Media in the Birkbeck Business School
Discover the latest podcasts, vlogs and media activity from the Birkbeck Business School.
5-MINUTE
Welcome to 5-Minute, the video series where 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 3
- Episode 1: 5 Minutes with Dr Richard Tacon - Better bowling together than alone: Social capital and sport organisations
'What motivates people to make resources available to others is the feeling of being part of the same group.' - Episode 2: 5 Minutes with Professor Ron Smith - How (not) to buy weapons
'Technological uncertainty is one of the main causes of weapons procurement failures.' - Episode 3: 5 Minutes with Dr Krzysztof Krakowski - Does school debating protect from disinformation?
'People trained in debating are better at distinguishing false from true news statements and less likely to believe in conspiracy theories.' - Episode 4: 5 Minutes with Dr Antonio Savoia - Understanding Tax Collection in Developing Economies
'Being able to raise revenue through taxation is important for human development.' - Episode 5: 5 Minutes with Dr Zsoka Koczan - Transitioning Nations: Economic and Social Challenges of Embracing a Low-Carbon Future
'The transition to low-carbon economy has employment and social life implications that require the implementation of policy supports'
PREVIOUS EPISODES
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.' - Episode 2: 5 Minutes with Professor Milena Nikolova - Double-edge sword: Persistent effects of Communism on life satisfaction
'Having been connected to secret informants either through family or being one yourself is negatively associated to nowadays life satisfaction in a country of the former Soviet Union.' - Episode 3: 5 Minutes with Dr Olga Popova - Extreme temperature vs. extreme violence in Russia
'Extreme hot temperature leads to more violent deaths in Russia among both men and women.' - Episode 4: 5 Minutes with Professor Bo Rothstein - Controlling corruption
'Corruption destroys the social fabric of the society.' - Episode 5: 5 Minutes with Dr Elodie Douarin - Comparative economics: What it is and how we can use it
'Comparative Economics is very policy relevant as it recognises the importance of how different policies can play out in different contexts.' - Episode 6: 5 Minutes with Dr Olivier Sibai - Academics: The epidemic of loneliness
'Loneliness is a problem for academics’ well-being and quality of life: 40% of academics view isolation at work as main factor affecting their mental health.' - Episode 7: 5 Minutes with Dr Sappho Xenakis - Crime and punishment in unequal societies
'Inequality to experiences of crime and punishment cannot be improved without tackling broader social and economic inequality.' - Episode 8: 5 Minutes with Dr Giambattista Rossi - Football analytics in the future of the sport industry
'Buying the best athlete is not enough, competitive advantage relies also upon understanding data in sport that can be used to analyse tactical as well as economic performance.' - Episode 9: 5 Minutes with Diego Acuña - Travel sentiment: Restoring travellers’ confidence
'The behaviour of a British traveller is different from the behaviour of a German traveller which is different from the behaviour of the American traveller. Travel sentiments provide insightful information that destination countries can use to understand how to cater for the different markets.' - Episode 10: 5 Minutes with Dr Anna Grosman - Are liberal market economies becoming more statist?
'Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in liberal market economies we are likely to see an increasing of state ownership of assets and state market interventions.'
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.'
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