The Bauman Institute

Research

Our research is organised around four interrelated and complementary themes

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Collection

The Bauman Institute is the home of a unique collection of published and unpublished works by Professor Zygmunt Bauman

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Teaching

The team at the Bauman Institute are responsible for the MA Social and Political Thought programme for postgraduates within the School of Sociology & Social Policy.

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Zygmunt Bauman, 1925 - 2017

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About us

The Bauman Institute was founded by Dr Mark Davis in September 2010 and is based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. We now have research and teaching affiliations with academic colleagues and students in the Faculty of Arts, Leeds University Business School, and the Sustainability Research Institute with a shared focus on developing critical empirical analyses of social, economic, environmental and political life.

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Highlights

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Financing for Society: Crowdfunding Public Infrastructure (Pilot Fund)

The purpose of Financing for Society is to assess the barriers and opportunities of crowdfunding as an option for public sector bodies to finance new, socially-beneficial infrastructure projects and to understand better the benefits of using this method of alternative financing.
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Building Democracy

With the increasingly pressing need to renew and replace existing energy, transport and housing provision, infrastructure is once again high on the UK political agenda. But how democratic is our national infrastructure, and how are benefits and impact distributed?
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FITTER

Our FITTER research project will provide the UK’s first sociologically-informed analysis of alternative finance, with specific regard to economic resilience.
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Janina Bauman Prize

Following a donation by the Bauman family, we established an award for the best Dissertation submitted by a postgraduate student in the Institute in the form of a single payment of £1000.00.
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Our Partners

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