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...Social Sciences at The Open University...This edition of the PodMag focuses on the Centre for Citizenship Identity and Governance (CCIG). Karen Foley interviews Director Elizabeth Silva about CCIG, Paul Stenner and Naomi Moller about the Psychosocial research programme, Liz McFall about the Digital Citizens research programme, and Peter Wood about dissemination of...

...social scientists interested in making sense of contemporary social action and political life. The first is how do we know how people feel? Surveys – whether opinion polls or sociological investigations – tend to ask for views rather than feelings, so we know rather more about what people are concerned about (immigration, the NHS, etc) than what they feel about such...

...Social Attitudes Survey, Mark J Smith examines why problems in the UK are being blamed on the most vulnerable ...[Poster advertising benefit fraud] A poster warning about the risks of benefit claimants getting money to which they are not entitled There is a cruel streak in contemporary politics, a meanness that has not often been so explicit. Since the youth riots of...

...Social Sciences and Arts (FASS) at The Open University...In this edition of the PodMag, we are introduced to three members of the Religious Studies Department who talk about three different religious festivals which occur around this time of year – Halloween, Diwali and Christmas. Karen interviews Professor Graham Harvey, Head of Religious Studies, Professor Gwilym...

...social study of bisexuality...Surya Monro is a prolific bisexual activist, researcher and writer, and her new book, Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories, is a theoretical approach to the communities, identities, political and social organisations and relationships of bisexual-identified people, in particular those in the UK. Drawing on Monro’s previous...