Social Sciences & Law resources
Below you will find a selection of resources to accompany the youtube video lectures we have shared with you, as well as a full list of all of the video lectures from previous weeks.
Please note: if you require subtitles for any of the content below, please let us know at bristol-scholars@bristol.ac.uk and we will be happy to add them.
Our videos
Social media and democracy - Digital tools and social media have revolutionised our daily lives: how we communicate with each other, how we learn or how we buy and pay for a bus ticket. Internet-based tools have also changed the ways we practise politics and how we engage with decision-making processes. For example, how we raise our voices about social and political topics - something that comes with plenty of opportunities but also numerous challenges. These sessions critically asses how civil society is making use of digital tools in governance and how this is reshaping our democracies. To exemplify this, two countries are used: the UK, a democratic system, and Cambodia, an authoritarian regime.
- Social media and democracy (part 1)
- Social media and democracy (part 2)
- Social media and democracy (part 3)
What impact can public health policy have on the obesity crisis? - In this series of three short lectures, Maria Jesus Vega Salas discusses the contribution that public policy makers can make to reducing obesity in a country’s population. In this first part, she uses data to show how health-related issues affect different populations at different rates and shows that there are systemic reasons for these differences. The next two sessions look at how public policy can have a major impact on the behaviour of people, which makes them more or less likely to be obese, and then use a framework to assess the effectiveness of different policy responses to the obesity crisis.