Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds, Honorary Professor in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His main research interests are: methods of political engagement; uses of digital media in representative democracies; intersections between popular culture and formal politics; political efficacy; citizenship education; political aesthetics, performance and rhetoric; literary and […]
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Alastair Donald
Alastair Donald is the associate director of the Academy of Ideas, and coordinates planning and programming across projects including Battle of Ideas and Battle of Ideas Europe, and is co-founder of the IoI’s residential school Living Freedom which allows 18-25-year-olds to explore the meaning and ideals of freedom in the twenty-first century. Alastair is the co-editor of the books The Lure of the City: from slums to […]
Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown is Professor of Economics and Political Economy and Divisional Director of Research at the University of Leeds Business School. HIs research advances explanations of key developments in economy and society. He has published on theories of value and growth, financialisation, the euro, job quality and satisfaction, well-being, infrastructure economics, and ICT. He also stresses the research importance of methodology and philosophy, and leads large-scale interdisciplinary […]
Adam Crawford
Adam Crawford is Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds, and Director of the Leeds Social Sciences Institute. He is Director of the N8 Policing Research Partnership, a collaboration between universities and policing partners in the north of England. With Professor Shapland (Sheffield) he is exploring the use of restorative justice in policing. He is Co-Investigator on an AHRC project: ‘The future prospects of urban parks: The life, […]
Josie Appleton
Josie Appleton is convenor of the Manifesto Club; she oversees the club’s campaigns and publications, and coordinates the membership programme. She heads up the Campaign Against Vetting, and is author of its series of reports (starting with The Case Against Vetting in October 2006). She also founded and edits the Thinkpieces series, and chairs Manifesto Club salons. As a journalist and writer, she writes on the […]
Andrew Calcutt
Andrew Calcutt is Principal Lecturer in Journalist and the University of East London, and the author of Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood (Continuum 1998, reprint Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). As a journalism academic, he is concerned ‘for the future of journalism, alongside the future of my students in journalism.’ […]
Angus Kennedy
Angus Kennedy is the convenor of the Academy of Ideas’ educational initiative The Academy, and the author of Being Cultured: In Defence of Discrimination (Societas, 2014), and co-editor of a collection of essays From Self to Selfie: a critique of contemporary forms of alienation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is also working on a new book Borders: the foundation of freedom and security (Imprint Academic, 2019). […]
Nick Emmel
NIck Emmel is a senior lecturer in sociology and social policy, University of Leeds; author, Sampling and choosing cases in qualitative research (SAGE, 2013) I am a critical sociologist who always questions preconceived and common sense notions and names causes. I like to ask hard (and interesting) questions about complex social puzzles that demand interdisciplinary investigation. […]
Claire Fox
Claire Fox is the director of the Academy of Ideas. She is a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and is frequently invited to comment on developments in culture, education, media and free speech issues on TV and radio programmes in the UK such as Newsnight and Any Questions?, and regularly appears on Sky Paper Review. Claire is a columnist for TES and the Municipal Journal. She is author of I […]
Simon Woodward
Simon Woodward is Principal Lecturer in Events, Tourism & Hospitlity at Leeds Beckett University. His current interests including the commodification by tourism of military and conflict heritage sites; community involvement in managing heritage, and student engagement with World Heritage values, and is author of the chapter rd SC (2013) ‘Campus Tourism, Universities and Destination Development’, in The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism (Routledge, 2013). […]