Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Social Sciences

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Great Britain

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Great Britain. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 04 Oct 2026

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10/04/2026

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Episodes: 201

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:49:20

Top 5 authors

1. New Books Network (4 shows)

2. Marshall Poe (2 shows)

3. Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry (1 shows)

4. Sage Publications (1 shows)

5. The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Libsyn (14 shows)

2. Buzzsprout (13 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	519	Spotify for Podcasters	28
2	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	628	Simplecast	48
3	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	31	ART19	73
4	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
5	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
6	Attitudes	National Centre for Social Research	Science	3	Acast	74
7	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
8	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	742	Megaphone	63
9	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
10	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
11	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
12	Everything's Psychology	a Behaviour podcast	Science	43	Buzzsprout	72
13	PsychCrunch	The British Psychological Society Research Digest	Science	50	Libsyn	48
14	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	355	PRX	53
15	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	346	Simplecast	53
16	The Systemic Way	Sezer and Julie	Science	110	Buzzsprout	69
17	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	222	Simplecast	58
18	Psychology, Actually	Dr Marianne Trent	Science	262	Captivate	79
19	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1344	Megaphone	58
20	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1095	PRX	63
21	Pursuit of the Paranormal	Ash and Greg	Science	323	RSS.com	32
22	The We Society	AcSS	Science	93	Audioboom	79
23	Talks On Psychoanalysis	International Psychoanalytical Association	Science	100	Podbean	58
24	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	381	Audioboom	63
25	'Mind the Kids': an ACAMH podcast	The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health	Science	425	Audioboom	38
26	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	118	N/A	N/A
27	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	68	Megaphone	53
28	Economics In Ten	Economics In Ten	Science	71	Spotify for Podcasters	38
29	Social Sessions	Sean Toal	Science	108	Acast	59
30	The Social Matters Podcast	Nadia, Fran, Eugene	Science	145	Buzzsprout	57
31	Messy Social Work	Rich and Tim	Science	122	Buzzsprout	48
32	The Human Risk Podcast	Human Risk	Science	382	Spreaker	48
33	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	325	Unknown	48
34	The Skeptic Podcast	The Skeptic	Science	85	Libsyn	48
35	Anthropology on Air	Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen	Science	25	Simplecast	58
36	Social Work Sorted with Vicki Shevlin	Vicki Shevlin	Science	171	Buzzsprout	48
37	Before Us	Erich Fisher and Helen Farr	Science	19	Buzzsprout	89
38	The Sociology of Everything Podcast	Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)	Science	41	Buzzsprout	57
39	The Sociology Show	Matthew Wilkin	Science	213	Spreaker	43
40	Neurodive Podcast	Claire Farmer	Science	1	RSS.com	57
41	Urban Radar	Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry	Science	36	Buzzsprout	83
42	The Social-Engineer Podcast	Social-Engineer, LLC	Science	200	Libsyn	57
43	Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone Podcast	Policy Press	Science	10	Acast	62
44	Whiskey & International Relations Theory	Drs. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Daniel Nexon	Science	34	Podomatic	53
45	Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind	Podimo & TellTale	Science	42	Audioboom	N/A
46	Kohn's Zone	Alfie Kohn	Science	32	Blubrry	59
47	David A. Hughes	Resisting the Global Technocratic Coup One Person at a Time	Science	144	Substack	43
48	Podcast de Juan Ramón Rallo	Juan Ramón Rallo	Science	2277	Acast	28
49	The Coaching UnpACT Podcast	Rachael Skews and Hazel Anderson Turner	Science	28	Substack	37
