The World in Question

We speak with political journalist Isabel Hardman about why her own experiences of mental health led her to write The Natural Health Service—in turn, helping to explore the benefits to our mental wellbeing of spending time in nature. Along the way, Isabel met others who had found the benefits of Nature to the health and spoke with researchers trying to understand the benefits of everything from forest bathing to cold water swimming.This is episode is in partnership with the Centre for Society and Mental Health.

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In our first podcast of 2021, we are joined by Professor Anand Menon, Director of the UK in a Changing Europe to discuss that most complex of challenges – Brexit. We also discuss what other political and economic challenges lay in wait for the UK, why language, process and explanation are crucial to understanding complex challenges. And why the Union may become the defining issue of 2021. To read Brexit and Beyond report from the UK in a Changing Europe head to https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Brexit-and-Beyond-report-compressed.pdfPlease let us know your tips for getting through lockdown by leaving a comment in the iTunes rate and review section or by emailing [email protected].

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In our end of year Christmas special, we speak to Dame Louise Casey about her time in government, taking on some of the biggest challenges, from tackling homelessness under Tony Blair to leading the troubled families programme under David Cameron. We discuss why sound policymaking is a mixture of the 'blindingly obvious' and the very complex. Furthermore, Dame Louise explains why she thinks Boris Johnson's government needs to rethink how it approaches challenges, such as child poverty and homelessness.We also discuss the impacts of COVID-19 and the COVID-19 community campaign that Dame Louise helped launch this week, to make sure no family goes without this winter. To get involved in the COVID community campaign and to contribute please use the links below: https://covidcommunitycampaign.co.uk/

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We speak with Dr Alice Politi about her new paper 'Italy: a case study of the Silk Road Project in Europe'. The paper considers the recent bilateral agreement between Italy and China, examining what it can tell us about the role of Chinese foreign investment for Chinese trade and diplomacy.The paper is the first in a new Policy Series from the Lau China Institute titled 'China in the World'. To find out more about the series and how to get involved, head to www.kcl.ac.uk/lci/policy

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We speak with Dr Rosa Heimer about her essay and research, looking at the impacts of COVID-19 on black and minoritized women facing gender-based violence. We discuss how housing, immigration and policing are currently failing to support many women escaping violence. We discuss why these issues will outlive the pandemic but also what we can do to bring about change. Show NotesOrganisations Rosa works with: Latin American Women’s Aid (LAWD) - https://lawadv.org.uk/en/London Black Women’s Project - http://www.lbwp.co/Other Support for those escaping violence: Refuge - https://www.refuge.org.uk/Gallop (LGBT+ anti-violence charity) - http://www.galop.org.uk/domesticabuse/Research and Writing – A Multiple Pandemic A multiple pandemic: Black and minoritised women at the crossroads of violence, homelessness and COVID-19 - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/a-multiple-pandemic-black-and-minoritised-women-at-the-crossroads-of-violence-homelessness-and-covid-19A Roof, Not A Home: The housing experiences of Black and minoritised women survivors of gender-based violence in London - https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/publications/roof-not-home-housing-experiences-black-and-minoritised-women-survivors-gender-based-violence-london/King’s India Institute Series, Confronting Cast – kcl.ac.uk/kii/confronting-caste

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We speak with Nithya and Laurie about why the Brick industry in Cambodia has created a multigenerational workforce of adults and children trapped in debt bondage – one of the most prevalent forms of modern slavery in the world. This process of unfree labour has led them to coin the term 'blood bricks'. Working with other researchers they aim to highlight the injustices of modern day slavery, but also the wider political and economic forces which facilitate the blood brick system.

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Brazil sits at the heart of some of the worlds biggest challenges from deforestation to inequality. Its ability to overcome these issues are not only critical to its future, but to the future of the entire planet.We speak with Professor Anthony Pereira about his new book Modern Brazil: A Very Short Introduction and why to understand Brazil today we must understand its contemporary formation.

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Bonus Episode. The podcast is taken from a live event we ran entitled 'Broken Cities: the Global Housing Crisis In Focus' in which Dr Deborah Potts and Prof Phil Hubbard spoke with Owen Hatherley, Editor at Tribune Magazine about the global housing crisis.

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We speak with Sudhir Selvaraj about the persecution of Christians in India. The 2008 Kandhamal violence and why minority communities in India continue to face threats.

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Water access and inequality in the US with Dr Katie Meehan by King's College London

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