Andy Miah is Chair in Science Communication & Digital Media, School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford. He is also global director for the Centre for Policy and Emerging Technologies, fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, USA and fellow at FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, UK. HIs research discusses the intersections of art, ethics, technology and culture […]
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Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor senior lecturer in Communications and Cultural Theory at the University of Leeds. He is a critical theorist educated at Edinburgh University where he read economics and politics for his Undergraduate degree and conducted his PhD thesis on the topic of the early history of computer hackers. Paul has written about a range of philosophers with relevance to media technologies including Slavoj Zizek and […]
Javier Stanziola
Javier Stanziola is an economist, playwright and novelist. He obtained his Ph.D. at Florida International University exploring the impact of artists and arts organizations on urban development. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University and University of West Florida in the United States and at the University of Leeds. He has published academic articles on cultural economics, NGO management, monitoring […]
Dave O’Brien
Dave O’Brien has just moved to City University, London, from Leeds Beckett University, where is working on two research areas; cultural value and urban cultural policy. His work on cultural value includes a recent secondment and report to the Department for Culture Media and Sport, along with several conference papers and forthcoming research articles. His work on urban cultural policy can be found in his […]
Manjit Kumar
Manjit Kumar is the author of Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Icon Book, 2009), which was shortlisted for the BC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. and co-author of Science and the Retreat from Reason (Merlin Press, 1995). He has degrees in physics and philosophy, and was the former Consulting Science Editor of Wired UK. […]
Adam Ogilvie
Adam Ogilvie is a Leeds City Councillor for Beeston & Holbeck and an executive board member for Leisure, Culture & Skills. […]
Andy Abbott
Andy Abbott is an artist, write and musician. He’s a founding member of the Black Dogs arts collective, who is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD into socially engaged art and self-organised culture with the University of Leeds. […]
Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt is a poet, author and scholar and academic born in Mexico City and educated in the United States, and studied at Harvard, Wadham College and Oxford. He is founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and a founder (1973) and general editor of PN Review. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry. […]
George Szirtes
George Szirtes is a Budapest-born poet who came to England as a refugee in 1956. His first book, The Slant Door was joint winner of the 1980 Faber Prize. He has published several books since that have brought him the Cholmondeley Award and the T S Eliot Prize for Reel (2004). His New and Collected Poems was published in 2008 and his most recent collection, The Burning of the Books and Other […]
Michele Ledda
Michele Ledda is a teacher and writer. He has an MA by research in English from Leeds University, with a dissertation on James Joyce’s Ulysses and Petronius’ Satyricon. A critic of child-centred education, he has written articles for several publications, including the Guardian, Spiked and Culture Wars, and is the author of the chapter on English teaching in The Corruption of the Curriculum (Civitas, 2007). Michele is also co-founder of The Leeds […]