Decolonial Dialogues

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Manbinder Sidhu of the School of Health and Population Sciences talks about his Viva exam, including tips on preparation, answering questions, and staying calm.  Part of a series of University Graduate School podcasts to help postgraduate researchers learn more about the viva process

Manbinder Sidhu - Survive Your Viva

Robert Foster of the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion talks about his Viva exam, including tips on preparation, answering questions, and preparing corrections.  Part of a series of University Graduate School podcasts to help postgraduate researchers learn more about the viva process

Robert Foster - Survive Your Viva

The Politics @ Birmingham Podcast: Episode 01

On this week's podcast we talk about Barack Obama’s erratic handling of the Syria crisis, the legal and political questions surrounding international intervention in the civil war there, and the consequences for Britain’s world role of parliament’s vote against participation in any military strikes. 

Podcast includes: Dr Adam Quinn, Professor David Dunn, Professor Nicholas Wheeler

To request a transcript please contact: Coss-communications@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Syria on the precipice, Obama in crisis, Britain in search of a role (again)

In the 2021 annual Priestley Lecture, the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, sets out her recommendations for support across key areas: families, health and well-being, schools, communities, career pathways and children in care following the Big Ask survey.

The Big Answers: building a new deal for England's children

‘Parliamentary Development Assistance: Fixing the Car or Engaging with the Driver?’ 

Speakers: Alina Rocha Menocal (ODI) & Tam O’Neil (Independent Researcher)

Panel 2: 'Working Politically'
(Chair: Richard Batley, University of Birmingham) 

To request a transcript please contact: Coss-communications@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Date recorded: Friday 15th November 2013 (09:00-17:30)

Full workshop playlist: https://soundcloud.com/unibirmingham/sets/making-politics-practical

Parliamentary Development Assistance

Tom Penfold from the College of Arts and Law talks about his viva exam, including tips for on preparation and answering questions. Part of a series of University Graduate School podcasts to help postgraduate researchers learn more about the viva process.

https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/studentservices/graduateschool/skills/training/vivaprep.aspx

Survive your Viva - Tom Penfold

Professor Ford-Lloyd gives an examiner’s perspective on the viva process, including how he prepares for the examination, and what he looks for in a viva candidate. Part of a series of University Graduate School podcasts to help postgraduate researchers learn more about the viva process.

https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/studentservices/graduateschool/skills/training/vivaprep.aspx

Survive your Viva - Professor Brian Ford-Lloyd

INLOGOV Assistant Professor Dr Timea Nochta talks to alumna Kate Herbert, Principal Adviser for London at the Local Government Association. Kate’s Master’s dissertation highlights seven priorities for effective leadership in adverse circumstances, based on senior leaders’ reflections on their leadership responses.

INLOGOV Podcast-1, Kate Herbert speaks with Dr Timea Nochta

"Wir sind das Volk": 1989 and East German Memorials.

Speaker: Dr. Anna Saunders (University of Bangor) 

Recorded: 12 February 2014

'Not The First World War Centenary' Seminar Series, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham.

To request a transcript please contact: Coss-communications@contacts.bham.ac.uk

"Wir sind das Volk": 1989 and East German Memorials.

Professor Kerr spoke at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Modernist Cultures on 21 November 2022.

Abstract: 

In 1926, a young officer of the Indian Imperial Police in colonial Burma read ‘in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper’ the opening chapters of Gandhi’s autobiography. ‘They made a good impression on me,’ George Orwell recalled years later, ‘which Gandhi himself, at that time, did not.’ They were never to meet, but this was the beginning of the relationship between two men who became not only leading political thinkers and actors, but iconic national figures in the years that saw the beginning of the end of the British Empire around the world. In their beliefs and political aims, Gandhi and Orwell had a good deal in common. They were both born into different kinds of allegiance to Britain and what it stood for. Orwell belonged not only to the governing class, but specifically to the Anglo-Indian imperial service class. The young Gandhi was, by his own description, a most amenable colonial subject. But in the light of experience and of growing intellectual conviction, both men in due course became implacable enemies of the injustice of imperial rule, and worked to change the minds of those who sustained it. This campaign came to a climax with the end of British rule in India, which both lived to see. Both embraced a practical socialism, and worked in different ways to improve the conditions of the poor. So what was it that prevented Orwell from seeing in Gandhi a kind of ally, a comrade in arms, even a hero? Through his career, in which he wrote a good deal about Gandhi, he expresses suspicion, hostility, irritation, ‘a sort of aesthetic distaste,’ and at best a grudging respect for the older man. Why? This paper looks for answers to this question.

