For those interested in learning more about social science research, below is a list of podcasts that cover research across the social science disciplines. Some podcasts are listed more than once because they are interdisciplinary.
Anthropology
- A Story of Us
- AnthroDish
- Anthropod
- Anthropological Airwaves
- This Anthropological Life
- Anthropologist on the Street
- Conversations in Anthropology
- Disasters: Deconstructed
- Ethnographic Marginalia
- The Familiar Strange
- New Books in Anthropology
- SAPIENS
- Speaking of Race
- Talking Culture
- That Anthro Podcast
- Zora’s Daughters
Behavioral Science
Communications + Information Science + Science and Technology Studies
- Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
- Data & Society
- Microsoft Research Podcast
- New Books in Communications
- New Books in Science, Technology, and Society Studies
- The Received Wisdom
- SAGE Communication & Media Studies
Economics
- Action Design Radio
- AlphaChat
- An Economist Goes to College
- Econofact Chats
- The Economic History Podcast
- Economics Detective Radio
- Economics in Ten
- EconTalk
- Freakonomics, M.D.
- Freakonomics Radio
- Healthcare Triage
- InequaliTalks
- The Indicator
- Just Economics
- Mixtape: The Podcast
- New Books in Economics
- New Books in Finance
- Planet Money
- Probable Causation
- Stephanomics
- Think Like an Economist
- Tradeoffs
- The Visible Hand
Education
- An Economist Goes to College
- Education Research Reading Room
- Emerging Research in Educational Psychology
- FreshEd
- Green Apple Pod
- Harvard EdCast
- Have You Heard
- Higher Education Researcher
- The Learning Scientists Podcasts
- Meet the Education Researcher
- New Books in Education
- Research in Action
- SAGE Education
General Social Science
- The American Ingredient
- Black and Highly Dangerous
- Data Brunch
- The Measure of Everyday Life
- National Centre for Research Methods Podcast
- No Jargon
- Shot of Science
- Social Science Bites
- Thinking Allowed
- Untenured Tracks
Geography, Urban Planning, and Spatial Science
- The Funambulist
- Housing Journal Podcast
- Isn’t That Spatial?
- Mobilities and Methods
- New Books in Geography
- Planning Ideas that Matter (dusp@MIT)
- UCLA Housing Voice
- A VerySpatial Podcast
Law
Political Science
- The American Ingredient
- New Books in Political Science
- New Dawn
- Politics and Polls
- The Politics Guys
- Potstirrer
- SAGE Political Science and International Relations
Psychology
- Action Design Radio
- The Behavioural Vaccine
- Choiceology
- The Happiness Lab
- Hidden Brain
- Invisibilia
- New Books in Psychology
- Nudge
- SAGE Psychology
- Stanford Psychology Podcast
- Talking About Organizations
- Two Psychologists Four Beers
- Very Bad Wizards
- You Are Not So Smart
Public Health + Epidemiology
- The Behavioural Vaccine
- Casual Inference
- Epidemiology Counts
- Flip the Script
- Freakonomics, M.D.
- Free Associations
- Healthcare Triage
- New Books in Drugs, Addiction, and Recovery
- Population Healthy
- The Pulse
- SERious EPI
- Sick Individuals/Sick Populations
- Tradeoffs
Public Policy
- Closer Look – Journal of Policy Analysis & Management (JPAM)
- Critical Value – Urban Institute
- Evidence First – MDRC
- Evaluate This! – IMPAQ International and Causal Design
- Gov Innovator
- InequaliTalks
- The Intersect – Abt Associates
- New Books in Public Policy
- On the Evidence – Mathematica Policy Research
- PolicyCast
- Policy 360
- The Policy Agenda
- Policy Currents – Rand Corp
- Poverty Research & Policy
- Talk Policy to Me
- Then & Now
- UCLA Housing Voice
- The Wonk
Social Scientific Study of Religion
Sociology
- The Annex
- The B-Side
- Complexity
- The Criminology Academy
- Digital Sociology
- Ethnographic Marginalia
- Exploring Sociological Theory
- Give Methods a Chance
- Give Theory a Chance
- Knitting Networks
- New Books in Sociology
- Office Hours
- SAGE Criminology
- SAGE Sociology
- Sociologia con Acento
- The Sociological Review Podcast
- The Sociology Show
- Sick Individuals/Sick Populations
- Thinking Allowed
- This Week in Sociological Perspective
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