Jane Rickard is a lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds. Her research interests include the relationship between literature and politics, practices of reading and reception, and the cultures of manuscript and print. She is the author of Authorship and Authority: the Writings of James VI and I (Manchester University Press, 2008), which explores King James’s engagement in the literary, political and religious cultures of […]
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Kim Knott
Kim Knott is Professor of Religious and Secular Studies, and Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellow at Lancaster University, where teaches about religion and other ideologies in public life, and on the relationship between the religion and the secular. She is the author of Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 1998), and from 2005-11, she directed a national research programme on ‘Diasporas, Migration and Identities’ for the Arts and […]
Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. Frank is also a regular social commentator on TV, radio and in the press, and is the author of over twenty books, including. Authority: a sociological history (CUP, 2013), On Tolerance (Bloomsbury, 2011), Wasted: why education is not educating (Continuum, 2009), Invitation To Terror: expanding the empire of the unknown (Continuum, 2007), Politics of Fear: beyond left […]
Neil Walshaw
Neil Walshaw has been a Labour Councillor for Headingley & Hyde Park Ward since 2011, and Chair of the the Development Plans Panel. […]
Georgia Greenfield
Georgia Greenfield is a member of the University of Leeds’ Feminist Society, and has worked for the Leeds-based charity Support After Rape & Sexual Violence Leeds. […]
Dan Clayton
Dan Clayton is a freelance researcher, writer, cameraman and documentary film maker. He is also a self-employed builder, and has also worked in IT and as a handyman in French ski resorts. Dan has a degree in History from the University of Birmingham, and he helped research and produce the WORLDwrite documentary Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible. He is also the Leeds Salon video manager. […]
Jim Buller
Jim Buller is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. Jim previously worked as a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Birmingham before joining the Politics department at York in 1999. His main research and teaching interests are in British politics and public policy, especially the area of political economy. He is currently completing a book entitled The International Sources of British […]
Simon Lightfoot
Simon Lightfoot is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Leeds. Before he came to Leeds since 2005, Simon Lightfoot worked at Liverpool John Moores University, and has been a visiting fellow at the National Europe Centre, Australian National University and the Corvinus University of Budapest. In 2009 he won the Political Studies Association’s Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching and was awarded […]
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper is a Green Party Councillor on Kirklees Council, and has been since May 1999. He is the Green Party of England and Wales Energy Spokesperson, and he is am a member of the EU Committee of the Regions. […]
Peter D. Williams
Peter D. Williams is executive officer of Right To Life (RTL), the premier right-to-life campaigning organisation in the British Isles. Peter coordinates national campaigns, and provides intellectual and communications direction. He is responsible for media and political relations, and is one of the most prolific writers and debaters on issues relating to the human right to life in the UK. […]