Jim Parry is Head of Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His work specialises in Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy. He was formerly a high school teacher of PE and English, and worked for many years in teacher training. He is a former professional footballer, has a book series in Ethics and Sport, and is Founding Director of the British Olympic Academy. He has been an International Professor […]
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David James
David James is the Director of the Centre for Sports Engineering Research at Sheffiled Hallam University. His research is focused sports mechanics, injury prevention and the ethical considerations of an increasingly scientific sporting arena. David is a visiting professor at TU Delft, Netherlands, and is also the treasurer of the International Sports Engineering Association, grant reviewer for the Royal Academy of Engineering, project advisor to […]
Andy Miah
Andy Miah is Chair in Science Communication & Digital Media, School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford. He is also global director for the Centre for Policy and Emerging Technologies, fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, USA and fellow at FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, UK. HIs research discusses the intersections of art, ethics, technology and culture […]
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor senior lecturer in Communications and Cultural Theory at the University of Leeds. He is a critical theorist educated at Edinburgh University where he read economics and politics for his Undergraduate degree and conducted his PhD thesis on the topic of the early history of computer hackers. Paul has written about a range of philosophers with relevance to media technologies including Slavoj Zizek and […]
Javier Stanziola
Javier Stanziola is an economist, playwright and novelist. He obtained his Ph.D. at Florida International University exploring the impact of artists and arts organizations on urban development. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University and University of West Florida in the United States and at the University of Leeds. He has published academic articles on cultural economics, NGO management, monitoring […]
Dave O’Brien
Dave O’Brien has just moved to City University, London, from Leeds Beckett University, where is working on two research areas; cultural value and urban cultural policy. His work on cultural value includes a recent secondment and report to the Department for Culture Media and Sport, along with several conference papers and forthcoming research articles. His work on urban cultural policy can be found in his […]
Manjit Kumar
Manjit Kumar is the author of Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Icon Book, 2009), which was shortlisted for the BC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. and co-author of Science and the Retreat from Reason (Merlin Press, 1995). He has degrees in physics and philosophy, and was the former Consulting Science Editor of Wired UK. […]
Adam Ogilvie
Adam Ogilvie is a Leeds City Councillor for Beeston & Holbeck and an executive board member for Leisure, Culture & Skills. […]
Andy Abbott
Andy Abbott is an artist, write and musician. He’s a founding member of the Black Dogs arts collective, who is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD into socially engaged art and self-organised culture with the University of Leeds. […]
Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt is a poet, author and scholar and academic born in Mexico City and educated in the United States, and studied at Harvard, Wadham College and Oxford. He is founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and a founder (1973) and general editor of PN Review. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry. […]