Our Sick Society
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Big Ideas - Episode 1: Making the most of existing data
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Big Ideas, a podcast series exploring how data shapes our understanding of mental health and inequalities and how to make the collectio...
The Big Ideas - Episode 2: Severe Mental Health Disorders: The initial findings
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Big Ideas, a podcast series exploring how data shapes our understanding of health and inequalities and how to make the collection and u...
The Big Ideas - Episode 3: Tackling systemic mental health inequalities
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Big Ideas, a podcast series exploring how data shapes our understanding of health and inequalities and how to make the collection and u...
The Big Ideas - Episode 4: Future possibilities of mental health data
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Big Ideas, a podcast series exploring how data shapes our understanding of health and inequalities and how to make the collection and u...
Help us to improve Our Sick Society!
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our Sick Society is taking a brief hiatus to explore ways to continue the series, and we would really like your help. Below is a link to a short fee...
Episode 15: The UNCRPD General Comment 1 - an end for involuntary psychiatric care?
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014 the UN Convention on the Rights of Person’s with Disabilities (UNCRPD) recommended that policymakers and psychiatrists should “review the ...
Episode 14: Systems change through Black-led research - a conversation with Black Thrive
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Centre's 2022 Festival: Partnering for Change, Black Thrive explore the inequalities that Black people face in academia and knowledge p...
Episode 13: How NHS organisational culture maintains racialised inequalities
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Charlotte Woodhead explores findings from the Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences study, or TIDES. Led by Profess...
Episode 12: Hong Kongers in the UK: Identity and Belonging
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftershock of the large-scale social movements in Hong Kong in 2019, over 100,000 Hong Kong migrants came to the UK since 2021. This episode, h...
Episode 11: Mental health in conflict settings
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The social conditions of war and conflict shape the landscape of mental health for those affected by violence, persecution, and displacement. The epis...
Episode 10: The Future of Society and Mental Health
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To launch our brand new series, and to announce our 2022 Festival, we revisit our 2021 conference. BBC Radio 4 presenter Claudia Hammond chairs this...
REACH Special 4: School, COVID-19 and Adolescent Mental Health
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adna, Karima, and Thai-sha are back! Join them in this special limited series produced by the Resilience, Ethnicity, and AdolesCent mental Health (REA...
REACH Special 3: The Role of Culture on Youth Mental Health
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adna, Karima, and Thai-sha are back! Join them in this special limited series produced by the Resilience, Ethnicity, and AdolesCent mental Health (REA...
REACH Special 2: Social Media, Adolescent Mental Health and COVID-19
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adna, Karima, and Thai-sha are back! Join them in this special limited series produced by the Resilience, Ethnicity, and AdolesCent mental Health (REA...
REACH Special 1: Boys Mental Health and COVID-19
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adna, Karima, and Thai-sha are back! Join them in this special limited series produced by the Resilience, Ethnicity, and AdolesCent mental Health (REA...
Episode 9: Digital exclusions: mental health and digital life
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Our Sick Society, we explore the intersection of digital exclusion and mental health through the eyes of activists, artists with li...
Episode 8: Social class, poverty, and young people’s mental health
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Our Sick Society, three young participants of the REACH project are taking over! Join Adna, Karima and Thai-sha as they exp...
Episode 7: Mental Health and the Asylum Process
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are asking, what is society’s role in refugee and asylum-seeker mental health in the UK? What are the systems and the structures ...
Episode 6: Covid-19 and Mental Health - What about the teachers?
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Covid-19 social restrictions begin to ease, a return to face-to-face teaching is being prioritised by the government. With a spotlight focused on t...
Episode 5: Music for the Mind
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is it about music that can tap so powerfully into our mental state? Dr Sally Marlow speaks to a samba band, an orchestra and a South East London ...
Episode 4: Recovery and Lockdown
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Lavinia Black speaks to Geraldine about the challenges of recovery during lockdown. Geraldine has been in recovery for 14 ye...
Episode 3: Hearing All Voices
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Collaborative podcasting for Mental Health, Society & Medicine. There is a reason many podcasts are so successful. For those making podcasts it's chea...
Episode 2: Race, Employment and Health
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second episode of Our Sick Society podcast was produced in collaboration with Black Thrive. In this episode, members of Black Thrive and researche...
Episode 1: Covid-19, Quarantine and Community
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Summer 2020 has been an extraordinary time, with life as we knew it being turned upside down by Covid-19. For many of us, Covid-19 has become a lens ...
Our Sick Society (trailer)
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A trailer for the brand new podcast Our Sick Society, where we explore how social changes affect mental health.