Our research includes: Alternative Finance for the Climate Emergency; Ideas of Europe and ‘the West’ in Social Theory; Community Participation and Emergency Planning; Art, Politics and Urban Protest.
About our projectsI happen to believe that questions are hardly ever wrong; it is the answers that might be so. I also believe, though, that refraining from questioning is the worst answer of all
Thursday 24 October 2019
Do you know where you money is? Do you know what your money is doing? These questions introduced this week's School Seminar led by Dr Mark Davis.
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Evidence submitted to HM Treasury Select Committee on "Decarbonisation and Green Finance" cited evidence put forward in our Financing for Society report.
Wednesday 18 September 2019
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), two events were held in the week 9th-13th September 2019.
Saturday 31 August 2019
We are delighted to announce the online publication in the journal Energy Policy a new article from our PROSEU project...
10 September 2019
A symposium at the University of Leeds Please see the Call for Papers if you wish to take part in...
18 June 2019
A training workshop to learn how investment-based crowdfunding can be used to support public sector project delivery, and gain a better understanding of local donation-based crowdfunding.
16 Jan 2019 - 17 Jan 2019
This transdisciplinary symposium will mark the second anniversary of the death of this renowned and internationally influential sociologist and cultural...
22 September 2016
A buffet lunch plus tea and coffee will be provided. In an age of financial crisis and fiscal austerity, can...
Wednesday 30 October 2019
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), two events were held in the week...
Thursday 18 February 2016
On Tuesday this week, NESTA and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance published “Pushing Boundaries”, their latest annual report on...
Wednesday 7 October 2015
Driving FinTech in Manchester Wednesday 30th September, Barclays RISE Manchester Innovate Finance is an industry-backed body aiming to promote the...
Friday 2 October 2015
Pathfinders, ICAEW Great Hall, London, Friday 25th September 2015 Responsible, democratic and fair: how many of us think those words can be reasonably...