Social Innovation: The Social Ideas Podcast

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Nicole Helwig shares the importance of social enterprises in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Nicole is the manager for the Centre for S…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Joana Nascimento discuss the meaning and purpose of social anthropology. And, in her new role as a Teaching Associate for the Masters in Social Innovat…

Once a Masters programme is completed knowing what to do next can be challenging.  In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, our graduate, Imogen, shares what motivated her to apply for our progra…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, James Timpson, the Chief Executive of a service retailer in the UK, shares his philosophy on business and the importance of upside down management. One of…

The Social Ideas Podcast: shattering the concrete wall

In this episode, Dr Simone Phipps discusses the systemic racism Black women have to overcome to become valued business leaders.

Dr Simone Phipps i…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Masters in Social Innovation student Adriana Dhabha, discusses how predictive analytics could be used in her job as a Social Worker.

‘I believe that social…

In this episode the chair of the Cambridge Refugee Support group shares what motivated her to work with refugees settled in Cambridge, UK.

Sol Escobar talks about her work and how attending a Cambridg…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Mary Murphy, a Post Doc researcher with the Faculty of Education and a Research Associate at Lucy Cavendish College in Cambridge, discusses her work in…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, we hear from Ioana Belu, a student on our MSt in Social Innovation programme, and Dr Belinda Bell, the Programme Director for Cambridge Social Ventures.

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Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge; she is also the Fellow of Social Sciences at Downing College. Mónica splits her time between the UK and Mex…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Szczepan Orlowski from Animorph and Mark Goodson from Cambridge Social Ventures discuss how the workers' cooperative format is helping Szczepan and his co…

“… [If] the children are happy, the family is happy, the parents are happy, and the whole society is happy.”

Since 1950, Vietnam has celebrated International Children’s Day on the 1 June. Originally s…

In less time than it will take you to drink a cup of coffee, this mini episode of The Social Ideas Podcast will help you decide whether or not you should apply for our Masters programme.

Eidi is a stu…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, we hear from Szczepan Orlowski, the XR Developer for Animorph.

Animorph is a workers' co-operative, which uses augmented and virtual realities to develop s…

Pivoting is an art, both in sports and business.

In the latest episode of The Social Ideas podcast, Professor Paul Tracey explains how a company that brought back the Polaroid camera, almost lost its …

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Lilia Giugni shares the value and the social importance of mutual aid groups.

Throughout the current global pandemic, it has become obvious that without…

Cambridgeshire in the UK is home to more than three hundred churches, the majority of which are hundreds of years old; and, in this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, we hear from the team involved…

During the mid-90s the Marsh Farm estate in Luton, Bedfordshire, UK, dealt with years of tension between police and disenfranchised youth, which eventually exploded into three nights of rioting. 

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Schools across the world have closed their doors and are now delivering lessons via the internet. It’s easy to assume that, in this day and age, everybody has access to Wi-Fi enabled equipment, but i…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Tamzin Byrne, the Programme Manager for Cambridge Social Ventures, explains why social entrepreneurs are usually reluctant to invest in their own personal…