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 […]
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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 […]
Surya Monro
Surya Monro is a Professor in Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Huddersfield, and Director of its Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity & Diversity. Surya works in the fields of gender and sexuality, notably on LGBT and Intersex issues. She is the author of Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism, and Sexual Diversity (Pluto Press 2005) and Bisexuality (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), and co-author of Sexuality, Equality and Diversity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) and Intersex, Variations if […]
Remi Joseph-Salisbury
Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Presidential Fellow in the University of Manchester’s Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, a trustee and organiser with the Racial Justice Network, and a steering member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project. He is the author of Black Mixed-Race Men (Emerald Publishing, 2018) and co-editor of the forthcoming collection The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence (Zed Book, 2018). He is also the ‘Race […]
Ella Whelan
Ella Whelan is a journalist and author of What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism (Conor Court, 2017). She was the assistant editor at spiked and host of the spiked podcast between 2015 and 2018. Ella is a frequent commentator on TV and radio and writes forthe Spectator, The Sunday Times, the Sun, The Economist, Conscience Magazine and others. […]
Paul Waley
Dr Paul Waley is a Senior Lecturer in East Asian Geography at the University of Leeds. His research grows out of a strong focus on particular geographical settings in East Asia. His interests cover urban and cultural geography, both historical and contemporary, with a focus on large cities in China (in particular Shanghai and Nanjing) and Japan (Tokyo). He has published widely in leading urban studies journals. […]
Giles Blackburn
Dr Giles Blackburne is Associate Professor of International Business and Executive Director of The Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds. He teaches on a range of international business topics at all levels, including the economics of China, principles of international business, and intellectual property. Prior to Leeds, Giles was Director of the China-Britain Business Council from 2005 to 2016, Director of Chinese Studies at the University of Abertay […]