Michele Ledda is a teacher and writer. He has an MA by research in English from Leeds University, with a dissertation on James Joyce’s Ulysses and Petronius’ Satyricon. A critic of child-centred education, he has written articles for several publications, including the Guardian, Spiked and Culture Wars, and is the author of the chapter on English teaching in The Corruption of the Curriculum (Civitas, 2007). Michele is also co-founder of The Leeds […]
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Karl Sharro
Karl Sharro is an architect, satirist and commentator on the Middle East. He is known online as Karl reMarks, the director of the fictional Institute of Internet Diagrams. Karl has written for a number of international publications and organisations, such as the Independent, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, Politico, The Atlantic, The Globe and Mail, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Creative Time Reports, Vice, Index on Censorship, and Die Presse. […]
Rachel Unsworth
Rachel Unsworth is a lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds researching urban sustainability, property development, regeneration, planning. She is also a Director of Leeds Love It Share It, an open source forum for ideas, debate and action in Leeds set-up Bauman Lyons Architects, the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University. […]
Martin Dean
Martin Dean is Head of Leeds Initiative & International Partnership at Leeds City Council. […]
Irena Bauman
Irena Bauman is an architect and co-founder and director of Bauman Lyons Architects. She is also is a Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at Sheffield University, a Patron of Urban Design Group, and a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts. Irena was also the Commissioner for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment for the UK from 2002 to 2009. […]
Clive Lord
Clive Lord is a member of the Green Party. He was one of the first members of the People Party, the political predecessor to the Green Party. He has also campaigned widely for the introduction of a basic income, and is the author of A Citizens’ Income: A Foundation for a Sustainable World (2003), which outlined his personal philosophy and political beliefs, and and co-author of the […]
James Woods
James Woods is studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Leeds. […]
Phillip Dickinson
Phillip Dickinson is studying English at the University of Leeds, and has written for Leeds Student newspaper. […]
Hanif Leylabi
Hanif Leylabi is studying Politics at the University of Leeds, and is a student union official. […]