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 […]
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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, […]
Ken McLaughlin
Ken McLaughlin is a Senior Lecturer in Social Change & Wellbeing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and is concerned with the way in which societal problems are increasingly viewed through a therapeutic gaze. He is the author of Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the Psychology of Recognition (Routledge 2011), and Social work, politics and society: From Radicalism to Orthodoxy (Policy Press 2008). […]
Andrew Dunn
Dr Andrew Dunn is a senior lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of Rethinking unemployment and the work ethic: beyond the “quasi-Titmuss” paradigm (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). […]
Ruth Patrick
Dr Ruth Patrick is a lecturer in Social Policy & Social Work at the University of Leeds, and is the author of ‘Living with and responding to the ‘scrounger’ narrative in the UK: exploring everyday strategies of acceptance, resistance and deflection’ in the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 24 (3) (2016). Ruth has also worked for the Fabian Society, the IPPR, and Shelter. […]
Luke Gittos
Luke Gittos is a solicitor practising criminal law, and author of Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans (Societas, 2015). He is also the legal editor for Spiked-online. […]
Hannah Bows
Hannah Bows is Assistant Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Durham having previously been a doctoral researcher at its Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse, examining rape and serious sexual assault against people aged 60 and over. She teaches modules at undergraduate level including criminal law and gender violence. […]