Dave Clements is an adviser to local government with over two decades experience writing policy and strategy, and leading community engagement initiatives, amongst other things – predominantly for children’s and adult’s services, and across public and voluntary sector partnerships. He is also contributing co-editor of The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (Pluto, 2008), author of the thinkpiece Social Care for Free Citizens (Manifesto Club, 2010). An […]
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James Heartfield
James Heartfield is a writer, journalist and lecturer. He is author of numerous books, including The European Union and the End of Politics (Zed Books, 2013), Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (Zed Books, 2012), Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance (Mute, 2008), and The ‘Death of the Subject’ Explained (Sheffield Hallam University, 2006). James is also a director of the […]
Ashley Frawley
Ashley Frawley is a senior lecturer in sociology & social policy at Swansea University. Ashley lectures in the sociology of health, mental health and illness, social problems, social movements, and in the economics of social policy. Her research explores the rising importance attributed emotions and behaviour in an era of ‘no alternative’ to capitalism. She is particularly interested in ‘vulnerable’ constructions of human subjects in […]
Helene Guldberg
After working as a primary-school teacher, Helene Guldberg obtained a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Manchester. She currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in developmental psychology and psychology with the Open University and the US study abroad centre, CAPA. Helene is author of Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear (Routledge, 2009) and Just Another Ape? (Societas, 2010). […]
Jane Rickard
Jane Rickard is a lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds. Her research interests include the relationship between literature and politics, practices of reading and reception, and the cultures of manuscript and print. She is the author of Authorship and Authority: the Writings of James VI and I (Manchester University Press, 2008), which explores King James’s engagement in the literary, political and religious cultures of […]
Kim Knott
Kim Knott is Professor of Religious and Secular Studies, and Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellow at Lancaster University, where teaches about religion and other ideologies in public life, and on the relationship between the religion and the secular. She is the author of Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 1998), and from 2005-11, she directed a national research programme on ‘Diasporas, Migration and Identities’ for the Arts and […]
Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. Frank is also a regular social commentator on TV, radio and in the press, and is the author of over twenty books, including. Authority: a sociological history (CUP, 2013), On Tolerance (Bloomsbury, 2011), Wasted: why education is not educating (Continuum, 2009), Invitation To Terror: expanding the empire of the unknown (Continuum, 2007), Politics of Fear: beyond left […]
Neil Walshaw
Neil Walshaw has been a Labour Councillor for Headingley & Hyde Park Ward since 2011, and Chair of the the Development Plans Panel. […]
Georgia Greenfield
Georgia Greenfield is a member of the University of Leeds’ Feminist Society, and has worked for the Leeds-based charity Support After Rape & Sexual Violence Leeds. […]
Dan Clayton
Dan Clayton is a freelance researcher, writer, cameraman and documentary film maker. He is also a self-employed builder, and has also worked in IT and as a handyman in French ski resorts. Dan has a degree in History from the University of Birmingham, and he helped research and produce the WORLDwrite documentary Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible. He is also the Leeds Salon video manager. […]