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5-MINUTE
Welcome to 5-Minute, the video series where the Department of Management's Dr Luca Andriani interviews an expert guest on issues such as public affairs, business, economics, education, social and public life.
As the title suggests, these interviews provide a short introduction to the topics discussed and are accessible for all levels of expertise.
We hope you will enjoy 5-Minute and would like to say a huge thank you to all our guests and followers.
See you at the next episode.
Season 2
- Episode 1: 5 Minutes with Graham Hutchings - China 1949 Year of Revolution: does this help understand today's China?
- “When one wants to understand the roots of China’s present behaviour, although China has changed in several important ways, you still need to go back to the foundations of the communist state to really understand what is going on.”
PRevious episodes
Season 1
- Episode 1: 5 Minutes with Dr Federica Rossi - University-industry collaboration: any bright future?
- "In order for university research to generate socio-economic benefit, academic knowledge needs to be translated into forms of knowledge that can be used by industry and policy makers."
- Episode 2: 5 Minutes with Dr Anne Irfan - Palestinian refugees in the 21st century. What is the international community doing about it?
- “Palestinian refugees are mostly Palestinians who were forced to leave their homes in Palestine in 1948 when the State of Israel was created”
- Episode 3: 5 Minutes with Professor Daniele Archibugi - Cosmopolitan Democracy vs Populism: A key challenge left to Millennials
- "We need more global governance that cannot be provided just by few governments or few experts, we need a greater involvement of the population at large."
- Episode 4: 5 Minutes with Professor Jeremy Celse – Why do people lie? Do emotions make people more immoral?
- “Envy can push you to be honest or dishonest depending on how you channel this emotion”
- Episode 5: 5 Minutes with Professor Bo Rothstein - Good quality of government: Utopia or reality?
- "Good quality government institutions is probably the most important cause behind the possibilities for nations to create overall human wellbeing"
- Episode 6: 5 Minutes with Dr Neil Pyper - COVID-19: When things are not going according to plan
- “Strategic agility is about recognizing that things are not going according to plan and acting quickly. The countries that acted quickly and decisively almost invariably were the ones that managed to contain the pandemic effectively”
- Episode 7: 5 Minutes with Dr David Schroeder - How do we take decisions under uncertainty? A simple questionnaire helps to find out
- “We have developed a simple online questionnaire where you can measure your own ambiguity attitude and receive a general evaluation of your uncertainty type”
- Episode 8: 5 Minutes with Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea - The cost of inequality in Latin America: lessons and warnings for the rest of the world
- “Inequality goes hand-in-hand with racism and violence and this weakens the prospect of collaboration between middle-class and the poor, crucial for an effective redistribution of resources”
- Episode 9: 5 Minutes with Professor Andrew B Whitford - Post-Trump: What next for the U.S. public administration?
- “One of the challenges of the U.S. public administration is to return to regular order, to recover the viewpoint among the average citizen that the U.S. bureaucracy is a well-ordered, well-regulated institution working for the public interests.”
TEAM
- Founder Director: Dr Luca Andriani
- Communications Coordinator: Isobel Edwards
- Videographer: Barnaby Booth