Dr Dimitrios Stroikos is an Associate Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. Dimitrios’ research interests cover the international relations of the Asia-Pacific and Asian security, with particular reference to China and India; theories of International Relations; technology and global governance; and space security and space policy. He teaches in the areas of contemporary global politics; international relations theories; global governance; international thought; and the global […]
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Alan Hudson
Alan Hudson is a visiting professor at the Shanghai Administrative Institute, and a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University and the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP), where he is the director of the Oxford University/CELAP Centre for Urban Studies. The centre has produced Chinese language reports on public private partnerships, innovation, and urban change. The latter is the basis for his recent co-authored book […]
Timandra Harkness
Timandra Harkness is a regular on BBC Radio 4, writing and presenting How To Disagree, a beginner’s guide to having better arguments and FutureProofing, a series looking at the social impact of new big ideas. She presents documentaries including Data, Data Everywhere and Personality Politics, and was resident reporter on social psychology series The Human Zoo. Her book Big Data: does size matter? was published by Bloomsbury in 2016, revised in 2017. Timandra is a […]
Ronald Green
Ronald Green, former lecturer in linguistics at Oxford and Tel Aviv, ESL teacher, is the author of Time To Tell: a look at how we tick (iff Books, 2018), Nothing Matters: a book about nothing (iff Books, 2011), and 13 ESL books used worldwide. Ronald has lectured and given workshops in Europe, North and South America and the Middle East on linguistics, philosophy and the use of the Internet […]
Mark Davis
Dr Mark Davis is Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds. An economic sociologist, Mark is interested in the relationships between money, markets and morality. He is currently researching financial innovations that promise to enhance opportunities for citizens to deliver socially-beneficial outcomes by doing different things with their money, e.g. Crowdfunding, Alternative Currencies, and Responsible FinTech. Mark is a consultant […]
William Allchorn
Dr William Allchorn is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds and Associate Director at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right. He is an expert on anti-Islamic radical right social movements in the UK and Western Europe. His book, Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK: Policy Responses to the Far Right, is out now with Routledge. […]
Brendan O’Neill
Brendan O’Neill is editor of online current affairs magazine spiked, and hosts the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. He is also a columnist for Penthouse and writes for the Sun and Spectator. The Guardian calls him the Danny Dyer of journalism while Andrew Bolt of the Aussie Daily Telegraph says he is ‘one of the world’s funniest, fiercest critics of groupthink’. Connor Court have published two […]
Matthias Revers
Dr Matthias Revers is a Lecturer in Media & Communications and Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research at the University of Leeds. Matthias obtained a PhD in sociology in 2014 from the State University of New York in Albany and, before joining Leeds in January 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Frankfurt. Matthias’ research interests include the […]
Ceri Dingle
Ceri Dingle is Director of WORLDwrite, a youth education charity she set up in 1994. WORLDwrite campaigns for change using film and video through its online Citizen TV channel WORLDbytes. Ceri has directed a series of five documentaries entitled Pricking the Missionary Position shot in Ghana, West Africa, and directed the film Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible. Ceri co-directed WORLDwrite’s award winning film Every Cook Can Govern on the life and works […]
Tim Black
Tim Black is the editor of the spiked review, and a columnist at spiked. His writing has also appeared in the EU Observer, the Australian, the Independent, La Republica and others. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Sussex. Tim also did our 2015 ‘Tetley Talk’ on Heidegger. […]