Jim Buller is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. Jim previously worked as a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Birmingham before joining the Politics department at York in 1999. His main research and teaching interests are in British politics and public policy, especially the area of political economy. He is currently completing a book entitled The International Sources of British […]
Speakers and Panellists
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Simon Lightfoot
Simon Lightfoot is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Leeds. Before he came to Leeds since 2005, Simon Lightfoot worked at Liverpool John Moores University, and has been a visiting fellow at the National Europe Centre, Australian National University and the Corvinus University of Budapest. In 2009 he won the Political Studies Association’s Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching and was awarded […]
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper is a Green Party Councillor on Kirklees Council, and has been since May 1999. He is the Green Party of England and Wales Energy Spokesperson, and he is am a member of the EU Committee of the Regions. […]
Peter D. Williams
Peter D. Williams is executive officer of Right To Life (RTL), the premier right-to-life campaigning organisation in the British Isles. Peter coordinates national campaigns, and provides intellectual and communications direction. He is responsible for media and political relations, and is one of the most prolific writers and debaters on issues relating to the human right to life in the UK. […]
Lynn Hagger
Lynn Hagger is lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield, and the co-author of A Good Death? Law and Ethics in Practice (Ashgate, 2013). She is also a non-executive Director on Leeds Teaching NHS Trust Board. […]
Kevin Yuill
Kevin Yuill is associate professor of history at the University of Sunderland. He has published Assisted Suicide: the liberal, humanist case against legalization (Palgrave, 2013), and academic articles on assisted suicide and euthanasia freedom, as well as on the history of affirmative action, race relations, and gun control. Kevin has also published on assisted suicide in the Economist, Telegraph, Independent, Spectator (Australia and UK) and regularly contributes to spiked. […]
Ray Tallis
Raymond Tallis is a philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was, until recently, a physician and clinical scientist, and is currently chair of Healthcare Professional for Assisted Dying. He has published fiction (a novel and short stories), three volumes of poetry, and over 20 books on the philosophy of mind, philosophical anthropology, literary theory, the nature of art, and cultural criticism, including Aping Mankind: […]
Martin O’Neill
Martin O’Neill is lecturer in Moral & Political Philosophy at the University of York. He is co-editor of Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwll, 2012), and author of ‘The Facts of Inequality’ in the Journal of Moral Philosophy (2010). […]
Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield, and author of Injustice: Why Social Inequalities Persist (Policy Press, 2011), Fair Play: A Daniel Dorling Reader on Social Justice (Policy Press, 2011), and The No-nonsense Guide to Equality (New Internationalist, 2012). […]
Daniel Ben-Ami
Daniel Ben-Ami has been a writer for many years for numerous national, specialist and international publications, and writes regularly for the Financial Times on wealth and related topic. He is the author of Ferraris For All: In defence of economic progress (Policy Press, 2010), and Cowardly Capitalism: The myth of the global financial casino (Wiley, 2001), which was recommended by the Baker Library of Harvard Business School. […]