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, […]
Speakers and Panellists
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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). […]
Davina Stanford
Davina Stanford is a Senior Lecturer in Events, Tourism & Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Her research interests include responsible tourist behaviour, destination management and responsible tourism transport in protected areas. She is author of ‘Exceptional Visitors’: Dimensions of Tourist Responsibility in the Context of New Zealand’ in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 16 (2008) […]
Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is a Reader in Geography of Tourism at Canterbury Christ Church University, and the author numerous books and numerous articles on tourism and culture, and co-author of Volunteer Tourism: The Lifestyle Politics of International Development (Routledge 2015), and The Moralisation of Tourism: Sun, Sand… and Saving the World? (Routledge 2005). […]
Kate Brown
Kate Brown is a Lecturer in Social Policy & Crime at the University of York, and previously worked in the third sector supporting vulnerable groups such as young women who sold sex, young drug users and families affected by domestic violence. She is the author of Vulnerability & Young People: care and social control in policy and practice (Policy Press, 2016). Before working in academia, […]