Irena Bauman is an architect and co-founder and director of Bauman Lyons Architects. She is also is a Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at Sheffield University, a Patron of Urban Design Group, and a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts. Irena was also the Commissioner for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment for the UK from 2002 to 2009. […]
Speakers and Panellists
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Clive Lord
Clive Lord is a member of the Green Party. He was one of the first members of the People Party, the political predecessor to the Green Party. He has also campaigned widely for the introduction of a basic income, and is the author of A Citizens’ Income: A Foundation for a Sustainable World (2003), which outlined his personal philosophy and political beliefs, and and co-author of the […]
James Woods
James Woods is studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Leeds. […]
Phillip Dickinson
Phillip Dickinson is studying English at the University of Leeds, and has written for Leeds Student newspaper. […]
Hanif Leylabi
Hanif Leylabi is studying Politics at the University of Leeds, and is a student union official. […]
Marco Schneebalg
Marco Schneebalg from Belgium and is studying Politics, Philosophy & Economics at the University of Manchester, and has published in various publications such as Haaretz and Le Monde. […]
Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is a poet born in Barnsley in 1988. He grew up in a house with lots of poetry books, and acknowledges Thom Gunn as a major influence. Andrew describes his debut collection Physical (Cape Poetry) as ‘a collection about the male gaze on the male body’. He has most recently published a pamphlet with Red Squirrel Press, Every Salt Advance (2009), and is working on the second. […]
Ronan McDonald
Ronan McDonald is the author of The Death of the Critic (Continuum, 2007). Born in Dublin and educated there and at the University of Oxford, he is now a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Reading and the Director of the Samuel Beckett International Foundation. His other books include Tragedy and Irish Literature (2002) and The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (2007) together with numerous essays and […]
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor was a television producer and science writer. For 30 years, he made science documentaries for television, working initially on Tomorrow’s World and later for the BBC’s Horizon series, and he is the author of Not a Chimp: The hunt to find the genes that make us human (OUP, 2009). […]
Graham Aitken
Graham Aitken is a student at the University of Leeds, and a member of Students for a Sensible Drugs Policy. […]