: My Perspective Given to Students
- The Green Man, The Work of Lucy Skaer by James Clegg
- The Grief of Isis by Makmed the Miller
- The History of the RSA by Jamie Cooke
- The Origin of Hippie in Europe 1880 to 1940 by Anne Hill Fernie
- The Permanent Revolution of Education by Dave Hall
- The Philosophy of Mutual Recognition by Richard Gunn
- The Porous University Symposium; What We Say and What We Do by Gina Wall
- The Porous University Symposium: “Der Fachidiot”; The Paratechnic in the Monotechnic by Neil Mullholland
- The Porous University Symposium: Inquiry as openness; Re-imagining the university, its commitments and responsibilities by Emanuele Bardone and Maarja Taaler
- The Porous University Symposium: The University Beyond Its Walls by Frank Rennie
- The Porous University: Opening up the University; Being and becoming critically academically literate? by Gordon Asher
- The Power of the Elder by Eli Anderson
- The Principal; Power and Professionalism in FE: Measuring Up To The Mean – Beggars Belief
- The Problematic Links Between Technology Use in Learning and Sustainability: Views From An Educator
- The Scottish Highland and Lowland Clearances; When sheep became more profitable than people
- Thinkers or Junkers? Germans in England 1860-1920 & Beyond by Anne Hill Fernie
- Thomas Guthrie And The Ragged Schools: The First Ragged Podcast…
- Universal Basic Income: A Crash Course
- Unpacking Positives: International Panel on Climate Change Special Report 1.5 Degrees by Prof Kevin Anderson
- Video: Anne Fernie Presents The Countercultural Imperative and The Origin of The Hippie
- Video: Colin Waugh Talks About The 1909 Ruskin College Strike
- Video: Joseph Darlington Presents The Lost Avant Garde Writers
- Video: Strange Terrain Part Two; A Different Kind of Humanity by Ciaran Healy
- What is Feminism ? by Brigitte Lechner
- Why a Bilingual is not the Sum of two Monolinguals (and, by the way, do real Monolinguals still exist?) by Prof Antonella Sorace
- Your Brain Through Your Ages; Stages of Cognitive Development by Prof Ray Miller