George Orwell's Gandhi - a talk at the Centre for Modernist Cultures by Professor Douglas Kerr

Not a Dynastic Centenary: British society, Georgian Monarchy and the Anniversaries of the ‘German Connection’ (1814 – 2014)&#13;
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British society, Georgian Monarchy and the Anniversaries of the ‘German Connection’ (1814 – 2014)

Joe sits down with Dr Ruchi Gupta to discuss developing revolutionary wearable, implantable and point-of-care sensors and microanalytical systems which can be integrated into the daily life of individuals whilst monitoring health. Dr Ruchi Gupta is an associate professor at University of Birmingham having studied across three continents in her career.

Studying physics opens a world of possibilities – find out more by visiting the Planet Possibility website at: https://www.planetpossibility.co.uk/.

Episode 2: Ruchi Gupta on revolutionary sensors for better healthcare treatment

Joe sits down with Rachel Youngman to discuss how Institute of Physics aims to tackle stereotypes and address the physics skills shortage, particularly in education. Rachel is Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics, having worked in international development and social justice.

Studying physics opens a world of possibilities – find out more by visiting the Planet Possibility website at: https://www.planetpossibility.co.uk/.

Episode 3: Tackling stereotypes and the physics skills shortage with Rachel Youngman

Joe sits down with Professor Kai Bongs to discuss the merging of academia and industrial knowledge to build meaningful quantum technologies for the future – to fight climate change, predict natural disasters and to see what lies beneath the ground. Professor Bongs is Director at the Institute for Quantum Technologies at the German Aerospace Centre. Before this Professor Bongs headed the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing.

Studying physics opens a world of possibilities – find out more by visiting the Planet Possibility website at: https://www.planetpossibility.co.uk/

Episode 4: Merging academia and industry with Kai Bongs

Joe sits down with Abhilash Jha to discuss building the ultimate timekeeper in a transportable atomic clock and working in the University of Birmingham’s clock laboratory – one of the coldest places in the known universe! Abhilash Jha is early-stage researcher at the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Technology.

Studying physics opens a world of possibilities – find out more by visiting the Planet Possibility website at: https://www.planetpossibility.co.uk/.

Episode 5: Abhilash Jha and the ultimate timekeeper

We’re excited to launch our brand new podcast mini-series, Decolonial Dialogues, from Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project, to understand in depth what decolonising the business school means from different perspectives.

In this episode, we contextualise the project, and our understanding of decolonisation within a Business School, as well as share a bit more about how the project launched, and what listeners should expect from the series. 

Learn more about Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/research/research-projects/decolonising-the-business-school

To get in touch, please email Anita Lateano, from the Decolonisation Project, at: a.lateano@bham.ac.uk

This episode was produced and hosted by Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project.

The music is from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/yasumu/blue-waters License code: QGWG3Y8D0JBENZSK.

Decolonising the Business School: Introduction to our new podcast

In the first episode of the new Decolonial Dialogues mini-series, hear what decolonising the business school means from one of the leading voices in the field, Professor Bobby Banerjee in conversation with Birmingham Business School’s Professor of Inclusive Leadership, Donna Ladkin.

In this episode, we delve into what decolonising the business school looks like from the perspective of an educator. We speak to Professor Bobby Banerjee, where his research focuses on sustainability, climate change, and postcolonial and decolonial movements. He joins us from Bayes Business School, formally Cass Business School, whose name change in the wake of June 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement, sparked conversation within the wider business school environment. Bobby is a leading voice in the debates surrounding decolonising the business school, who has inspired our own journey through his ‘Manifesto for Decolonising the Business School’ and work with ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise. Bobby and Donna discuss their journeys toward decolonial thinking, the balance between working in a business school and critiquing its operations, and Bobby’s multi-cultural student experience. Reflecting on his own journey with decolonisation, through academia, activism and as an educator, this conversation between Professor Bobby Banerjee and Professor Donna Ladkin gives listeners a deeper understanding of what decolonising is, the challenges the business school faces in decolonising, and practical steps we can all take to get there.

