In a recent UK survey, one in eight meat eaters said they would consider going vegan. In this podcast, Senior Lecturer Dr Alex Lockwood discusses the history of veganism and plant-based diets, and how they can intersect with other important topics of the day such as masculinity, racism and environmental issues.

With the advent of sex robots equipped with artificial intelligence, Professor Clarissa Smith and Dr Helen Driscoll discuss what sex and relationships mean to us in 2018, and why some of us are choosing to forge relationships with robots and other non-human entities. 

With an estimated one in five people (and one in three young adults) in the UK having a tattoo, there has never been more interest in body modification. In this podcast, Dr Becky Owens, Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society and Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sunderland, discusses her personal interest in body modification and how it led her to a career as an academic specialising in evolutionary psychology.

With the recent proposals for legislation to allow assisted suicide, the controversial proposal has sparked a controversial and complicated debate. Here, Professor Kevin Yuill, Programme Leader for History and author of ‘The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Assisted Suicide’, discusses his views.