News

Dr Jonathan Beacham kicks off our workshop series for the semester with a paper entitled “Alternative economies for other worlds: crisis and transformation in the ‘age of austerity’”.

Call for Papers OUT NOW! Join us for our 10th Anniversary Celebration in Leeds at the “Postcolonial Bauman” conference, 3-4 September 2020.

We have been awarded an ESRC-WRDTP Collaborative Award for our research project entitled: “Evaluating the Social Value of Innovative Finance – A Case Study of Community Municipal Bonds”

Our dear friend and Affiliated Member of the Bauman Institute, Dr Albena Azmanova, launches her new book in Brussels next month.

Our dear friends at Thesis Eleven have published a celebration of Keith Tester on the first anniversary of his death.

The Bauman Institute has secured funding to offer a new Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Scholarship.

Dr Mark Davis has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Sociology – a major journal of the British Sociological Association (BSA).

Dr Katy Wright has been appointed to the new Editorial Team at the journal Sociological Research Online (SRO).

A new article by Dr Mark Davis, entitled “Hermeneutics contra Fundamentalism: Zygmunt Bauman’s Method for Thinking in Dark Times”, has been published by Thesis Eleven.

Today sees the publication of the first major report from the PROSEU team based at the University of Leeds – “Business Models for Prosumers in Europe”.