Dr Gabriella Alberti is an Associate Professor in Work and Employment Relations and researcher at the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change at Leeds University Business School. She is also co-founder of the University’s Leeds Migration Research Network and a board member of Leeds Social Science Institute. Gabriella is currently PI on the ESRC-funded research project Labour Mobility in Transition: a multi-actor study of the re-regulation of migrant […]
Speakers and Panellists
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Ruby Hornsby
Ruby Hornsby is a WRoCAH funded PhD student at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre at the University of Leeds, working in the area of Ethics of Social Robotics. Ruby is currently researching the nature of human-robot relationships to determine whether robot companions have a place in the good human life. She is also interested in the ethics of sex robots, ancient philosophy and applied […]
Robbie Arrell
Robbie Arrell is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre at the University of Leeds. He specialises in applied ethics, moral and political philosophy, the ethics of love and sex; bioethics; neuroethics and medical ethics. Before joining IDEA, Robbie held positions as an International Research Fellow at Wuhan University, China, and as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. […]
Joanna Williams
Joanna Williams is founder and director of the think tank Cieo. She is the author of How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason (Spiked, 2022). Women Versus Feminism (Emerald, 2017), Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity (Palgrave, 2016) and Consuming Higher Education: why learning can’t be bought (Bloomsbury, 2012). Joanna is also a columnist for spiked and writes regularly for the Spectator, […]
Simon Sweeney
Dr Simon Sweeney is a Reader in International Political Economy & Business at the University of York. He is the author of Europe, the State and Globalisation (Routledge, 2016). His PhD was on EU Security and Defence Policy (University of Leeds, 2015). Between 2006 and 2013 he served as a UK Bologna Expert, sponsored by the European Commission. He is a widely published post-doctoral researcher […]
Lee Jones
Dr Lee Jones is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University, London. Lee specialises in political economy and international relations, focusing on the politics of intervention, security, and governance, with a particular interest in social conflict and the transformation of states. Lee regularly advises the British and other governments and civil society organisations and has often appeared in the national and international media. A […]
Phil Mullan
Phil Mullan researches and lectures on the interplay of the economy and politics. Currently working independently, his work is informed by over two decades of experience in management and advisory roles in international business including, until 2014, eight years as a senior manager with Easynet Global Services and previously as Chief Executive of internet services company Cybercafé Ltd. Phil is author of Beyond Confrontation: globalists, nationalists and […]
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Nikos Sotirakopoulos is a senior lecturer in sociology at York St John University. He has researched on how, in recent decades, some of the core values and concepts of modernity and the Enlightenment – such as individual agency and material progress – have been problematised in the narratives both of the new left and of the mainstream and extreme right. He is author of The Rise of Lifestyle […]
Alan Kinder
Alan Kinder is the Chief Executive of the Geographical Association. His wide variety of roles within geographical education – teacher, school and curriculum leader, field studies officer, local authority adviser, PGCE tutor and educational consultant – have taken him from the south coast of England to South Yorkshire and from continental Europe to South-East Asia and the Pacific region. Alan has played a key role […]
David Alcock
David Alcock teaches geography at Bradford Grammar School and writes about progress, sustainability and pedagogy at Alcock.Blog and @DavidAlcock1. He has also written for Teaching Geography, Geography Review and Impact: The Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching. He’s an A Level examiner and speaks on progress and optimism in education at Geographical Association Conferences and at an Academy of Ideas Education Forum. […]