Ipsos in the UK Podcast

On this week's special podcast, Kelly Beaver, Managing Director of Public Affairs is joined by Mark Herbert, Director, Schools & TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training), British Council, UK and Will Straw – CEO of the Prince’s Trust International.

In this episode, the team review Ipsos’s latest data on children and young people, collected to mark World Youth Skills Day, which explores how adults in 29 countries understand and perceive the challenges facing children and young people across the world as a result of the pandemic.

What do the public think are the biggest issues facing children and young people? And how does this align with what our guest speakers are seeing ‘on the ground’?

What, if anything, do the public want policymakers and NGOs to do to improve access to education, redress the harm caused by the pandemic, and help children and young people return to school?

And what does this all mean for organisations working in the global education sector, and the governments they are trying to influence??

Our team discuss all this and more, with a conscious focus on the impact of pandemic-related school closures on children’s education, wellbeing, skills development, and capacity for lifelong learning across the world.

World Youth Skills Day was established in 2014, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

World Youth Skills Day 2021 celebrates the resilience and creativity of youth worldwide throughout the Coronavirus crisis.

On this week’s episode of the Ipsos MORI Politics and Society podcast, Keiran Pedley and Cameron Garrett sit down to discuss the latest wave of Ipsos MORI’s Political Monitor. They ask what is behind the Conservative’s growing poll lead and examine Keir Starmer’s falling poll ratings.

On this week's podcast, Rachel Ormston, Research Director at Ipsos MORI Scotland is joined by Emily Gray, Managing Director of Ipsos MORI Scotland, and Kezia Dugdale, Director of the John Smith Centre for Public Policy, University of Glasgow. In this episode, the group review the latest data from the upcoming Holyrood election, including:

Underlying issues that can influence this election, including COVID-19, independence and Brexit.

How far is the election campaign exacerbating or contributing to those divisions?

The current polls and party positions

The future for the Scottish Parliament and the UK

On this week's podcast, Keiran Pedley is joined by Ruth Townend, Research Director at Ipsos MORI and Lorraine Whitmarsh, a environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, energy and transport. She is Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST). 

In this episode, the team reviews our latest research for Earth Day including:

From the public, globally, there is real concern about climate change. Ipsos ask about awareness, concern and worry about climate change for a lot of our clients, and we see consistently high levels of all of these.

Climate change and COVID-19

Net Zero commitment and plans in the UK specifically

What is responsibility in climate action, and who, if anyone, are we responsible to?

Is 2021 a super year for climate change action?

In this special episode, Keiran Pedley is joined by two colleagues, Holly Day and Cameron Garrett.

Holly talks about the government’s improving poll ratings and what is driving them

Cameron talks about Keir Starmer’s poll ratings a year in as Labour leader

And Keiran takes us through how the public think past PMs did in office – as featured on Times Radio this week

This is a collection of women’s real-life stories of experiencing fear and harassment in public spaces, read by men.

TW // content includes references to sexual assault and harassment

Compiled by Ipsos researchers Lucy Neiland (@LucyNeiland), Lizzie Gordon and Tamara Ansons, this three-minute audio recording prompts us to re-examine these stories of everyday harassment so ubiquitous for women they are described by many participants as “just the usual stuff.” Having them read by men helps us to hear these stories anew, with the shock they deserve.

As a society, we need to develop our shared understanding and language around this problem. This recording is a step towards that end. Thanks to the women of Ipsos and their friends who sent stories in. The following stories are theirs, read by male friends and colleagues.

On this week's podcast, Keiran Pedley is joined by Emily Gray, Managing Director, Ipsos MORI Scotland and Sir John Curtice, Professor of Politics at The University of Strathclyde. In this episode, the guests discuss the unfolding important elections in Scotland and the latest Ipsos MORI Scottish Political Monitor, including:

Looking ahead to the Scottish elections in May, why they're important and what is the current state of events.

Scotland's independence - Sir John Curtice gives his opinion on what the 'baseline' level of support for independence is and the implications it could pose on the United Kingdom.

What is Scottish public opinion of the party leaders and issues and how this election compares with previous ones.

On this week's podcast, Keiran Pedley is joined by Stephen Bush, Political Editor of the New Statesman and Paula Surridge, Deputy Director of The UK in a Changing Europe and Political Sociologist at the University of Bristol.

In this episode, the team review the latest data from the Ipsos MORI Political Monitor including:

The state of the main parties as we enter 2021,

The Greens being on 8 points – and whether it matters,

Public perceptions of the government’s handling of COVID,

Plus a deep dive on Labour leader Keir Starmer – how is he doing as he approaches the first anniversary of him becoming Labour leader?

On this week’s episode of the Ipsos MORI Politics and Society podcast, Keiran Pedley is joined by Kully Kaur-Ballagan to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is changing (or reinforcing) existing gender roles in our society.

On this week's podcast, Keiran Pedley is joined by Ailsa Henderson from the University of Edinburgh and Emily Gray of Ipsos MORI Scotland to discuss this week's bombshell Ipsos MORI / STV News poll showing support for Scottish independence at a record 58%. The group discusses what has caused support for independence to increase, the arguments Scots find convincing for independence and for Scotland staying in the Union; and what might happen at the Scottish parliamentary elections next year.