Researchers might like to believe they are wholly objective in their work, but emotion often shows up in the research process. In this podcast, Tracey Loughran, Agata Lisiak, Geraldine Latchem-Hastings, and Kate Mahoney, who all contributed to the book "Emotion and the Researcher", share their experiences.

Listen to Karen Jaw-Madson talk about her brand new book Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @ Work and how the leading edge approach of Design of Work Experience (DOWE)can co-create solutions and differentiating experiences that are customized, relevant, and profoundly impactful to organizations today.

Authors Crystal Abidin and Katrin Tiidenberg talk to us about their research into the world of internet celebrity and selfie culture, with fascinating insight into just how much these phenomena can tells us about 21st century societies.

Want to know more? Check out "Selfies: Why We Love (and Hate)Them" and "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online", part of our SocietyNow series. https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/series-detail/SocietyNow/

Listen to Sandeep Das, legendary tabla player and composer, talk about his experiences working with Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble and his perspective of catalytic leadership first-hand.

Sandeep is featured in The Catalyst Effect: 12 Skills and Behaviors to Boost Your Impact and Elevate Team Performance by Jerry Toomer, Craig Caldwell, Steve Weitzenkorn and Chelsea Clark. Read more about the book here: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/The-Catalyst-Effect/?K=9781787435520

Chris Linder, author of 'Sexual Violence on Campus', talks with academics and practitioners Susan Marine, Niah Grimes and Marvette Lacy about the importance of taking a power-conscious approach to awareness, prevention and response to sexual violence.

Save 30% on Chris' book with promo code GREATDEBATES

http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Sexual-Violence-on-Campus/?K=9781787432291

In the second Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity podcast, series editor Ron Iphofen chats to Kandy Woodfield about the challenges faced by academics making use of social media and big data in their research.

Learn more in Kandy's book: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/The-Ethics-of-Online-Research/?K=9781787144866

One hundred years after (some) UK women won the right to vote, Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds (authors of "The Stalled Revolution") discuss the progress made by women, remaining inequalities, and how how today's campaigners can learn lessons from the women's movements of the past. http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/The-Stalled-Revolution/?K=9781787146020

Every weekend, in major cities around the world, computer engineers take part in competitions known as "hackathons", working intensively, often around the clock, to create new digital products for corporate sponsors. Sociologists Sharon Zukin and Max Papadantonakis (City University of New York) have explored the world of the hackathon, what's in it for the competitors and the sponsors, and what it tells us about the "new" economy.

Graham Taylor explores the long-term political, economic and social trends that culminated in the perfect storm of Brexit, calling into question some of the popular narratives about why Britain voted to leave the EU.

"Understanding Brexit" is out now: http://bit.ly/2zv2eyc

Ron Iphofen is one of a group of researchers in the Academy of Social Sciences, who have been working to build on existing foundations for research ethics and make progress. Here he explains why change is so badly needed, and how you can be part of it.

Learn more about the Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity series here: http://bit.ly/2wHaHNU