University of Warwick Podcasts
Warwick Podcasts are available as a downloadable MP3 file or can be accessed directly from this page. You can also subscribe through a number of podcast directories to get Warwick Podcasts direct to your computer and MP3 player.
What is the Value of a Degree?
11:13, Thu 8 Dec 2011
Professors Kate Purcell and Peter Elias, from the Institute of Employment Research, discuss the value of a degree.
(MP3 format, 12 MB)
How employable are today's graduates?
11:12, Thu 8 Dec 2011
In the second of a series of podcasts on graduates and employability, Professor Kate Purcell and Professor Peter Elias discuss what employers are really looking for in today's graduates
(MP3 format, 13 MB)
"Anonymous" Discussion
13:28, Fri 11 Nov 2011
Exploring the theory that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays that we attribute to Shakespeare. Roland Emmerich's new film Anonymous has re-opened the Shakespeare authorship debate. In this video, Prof Carol Rutter and Prof Stanley Wells discuss their reactions to the film and address some of the claims made by it.
(MP4 format, 235 MB)
Dating the Birth of Jesus and the 'first Christmas' with a Herodian Coin
15:51, Mon 20 Dec 2010
Anno domini. Today we use the system devised by the sixth-century monk, Dionysius Exiguus, as a way of synchronising events, and associate its origin with the nativity of Jesus and the 'first Christmas'. But did Dionysius get his dates right? Professor Kevin Butcher from the Department of Classics explores how a coin issued by Herod Antipas suggests not...
(MP4 format, 156 MB)
Professor Donald Singer and Dr Michael Hulse discuss this year's Hippocrates Prize
13:57, Mon 22 Nov 2010
Warwick Medical School's Professor Donald Singer and Associate Professor Michael Hulse, English, chat about the hugely successful international poetry and medical Hippocrates Prize
(MP3 format, 13 MB)
Professor Shaun Breslin and Professor Adil Najam: The Strategic Partnership and Globalisation
11:57, Thu 18 Nov 2010
The University of Warwick's Professor Shaun Breslin and Boston University's Professor Adil Najam, Director, Frederick S Pardee Centre discuss the strategic partnership between the two universities particularly in the field of Globalisation.
(MP4 format, 74 MB)
The University of Warwick's Professor Wyn Grant in conversation with Boston University's Professor Graham Wilson about politics and the strategic partnership.
09:57, Thu 18 Nov 2010
Prof Graham Wilson, Department for Political science, Boston University & Prof Wyn Grant, Department of Politics, The University of Warwick, discuss their joint political workshops and how the strategic partnerships between the two universities is progressing. Part of a series of conversation pieces that demonstrates the strategic partnership between the University of Warwick and Boston University.
(MP4 format, 180 MB)
The University of Warwick's Professor Shaun Breslin in conversation with Boston University's Rachel Thrasher about the growth area of South South Trade.
16:27, Wed 17 Nov 2010
Part of a series of conversation pieces that demonstrates the strategic partnership between the University of Warwick and Boston University.
(MP4 format, 147 MB)
University of Warwick's Richard Higgott - The Theory and Practice of Global Economics Governance: The Limits and Prospects of Multilateralism in the 21st Century
13:11, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 22 MB)
University of Warwick's Timothy J. Sinclair - Conflicts of Interest and the Global Financial Crisis
13:09, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 20 MB)
Cardiff Business School's Glenn Morgan - Constructing Financial Markets: reforming Over-the-Counter derivatives markets in the aftermath of the financial crisis
13:07, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 22 MB)
The University of Warwick's Shaun Breslin - China and the Global Crisis: Global Responsibility meets Domestic Vulnerability
13:04, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 17 MB)
Boston University's Min Ye - ‘Coethnic Foreign Investment (EDI) versus non-Ethnic Foreign Investment (FDI): How have they impacted China and India differently?
13:02, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 14 MB)
Boston University's Kevin Gallagher - Facilitating Foreign Investment for Strategic Resources: Evidence of China in Latin America after the Crisis
13:00, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 19 MB)
Boston University's Vivien Schmidt - ‘What Happened to the SMEs? France, Italy and Spain?
12:57, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 22 MB)
University of Warwick's Ben Clift - French Responses to the Global Economic Crisis: The global economy of ‘post-dirigisme’ and new state activism
12:47, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 23 MB)
Boston University's Cathie Jo Martin - Social Solidarity in Scandinavia after the Fall of Finance Capitalism
12:45, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 20 MB)
Boston University's William Grimes - The Future of Regional Liquidity Arrangements in East Asia: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
12:38, Tue 16 Nov 2010
Part of the 2nd Joint Boston/Warwick Politics and International Studies Workshop on Aspects of the Post Financial Crisis.
(MP3 format, 20 MB)
Sport is Big Business for University of Warwick
12:01, Thu 28 Oct 2010
First-class sporting facilities and award-winning conference venues are making the University of Warwick the preferred option for top-flight sports clubs.
(MP4 format, 43 MB)
Celebrating 30 years of WMG
09:59, Tue 26 Oct 2010
This year celebrates 30 years of WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) - an international multi-disciplinary group that was established by Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in 1980 in order to reinvigorate UK manufacturing, through the application of cutting edge research and effective knowledge transfer. The group started small - just an office, the Professor and his secretary - but has since grown into an international group, with collaborative centres in the UK, India, China, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore and Thailand. This video looks back over the history of WMG and some of the headlines it has made over the past 30 years
(MP4 format, 77 MB)
For more information on Warwick Podcasts contact Emily Little:
E.Little@warwick.ac.uk / 024 76575329
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