Lynn Hagger is lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield, and the co-author of A Good Death? Law and Ethics in Practice (Ashgate, 2013). She is also a non-executive Director on Leeds Teaching NHS Trust Board. […]
Speakers and Panellists
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Kevin Yuill
Kevin Yuill is associate professor of history at the University of Sunderland. He has published Assisted Suicide: the liberal, humanist case against legalization (Palgrave, 2013), and academic articles on assisted suicide and euthanasia freedom, as well as on the history of affirmative action, race relations, and gun control. Kevin has also published on assisted suicide in the Economist, Telegraph, Independent, Spectator (Australia and UK) and regularly contributes to spiked. […]
Ray Tallis
Raymond Tallis is a philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was, until recently, a physician and clinical scientist, and is currently chair of Healthcare Professional for Assisted Dying. He has published fiction (a novel and short stories), three volumes of poetry, and over 20 books on the philosophy of mind, philosophical anthropology, literary theory, the nature of art, and cultural criticism, including Aping Mankind: […]
Martin O’Neill
Martin O’Neill is lecturer in Moral & Political Philosophy at the University of York. He is co-editor of Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwll, 2012), and author of ‘The Facts of Inequality’ in the Journal of Moral Philosophy (2010). […]
Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield, and author of Injustice: Why Social Inequalities Persist (Policy Press, 2011), Fair Play: A Daniel Dorling Reader on Social Justice (Policy Press, 2011), and The No-nonsense Guide to Equality (New Internationalist, 2012). […]
Daniel Ben-Ami
Daniel Ben-Ami has been a writer for many years for numerous national, specialist and international publications, and writes regularly for the Financial Times on wealth and related topic. He is the author of Ferraris For All: In defence of economic progress (Policy Press, 2010), and Cowardly Capitalism: The myth of the global financial casino (Wiley, 2001), which was recommended by the Baker Library of Harvard Business School. […]
Kenneth Hay
Kenneth Hay is Chair of Contemporary Art Practice, University of Leeds, and an artist working as one-half of Moorland Productions. […]
Antonia Stowe
Antonia Stowe has been a visual artist and facilitator working in Leeds for 15 years, and is currently artist in residence with Land Securities for their Trinity Leeds development. […]
Nigel Walsh
Nigel Walsh is the Curator of Contemporary Art at Leeds Art Gallery, and previously trained as an exhibition organiser with the Scottish Arts Council. […]
Tiffany Jenkins
Tiffany Jenkins is an independent sociologist and the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority (Routledge, 2011). She writes cultural comment regularly for the broadsheet press, and is a broadcaster and radio presenter for BBC Radio 4. […]