16 Jul 2021 All day Podcast

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Thoughtlines: academic thinking outside the box

Series 1 | Episode 7: We are what we spend with Niamh Mulcahy

In this episode, we talk inequality, life chances, and the daily struggle to balance household budgets with Niamh Mulcahy, economic sociologist at CRASSH and Alice Tong Sze Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

The financial crash of 2008, followed by the UK government’s decade of austerity, and the Covid-19 pandemic has left millions of people in Britain facing a very uncertain future and holding increasingly unmanageable levels of personal debt.

What set us on such a precarious path? How can we return to what Dr Mulcahy terms ‘steadiness’? And how is her college addressing these challenges in its own backyard?

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