50	The Phenomenology Collective	Dr Lewis Barrett-Rodger and Dr Sally Goldspink	Science	14	Spotify for Podcasters	32
51	Let's Talk Forensic Psychology	Let's Talk Forensic Psychology	Science	53	Spotify for Podcasters	22
52	Talking Child Development	ccfdau	Science	40	Podbean	42
53	The Forensic Update Podcast	The British Psychological Society	Science	9	Libsyn	37
54	The International Security Podcast	International Security	Science	28	Simplecast	58
55	Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.	Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård	Science	100	Libsyn	32
56	New Books in Sociology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	69
57	Mind The Tax with Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson	Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson	Science	6	RSS.com	68
58	Latin American Perspectives	Alexander Scott	Science	33	Libsyn	48
59	It’s a Very Exciting Time	Scott Vandehey and Chuck Lauer Vose	Science	97	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	Ideas in Development	Ideas in Development	Science	33	Audioboom	32
61	絮言．狂想 seoijin	以色列、三苗、靳尼	Science	112	Buzzsprout	48
62	Sage Sociology	Sage Publications	Science	100	Libsyn	38
63	Cultures of Energy	Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe	Science	264	Libsyn	48
64	Space & Sexuality	Joe Jukes	Science	9	Spreaker	84
65	Neuropsychoanalytic Dialogues	Neuropsychoanalytic Dialogues	Science	7	Spotify for Podcasters	37
66	New Books in Genocide Studies	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
67	The Psychology Perspective	ellie2302d	Science	54	Spotify for Podcasters	22
68	The COMET podcast	Lizzie Ville	Science	1	RSS.com	62
69	Scales of Change	Future Ecologies	Science	10	Captivate	79
70	Navigating Neuropsychology	John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro	Science	200	Libsyn	48
71	PhD Unplugged	PhD Unplugged	Science	8	Spotify for Podcasters	53
72	VoxTalks Economics	VoxTalks	Science	484	Audioboom	63
73	The Pie: An Economics Podcast	Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago	Science	136	Megaphone	48
74	My Pocket Psych	Dr. Richard A. MacKinnon	Science	100	Libsyn	58
75	Behind The Research Podcast	Conversations in sex, gender and feminist research.	Science	2	Substack	42
76	Resolution Foundation Events Podcast	externalaffairs	Science	100	Podbean	57
77	CIPR Engage Podcast	ciprengage	Science	23	Podbean	52
78	Probation Perspectives: Insights into Community Justice	Community Justice Learning	Science	14	Spotify for Podcasters	58
79	The Couples Therapist Couch	Shane Birkel	Science	302	Libsyn	52
80	Scott Carney Investigates	Scott Carney	Science	98	Spotify for Podcasters	32
81	The Science of Psychotherapy	Dahlitz Media	Science	100	Libsyn	32
82	New Books in Anthropology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
83	The Alcohol 'Problem' Podcast with Dr James Morris	James Morris	Science	33	Buzzsprout	62
84	Beyond the Couch: AI in Psychology	Ernest Wayde	Science	28	Captivate	68
85	The Second Cold War Observatory	Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler	Science	21	Simplecast	63
86	بودكاست آن	Arabcast	Science	46	Spotify for Podcasters	22
87	What about us? Cultural Awareness in Clinical Psychology	WhatAboutUs	Science	24	Spotify for Podcasters	58
88	Geoeconomic Competition	Francesca Ghiretti	Science	63	Buzzsprout	52
89	The Social Work Stories Podcast	The Social Work Stories Team	Science	96	Podbean	47
90	西皮笑脸	西皮笑脸	Science	373	lizhi.fm	38
91	Not Boring CEs	Allison Puryear	Science	36	Libsyn	68
92	The BIT podcast	The Behavioural Insights Team	Science	18	Libsyn	58
93	The Nordic Asia Podcast	NIAS and its academic partners	Science	287	Simplecast	58
94	Global Media & Communication	New Books Network	Science	16	Simplecast	63
95	Today in Geography	Michigan State University Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences	Science	17	Spotify for Podcasters	68
96	Exploring Central European History: A Wirth Institute Podcast with Joseph F. Patrouch	Wirth Institute	Science	6	Buzzsprout	21
97	Paragraph \| پادکست پاراگراف	PersianBMS	Science	54	Transistor	48
98	Netspar Podcast Pensioen & Wetenschap	Netspar	Science	62	Podbean	31
99	Two Psychologists Four Beers	Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett	Science	135	Fireside	48
100	New Books in Political Science	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Great Britain

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