Learn more about Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/research/research-projects/decolonising-the-business-school

Relevant links:
Professor Bobby Banerjee profile: https://www.bayes.city.ac.uk/faculties-and-research/experts/bobby-banerjee
Professor Donna Ladkin profile: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/ladkin-donna
ETHOS workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Z10IdkePQ&t=2s
Manifesto for Decolonising the Business School: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/it-possible-decolonise-business-curriculum
Bayes Business School’s name change statement: https://www.bayes.city.ac.uk/about/more/our-name-change
Accounting for Slavery, Caitlin Rosenthal: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674972094

This episode was produced and hosted by Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project. It was edited by Chris Lateano. The music is from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/yasumu/blue-waters License code: QGWG3Y8D0JBENZSK.

Decolonising the Business School: Perspectives from an educator

In the second episode of the Decolonial Dialogues mini-series, we hear from the Decolonisation Project team at Birmingham Business School. Dr Caroline Chapain, Dr Emma Surman, Dr Rweyemamu Ndibalema and Anita Lateano discuss their own journeys into decolonisation work, to where they are now and reflect on the wider project within Birmingham Business School.

From our own points of departure to reflections on race and positionality whilst engaging in decolonial work, the Decolonisation Project team explore their own learnings and speculations on what decolonising the Business School means to them, as well as hopes for the future.

Find out more about the Decolonial Dialogues mini-series here. Learn more about Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/busine…usiness-school

Relevant links:

Dr Caroline Chapain: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/chapain-caroline
Dr Emma Surman: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/profile?ReferenceId=173888
Dr Rweyemamu Ndibalema: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/ndibalema-rweyemamu-alphonce
Anita Lateano: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/profile?Name=anita-lateano&ReferenceId=200210
Cultural Animation workshops at Birmingham Business School: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/decolonising-birmingham-business-school-a-students-perspective

This episode was produced and hosted by Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project. The music is from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/yasumu/blue-waters License code: QGWG3Y8D0JBENZSK.

Decolonising the Business School: Perspectives from a researcher

Decolonising the Business School: Perspectives from a business leader with Dujon Smith, Global Co-lead for Accenture’s Black Founder’s Development Program

In this episode of the Decolonial Dialogues mini-series, hear what decolonising the business school means from one of the leading voices working within the field of diversity, inclusion and representation within the consulting industry, Dujon Smith.

Dujon Smith is joining us in conversation today with Birmingham Business School BSc Economics Graduate and Decolonisation Project Student Intern, Susan Njuguna to explore what decolonisation means to business and business leaders today. Dujon is the Global Co-Lead for Accenture’s Black Founder’s Development Programme, a new initiative helps improve Black communities’ ability to create wealth for those who previously did not have a seat at the table and enable the next generation of innovation. He is passionate about connecting technology, culture and education within communities, and recently joined the Birmingham Business School Advisory Board. This conversation between Dujon and Susan explores the importance of decolonising from a business perspective, and how representation within the curriculum can have hugely positive repercussions for universities, businesses and wider industry.

Find out more about the Decolonial Dialogues mini-series here. Learn more about Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/research/research-projects/decolonising-the-business-school

Relevant links:
Dujon Smith LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujoncsmith/
Accenture’s Black Founders Development Program: https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/insights/technology/black-founders-development-program 
My Block Skin Sunscreen: https://myblockskin.co.uk

This episode was produced and hosted by Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project. It was edited by Chris Lateano. The music is from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/yasumu/blue-waters License code: QGWG3Y8D0JBENZSK.

Decolonising the Business School: Perspectives from a business leader with Dujon Smith

The ‘Decolonise the University’ movement originally came from students, starting in South Africa with ‘Fees Must Fall’ and ‘Rhodes Must Fall’, which later gained traction within UK universities. In this episode, we’re exploring what decolonising the business school looks like from the perspective of business school students. Mukuka Kasonde, PhD Candidate at University of Huddersfield joins Susan Njuguna, a recent BSc Economics graduate from Birmingham Business School and Student Research Intern on the Birmingham Business School Decolonisation Project. Mukua’s research investigates and evaluates calls for the decolonisation of higher education by exploring the attitudes and everyday experiences of academic practice and pedagogy within the business school. We’ll hear about both their experiences studying with the business school, and understand their views on the movement, and why they believe business schools should be embracing decolonisation.

Find out more about the Decolonial Dialogues mini-series here. Learn more about Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/research/research-projects/decolonising-the-business-school

Relevant links:

Mukuka Kasonde’s profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukukakasonde/

This episode was produced and hosted by Birmingham Business School’s Decolonisation Project. It was edited by Chris Lateano. The music is from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/yasumu/blue-waters License code: QGWG3Y8D0JBENZSK.

