Speaking of Research is a podcast from the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. In Series One, recorded at Cumberland Lodge in April 2025, doctoral researchers are in conversation with Research Podcasts’ producer Catherine McDonald about their research, who might benefit from it and how it will make a difference.
Find out more about the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership at southcoastdtp.ac.uk
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Speaking of Research is a podcast from the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. In Series One, recorded at Cumberland Lodge in April 2025, doctoral researchers are in conversation with Research Podcasts’ producer Catherine McDonald about their research, who might benefit from it and how it will make a difference.
Find out more about the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership at southcoastdtp.ac.uk
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In the sixth episode of Speaking of Research, a podcast from the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership Charlotte Booker - a doctoral researcher from the University of Portsmouth - talks about her critical work on deliberate fire settings.
Charlotte explains that deliberate fires - including arson and self-reported incidents - make up around half of all fires in England and cost the UK economy an estimated £1.3 billion each year. Her qualitative research, grounded in critical realism, seeks to understand the underlying causes and contexts of fire-setting behaviour in order to improve fire safety education and develop more effective, targeted interventions to reduce re-offending.
You can read a transcript of the conversation here.
Find out more about the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership at southcoastdtp.ac.uk
This is a Research Podcasts production.
Credits:
Presenter: Catherine McDonald, Research Podcasts
Guest: Charlotte Booker, University of Portsmouth
Producer: Krissie Brighty-Glover, Research Podcasts
Editor: Anton Jarvis, Research Podcasts
Transcripts: Lauren White, Research Podcasts
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