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There is no refuge in the lab, science needs to reach out

This podcast with Sudip Parikh and Gabriela Ramos discusses the impact of populism and polarisation on science, the need for better science communication and policy engagement, and the importance of incentives to counter disinformation and support reform. The role of the social sciences in understanding these trends is also highlighted.

10 Apr 2024

Too risk averse, too path dependent – redesign governance systems to face shocks

Welcome to The Policy Nerd podcast by the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab. This is the place where top thinkers come to talk concrete data and debate policy solutions that would reset us along a more equitable and smarter path.

 

07 Feb 2024

Is the 4-day workweek the solution we've been looking for?

Welcome to The Policy Nerd podcast by the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab. This is the place where top thinkers come to talk concrete data and debate policy solutions that would reset us along a more equitable and smarter path.

 

30 Jan 2024

Infantilized and unequal – the public sector is struggling when it’s needed the most

Author and current president of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival Charles Landry and Iulia Sevciuc of UNESCO tackle the tough but critical topic of government capacities and the role of the public sector in steering us through these times of crises. 

13 Nov 2023

We live in times of abundance, yet our incapacity to govern it is tearing societies apart

In this high-level podcast with Manuel Muñiz of IE University in Madrid and UNESCO's Gabriela Ramos, they discuss the massive shifts our societies, economies and systems of governance are undergoing.

03 Oct 2023

We embraced dysfunctional growth, change course

This episode brings Mariana Mazzucato as a guest. Mazzucato is a professor and director at University College London. She is also an influential, bestselling author on public value and the role of the state in shaping markets to solve the grand challenges facing humanity.

06 Jul 2023

Recast your economic rulebook, deliver for people

This high-level podcast with Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, is on how we need to collectively change course to reset equitably. . 

23 May 2023

Social media and trust in science – “it’s complicated”

This podcast with Homero Gil de Zuñiga Navajas and Brigitte Huber discusses how polarisation has infiltrated science, is tearing up the public trust in it and what solutions might restore civil discourse.

13 Oct 2022
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Polarisation kidnapped science, the price is paid by all

This podcast with Peter Gluckman of the International Science Council and Gabriela Ramos of UNESCO discusses how polarisation has infiltrated science, is tearing up the public trust in it and what solutions might restore civil discourse.

23 Sep 2022

Social safety nets catch us in crisis, invest in those

This high-level podcast is with the President of the European Investment Bank and former Vice President and the Minister for Economy and Digitalization of Spain, Nadia Calviño, and Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences. Together, they discuss rethinking collective policies in our new landscape of risks and inequalities, and the danger of replicating the inequities of the physical world in the digital one.

01 Aug 2022

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