Decolonising the Business School: Perspectives from a student with Mukuka Kasonde

Professor Wendy Scase was interviewed on Black Country Radio’s programme Shoot from the Lip, Sunday 6 July 2014. She talks about her project investigating the Vernon manuscript, an exceptional manuscript in Medieval English.

Professor Wendy Scase interview

Speakers: David Engels (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Hauke Brunkhorst (University of Flensburg) 

Chair: Julian Pänke (IGS) 

Recorded: Monday 01 December 2014 (17:00-19:00)

To request a transcript please contact: Coss-communications@contacts.bham.ac.uk

The Dark Side of EU-rope: Imperium Europaeum?

Speaker: Randall Hansen (University of Toronto)

IGS 'Not The First World War Centenary' seminar 

Recorded: Wednesday 10 December 2014.

To request a transcript please contact: Coss-communications@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the last year of WWII

Charlie was born a boy but has always known that she's really a girl. What's to be done? The arrival of a German exchange student prompts Charlie to take action.

This play is written by Simon Topping, one of the two winners of the newly established BBC Writer's Prize. This is his first play for radio and was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

Directed by Sally Avens

The BBC Writers' prize was established to create a unique opportunity for new and established writers who want to write for radio drama and radio comedy. The response was extraordinary, with over 1,200 original scripts submitted to BBC writersroom for consideration.

This audio play is streaming throughout LGBT History Month on our website with kind permission of the writer and the BBC.

Credits
Charlie				                Alex Lawther
Tim/Commentator	                Felix Auer
Mum				                Karina Fernandez
Gemma			                        Nikki Runeckles
Lily				                        Scarlett Brookes
Dad/Priest/Doctor/Librarian       Craige Els

Rock Me Amadeus (Audio Play For LGBT History Month 2015)

Professor Angela Creese from the University of Birmingham talks about translanguaging in this Open University podcast.

Translanguaging In A Globalised World

Title: Echoes and Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of the Past from the Twentieth Century Onwards 

Speakers: Kalypso Nicolaides (Oxford), Tim Haughton (POLSIS), Paul Jackson (IDD) and Berny Sebe (Modern Languages)

Chair: Nicholas Martin (IGS)

Joint event with the Institute for German Studies and the Postcolonial Birmingham Research Network.

POLSIS hosts a number of seminars throughout the autumn term which focuses on a number of different topics. The seminars are open to everyone. view the full list of the POLSIS Seminar Series 2015-16. http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/departments/political-science-international-studies/events/seminar-series/index.aspx

Recorded: 30 September 2015 (15:00-17:00)

To request a transcript please contact: Coss-communications@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Legacies and Memories of the Past from the Twentieth Century Onwards

Pete March presentation from the Models and practices for engaging with families, relational networks and communities seminar on 15 January 2016

Sharing Decision-making, engagement and capacity building: how do we assess the FGC model?

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.

In this episode of UNFILTERED, we ask Dr Nando Sigona, Reader in International Migration and Forced Displacement, and Doctoral Researcher April-Louise Pennant, "What does it mean to be British?"

Listening time: 21 minutes

For more content on this episode visit
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/unfiltered2

To request a transcript for this podcast please contact: cossdigital@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

UNFILTERED Episode 2: What does it mean to be British?

Speaker: Professor Daniel Ziblatt

In this talk, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University, Daniel Ziblatt discusses his book How Democracies Die. 

Daniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University where he is also a resident faculty associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Cener for European Studies and Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. 

Recorded: Tuesday 9th October 2018 (16:15-17:30)
To request a transcript please contact:
colsoc-c-colsocwebteam@adf.bham.ac.uk

How Democracies Die

In our UNFILTERED series, we invite two experts to discuss a current topic over coffee.

In this fourth episode, marketing experts Professor Isabelle Szmigin and Dr Caroline Moraes discuss the question "Has consumerism stolen Christmas?"

Listening time: 17 minutes

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/socsci/unfiltered/index.aspx

To request a transcript for this podcast please contact: cossdigital@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

UNFILTERED Episode 4: Has consumerism stolen Christmas?

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.

UNFILTERED Episode 5 : Brexit - the end or the beginning?

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 visit
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/socsci/unfiltered/index.aspx

For a transcript of this episode please email cossdigital@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

UNFILTERED Episode 6 : Is democracy better in theory than in practice?

Dr Simon Cotton from the University of Birmingham's School of Chemistry discusses the use of nerve gas in warfare.

Nerve gas – the dark side of warfare podcast

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