• The Books That Made Pragya Agarwal

  • 2023/02/19
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  • In this episode of 'The Books That Made Me', Ben Keene (Co-founder of Rebel Book Club) talks to Dr. Pragya Agarwal about 3 nonfiction books that have had a massive impact on her to date, including one that inspired her own book '(M)otherhood' and what gave her the motivation to weave personal stories into her science writing. She also shares how unconscious bias, the subject of her book 'Sway', can come into play with our own reading habits and within the publishing industry as a whole. Enjoy! This episode was recorded in June 2022 and Pragya's latest book 'Hysterical' has since been published and can be found in all the usual shops and formats. --- Pragya Agarwal is a behaviour and data scientist and Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice at Loughborough University in the UK.  She is the founder of a research think-tank The 50 Percent Project investigating women’s status and rights around the world. Pragya is the award-winning author of (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman, SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race, and a book for children Standing up to Racism. Her most recent book HYSTERICAL: Exploding the myth of gendered emotions was published on 1st  September 2022. @drpragyaagarwal --- Pragya's choices were: 1. 'A Life's Work' by Rachel Cusk 2. 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' by Siddhartha Mukherjee 3. 'The Cancer Journals' by Audre Lord --- This podcast is powered by xigxag. xigxag aims to make reading easier and more accessible, engaging, and sustainable so that everyone can enjoy more books. Don't forget, if you sign up to Rebel Book Club now, you get your first xigxag audiobook for free! @rebelbookclub @xigxag Terms + Conditions apply.
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In this episode of 'The Books That Made Me', Ben Keene (Co-founder of Rebel Book Club) talks to Dr. Pragya Agarwal about 3 nonfiction books that have had a massive impact on her to date, including one that inspired her own book '(M)otherhood' and what gave her the motivation to weave personal stories into her science writing. She also shares how unconscious bias, the subject of her book 'Sway', can come into play with our own reading habits and within the publishing industry as a whole. Enjoy! This episode was recorded in June 2022 and Pragya's latest book 'Hysterical' has since been published and can be found in all the usual shops and formats. --- Pragya Agarwal is a behaviour and data scientist and Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice at Loughborough University in the UK.  She is the founder of a research think-tank The 50 Percent Project investigating women’s status and rights around the world. Pragya is the award-winning author of (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman, SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race, and a book for children Standing up to Racism. Her most recent book HYSTERICAL: Exploding the myth of gendered emotions was published on 1st  September 2022. @drpragyaagarwal --- Pragya's choices were: 1. 'A Life's Work' by Rachel Cusk 2. 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' by Siddhartha Mukherjee 3. 'The Cancer Journals' by Audre Lord --- This podcast is powered by xigxag. xigxag aims to make reading easier and more accessible, engaging, and sustainable so that everyone can enjoy more books. Don't forget, if you sign up to Rebel Book Club now, you get your first xigxag audiobook for free! @rebelbookclub @xigxag Terms + Conditions apply.
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