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Exploring the impact of racism - scientific, metaphysical and cultural.

Transcripts available here: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcripts

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Learning 17

Kathryn L. Mills, of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College of London (UCL), talks about her article "Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?" which she wrote with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, also of UCL, for the 2014 Annual Review of Psychology.

In this lecture, Ms. Mills argues that "studies about adolescence should include measures of social influence" as social context drives many of the decisions made by adolescents. She describes how the structure and function of the social brain continue to develop during the second decade of life, and explains these changes must be taken into account.

Read the associated article online: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115202

A Lecture in Psychology: Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?

In the premiere episode of Mind the Kids, Dr. Jane Gilmour and Professor Umar Toseeb delve into the world of the Manosphere—an online space where misogynistic content is widespread, especially among young men. Together with Professor Harriet Over, they examine the mental health implications, the growing concerns of educators, and the urgent need for research and community-specific interventions.

The episode unpacks how online influence shapes gender attitudes, the complexities of radicalisation, and the critical role of positive male role models. The conversation highlights the necessity of understanding young people's motivations and the impact of social media algorithms in spreading harmful content.
In the premiere episode of Mind the Kids, Dr. Jane Gilmour and Professor Umar Toseeb delve into the world of the Manosphere—an online space where misogynistic content is widespread, especially among young men. Together with Professor Harriet Over, they examine the mental health implications, the growing concerns of educators, and the urgent need for research and community-specific interventions. 

The episode unpacks how online influence shapes gender attitudes, the complexities of radicalisation, and the critical role of positive male role models. The conversation highlights the necessity of understanding young people's motivations and the impact of social media algorithms in spreading harmful content.
Key Takeaways
- The Manosphere poses a real concern for the mental health of young men.
- Misogynistic content is increasingly accessible and influential online.
- Educators are noticing the effects and express growing concern about the Manosphere’s reach.
- There is a pressing need for more research to understand the Manosphere and its effects.
- The relationship between consuming online content and developing misogynistic attitudes is complex and not always direct.
- Effective interventions must be tailored to the unique needs of different communities.
- Positive male role models are essential to counteract harmful online influences.
- It is vital to create safe spaces for open conversations about misogyny and gender attitudes.
- Understanding what draws young people to these communities is key to designing effective solutions.
- Social media algorithms play a significant role in what content young people see and engage with.

Mind the Kids - Should we be worried about the Manosphere?

In this episode, Dr. Jane Gilmour and Professor Umar Toseeb unravel the complexities of autism diagnosis, shining a spotlight on the often-overlooked gender differences and the unique mental health challenges faced by autistic youth. With autism identification rates on the rise and growing recognition of co-occurring conditions, the discussion explores why so many autistic children and young people-especially girls-are missed, misdiagnosed, or misunderstood. 

Dr. Miriam Martini joins to share her research on how psychiatric diagnoses often precede autism identification, revealing the critical need for earlier recognition and tailored support. Together, they delve into why autistic girls are frequently diagnosed later than boys, how anxiety and the pressure to fit in can mask autistic traits, and how diagnostic overshadowing can leave mental health needs unmet.

Tune in for a nuanced look at why understanding the interplay between gender, co-occurring conditions, and mental health is essential-not just for accurate diagnosis, but for ensuring every autistic young person receives the support they deserve.



Mind the Kinds - Autism diagnosis: The long and winding road

Listen to an excerpt from THE ART OF WINNING by Bill Belichick, read by the author.

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From the "Brené Brown of trauma" comes a groundbreaking, actionable guide to healing trauma through a reframing and adaptation of Positive Psychology.

Joy can feel complicated, especially to someone who is struggling. Against the very real darkness that life offers up, a chorus of “but do you have a gratitude journal?” or “have you tried yoga?” can feel isolating and dismissive. And yet, the research on resilience, joy, gratitude, hope, and post-traumatic growth proves unequivocally that these emotions are healing. When it comes to deploying that research and adapting it into actionable tools for people with a history of trauma, psychology falls desperately short. To bridge this gap, Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald has reframed these concepts and created new interventions for anyone who struggles to feel at home with joy. 

In The Joy Reset, Dr. McDonald helps readers identify barriers that prevent them from accessing joy—hypervigilance, emotional numbing, fear of loss, conditioning, guilt, and shame—and then redefines positive emotions as those tenacious, gritty, often tiny experiences that appear within the darkest moments and form the very foundation of psychological resilience. Rooted in the neurobiology that explains how and why trauma and suffering can impede our path to hope and joy, Dr. McDonald shares exercises that make joy and gratitude both bite-sized and accessible, inviting readers to welcome these emotions back in. 

By emphasizing the very real ways that joy and hope show up even in our toughest moments, The Joy Reset empowers readers to find the light in the dark—no matter what.  

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The Joy Reset By Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald (Audiobook Excerpt)

Discussion of Gargi’s research and the new module designed to open conversations about how we might understand the interplay between global politics and the global economy in this moment of rapid realignment.

Speakers:
Gargi Bhattacharyya, Paige Patchin, Luke de Noronha

In Conversation with the SPRC: Geopolitics, catastrophe and trying to comprehend the world

Welcome to our Short Takes podcast series. In the first of our series, Sirpa Salenius, the biographer of Sarah Parker Remond, and author of An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), is going to present some elements of Sarah Parker Remond’s life in Europe, and show why we felt it was such a wonderful thing to be able to use Sarah Parker Remond’s name to express the spirit and the character and the direction of the work that our centre is going to conduct in the future.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-words-sarah-parker-remond

Please note, this recording uses various pronunciations of Remond's name (Europe-US).

Speaker: Sirpa Salenius, University of Eastern Finland
Image: Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC Short Takes: In the words of Sarah Parker Remond

One of the most amazing publications of the last few years in the broad field of Black Studies and African American Studies has been Bénédicte Boisseron’s book Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question, published by Columbia University Press. In the second of our Short Takes series, Boisseron joins us now to talk about Afro-Dog, and to discuss the places where the study of racism and racialisation intersect with Animal Studies, and why that connection is important for both areas of specialisation in the Humanities.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-afro-dog-blackness-and-animal-question

Speaker: Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan
Image: Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC Short Takes: Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question

In this episode of Short Takes, we’re joined by Joy White, author of the eagerly anticipated book Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City, published recently by Repeater, and Joy is going to talk a little bit about the arguments in her book and introduce the urgency of this intervention, particularly now in the context for our political culture created by the Covid emergency and racialised police brutality.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-terraformed-young-black-lives-inner-city

Speaker: Joy White, Sociologist, Ethnographer and Researcher
Image: Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City (Repeater, 2020)
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC Short Takes: Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City

We’re joined by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at CUNY, for a conversation on the current crises of Covid-19 and state violence, touching on the desire for learning as a means of activism, the political geography of mobilisation and double consciousness.
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Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-ruth-wilson-gilmore

This conversation was recorded on 7th June 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council in the US and Harold F. Linder Chair in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, joins us to question who is assumed to be the disposable demographic, and the politics of genetic data and racial biology being used to understand the ‘black body’ during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-alondra-nelson

This conversation was recorded 8th June 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Chair in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Alondra Nelson

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In Conversation with the SPRC: Geopolitics, catastrophe and trying to comprehend the world

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