Skip to content
The Leeds Salon
  • About
  • Discussions
  • Speakers
  • Schools
    • School Debates
    • Debate Judges
    • Individual Prize
  • Writings
  • Media
  • Links
  • Contact

Speakers and Panellists

previous speakers

Maurice Waddle

Dr Maurice Waddle is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of York. His interests are in the interpersonal communication behaviour of politicians: including investigations into how politicians deal with challenging questions and the consequences of evasive responses, how political speakers and audiences interact, and the form and function of adversarial opposition at Prime Minister’s Questions. Maurice is co-author with Peter Bull of The Psychology […]

More info

Nat Edwards

Nat Edwards is Director General of Royal Armouries Museum. As a museum curator and community activist, he has worked in museums, galleries and archives for almost 35 years – developing exhibitions, education and community-based projects as well as major capital projects. Nat is the author of Caledonia’s Last Stand: In Search of the Lost Scots of Darien (Luath Press Ltd, 2007). […]

More info

Mark Westgarth

Mark Westgarth is Professor of the History of the Art Market at the University of Leeds. He is founder and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Art & Antiques Market in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies. Mark is also Chair of the Museums & Galleries History Group. He was guest curator for the exhibition, ‘SOLD! The […]

More info

Remi Adekoya

Dr Remi Adekoya is a politics lecturer at the University of York. Before academia, Remi was a journalist writing for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Spectator, Evening Standard and UnHerd. He’s provided commentary for CNN, BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, South African Broadcasting Corporation, African International Television, Radio France International, Talk Radio and Times […]

More info

Robert Edgar

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University. He has published on a range of topics, including The Language of Film (2016), Music, Memory and Memoir (2019), Adaptation for Screenwriters (2019), Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition (2023) and The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2023). He is […]

More info

Philip Cunliffe

Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor in International Relations at University College London. He’s written widely on a variety of political issues ranging from Balkan politics to Brexit, with particular focus on questions of sovereignty and international politics in the twenty-first century. Philip is co-author of Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit (Polity 2023) and The End of the End of History (Zero Books, 2021), and author […]

More info

Jon Bryan

Jon Bryan lives with his family in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a recreational poker player who began writing about gambling to challenge the one-sided narrative in the debate. Jon has written for online publications and websites including spiked, Gambling Insider, The Great Debate, Future Cities Project and Slots Hawk. He has been involved in discussions on TV and podcasts and spoke about gambling at the online Babbleon in […]

More info

Alexandra Kenyon

Professor Dr Alexandra Kenyon, University of Vitez, Bosnia, research interests are the Corporate Social Responsibilities and Sustainability of businesses and institutions.  Through her research and enterprise activities Alexandra has a national reputation in the fields of policy, human behaviour and emotions of consumers in licensed retail outlets such as pubs, bars, the leisure industry and gambling venues. Alexandra was the Lead Researcher of the project, […]

More info

Kostas Maronitis

Dr Kostas Maronitis is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Leeds Trinity University. His research interests focus on the political theory and policies of immigration and European integration. He has published articles on immigrant detention and human rights, networks of protest, cosmopolitanism and citizenship, the politics of fear, and diasporic cultural practices. Kostas is the author of the book Postnationalism and the Challenges […]

More info

Denny Pencheva

Dr Denny Pencheva is a lecturer in European Politics and Public Policy at University College London. Her research interests are within the field of European and British politics, with a particular emphasis on Brexit, migration, labour and welfare policies. Denny is co-author with Kostas Maronitis, of Robots and Immigrants: Who is Stealing Jobs? (Bristol University Press, 2022). […]

More info

Posts navigation

  • «
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 17
  • »

Follow Us

Join our mailing list

Donations & Admissions

Use this button to make a donation or to pay admission to events

Processing ...

Salon Partners


Blackwell’s Affiliate

Leeds Salon is a Blackwell's Affiliate. Buying books via this link costs you no more but helps out the Salon

Salon Topics Cloud

arts & culture (18) Asia-Pacific (4) culture wars (9) democracy (10) education (5) environmentalism (7) equality (6) Europe (9) existentialism (4) feminism (6) free speech (10) globalism (6) humanism (8) identity politics (7) inequality (6) liberty (7) moral panic (7) multiculturalism (5) philosophy (22) political economy (10) psychology (5) race & ethnicity (9) science (15) sex & gender (10) therapy culture (9) war (8)

©The Leeds Salon 2019   |   contact@leedssalon.org.uk

Website/Logo design by Utter   |    Hosting/Tech by Simply Better IT