The Life and Work of Zygmunt Bauman: A Conversation
Bauman's biographer Izabela Wagner and Jack Palmer deputy director of Bauman Institute, University of Leeds in conversation
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Through the Window Again: Modernity and the Holocaust, 30 Years Later
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. First a two-day symposium in Leeds organised by the...
Pushing boundaries: what's new in alternative finance?
On Tuesday this week, NESTA and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance published "Pushing Boundaries", their latest annual report on the state of alternative finance...
Driving FinTech in Manchester
Driving FinTech in Manchester Wednesday 30th September, Barclays RISE Manchester Innovate Finance is an industry-backed body aiming to promote the UK as the world centre...
Pathfinders: launching the Finance Innovation Lab
Pathfinders, ICAEW Great Hall, London, Friday 25th September 2015 Responsible, democratic and fair: how many of us think those words can be reasonably applied to the global financial...
Jonny Beacham on Reclaiming Modernity
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the launch of Mark Fisher and Jeremy Gilbert’s relatively new policy document for Compass last Saturday, hosted...
Towards a typology of community resilience activities
The idea that we need to develop resilience to a range of environmental, economic, political and security crises seems to have increasing purchase across academic...
Tackling cyber bullying requires social solidarity not boycotts and ending anonymity
Recent occurrences of online abuse, particularly on Twitter and ask.fm have led to knee-jerk calls for the banning of the latter site and a more widespread challenge to any form of online anonymity.
Fracking and local communities
There is a great deal of debate and concern about the future capacity of our energy infrastructure to meet our energy needs, as well as about the need to develop ‘greener’ and more sustainable forms of energy production to reduce carbon emissions and to try to contribute to tackling climate change.
SLED Photo journal
A collection of photographs of Swansea taken during the fieldwork for the CRISES project