Alex Standish is a Senior Lecturer in Geography Education at UCL Institute of Education and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He teaches PGCE, Teach First and Masters in Education, and works in an advisory capacity for the Department for Education, the Mayor’s Office, Department for International Trade, Cambridge Examinations, as well as several London schools. Alex previously taught at Western Connecticut State University and […]
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Nick Jones
Dr Nick Jones is a lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the History of Philosophy from the 17th to 19th Centuries, and teaches courses on Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Kant. He is also the author of Starting with Berkeley (Continuum, 2009). […]
Li Sun
Dr Li Sun is a lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. As an ethnic ‘Miao’ woman, she grew up in a remote village in southwestern China. Since 2007, she has been living and working abroad (in the UK, Germany, the US and the Netherlands). Besides academic positions, Li also serves as a consultant to the UN, World Bank, and OECD, as well […]
Dimitrios Stroikos
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]